Raven arrived at the city hall not long.
He entered and saw the inside of the facility. There's a lot of golded furnitures, the inside is so wide and everything seems flashy.
But not long, Raven got bored looking around and went straight to the reception area.
"Hello sir, how may I help you?"
A woman greeted Raven, that he assud to be the receptionist.
Not beating around the bush, Raven told the reason of him coming there.
"I want to buy so lands."
"Oh, is there a problem then?"
The woman asked politely.
"Well, the land is unowned."
"Unowned?"
The woman seems confused. So Raven specified his words.
"I'm planning to buy a land inside .
When buying a land with no owner, you need to buy it from the governnt. It's because the so called great cataclysm made a lot of land unlivable.
So livable lands are precious and the governt handles unowned lands automatically.
But in Raven's case, he's buying an ownerless but unlivable land with no single life force is living in.
The woman expressed shock for a brief mont when she heard Raven's words. But she imdiately regained her calm.
"I will test so explosives. is the perfect place for that, right?"
It was then Raven added with aningful tone.
'With this, she will not dig anymore about the topic.'
Raven predicted, which did happened as the woman didn't ask anymore about him buying an unlivable land and she just nodded her head.
"Please wait for a mont sir."
The woman said and called soone through the phone.
'So phones still exists.'
Raven always use his V.D to make calls and browse internet so he thought V.D replaced the phones in this world.
'I need to buy one later.'
Raven thought while deciding what cellphone he should buy.
But then the woman spoke again to Raven.
"Mayor Rancho wants to talk with you."
The woman then handed Raven the phone she's holding.
Raven took it and placed it near his ear.
"Hello?"
Raven muttered.
-Are you the one who wants to buy a land in ?
In the other side of the line, a deep manly voice was heard.
Raven secretly swallowed a mouthful amount of saliva out of nervousness. He knows that Mayor Rancho is a rank hero.
Mayor Rancho didn't appear in the novel, he's not an important character.
And about how Raven knows about him, it's because Raven investigated about Zreles City before coming there as a preparation. And that included informations about Mayor Rancho.
Calming himself, Raven replied just seconds after the Mayor's question.
"Yes sir."
There was a while of silence as Raven didn't recieve a reply.
-Why would I sell you a land there?
Just after so seconds that a reply ca in an emotionless deep voice.
The question made Raven frown, but his mind imdiately ran informations he gathered about Mayor Rancho.
'Based on so informations easily found, he likes money, it doesn't matter if it's a small amount money or not. He's greedy for money'
With that, Raven replied in the sa manner of Mayor Rancho.
"Because, why not?"
Raven shrugged.
"That mountain has no value, in fact I can just test so explosives there and no one will sue . I'm just buying a private land in case of unexpected accidents."
"And lastly, buying the land there will benefit us both."
"You will recieve money and I'll recieve my private testing ground."
Raven used a lot of improvised reasonings.
Raven's words was t by a total silence. Raven is getting nervous but he's not showing it on his appearance.
After a while of an uncomfortable silence, a reply finally ca from Mayor Rancho.
-How much will you pay?
'He's asking for my budget not the size of land that I'm planning to buy.'
Raven inwardly smiled seeing that the information he got is most likely to be true.
"100,000 Zeals. I'm not planning to buy a big land."
Raven replied monotonously.
-...Give the phone back to the staff.
At Mayor Rancho's words, Raven handed the phone back to the woman receptionist.
The woman talked for a mont with the mayor. Then she led Raven in a room.
The room is not that big but it's comfy. And as Raven predicted, the room have flashy furnitures, making him frown unconsciously.
The woman made Raven sit on a sofa. And not long after...
Riiiing- Riiiiiiing–
A device on the table in front of Raven rung, the woman imdiately pressed sothing on it and a hologram appeared.
The hologram projected a figure from their shoulders to up their head.
The hologram is projecting a middle-aged man in a proper blue dress suit.
'Looks like I'm not important enough to have the mayor co and et in flesh.'
Raven thought as he calmly stares at the figure of Mayor Rancho.
Mayor Rancho then opened his mouth.
-How big is the land that you want to buy?
He asked. Then the woman handed Raven a map of .
After using a pen to encircle a small place in the map, Raven looked back at the Mayor and showed him the map.
"This big."
Raven made the area he's buying slightly bigger than the dungeon's entrance so they won't suspect anything.
-In the middle of the mountain?
But the Mayor asked Raven doubtfully.
Raven didn't lose his composure and imdiately replied confidently.
"If I use explosives near the mountain's base, accidents may happen as so houses are near it, And using explosives on top of a mountain is just plain stupid."
Mayor Rancho squinted his eyes, looking at Raven for a while, he opened his mouth.
-Then pay 150,000 Zeals.
He said.
Raven have that much of money but doesn't want to pay more than needed. Raven also like money.
Raven frowned.
"100,000 Zeals. I didn't say you can bargain."
Raven replied without an ounce of hesitation.
But then a chilling sensation was felt all over the room.
Raven look fine since he have the , but his heart is actually beating rapidly and he's starting to have trouble breathing. So he made the 's effect stronger by intensely activating it even more.
'Looks like people can emit aura even if their physical body is not present. It's pretty understandable but at the sa ti makes no sense.'
Raven thought as he caught a glimpse of the corner of the room.
The woman was there, slightly trembling as her breathing baca rough.
Seeing this, Raven frowned even deeper.
Raven activated
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