As Skynder entered the city square, everything slowly ca to a halt. At first, the instrunt of a person playing a string instrunt made an unnatural sound, ringing throughout the square.
Others looked over and saw him staring. They followed his gaze, and they soon saw Skynder, causing them to stop what they were doing as well.
The remaining people, noticing the lack of noise, looked around. Eventually, they all saw Skynder.
Skynder spoke. "Continue on."
After a mont of hesitation, everyone in the city square turned around and tried to focus on what they had been doing, though few were successful.
Skynder walked to the side and entered a store. It was clearly a nicely created store. After all, it was at the city center, one of the most populated places in the Imperial Capital.
As soon as Skynder entered, the owner of the shop personally ca out and bowed to him.
Skynder raised his hand. "No need for all of that. I am only here to look around."
The owner nodded and left, allowing an attendant to handle Skynder.
The attendant was clearly nervous, but was able to suppress it quite well.
"What can I do for you, Sir Skynder."
Skynder spoke again. "I'll just look around myself for a while."
The attendant bowed and stood off to the side.
Skynder began to walk around the shop.
This shop was essentially a junk store, but much more fancy. It collected ancient relics, or items that seed old, and displayed them.
Looking on the walls, there were articles about legendary finds that had been found here.
The selling point was that this shop was essentially gambling. It was nearly impossible to tell if an item had value before you cleaned it and took it to a professional for examination.
Although items lined the store, many covered with rust or dirt, it surprisingly did not sll too bad.
In addition to this, all of the items were clearly seeable. The shop had three above ground floors and three underground floors, for a total of six.
The higher levels were like the first level, but the lower down you went, the more disorganized the shop was.
At the lowest floor, you would have to dig through countless old items.
Skynder walked around the above ground floor, but nothing managed to catch his eye.
He then began to explore the underground floors. The first underground floor, while clearly less organized, was still relatively easy to look through. The underground floors were much bigger as well.
Skynder took a while looking through all of the items before going down to the second to last floor.
This ti, he had to dig.
There were plenty of items piled on top of each other, and so even inside one another.
Even as Skynder left and entered the bottom floor, he wasn't confident that he had looked through all of the items on the second to lowest floor.
The bottom floor was essentially a junkyard. Shovel's were hung up at the entrance. This floor was by far the largest.
Skynder began to walk over piles and piles of items on the ground.
Luckily, the ceiling in this room was quite high. It must have actually cost quite a lot for this building to be built.
There was plenty of dirt on the ground, essentially forming a little digging site for finding random treasures.
Skynder was here for two reasons. One, he wanted to see if he could find anything interesting.
Two, he wanted to be known among the commoners. As long as he was not overbearing, they would have a good impression of him, and as a result, so would so of the nobles.
At the very least, there was a chance for them to have a good first impression. As Skynder had said, everything he was doing now was minor.
It would be difficult to do anything that could majorly affect his reputation in a good way at this ti. That would require luck or an opportunity.
Skynder took the shovel, found a random spot, and began to dig.
Although he was a noble, he did not disdain this kind of thing. After all, he had not been born in the Imperial Capital. It was a bit different for him.
As Skynder dug, he rembered the prices on the walls.
The price of getting things from different floors varied.
However, no matter what one found, on the bottom floor, it would cost a silver to take out.
It seed expensive, and it was, but it had to be rembered that everything here was old, so even ancient.
It was possible to find sothing invaluable here.
Skynder found many trinkets and random items, but none made him feel like taking them out.
He planned to go with his gut on this one.
After an hour, his shovel pierced the ground, and a clunking sound was heard. Skynder barely reacted to this. He had heard the sa noise countless tis over the last hour.
He bended over and picked up the tal on the ground. It was covered with a layer of dirt, so he wiped it off. Upon doing so, his eyes widened.
He quickly wiped it off with his clothes, ignoring the dirt that got on him, and looked at what he had discovered.
There was no doubt. Even after inspecting it closely, he ca to the sa conclusion.
This was exactly like the pardon badge he had received from the emperor. Looking around, he put so dirt on it and called Li Youcai over.
Li Youcai ca. Soon, they t up with the Fatty and left.
Skynder tossed the owner a silver coin on his way out. The owner tried to refuse it, but Skynder did not give him a chance.
His plans to explore the city square further were put to a halt.
He returned to the noble section of the Imperial Capital and looked through the rules.
However, even after a day and a night, even with the Fatty and Li Youcai's help, Skynder failed to find anything ntioning the pardon badge besides an explanation of its use and an illustration.
The pardon badge was known to few, so it was no wonder that the junk shop had one.
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