Step!


    I stepped out of the teleportation gate and saw the people. I felt relieved.


    Since yesterday, I had been worried. Not daring to believe thempletely went they said, the natives are controlling the other side of this formation. Now, seeing the people, I have no doubt.


    "Stay in the encampment. Going outside is forbidden," informed one of the hundred guards who are guarding the teleportation gate. The guards also threw a crystal at me, which I caught, and sent to my core.


    I looked around and couldn''t help but be surprised by what I had seen.


    The empty hills had been transformed into a city. The abodes are everywhere, hundreds of thousands of them. They have set them around the hills and thekes; some had set them on top of thekes.


    Those abodes are especially good. I am sure they belong to the connected and the powerful.


    I quickly moved away from the gates, but not before looking at a couple of announcements and notices.


    Some had even caught my eyes.n/o/vel/b//in dot c//om


    "Chad, are youing?" asked Heleu. He had survived. Though his state is quite bad, but he is healing. "No, you go. I think I will look around for a while," he looked at me for a second, before nodding and walking away.


    I had fought bloody battles where I was nearly killed more times than I could count.


    So, saying I am tired would be an understatement, but those notices had stopped me from immediately summoning my abode and sleeping.


    eαglesn?νel I looked in that direction and crossed a couple of hills andkes before reaching the valley, which looked extra crowded. Without thousands of people selling and buying the goods, they want.


    They have set up a couple of markets around the encampments. This is a resources market and thousands of people have a set shop.


    Some shops are quite big; three and even four stories tall, with a couple manning them.


    Those with acumen for business could do business anywhere. Even a ce like this could get attacked at any moment.


    As I reached it, my core started to get active, wanting me to go to a couple of sources at once. It couldn''t help but surprised me; even aftering to this, my core did not react more than five times.


    But here, it already wants me to go in the thirteen directions.


    I looked around for a few seconds before walking into the market. Immediately, hundreds of things caught my eye, and I wanted to buy each and every one of them, but I controlled myself and moved to the ce where my core want me to go.


    I have arge number of resources.


    Not only the ones I had found and harvested but also the ones I have gotten from the Grimms. I may have targeted the Grimms with the bloodlines at most, but it is the regr ones I have killed the most.


    Both of these Grimm''s storages contain a lot of things. Many I need, but there are more that I have no need of.


    I am going to sell them and even those I have harvested. While they are useful, I could harvest them again with the growth energy.


    We will need to fight the Grimms again to get out and since I have reached the limit. All the strengthening energy of my share will go to the seedling of the world tree, which will help me grow more resources.


    Soon, I reached the ces. Like all stalls, it is set up in an abode and white snake beastwomen are manning it.<novelsnext></novelsnext>


    In front of her are thousands of goods. All kinds of resources, both herbal and of other nature.


    What I want is a rough-looking crystal. It is ck with purple streaks and contains an immensely dense and powerful curse energy.


    I did not speak as I appeared by the stall, I looked around things, like few others are doing. I need many of the things she is selling and if her rates are good, I will buy them, but the priority is powerful curse crystals.


    "I want chalua room, maisas flowers….and that curse crystals," I said to snake beastwomen, naming nine things I want.


    "You can pay me with jashav crystals or with these things," she said, and she threw a blue memory crystal at me.


    I caught the crystal and seeped my soul sense inside. Her list is quite long, with over three thousand things inside it. Including the Jashav crystal she is asking for, which I have, but I will not pay her for that.


    Jashav crystals are precious. I rather pay her with other things on the list.


    "I have goas rocks, melk flowers, and hadoll roots," I said to her. "Give me ten kilograms of goas rocks, five melk flowers, and seven hadoll roots," she said, and my expression turned serious.


    "You are asking too much," I said to her, and she looked at me. "How about nine kilograms of goas roc"


    "Excuse me, how much is this curse crystal?" asked a blue stone skin, interrupting her. "Ten jashav crystals or anything on this list?" she said and threw him the crystals, but he did not even look at I crystal.


    "Here are the ten jashav crystals," he said and sent crystals toward us, but they stopped mid-air and both of them turned to me as I stopped them.


    "I am buying the curse crystal," I said, and the smile on the face of the snake beastwomen be wider. "But he is paying more," she said, looking at Stoneman and me with a smile; seeing the expression of both of us turned bad.


    "I will pay you fifteen jashav crystals," I said after a second of silence. "Twenty," said the stone man immediately.


    "Thirty," I said without missing a beat. "Forty," bid the beastman, and the smile on the snake''s beastwoman''s face became even wider.


    "Seventy," I bid, and it couldn''t help but surprise them. The Stoneman opened its mouth but closed it a momentter.


    "Seventy jashav crystal it is," said the Beastwomen, and immediately, I paid her with it, taking the taking, before negotiating the price for other things.


    "It''s nice doing business with you," said the Beastwomen with a big smile on his face. I just nodded and turned, cautious of the Stoneman behind me.


    These kinds of things are delicate; I have been attacked a few times and did not want to take a risk of being careless.


    "Excuse me," said the stoneman as I took a step forward. "Yes?" I asked as I turned toward him, only to see him looking at me.


    "Would you mind selling me a small piece of curse crystals? A thumbnail size would be enough for me," he asked nervously. It surprised me, but I did not reject him directly and instead looked at him.


    "Here," I said, a couple of secondster, and sending a piece of course crystal. Which surprised him, as it is twice as big as he asked.


    While my core needs it. The crystal is bigger than my palm, so I could share a tiny part, and he looked like it is something he really need.


    "Thank you. I hope this will be enough to show my gratefulness," he said and took out a ss box with a ck flower inside.


    I was barely able to keep my emotions in control seeing that.