Chapter 154 The black market. (2/2)

“Now listen sugar, I’ave you the invitation but you’ll be on your ohen you go inside, try not to start trouble or you e ave him some pointers The two arrived at the end of the wine cellar and after pushi+ng one of the bricks in a mechanism was turned on The wall started to slowly spin and another path was revealed to hiood luck~”

“Wait… aren’t you forgetting souild master were still stuck in his head He clearly told him that the person at this pub was supposed to hand hi that was paramount to his visit down there

“Oh, did little ? I don’t think so”

Thecute but Roland could see hisready for battle Without backing down though he stuck out his hand as if he wanted the item that he ed

“Don’t play stupid, I paid for it… are we going to have a proble at each other without saying anything It looked as if a fight could break out at a drop of a hat Roland did come with a sword strapped to his side but even without it, he could activate various spells al silly sugar, here you go~”

The large ave in After a le with an eye above it This was the syround merchants which he would need if he actually wanted to trade here

If he entered there without it, he would be able to go around but no one would actually trade with hi another five suild atekeeper could decide to test hi that he needed to watch out for as there were few rules that these criht should break out, this depended on his deposition If the large dress-wearing ht that he was easy prey he would have probably robbed him blind here and there

Roland quickly swiped the sye As it closed behind hi kiss towards him If not for his masked face his froould be noticed quite fast

‘Everything is going according to plan… at least somewhat’

The corridor that he was in noas lit up with some torches on the side He placed his hands on the walls and could instantly tell that they were hardened through soe was constructed recently

He continued further and his narrower corridor connected to a larger one This larger one looked to be thespot There wereto it that he could see These were co from other similar locations like the brothel that he ca around he noticed soh one of the other smaller corridors The person was dressed up in similar black robes as him but instead of a mouth mask, he or she had a full facethemselves the person just passed by him and continued on their way The way that this person was holding their hand to their hip didn’t go unnoticed though There Roland saw a dagger strapped onto a belt, the person was clearly wary of him and ready to attack at a moment’s notice

‘I need to watch myself, this could quickly turn sour if I don’t pay attention’

This round in the city where the laws didn’t reach It was probably a daily occurrence for the people down here to end up dead and never to be seen again if they offended the wrong person

He continued through the larger passage and soon he could spottheir faces while others didn’t seem to care It became louder and louder the , he found out where the voices were coround cave with various small wooden shacks placed all over it In these shacks, he could see people peddling their wares Soe potions

This was the underground marketplace that he had heard about From what he knew, these kinds of places existed all over the kingdo on the city they were placed in

While he was at first confused about how so like this could exist under the city, he realized that soether and the ceiling support pillars were even being worked on as he was looking

It seeround black ether and it had not yet taken its final form This made a lot of sense as Albrook was still in the process of developing itself

‘Okay, I’m here… what now?’

While he had arrived in this place Roland was not sure how he should approach the black market merchants It didn’t seem like the people here cared that he was here,there and looking at everything

It would have been nice to have souide to show him around but it didn’t seeh after further investigation he noticed a blackboard with so with a sort of mapWhen he approached it he realized that it was a conveniently drawn layout of this underground There was the large corridor that he cahts’ ritten over one of the buildings which were represented by a rectangle shape

This was quite handy as now he also discovered a few other places that were connected to this underground area One was the brothel, another was an inn that he knew and then the third one was the tavern that he had the scuffle with that adventurer party

It seeh one of the three Some of the exits were also marked there but they were in other locations Apparently, one was not supposed to leave the sauildlike that and Roland now looked to the passage that would take hinized he decided to take a look at the seedy , he was not interested in selling anything, his purpose was buying exotic metals and minerals for his runic creations

This place was rather large and by eachIt was clear that the black market merchants had to hire their own muscle

When he approached one of the merchants that he was potentially interested in, he heard so to pull here you bastard?”

“What's your probleot what you wanted there are no refunds!”

“This is clearly fake, give me back my money!”

A little scuffle unfolded as one of the custoht Roland saw hiround He then pulled out a curved dagger and started pointing it at the person that he bought it from

Roland wasn’t stupid as he instantly backed ahile looking at the other people here In situations like this, it would not be strange if others used the ensuing chaos to try so The other people were of the same mind as everyone was on full alert

“What’s this noise, cal here is forbidden!”

To his surprise, so Two hooded people appeared out of nowhere, their robes see and there was a certain syuildnoise noticed theuard of the merchant also backed away It was clear to Roland that there was so was indeed forbidden This didn’t es elsewhere, thestabbed in a dark alley now

With the commotion, Roland turned back to the stall that he previously spotted There he saw a strange s While he couldn’t see his face he could tell that this person was not a huers that were covered in fur and ended in claws gave it away

“Welcome, welcome! What're ya buyin? What're ya sellin?”

'If I’ot… and is that duriu skill he noticed that thisvarious exotic metals, some that would normally be quite hard to come by It looked that he would actually be able to trade, now it reht price for his troubles