Chapter 119: Fire Band Market (1/2)

After reading the content from the SCO, Rex nodded his head before the crow on his shoulder flapped its wings away.

He already decided to go to the SCO's meeting at a designated time.

Before going back to Faraday University, Rex decided that he will investigate the shop the Supernatural said earlier.

'It's that way right? It seems I need to stay here longer', Rex thought.

He never thought that the Platchi's illegal market would reach this far.

Rex went in the direction pointed by the Supernatural before, there are many shops along the street and many of them are already closed.

He didn't know which shop the Supernatural means so he sat on a bench and waited.

It's already past midnight now, the moon still shines above him brightly.

Rex uses the time he waited to meditate using his breathing technique, now he can meditate and is still aware of his surrounding simultaneously.

Thanks to becoming an Awakened, meditating using breathing techniques becomes easier for him. Focusing is no longer a problem for Rex.

All this while Rex never forgets to finish his Daily Quest and meditation.

No matter how rough the day was, he always spends some time doing his daily quest and meditation. He had no choice.

'Hmm... I wonder what mother up to, she hasn't called yet', Rex thought.

He takes out his phone and started to massage his mother, with the tournament before, she should've called to congratulate him.

After messaging his mother, Rex browses through the system.

He has about over 10,000 gold sitting in his pocket right now, so he's trying to find something to give Adhara.

'Upgrading Adhara's elemental affinity, and giving her a breathing technique is a great idea', Rex thought.

Rex quickly scrolls through the shop section and found mid-rank fire affinity costing only 2,000 gold.

'System can others use elemental affinity, and a breathing technique I bought from the shop?'

<Yes, anything in the shop can be materialized in the real world. The breathing Technique can only be used on a Werewolf, Adhara will be able to use it after she transforms>

Reading this, Rex becomes delighted as he buys the mid-rank Fire Affinity.

Seconds become minutes, minutes turn into an hour, and there are no people around.

It's like a dead street, in this hour Rex didn't saw anyone except for him.

Even after browsing through the shop, Rex still didn't saw anyone around this block that can potentially lead him into it.

Rex still can't decided which breathing technique for Adhara, so he postponed buying it.

Just after Rex wanted to leave, he suddenly remembered.

'Wait, that group of guys is not shocked by the Supernatural', Rex thought.

If the black market is not an easy to access place, that means normal people should've been afraid when they saw Supernatural.

But those guys, instead of being afraid they have the guts to mess with them.

Rex stands up from the bench, 'Let's find them', Rex thought as he went to the alley where he meets those guys before.

He then takes a sniff of the place and caught one of the guy's hats on the ground.

One of them left their hat because of how scared they are for offending Rex, the guy didn't even take his hat back.

Rex takes the hat before he smells it.

After becoming a Werewolf, his senses are not that of a human anymore.

His senses become really strong especially his hearing and smelling, he can even hear someone whispers amongst the crowd if he focus on it and smell a person's odor from afar.

Because of that, Rex manages to track down the group of guys instantly.

Rex went from block to block dashing around the place, nobody is around so he can move however he wants.

If it's the day then Awakened are refrained from using their powers.

Aside from keeping the safety of normal people, it will also make Awakened look petty if they use their powers to do something that's not important.

Not long after, Rex found the group of guys in another block alley.

They're smoking cigarettes while talking to each other.

Seeing this, Rex immediately dashes towards them before he landed just in the middle of them.

Thud!

He landed gracefully in the middle of them making them shocked.

”What the-”

”That's the Awakened from before! Run!”

”I have a kid, please don't do this”

The two of them begged under Rex's mercy, they're so scared that even one of them started to pee their pants.

Rex glared at the other one making him froze in his spot before saying, ”I will let you guys live if you answer my question”

”Anything, please we'll answer truthfully”, the guy who peed his pants said meekly, his hands are trembling uncontrollably.

”You guys seem to know where those Supernatural came from, I want to know where they sold that kind of Supernatural”, Rex said coldly.

He pretends that he wants to buy that Supernatural before, he uses it as an excuse.

The guy who peed his pants then replied hurriedly, ”Zaki, you work there! Just tell him, I don't want to die!”, he points at another guy wearing a red shirt.

Rex glance at the red shirt guy with a questioning look.

Seeing this, the guy stumbles backward before he said, ”I...I can't tell you”

Just after saying this, Rex's body exploded with mana making all of their legs weak as they fell to the ground.

”Please! I'll tell you!! I'll tell you!”, the redshirt guy said while signaling Rex to stop.

Hearing this, Rex stopped his mana as he squats down in front of the red shirt guy, ”Talk...”

”There's a candy shop around that area called Emma's Candy, just knock on the shop's door and say I want to buy the best black candy”, he said with a trembling voice.

He then added, ”It's only open from 10 pm until 4 am”

Rex becomes skeptical of this, it's not that he thinks the guy's lying but because if he did lie then he will definitely look stupid.

”Are you lying to me?”, Rex said slowly as he activates the black lightning again.

The ground cracked under his feet sending a subtle shockwave around him, he did it just to break the guy's will.

Feeling the pressure becomes heavier, ”I swear! It's the truth!”

After adding more pressure to the group of guys until their noses started to bleed, Rex finally stops after he doesn't get any other answer.

”If you lie, I will find you”, Rex said before he left.

Rex went back to the place where he waited and immediately find the shop beside a hotel, he didn't forget to use a mask and a black hood he bought from the shop.

If this black market is the Platchi's business then he doesn't want to get caught.

He went to the shop before he knocked on the door three times.

Knock, Knock, Knock!

The door is white in color and there's a bell on the side, 'the guy said to knock so let's just follow his instructions'

After he knocked on the door, there's no response from the other side.

'Did he trick me?', Rex thought.

But then, the sound of footsteps approaching the door was heard before the door opened a little revealing a woman in a clerk outfit.

”We're close, come again tomorrow”, the woman said.

Hearing this, Rex then answered whisperingly, ”I want to buy the best black candy”

Just as he said that the woman paused for a second, she looks at Rex up and down before she opened the door.

”Dear customer, please follow me”, she said.

'It worked! It seems he's not lying', Rex thought before he follows the woman.

The woman guides him to the back of the store, she then steps on a floor in the storage room before it makes a clicking sound.

Click!

The floor snuggle before it reveals a pathway underground.

Seeing this, Rex becomes even more determined that this is a black market but the question on his head is whose black market is it.