Chapter 135 - The Great Merchant, Mercury (1) (1/2)

Special Access was a proceeding that a person would be connected to the Store of All Things via an intermediary, the System.

In fact, if Jeremy were in Pantheon, he wouldn't lose any accessing or transaction fee at all.

However, Jeremy had chosen to access it here, in the middle of nowhere, so he ought to pay some extra money for it.

As for how the Store of All Things worked, it literally sold all things as the name suggested. All things... with the starting price of at least one black star...

The shop was operated by someone called Mercury, aka the Great Merchant.. He was a mysterious entity that no one had ever seen his face before.

In fact, people didn't even know what gender Mercury was, but they usually referred to Mercury as a 'he'.

At this moment, Jeremy was finally connected to Mercury as a mysterious voice was suddenly heard out of nowhere,

❰ Greetings, I'm Mercury, at your service. What do you want from my shop? ❱

Even his voice was genderless; it resounded out like a man at times, but also like a woman at times.

That's why people didn't know about Mercury's gender and could only refer to Mercury as 'he'.

Upon hearing so, Jeremy thought briefly before saying into the dark space,

”You can only upgrade a skill to High Advance level, right?”

❰ Correct... ❱

”What is the price?”

❰ Which skill? ❱

”My [Disguise] skill.”

❰ Eleven black stars to High Advance and one more black star for a delivery fee. So, it's twelve in total ❱

Upon hearing the price of upgrading only one skill from Mercury, Jeremy suddenly got a bit depressed and thought,

”The Special Access is such a pain in the ass...”

❰ How do you even know about the Special Access anyway? ❱

After hearing Mercury asking him so, Jeremy's eyes lit up before saying with a smile,

”Transaction accepted.”

『 Transaction has been accepted 』

Right after Jeremy had accepted the so-called transaction from Mercury, the System's notification suddenly showed up before Jeremy and Mercury as it behaved as an intermediary of this trade.

❰ What!? The trade was accepted...? That means the price is higher than one black star!? ❱

There came a startled voice of Mercury as he didn't know that his curiosity had gotten the best out of him and would make him lose money.

Shortly after the transaction had been accepted, Jeremy finally said his piece,

”I know about the special access because I've been to Pantheon before.”

After answering the question, System's notifications suddenly popped up before Jeremy...

...

『 You have received 4x★ 』

『 You have 59x★ and 5x✰ remaining in your star account 』

『 Transaction is concluded 』

...

❰ What the!? Four stars? And how have you even gone... ❱

❰ ... ❱

It looked like Mercury had suddenly realized that he would lose more money if he didn't stop there, so he decided to keep his mouth shut.

So does Jeremy, as he also kept quiet while standing with a light smile plastered on his face,

”...”

❰ Damn it! I've been fooled by a brat! ❱

It looked like Jeremy didn't want to linger around the topic about how he had been to Pantheon, so he promptly changed the topic,

”No more chit-chat. I want to upgrade my [Disguise] skill to High Advance.”

❰ ... ❱

❰ Sigh... My money... ❱

Mercury couldn't help it either as he didn't dare ask any more questions for fear that he would lose even more money,

❰ Transaction accepted ❱

After the two sides had agreed to do a transaction, the System notifications promptly showed up behaving as a faithful intermediary...

...

『 Transaction has been accepted 』