Acquired the EX-class attribute ‘Transcendence Copy’

29 – Green Moon

Shadow Distance.

If you can’t get what you need, there is a saying to go to Shadow Street. The motto of the shadow street is ‘nothing is just nonexistent’.

Proudly displaying an arrogant motto is not simply a bluff to attract customers. In fact, the spectrum of goods circulated in the shadow streets is very wide, and it is common for things that would never exist to be sold openly.

Of course, even so, it’s not the kind of place where you can buy what you want when you want it, like taking something out of a magic box. Due to the nature of the black market, logistics supply is always uncertain, and it is safe to say that there is no merchant that sells a specific product on a fixed basis.

That’s why luck is essential to getting what you want in the Shadow Street. Because the product should be on sale at exactly the right timing when it came out on the market.

Also, simply because an item is on a stall doesn’t make it easy to buy it.

The market price of Shadow Street is set by the seller. Merchants who openly sell stolen goods and contraband cannot be conscientious.

Merchants are greedy ghosts who are frantic to eat customers, etc., And this shadow street is the place where such actions are allowed unrestrictedly.

The basic idea here is that ‘the one who got hit in the eye is an idiot’. That is why information is essential for smart shopping without losing money.

Purchasing D-class items at dozens of times the price is a common mistake made by first-time visitors to this street, and there are also vendors who specialize in it.

‘I wonder if I can get it today.’

A man wearing a black mask covering the entire lower part looked around the market with indifferent eyes. The appearance of merchants advertising their products was similar, like the scene of a quarrel. It is a sight that can be seen everyday in the shadow streets.

Among them, less than 10 percent of the merchants deal with genuine goods. Most don’t even know what they’re selling.

More than 70% of the goods circulated in the shadow streets are stolen goods or contraband. It is to receive goods through criminals and sell them with a lot of margin.

There are rare merchants who sell things of real value. Of course, the odds are so dire that if you don’t have a fair eye for it, you’ll most likely lose out.

The man in the black mask looked around the street cautiously. He did not find the object he was looking for today.

‘It’s a stolen item, so it must be wandering around in this market…. No, maybe someone has already bought it?’

The item he is looking for was stolen a month ago. It was for this reason that the man found this shadow street.

Come to Shadow Street to find stolen goods.

It’s a famous saying in the underworld.

“The green moon will heal. You came out today. Did you find what you were looking for?”

One of the vendors pretends to know. He was a merchant of the Shadow Street with whom he had a deep relationship. He is a merchant who handles things that are rare in this town. Of course, cheating on customers is no different than any other merchant.

“Unfortunately, I couldn’t find it.”

“Oops. This Shadow Street is said to handle everything, but that’s only when the timing is right. It’s a pity for Mr. Nokwol, but another owner might have taken it first.”

“Maybe.”

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The man called Nokwol replied in a calm voice. If you can’t find it by today, you might have to change the direction of your search.

That item is very important. It was stolen absurdly, and several heads of religious leaders were blown away.

“By the way, be better. Did you hear that rumor?”

The merchant opened the door to a new topic with the idiom of merchants. There is no time for leisurely chatting, but conversations with merchants are a good opportunity to gain new information. Nokwol did not show an annoyance and gave the merchant the answer he wanted.

“What are you talking about?”

“The poisonous scorpion team has been annihilated. It was found with its head severed in the alley of the royal road. Oh my god! I expected them to be short, but they went this fast!”

Poisonous scorpion team.

A famous bounty hunter team in the shadow streets.

Shadow Street handles not only tangible goods. Intangible services are also valuable products handled by this street, and like tangible products, most of those services were dipping their toes into extremely illegal territory.

A typical example is assassination.

There is a ‘Bounty Board’ in the Shadow Street. It’s literally a bulletin board that informs you of a target with a bounty.

If you send an assassination request to the ‘janitors’ on the street, the target will be posted on the bounty board, and the professional team or individual aiming for the bounty is called ‘solver’. The poisonous scorpion team was one of the fixers.

“The janitors collected the body, but it seems to have died without even knowing it was taken. You touched the wrong hive.”

“What target were you aiming for?”

“I don’t know. Isn’t the bounty board only accessible to ‘fixers’? So, there is no way to know what target they were aiming for. The poisonous scorpion team would have been aiming for the target on the first level bulletin board.”

There is also a water supply on the bounty board. 3Rd class, 2nd class, 1st class. Of course, level 1 is the highest difficulty quest.

There aren’t many solvers who can carry out level 1 quests. The poisonous scorpion team was one of the few fixers. However, they suffered.

“It is not a special story.”

It’s a pretty startling rumor, but it’s not all that uncommon in these shadowy streets.

An individual’s skill does not guarantee the success of the mission. In this shadow street, the higher your skills, the more dangerous you do. Of course it makes more money.

“Yes. Like I said, it’s just an ordinary story so far. By the way….”

As expected of Nokwol’s disinterested reaction, the merchant continued his conversation with an expression as if saying, ‘I’ll tell you that?’ It’s an irritating way of speaking that makes you curious about what’s going on behind the scenes.

“Rumors circulate among the merchants that the ‘King of Assassination’ will come out directly.”

The Assassination King.

When the title came to the merchant’s lips, Nokwol frowned and raised his eyes.

“That…. That’s not normal.”

As expected, conversations with merchants are a window to obtain information. Nokwol thought it was good to talk to this man at the risk of being bothered.

“Well, it’s a rumor.”

In other words, it is unknown whether or not the Assassination King actually moves.

However, just confirming that possibility was a huge achievement for Nokwol.

“Then, Nokwol will be better. I hope you find what you are looking for. If you have enough pockets, please buy some of my products.”

“Your stall seems to have poor water quality today. Be not interested in.”

“Heng~ As expected, Nokwol is better, but I can’t fool my eyes.”

Leaving the merchant’s whining behind, Nokwol started moving again. I could only see a quarter of the wide shadow distance.

The opening hours of Shadow Street are only 2 hours.

If you want to check all of these places within today, you will have to move your feet.

A pair of exotic couples came into Nokwol’s eyes as he looked around the market so eagerly.

“Wow! Yo… Blue Snake! Look at this. A cane made of rowan wood?”

A girl with frizzy brown hair and a boy with gorgeous blonde hair. The girl wore an opera mask and a rich fur coat, and the boy covered his entire face with a white mask.

In the case of a girl, it exudes a rugged atmosphere like a commoner, and a boy feels a sense of nobility that cannot be covered with a mask.

A noble boy and a commoner girl.

It is a combination that often appears in romance novels, but it is not easy to see in reality. Even more so at this shadowy distance.

Especially, judging from the young girl’s lively reaction, it seemed obvious that she was a beginner in this street. If that’s the case, it’s obvious that even the gallbladder will be robbed by the merchants.

“hahahaha. The lady has a good eye. This is a gallana wand made from an 800-year-old rowan tree. It’s a grade B item. It is a product handmade by artisans in the workshop of Clock Tower Street..”

The merchant is talking nonsense. If class B items are so easy to find, are all the nobles who spend a lot of money on them at the auction house stupid?

In the first place, there is no way they would display such products like a street vendor selling vegetables. Anyone who knows a little bit about the world will not fall for such a scam.

“A grade B item!? This is a very valuable item. But is the price only 10 silver?”

“hahahaha. You can’t sell stolen goods for the right price, can you? I will sell while crying.”

Unfortunately, that girl seemed to be quite out of touch with the world.

Generally, materials of great nobility have such characteristics. They were born and raised in an environment where they could get what they needed just by stretching out their hands, so they not only have a dark sense of money, but also have a thin concept of scarcity.

Nokwol looked at the girl again. It’s not angular, but it’s a normal face that’s not outstanding either. It is by no means a face that has been well maintained since childhood.

However, the fur coat the girl wore was quite high quality. A commoner would have to spend years earning money without eating a single meal to get his hands on a coat like that.

On the other hand, the masked boy who exudes an aristocratic atmosphere is dressed quite ruggedly. Looking closely, I couldn’t see the upright manners of an aristocrat even in his behavior. Rather, the woman seemed more aristocratic in that respect.

Observing the faces of the two in detail, Nokwol was able to derive a new fact.

‘Women are nobles? The male side is about that attendant.’

If you use a transformation potion, you can change your appearance dramatically. Apparently, that pair is a noble woman who used a transformation potion and a bodyguard man. Thinking so, a scenario was automatically written.

An aristocratic girl whining about wanting to see the town of shadows, and an attendant who protects such a girl.

This is a rare combination on the street. Being fed up with the stiff aristocratic society and longing for the world of commoners is a common sight for aristocratic ladies of that age.

What happens to such a young lady in this city is generally decided. After being slapped in the eye by merchants who raise dozens of serpents in their stomachs, he becomes a thorough discriminatory person, shouting, ‘As expected, commoners are dirty parasites of the royal capital!’

Merchants, it’s a great chance for a blind money bag to creep in on its own, so whether commoners’ perceptions are at a loss or not, they cast Alpano and overcharge.

In the first place, the one who gets hit at the shadow distance is an idiot. It doesn’t matter if it’s an aristocrat or a commoner.

“Miss Red Snake. This is fake.”

A masked boy who was accompanying Young lady gives advice to the excited Young lady.

“Oh, fake! What are you talking about? Here, look at this! A crystal ball that reacts to rowan. Here, if I take this staff, won’t it react like this!?”

At the word fake, the merchant started having seizures. This is a pattern often seen by those who have been punctured.

“This wand, to be precise, was made from the remnants of rowan wood glued together. It’s a toy that breaks apart after one or two uses of magic. Am I wrong?”

“Aww… ! That, that….”

“To be able to pay 10 silver for a disposable item like this. There is no such thing as a creative economy.”

At the mask boy’s words, the merchant turned his head with a sad expression. There is nothing to say because the technique has been completely understood.

‘That boy. Pretty much.’

He is a boy with unusual eyesight. Knockwall became interested in the boy.