Chapter 494 Church & Black Market (Part 2)



Once outside of the cathedral Emily once again used her camouflaging ability and her figure blurred, before she disappeared from plain sight.

Reyne then turned to see Daimon, who was in a good mood right now to then say.

"The information dealer won't be available until an hour or so, but if you want, I can take you to the black market, the street stalls are already open and even some of the locals too, who knows you might find something interesting there", she said with her usual gentle expression.

Both Daimon and the crazy girl nodded, they thought that the whole thing didn't start operating until the hour mentioned by Reyne, but turns out, it's the information dealer the one who starts working quite late.

"Sounds good to me", said Daimon.

Reyne smiled and then guided the group towards the northeast area of the city, contrary to what one would expect from a place that led to the black market, the area where Reyne brought them was peaceful, clean and calm.

In fact, the area was practically filled with family stores, like bakeries, restaurants, pubs, cloth shops and the like, Reyne casually entered one of the many bakeries which was attended by an average looking middle aged woman.

But as casual as the woman at the counter looked, she was using a treasure to hide her realm, while in reality she was an early stage Arch rank.

"Hi, I would like three coups of coffee and three baguettes please", said Reyne, to which the woman nodded and pressed her finger against a certain spot of the counter.

Daimon was able to see it because of his infinity eyes and for that same reason he could see that the glass windows and the door of the local, were now projecting a frozen image and not what lied inside of the bakery.

Only then, the woman at the counter pointed at the door that led to the backstage of the bakery.

"This way please young miss", she said.

Reynne nodded and then she beckoned at Daimon and Sarah, who followed her through the door, at the other side there was a middle-aged man sitting on a corner, besides that, the room seemed to be empty.

"According to the rules, please wear something to hide your identities, and remember that while scamming, fighting and dismembering is allowed, no killing can take place at the black market, otherwise you'll be punished", emotionlessly said the man.

"Don't take it personally, that is just a reminder, this passage is safe and exclusive to me and the people here can be trusted", said Reyne to Daimon as she put on a generic black mask, she also activated that necklace of hers, which hid her realm and changed her presence.

Sarah put on a purple mask, while Daimon wore a white one over the half face mask of the Hollow Suit, once his face was covered, he sent the other one to the inventory.

Reyne was surprised to see that their clothes also changed all of a sudden, courtesy of the bracelet of the god of mischief.

"Nice trick, I feel a bit dummy to have worried about you two", jokingly said Reyne as she put on a black mantle to cover up her body, just in case her clothes could be recognized by someone.

Sarah smirked behind her mask, the bracelet was invisible as it shouldn't be seen by others, but she felt tempted to flaunt it to Reyne.

"I wish the young miss, good luck in today's findings", said the man as he activated the transportation array engraved on the ground.

After a couple of seconds, Daimon and the others disappeared from the room, and the man returned to his casual bored expression.

...

Apparently, the level of rune engraving for weapons, without using cores, was really low, so the human magic blacksmiths didn't make weapons like that, instead they focused on increasing their sturdiness and the like by adding materials from magic beasts.

The flesh eating demons on the other hand, did follow a similar path as the four galaxies using runes to grant better specs to their weapons.

Daimon observed the many racks full of weapons, each had their own price and the method of payment which was acceptable, Daimon directly ignored the regular weapons which were basically just claws, sharpened bones and carved teeth, and went straight for the beast equipment, which were all on the rack behind the counter.

Injecting mana in his eyes, Daimon watched the different equipment, trying to discern which was the best one available, since he needed some samples for Liz, it wasn't hard to detect which one had less flaws, the best core and the best composition over all.

So, he didn't take too much to point at a black spear with two cores embedded on it, one on the shaft and another on the head, it was the first one which Daimon has seen having two cores, also it was attracting the largest amount of mana among all the things in the room, it's worth mentioning that it didn't have a price tag unlike all the other things.

"I want that", he said, the man didn't even have to look at what Daimon was pointing, to know it was that spear, meaning it's something that others have tried to buy before but haven't been able to.

"Five thousand peak Lord beast cores, or five hundred early stage Arch rank beast cores, no bargaining", casually said the man with an uninterested voice, as everyone always does the same, ask for the price and then back out after hearing it.

"It's too expensive, and it should be of sixth generation at most, for that price you can buy a legitimate one of seventh generation from father, it would be a one core one though", whispered Reyne at Daimon.

"Is it that rare to see one with two cores?", asked Daimon in response, to which Reyne nodded.

"Yes, they are accidental creations, sometimes the blacksmiths can use one core of the same kind to strengthen the one they will use, those are weapons of eighth generation, the latest and exclusive to the highest ranked Adjudicators or the Cardinals of the Church of Justice".

"These weapons with two cores are the failures from that process, tests made during the sixth generation, they have collection value but their usage is too limited, since the cores might attack each other out of nowhere", she said.

Her words simply convinced Daimon to buy it, the idea of the two cores was something that caught his attention, because he is neither a mage nor a knight, but someone who can use the powers of the two paths, now imagine a weapon with a core oriented to vitality and one oriented to mana, it would be perfect for him.

With a wave of his hand, he took out a pile of cores and placed them on the counter, only this amounted to the whole savings of Ismael, Hal, the peak Lord rank guy which he killed to warn the others and around a fourth part of the cores Jeremy had saved up, it was really expensive.

The man was baffled for a moment, but he woke up from his trance and then counted the cores, before he brought down the case in which the spear was contained.

"Congratulations esteemed customer, this Demon Slaying X-1 is truly a weapon made for a real man, make good use of it", said the man as he handed the case to Daimon.

Daimon ignored the flatteries of the man, and after confirming he wasn't interested in anything else, he moved aside and left the crazy girl take over, she had her own money so she also chose a couple of things, naturally if Daimon could think on getting samples of this technology, so could Sarah.

Having finished his purchase, Daimon and the girls walked towards the exit, a single brown robed man with a red mask passed next to them, and went straight to the counter, only to raise his voice a second later.

"What the hell do you mean with what you sold it, did I not tell you to keep it until I returned!", exclaimed the brown robed figure to which the man shrugged.

"If you don't pay up half of the value, you can't reserve our products, I told you before and you didn't listen, if you don't need anything else, please leave", he said.

"Tsk, fine, then tell me who bought it, I have been saving for years to get that spear?", asked the brown robed figure, just for the man to shake his head.

"I can't do that, it's part of this city's rules for the black market, I don't want the Valleris to come and arrest me", he said.

"Y-You!", the brown robed man was livid, but ultimately, he didn't say anything and just stormed out of the store, to then walk towards one of the random bystanders who was sitting and casually drinking from a bottle.

"I want a description of all the ones that had come and left this store, if you know about one who was carrying a large weapon, I'll double the pay", said the man with brown robes.

The guy who previously seemed to be intoxicated, suddenly recovered clarity and then took out a small piece of paper from within his clothes.

"A hundred peak Lord beast cores, the were a couple of Arch ranks here today", said the man with the bottle.

The brown robed guy gritted his teeth, but nodded and gave the payment, only then, the other party gave him the list, at which's end a description that perfectly described Daimon and the others, was written.