"Is this it?" I asked, looking at the place in front of me.
Jacob nodded, "Yeah, this is the place."
I opened the door in front of me, revealing a place that was similar to a bar. But instead of all the rowdiness one would expect from such a place, it was quiet.
There were customers inside and bartenders too but all of them were quiet and minding their own business. The moment I had opened the door, everybody inside the place took a quick glance at me and the other two behind me before getting back to their matter.
Finding no problem, we three go towards the bar. Jacob went front and knocked thrice on the wooden bar with a specific rhythm.
The bartender who was quietly washing the glass with the white cloth glanced briefly at the three hooded figure beside him before nodding at Jacob and glancing at the back door.
Jacob nodded too and went towards the indicated door before knocking on it five times, the first three fast while the last two a bit later.
The doors pocket hole opened up and a hooded figure glanced at us, "Where’s the meat?"
"Inside you."
The hooded figure was silent for a moment before closing the hole and unlocking the door as he said to us, "You know the rules right?"
"Yeah… we’ll cause no problems."
"… Alright, you know what door to take." The hooded guard stepped aside, showing us a stairway to a dark basement. Enjoy exclusive chapters from freewebnovel
At my sign, Alice who was in a dark brown hood behind, lit up a medium sized fireball, illuminating the small space around us. We quietly went down the long stairway before finally coming to the end of it.
But even then, what awaited us was a dark corridor with three doors.
"You know which one it is, right?"
"It’s the last one," Jacob said, "…I think."
"You think!" Alice mocked, "You do know that if we get one of the trap doors, then only death will await us right?"
"You said you did this before." I said.
"Yeah yeah I know… but it was dark back then so I didn’t see it clearly." Jacob explained.
"We should have gone the other way." Alice said.
"You know the rules… we can’t take the same pathway twice in the next three days." Jacob reminded.
"Such stupid rules!"
"It’s this stupid rules that have protected our identity, madam." An aged voice behind us said.
Immediately we all turned around, finding another one of those hooded ones leaning by the wall.
"You were behind us?" Alice asked and the guy nodded.
"Yes… and to answer your question, it is the second one… today." The guy said making both me and Alice glance back at Jacob with anger.
Jacob laughed sneakily, "haha… sorry, I really didn’t see with all the darkness."
I gave a thankful nod to the guy, "Thanks for the help, sir."
"No worries. Just be careful at what item you pick up… not all item are as they seem."
Remembering his advice and nodding to the guy, we went through the second door. This time it was a small corridor, making people go through with one line. Coming towards the end of the place, we find the final door.
Giving a sigh, I opened it, revealing a large underground place filled to the brim with activity.
The Black Market
This was the infamous black market that the capital had under its soil. The place was filled with many small and medium sized stores that sold only illegal items or those that were rare and too costly.
My eyes glanced at the center place where a large building like tower stood.
The Hall
It is a very important place, one of its main features was that it sold information about everything. Just that made it an extremely valuable place.
That place has much more value. But our target wasn’t that place today.
We ahead, our steps made of stone that led us to multiple pathways. Glancing ahead, I saw small vendors all around us. All of them selling stuff that seemed illegal to me.
There was a vendor for weapons. The weapon shop had good weapons but most of it were stolen from other people. There was a shop only designated for drugs, I could see drugs of all quality being sold here for high price.
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Then I saw a shop that sold Sigmat rings. But in that shop, most of the Sigmat rings were of high quality and also sold multiple special affinities. The rings were shown on a glass case with the name and price written under it.
I saw one blue ring with the Air ability which was priced at 15000 Pounds. Then there was another blue ring with Bone ability that was priced at 22000 pounds.
Let me remind you that Marva who was a master of her Light Sigmat ring used a blue Sigmat ring. So you can guess why Sigmat rings cost so much here.
Alice went ahead as we followed her steps and came upon a small vendor. On the vendors table were many items. Lockets, Pendants, Knives, Ancient items all. But what Alice’s hands landed upon was a book.
Giving it to me, I took a quick look at it.
The book’s cover was black with a few white markings upon it, similar to some skulls. Opening the book, I saw all the pages were made of paper. The writings of the book had information about human anatomy and most of all, the writings all pointed to one section of the magic.
Necromancy
"Is this legit?" I asked the vendor owner. An old lady, with decayed looks and eyes that seemed to have no soul.
She gave me a glance before saying, "You tell me that. I only sell the items, if you like it, I give you a price and you buy it, that’s it boy."
I snickered behind my hood. The lady had sharp eyes and instinct. She could already figure out which age range I was even with me using a hoarse voice.
I give the book back to Alice and look at her. She understood my look and gave me a nod. Getting her confirmation, I asked the old lady, "How much?"
"800 Pounds."
Jacob behind me, coughed hearing her. Almost getting a heart attack, "What did you say? 800 Pounds!... Why don’t you just tell me to give my heart and kidneys to you."
The lady only gave a blank look at him before closing them, "Those wouldn’t amount to much."
Jacob snickered before tugging at me, "Why don’t we just go to another place and find another book that’s not trying to rip us off."
Alice shook her head, "But this book has actual details and recordings of necromancy."
"I’m sure that we can find another book that has skulls for decoration all around this place."
"If only the world was as simple as your reasoning, Jacob. Maybe humanity would have just been wiped out at the original generation."
Before they continue any more words, I said, "450"
The grandma didn’t open her eyes, "Hmm… 600, final offer."
"Deal"
Pocketing out the cash, I gave it to the lady who took it with a wretched smile. Jacob felt his heart being stabbed by small pointy needles as he saw the lady counting them.
"Nice doing business!"