In the market, there were even more people than in the streets.
Elvire looked at all the people who were minding their own business. The street vendors were shouting and trying to attract customers to their stalls and not buy from their competitors.
It was like another world to Elvire, who hasn't ever experienced anything like this before. She initially thought that in the streets, there were a lot of people, but now when she was looking around from the gates of the market, there was even more.
Elvire went and took cover behind Jaana and Levin, but then she remembered what she had gotten today from them she just took their hands and held both of the hands. That she would have some kind of safety, and she would feel better in the market.
Jaana and Levin just smiled and accepted the small hands and hold on them.
Because of this small action, they looked more of a family who just did come and spend time in the market and look for today's groceries and if they could find something interesting from the vast amount of stalls.
As there was food, jewelry, book, weapon, and armor stalls. You could find anything you want from here. But this place also had bad points. There were many scammers among the sellers, and you couldn't guarantee the quality of the product at all.
In the shops, their items would always be standard quality, but here you couldn't tell at all if you didn't have the rare appraisal skill or if you weren't blacksmith or armorsmith.
So many new adventures which didn't have the money to buy weapons or armor from the shops did come here and thought they made their life's deal and got good weapon cheaply but when they used them in combat either the sword just broke from one hit or the armor didn't stand any hits at all, and they ended dead. If they survived and came back here to complain, they couldn't find the seller again at all. It was like the seller just vanished suddenly and never did exist at all. So they couldn't get their money bag or any compensation and just lost their money.
Then, of course, there was the danger of you buying illegal or stolen stuff from black market sellers, and when you got caught up with the thing in your possession, you couldn't that easily say. "Hey, it's not mine I just bought it from the market like two minutes ago."
So they got fined or jailed as of course, the guards had a magic tool which could tell if the person is telling the truth. But still, you did buy and had in your possession illegal stuff, so it is at least fine.
So the market was full of opportunities and dangers. Then, of course, somewhere in the city, there was a real black market that only a few and selective bunch knew and used.
You could find something interesting from there that you couldn't get in any other way and the city loses money that way.
As in the market, there is, of course, a tax and market fee to the sellers, and it did bring money to the king and the nation. But the black market money just quickly vanished to other pockets, and no one knew where the money in the end went.
But there were some rumors that the royal family knew and did go to the black market also and didn't even try to bring the organization down at all and was cahoots with them.
But in reality, no one did want to go against the black market and its forces. No one was mad enough or idiot to go against one of the largest forces in the continent, as no one knew how many people they got behind their back and what was their backing.
And that organization had money even to hire assassins to kill you before you knew what happened to you at all.
So, of course, it placed full of rumors, and people liked to speculate and create even new rumors about it.
But for now, Elvire was strolling the market with Levin and Jaana. She was looking at all of the new foods that the vendors were selling. All of the colorful things that they had put up for a show and the different things from different parts of the world.
As this was the trading hub for the whole continent and many merchants came here to sell normal things to them but unique to the people here and buy the unique things to them that was normal here and sell it in their homeland with a profit.
So the market was full of exotic spices, weapons, armor, animals, and food. Anything you could dream of and Elvire couldn't get her eyes off from most of the vendors.
She slowly started to forget her fear and anxiety and started to enjoy this trip and behave more like a child who was learning and excited about everything and wanted to touch and feel everything that there was. Jaana and Levin just smiled when they saw this and did hold her hand more, as they didn't want to lose her to the crowd of people.