Shaira and Ken found Angelo sitting in a corner with a gloomy expression while Marco is still standing in front of the armor.
"What's wrong? And why is Marco standing still like that?"
Shaira pointed at Marco who's still browsing.
"Just ignore me and let me wallow in misery"
Angelo answered gloomily as he turn away from them. Shaira also heard him mumble something about 'expensive prices and no money'.
"He's probably looking at the items for sale here"
Ken answered as he sit beside Angelo.
"And as for Rey here...it's probably because of the prices"
Shaira looked at the gloomy Angelo and also browse the weapons. A moment later, Shaira exited the panel with a pale face.
Silently she sat beside Angelo. They look at each other and in a silent agreement, both of them grew mushrooms on their heads.
Ken sweat drops as he watch them grow mushrooms together.
"Oh? Have you guys waited long?"
Ken turned towards Marco who is now sporting a new outfit.
"Cool outfit..."
"Isn't it? It raises physical and magic defence by 80%, and it also adds +15 on my Vitality"
"Oh? That's awesome"
"Yeah, I also got it cheap."
Shaira and Angelo perks at that, their attention caught at their conversation.
"Oh? How much did you get it for?"
"I only got it for 3,000,000 pesos"
Shaira and Angelo's ear deafens at that. Their mind echoing '3,000,000 pesos' and 'ONLY'.
"Hehehehehe, yep, ONLY 3 MILLION pesos. Cheap indeed"
"Yes, ONLY 3 MILLION."
Ken watched as they come closer to Marco who was now edging away after seeing their weird reactions.
"Guys...."
Ken send a silent prayer in his heart, turning away, as the two grabbed hold of Marco.
"Hey!! KEN HELP ME! Aaaaaaahhhhh!!
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The group continued looking around the shop and they saw a corner where a skinny faceless humanoid manned a booth. The booth has a placard that says ' Buy and Sell ' stapled on it.
"zzzZz - We Buy and Sell your items! What's your item? - zzzZz" It asked as it held out a hand. Its voice ending with a static sound.
"Aah..."
The group looked at each other before they could react, a person clad in white shirt and black pants appeared, seemingly buying something at the skinny humanoid.
"This corner seems to be the player's market."
Indeed, quest takers can take their items here to sell it to other quest takers.
Angelo took out the heart of golem in his inventory.
"Time to sell this then" he said as handed the heart of golem to the entity.
"zzzZz - Heart of a Trash Golem, black steel variety - zzzZz - Quality zzzZz - Low zzzZz"
[ Minimum Selling Price: 195,000 ]
[ Maximum Selling Price: 250,000 ]
[ Price: ____________ ]
[ ( Set item price) ]
"Ok, as decided before, we're going to sell it for 200,150"
"But the max selling price is 250,000"
"Well?"
Angelo turned to Shaira for the decision.
"Just set it as planned"
Angelo typed 200,150 and tap [ Confirm ] on the panel.
[ Heart of Trash Golem ] [ Variety: Black Steel ] [ Unit Price: 200,150 ] [ Seller : Miracle ]
"zzzZz-Reminder to not leave or disband the party during the instance to receive compensation-zzzZz"
Ping~
Shaira: "Oh! I got the notification...so what should we do next?"
"It seems this safe zone has no time limit that Lunti was speaking of, so maybe we can make it as our base of operation" suggested Marco as he brush the dirt in his new outfit.
"I'm good with that, though what if we stray far away from this safe zone though?"
The trio looked at Angelo before Shaira asked,
"Rey, I've been wondering about it since but you don't have any mapping system at all do you?"
"Err...unless I have a corresponding skill"
"No wonder...don't worry, we won't get lost, now that we tagged this place already"
Assured Marco as he dragged Angelo away to window-shop more items.
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"You guys! It seems we need to immediately rent a room here in the inn!"
"Eh? "
Marco turned to the rest of the group as he handed out the notice pasted on the inn's wall.
[ Available rooms: 52 left ]
"Hmm...it seems that even though this instance didn't have a time limit, there's a hidden condition of limited space to cater us players..."
Ken put back the notice in the wall as he regarded the rest of his team.
"What? Will the safe zone kick us out if we didn't manage to book a room here?" Shaira asked as she worried her lip.
"Well, we don't know that for sure though" Angelo answered as he tried to enter the inn but to no avail. One needed to book a room first before one can enter.
"How much does it cost to rent a room?"
"Let me see..." Marco pressed the service bell and another faceless skinny humanoid appeared.
"zzzZz - Welcome to SpringClean Inn- zzzZZ- How may I help you? -zzzZz "
"How much does it cost to rent a room?"
"zzzZz- It costs 3 TCP or 300,000 cash -zzzZz"
"Uugh..." Shaira and Angelo's visage immediately became gloomy.
Marco sweat drops at their reaction, he continued to asked. "Can a party rent just one room?"
"zzzZz - A party of no more than six can room together in one place... - zzzZz"
" Then will re-"
Shaira cut-off Marco and asked the humanoid.
"Is there any other mode of payment we can do?"
"zzzZz- Searching...zzzZZ"
Ping~!
"zzzZz There is another mode of payment the quest takers can do. -zzzZZ"
"Ooh? What is it?
Angelo's eyes also glimmered, waiting for the humanoid's answer.
" zzzZz- The quest takers needed to face a challenge. -zzzZZ- Once successfully won, the quest takers can have a room with no time limit- zzzZz- as well as other prices -zzzZz "
" And how do we activate the challenge ?"
"zzzZz-zzzzZz-zzzZz" The skinny faceless humanoid kept twitching for a moment before returning to normal.
" zzzZz - SpringClean Challenge initiated - zzzZz"
"Ok... so what are we supposed to do now?"
"Why don't we-"
"Hey! What the-"
The miracle party's words got cut-off as they got swallowed by a white light.
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Meanwhile, outside the space array on the stall.
"Nyaa...what's taking them so long" grumbled Muning up in a tree branch, as he gazed at the other quest takers arriving at the safe zone.