Passing by stalls, shops, beggars, and a few pleasure people (prostitutes). He kept his guard up for an eventual attack while playing with a fragment of the Ancient Shard in his pocket to canalize his anxiousness. Behind him, the sect's henchman wearing a grey cloak was doing a poor job of keeping a low profile.
Aito entered a magic item shop, used his remaining ten thousand TPs to buy ten more recovery beads and a few mana beads, then finally headed for the third floor.
On his way, he saw a few challengers remaining on the second floor running towards the fountain. Judging from their snippets of conversation Aito overheard, some people were causing a commotion at the Mall's central place and possibly elsewhere. Attracting the two moderators' attention.
'Not my problem,' he thought. Thinking how stupid it was to run watch a commotion for the sake of entertainment as if it were a show. 'But I can take advantage of that.'
