Still walking, Evan noticed a high wall from a distance. It looked magnificent from the distance, with designs of some sparkly and obtuse words or symbols, it looked interesting yet cool. As he walked he saw a huge gate, with a guard by the post.
As Evan walked to a close distance, he spoke
"Entrance fee: 5b pay or get out" the guard spoke
Without speaking, Evan kept walking as he was close to the guard he gave him 5b and continued walking in.
The guard just stared as he saw Evan walk in.
As Evan entered he saw countless big houses, with paved roads everywhere and lots of people walking around. He could distinctly notice the largest building which was a church. For some reason, Churches were highly respected and were always bigger than the other buildings, though this was not the main city where all forces gathered.
There were at least 199 towns, 50 cities, and 4 capitals with 1 central in this world. As stated Almia is one of those 50 cities. The four capitals are run by the four top guilds in the world, the merchant, adventurer, alchemist, and hunters guilds. While the central is where all the main powerhouses of leaders reside. It is a place filled with strong nobles or talented people from non-noble lineage.
As Evan walked, he looked around. This was why he wandered to places for no rhyme or reason it was to see something new, a different environment. As he started to tour around, he eventually just got bored. So he went to a nearby shop, this time a female behind the counter, selling his mats he got 900b.
"Do you sell high-quality mana stones? and how much?" - Evan
"Yes, we have. 5sc for one" - The female attendant
It wasn't enough for what he wanted to buy, what he needed were high-quality mana stones, these were mana stones that were saturated from mana to the point of fullness having better quality and quantity. To buy one was 5 silver coins, it was expensive because of out 100 mana stones there can only be found 2 high-quality ones, sometimes there weren't any.
Thinking about where he would find that amount of money from hunting E-rank beasts, he got depressed. He didn't think at all about D-rank beasts, after all, what if he found a D-rank beast with its battle power close to C-rank? Wouldn't he die? That wolf pack he fought although dead, taught him a lesson not to be too reckless and he didn't want to die anytime soon.
"Just reach C-rank and I'm done" Evan thought
As he walked out of the store, he saw a crowd of people heading right in a certain direction. Filled with curiosity he walked along as he tried to listen to the hundreds of conversations to find out what was going on.
"Bro, this it it!!! Crimson saber's last fight!!!" a boy shouted within the crowd
"I know, I know hurry!" An older voice sounded out
"I think this is the 60th time someone's going to beat the arena of despair" A strong voice sounded out
"Nah man, you really think they're gonna lose? They aren't prepared to lose 500sc. Trust me crimson saber's good as dead" A female voice sounded out
Evan took a moment to digest the information after he finished, he thought
"Arena of despair huh, let's see what you got" He followed the crowd, walking for a bit taking some twists and turns, he saw a huge arena, the word huge couldn't describe it, it was HUMONGOUS.
There was a long line, that was as long as the road walking towards this city. Thank goodness though there seemed to be different sections so it wouldn't take long to get in. Evan joined the line with the crowd of people.
-After an hour-
"1000bc" The person standing there giving people tickets to enter asked Evan
"Here" giving him 1sc, Evan entered inwardly thinking "Expensive, this better be worth it"
Getting a ticket he went in, finding his seat written on the ticket "5A".
Looking around in this humongous arena it seemed endlessly long as he kept staring for a minute. "Ah" regaining focus, he found out he was staring too long. People were already filling the seats as he made his way to his seat using the signs boards around for direction.
Sitting down he looked down, seeing a square-shaped zone, guessing that was the ring he saw two huge closed doors on each side of the zone.
-10 mins later-
After everyone had sat down, a booming voice resounded to the whole arena.
"Ladies and gents, today is the finala! As you all know whoever defeats our 10 champions in a 1-on-1 wins 500sc. Here's are our challenger Crimson Saber! and our final champion Lightning blade!"
The crowd cheered! Shouting all over the place the noise deafening. Evan covered his ears.
"Now ready, the final fight for today WIN OR LOSE" The voice cut off all the people and said
"FIGHT!"