Leisurely walking down the bustling street of vendors peddling their merchandise, nothing had really caught my eye, just like walking down a bazaar, just filled with domestic or household products like carpets, vases and light snacks.
Passing by a fruit vendor, "Oi! You there! Come take a look at my fruits they are the freshest offerings you will find in all of Andros."
Not feeling particularly hungry, I ignored him and continued walking, "Sir how about a bet! If you can find a single rotting fruit in all 3000 fruits, I have here I'll pay you 10 gold!"
Feeling annoyed at his consistent barking and wanting to have some fun, I walked up to his stall and stuck my hand deep into the pile of cantaloupes, feeling around for a few seconds, "Kairos, forge deterioration magic - 3 weeks."
Like a magician pulling an endless rabbit from his top hat, I pulled out an extremely dark and putrid lump of cantaloupe, then another and another while the vendor watched in utter silence.
Until I had a small pyramid of rotting cantaloupe, "Here, 31 rotting fruits as agreed."
Shamefully, he handed over the promised 310 gold, hearing a large withdrawal his large muscular wife comes out from the back of the stall twice my size.
My body naturally stepping back in disgust thinking, that's a fucking ogre in a dress, look she even has a little beard.
In a deep manly voice, "Look Sir, my husband is an idiot, if you could refund us that gold, I'll let you in on a little legend I've heard back in my adventuring days, I promise if true its worth at least 10,000 gold."
Intrigued, and as a nice gesture I handed back the sack of gold, "So tell me more about this legend."
Clearing her throat, "Well back when I was with my party, we explored deep into the lands of Arcadia and faced numerous foes, as we battled through the harsh lands and dry deserts, we somehow found ourselves in an oasis which leads deeper into a forest."
"Fresh clear sparkling rivers flow freely into the lands, enriching it in rich nutrients, the taste of the water so clean and naturally sweet we were instantly enamored."
"Following the stream we found large nests of demon flamingos, ranging in the superior levels. Hence not much concern to us, nothing we couldn't handle."
"Luckily for us the Superior demon flamingos were friendly however at the end of the nest we encountered a Legendary monster, in fact it was a Legendary classed Violet Demon Flamingo."
"You might be wondering, what's so special about it, rare occurrences of random legends do spawn from time to time right? What novice adventurers don't understand is each monsters have a specific set of class rank attached to them."
"Only their Alphas are given special abilities and are the only ones powerful enough to naturally ascend into a higher rank. In other words, for a flock of superior demon flamingos their Alphas can only maximumly achieve an Elder class stat."
"In fact, we did not encounter the Alpha, until shortly later. We recognized the Alpha Elder class Demon flamingo by its Sun tattoo engraved on its head, a feature which all alphas possess."
"So, the question is why were we faced with a Legendary Classed Violet Demon Flamingo which had miraculously grew and ascended 4 ranks. Our analysis and assumption had come to a conclusion."
"Did I mention that all the superior class demon flamingos and its Alpha are white in color? Demon flamingos in other regions have been observed to be born white feathered and their eventual diet dyes them into a specific color, an example would be those in the pink demon flamingos feeding off shrimps."
"This particular variant we found in this region are seen consuming white fish and white dragon fruits. Hence, we concluded that there is a mystical fruit in the area which dyed and empowered this random Demon flamingo most likely a whole vineyard of violet grapes hidden in the enclaves."
"Shamefully I would say our party retreated immediately without exploring further, as any adventures would do encountering a Legendary class monster, no one would reasonably push their luck against such an opponent unless your party has someone with legendary sigils then perhaps, they would have somewhat of a chance."
Handing her my map, she marked out the niche location deep northeast in Arcadia, a location hundreds of kilometers away. Looking back at me "I would suggest finding a mobility to get you there and preferably a party to go with."
Marking out another three locations within Andros. "Here you will find the locations of my past party members, they may give you more information and if willing join you on your journey, seeing as you have a god sigil on your arm you definitely are more than capable than any adventurer in the entire guild."
Amazed, I asked "How did you know I possess a God sigil? My arms are fully covered."
Snickering she activated her inner magic, her ancient class sigil slowly revealing itself embedded in her eyes for me to see clearly.
"Many years of honing my Ying yang eyes from an elder class into an ancient class has allowed me to see hidden inactivated sigils up to God class."
"Only those blessed with eye sigils are given an extra skill of power perception, legend has it those in God tiers are able to see individual status points, accurately allowing them to have the great power to see through deception and if an enemy is worth taking on."
"For many others, they are only able to tell the power class through the intensity of the aura the monsters give off. For my party members, that was their first time experiencing the aura of a legendary monster."
"According to them from their perspective superior monsters, monsters are like a 5kg stone on your heart that slight trepidation almost as if you suddenly realized you lost a precious item."
"Elder monsters are moderate wavering fears to the heart, equivalent to looking down from a cliff with a fear of heights."
"Ancient monsters give a guttural uneasiness, cold sweats and slight involuntary muscle twitches as if your body is physically reacting and telling your body to flight instead of fight."
"Legendary monsters gave them an actual physical pressure, making your body twice as heavy as usual, wrapped in complete fear unable to move a single muscle while your brain spasms from the shock and tries to correct itself."
"For God class monsters, I've only read historical accounts that the adventurers instantly vomit and release every single bowel movement, pissing and staining themselves as if the body is reacting after death."
"Thats about it, now you know why most adventurers are recommended by the guild to never engage a Legendary class monster, even if uninformed most would naturally flee from their sight."
"Especially after experiencing in those mere seconds a demonic sleep paralysis that lasted an hour in their brains."
Personally, I've never experienced this with any of the monsters, not even from the astral beast which I encountered when my stats were basically zero. Perhaps it was due to my eyes rooted with Overlord Sigils, any of those auras probably just converted into data like what this lady had mentioned and experienced unable to relate to her party members.
"So, lady, how about Overlord monsters?"
Cocking one eye she looks at me, "Boy I know they put that in the power classification system, but overlords are just an imagination, hundreds of years of historical data but not a single account or record."
"Most likely some fictitious class of power made up by the guild and adventurers alike that there are powers in this world that could possibly transcend Gods." Heartily laughing, gave a good heavy slap on my back and tried to send me on my way.
"Hold on, this information you've given me really has its weight in gold and I appreciate it very much. I would like to buy all remaining 2969 of your fruits."
Opening my draconic leather wallet, "Withdraw, 100,000 Gold!" instantly dispensing 100 blocks of gold, and with a flourish waved my hand and instantly stored all the fruits on display into the infinite storage.
"Boy all these would only cost 1500 gold, please take back the rest."
I adamantly refused in silence.
As a show of mutual respect, "Alright then we welcome you back anytime, anything and everything, all of it on the house." Digging into her pocket she pulled out an old metallic coin and handed it to me "Show them this, and mention Eyesore Eri vouches for you".
Curious I looked closely at their old party coin. Inscribed on it a picture of a thumbs up, turning around it carved - The sugoi squad...
Holding in my laughter, I gave my thanks and left as quickly as I could.