"Well, that is annoying," Alros grumbled, as he removed the blood stain from his claw. Thankfully, it is easy enough to do so with the help of his slime. Though, it still irked him to get scammed by the informant.
He would have killed the barkeep as well if not for the fact he was also a victim in this. He manage to stole all the memories using Memory Transplant skill, allowing him to read the memory.
With it, he was able to learn more of the Underworld, with some more information that will be hidden, namely the possibility of him being abducted and used as a merchandise.
"At least you are useful," he patted the corpse before transporting it into the system space. It will make a good meal for his wolves.
-x-
With the new information, he was able to plan for his trip into the Underworld. As the name slightly implied, it is located Under, namely Under the City, through several different tunnels which are guarded by what he believed to be C-rank adventurers or at least their equals.
And the only way to enter is to be someone important or pay them an exorbitant price. In other words, bribed the heck out of the guard. Thankfully, his money returned to him and he get some extra from the sketchy man, his memory reading allowing him to learn a lot of important things, like his house's location and the whereabouts of several hidden stash.
He looted all of them, adding more to his pile of treasures. With the new gain, he head straight towards one of the tunnel, intend on entering the Underworld.
-x-
"Not anyone can enter," as he expected, he was blocked by two burly guards, and one slim man. He feared the slim man more compared to the big guys, though. After all, he let out a similar aura to C-rank adventurers, and he did not want to cause a commotion.
"Do you need some incentive?" he put three different pouches into three awaiting hands. The guards looked at it before a smile bloomed on their face.
"Please enter, esteemed guess," the guards opened the door. Alros smiled though inwardly he rolled his eyes. Figure, even in another world, money will make the world turn.
-x-
"Woah, impressive," he state, at least for a fantasy setting. Compared to some places on his old world, it is not much but the fact it manage to create such things, no doubt magic was used extensively, especially if it was build after the city was founded.
While it is shadowy, he will not call it dark, several contraption that looked like light on the ceiling, along with several torch bearer with some gems on it, illuminating the surrounding area.
Overall, aside from the gloomy look that come from being underground, the place is impressive. However, he did not want to look at the surrounding, instead having his attention on the markets.
There should be some interesting stuff sold here, right?"
-x-
He was not disappointed, having find some interesting items in the market already.
"Magic trinkets! Get your magic trinkets here!"
"Here are some exotic beast not found anywhere inside Astor Kingdom! Get them now!"
"If you want to poison someone, come here. We offer a plethora of poisons, as long as you can afford it!"
"You want to kill someone but did not have the gut to do so, then come here and hire an assassin to the job for you!"
He went to the poison shop. While he did not plan to use it, for now at least, he could use it as a medium, though it will be hard to pick the right monsters to use it on.
"Can you tell me about the merchandise?" Alros asked, the old woman nodded before pointing at a purple flower.
"This here is called Phantom Shade. It change color over the month, with it's last color being dark purple, or even black. When it reach that stage, it will let out a dangerous scent that can paralyze, if not kill you depends on the vitality.
Then over here we have a vial of Night Scorpian. Only found at a very dark forest or cave, and only at night at that, hence the name. With a single sting, it can kill even a dwarf in a minute. A man will not last even half as long.
Then something special, this is a vial of Torim Poison Frog. It only find inside the marsh and swamp of Torim Kingdom, hence the name. So, it very hard to get it, especially as the kingdom regulate the selling of such thing.
However, I manage to get it, and if sir is interested, I will sell it all to you," the old lady told him.
Alros nodded before taking another pouch and putting it on the table, "Is this enough?" in the Underworld Market, the price of an item is not set in stone. Most buyers will offer the price before haggling with the store owner to lower or make sure the price remained the same.
The old lady is the same, and he did not expect anything else. This is something he knew from the memory he read from the sketchy man, and it finally be of some use.
The old lady check the content before weighing it, to determine if the weight is relatively the same. After being satisfied, she nodded and said, "This is an acceptable price. In fact, I am willing to impart with something else of value if you want,"
The offer is too good to be true, and he voice it to the old lady. The old lady merely laugh, not surprised nor insulted by his distrust.
"Of course it is not cheap, at least if you want something pricy. However, if it is not expensive, I will give it for free," Alros decided to think of the offer before remembering something.
"I heard there is an auction. I think it will be cheap to impart more information on the auction if you now of any," he said.
"Hhmm, very well. The auction itself is a normal affair. Happen every month or so. The only thing unique is that this auction did not align with the usual schedule.
The reason for this is it is a slave auction. There had been some raiders that went raiding distant land and sold a lot of exotic slaves. This is the auction they have been holding inside the city.
They likely plan on selling some of the slaves before going to another city and doing the same thing. Before raiding other war-torn kingdoms in search of more people to enslave.
The reason this auction get so much attention is because, the main attraction is an elf,"