Buying his lunch, Alvin was thinking of what to do during this one week holiday. Normally he spent all his time in classes and practise. However, due to the holiday, he didn't have any class at all. So, he had a lot of free time this week.
After paying the bill, Alvin walked back to their seat, holding a plate of burger.
Charles was enjoying his chicken chops at their seat.
Although it was a holiday, the canteen opened as usual. This was because some of the teachers and students didn't go home.
"Charles, do you want to go to the old market square?" Alvin asked, then he took a bite of his burger.
Alvin had never been to the old market square. He didn't even know about it until Mr Elias told him that he could try to buy things there. Usually, he bought his stuff at the mini market in the academy. So, without any special reason, he didn't go to the old market square.
The same went for Charles. Charles spent most of his time doing cultivation.
Now, due to Alvin's need to get material to upgrade his Phoenix Rebirth, he was thinking of trying his luck at the old market square. Maybe he could get the Icicle Fren and Skywhisper Reed there.
"The old market square that sells cloud items? " Charles asked
"Ya. I want to buy some material there. And see if you got anything special about the place. It was one of the famous markets at Arcanum" Alvin said.
"Sure. I got something to buy also." After thinking for a moment, Charles said.
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Old market square.
Many hawkers were selling their cloud items.
"Cloud items, cloud items. cloud items that can cool your house."
"Cloud weapon, cloud weapon. Quality the best, price the cheapest"
"Cloud monsters, cloud plants, cloud gems. We have everything here."
"This market is large." Alvin said as he glanced around in the old market. There were a lot of stalls around him, all selling cloud items. At first he thought it was a small market place. Maybe not many people here.
However, this old market was large and full of people. There were more than 100 stalls here. Many people were buying things and negotiating with the hawkers. Alvin even needed to squeeze himself to move forward.
"Alvin, wait. They are talking about the story of the legendary Ethan." Passing by a stage, Charles stopped Alvin from moving forward.
Alvin moved his gaze to the stage with a red background. There were few actors acting and a narrator talking about the story of Legendary Ethan.
"Three years ago, the legendary Ethan fought the leader of The Infernal Order, Xander at the top of the Zenith Spire. They cast their cloud spell more than 300 times and fought for three days."
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While the narrator was telling the story, the actors were performing using swords, showing the fight between Ethan and Xander.
"Ethan won, right? He is a genius" an audience raised his hand and asked.
"Haha, no one knows the result. After the fight, Ethan went missing. Even his member at The Daylight Order couldn't find him. Yet, no doubt, Ethan made a great contribution to our world. Even today, the Daylight Order that Ethan founded is still one of the biggest sectors in the world." the narrator said.
"That is the story for today. If you want to know about Ethan's love story. Please join us tomorrow. Same time, same place" the narrator and the actors bowed to the audience.
"I like Ethan. He is such a good guy" Charles said with admiration in his eyes.
"Ya, and he is powerful." Alvin nodded his head. Then, they continued to walk around in the old market square.
Passing by a stall, Alvin's eyes lit up as he saw a stone at a stall. It was a black stone with sharp edges. In textbook, it was named as the Razorstone. Usually people use it to cut monsters skin. However, Alvin planned to use it for his magic circle engraving.
"boss, how much is this?" Alvin asked casually as he pointed at the Razorstone.
"This razorstone, 200 dollars" the hawker gave Alvin a smile and said.
"200 dollars is too expensive. It is just a knife to cut the monsters skin." Alvin frowned. Of course, Alvin didn't let anyone know he was going to use it on magic engraving. So that, he can negotiate the price. If the hawker knew that Razorstone was so useful to Alvin, he would raise the price.
"hmm. 150 dollars. This is the lowest price." the hawker said.
"120 dollors" Alvin said.
"Deal. Here you go." the hawker said as he packed the razerstone for Alvin.
After paying the money, Alvin grinned as he took the razorstone from the hawker. Having a good tool would definitely help him in making a magic circle.
Just as Alvin put his wallet into his pocket, a thief, Ben was watching him 20 meters away.
Ben was a skinny boy, with tane skin, around 10 years old. He was observing Alvin and Charles with sharp eyes.
After getting the razorstone, Alvin and Charles continued to shop around with a slow pace. It was a big market, they probably needed around 2 hours to visit all the stalls.
Walking around, Alvin was looking for the icicle fern and skywhisper reed, but he couldn't find it here. Even though this was a big market place, most of the things here were quite common. It was rare to find some special items like icicle fern and skywhisper reed. But, he found another magic circle material, rank 2 thunder stone that he was looking for.
In front of the stall, Alvin took out his wallet, ready to pay for the thunder stone. At the moment he looked for money in his wallet, a hand stretched across the air, snatched his wallet.
Then, Alvin saw Ben in black shirt stole his wallet before darting away at a high speed.