The Wizard's Secret Journey

Chapter 177 Free Market
The World Conquest Association is located at the easternmost edge of the entire Upper Silver Ring, occupying a rather large area.

The main part is an obsolete world invasion fortress, which is said to have been used by the Silver Ring Wizard to conquer Moonshadow Continent, the largest and most important world now controlled by the Silver Ring Academy.

This is a world at level 5, which is extremely precious.

The wizarding civilization primarily determined the world hierarchy by the level of the world's will.

A world with a level 5 will is a level 5 world.

This usually means that the strongest life form this world can produce is level 4.

Only when living beings go far enough in the path of power and touch the essence of power can they break through this upper limit, so that the level of the world's will no longer limit the level of living beings.

At that time, living beings will have two choices: one is to coexist in a mutually beneficial way with the will of the world, such as in the wizarding world.

Another direction is to devour the world's will and cause the world to perish completely.

While the latter method can bring a significant boost in power in the short term, it is a self-destructive approach in the long run.

In the vast astral realm, those beings who destroyed their own worlds have a unified name—the Dead.

This name comes not only from their condition but also from the terrible curse that afflicts them.

All beings that destroy their own world will gradually become confused and insane due to the curse.

The origin of this curse is still unknown. Some wizards believe it comes from the influence of the will of the world of death, but many more believe it is a combination of the influence of the astral plane itself and the will of the world of death.

But in any case, the vast majority of those who flee their homes will eventually perish.

Those beings that have not been destroyed are all extremely terrifying, difficult to communicate with, and difficult to capture and study. Therefore, the truth about the curse of the lost homeland remains a mystery in wizarding civilization.

Currently, most research on the Curse of Lost Home in the Wizarding World is based on speculation from studies of "the Lost Home".

The term "lost souls" refers to beings who did not participate in the destruction of their own world, but whose own world was utterly destroyed.

They will also suffer a negative spiritual curse—loss of home.

This curse is far less troublesome than the curse of the land of the dead; if one had to describe it, it would probably be a shift from madness and chaos to frustration and despair.

Getting back to the point, the World Conquest Association is a membership-based organization, so Lynn and his companion couldn't go there. They only observed from afar for a moment before heading to the nearby free market.

The Free Market, officially known as the Silver Ring Free Market, is located to the left of the World Conquest Association, just as Graytooth mentioned yesterday, and occupies a rather large area.

This place not only sells various supplies harvested from other worlds, but also other things; it is the largest trading market in the entire Silver Ring Upper City.

"Shall we split up and meet at the market entrance at 4 pm?"

“Okay.” Samuel nodded.

The free market was large and divided into many areas. The places he wanted to visit were different from Lynn's... It was something the two of them had agreed on beforehand, so after answering, Samuel set off without hesitation.

Lynn glanced at the sign and followed the directions, heading towards the Otherworld area.

As Lynn walked, he checked the shopping list Rosen had given him on the silver ring badge.

Putting everything else aside, this wizard was flawless in terms of efficiency. In just one night, Rosen had secured three separate purchasing requests.

Although the amounts weren't large, Lynn would earn at least a thousand magic stones from this trip, equivalent to a whole week's net profit for the Tilo shop before the expansion.

'So, this purchasing agent can bring me at least tens of thousands of magic stones a month... I don't need to worry about magic stones for the time being.'

Lynn felt delighted and arrived at the otherworldly product sales area in the blink of an eye.

Before coming, Lynn, leveraging her status as ambassador, researched extensively about free markets and learned that the world's blessings were most likely to occur in only two places—

An auction house for otherworldly products and a free trading zone for otherworldly products.

Next, Lynn spent two hours visiting all the auction houses and looking through all the recent auction listings.

The results were very encouraging. He discovered that two auction houses had World Blessing at their recent auctions, one of which had World Blessing at two consecutive auctions.

Lynn finally breathed a sigh of relief after paying the deposit without hesitation to reserve her place at three auctions.

Although out of thirty or forty auction houses and hundreds of auctions, only three auctions offered the Blessing of the World, Lynn was already quite satisfied, especially after searching for so long.

'World Blessings only occur when the world's will senses a great crisis, such as a wizarding invasion... Unless a world is being conquered at the same time, it's normal for them to be scarce; it would be abnormal for them to be plentiful.'

Next is the free trading area, which is much larger and more chaotic than the auction house area.

Lynn's search for the world's blessing thus became much more difficult.

The majority of these are individual stalls, selling goods of varying quality, and the sellers' character also varies greatly.

During her search, Lynn encountered fake world blessings more than once.

Most importantly, the World Blessing is different in every world. Some sellers make grand claims and fabricate World Blessings that look convincing. An ordinary wizard might easily fall for it.

Fortunately, Lynn possessed the talent to understand principles!

Thus, it took Lynn a full four hours before he finally found a genuine World Blessing at an inconspicuous stall around noon.

This blessed stone is an ordinary gray stone, its only special feature being its smooth outer surface.

"I wonder which world this World Blessing comes from?" Lynn asked casually, putting down the gray stone, and then picked up other items to examine.

When buying things without stalls, the worst thing you can do is show too much interest in a particular item, or you'll easily get ripped off by the vendor who caters to your tastes.

Although the stall owner was an exceptionally young boy, appearances can be deceiving.

"I'm not sure exactly which world it comes from... but this is a genuine Level 2 world blessing, a recent trophy acquired by my master." The boy answered earnestly, his spoken Wizard Common having a slight accent.

Lynn looked him over carefully and noticed that the boy was not wearing a wizard's badge, and that there were some tiny, shiny silver scales on his neck and earlobes.

'So he's a slave from another world…' Lynn realized, a sudden thought striking him. 'Perhaps I could buy a slave for him to use in my future purchasing business. After all, while I can't bring other wizards to Silver Ring Upper City, I do have two slave slots.'

However, that's all for later. Lynn stopped his thoughts and asked about the price of this World Blessing.

(End of this chapter)