Extra Pages: The Author's Odyssey
Chapter 112: Black Market [1]

"Don't tell me, you are not VIRGIN LUCAS!!"

The sunny voice had reached not all but almost every student standing in the mansion Hall.

Many students began chuckling at Sunny while a few of them felt embarrassed, mostly girls.

Adrian who was with Emma felt Emma give him suspicious looks, Adrian just shook his head at her.

Aric had a disdained look on his face, at the moment he wanted nothing but to pound on them.

Isabella and Isla who were discussing something paused and gave a long look at Lucas's direction.

Only they knew what they were thinking in their heads.

Evelyn was the nearest to Lucas's position and also heard what Sunny said.

"Evelyn, is it true?"

Lyra who was standing beside Evelyn, asked her with a smirk on her face."

"What is it true-" Evelyn stopped herself at mid-sentence as she understood the meaning of Lyra's words.

Soon a small blush appears on Evelyn's face she faces Lyra and says,

"No, it's not true at all, geez Lyra when you went into the gutter like that!"

"Well, anything can happen in the world." Lyra was enjoying this moment to her heart's content.

At that moment Lucas turned his head back and happened to meet Evelyn's gaze, both of them blushed more for unknown reasons.

He turned his head forward after the moment and,

Thwack—!!!

Hit Sunny on the face with Mana's influence punch.

"That will probably hurt," Lyra commented as she watched Lucas beat Sunny in blue and black.

"True it will hurt." Evelyn also agrees with it.

***

"Hahaha, that was the best laugh I had in a while."

"Emma...."

Adrian called her name but she didn't seem to hear him at all. Right now both of them are street markets of Silva City.

"Haha, my stomach hurt, oh gosh, the look on Lucas's face was priceless, I should have clicked a photo of him."

"Emma!!" Adrian shouted at her name, Emma stopped laughing and looked at Adrian.

"What is it?"

"Is there somewhere you want to go?" Adrian asked her, he just hoped she just for a moment because the people were staring in their direction, and from the look of it it seemed that Emma didn't care about it either.

"...."

Emma remained silent, but the way she kept looking at the surroundings made it seem like she had somewhere in mind.

"How about some local food? It's been a long time since I had eaten any of those." Emma spoke reminiscing about her past. Her father was quite strict in this aspect, he always said that they should not have any local food.

The only time she had eaten local food was when she was 10 years old and she had to ask her maid to bring some local food, away from her father's eyes.

"Then you are in luck! Since I'm a commoner I know the best local food. How about cheese Hamburgers? Or Biryani there is also chaat masala Dhosa." Adrian excitedly proclaimed as he started to point out the names of foods he always used to eat before coming to Nova Academy.

"I'll take one cheese Hamburgers," Emma said and gently nodded her head blinking a few times which made her look quite cute.

"Just wait here," Adrian said and brought two cheese Hamburgers from the nearby store.

Emma took the Hamburger and took a small bite and chewed it with satisfaction. It was quite tempting.

"No matter how costly food you eat, Local food has a different charm compared to the high-class meals," Adrian spoke as he ate his Hamburgers.

Emma and Adrian walked in the bustling street of Silva City as they ate Hamburgers. The mood between the two of them was relaxing.

This is what Emma needs most at the moment, Emma was always busy with her training, class, and then more training from instructor Ravi that she had bearly had time for relaxation.

She was enjoying this holiday trip...for now.

Adrian on the other hand was even more excited than Emma, he also had no time to relax himself at Nova Academy.

Adrian always felt the gazes of the students and teachers alike on his back. He knows that most of them did not him to be here.

But Adrian didn't give a fuck about that...

He came to Nova Academy so he could become the strongest Hero and then he would take revenge on demons who had destroyed his home.

That was the main reason he always worked this hard.

So that's the reason, Adrian has no time to relax, so coming on this trip takes his mind off all the other things.

Things are going well for these two, but it can't be true for Lucas at all.

***

"That idiot, Sunny. If instructor Lilian had not stepped in, he should have been in the hospital bed by this time." I muttered to myself as I walked in the dark ally of the north side of Silva City.

What I'm doing here? Well, I have something important to do here.

After beating Sunny I left the mansion and came here to this dark ally. This we're most rotten people in society gathered.

The black market. A world separate from where laws and morals exist.

That was where I was currently at.

When entering the black market, wearing a mask was compulsory so that each guest could keep their identity hidden.

On the off-chance that world government agents managed to infiltrate the black market, they wouldn't be able to track you down.

-Bam! -Bam! -Bam!

Knocking on the door three times, I patiently waited.

[World Government is shit.]

Heavy Matlic sound could be heard from the other side of the door.

"Indeed they are." if I mistake even one word then I could never enter the black market.

[Elfs and dwarfs are idiots to their core.]

"They are not simply idiot but fools of seven wonders."

[Sky is blue as water.]

"Night is black as darkness."

[...Enter.]

-Klang!

Shortly after, one individual wearing a neat suit emerged from behind the door, he was wearing a black crow face mask.

He didn't say anything to me, he just gestured to me with his hand to follow him.

Letting out a sigh of relief, I followed him along in a dark and narrow passage.

"We're here"

-Klang!

Opening a similarly large metal door to the one at the entrance, the men stepped aside and allowed me to get a clear view of what was behind the door.

How should I describe this?

It was a completely different scene than what someone would've expected when hearing the word 'black market'

Most common people think the black market is like an underground city owned by a high ranking villains but they are wrong.

The black market is nothing like that at all. From my point of view, it's just a night market with people wearing face masks to cover their identity.

It was probably the best-looking black market you could replace out there.

I designed the black market to be like this since I wanted to spice things up a bit.

But even then, this was incredible.

Walking along the road and passing by the numerous stalls, I could see a wide variety of products being sold.

From time to time my gaze wanders on stalls, I wanted to see the product that they selling but I didn't have time on my hands.

After a few minutes, I stop at a shop. Shop condition was 'worst'. There were cracked walls and I could not see any customers inside of shop.

But I know that this shop is not that simple.

[Anything you desire, as long as you have money. ]

That was the name of the shop. the name said it all, basically as long as you have the money can buy anything.

This shop has an item that I wanted to buy, it's a one-time-use artefact.

"Welcome, Customer to my humble shop. You can buy anything as long as you have money, and there will be no bargaining."

As soon as I walked into the shop, a dwarf walked towards me, he was writing a half-face mask and had a long braid on his face.

"I want a B rank Artefact, [Messenger Notepad.]

"..."

There was a slight silence in the air.

"Are you sure? You do know that it's a one-time artefact."

The dwarf asked me.

"Certain"

Surprised by my firm response, the dwarf let out a small sigh and said,

"wait here for a while, the artefact is in the storage room so I had to go there to take it."

"Ok."

The dwarf left me standing in his store.

Anyway, I need that artefact at all costs. Why? Because if I don't have that artefact I plan will fail without doubt.

when the S rank dungeon exploded from the overflow in Silva city It was a Massacre in simple words.

Not anyone had expected this could happen, they were unprepared. Most of the nearby guilds did not make it in time, the same goes for the hero association and hunter association.

Many were killed in a rampage of monsters and I don't want that to happen.

That's why I'm purchasing this [Messenger Notepad].

"Here I found it."

Dwarf said as he brought the artefact and broke my thoughts.