Chapter 650

Confirmation of Upcoming Plans
After hearing about the various events, it turned out the grand market was the most interesting one.

The grand market would run from four days from now until ten days from now, and, true to its name, apparently all sorts of goods would be traded there.

Its main attraction was the auction.

“Hm. Will we be observing this grand market?”

“I’d like to go. I’m curious what they’ll have.”

“Very well. On the first day, we’ll go ahead at midday and check the situation. If there are no issues, you’ll come with us.”

So it seemed I wouldn’t be allowed to go on the very first attempt.

Enough time had passed since I became a Platinum-rank merchant, and my face was known through Spider’s Cotton Cloud.
If anyone wanted to target me, nothing would stop them.

Even Kiblinki Saltas apparently found it hard to take the initiative in a crowded place.
It couldn’t be helped.
I’d follow Plum’s judgment on this one.

Even though I really wanted to go from the first day…

“There’s also the person who taught me magic embroidery, I’d like to visit her. Would that be alright?”

“That’s fine. Showing respect to someone who taught you is part of one’s duty.”

“Thank you.”

Since it was better to go sooner, we decided to visit tomorrow morning.

Sending a herald would be strange, since the other party was just an ordinary citizen.

We weren’t going for business anyway, so this level of approach was probably best.

Also, I would be meeting the people from the Darshe Embassy on the afternoon of the third day.

They said they would come greet me themselves, so all I had to do was wait at the hotel.

If any hospitality was needed, I heard I could call room service, so that might work.

… And that was about all the fixed plans we had.

Most of our schedule was blank.

Now then, was there anything else interesting?

“Hey, does anyone have anything they want to do?”

“Anything…?”

“Yeah. As you can tell, I don’t have much to do.”

“I don’t really either. If the grand market has some unusual herbs, I’d be happy with that, I suppose.”

So Fanny was looking for herbs.
I was curious about what kinds she used.
While we were at it, maybe I would also look for some rare spices.

“What about you, Juna?”

“I… honestly don’t have anything. If I wanted equipment, asking you would get me something cheaper and better built.”

Well… that was true.

I still had mountains of the highest-grade metal, the Illusion Metal.
Literally mountains.

Forging Illusion Metal normally ran into issues like needing a forge and a smith capable of handling it, but I had those covered too.

In short, buying equipment from me produced superior gear.

Yeah, there was no need for her to buy anything here.

“Then, Lana?”

“I was thinking of buying up any tools I can find for magitech work.”

“Speaking of which, what sorts of things does magitech use?”

“Hmm… the thing I use the most is silver. It acts as a conductor for mana. Then special stone materials to protect the conductors, gemstones for sensors… surprisingly, you need a lot of different things.”

I hadn’t known that.
It really was completely different from magic tools.

“Ula, what about you guys?”

“Hmm, we don’t really have anything particular. I mean… once we get back from this trip, you’re going to make our equipment, right? Considering the payment, we can’t spend too much.”

Ah~ Ula and the others were aiming for gear suitable for upper Blue rank or even Red rank.

Upgrading to that meant they had to watch their wallets.

That couldn’t be helped.

Then, if they found something they liked, I’d just buy it for them.
I figured that much was fine.

If anything else came up, we’d handle it as it came.

Though I doubted many new plans would appear.

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