chapter 5

"Mira, I am going to the Golden city. Do you want to come?"

Kazuki invited Mira with a smile.

"No problem with me, but I feel slightly hungry right now."

Mira said slowly with an emotionless face.

"Haha, we can have our launch there."

Kazuki said with a small laugh.

"Okay, I am coming."

Mira said with a nod.

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The Golden City was not really a city. Golden City was actually a market place where precious items and goods were sold. The Golden City Market had many branches in every capital and every famous city throughout the entire Ancient World, because of that, The Golden City had earned a huge amount of strength and wealth making it one of the three top forces in the Ancient World.

With money, you could hire powerful warriors to help you and even to serve you. With money, you could buy powerful weapons and unique treasures. With money, you could nurture talented people in exchange for their favor or even their loyalty. The Golden City Organization was such a thing. They used their extreme wealth to gain huge strength and become a member of the three hegemony forces of the Ancient World.

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Mira ordered her personal carriage driver to return to the palace as she was going to ride with Kazuki in his own carriage.

Inside the carriage. Kazuki sat beside Mira, in front of them sat the two armored maids while attendant Lee sat outside, besides the carriage driver.

"Big brother, I heard that our second brother was chosen to become the crown prince."

Mira asked calmly while secretly observing Kazuki's expression.

Even though they were all siblings, all the children of emperor Akihito were not all that close. Mira didn't hear the incident about Kazuki until recently. Actually, every member of the imperial family had his own interests and his own goals, thus, every one of them was extremely busy living his own life.

"That's right."

Kazuki answered with a smile.

Seeing his stable emotion and his smiling face, Mira sighed in relief inwardly. Even though they were not that close, still, they were one family and Mira didn't wish to see a fight between the imperial family members.

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Soon, the carriage arrived at the Golden City market.

The market was extremely massive and luxurious with different types of stores and stalls. Those who could sell here were either a member of the Golden City Organization or an independent seller who got approved by the Golden City authorities and got permission to sell inside the market. All in all, only the best items and those of high-quality materials could be sold here.

Kazuki and Mira got out of the carriage slowly and gracefully. An attendant from the Golden City market immediately came forward to receive them. He bowed towards Kazuki and Mira and said.

"Greetings, your highness. Do you need a guiding attendant?"

The attendant asked respectfully.

Of course, every attendant from the Golden city market of the Azure Empire would recognize the imperial family members as they were considered regular customers of their market.

"Yes. Lead us to the nearest restaurant."

Kazuki said, calmly.

"From this way, your highness."

The attendant led the group towards a nearby restaurant.

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Inside the restaurant. Kazuki reserved three tables, one was for him and Mira. The second was for the two armored maids. The third was for attendant Lee and the attendant of the Golden City market.

Soon, the food arrived and the group began to eat. Kazuki and Mira's table was filled with different types of food. As a body cultivator, Kazuki has naturally need to eat a lot of food.

"Big brother, are you going to attend the auction tonight?"

Mira asked.

"Of course, I am going to attend. I heard from the attendant that there will be a wild elemental beast's eggs in the auction."

Kazuki said in a high spirit.

"But brother, you had always failed to buy an authentic wild elemental beast's egg. Besides that, those eggs are extremely expensive."

Mira reminded Kazuki with a helpless expression.

"Well, I need a wild elemental beast as a pet to accompany me in my battles."

Kazuki said, touching his nose from the embarrassment he felt.

In the ancient world, the wild beasts were two kinds, the first kind was the normal wild beasts and the second kind was the wild elemental beasts. The elemental beasts were the same as the elemental humans. You could identify their element type by looking at their eyes color. They also had three ranks like the human warriors rank. A bronze ranked beast, a silver ranked beast, and a golden ranked beast.

A lot of normal people wanted to raise an elemental beast as a pet. Having a good trained elemental beast was like having an elemental warrior serving under you and even protecting you.

But for the warriors, having an elemental beast as a pet had a significant amount of importance, not only it can aid you in your battles and save you in dangerous situations, but it can also increase your overall combat strength.

Unfortunately. To tame an elemental beast, one needs to tame it when it's young in age. So, one can still teach it how to behave, unlike a fully grown elemental beast.

There were only two ways to get a young elemental beast, the first method was to find a newly born elemental beast and take it, of course, you will need first to fight its furious parents. Obviously, the first method was extremely dangerous and some even regarded it as a cruel way to get an elemental beast.

The second method was getting a newborn elemental beast through something called the abandoned eggs. There were a lot of elemental beasts that would abandon their eggs to let it hatch by itself. The only problem with this method was that not every abandoned egg would have an elemental beast inside it. Actually, most of the eggs were simply empty from the inside.

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The Golden City market auction was going to be at night, for that reason, Kazuki decided to take a tour first inside the different stores to see if there is something he needs.

Black Star store was a renowned place for selling high-quality weapons and its accessories. Inside the store, Kazuki walked with Mira in the archery section. Everything that an archery warrior should possibly need was displayed there. There were Different types of arrows and bows and some tools related to archery.

"Do you need anything, your highness?"

the thin salesman asked Kazuki with a face full of smiles.

"Do you have anything new?"

Kazuki asked.

"Yes, your highness. We recently received a newly invented quiver that could carry one hundred arrows, besides that, there are extra small pockets to put your special arrows inside."

The salesman answered respectfully.

"Excellent. How much is it?"

Kazuki said,

Kazuki felt pleased, His current quiver could only carry fifty arrows. Besides that, there were extra pockets in that newly invented quiver which was quite useful for Kazuki. One of the obvious weaknesses of the archery warriors were their limited arrows. By having more arrows, Kazuki could fight an enemy for a longer time.

"Fifty golden notes, your highness."

The salesman answered with a smile.

"Bring me three."

Kazuki said, placing his order.

"Big brother! they are extremely expensive. Besides that, why do you need three? You can only put one behind your back."

Mira said with a shocked expression.

As a matter of fact. an ordinary quiver would only cost two to three golden notes. a good quiver like Kazuki's current quiver with the capacity of fifty arrows would mostly cost around ten golden notes or even less.

"I need this quiver. More arrows would be extremely helpful in my battles. Regarding the two extra quivers, they would be attached to my mount in case that I used all of the arrows inside the main quiver during a battle."

Kazuki explained to Mira with a small smile.

With a bitter smile, attendant Lee who was watching from the side went silently towards the salesman who had packed the three quivers. Attendant Lee took out 150 golden notes from his pouch and paid for the three quivers before receiving them.

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Four hours had passed. the sun had disappeared from the sky announcing the beginning of a new night.

At a big pavilion inside the Golden City market, some attendants were inside preparing for the auction event. Normally, an auction was being held for the purpose of selling extremely precious items that are hard to sell in the normal stores.

After deciding the date of the auction, the organizer then would invite the powerful and wealthy people who may be interested in buying something from the auction.

to be continued.