Titus

' How can a common trader have such an object? Without my soul eyes, I doubt I'd been able to see his stats. This is guy is not simple.' James thought as a glint flashed through his eyes.

"I will be expecting 25 silver pieces for all this equipment or I'll have to look for another partner" James reaffirmed his stance of going through with the deal if only his condition and price were accepted.

He repeated his stance on the issue since the merchant looked at him daze.

'Did he discover my level? But how is that possible? With the grade of that item, how can a mere level 16 player see my stats? Well, it is good I had a backup. It is just 25 silver coins. It is not worth exposing myself. Sometimes I am amazed myself how much my greed pushes me.' The merchant thought as he figured out the only reason James could infer that his story was bullshit.

"Haha, dear customer. I am sorry for how this may look, but this is my regular test trial for my customers. As a businessman, I will like to deal with people who are smart and will help increase the value of my business instead of bringing it down." The merchant laughed as he lied through his teeth.

"Okay. Is 25 silver coins for this equipment a deal?" James asked once again. He did not care about the merchant's lie because he was only here for business. So far as he got what he needed everyone else was irrelevant.

"Definitely. As a complimentary gift for completing the customer test, my infrastructure will award you 75 silver coins. This will bring up the amount received to a gold coin." The merchant decided to appease James with money.

"Alright. I'll receive it. Here are the items. " James said as he handed the bronze-grade axes to the merchant.

James gave him everything as he received the gold coin.

"So what will my honored guest like to purchase with their newfound wealth?" Brodius smiled as he prepared to earn back his money.

"I will purchase ten bottles each of mana and health potions. What is the highest quality of the bronze-grade armor in your inventory?"

"I have the high-quality grade bronze grade leather armor going for 15 silver coins. Will the customer like to purchase it?"

"Of course. With the deal for the mana and health potions and the pricing for the bronze-grade leather armor, that should be a total of 18

silver coins and 20 bronze coins." Brodius said.

"Here is the money." James gave him the gold coin whiles he stored the items in his Mystique ring.

James received the change as he prepared to head out of the shop when.....

" Dear customer, as a gift for your patronage, my settlement will like to offer this Caller Stone. ( I am sorry, I can't find a cool name for it.). This caller stone will help provide the means to contact me for any business opportunities." Brodius gave the stone with the weird-looking formation to James as he headed back to his shop.

" Thanks. I guess." James said as he stored the caller stone in his Mystique Ring as he stepped out.

"Thank you for doing business once again. I hope we will meet again, Mr. Immortal Adventurer" The merchant said mysteriously as he called out from his shop once James stepped out.

" To be able to give off such a bearing at an early stage. This little child is something else. Making money quicker than I Brodius the... I guess I have something interesting to look forward to in this world. Hahaha." Brodius laughed out as a mysterious glint flashed in his eyes.

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' I guess now that is sorted out, I need to call him to help me with my tower quest. It should take a while before those top guilds can figure out a way to even clear the elite-level dungeon. By that time I should be able to complete the tower quest and have the world boss to myself.' James thought as he opened his message feature.

He sent a message to a player with the Name ID, Titus as he weighed his options about the world boss that had suddenly appeared.

From the information of the assassin geared player, the information had not been leaked and was only privy to top guilds and major families in major countries.

James knew that even as people with status, wealth, and connections, these people did not have the hope of clearing a dangerous level dungeon at this moment.

As an individual that was at the receiving end of a dungeon of such a difficulty grade, one could imagine his experience on the matter.

With this experience, he knew for sure how long it will take for the players to clear the dungeon.

This, therefore granted him the opportunity, to seek more strength by completing the S Class Quest.

Clearing a tower full of beasts would be a great help in leveling up aside from the quest rewards.

The average level of the player base might be of a similar level compared to James, but the difference in skill level was enormous.

The main method to ensure leveling up by these players was creating very large groups of players to attack beasts in leveling fields and gain exp points.

This method covered up their lack of skills. But the major flaw of this method was a large amount of time invested. This could be proved by the fifteen days that had passed in the game. With this, there were very few players that could cause trouble for James.

The Titus character James sent the message to, happened to be Marcus. After taking his Caller ID, he managed to fish out his in-game avatar name.

James had the idea of bringing Lisa along with him to complete the quest. With the number of beasts and floors in the tower, it should be a great help to her leveling up. But he later decided against it, since he decided to take precautions to protect Lisa.

Even though he had the feeling that Marcus was a person of honor and could be somewhat trusted, he didn't want to expose any of his weaknesses.

He had learned enough to know that trust was betrayed by the least expected people.

Having the responsibility of protecting Lisa, this responsibility could be used as an opportunity to create a weakness for him and this opportunity could be exploited by anyone.

Therefore, he decided to have relative control of his powers in the real world and people by his side to set up a foundation before exposing Lisa.

This meeting with Marcus was planned to facilitate the completion of that goal and to distinguish whether Marcus could be trusted.

"Hey, big brother...." A familiar voice called out to James while he was deep in thought.