Hidden Eyes

Achilles sized up the man wearing an employee's suit with ordinary facial features for a second, then he said with a polite smile:

"Yes, I'd like to take a look at the dimensional pocket models you have in store."

"Right this way sir!" The worker said while pointing his hand at a particular direction.

The dimensional pocket, just like the colosseum at Evernight Casino, was a product of spatial abilities. They were usually varied from different accessories such as necklaces, bracelets or rings,to name a few.

These pockets operated by simulate a pocket dimension that could help the user store items, materials or in most cases, monsters' corpses. Inside the space, time was non-existent so there was no need to worry about the deterioration of the things that were stored.

Since Achilles was going out to hunt, this was a must-have item on his list of necessities.

He followed the staff to a corner of the shop where they sold the dimensional pockets where it displayed multiple long tables with different types of beautiful accessories. Aside from serving as a storage bag, people also liked it to be fashionable so these things ended up looking really glamorous.

"What kind of model would you like sir?" The personnel asked still with a smile on his face.

Achilles glanced at the displayed products for two seconds before replying:

"A ring around 20 to 30 cubic meters would be nice."

"Then may I present to you this model we have here, it's..." The worker said enthusiastically but Achilles paid him no attention whatsoever.

He was only staring intently at the price tag of the small silvery-white ring with a small emerald attached to it. He blinked his eyes thrice while thought to himself in doubt:

'Is it my eyes are deceiving me or that's the price?'

After looking at it for another 10 seconds, he screamed internally:

'What in the actual what is this??!! 10000 Nero?!?'

He silently took a deep breath to calm himself then said to the staff with a forced smile on his face:

"...I'd like to see the 20 cubic meters model please."

Even though he still had more than 20000 Nero in his budget, it was still not an option to waste half of his money on one item!

The man stopped speaking and looked at Achilles for a moment before saying again, his voice sounded less enthusiastic than before:

"All right, then you may check out this model of ours."

Achilles turned his head at the direction the employee pointed and carefully scrutinize the item in front of his eyes.

It was an ebony ring with a small diamond embedded on it, underneath it was a tag price that stated "4999 Nero".

He instantly took a liking for the ring because of its appearance which rather suited his style and the affordable price.

He immediately said to the man beside him and said with a hint of happiness in his voice:

"I'd like this please."

The worker clapped his hands and spoke

"That's great, please follow me to the counter to finish your purchase."

He took the ebony ring and started walking to the counter, Achilles swiftly followed behind him.

After a while, the latter finished his purchase and took the ring from the former while he was speaking to him:

"If there's any problem with our product then you can come here for free maintenance. And you only need to let the ring take a drop of your blood to become its owner."

Achilles listened to what the man said and bit on his left thumb a little, he dropped his blood on the ring's jewel and it glowed slightly. He instantly felt a connection between him and the object.

After everything was done, he put the ring on his left middle finger and left the store while grinning from ear to ear.

He went outside to a larger street and was planning to wave for a cab when all of the sudden, he felt someone looking at him.

His muscles instantly tensed up but he didn't move from his position, it would be best if he didn't alert whoever was looking at him. He narrowed his eyes while trying to discern the feeling he was experiencing.

The hidden pair of eyes that was focusing on him didn't seem like it had hostile intentions, it seemed to be composed of curiosity, amusement and some unknown emotions he was not aware of.

While he was trying to figure out who was stalking him, a cab arrived in front of him, he quickly opened the door and got inside. He said to the driver a location and the vehicle quickly drove off.

The feeling vanished abruptly just as it had appeared, Achilles breathed out a sigh of relief after a moment but soon a frown appeared on his face, he held his chin lightly while muttering to himself:

"Who the hell was that..?"