Chapter 71: A couple who obviously are easy pickings
After crossing the border, they kept their journey on the trade route between kingdoms. They arrived to the border of capital city in the morning. This kingdom had three cities. The city of Awanvar started its regularly active and ordinary day in the first light of the morning as always.
There were three men at the soul core level in the palace of this city. One of them was the former king. Now the throne was ruled by his son. The other two were the former king's loyal bodyguards, and they were retired. General Zayne and General Roy.
Roy's family was involved in business. Green wind trading company. General Zayne's children and grandchildren served as the kingdom's foreign minister and war minister. Except for the guards of the dynasty, all the soldiers in the three cities were under Zayne's control.
The green wind company was able to trade seamlessly as it had a strong soul core third-level supporter behind it and held a respectable position in all four surrounding kingdoms. Apart from the errands in the local branch, the bodyguards and managers of the firm were always composed of people at the level of soul formation. The Green Wind Company, which has thirty-two branches, was claimed to have more than one thousand soul formation level personnel.
When Boden entered the city, he paid two silver for each other. When Della told that she wanted to act together with him, he also agreed that she could be of future assistance. His first job was to find a hotel.
Awanvar did not smell like slums or did not have urban side. Every place were under control and tidy. People appeared like comfortable life here. Often some could even see laughing or smiling people. This kingdom was truly prosperous. Kids were not running around, however they were out and they all were obedient. Their parents as well were very careful. Nobles' carriages would occasionally pass and they all behaved respectful commoners, commoners appeared to be respectful against nobles as well.
The pair moved past main street and find a little remote, but not low grade hotel. Hotel was bright and lively. There were many stores around it. Boden and Della entered and find the receptionist. After little bit negotiating the fee, they picked to stay in separate rooms. Receptionist wondered why a pair didn't want to a shared room. However, they didn't even bother each other and just picked up keys and left.
Boden and Della took shower and dressed cleanly and neatly. They met at the lobby in twenty minutes. After eating something in the lobby, Boden and Della started wandering around the city.
In a while, they came to the front of the building, the headquarters of the Green Wind Trading Company. It was a five-storey and very large building. It had a few small auction areas and a large auction area. The large auction area was also used as an arena. Closing the store in the evenings, the company contributed to the lively nightlife of the city with arena service and bets at night.
When the two entered the store, a lady customer representative welcomed them in very elegant, transparent or not too flashy but very elegant clothes. "Hello, how can I help you?"
Boden looked at the plain looking but very interesting young woman "Hello, pretty lady. I am looking for a valuable pill or something similar that will work in opening acupuncture points. What can you suggest?"
Della was more mature and preferred flashy outfits. She looked enviously at the woman who looked much younger and beautiful than her and could not take it any longer and called out "Send me another customer representative."
Surprised by this offer, the young woman looked back at Boden and wondered if Boden wanted to send her. Because of this situation, the representative lady was a little nervous. Because if the incoming customer does a lot of shopping and if they said go to the first greeter, that person could be fired from his job.
Boden did not understand the incident and the situation, naively waiting for the woman to guide him.
'Are you together?' she gave up just as she was about to ask Boden. Because she thought it was the right thing to not irritate the woman next to the man more. She bowed to the two and quickly went to the other employees.
Another customer representative came. This woman was wearing too revealing clothes and Boden was flushed a little red. The woman came in front of Boden and displayed the balconies, leaning slightly.
"Welcome. My lady and my lord. Let's take you to our room over here, please. You can review our catalog there."
Della was delighted that Boden followed the woman with the large breasts without realizing anything. Boden did not care about Della's petty plans, or the ideas and business of the women in this store, or the grand plans in this kingdom. Even though there were some interesting women around Boden, he knew that he no longer had a normal life. He also knew that people especially on this planet would not hesitate to kill each other.
"Let's see what you have for me!"
"Yes, this room, please go ahead!" After the woman took the pair into a small service room, three catalogues appeared in her hand. After giving the catalogues to both of them, she took one of the catalogues herself. After leaving her catalogue on the table, she pulled out a fine wine that exuded a light fruit scent from her ring.
She poured a glass to the two and held it out. Boden sipped without hesitation, thinking that the drink would not be harmed. Della was surprised by Boden's relaxed movements. Della did not take a single sip of the drink.
When Boden examined the content, he realized that he did not recognize anything in the catalogue. He grunted a little when he saw the women staring at him.
"Uhm, uh, uhm" clearing his voice "Can you point out to me what might be useful on weapon-force energy and brightness-force energy?"
The customer representative looked at her catalogue with some thoughtfulness as Boden seemed uninformed. 'He would surely recognize such things if he was a relative or acquaintance of a powerful person. His lack of recognition meant that he was lately put a hand on a great fortune. So, it meant that I could at least triple the price of everything. The woman next to him did not seem truly knowledgeable, either.' She thought herself with a fake smile on her face she kept thinking 'I can easily con these couple.'
The representative first explained present elixirs and pills about the weapon-force energy. Boden examined them with interest. Then Boden asked what kind of energy Della needed about it. After learning that Della needed potions and pills on fire-force energy, they also studied them. After talking for about three hours, Boden decided to buy three of the most expensive pills to increase weapon-force energy. Della, on the other hand, bought ten fire-force pills that collect energy thrice to enhance the body.
Boden spent five hundred mana crystals for each pill. Della's pills, on the other hand, held a total of two hundred mana crystals. Boden paid for both. Della was incredibly happy. The customer representative was much happier than they were. Because she sold them things worth two hundred and forty mana crystals for seven hundred mana crystals.
Just as Boden was about to rise, he looked back at the catalogue, pretending something had happened, and looked at the prices of brightness-force and darkness-force items. He found a brightness sphere equivalent to the sphere of darkness-force in his space ring. The price was four thousand mana crystals. Boden looked at the brightness-force pills and potions. He did not buy the sphere right away or try to sell the sphere in his hand. Boden only bought ten of the potions that increased the absorption of brightness-force energy into the body twenty times more. He also bought ten acupuncture pills related to brightness. He spent another four hundred mana crystals on these.
When Boden and Della left the store, Boden noticed that two people were following them. Because Boden used a ninety nine acupoints energy conversion method, his feelings and strengths far exceeded those of other gathering energy levels.
Boden leaned over Della's ear "There are two people after us, we just arrived in this city. Do you think we should kill someone?"
Della smiled sweetly as if she heard a very sweet compliment "If we kill the men of this store, we would be in greater trouble. So let's pretend not to notice unless they attack."
Boden was slightly moved by Della's smile and nodded in approval. They returned to the hotel together. Della entered her room without even facing Boden. Boden shook his head after staring at the door of Della's room for a brief moment. He went back to his room. For the rest of the day, after practicing the mind-enhancing technique for an hour, Boden drank one potion slowly and immediately swallowed another pill and began to open his acupoints.
Boden, who opened the fifty first acupoint at the last time, was able to take pills three times until the pills completely lost their effect and was able to open the fifty seventh point. Boden felt very empowered. When it got dark, activity started outside and twenty men raided the hotel with their grade-2 swords.
Gifts
-- Gift
received Weekly Power Status
-- Power
Ranking 
-- Power
stone