章 23: Testing the special eyes! A book?

Chapter 23

"Buy 2 get 1 free! Why stop at cluttering your life with just two unnecessary items when you can have a third for free, cluttering guaranteed!"

"Scram! I refuse to be fooled; you are secretly trying to make me pay for the 3rd invisible item!?"

The shops were lively with customers bickering with the shop owners.

There were shops arranged neatly, as one would expect from a festive market in his previous world.

Oliver also realized something while strolling around.

Although the clan was famous for its ruthless and crazy exorcists, in the end, it was still a clan that had always stood up for humanity against the demons.

The normal people inside were happy and healthy, proper sanitation was maintained throughout the place.

'It looks like only those who belong to or are associated with the main family are the crazy ones…'

He wondered; there was not much specification in the novel when he was reading it.

It was just mentioned that the Mystic Purge Clan was extremely violent, ruthless, and vicious to their enemies, so much so they are feared even among humans.

But looking at the lively market situated in the heart of the clan made him doubt the words he had read.

He sighed and focused on what his purpose of the visit was.

In the next moment, his eyes changed; a mysterious glint passed through his amethyst eyes slowly shifting its color to something else.

It shifted from a light greenish-blue to a bleached purple…

The world in his eyes changed; everything became visible to him, whether hidden or not.

He looked at a passerby, but what he saw was not a human but a walking skeleton.

Oliver was able to vividly see all the 206 bones inside the person clearly; not only that, he could also see the amount of esper present inside the person's body.

Focusing more on his eyes, the scene once again changed, and although diluted, he was now seeing the person's blood vessels, their muscles, flesh beneath the skin.

Although the bony structure was no longer visible, he could see more complex details.

It was like layers in a body.

Suppose the atomic and cellular constitution of a person is considered layer 0; then comes the skeletal and tissue layer above it, which could be said to be layer 1. Above that should be the muscular and vascular where organs, vessels, and other major human body parts become visible to him.

He decided not to view the layer 0 for the moment as he could feel the eyes were quite exhausting to use and he had a lot to use them for so he took it slow.

He did not have enough mastery and training to control the special eyes so he could only compromise at the moment and use them frugally.

For now, he limited himself to only see through when necessary, hopefully not needing him to use deeper than layer 2.

"Oh! Young man, would you like to buy something? I saw you standing here for some time."

A voice interrupted his thoughts as he looked at the man besides him.

It was a man with a large bushy brown beard covering his face; he had black eyes and looked quite average.

From his clothing style, Oliver realized he was a shopkeeper; his clothing style was foreign and did not align with the clan's traditional style of clothes.

"That's right. I was looking for some things casually."

"Oh, then sir, would you like to come see my shop? I have plenty of good things for exorcists. From your refined attire, I am sure you are a distinguished exorcist yourself."

The bearded man started buttering up as he praised Oliver's style.

"What do you sell? Show me."

Since Oliver was here to buy some useful things, he decided to follow the man to his shop. There were many shop owners who would come out to attract customers.

Actually, after watching Nadia's humungous talent and getting beaten by his siblings, Oliver felt he was quite vulnerable.

Despite the system, he did not feel assured at all.

The system only provided him with rewards at random times, which was not ideal. It would only provide the benefits when his target achieved a milestone in their training.

He had to use his own strength to counter threats he might face. So he must be prepared. He has already received a tenfold strength boost so he should at least train himself according to how an exorcist on the physical path would... for now at least.

And apart from the system, the best strength he had was his knowledge from the novel which was the knowledge about the future of this world.

What was the use of it all if he could not even use that knowledge to his advantage?

I may be a side character, but I am not that useless.

Creak.

The man took him to a decent looking shop which was likely his shop. The interior was quite spacious and looked clean.

"Here it is; buy anything you like. If you buy in bulk, I will even give you a good discount."

Looking around, he saw many things.

Firearms, cold weapons, medication, books, potions, exorcism tools, neatly arranged scrolls, and some random materials and substances placed in glass boxes.

This was an all-purpose store.

His pockets suddenly trembled a little…

Although he was one of the young masters of the clan, his budget was definitely not young master-like…

Of course, he had asked for some money from the clan a while ago and thus was allotted some amount by the supervising maid but he felt it was not enough at all.

From his knowledge, all the young heirs of the clan were showered in riches.

And not to mention, Nadia, who could buy anything she wanted with just a word.

'Fuck! I feel like a beggar!'

He could not help but exclaim.

'I need to prepare a source of money for myself soon… I can't be dependent on the clan always.'

Oliver frowned; he had many ideas in his mind that he would be developing in the future, and many of his ideas required massive funds to even start.

He needed money.

The human world had adapted a common currency, which was called Neden.

For comparisons, a loaf of bread costs around 1 Neden.

'Sigh… money is always the problem.'

Oliver's scanned the shop items for something he might be interested in.

"What's that book about?"

He suddenly pointed at a book in a brownish cover.

The shop owner looked over with keen eyes and told,

"Ah, that book is a…"

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章 24: Purchasing the book and Getting Robbed!

Chapter 24

"Ah, that book is a martial arts book. It records a decent martial art technique focused on movements. It's called [Six Thoughtful Steps of the Spirits]."

'So it was that…'

Oliver raised a brow as he pretended to be in thought.

In reality, the martial art technique focusing on movement was a common technique that could be found in multiple places.

There was nothing special about it in the eyes of normal exorcists.

They could find copies of this martial art distributed around the human territories.

It was a decent technique to learn and master, and undoubtedly, it helped many exorcists who mastered it.

But what people didn't know was that this was an incomplete technique.

In fact, this martial art technique was a part that belonged to an important technique in the story.

The technique was called…

The technique was called [Spirit Stretch].

An unbelievably fast movement technique that spirits of the world use to travel.

This technique needed to be joined with other parts of the main technique in order for all the conditions to be fulfilled.

What was even more absurd was that someone was able to complete this due to a very strange reason.

In the novel, a character in the academy arc was able to collect all the parts of this technique and received [Spirit Stretch] directly from the spirits.

How was he able to achieve that?

It was all thanks to his severe obsession with anything related to spirits. It was borderline disgusting but in a world where wars and demons were rampant, no one cared for some exorcist's weird fetishes.

"I will take this."

Oliver told the shop owner, getting [Spirit Stretch] would be extremely beneficial for him considering the character who had it in the novel was always able to escape whenever his class fell in trouble with demons.

"That'll be 500 Neden."

Oliver cursed the shopkeeper, this was so expensive.

"What's the discounted price?" He asked.

"I won't make much profit on it so this does not have a discount."

"What? No, you must do something about it, otherwise, forget it."

Oliver quickly applied the 'Going, Going, Gone' tactic he had learned in his previous life while performing bargaining and negotiations.

"This…"

The man was speechless at this moment. He hadn't made many sales since the morning and Oliver was his first customer that he had gone to bring himself.

He couldn't let Oliver leave without selling something.

"Haah… Alright, I am willing to lower the price if you buy something else as well."

It was not a bad deal.

"Then give me that." Oliver pointed his finger to one of the glass boxes that had a material placed under it.

A black material that was somewhat transparent, and mirror-like.

It was known to be very light, malleable in solid form. This substance had a waxy texture in solid form. This material's melting point was one of the highest known. Not to mention it was superconductive.

It was called Hypon.

It was generally used to make tough esper specialized weapons.

He had some use for it so he decided to purchase it.

"Thank you for your purchase. Your total will be 2000 Neden after discount."

"Here."

Oliver quickly received a bag containing his items and paid the owner his amount. It was a lot but even a small quantity of Hypon was considered quite expensive as it was a rare material.

With that, he left the shop.

Back at the market, he purchased a few more things… until suddenly something happened…

"No way… there's no way…"

Oliver widened his eyes as he looked at the bag containing his things.

"WHERE THE FUCK IS MY WALLET!?"

That's right, he had been pickpocketed.

"Someone actually dares to pickpocket… more importantly, I did not even realize it until now when I needed it."

He could not help but mutter in utter disbelief.

Someone dared to pickpocket one of the young masters of the clan in broad daylight.

The same clan where they were walking right now belonged to his family.

Yet they dare to rob someone from that family.

He frowned as he realized that not everyone was aware that white-haired people were the members of the Mystic family.

His clan might be popular but the main people of the clan were always shrouded in mystery.

It was no wonder he got robbed.

A normal young master of the clan wouldn't allow themselves to be pickpocketed, it was just that Oliver also had heightened senses but he was walking around like an idiot.

He had never seen such magical items in his previous life, all of this felt new and mystical to him.

Everything here was supernatural in his eyes, he was just so lost in exploring everything like a child in a candy store that his guard was lowered severely which resulted in this.

The clan market provided him with a sense of security and thus he unknowingly didn't notice.

Not to mention, no sane young master would walk around a market like him. His circumstances were different and he had to do it in order to buy resources for himself.

'I should have been careful…'

His eyes turned mystical once again as he looked around… hoping to find the one who had pickpocketed him.

But to no avail, he could not find the thief, it was quite evident that he had been robbed some time ago and by now the thief was probably quite far away.

"Sigh…" His hands went to his pocket and retrieved a couple of notes, he barely had any Neden left now. Most of his money was in the wallet that had been now stolen.

"This is so frustrating!"

He shook his head, after thinking about it, he could not help but suddenly have dark ideas.

He glanced at the few near shops and the crowd of customers bargaining.

"No! What am I thinking!?"

He felt ridiculous, although it wouldn't be an issue for him to rob these people secretly by taking advantage of the crowd, he felt it was just too low.

He had read how protagonists would fall low after their reincarnations and transmigrations, and he felt it was understandable but right now his mind was not ready to rob the innocent ones who might be poorer than him.

What difference would there be between him and the person who stole his wallet?

"Instead…" His eyes narrowed, with [Cosmic Void Gaze], he could see quite far and there were a couple of presences that made him a little interested.

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