Buzz buzz buzz--
"Come and take a look..."
"Magic Items from the Imperial Capital! Cheap..."
Bustling and noisy...
The endless cries of hawkers had merged into a buzzing din.
Moss had grown accustomed to quiet, leisurely journeys, so the sudden noise made her ears itch.
She helplessly dug at her ear, carefully tugging the reins to steer the carriage around the crowds clogging the road.
This is a little irritating...
She lifted her eyes slightly and secretly surveyed the people coming and going along the street.
Nearly seventy percent of the people at the market are dressed as traveling merchants. The rest are residents and local vendors...
There are adventurers too. Most of them probably took jobs like escorting merchant caravans.
Still, that was normal.
Generally speaking, adventurers responsible for hunting and gathering appeared more often in frontier cities.
The monsters and medicinal herbs they hunted would also be sold to traveling merchants in the nearest local city.
Hill City is probably a miniature version of most frontier cities.
Unless they have particularly valuable resources, they would personally make the trip.
Moss's gaze swept over a small stall by the street. It belonged to a group of adventurers setting up shop.
Judging from the strength of the Mana Essence leaking from the goods piled there, they were indeed quite good.
The cost of making a round trip is too high. If they don't want merchants to force the price down too much, they have no choice but to come here themselves.
Moss saw several people dressed as traveling merchants gathered in front of the stall, picking through the goods while haggling over the price with the adventurer uncle running the stall.
"Still, judging by the situation, getting a good price will be difficult."
Sure enough, before long, the group shook