Snatching Goods? Better to Snatch People!

"You just said this thing is yours?"

"An epic-quality piece of equipment, [Crimson Blood Cicada Wings]?"

The dwarf with the bronze-colored beard swallowed hard and nodded instinctively, only to seem to realize something and immediately shake his head.

"Uh... strictly speaking, it's equipment I forged after putting great effort into gathering the materials and buying the blueprint..."

"After Flint bought it from me, he only paid forty percent of the price. He said he'd pay the rest in installments, and in the end I'd receive one hundred and fifty percent of the total price..."

"We signed an Oath Contract. He guaranteed that he'd pay me another forty percent today, but then..."

Rasekton roughly understood the situation from the other party's hesitant explanation.

He had bought equipment on installment.

Before he could finish paying off the debt, Li Luo had killed him.

Judging by the dwarf's ragged clothes, he probably wasn't well-off either.

Otherwise, he wouldn't have chased the debt all the way onto the battlefield.

"So, you want to take the equipment back now?"

Rasekton bared his canine teeth in a half-smile.

"Uh, not exactly..." The dwarf hesitated, struggling for a long while before cautiously saying:

"If... I mean, if you can pay the remaining sixty percent, then you'll gain Ignis's friendship..."

Faint snickers drifted from the surrounding crowd.

The bronze-bearded dwarf's face reddened. Before the other party could respond, he lowered the price himself:

"Forty percent would work too... There were a lot of consumable materials used to forge this equipment. At least let me recover my costs..."

The crowd's laughter grew louder.

The dwarf's face turned even redder.

Combined with his already dark complexion, he looked like he had a huge round eggplant sitting atop his neck.

His gaze had already shifted from the gnoll's face to the