Lynn left the Bone Vault and, instead of returning directly to his laboratory, headed toward the Ghost Market.
He still had some magic stones on hand, but feeding the dragon soul enough pure souls to advance it to lv6 would require a massive quantity.
He had checked the prices at the academy exchange before. Quality was guaranteed there, but the prices were far too high.
The same amount of magic stones could buy far more at the market.
However, ordinary stalls only sold scattered individual souls. Buying them one by one was too troublesome, so he still needed to visit a shop specializing in souls.
The Ghost Market was as lively as ever, with specialties from all sorts of worlds on display, but Lynn had no particular need for any of them.
Before long, he arrived at a shop specializing in souls and all manner of soul-related "services"—the Soulbinding Bell Tower.
The Soulbinding Bell Tower belonged to Saron, the soul-school instructor known as the Soul-Eating Stranger. Its main business included safety guidance for soul consumption, trait extraction services, Soul Resistance training, and the sale of high-quality souls.
Saron himself mainly researched soul consumption and conversion. His methods of devouring souls were aggressive, and his personality had grown increasingly strange.
As for why a shop was named "Bell Tower," its exterior made that obvious.
The three-story grayish-white building had a massive bronze bell hanging above its entrance, its surface engraved with densely packed Soul Imprisonment runes.
Lynn performed an Analysis on the bronze bell and discovered that it could detect, warn, suppress, and intimidate souls.
He pushed the door open and entered. A small bell by the entrance gave a crisp jingle.
The shop was dimly lit, its walls embedded with crystal bottles of all sizes, each containing clusters of soul