More than a hundred vendors had set up stalls at the entrance.
Yet their stalls had nothing on display, only a simple sentence... or perhaps two...
"Exclusive information on the [Spirit Infusion Secret Realm], just 10 gold coins!"
"Exclusive information on the [Spirit Infusion Secret Realm], just 11 gold coins! Note: his is fake, mine is real!"
"Exclusive information on the [Spirit Infusion Secret Realm], just 12 gold coins! Note: theirs is fake, mine is real!"
The hawking never stopped. These vendors had only one target.
The Tier Five Professionals standing there, staring helplessly at the city gates...
"Wait... has the [Spirit Infusion Secret Realm] become common knowledge?"
"Tier One, Tier Two... the strongest are only Tier Three. They know about the [Spirit Infusion Secret Realm]?"
"Why do these bastards keep raising their prices? Shouldn't competition drive prices down?"
Even these Tier Five Professionals, who had weathered countless storms, had no idea how to respond...
Each stall charged more than the last. In just a few breaths, the price of information on the [Spirit Infusion Secret Realm] had risen to 100 gold coins...
They were treating these Tier Five Professionals like pigs ready for slaughter.
This sudden development was vastly different from the information they had received before entering.
Before entering the Desert, they had learned from an "insider" that the Desert's Orc faction and Chaos City were its strongest powers.
Moreover, the [Spirit Infusion Secret Realm] was very likely connected to Chaos City. Anyone seeking the [Spirit Infusion Secret Realm] was advised to head straight there.
As for Goodness Home, their information described it as little more than a place to stay and get some rest.
They were not to expect any useful information in Goodness Home. It was the weakest faction in the Desert.
It could