Chapter 262 - Blade

As the two continued to roam the city in search of a fitting blade for someone as skilled as Julius, the two came across a small shop which had a particular blade which Julius seemed to have a rather different expression on his face as he looked at it. It was as if he could tell if he wanted to be glad to have found it or angry at the sight of it. Moreover, he wasn't even angry about how the blade looked nor was he happy about it. The thing which caused him to have such emotions towards the blade was the aura that was coming from it. Of course Lyla thought to stay away from the blade which could seriously be nothing but trouble. As such, Julius decided to investigate it up close.

"Hey we're are you going?" Lyla asked before sighing as she knew there was no stopping Julius and as such simply decided to follow behind him.

As Julius reached the store which had the blade which he had an interest in, he began to examine it. The blade was a full blade blade with the top of it being a flat surface and the bottom being a sharp edge which glowled red like lava. Seeing such an interested face on Julius, the shopkeeper stepped up to help his potential customer.

"Well young man. It seems you have a good eye for this. This blade is one of a kind and is said to have fallen from heaven itself," said the old man as he began to speak to Julius.

"It's cursed right?" Julius asked out of nowhere to which Lyla almost whacked him on the head for being so disrespectful; however , the shopkeeper froze in place as he realised that he couldn't scam Julius.

"Wow, I guess my luck has run out. I thought against some naive kid I would be able to sell this blade for a fortune. After all, you're nothing more than a child. There's no way that you could tell a good blade from a bad one, however it seems I've managed to encounter a child tenuous of sorts, capable of analysing and finding the smallest differences between blades and what their purpose is," said the old man who caught Lyla off guard.

"Wow Julius, I never knew you were so into blades," said Lyla to which Julius didn't reply to her and simply continued to investigate the blade even further.

"How much of it?" Julius asked without saying anything else as he wanted to keep the transaction time as short as possible as he knew something that Lyla wasn't aware of. That being that shopkeepers, especially those that can change the price of their items at any time, will take advantage of the smallest weakness in a person. That was why it was imperative that Julius withheld as much information about himself as possible which would explain why he chose to use only a few words to speak to the shopkeeper.

"Well I mean it should be clear how much this blade is worth to you, right? I mean after all, you're quite the expert," said the old man as he tried to search for any clue that would inform him that Julius wasn't an expert in his field.

"I know, I'm just letting you pick how much you want to charge me since I would feel bad for taking the blade at the actual price of it since you would barely make a profit and seeing as how almost no one seems to come here, that tells me that the only way in which you can survive is if you manage to make double or more than the money you spent per sale," Julius explained to which the old man sighed before giving a price.

"I understand then. How about 3000 gold coins? That should be just a bit over the original cost. I mean I understand that you want to be kind to me so I'll take advantage of that which is why I'm asking for such a number," said the old man as he lied to Julius. He was fully aware that the blade was only about 200 gold coins which he spent to acquire it. 

"I understand, thank you for doing business with me," said Julius before letting out a smirk before he got teleported outside the city through the power of Duke Drake which also did that to Lyla and the two of them began to run away from the city as fast as they could as they knew that they were in big trouble due to the commotion that Julius had caused after he had robbed the man. However unfortunately for the old man, not a single person dared to help him. That being for a simple and clear answer.

It was because the man was a rather greedy person. Although he didn't need the money, the man kept his money to himself as he didn't want to help out anyone. Not even those who were in the same position as him got a fraction of his wealth to help. Even though he knew how much they needed the money, he didn't bother to give a single drop of gold to them. 

Although the man was supposed to be a shopkeeper much like his competitors, he seemed to have a lot of wealth. That was for a good reason as even if he was greedy, he knew how to get people to like him. Well he only did this to the royal family. He has managed to sway the royal family by making a multitude of toys for the prince which the prince as well as the parents of the prince were overjoyed by. These weren't any types of regular toys and were instead revolutionary as they made use of mechanics which no one thought to use which would explain why the royal family felt like they owed the old man at least a fraction of their wealth. In the end, the old man was able to make away with such gold that he could have helped the entire market district have a life where they didn't need to work another day in their lives. Of course he could've stopped at not giving them any of his money however he also remained in the shopping district and decided to continue running his shop as he wanted to pose more of a threat to his competitors even though he was just being a jerk.

"Come on Julius, go back and return it. That's not nice of you to do," said Lyla to which Julius simply laughed at her.

"Of course it's not. That's not the point of me being here. I'm only here to achieve one thing. That being to become a level 100 player. If this blade would allow me to do that, I would be glad to steal it from an old grandma or a pregnant lady by force. I don't care who or what someone is. If they get in my way, I'll just have to force them out of there," said Julius, which rather caught Lyla off guard as she hadn't expected him to be so brutally honest.

"So what do you plan on doing now that you've stolen that blade?" Lyla asked with a smug tone as she was tired of even holding a conversation with Julius.

"I don't know yet. It seems that it's rather odd. That's actually the reason I had picked it. There's something different about it. I just haven't pinpointed what that is," said Julius as he began to swing the blade around in all directions to try out how it is however instead of something normal to happen such as the blade cut through the air, the blade began to glow more than ever and was getting hot enough to create steam without having almost no water touching it.

Right after that, a mist began to surround the blade. More specifically, a red mist which reeked of the aura of death. It was as if anyone that got close enough could sense it coming from the blade which happened to Lyla as she quickly backed away from Julius however he seemed unfazed and he didn't know why Drake knew. The reason was because Julius had a similar type of aura when he got specially mad. He released that same aura which put so much fear into the hearts of his opponents that they would believe that they would die soon.

"There's no need to be so worked up," did Julius as he lifted the blade and swung it downwards which was when the true potential of his blade was brought out as it seemingly actually cut the air around it and even seemed like it cut a slice in the world itself however it had happened for nothing a moment that Julius believed that he was just seeing things.

"I think I've found the perfect blade," said Julius with the biggest grin on his face after he had robbed the elderly.