My Cell Prison

Chapter 520: Chapter 520: Market
 

“Given the side effects of pressure-resistant drugs, Mr. Black White advised me not to sell in the Holy City for the time being… With the opening of the Dark Side, there might be business opportunities here.”

Han Dong always kept two bottles of potions in his waist bag, prepared to distribute them at any time.

At Mia’s suggestion, they arrived at the street end [Market Entrance-7].

It seemed like a shop on the outside, but was actually one of the channels leading to the Dark Side market.

Two muscular guards, wearing white masks, body extraordinarily robust due to some kind of drug stimulus, stood at the entrance.

As Han Dong approached, both guards simultaneously stretched out arms as thick as the torso of an average person, completely blocking the entrance.

“Verification of purchasing power is required before entering the market, please show the balance in your personal treasury…”

Han Dong rolled up his robe sleeve, revealing a slender arm equipped with a gear device.

Small gears whirred quickly inside, and small metal keys slowly formed the corresponding bronze coin holdings: 12100

That wasn’t a small number, the guards promptly made way.

“Please come in.”

After traversing a deep passage within the building, Han Dong arrived at the largest underground market, arguably the largest trading market in the Holy City.

Uncontrolled and unregulated,

no sales restrictions,

as long as it doesn’t disrupt market order, anything can be sold here.

Stall owners by the road wrapped their bodies in protective robes, and simply laid their merchandise on the ground, accompanied by a brief explanation.

Personal-formulated secret medicines, odd artifacts from the Fate Space, chaos materials obtained from killing life outside the city, fragments of treasure maps which authenticity could not be confirmed.

During their stroll in the market, a lady with a conspicuous waist even gave Han Dong a small card as she passed by, leaving a potent perfume smell.

“Professionally selling humanoid female servants from outside the city: Skeleton Girl, Harpy, Stingray Beast, Soft Gill Fishman, etc.

All female servants sold have undergone prayer cleansing by Holy priests, the contamination within them has been mostly purged.

Clients are welcome to our shop for trial, payment can be made after satisfaction.

Note: Humanoid female servants only possess ‘Underground Temporary ID’, they cannot be taken to the ground.”

“Of course… the situation underneath is indeed chaotic, there are even people doing the business of live objects from outside the city.

I presume, some wild creatures and evil creatures from outside the city would also have dedicated shops or stalls selling them.

Those running this line of business certainly have close ties with the Knight Regiment.

The knights who go out to investigate along the way, capture some not-so-strong creatures and return to the city, churn over to the shop owner in exchange for some copper coins, who then sell them at high prices to interested clients in the underground market.”

Soon enough, Han Dong passed by a fairly large live objects stall.

Small wild creatures were locked behind iron bars enclosed with barriers to prevent pollution leakage.

The vendor was an experienced butcher.

Provided people pay, it allows on-the-spot killing… these wild creatures when properly processed, can turn into fine food for knights, which makes for good supplements.

The price of an ordinary creature would be around 700 copper coins.

Even with such high prices, some nobles would buy them back, have their chefs process them to feed their offspring in order to enhance their constitution and lay a solid foundation for their knightly physique.

Of course, Han Dong was not interested in these things.

If he wanted, he could easy catch a bunch of wild creatures from the Crowman tribe… As for the opposite sex, not to mention Mia not being Han Dong’s type, there were also the Octopus Girl and the Bloodline Maid.

However, it seems Han Dong hasn’t thought much about this.

Coming to such an unrestricted and diverse market, Han Dong had many ideas in mind, and even planned to invest all of the research funding Dumps provided him into it.

His goal was straightforward — ‘Limbs’.

That’s right.

With Han Dong’s Breaking the Breed, his ‘Cellular Weight Value’ had been raised overall.

Before his breed was broken, the cellular weight was [300 (280 of which was used)], afterwards, the upper limit doubled to a whopping six hundred points,

This large rise in load value allowed Han Dong to dramatically change his body.

Regarding ‘limb’ sources,

Han Dong still prefers Fate Monsters… for instance, the ‘Undying Priest Arm’ brought great improvement, and corresponded to a profound historical background.

The traits of Fate Creatures are generally stronger than those of creatures outside the city.

After his breed was broken and more load limit was available, Han Dong had already devised a perfect usage plan.

1. Upgrade the Faceless Skull to LV.3.

According to the system prompt in the lab, 150 load value were needed for upgrading, in addition to a lot of ‘Cell Essence (Quality)’.

The ‘Quality’ marked here indicated that the Cell Essence collected previously could not be used.

‘Cell Essence (Quality)’ could only be collected from knights corresponding Fate Space.

The Faceless Skull was the lifeline of Han Dong, and the load of 150 points had to be preserved.

2. Limbs.

After reserving enough load for the head, the remaining load space will be used for grafting limbs.

‘Mobility’, thanks to the fusion with Crowman, had been completely improved, so Han Dong temporarily set aside the issue of legs.

The next step in limb replacement was geared more toward the [Body Trunk]… after all, right now, the body solely relied on the G virus in the right arm to hold up with the plague physique.

In fact, Han Dong’s own body trunk was extremely frail.

Furthermore, stepping into the Death field formally, Han Dong needed a sufficiently strong body trunk… otherwise the enemy wouldn’t be dead yet, but his own body won’t be able to hold on any longer.

3. Reserve for Growth.

Both the G Arm and the Priest Arm, sourced from the Undying Priest Imhotep (Second Phase), were capable of growth. Once they grow, the load of the arms would accordingly increase.

If the load value is full, the growth of the limbs would be limited.

Therefore, Han Dong needed to preserve an additional 50 points.

In conclusion,

Han Dong had 120 more load points to use freely, which he could use to replace his body trunk.

Since everything was on sale in the underground market, Han Dong planned to spend the remainder of the day browsing around, perhaps there might be a surprise gain.

However, several hours passed and after a long walk around,

Mia did spend a hundred copper coins to buy a bag of cursed objects, planning to take them back and extract cursed essence for her own consumption.

But Han Dong could not find any stall selling limbs of Fate Creatures at all.

“Do I have to resort back to the old way, going back to distribute flyers to buy limbs of Fate Creatures? It’s daunting… It would be convenient and cheaper if there were readily available.”

Just then,

Due to their progressive influx into the market, the two came upon the central zone.

A larger billboard was positioned by the road side.

Due to the formal opening of the Dark Side, a larger-scale auction would be held here.

The slogan mentioned that at least an Epic Level complete equipment would appear in the auction, a large number of outsiders were already waiting outside the auction venue.

A minimum of 5000 copper coins was required for entrance per person.