novelraw Chapter 57 Dust Escape
Chapter 57 Dust Escape
At the flea market, Ailiji and his group received bad news: the goods had already been distributed into the market, and it might take a day or two to find out where they were.
This was something Ellige hadn't expected; the goods would enter the market so quickly.
Even if you find out where the goods are in a day or two, they may have already been bought by someone else.
When we find the goods, are we going to have to spend a lot of time finding out who bought them?
Ailiji felt this was somewhat unrealistic, so he gave up on the three collectibles he had originally set his sights on and instead chose to wander around the flea market.
"Let's split up and search; that way we'll have a better chance of finding the artifacts," Eligi said to Gaara beside him.
The flea market is not just a single street, but spans more than a dozen streets, covering a very wide range of shopping options.
Even a whole day might not be enough to visit all the roadside stalls.
If we stop at those small shops along the way, it might take even more time.
Therefore, the most direct and effective method is for the two of them to search separately.
And so, Eriji and Gaara parted ways and wandered around the flea market.
Ailiji walked along a bustling street, where stall owners were selling all kinds of antiques.
There are more vendors than buyers, but the number of tourists will increase in August when the annual auction approaches.
The streets will be packed with people then, so now is the best time for Ailiji to go out and shop.
Ailiji's eyes were filled with Nen energy as he quickly scanned the auction items along the way. Most of the auction items here were fakes, goods that had been selected by experienced dealers before being released, so it was very difficult to find a bargain.
Eric walked along the bustling street but didn't find a single item with any aura. He stopped and rubbed his eyes, thinking, "I thought I could find something easily, but it seems I was overthinking it."
They were unwilling to give up on Eliji, so they started looking again.
This time, Ailiji changed its strategy and specifically looked for those remote streets, where you can find more genuine products.
The location is rather remote, so in terms of actual sales volume, it naturally can't compare to those bustling streets.
After walking through four or five more streets, covering several kilometers in total, Ailiji finally saw the antique with its strong Nen aura.
It was a tea set, but it was somewhat damaged, and a wisp of brown spiritual energy clung to it.
This was the first time Eligi had ever seen a Nen artifact with color, and he felt a secret delight in his heart, but his expression remained unchanged.
He simply stepped forward calmly and asked, "How much is this tea set?"
The stall owner glanced at Ailiji and knew only that he was a fledgling bird, visiting a place like this for the first time.
However, this is exactly the kind of person the boss likes best, so he said directly, "Either buy it now at ten times the current price, or participate in the auction, and the highest bidder wins when the market closes at five o'clock this afternoon."
After listening, Ailiji nodded in understanding. Then he noticed a sign hanging on the tea set that read 15,000 Jenny, indicating that someone had already made an offer.
A tenfold price would naturally be 150,000 ni.
Look around at the auction items around the stall owner; there are twenty or thirty items in total, and the original price of all of them probably adds up to only 200,000 jin of ni.
This shows just how significant the premium is for a 150,000-pound nun.
After thinking for a moment, Eliji did not buy the auction item directly, but instead wrote a price of 30,000 jenny on the sign, directly tripling the price.
As for why he, with a net worth of hundreds of millions, didn't buy it directly, it's because Elligie only had 300,000 Jenny in cash on him.
These street vendors do not accept direct transactions via bank cards; they only accept cash.
Ailigie was still planning to look around, so she wasn't in a hurry to buy anything.
After marking the price, Ailiji left.
Not long after Ailiji left, a young man with thick eyebrows and short hair walked up to the stall, glanced at it, and then added another 500 jenny to the price Ailiji had just left.
Upon seeing the item, the stall owner knew it had potential, and his smile widened even further.
Eligi wandered around five or six streets, and finally saw an item on auction that was imbued with energy, another dagger, with a price of two thousand jenny written on it. He then returned to the original street.
When he saw that his initial price of 30,000 had been increased by 500 Jenny, Eliji was somewhat displeased, so he directly raised the price to 100,000 Jenny.
And Eligi stayed by the stall the whole time, wanting to see who was raising the price.
"You don't have to stay here all the time. You can come back half an hour before closing time," the stall owner kindly reminded him, probably because he saw that Aliji had raised the price to 100,000 jenny.
Eliji ignored him and stood in front of the stall to wait, which made the stall owner a little embarrassed.
Time passed slowly, and the sun soon began to set.
In the end, the tea set with Nen aura was bought by Elek for 100,000 Jenny. The stall owner received a dozen Jenny bills in denominations of 1,000 NTD each. After counting the bills, he neatly and efficiently packed them up for the stall owner.
After obtaining the item, Ailiji returned to the location of the other collectible, only to discover that it had already been sold.
"Sigh! This time I really messed things up." Eligi scratched his head. It seems I'll have to bring more people next time. I just don't know if Gaara has made any progress.
However, being able to acquire a tea set with colorful charms today is quite a rewarding experience.
He contacted Gaara by phone, and the two met by the vehicle. Gaara also gained something: another fiery red crystal ball, though he didn't know if it was a fire-style ninjutsu.
Soon, Eligi returned to his room in the suburban town with his harvest. He used [Nen Beast Gathering] to gather the Nen energy from the tea set and then materialized a brownish-yellow scroll.
Ailiji opened the scroll and glanced at it, a look of ecstatic joy spreading across his face.
Dust Release: Particle Style Stripping Technique (scroll)
Effect 1: Consumes 1000-12000 Qi to instantly create a controllable cube barrier with a side length of 1-12 meters. Within the barrier, dust particles can decompose the target at the atomic level within one second.
Effect 2: The barrier's hardness reaches the level of steel. The barrier can be compressed and extended through "condensation." Compression can increase the barrier's hardness, and the process requires 100-1200 units of gas.
Side effects: The barrier cannot distinguish between friend and foe; a damaged barrier will automatically become ineffective and break.
It's Dust Release. Learning Dust Release doesn't mean you can fly.
Without any hesitation, Ailiji immediately bit his finger and drew blood on the scroll, and then a message entered his mind.
Eligi couldn't wait to fly, but then he discovered a problem: he hadn't received any information on how to fly.
All I got was information on how to create various cubes from cubes!
"Uh!" Eligi looked a little embarrassed, then remembered an anime he had watched called Kekkaishi, which seemed to involve various kinds of barriers.