The warriors began to push and jostle each other until Karl whistled, reminding them that he could and would kick them out of the store if they started fighting in here.
Nobody wanted that.
"I will take the spiked gauntlet," a warrior announced, slamming a bag of materials down on the counter.
Karl watched the System count the value and nodded.
"We have a deal."
The gauntlet was passed to the warrior, and Karl replaced it with a pair of bracers that had similar stats, but without the combat damage that only came on weapons.
There was some more arguing among the warriors before another bag of resources was placed on the counter next to a rare Void Element flower.
"I want the amulet."
Then another warrior with a bag full of some sort of sand that the system insisted was insanely valuable.
"I will take the strength ring with the highest skill damage and the one with the attack speed."
According to the system, it was worth it, but Karl had no idea what the sand was for.
Whatever, he would look it up later.
"Deal."
He took the items and passed over the goods, which made the warriors smile.
"The Darklight Host really will take anything on trade. Who would have thought that they would have a use for Underworld Sand."
Oh, that’s what it was.
That was insanely valuable for death element creatures.
Like the pair of Black Dragons in the Tiny World. They could use it as a resource to help their power grow more quickly, as if they were in the Divine Plane, next to their goddess.
The thing was, while it was super valuable, in theory, it was only valuable to certain people.
Karl had just put the sand away when a slender figure pushed through the crowd.
"I would like to buy a half kilogram of that Underworld Sand from you."
The woman placed a bag of assorted Void elemental stones on the counter, and Karl shrugged, then handed over a small portion of the sand. It was much heavier than it looked, and a half kilo was no big loss.
The Necromancer smiled as she put the valuable resource in her inventory.
If she had known that someone had Underworld Sand, she would have traded for it directly. But she had never thought that one of these brutish louts would have something so useful to a practitioner of the undead arts.
Rae examined the item that Karl had just stored, and then grabbed a small portion of it for her space.
It had a lovely ambiance.
The appearance of Cara was what gave it away.
Either the real Karl was here, or they might be related. It wasn’t unheard of to name your children after yourself, and the System didn’t tag them as "Junior". So, this might be her ancient mentor’s descendant.
She sat down in the meeting room, and then snapped her attention to the corner of the room when a tentacle faced monstrosity appeared with a tray of snacks.
"Are you an Ancient?" She asked, utterly baffled by the creature’s appearance.
"I am modelled after them, Miss. I am a summoned construct known as a Lesser Watcher. I have refreshments for you."
Karl chuckled as the dragon stared at the Watcher.
Being able to see through their eyes was absolutely overpowered when you wanted to play pranks on old friends.
"So, you must be part of the Pet Sitter Class skills, right? What sort of abilities do you have?"
The watcher didn’t answer for a moment, conferring with Karl on what was safe to tell her.
"The primary ability of a Watcher is to take care of guests and pets, so my strongest skill is [Pet Space]. However, I also have access to many other skills at a lesser power level. The Watchers are not particularly combat capable. However, we are well-equipped to control wayward pets."
"Meaning?"
"I have the [Void Lock] skill to freeze hostile creatures in place until they calm down. Rest assured, they are not harmed in the process. We are quite humane in our treatment of misbehaving pets."

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