The Alpha: Claiming His Enemy's Daughter novel Chapter 127

Chapter 127: THE BLACK MARKET

The black market was a place of mysterious trades and transactions, never lacking in providing even some forbidden goods or items for sale at inflated prices.

The money used often came from irregular channels as well, such as usury loans, laundered funds, thus making the entire market ’black’.

The black market was an illegal place where you could trade anything, or anyone. There were no explicit rules here, aside from all things that happened there would remain there and anyone that you saw mustn’t be discussed with the outsiders.

If these rules were breached then the consequences would be dire, since it was easy to track you down through the magical tattoo on your arm.

All in all, this was a very secretive organization, the owner of which was unknown. But according to rumors, it was someone from the Andelus Continent, because Andel language would be often used during the transactions in the black market and the auction.

More so, even the king seemed to be well aware of this place, since the crown prince was here on orders from him. Meaning, he turned a blind eye because he gained benefits from this place as well.

Before daybreak, they finally arrived in the black market, which was called Sky Black Pearl. It was a fortified stronghold located completely underground, despite the name ’Sky Black Pearl’, with its entrance hidden on a barren hill.

As soon as they reached the barren hill, all of them dismounted their horses and walked toward the entrance.

They stopped walking when they reached a dark, upright stele. With no words on its surface, the stone looked markedly cold and gloomy.

"This is the entrance," Redmond said. He gave the reins of the horse to Iris, who looked at the structure curiously, and walked forward, as he kicked it carelessly three times.

Slowly, a pitch- black passageway opened up behind the stele, leading to a tunnel deep into the hill.

Soon enough, an old man emerged from the darkness, his hair was grey while his body was slightly bent forward. He had a luminous pearl in his hand to illuminate the path.

"Kicking the door with your foot? Are you sick of living?" The old man reprimanded Redmond angrily, since he took the lead and walked in front of all of them.

Iris was given a fright as soon as the old man raised his head and the luminous pearl in his hand to look at the five people before his eyes one by one.

When he raised the pearl in his hand, they could see him as well. The man had one of his eyes completely blind while his face was covered in wrinkles. His ferocious expression made him look absolutely hideous!

Iris took a step back and bumped onto Ethan, who put his hands on her shoulder to calm her down, while Will took the horse’s reins from her hand.

After Redmond talked to the man, Cane tossed a gold coin to him, who caught it deftly, despite being half blind. He looked at the gold coin and inspected it, only after he was sure that it was legit, a warm smile appeared on the corners of his wrinkled lips. Even his voice became a bit gentler. _{fгeewёbnoѵel.cσm}