Inside a luxurious carriage, four ladies were sitting calmly while drinking tea. One of the lady was a little lady and she was looking at another lady with golden hair with sparkles in her eyes. This little lady was none other than Coleda, the little girl whom Elena saved. And the beautiful lady with golden hair was obviously her.
Other than them, there were also two other ladies present. One of them was one of the elders and the most outstanding alchemist of the Conna Village, Fren. The other lady was Coleda's big sister and Fren's apprentice, Noir.
As for why they were travelling with Elena, the reason was simple. As their and Elena's next destination was was the sa, they decided to travel together. They were going to another village called the Oshi village. And they were going there to participate in a Grand Bazaar happening very soon.
There were about 30 villages in this area and all of them had their own speciality products. Most of the ti they sold the product in the nearby cities as the market there was stable, the market in the villages were not insignificant either as all those villages were quite prosperous.
But because all the villages were far apart from each other, caravan's doing business with them would need to travel a lot which was a huge waste of both money and ti. For this reason, all the village heads gathered together and ca up with the idea of the Grand Bazaar.
In the Grand Bazaar, all the villages set up their own shop to sell their speciality products for a whole month. People from all the villages would co to the bazaar for shopping in massive numbers during that ti. If selling products in city was a stable way of inco then the grand bazaar gave the villages a huge sum in a short ti. But it was a limited like event.
Not only that but over ti, the grand bazaar had turned into a kind of competition between all the villages. Who could earn the most money, who had the most impressive products, which village had managed to create sothing innovative, these things beca the most attractive part of the bazaar.
This bazaar happened in different villages each year. The host of this year, the Oshi village had a rivalry with the Conna Village, so in this bazaar, the people from the Conna Village were planning to beca the top seller of the grand bazaar. Winning inside the area of the Oshi village would be the best statent.
This was not sothing impossible for the Conna Village to do. With their various alchemical products and dicines, they had managed to maintain a high demand in all the last bazaars. They had managed to win in total sell numbers quite a few tis and had never fallen below top five. The market for dicinal and alchemical products were never lacking.
A larger team had already went to the village to set up the shop and to bring the lower grade mass produce products. What Fren had in this luxurious carriage were the high end and most valuable products. As for Elena, she was interested about this famous bazaar and was excited to check it out. Thirty villages were hosting this bazaar together. So Elena was sure that it would be quite Grand.
Normally this carriage would have a lot of guards as it had many super expensive products. But as Elena was in this carriage with her S rank strength and Fren herself was a B ranker, they were more than enough to secure the carriage.
The luxurious carriage itself was an alchemical item that Fren had created herself. Inside they were not feeling any turbulence of the journey so the ladies were able to have an elegant tea party. While sipping tea, Elena was listening to Fren telling her about various products of the other villages that she might find interesting.
Even though the market was called grand bazaar, it definitely did not have items useful for a S rank powerhouse. But after interacting with Elena for a few days, Fren had correctly guessed that Elena's interest was not limited to only powerful S rank items. She was also interested in various kinds of bizzare or rare thing. So she was mainly telling her about those type of items.
According to Fren, the most rare item sold in the market was a special pearl with the colour of the night sky. It was not just pitch black in colour and even have the dazzling stars. This items was called "Starry Night Pearl" and had only appeared for only 2 or 3 tis in the Grand Bazaar. It was also one of the most expensive items with its average price going as high as 10 to 30 million R.
Other than that, a special fruit was also considered to be extrely rare. The village that sold this fruit only had a single tree that bore this fruit and that tree only created three fruit once every 25 years. The last ti this fruit had appeared was almost 23 or 24 years ago. So there was a high chance that this fruit might appear in this tis Grand Bazaar.
Fren told Elena that this fruit was supposed to be as tasty as heavenly nectar so Elena beca very interested in it. As a foody, if she missed this chance to get a taste of fruit, then she would be a fake foody.
Just like that, Elena was told about various more interesting items that might appear in this bazaar and with that Elena's anticipation for the bazaar was getting bigger and bigger.
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After reaching the bazaar, Elena imdiately ca out of the carriage to take a look around everything. The bazaar was going to start after two days so currently it was still in the preparation stage. But what Elena saw impressed her. Even though the organiser of this bazaar was only a few villages, with their high number of thirty, the scale of this bazaar had beca quite big.
While Fren and other two ladies beca busy sorting various items, Elena went to take a stroll around the market. Even though it was still not the official start of the bazaar, a few shops who had managed to finish the set up process early were already displaying a few things.
They would start displaying the main items only on the official opening date but still the items on display were not bad. Elena started to check them out one by one. Even though those items were not the best that the shops had to offer, she still bought a few things. Her best purchase so far was a small and cute handbag made from the slik of a high level insect called "Purple White Silkworm".
As Elena was walking around looking for more good deals, she suddenly noticed that a shop was very overcrowded. As this was still not the official start of the bazaar, not many people were in the market. So this was very unusual. So Elena got interested and went to the shop to see what kind of item could gather such a large crowd in such a sparse market.
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