Transcendent Dawn

Harris City, Mysterious Avenue.

This place was originally named John Street, but as the mysterious shops started to open one after another, gaining more and more popularity, its original name was gradually forgotten and now, it is known far and wide as the ‘Mysterious Fair’.

Here, you can see young girls dressed as witches, you can also see ‘sages’ who are dressed mysteriously, with astrolabes, potion bottles, and various silver pendant hanging from their waists.

Perhaps, there are also ‘demon hunters’ dressed as hunters, and ‘vampires’ who are dressed up!

‘This feeling…It’s like I’ve just arrived at a large anime convention…’

As Su Lu and Rod strolled down Mysterious Avenue, looking at these young people in their ‘weirdly dressed’ attire, knowing that most of them were ordinary people, Su Lu couldn’t help but roll his eyes secretly.

Aside from them, there are clowns performing on the street, wandering painters, performance artists, tourists…All kinds of people filled the street.

The shops on both sides were filled with a myriad of mysterious signs.

Herbs, crystal divination, magic books and so on are just child’s play, there are even some shops that straightforwardly displayed ‘signs’ that looked like skulls.

The children of the Federation seemed to be particularly fond of this, these shops full of black magic often had booming business.

I don’t know how many naive customers are easily deceived, happily returning home with strange things like the ‘Mermaid’s Braid’, ‘Demon’s Skull’, ‘Black Goat Monster’s Horn’ ‘Mano’s Black Magic Book’ and so on.

Su Lu rolled his eyes again.

All the things here, even without Inspiration, just at a glance he could confirm that out of a thousand items, nine hundred and ninety-nine of them were fake.

Of course, they must be fake!

Otherwise selling mysterious items to ordinary people would be a heinous act severely cracked down by The Eleventh Bureau!

There might have been some unlucky or should I say lucky folks who managed to get their hands on a real item or two, but they were in the minority, and their fate wouldn’t usually end well.

“This is the most prosperous and famous street in Harris City…”

Rod looked at the ‘prosperous shops’ on both sides, with some sentimentality: “It would be so nice if our House of Dolls were here…”

‘Brother…You’re dreaming.’

Su Lu gave Rod a speechless look.

He suspected that the other party, like Sean, had a stroke of misfortune, the main effect of which was losing money!

Early last year, when Nia City was attacked by the Ancient Snake Society, the property value of that ‘House of Dolls’ shop fell into an abyss, considering the fact that it was one of the few immovable assets owned by Rod.

After all, if a city can’t even guarantee safety, how can the houses and shops possibly sell well? Many property businessmen therefore went bankrupt, and a sharp devaluation is inevitable.

After the eruption of the Dream of the Ancient God, everything went awry.

The whole city was drawn into the Dream Spirit World, leaving only a bottomless pit in its original place, maybe it turned into a lake.

This directly resulted in Rod’s assets in Nia City going to zero!

“However…”

Rod seemed unaware of this, and said excitedly, “If it was a few years ago, although the business here was not bad, it was not as booming as it is now…”

“Are you saying … because of the arrival of the dawn?”

Su Lu nodded, realizing that since the advent of the Dawn of the Gods, supernatural incidents have occurred frequently everywhere, even if attempts are made to cover them up, there are many ‘wise men’ seeking to understand and pursue the truth!

It can be said that the already mysterious atmosphere of the Federation has, in these few years, seen a surge in the number of enthusiasts of the occult!

Among these, those ‘upper society’ who really have the means, naturally find occupational persons and cooperate with supernatural forces to gain the ‘Transcendent’ status.

And some middle-class individuals, as well as ordinary people who happen to know of the news, or small merchants without any other resources, can only wander around like headless flies.

The Mysterious Avenue of Harris City, is like fresh dung attracting them to fall over themselves to get to it, even if they know some people are being fleeced, it doesn’t deter them.

“The shops here, seven or eight out of ten are fake, but there are two or three that have real occupational persons running them. Normally they are open to ordinary people, but they also sell extraordinary materials to occupational persons…”

Rod looked around, lowering his voice: “As for how to distinguish them? Real ‘mysterious shops’ have some special markings on the signs…”

“I see it.”

Su Lu nodded, seeing an Ancient Hebrew character on the sign of a shop.

Although it only occupies a small corner compared to the large advertising language, it is enough to explain everything.

With curiosity, he walked into a shop called ‘Bock’s Old Man’s Hut’.

The shop is not very big on the first floor, with all kinds of strange props on display all around and dim lighting.

‘Indeed they are props… there is no spirituality inside, they intentionally made the lighting dim, is it to make scamming people more convenient?’

Su Lu muttered to himself, and casually looked around.

In the shop at this time, apart from them, there were a few other guests who seemed to be students travelling and were currently haggling with the shop assistant: “Is this really an ancient coin from the Chris Empire?”

“Of course, and it also has the attribute of misfortune, the legend is…every owner of it has encountered a few unfortunate events, so… if you are also like that, our shop offers a recycling service, the price is 70% of the selling price!”

The shop assistant said with a smile on his face.

What left Su Lu speechless was that, even though the ‘misfortune effect’ was emphasized, these youngsters didn’t hesitate at all, they were even excited to empty their wallets and buy it.

‘Forget it…anyway, it’s just a fake item, let them spend money to gain experience…’

Su Lu watched quietly, not saying a word.

But who knew that after she paid and took that ‘misfortune old coin’, one of the girls with long hair, and a tall stature, a fox-like smile appeared on her face: “Since we have already completed a transaction, we can be considered old customers of your shop now… can you take us upstairs to see the real mysterious merchandise?”

The shop assistant’s expression changed, he reluctantly laughed: “Miss… what are you talking about, I don’t understand.”

“Don’t try to fool us! Believe it or not, I’ll go out immediately and advertise that you’re selling fake goods! And then find the police station!”

The corners of the girl’s mouth slightly turned up, revealing an expression of begging: “Don’t worry, we know the rules of ‘that world’, we won’t cause trouble for you. Also… we’re very rich, we’re your premium customers.”

“This…”

The shop assistant’s face showed a hint of struggle, it was brief though, he glanced nervously in Su Lu’s direction, lowering his voice: “Alright…”

After saying that, he shot a look at Su Lu, approached with a professional smile: “Dear customers, what do you need?”

It seemed, he was planning to get rid of Su Lu’s group of customers and then discuss more private deals.