After the fifth night of the festival, the sixth night also came very quickly. On the fifth night, it was the duke family and the soldiers who were showing their respect to their brave predecessors. All the shops except for the food ones were closed on that day.
But on the sixth day, all the shops would be open again. Not only that but all the shops which were selling items related to fighting and monster materials, they could be giving the customers in namely big discounts. This was a big deal for all the adventurers and mercenaries who made their living by fighting.
Just for this day alone, many adventurers from various different areas came here to get themselves a good weapon for cheap. There were even chances that someone would be able to win a giveaway happening in one of the shops and could get a legendary weapon. These all were not farfetched ideas and was something that had happened in all of the previous festivals. So many adventurers from even distant cities came to Moronto for the sale happening on this day.
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Among Elena's group, Tomoe and Anna were the most excited for this. And even though the other ladies were not as excited as those two, they too were looking forward to getting themselves a few good things for cheap. Only Anna was a little disappointed as she came to know that toys were not included in the list of things which would be getting a big discount on this day.
Pachante and Shiya had also joined Elena's group as always. They were going to start their fifth day by visiting a family weapon shop of this city. This weapon shop was extremely expensive even for B rankers and it only sold items of extreme good quality. So for most people who did not have the strength of an A ranker, this special day was the only time when they would be able to get their hands on a weapon from this famous shop.
Anna had a main sword that she had been using for a long time and she had no intention to change that weapon for the time being. But she always liked to keep three spare swords with her all the time. And from this shop, she was planning to get herself at least one spare sword of decent quality.
As an alchemist, Pachante had quite a few high grade items and she also did not need any weapons for her own use. But she was not able to make weapons herself as she was not a blacksmith and her followers also needed weapons. So she was actually planning to buy a whole bunch of good weapons for cheap. She did not need the quality of those weapons to be very high but she needed a lot of them.
Many other people also had similar wishes. So when the ladies came to the street, they found it to be heavily crowded. This was without a doubt the highest amount of traffic that the city had experienced during the festival days. Even Hyneward and Shiya's battle had not managed to gather this many people.
Elena's group's first destination was the legendary weapon shop called "Clanking Blood" and they immediately went there. Normally this shop had very few coming inside but today that was not the case. Most of the B rank adventurers from this city and the nearby cities were shopping here today. So the whole shop was packed, especially because the size of this shop was not very large.
For that reason, there was a line in front of the shop and only a limited number of people were allowed to enter the shop at a time. A and B ranks were no different and both needed to line up. But that was not the case for S rankers, so Elena, Tomoe, Shiya and Pachante used their identity as S rankers to skip the line and brought everyone inside.
After coming in everyone was impressed by the weapons that were on display. The fame of this shop was not unfounded as just one look was enough to judge that the quality of the weapons here were extremely high. Almost all of them were made with great care.
Everyone then separated and started to check out the weapons that they used. Most of the people here used swords so that section was most crowded. As for Elena, she was actually checking out the section where many unusual weapons were kept. There she found quite a few weapons that had interesting designs.
Even though these weapons were all unusual, Elena was able to easily understand how these weapons should be used with her vast experience. But there was one weapon among this bunch that she was having a hard time understanding. It was not because this weapon was too complex to understand but it was kinda weird. The weapon in question was a rock with some blood on it.
Rocks or stones of any kind were great weapons in Elena's opinion. The blunt damage that they could deal was not insignificant. But picking up any solid rock could achieve a similar effect and a blacksmith did not need to create it. But here this rock was actually a proud creation of a blacksmith which Elena found a bit stupid.
She was so interested in this topic that called out to a shop attendant to ask him about this rock. Hearing what Elena wanted to ask him, the shop attendant got an embarrassed look on his face and said that creating this rock was the creation of the shop owners and according to him, he made this rock to have the perfect shape to smash someone to death.
The shop owner was quite proud of this creation of his. So much so that this rock was actually among the top three of this shop's most expensive items. The shop attendant told Elena to not worry about this and to check out the other better items.
But then suddenly a man with a muscular physique and bald head showed up and hit the shop attendant at the back of his head. Then that newly arrived man shouted and started scolding the man for having no eye to judge the true quality of a legendary weapon. So this man was the eccentric owner of this shop.
After finishing scolding the poor shop attendant, he looked back at Elena with a weird smile on his face. Then he quickly started telling her all about why this rock was the greatest creation of this life. Hearing him now, no one would believe that this man was actually a legendary S rank blacksmith who had created many extremely powerful weapons.
What he was trying to say was that, this extremely talented man was capable of reproducing any of this legendary creation so he did not value them as much. Only this rock was something he was not able to perfectly recreate. That was why according to him, this rock was the greatest achievement of his blacksmithing life.
As Elena was also a blacksmith, she was able to understand a little bit of what this man named Lanthur was trying to say. For a blacksmith like him, something that he could reproduce had very little value to him. Only something that he would not be able to casually reproduce with his skills would be valuable to him.
Just like that Elena spent all her time in this shop talking with this eccentric man. Then after the other ladies were done choosing their weapons, she bid him farewell and left the shop to check out the other shops.
That was how Elena started her sixth night of the blessed night festival.
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