Chapter 324: Truths Unwelcome: Part 223 (2)
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"No, they’re probably adventurers from nearby. The Tech Hunters have already checked the fifth and sixth floors below and confirmed that there’s nothing they want there. Now they’re more interested in searching the Sea of the Dead in the eastern part of the Eastern Kingdom for ancient artifacts from before the Great Destruction Era," Cohen said, who reportedly has a cousin who is a Tech Hunter, and he himself is a Tech Hunter reservist, just like his father when he was young.
It’s a very fashionable job, coveted by both commoners and Nobles alike. Finding a single artifact could set a family up for life.
Although most of the news is about Tech Hunter teams going to the Sea of the Dead and never returning, adventure seems to be a quality shared by humans in any world.
Malin felt a bit wistful. This world might really be the echo of a great and civilized past, where descendants, after the destruction, again and again, fought against annihilation, struggling to relight the torch of civilization.
Passing through this corridor, Malin saw a large open space where the walls were lined with stalls set up by Adventurers selling their goods. Most were items that seemed to be quite old, but Malin could distinguish real antiques from those artificially aged—before the Great Destruction, metalworking was extremely advanced, as he had seen a dining knife at the Church that was said to be from before the Great Destruction. Its monomolecular blade could cut through iron as if it were mud.
The dining knives on these stalls mostly looked similar to that knife, except that the majority showed rust, clearly indicating they were not genuine.
And for those that seemed authentic, mostly they were marked with a ’0’, which was headache-inducing to look at. Although Malin had enough ’0’, he couldn’t waste it here; buying a dining knife possibly from ten thousand years ago to eat steak with? He must be waterlogged in the head.