24-Hour Friendly Market, Specializing in Dimensional Items - Chapter 135

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24-Hour Friendly Market Specializing in Dimensional Items Episode 135

 

Episode 135. Fall… ing?

 

It takes only 5 minutes for a person to overcome the fear of falling.

 

How did I come to this conclusion?

 

“…How long am I going to keep falling!”

 

Because I’ve been falling for 5 minutes now.

 

I stopped screaming after about a minute.

 

‘There’s a limit to how much you can worry about what you’ll crash into.’

 

Just endlessly falling like this, boredom was growing larger than fear.

 

Even with bungee jumping, the scariest part is the initial drop, but once you’re actually falling, you can feel the thrill, right?

 

Of course, this situation is a bit different since there’s no rope and I don’t know the destination.

 

I don’t know even the basics of physics, so I have no idea how far I’ve fallen.

 

But surprisingly, I’m in a very good mood right now.

 

First of all, the sensation of wind brushing against my entire body feels refreshing.

 

Though the touch against my cheeks stings a bit.

 

The morning sunlight pouring down through the clouds warmly embraces my body.

 

Blue sky stretches endlessly in all directions.

 

‘Where else could I see such a sight.’

 

If I think of it as sightseeing, it’s not a bad experience.

 

Of course, this is definitely not sightseeing…

 

That’s when it happened.

 

‘What’s that?’

 

Something like a massive aura of light faintly appeared through the clouds.

 

I squinted my eyes and focused on that direction.

 

A huge mass shining with brilliant golden light.

 

A dazzlingly sparkling sight that clearly possessed tremendous value!

 

“It’s Bernium!”

 

I shouted loudly as I realized I was falling in the right direction.

 

I wasn’t just mindlessly falling without any thought.

 

I have the ‘Merchant’s Eye’ passive skill that I received as a title quest reward!

 

[Merchant’s Eye (P)]

 

Based on the insight a merchant should possess, you can judge the profitability and risk of transactions. Rational judgment and a cool-headed attitude that doesn’t easily waver form the foundation. You can analyze products, counterparts, and situations to understand transaction profitability, the risk level of trading partners, potential opportunities, etc. However, judgment may become clouded when emotions are involved.

 

Though the skill description is vague, when I’m using the skill as a passive, I gain an extraordinary vision.

 

Specifically, targets that appear valuable shine brilliantly in golden light.

 

Of course, Gearsgard, which I looked up at while falling, also had an impressive golden color, but it was nowhere near as much as Bernium.

 

Bernium had such a vivid golden light that the entire island appeared bright yellow.

 

That means the magical stone energy is overflowing so much, befitting a mining island, that a merchant’s eye can assess its value even from this far away.

 

‘I should buy an airship or something from the market and go check it out.’

 

Well, I’m just curious, that’s all.

 

It’s absolutely not because I have any materialistic thoughts about going there to do a little mining.

 

Anyway, just as Brozen had said, Vernium was located below Gearsgard.

 

I hadn’t expected it to be so far down that it would only become visible after falling for quite a while, but seeing one directly made me start to feel excited.

 

‘It really was floating incredibly high up.’

 

If I continue falling past Vernium, other islands should appear.

 

I turned my gaze away from the rapidly shrinking golden island and looked down below.

 

I’m probably the only person in this dimension who gets excited while falling.

 

How many more minutes had passed?

 

Another golden mass came into view.

 

It was lighter in color than Vernium but much larger and more massive.

 

I shouted as if I’d been waiting for this moment.

 

“Floraban!”

 

Below the massive chunk, a smaller mass of the same color was attached.

 

It seemed to be that island Floraban was using as a port.

 

The merchant’s eye must have deemed the roots connecting Floraban and the port to be of great value, as fine golden threads linked the two masses.

 

“Ah, I’m curious about that place too.”

 

What would Floraban look like, where people obsessed with plants live?

 

Would it be a nature-friendly island completely covered in green?

 

It would probably be a peaceful landscape completely different from Gearsgard, which is full of exhaust fumes and noise.

 

Well, it’s all just speculation.

 

It’s too far to make out the structure with the naked eye, and the merchant’s eye only shows gold.

 

‘I should visit there sometime next time.’

 

I suppressed my regretful feelings and continued falling.

 

‘Next is Berylshine?’

 

Berylshine, the city at the very bottom of Aeteria.

 

Once I pass Berylshine, I’ll probably see the ground.

 

Trying to swallow the fear of not knowing when I might plummet to the bottom, I stroked Anoru’s wing.

 

Let me feel reassured that the pure white feathers are holding me firmly.

 

‘Let me trust the money I spent!’

 

While falling endlessly like this, another golden mass began to appear in my field of vision.

 

Berylshine was surprisingly close.

 

Of course, to me falling through the void, it looked about the size of a car, but it was close enough to be faintly visible to the naked eye.

 

Berylshine’s appearance, flowing with a mysterious purple light, seemed to have a completely different atmosphere from Gearsgard’s gray-brown landscape.

 

They say it’s a city of magical engineering, and they’ve decorated it with colors that really suit it well.

 

And the moment I passed Berylshine at high speed.

 

“…Wait a minute.”

 

I stared at Berylshine with a rigidly frozen face.

 

I just saw something strange in the miniature of the mysterious magical engineering city.

 

‘No way.’

 

I widened my eyes and checked, thinking it couldn’t be, but what I was seeing wouldn’t change.

 

A straight structure extending downward from the bottom of the island.

 

It was all too familiar.

 

I couldn’t contain my bewilderment and muttered.

 

“This is fucking crazy…”

 

The Tower of Babel.

 

The Tower of Babel wasn’t built on another island or land, but was hanging upside down from the bottom of the island from the very beginning.

 

‘Of course I couldn’t find it!’

 

Babel’s insane location selection ability is truly astounding.

 

I can’t even imagine how lucky Earth was to have the Tower built in the middle of the capital.

 

With it hanging in that state and condition, it’s natural that the detection writing instrument couldn’t draw it.

 

It’s also natural that people from this dimension, including Brozen, couldn’t discover the Tower of Babel.

 

For those who have lived in the sky, ‘below’ is just infinite empty space, and who would have thought to look at the bottom of Berylsha, the city with the lowest altitude?

 

I clenched my fist, unable to hide my excitement.

 

I have no idea how to enter an upside-down tower, but just finding its location is a huge gain.

 

“Sam-i will figure it out for me.”

 

[⁕ Yes, did you call me? 🙂 What should I find for you?]

 

I correct myself.

 

She won’t figure it out on her own, but she’ll find it if I ask her to.

 

Anyway, this is the first Tower I can actually try to enter since learning that the Tower of Babel exists within scenarios.

 

No one is guarding it, and I haven’t been kidnapped into a scenario.

 

I burned the image of the Tower of Babel into my eyes.

 

With that location, even if I sneak off to the Tower of Babel during a scenario, the strategy team won’t catch me.

 

I just need to figure out how to get there…

 

“Wait, but…”

 

Just as I was about to think about the countless ways to float in the sky.

 

A realistic problem suddenly occurred to me.

 

I hurriedly looked down at the ground below and shouted.

 

“How long am I going to keep falling?!”

 

I’ve already passed Berylsha but still can’t see the ground.

 

It’s just sky everywhere.

 

Below my field of vision are only blue sky and clouds, and I’ve been falling continuously for almost 20 minutes now.

 

Only then did another possibility I hadn’t thought of at all suddenly occur to me.

 

‘Is there even ground below here?’

 

What if this is a space that’s infinitely open without any ground from the beginning?

 

…Then I can’t stop here?

 

At that very moment when all sorts of imaginations were chasing each other’s tails.

 

“Uh, uhh?!”

 

Suddenly, the sight of a massive city appeared below me.

 

It wasn’t that I couldn’t see it because it was hidden by clouds.

 

It just really suddenly appeared – something that wasn’t there before showed up in the blink of an eye.

 

Without any time to prepare, facing the sharp tip of a building that popped up right in front of me, I hastily adjusted my posture.

 

Without even a chance to deploy the parachute attached to Anoru’s Wings, I was plummeting headfirst toward the middle of the city.

 

Before I could do anything, the hard-looking marble floor came rushing up to my face.

 

Thud-

 

I landed with a heavy crash.

 

…No, this wasn’t a landing – it was more like being slammed down.

 

Anoru’s Wings that had been on my back disappeared instantly, and I sat down and frantically felt around my entire body.

 

‘Wow, the item efficiency is insane.’

 

A person fell from the sky for over 20 minutes and crashed into the ground, yet here I was completely fine without a single bruise.

 

Thanks to the Merchant’s Mark, I wouldn’t get hurt inside the Tower, but still, it’s natural to worry first when a person falls like that.

 

I got my hands on a useful item.

 

As soon as I recovered from the shock, I threw on the Shadow Being Knight Order’s Robe.

 

The noise I made while falling was quite… no, pretty loud, so hiding my presence came first.

 

I didn’t know what kind of place this unknown land was, and humans might be rejected here.

 

I slowly turned my head and looked around.

 

The place I had fallen was some kind of open space.

 

Buildings made of gray stone that had no scent of human habitation stood in orderly rows, but there were no signs of people.

 

Even though I had landed so noisily, no one was looking outside.

 

Fortunately, the sun hadn’t risen here yet, so it seemed the city hadn’t woken up.

 

‘Don’t tell me, does no one live here?’

 

I kept all possibilities open for now and started walking.

 

Unlike Gearsgard which had gravel, the flat cement floor felt very awkward.

 

Of course it probably wasn’t cement, but even the ground being such a boring color.

 

‘Could it be… this is the city that was hidden in the lowest depths?’

 

In complete contrast to Gearsgard’s noisy and smoky atmosphere, this place had a drab feeling with no character whatsoever.

 

Somehow it felt even more desolate.

 

I carefully fastened my robe and stepped out onto a wider street.

 

But then.

 

“What’s that?”

 

I stopped walking.

 

What caught my eye were gray flags hanging between the buildings.

 

The pattern carved on those flags looked familiar somehow.

 

A complex geometric design.

 

‘This is….’

 

I hurriedly took out the map I had stored in my Inventory and unfolded it.

 

Next to the city’s floor plan drawn in the bottom right corner, the exact same emblem was depicted.

 

I traced the emblem with my finger and muttered blankly.

 

“…Glimmerstone?”

 

The city of Alchemy that was said to float higher than Gearsgard.

 

I had fallen from Gearsgard, but crash-landed in Glimmerstone, the highest city.

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