Chapter 6: The Market and The Priest

Chapter 6: The Market and The Priest

The Hunter’s Market opened at dawn and closed when the last seller ran out of things to sell, which in Kael’s experience of markets meant it never really closed at all — just thinned out after dark until only the desperate and the predatory remained, which were often the same people.

It occupied the southern edge of the guild district — a sprawling covered bazaar that smelled of dungeon preservative, alchemical reagent, and the particular sharp odor of freshly extracted monster materials. Stalls ran in long rows under canvas awnings, each one a different specialty. Bone merchants beside hide tanners beside essence extractors beside the apothecaries who bought the raw materials and sold them back as finished product at four times the price.

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