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There was one thing he noticed from all the store owners and their workers. They were not just ordinary people who opened the shop for profit. They were people with more if not stronger than all participants. He noticed that when the chef in his lodging dispersed his aura easily, and the barkeeper at the tavern he often visited was also not ordinary.
While not all of them were not necessarily stronger than the participants, these people had their fair experience against the Calamity. He thought about it before, thinking he should befriend all the store owners, but then that was just too much for him. Until he got Tortoine's meat. He did not need to get close to them, but he could exchange those for information with the meat or maybe other materials.
"I have one fifty meters tortoine, three of forty meters tortoines, and five of thirty meters and lower tortoines."