They all call me an Outer God.

Chapter 46 Amusing Ourselves to Death
"As for you—I told you last night to cherish your last chance to live, but you wouldn't even run a bit and just kept sleeping, which makes me feel very unfulfilled."

Ria looked back at the extraordinary creature behind her. At this moment, its whole body was stiff, its pupils were completely dilated, and what was even more terrifying was that it had lost its human disguise. One after another, golden eyeballs began to appear on its body, and its skin began to dry and crack, showing stone-like patterns.

All of this was simply because it saw Ria's neck exposed after she deliberately adjusted her collar.

There was an eye about the length of an index finger on that skin.

With just one glance, it felt its entire field of vision turn into a distorted chaos, and everything except that eye was completely disintegrated.

At that moment, it suddenly remembered another rumor about superhumans... they were all patients, all potential monsters.

Run...

The fish-man stared blankly, his body covered in eyes, and lost all signs of life, unable to utter even his last words.

The remaining merchants were all humans who had long been trading with supernatural beings. Even if they had some means of defense against supernatural beings, they could only be manipulated by the numerous golden-eyed beings before them.

They watched helplessly as Ria suddenly changed his identity, introducing the advantages of the extraordinary creature behind him to everyone, forcing them all to raise the bid upwards from the originally agreed starting price of three silver coins, nine leats, and twenty-seven swarths.

"This is my first time holding an auction, so I'm a little nervous. I'll just raise the bids one at a time, with no upper limit."

Any objections...? No?
very good."

Lia clapped his hands, and the crowd immediately started shouting uncontrollably for the fishman and the carriage. People jostled each other, almost causing a stampede. At that moment, they were all offering the money they had earned from selling "fish" over the years to exchange for their suppliers.

Ultimately, the closing price was eleven silver coins, more than double the original price.

"Congratulations! Congratulations to this lady for winning the item in this auction!"

Lia encouraged everyone to applaud the final bidder. In the increasingly heated atmosphere, the woman also proudly raised her head, looking like a haughty peacock.

She looked at Ria with fervent reverence, and Ria smiled back at her. Tentacles from the shadows crawled up the supernatural creature's body, absorbing its eyes and restoring the auction item to its original form.

Of course, it has everything except life.

"They're yours now."

"I am extremely honored."

The woman rushed to the item for auction; she would dismember the fish-man and sell the meat, believing the extraordinary creature's flesh would attract even more people to her husband's stall.

She would turn all the fishman's internal organs, face meat, neck meat, back meat, tail, belly meat, and fat into commodities, and she wouldn't waste even a single bit of the fish bones and scales.

Ria watched all of this with satisfaction.

He stuffed the money into a pocket inside his clothes, straightened his hat and collar, and leisurely left, leaning on his cane.

Soon after, the woman also began to display the various parts of the fish-man's body in front of her stall, according to her own ideas.

A customer came up to her, stared at the complete fish-man skin on the stall for a long time, and suddenly began to say some obscure and incomprehensible words.

"Look, when I saw you again, I saw your skin... I must say, your skin is quite shiny, it even made me hungry." The customer patted his stomach, took out a leather bag and put it on the table: "Keep the change, I'll buy this skin in full."

“Thank you for your patronage!”

Seeing how generous the man was, the woman's eyes lit up: "So it's Mr. Steyr. Aren't you going to look at other goods today? These bighead carp are new. If you like fish skin, we also have a special fish covered in skin."

"Your goods today are quite special. A bunch of fish have no skin, and one fish is covered in skin... Hahaha, never mind, I'm not interested in these 'fish' whose raw materials are not visible. Without the slime supply from the Sea People, it's hard to say how long these 'fish' can last like this."

However, there's no shortage of fishermen in town; you can take your time looking. If you really can't find a source of goods, you can try fishing at the waterworks. If someone wants to make money, there are plenty of ways.

With that, the man named Steyr took the fish skin that the woman had wrapped in leaves and left the fish market without looking back.

……

Grani is a happy town.

This is reflected not only in the economic and cultural exchanges brought about by the newly built railway, but also in the forms of entertainment.

Endernes reveres the sun and has over 100 days of church celebrations and festivals throughout the 360-plus days of the year.

In other words, the people of Endeles have more than 100 days of leisure and entertainment, but who can actually enjoy these days varies from person to person and from place to place.

At the very least, putting aside the average economic level, Grani has never been stingy when it comes to entertainment.

Their pub was small yet impressive, and to liven up the atmosphere, they even hired a famous local band to entertain the guests. The bartender's fingers swayed to the rhythm of the music, creating the finest foam as he poured it into the glasses.

"A new face, are they tourists from out of town?"

"Just passing by. I've heard so much about the Baisheer Tavern, so I came here specifically to try their wine."

Ria raised the glass on the table, watching the green-purple gradient liquid inside with bubbles rising in the middle, and a neat ice ball dividing their colors.

"That would be an honor. Consider this Buffet Keller special a gift for our first meeting. Welcome to Becher's, and may the sun protect you."

“Praise the sun.” Ria made a sign to her heart, then downed the wine in her glass in one gulp.

He didn't like the spicy and bitter taste of the alcohol, but his mind felt quite relaxed after each drink.

Moreover, Lia wasn't just drinking for the sake of drinking; the tavern was bustling with people, making it an excellent place to gather information.

"What's your name, friend?" Ria took off his hat and placed it on the table, looking much more casual. The bartender then helped him hang the hat on the coat rack.

"Everyone calls me Harik, so just call me whatever everyone else calls me. Anyway, it's a very common name. I've seen countless Hariks since I was a child."

“I don’t know how many Harik there are, but you’re the first Harik I’ve ever met.” Ria continued to order a few cheaper alcoholic drinks from the pub’s menu, squinting as she watched the band’s performance, her eyes half-closed under the influence of alcohol.

Those boldly dressed young people played passionately with instruments such as cornet, saxophone, E-flat tenor horn, tenor horn, baritone, trombone, and tuba, as if as long as they were crazy enough, they could be happy forever and lose all their worries.

(End of this chapter)