Some time later, Zich woke from a light doze, and the interface greeted him with a flood of notifications that made his eyes narrow slightly.
There were 847 unread messages, over 12,000 views on his listing, and a steady stream of incoming requests that had not slowed even while he slept.
'Too many,' he thought, and his first reaction was not excitement but suspicion, because such attention usually meant one of two things: either he had mispriced the item severely, or he had stepped into something he did not fully understand.
He opened the message panel.
The chat was chaotic, moving too fast for a normal reading pace.
"Is this real?"
"No way a Level 1 summon performs like that."
"That clip looks staged. The system cannot record from a summon's perspective."
"You are trying to scam people, Master Shroud, and I hope the system bans you."
