The merchant, Lee Sanghyup, had come to our guild. He was the one who’d previously provided me with valuable information. Thanks to him, we were able to set up direct dealings with his guild.

Back then, I’d simply brushed it off as him overhearing something by chance in the underground sewer network. But now, I realized there was more to how he gathered that information.

**[Ingredient Detection (Enhanced)]**

**[Lee Sanghyup]**

**[Lowest-Rank Merchant Lv.9]**

**[Traits]**

**[Basic Information Acquisition Mastery]**

‘Information Acquisition Mastery, huh?’

None of our soldiers had a trait like that. It must be unique to merchants. Our own forces …