Aside from clothing, Iris also gathered shampoo, body-wash, various types of energy drinks, packs of iced tea, snacks that don’t need to be refrigerated, first aid kits, vitamins, pencils, pens, blank notebooks, art supplies… She really didn’t hold back when shopping.

Eventually, she couldn’t fit anything else in her cart and went to the checkout counter. However, since she didn’t have any items that had price-tags on them, everything was free.

This was one of the main reasons that the slaves would be willing to serve a gladiator. Aside from avoiding danger, their quality of life would be far higher. Their master could sign them up for fights as well, so they could potentially earn Souls.

In many cases it was closer to indentured servitude or even adoption. Of course, most people still refused to become a slave regardless of the advantages. Everyone had already died at least once. Most of the deaths were violent and horrible. It was bad enough that they intentionally sold their Souls to a ‘devil-like’ entity before dying, so there were many people who had a lot of willpower.

After Iris left the General Store, she went straight to her room while pushing her shopping cart and trying to avoid interacting with anyone. There were actually a lot of other gladiators like her, who wore masks to hide their faces or covered their entire bodies in clothing. It wasn’t weird to push a shopping cart home or pull a wheelbarrow full of random goods either. Thus, she didn’t garner much attention.

When she reached the stone door, she placed her hand onto it and it slowly slid open. She put all her stuff away and left the shopping cart inside her room, since she would need to use it again later anyway.

As she walked down the hallway towards the pavilion, Iris murmured “I really should buy some furniture soon…” She didn’t even have a mattress, much less tables, chairs, a desk… There were even electrical appliances in the General Store, but they weren’t free.

Before heading over to the Fighting Pits, the thirsty and hungry woman decided to head over to the Cafeteria. It was her first time entering the place, but it reminded her of the food court in a huge mall. There were restaurants everywhere, most looked like they came from Earth and were fairly familiar. However, there were also weird ones like “Entrails Are Us”, “Fetus Feast”, “Yummy Genitals” and “Tentacle Tuesday”.

Almost every single person who used the Cafeteria was human, while the staff had their own facilities upstairs. Yet, even on Earth, there were still people who had all sorts of strange eating habits. For example, there were some restaurants that sold live animals.

Iris saw a large and fat man with small horns protruding from his forehead using a knife and fork to devour a crying human baby. There was an extremely beefy woman a few tables over, who was casually munching on squealing piglets.

As Iris clenched her leather-glove covered fists in fury, a huge ogre suddenly walked up behind her and asked “Does it really bother you so much, Newbie?”

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