☀️ Arselia and Akonia

- I would prefer spiritual wealth over material wealth, and we have plenty of the former.
Overcoming her initial hesitation, the woman accepts her knight's invitation and leans on his arm.
- This is good news, although it's a bit strange. Kragg is supposedly a blacksmith, but he sounds more like an exorcist.

Deep down in his blue soul, and only for a brief moment, Klin feels a strange pang of conscience. As if everything that is happening to them now is merely a logical consequence of the reduced parameters and effects of the curses that bind their physical or mental shells. As if the real Klin and Sanexa are already far away, and only empty, broken shells remain in their place. And what if the highest form of spiritual virtue is not ascension, but rather the opposite – a fall into the abyss to the very bottom, where a person finds humility and peace?...

Fortunately, the knight's deadpan face is incapable of expressing such thoughts. Klin leads his companion through the autumn streets of Margel towards the Moon Park.
- Oh, Kragg is one of the few people in the capital who will remain in my memory for a long time. Not to mention his unique blacksmithing skills," the knight nods towards the "Devourer," "I feel that both the wealthiest aristocrats and the most notorious scoundrels listen to his life wisdom. You know, if my life and profession had turned out differently at the time, I would probably have asked to become his apprentice... It probably wouldn't have been an easy task, but who knows.