🍁Nine Ancient Obelisks

With an elaborate gesture, the shinobi bid farewell to the croupier behind him, leaving with what he thought was a nonchalant, cool, and impressive air, although the number of gems spent didn't quite match the emotion he was trying to convey. If fate allows him to return to this city before its next visit, with a bag of money on his back and new cool schemes in his head, he will clean this casino out, but the upcoming task, whatever it is that they are all preparing for, forces him to cut back on pointless spending for a while.
Is this what they call duty and responsibility? - he thought.
As he leaves, he also offers a bow to the holy figures.

I'm ready to go to Calcite, but I've wanted to check out two locations here for a while, since the last time... at least quickly => good luck.