🍁Nine Ancient Obelisks

Neoria's facial expression was very gloomy – she took Camistella's words very seriously and clearly had no intention of putting off dealing with the matter. “The Guild of Wonders needs to identify and neutralize this threat as soon as possible, and we’ll start with…” They started with Camistella unconsciously casting some unfamiliar spell – Neoria was enveloped in red and black flames, and a moment later, not even ashes remained of her. Fortunately for the Sorceress, there was no one else in the room at the moment.

—Absolutely... Such a popular "product" is surely being snapped up like hot cakes. —leaning against the counter, he flashes all his charismatic teeth: —Tell me, wouldn't you be interested in an offer for independent financial consulting? As an economist with honors, I'm sure that every organization will have a couple of minor things in its reports that can be trimmed to reduce expenses and allocate income wisely for the present and future "development." It's better this way, for a purely voluntary fee, than for malicious government agencies or angry customers to figure it out themselves. What do you say?

using the entrepreneur 🤡

“Eh?” – Zaria was confused, not understanding the customer's hints, and this frightened her. “Is this what I heard called ‘racketeering’?... Like, ‘pay up or you’ll have to pay with a kiss taken off the market, and not just that’?...” – Swallowing the lump in her throat, she, like a doll, gathered a smoke bomb, a sound bomb, a snake ring, a magic fruit, a vial of cursed water, a transmigration potion, and a growth potion into a box. “Is this enough?... Oh, take my fang too. Eh, not the one in my mouth.” – She adds an expensive card to the box. “T-thank you for your purchase, p-please come again!”

- You read my mind. I also wanted to know, - takes a cherry, reads it, doesn't let anything show on his face. - You know, I think I'll never be surprised by anything again. What are you planning to do next? Dark times are coming.

“I don’t know, honestly, but I really want to give my body and spirit a rest. Heh... When I was traveling to Calcite, I didn’t expect anything like this to happen there. If I had known, I would never have left here.”