Starting with a good lunch break and a fresh pangolin scale, the blacksmith returned to his workshop and was ready to – plan out what to do with the shield. After all, he ca from a thorough vacation and spent the last days with other projects like Samuel, Luf, and the Khopesh.
When did he have the ti to do anything? Like this, he sat down at the workbench, staring at the scale and working inside the user terminal of the skill to create a blueprint fitting for the shield.
The new circuits he had just harvested were strong contenders to be added to the shield. The scale didn’t have great durability to begin with, which explained the initial enchantnt. Once the defense, even when tripled, was overco, it would not take too much to break it again.
Seth would have liked to change sothing like adding a demonic poem to it to make it more original, but he actually had to agree with the original maker of the forr shield. Endurance, Strength, and improved durability were the best combination for this scale. Which was why he decided to add the forr enchantnt again.
The real question was what to do with the soul. Seth found that he didn’t really have a fitting one for a shield or one that could fit the earth's elental power within the scale. This left him only one choice: he would have to pay a visit to Tano’Mol before he could decide how to plan out the soul.
Seth had not paid a visit to the soul trader for a while, almost three weeks now. He gave a notice to Mina, Fin, and the others before he left for Delta. The city had changed quite a bit ever since he ca here.
One would have expected things to beco better now that a new representative of Chrona was here, but things had already gone too far to be changed in a short ti. While Delta looked as rundown as before, the demon district looked worse.
With many of the moderate factions of Demons leaving for Minas Mar, it left only those of a more extre nature and those who couldn’t leave. This beca quite visible with the state of the current demon district.
There were signs of fights everywhere and the previously full streets and bazaars had beco barren. There were still so stalls, but it was far from as packed as it was back then. In comparison, the shadow district was even fuller than before.
The rotten part of society had grown, while the fresh part had been cut away. Was Charred still in power? Who knew? The blacksmith avoided unwanted attention by equipping his Helm of Hades. Hidden from everyone’s eyes, Seth arrived at the usual warehouse.
But sothing was different from usual. There was no guard standing in front of it. A little befuddled he tried to open the door. It swung open with ease but behind the door was only an empty warehouse. Shocked, Seth realized that Tano’Mol had moved! He had moved without telling him where to!
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“Do you know where Tano’Mol has gone?”
Scared, the dark-skinned demon jumped when the voice rang out in the empty room. His wide-open eyes stared at Seth when he took off his helt.
“Hi, charred, it’s been a while since we t.” the blacksmith greeted the demon Charred, Ember’s uncle. Since the soul trader wasn’t where he was supposed to be, Seth decided to look for the man who had sent him there the first ti.
“T-Tower Master. You surprised .;” he said a little embarrassed, trying to recover his composure.
“Almost as surprised as I was, when Tano’Mol wasn’t there when I went looking for him.”
Seth spoke with a little smirk, as he waited for the demon to recover. Charred was not the lord of the underworld he used to be. Even criminals were hit by the recession, so to speak. he found charred in a small room above his tavern, that was closed this evening.
“I’m sorry, Tower Master. I don’t have the connections I used to have. I don’t know what happened to Tano’Mol,” he made excuses.
“But can you find him? I don’t think soone who was as connected as you were, would suddenly lose everything.”
“Maybe if I had so ti and the right budget... I could ask so people.”
As Seth thought, Charred was not completely out of the ga. It was just a question of monetary support.
“Let’s shorten this. How much do you want?” Seth simply asked. He wasn't here to have small talk with the man. He really had wanted to take his ti to look at rchandise in return, instead, he had to look for Charred.
"If you can give 15 gold I can call so people imdiately."
15 Gold was not a small sum, but Seth agreed to pay him if he found the location or a useful clue to his whereabouts.
"Why don't you wait downstairs in the pub while I call so people?" he asked after Seth agreed to the price. With a shrug of his shoulders, Seth left the room to wait for Charred. He didn't have to sit around for long.
Although the information broker seed a little down on his luck, it only took him 20 minutes before he ca sauntering down the stairs with a confident smirk. It seed like he found him.
“Tano'Mol relocated his shop because so nasty people started looking for him. I couldn't find the new location of his shop, but I have a contact you can approach,” the demon directly got to business and inford Seth, showing him a picture in a crystal ball.
“But you should be aware, that I'm not the only one who got this info.”
The blacksmith recognized the person in the picture. It was the business lady, Sandra sothing, that had accompanied him on the little quest the goat had given him in the beginning of their business relationship. If it was her, Seth didn't doubt that she would now where to find the demon now.
“Here's 15 Gold, tell where I can find her.”
The deal went without a problem and Seth departed from the empty pub. His destination was an apartnt building that was still relatively normal without many modifications, despite being part of the demon district. This part of the are the demons occupied was inhabited by mostly humanoid demons, so even normal humans didn't stand out.
As soone who grew up in the city and had the skill, Seth easily found the address Charred had given him. With his invisibility activated he had no problem getting into the building, but facing the locked door, he could only knock on the simple door and wait.
When nothing happened after a while, he used , the skill of his left Terra Topaz Earring. He was able to make out several life signs in the apartnt and couldn't help feel suspicious. He knocked again, more energetic. One of the life signs started moving to the door. This ti he was able to hear heavy steps too, as the person stepped close to the door and looked through the peephole.
Seeing nobody, the person turned back around, prompting Seth to knock again. This ti the door was thrown open by a massive guy with his skin covered in scales. Angrily his reptilian pupils scanned the hallway as he hollered, “Who's there?! Co out!”
In the anti the invisible bard slipped in, only to find a rather unsavory scene. The woman he ca looking for was tied to a chair, covered in blood. Her hair was disheveled, her glasses were broken on the ground. There were signs that she had been roughed up and they had even started torturing her.
“They” were the other two scaly demons standing to the left and right of her. They were currently occupied looking toward the door, where their muscular companion was cursing as he couldn't find the guy who kept pranking them.
Charred did say that he wasn't the only one with the information, but it seed like these guys had been at it for a few days already. Using
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