"Mmm... Lady Katherine, I have to admit I didn't expect to see you again so soon. Least of all with a veritable fortune of enchanted items and potions~! Each of these are rather well made, and the enchantnts are quite excellent as well~! These were all made 'in house' then? Even the potions?"
Horusa lifted up the heavy, two handed mace that Anput had made, its flared plus sign shaped head emitting a dangerous brown hue as the Earth Mana engraved into its tal radiated steadily from the weapon, sothing that I had done purposefully to lure in the more gullible adventurers into thinking the weapon was stronger then it really was.
A simple enchantnt that Anput helped produce the sa way Leone helped on her own dagger, it was ant to shatter the earth and summon spikes of rock to deal more damage to the area around yourself, while the ability to then shatter those spikes as well gave it a rather fun fighting style... if one was playing a ga and had the ability to be that relaxed in a fight.
The mana wafting off its dark silver head was sothing that truly experienced and worthy adventurers would understand was simply for show, the mana leaking off the weapon to scare off those weaker and less experienced then you, though the enchantnt itself wasn't so great as to warrant the ownership of soone that strong.
"Yes, we produced each and every single one of these things from scratch. Hence the prices and my adamancy to get said prices."
The Hawkkin gave a grin as she nodded, putting the mace back down and lifting up a short sword next, admiring the bronze blade and inspecting the simple water enchantnt I had placed on it, before looking towards the nurous vials of red, blue and green potions that Leone had brewed.
"You said you were looking for so materials and a few books, correct? Look around and pick so out; I don't like parting ways with multiple Platinums if I can help it, so let's trade a few of these and supplent the rest with coin?"
I nodded, which elicited a relieved sigh from the Hawkkin as she gestured to the rest of her Emporium, which prompted Anput and Jahi to begin browsing, while Leone remained beside .
Anput ca back with a few various chunks of ore and loose gemstones that she placed on the table, while Jahi returned with three books in her hands that made Horusa let out a soft sigh as she read the titles of each, though she maintained her smile as she calculated the difference and had her lover fetch the remaining coin, handing it to and looking down at the pile of weapons and potions with a nod.
With the trade complete, we began to ander through the market and make the purchases that we needed as well as a few that we wanted, with Anput and Leone getting more of the things they wanted for the trip and with Jahi deciding that a few bottles of wine were a 'necessity' for the cooking of the trip... as well as a bottle of brandy.
Besides that, we did place orders with a few of the butcheries and farrs markets to ensure we had so of the harder to find things as well as just to get so ats and other ingredients that we just wanted.
With my Ice keeping them all chilled and sealed inside an air tight container, I had no worry about any type of foodborne illnesses or the food going bad, so I wasn't worried about it.
And since we were going to be clearing Dungeons for most of our ti in Tragon, it made sense to ensure we had a large supply of food to refuel our bodies, just in case the monsters weren't edible or if there wasn't an abundance of wildlife around to sustain us.
We could do as we did at the island retreat, living off of the bare minimum of actual food and supplenting it with mana, but it wasn't a needed route to take when we could just... purchase food in bulk now and take it with us.
All in all, the preparations went by smoothly, and we returned to the Palace before the sun had even reached halfway down its gradual descent, leaving us enough ti to do so more training and other preparations before turning in early to prepare for the departure tomorrow, which would be early in the morning.
Since Tragon Kingdom wasn't far, we could theoretically reach the capital Nogart before night truly fell, though it would take us longer since we were stopping at the Beliali and Ciriesa's territories to join up with the envoys they were sending to the Kingdom; a Kingdom that was likely completely desolate and empty thanks to the various atrocities that had occurred within its borders in recent mory, but who knows if any of those cockroach like humans survived?
After all, despite being surrounded on all sides by those physically, ntally, and magically stronger then themselves, they were still present to this day thanks to their ability to breed so damn quickly.
We might just find pockets of them that survived those creatures and the Cult that had almost dealt serious damage to the Empire back then, or we might just find mountains of skeletons and hordes of undead wandering around the countryside.
Either or worked, and from what the others had told about the Crusade they had been on during my forced absence, the Kingdom wasn't anything like the Empire at all.
I wouldn't be surprised to see that the race I had once belonged to truly was as helpless as I suspected, and I had been alive in this world long enough to have shed the 'shackles' that once tied to thinking I was human; now I was just a humanoid, and I completely thought of myself as a Dogkin no matter what.
Thoughts on this journey that we would be partaking in continued to bounce around my head even as I joined Jahi for a spar, wanting to exercise my body now instead of my mind, wanting to feel that comforting, familiar burn of lactic acid and the tingling of muscle tears as I sparred with the Demoness.
I was curious about the place that would beco the second ho of the two Demon Clans, curious about the Dungeons that were overflowing with monsters and materials, and curious to see what was left of an entire Kingdom that had been taken over after a Crusade.
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