Karl worked late into the night, making dozens of jewellery pieces of different sorts, a few more fireball staves, a dozen more fireball wands like the ones for the academy. That should be enough to take the shop through the next day, as the collection was now larger than what they had sold during the previous shift.
With the shop closing at dusk, they were able to work a few extra hours after and get ahead of their anticipated sales.
When the next morning arrived, Karl realized that Remi had been up all night, and she had made a massive supply of potions, enough that she likely wouldn't need to do it again for a month. She had cleared large patches of her space for materials, but that would grow back quickly enough. The important part was that she hadn't used up any of her resources. So she didn't lose anything, other than so ti.
Everyone gathered on the second floor, and Karl outlined his plan for the day.
"We made more than enough items for the shop last night, so everyone should be free until at least noon today, other than Davis and Mick."
Karl stopped to give Mick an apologetic look, as Davis wouldn't be in for another two hours.
"So, I have a plan. What I would like to know is if having so of my beasts go in first will block from going into the dungeon separately.
If they can go on their own, and we can go as well, then we can build up a huge amount of loot, as long as we take the ti to gather the junk and raw materials.
What I'm thinking is that we send Rae, Cara, and Hawk now. Then, once they're done, the rest of us will go in a couple of hours. If it doesn't let in, then Remi and Thor will do my share of the grunt work, and we will know what to do for next ti.
If it does let in, even after they have cleared the dungeon, then we can get two shares of the loot and nobody has to sit out."
That sounded like a good plan to everyone involved. Well, everyone involved in the first trip, as Rae was already carrying Cara out the door as Hawk circled overhead, waiting for them.
Tessa pondered the potential issues with this plan, and then decided that it should be alright. Dana had golems and her Epic Guard, Remi had her bodyguards, and they would have Thor.
If sothing went wrong with that plan, then they could just leave and take the gold coin loss.
It would be a massive understatent to say that the guards were startled when a strange woman appeared between them and the dungeon portal carrying a winged void badger, while a massive Thunderbird swooped in from above, and only barely tucked its wings to fit in the portal.
In fact, they were still talking about it an hour later when Cara had finished looting the place dry, to the point that they had even taken so of the likely looking plants, just in case Remi might want them for decoration.
The shop was fairly quiet today, and they had only sold a few rings and a dozen jars of ridiculously expensive beauty products Remi had made.
Interestingly, they had even sold a small jar of Shadowbranch paste, which was used to turn Thor black as a disguise. It wasn't exactly useful, unless you were sneaking around in the dark and didn't want it to wear off, so neither Davis nor Mick really understood why the custor in question had purchased it after understanding what it did.
Now that team one was back, and sorting through loot in their spaces, trying to co up with a plan for what to do with all the trash they collected, it was ti for group two.
Once they got close to the dungeon, Karl realized that there was a second issue that they had not considered.
{Guild Cooldown: 1 hour 58 minutes remaining}
It appeared that a Guild could only send one team in every three hours.
"Well, how about we taste test so local beverages and then head back to the house? We can go back in later." Karl suggested.
"Not much else that we can do." Ophelia agreed.
Guild coordination would be an important aspect of managent if they had more people, but at least at this point Karl knew that they should be able to enter, just not right away.
He was about to lead them all to the coffee shop where he had found the mage when an oddly pained aura caught his attention.
Karl couldn't locate the source of the distress, but there was sothing wounded nearby, and he was almost certain that it was a beast.
"One mont, I want to find sothing before we stop. I can feel sothing's distress, and I might be able to help." He explained quietly, not wanting to alarm the others walking down the street, as they wouldn't understand that he was likely talking about an injured pet, not a person in need.
Karl turned left until the sensation of distress felt like it was in front of him, then he walked down a side street and between a pair of large manor houses. They were headed for the shore, and that was where Karl got the feeling that the distress was coming from.
They were well past the docks, close to the wall, when they reached the shore in the wealthy district of Stone Chapel.
Now, even Lotus could sense it, and she was looking for the distressed animal.
Neither of them could see it, so Karl started searching with other forms of vision.
Right at the wall, when they were ready to double back and try again, Karl spotted it with Soul Sight. There was a crystalline cocoon on the shore, and it gave off a powerful aura, as well as the sense of distress.
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