Magic Shop System

After parting with the old man, Kadyn's group found an inn to stay in for a day. Afterwards, Kadyn also sent Khrom to buy a map, as it would come in handy when they would travel to the capital of the empire. Furthermore, he also let everyone out of the shop, and as soon as they appeared, all of them went to roam the town with excited expressions. After all, it's been a long time since they have seen the outside world.

Kadyn didn't stop them as they were strong enough to protect themselves, at least no one would be able to harm them in this small town.

After everyone left, Kadyn took a deep breath and fell on the bed. He hadn't rested comfortably for some time, especially after seeing the scene in the Sandrock village. "Bone Spear Tower," he muttered as he stared at the ceiling of the room, deep thinking, his eyes twitched as he felt someone else's presence inside the room. Kadyn flinched at this sudden intrusion, but when he saw who it was, he sighed in relief and once more fell on his bed.

Then he said, "I thought it was a dragon's egg."

"Excuse me?" the bird that was sitting on the windowsill of the room said confusedly..

Kadyn retracted his gaze and peered at the bird. "I mean when you were in your initial form. I thought you were a dragon egg. After all, that dragon made quite a mess because of you, or was she doing it for something else?"

"No," the bird said and fell silent. She seemed to be hesitating but then went on. "That bitch was after me," then she sneered and said, "and please, don't call her dragon, she had almost no dragon blood. How could you call such a low life a dragon?"

Kadyn was caught off guard by the intensity of her words. He looked dumbstruck for a moment but then asked. "I don't get it. What was the egg of a sparrow doing with a dragon, and why did she go on a rampage when she lost you?"

The bird tilted her head and said. "Before I reply to your question, I need to ask you something: how did you rob the egg?" the bird stared at him with her beautiful eyes and went on. "I was inside that bitch's garrotte, but then I felt a spatial suction all over me and before I could realise anything, I was in front of you," the bird paused for briefly, " so tell me, what kind of method did you use to teleport me from that cave to this place?"

Kadyn left agape when he heard her words. "What do you mean by 'you felt spatial suction while you were inside the egg? Weren't you just an ...ah, I mean just an egg?"

"If you want to know about me, then tell me about the method you used to sabotage me." The bird didn't leave any chance for negotiation. It felt like she wouldn't open her mouth before she learned about his secrets.

Kadyn gritted his teeth as he didn't know if he should tell her about the Wheel of Fortune, or his shop, or anything else, or if he could trust this bird, or would she kill him and try to seize the shop after knowing his secret?

The bird narrowed her tiny eyes into small slits and said. "If you are worried that I will harm you after knowing your secret then your worries are unfounded. We have already established a link among our souls when I continued to absorb your energy and blood essence while inside the egg. I would hurt myself If I hurt you. Can't you feel a kind of thread, connecting us together, inside your consciousness?"

Kadyn frowned and looked at the bird. Then he took a deep breath and said, "I have drawn a lottery and the thing that came out was an egg — yeah, the same egg about which we are talking right now." Kadyn said. Then he looked at the bird. "Now it's your turn."

"What the hell?" the bird opened her tiny eyes wide and said in anger. "Are you fucking with me?"

"Uh," Kadyn looked at the bird and denied. "No," then went on. "I have told you the truth, and if you want to know more you have to become an employee of the shop. Now, it's your turn."

The room fell into pin-drop silence. The sound of Kadyn's breathing could be heard. He looked at the beautiful bird and said. "Hey, come on. Tell me why that egg was with the dragon and she went on a rampage after losing it? Did your ancestor give the task of protecting you to her or something like that? Hmm, it seems a nice theory."

"Devour, she wanted to devour me." 

"What?" Kadyn looked confused. Why the heck a dragon wanted to devour an egg of a sparrow? But then again this sparrow was no joke. "Why did she want to devour you? At least give me a full explanation."

"Humph," the bird snorted and then said. "At least my explanation makes sense, but what about you? Your explanation is like a man without a head or leg. If you want to know more then tell me more about that lottery thing you are talking about."

Kadyn looked at the bird for a second and then closed his eyes without speaking anything.

The bird thought that he was just acting and would ask again like a curious child. Two minutes, three minutes, five minutes…. Ten minutes went by, but Kadyn showed no sign of opening his eyes. 

"The hell!" the bird cursed. "Hey, hey, are you listening?"

No reply.

"Damn, the bastard has fallen asleep!" the bird fluttered her wings in frustration, but Kadyn showed no sign of awakening. "Just you wait. I will make you spill everything sooner or later.

Then muttered in a voice that only she could hear. "He has the aura of the Inheritor, but it is somewhat different from other inheritors. If I hadn't observed him closely, I would have taken him as an ordinary inheritor. The shop artefact is also strange, I can barely exit and enter inside. Now he talked about some lottery thing. Hmm, mysterious, very mysterious." Then she vanished without a trace.