Magic Shop System

After talking with the bird Kadyn thought about it for some time; however, he realised that it was no use, so he dropped the idea for the time being and dozed off. He would know everything eventually, and therefore he fell asleep due to fatigue.

When he came to his senses, he realised that it was already the next day. Only now did he feel fresh and full of energy. Only he knew how much he needed a goodnight sleep while he was roaming mountains and jungles all this time.

After refreshing, he went out to meet with everyone to have breakfast. As they ate the delicious and healthy food that was provided by the inn, Kadyn looked at Khrom and asked. "Did you get the map?"

"Uh…" Khrom looked at Kadyn and scratched his head and exchanged glances with everyone else. He had no idea how to reply to Kadyn.

"What?" Kadyn asked when he saw a strange atmosphere. "Did I miss something?"

"Well, you certainly did," Elora replied with a smirk. "Association's money is invalid in the Ceston Empire."

"What the…" he looked agape at Elora, having a hard time speaking. He realised that he was no longer in the Magic Association and every empire has its own currency. Even if there was a place where they could exchange the money, he doubted that he would be able to do it in Acton Town. "Damn." He had tons of money from the Association, but he knew that it was useless.

Elora looked at his dumbfounded expression and found it quite funny. "But don't worry, I have taken care of everything. The money problem has been solved."

"Hmm?"

"What do you mean by hmmm?" Cecilia said when she saw his confused face. "You are supposed to be the leader of the team, but you were snoring last night as if you have nothing to care about in this entire world."

"I don't snore," Kadyn said but when he saw everyone's expressionless face and narrowed eyes he felt a burning sensation on his cheek. "Do I?"

"Anyways," Cecilia sighed when he saw his expression. "When we went to reserve our rooms yesterday — while you went to the cafeteria of the inn — we realised that our money was invalid in this empire. We had no idea what to do when the manager came and asked what was going on. As soon as he heard the receptionist that we had no money he wanted us to leave, but at that time Elora saved our asses."

"Really?" he blinked as he looked at Elora whose face had turned red after hearing Cecilia praising her.

"Hmm," the vampire girl nodded. "At that time she said that the manager was ill, and when he heard her words he became irritated and wanted us to leave immediately. However, when Elora said that she could cure his 'insomnia' he stopped dumb on the spot. We had no idea what was going on and when the manager asked how she knew about his illness that only he and his wife knew about we immediately realised what was going on."

"So you are saying that she cured his insomnia and that's how we were able to spend a night in this inn."

"Yeah," Cecilia nodded.

"Then what about the map?"

"Khrom will go to buy it after having his breakfast," Cecilia replied nonchalantly.

"Wait a minute," Kadyn looked even more confused. "Didn't you say that we have no money?"

"Oh, god, why are you so dense?" Cecilia said. "Do you think she cured the manager just for staying in this inn for a night? Do we look like stupid? Why would we do that? Healers may be common, however, healers with high-level spells would be greatly respected wherever they go. 

"Elora might not be considered a high-rank healer in the capital of the Ceston Empire, but this town is situated in a backwater area, she is like a god in the eyes of the people of this village who has the ability to grow limbs of people with her powerful spells." Cecilia looked at him and said. "We asked for a definite amount of money from the manager and he reluctantly agreed with us after gritting his teeth for some time."

"Oh, so that's what happened," Kadyn nodded and also felt a little embarrassed when Cecilia called him dense, but he didn't argue with her. Sometimes he really was — simple things would feel like a complex web of spiders to him, and he would have a hard time understanding them — and he knew it.

After having breakfast Khrom went to buy a map and carriages. Though everyone else other than Kadyn could enter the shop while he travelled, Kadyn knew how boring it was and they have spent so much time inside already; now it felt like torture to them so Kadyn didn't ask them to enter the shop and let them travel with him.

After an hour, Khrom came with a map and two carriages. They didn't buy more because it would attract unnecessary attention and all kinds of bad people would try their luck on their group. Kadyn didn't want that to happen and no one objected to his suggestion. He knew he wasn't some kind of amazing leader so he always asked about everyone's opinion whatever he wanted to do.

"Alright, let's go!" Kove shouted excitedly and entered one of the carriages.

Kadyn smiled when he saw the excited child and as everyone was about to enter the carriage a shout came from not far away from the group. "Wait!"

Kadyn turned and saw a man in black pants and a white shirt; he wore a black coat over the shirt and his shoes were shining black. Though he had no idea who he was. Kadyn frowned and looked at others with a questioning gaze.

"Hello, Mister Manager," at this moment, Elora greeted the man politely.

"Ah, I heard from the receptionist that you were leaving. That's why I came here to express my gratitude. I can't tell you in words how grateful I am for curing me. No one in the town could do that. I have seen quite a few healers, but no one even came close enough to heal me."

"Mister Manager, can you please skip all these things and go to the main topic. You can see that we are getting late." Elora said, though her words implied that she was getting impatient, her tone was anything but impolite.