Mon’Ter walked out of the room with Sereia, satisfied by his soon to be purchase. He’d attained it at half the original price thanks to his new found acquaintance after all, and that made him pleased. It meant he was able to buy an even more expensive attire for the princess, and she had already asked for the most expensive one he could find and purchase with the amount of coins he’d had on his person.A great deal to be sure!“Sir Triston, your purchase is in this case,” the avian man walked up to the duo, handing Mon’Ter a case which was quite similar to the one which Sereia held. “I sincerely hope you’ll come by to shop in my humble business once more in the future.”“Of course, if I ever need to,” Mon’Ter smiled at the man. He then handed him the six golden coins needed to complete the purchase without hesitation, despite now being down quite a sum. But even still, Mon’Ter’s

Elyenora made quick steps to the outside of the manor like hotel which she and Mon’Ter had become patrons of for a few meager hours. She’d wasted enough time on getting properly ready and wanted to go meet both her companions who are undoubtedly worried for her, as well as more importantly the city lord who was the goal of her journey thus far.Arch mage Randus Lioncrown Gaia, the guild master of the mages’ guild.“Are you headed straight for the mansion?” Sereia caught up to Elyenora down the hallway and asked, they kept passing by rooms every now and then as they moved towards the stairs leading to the lower floors of the hotel.“Yeah, well, since I have already met you Sereia, and I have my clothing all nice and ready. We might as well go now, no?” Elyenora spoke up in reply. “I don’t want to make you wait or anything.”“What about my bath?” Mon’Ter came in between them and a

The group walked into the large building of the mansion, the first sight that greeted them was an exquisite and obviously expensive interior. Filled with marble and gold were the halls, with armor stands placed in an orderly manner that begets a sense of intimidation to any persons passing through.Elyenora followed after Samuel’s back, he was silent throughout the whole way and didn’t even turn to look back at the princess. She even heard him gulp down on multiple occasions, it was obvious how nervous he was, but she had no way of knowing what his thoughts were at this time.Sereia herself was being rather awkward, avoiding eye contact and even distancing herself slightly away, as if feeling remorseful over something.‘Perhaps she knew what this is about, forgot to mention it and now feels guilty?’ Elyenora assumed correctly. What bothered Sereia was the fact that she failed to mention something this important to the princess. Honestly,

“F-father...! Y-you’ve been cursed...?” Sereia’s voice shook with fear for the old man, “But that’s not possible! You’re the greatest mage alive! How can a curse ever affect you?”“You’d be surprised what a well-designed curse could do. Adding conditions, like it had been done to the first one, only serves to empower the effect of these spells after all,” Randus gave a short explanation.“But...” Mon’Ter piped in, “You don’t have any trouble moving... And you don’t have that smoke coming out of you... Do you?”“Like my daughter just mentioned, I am one of the greatest still living magus in all the land. While I may not be immune to this curse, I can resist it fairly well for the moment,” Randus replied to the question, then added. “However, that’ll only be temporary. If I had to take a guess, then I’d say I have about six mont

Some hours after the brief meeting Elyenora had together with Randus Lioncrown Gaia, she found herself spending time at the side of her old uncle, and gramps, Leonidas. At first, she felt quite saddened at the fact he’d been reduced to being bedridden, however now she was rather calm about it all.‘How strange, when I first saw you, grandpa Leo, I felt ready to huddle up in a ball and cry over what had happened. But now... Now I feel so calm about it, like this is merely a long nap you’re taking,’ she thought to herself with a wry smile spreading across her lips. There was little to no doubt in her mind at this time, that she’d be successful in attaining a cure for the old man.All that needed to be done, was a bit of preparation on Arch-mage Randus’ side before they could venture off into the far-off lands, that the cure is apparently located at. Randus had already briefed them on its location, and they would set out towards retriev