I leaped off the wagon and approached Dentia.
"Looks like your journey was a success," she said as soon as I was near her.
I replied, "Yeah. I got plenty of tokens to save my territory for the potential flood."
Dentia briefly looked at the players in the wagon, just in ti to see the carriage quake as the players thrashed the wooden planks. Their miserable howls racked the tranquillity of the forest.
Based on the horror on their faces, it was safe to assu they knew who Dentia was. After all, the tale of the Old Hag, who could change her appearance to lure in ignorant travelers in Shadow Forest, was popular.
"I see that you've brought . . . gifts," Dentia slurred, long nails skimming across her lips.
"Ah. These are my paynts. I'm here to buy your latest brew," I imdiately corrected her.
"Looks like you liked my previous gifts."
I shrugged. "Yeah. They're very handy."
Dentia chortled, but her laughter ca to an abrupt halt when her eyes shifted to my side.
"And who is she?" Dentia asked with a smile on her face, matched with a quizzical brow.
"She's Florin. From now on, she's one of my minions."
Florin's arm wrapped with mine when Dentia leaned down a little to have a closer look at her.
"Well. Aren't you a cute little girl?"
Florin pouted. "I'm already sixteen."
Dentia giggled and then straightened her back. She faced and gave a wink. "Still sour, but she'd be ripe in two years. Want to train her?"
I rolled my eyes. "She's my farr, not my whore."
Not knowing what caused it, I felt Florin's nails dig into my skin.
Dentia sweetly smiled. "Whatever you say."
"So, are you going to sell those brews, or do I just go kill these players, loot their possessions, and be done and over with them."
"My . . . still so impatient."
"I still have to save my territory, after all. Ti is running."
"Very well, then. Here's today's brew. Pick whatever you need."
[The Old Hag's Brew for Today!
● Decanter of Endless Darkness x1
This stoppered bottle contains a black liquid that radiates a thick aura of darkness. A drop of this potion produces a hundred-radius of thick smog that causes Blind. Another drop produces two hundred, and so on.
Being enveloped by this thick smog causes incurable Blind. To cure the status effect, one must get away from the thick dark fog.
Cost: 4 players
● Ruby of the Damned x1
A large crystal that remains translucent and adorned with a hilt on its bottom and sharp obsidian finger bones on each side.
This crystal will remain translucent until it's used to control the undead, in which it would change into blood red.
This crystal can control four low-level undead at the sa ti. Until they perish, you hold command of their corpse.
Cost: 10 players
● Essence of Toad x1
This potion contains a thick greenish liquid that transforms anyone into a toad upon the slightest contact.
The transformation can't be cured, but the effect only lasts for one day.
Cost: 5 players ]
I bought everything and said with a grin, "You can keep the extra players as a tip."
Dentia wasn't amused. "There's only one left."
"It's okay. If you don't want it, then I'll happily take it from your hands."
"I never said that I don't want it," Dentia imdiately interjected with a pout.
Her charming smile then reappeared on her face. "When are you going to visit again?" she slurred.
"I don't know." I shrugged. "Maybe after the Blood Rain is finished."
Dentia's eyes widened. "That long?" She closed the distance between us and twirled a finger against my chest. "I will miss you."
"I gave you twenty players to keep you company."
Dentia's lips puckered out. "They'll be gone in seven days."
The wagon creaked louder this ti, and I knew without looking that the players on board were desperately trying their hardest to break loose.
"Why don't we do sothing . . . morable — sothing that would last in my mory for an entire month?" she purred.
Her dark obsidian eyes with swirls of green srized into obeying her. Fortunately, my will was stronger than any temptation.
"I have to go. I'm in a hurry."
Dentia laughed, which made feel ticklish.
"It wouldn't even take thirty minutes," she said. "I'm sure you can spend that little ti, no?"
". . . Ten minutes," I said firmly.
Well, I need to release so of the tension for the days ahead.
Dentia's smile widened, her face turning from charming to divine.
"Fifteen minutes," she bargained before leaning closer to , lips touching my ears, sending sparks of heat through my body. "I will . . . and let you . . . and . . ."
After hearing her words, I cleared my dry throat. "Very well then."
I then faced Florin and said with a very serious voice, "Stay here and guard those players. I have sothing very important to do with Dentia inside her ro–house."
Florin smiled. "Can I co?"
Dentia smirked as her face and palms rested on my chest. "I'm afraid that you have to be mature enough to join us. But don't worry. Maybe in a few years' ti, ey?"
Florin's forehead crumpled. "What does my age have to do with it?"
Dentia scanned Florin from head to toe, her eyes obviously pausing on the girl's butt and chest.
Her lips then rose into a proud smirk as she replied, "A lot of it."
Florin unconsciously covered her chest and shot Dentia a pointed glare.
"Stay here," I insisted before Dentia could corrupt my new farr's mind. "I'll co back after fifteen minutes."
Before Florin could raise another protest, I urged Dentia into her house and locked the door.
Soon, Dentia's groans and moans were so loud, startling even the ravens on her chimney. I feared that the hut would give way from how hard it shook, and I was sure that the others outside could see and hear it too.
After exactly fifteen minutes, we were done. Dentia's face was shining more than before, while I felt like a thousand kilograms of weight was lifted from my shoulders.
When we got out of her house, the players looked at us with wide eyes and red faces. The only one who wasn't red as a tomato was Florin.
"I thought you were butchering her from how loud she cried, so why is she still alive?" she grumbled.
The funny thing was, she really believed her words.
Dentia giggled and stared in triumph at Florin. "See. This is why little girls are so cute."
A vein bulged in Florin's forehead. "Huh? What's that supposed to an?"
I ignored the two's petty squabbles and asked Dentia, "Is there a way for to buy your potion even from afar?" I could communicate with her via the minion app, but I couldn't buy her potions through it.
"I thought you might never ask," she said with aning before she brought out a crystal orb.
"This crystal ball will allow you to communicate with and buy my brews without the need to co to my hut. Within the day of placing your order, my ravens will deliver your package wherever you are in the face of the world."
I readily accepted the crystal ball. "And the paynt? Is there so way for to send it to you without the need to co here?"
"I'm afraid I don't have sothing like that."
"Is that so?" I wouldn't say I wasn't disappointed.
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