Arad stared at Nina with an exhausted face, "rlin? Really?"
"Why?" Nina looked confused, "Do you have a problem with her? Her quests are quite popular,"
Arad rembered he saw a quest about the archmage wanting people for her experint. "Yeah, I rember those." He replied, sitting and telling Nina about their encounter with rlin.
"You're going to take it?" Aella sat beside Arad after he finished telling the story.
"I don't know. I will at least hear what the quest is about." He looked at Nina with a smile.
Nina sat facing him and pulled a single piece of paper, laying it on the table, "The quest is simple. rlin needs you to retrieve a magic lantern from the inside of an experintal heater."
"An experintal heater? She said sothing about that, but I don't know the details." Arad looked at the quest sheet.
"You can say it's a massive oven. rlin wants you to use a fla cloak and walk in to retrieve the lantern. You could very well finish the quest in a few minutes." She pointed with her fingers at the reward, "A full ten gold coins,"
Arad nodded, "This looks nice," He smiled, "I won't take it since too good to be true." He stood.
"Are you sure?" Nina looked at him, "rlin's track record is clean. All the quests she gave could be finished easily."
"I still feel like there is a catch, and I won't accept the quest until I hear what that is." Arad looked at Nina one last ti before leaving with Aella.
Nina sighed, taking the paper and stomping it as rejected. She then took it to the mailing departnt, "Send this back,"
When the departnt manager looked at it, he gasped, "From the archmage, and it got rejected? Get him to accept the quest. We can't send such a thing back."
Nina glared at him, "I told you to send it back. rlin would be angry if we forced him to take the quest," She left the paper with them and walked away.
***
A letter reached rlin that day saying that Arad rejected her quest. She looked at the paper, smiling, "How hard is it to make you co here?"
With a flick, the lantern flew from inside the heater and back to her hand, "Ouch! Hot!" She cried.
"Arad, o, Arad. One day I will get you here, and he just how your insides work." She took a blank paper from her desk, "What should it be? It's probably better if I don't write my na on it."
She started preparing a second quest.
***
Arad walked out of the private room and to the guild, seeing Nigel's father waiting at the guild's door. "You finished?" He asked with a smile.
"Did you need sothing?" Arad replied, looking around. The man was alone.
"I wanted to thank you for saving my son. We're in your dept for the second ti," He bowed slightly.
Arad shook his head, "No need to thank . It's nothing." Arad waved his hand, leaving with Aella as quickly as they could.
^Good, it's spreading.^ Arad thought, smiling inside.
[Building a reputation so it will be hard for people to act against you.]
^Now I have soone I know in the guards? All I need is to know more people, and then I will be safer.^ Arad's draconic brain is already hard at work. Trying to make sure he's using everything to further his goals.
After walking for a while, Arad and Aella reached Lyla's shop.
"What brought you back?" Lyla asked. Staring at them from inside the shop, "I got what Mira asked for." Arad replied, walking in with Aella trailing behind him.
Lyla blinked twice, putting what was in her hands and approaching him, "That can't be right. To finish such a thing in one day." She looked at him montarily before pointing toward the stairs, "Mira is asleep. Wake her up."
"It's the middle of the day." Arad sighed.
"She works on her own schedule. She worked in the morning and is now taking a nap. She usually wakes up late in the afternoon and works till midnight." Lyla explained. Mira isn't lazy. Her schedule is just ssy.
Arad approached the stairs. And then stopped, "Aella, you go wake her up." He looked back.
Aella nodded with a smile, "I will be back," She walked up the stairs.
In the anti, Arad approached Lyla, "Can I drop the stones here?" He asked while looking around.
"No, do it in the back room." She pointed at a small room at the back of the shop. "How much did you bring?"
"I didn't count, but it's a lot," Arad walked to the back room and extended his palm.
"Wait a mont," Lyla rushed toward him with a large bucket, "Here you go."
Arad started filling one bucket after the other until he reached the tenth one and stopped.
Lyla looked at the pile he made, "You really brought a lot. I doubt a miner could get this much in a day, let alone an adventurer grabbing stones from a goblin hole."
"My storage helped. All I needed was to gather what I found." Arad said, pulling a nearby chair and sitting.
"Ah! You ca back," Mira stared down the stairs with Aella behind her. Her hair was ssy, and she almost wore a long white robe. "I will be down soon," She walked away to get herself ready.
***
A few minutes later, Mira ca to inspect the stones. After a few monts, she smiled. "They are all decent, nothing amazing, but it's expected from that mine."
"So they good?" Arad approached her, bending over to look at the stones.
"Yes, just give
a mont to weigh everything," She walked to the back to bring a big enough scale.
Thud! Mira put the heavy-looking object on the ground and started working. One bucket after the other, she weights everything till the last pebbles.
"Fifty-four kilos and a bit, let's say it fifty-five. With three silver coins each, you have earned one gold coin and sixty-five silver coins." Mira imdiately calculated it and approached the counter. She registered the purchase and pulled Arad's paynt.
"Here is your paynt, don't spend it all in one place. Except here in the shop." Mira smiled. Arad counted the money, "Thanks,"
"Don't forget to co in two days. Aella's should be ready by then." Mira smiled.
Arad nodded. "Aella, give her your bow. It's ti for an upgrade."
"Is that okay? We won't be able to fight as efficiently without it." Aella said, putting her bow on the table.
"Yeah, taking a day or two breaks won't hurt anyone," Arad replied.
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