“Ma’am, I’ve already exchanged the money.”
Peter said while shaking the two pouches. It interrupted the two girls who were chatting heatedly at the side. The two girls were embarrassed and stopped their little chit-chat.
Cathy gave an awkward smile and said goodbye to her friend. Lilac winked at her friend mischievously and trotted back to V, who was watching them with a smile.
After knocking Lilac’s head when she returned to her seat, V said softly, “I told you many times, Lilac. You have to act like a lady. You are the dignified saintess of Her Highness Fortuna. One day, you will tour the world on behalf of Her Highness Fortuna. You must cultivate yourself to have calmness and overbearing aura. You can’t be childish anymore. Understand?”
Lilac pouted, “I got it. But V, Cathy is my closed friend. So, it doesn’t count when I act as I want with her.”
V rubbed Lilac’s golden hairs with her fair fingers and laughed softly, “Cathy is Cathy. You’re right to act as you want with your closed friend. But that is only when you two are alone. You can’t do like that again when there are other people.”
Then, she sat back on her chair lazily and picked up her phone. V said in a soft voice while opening a game, “You lazy girl. If you’re half sensible as Cathy, I am lazy to take care of you. Take Cathy as example. Expand your knowledge and set a goal. Your sister, I, will not be able to take care of you all the time. One day, you will meet someone you like and start a family. You can’t be childish all the time.”
Lilac didn’t even bother to argue back as her attention was drawn on her phone’s screen where a spin was going on. Then, she shouted happily, “Grand prize again! Praise you great Fortuna.”
After hearing it, V on the side smiled warily. She has to say that extraordinary luck is really great.
On the other side, Peter and Chester were lead by Cathy into another room. After entering the door again, they saw a big hall full of bookshelves. These bookshelves are all full of thick and thin books.
Although the two had prepared their mind after reading the name “Fairy Bookstore” carved on the door, they were still amazed to see it with their eyes. They felt that there were probably more books than the grand national library of Federation.
Cathy smiled and introduced, “This is the best bookstore you can find here. There are almost all public available books here. And, it is run by a rare ancient race, flower fairies. Of course, you cannot find ancient secret books with advanced knowledge here. Nevertheless, you can still find almost all necessary books below Tier four in this bookstore. Knowledge is precious and it has always been a monopoly resource.”
Then, she paused as a small fairy flew over towards them. Cathy said, “Look, that is a flower fairy. They are cute and peace-loving creatures. In the rumors, it is said that flower fairies are protected by Lord of Death.”
Peter asked suddenly, “What do you mean by the tiers you said? Can you explain about it?”
Cathy patted her forehead and muttered, “Eh! I forgot to tell you about that.”
She said, “The occult world uses an ancient classification system. It was created by an ancient powerhouse who was famous for being knowledgeable. He proposed that there should be nine tiers of life. But only the knowledge about the first four tiers was opened to the public.”
Cathy smiled at the flower fairy and continued, “They are tier one; power realm or formal extraordinary transcender, tier two; true soul transcender, tier three; extreme or divine transformation realm transcender and finally, tier four; demi-god or raising divinity transcender.”
“Tier one powerhouse has already evolved once. They are no longer mortals and they owned a strong personal strength. Basically, formal tier one powerhouses have at least ten tons of physical power or they have already opened up mana pool in his body. He can live at least 500 standard years or even more.”
Then she paused and said to the small fairy flying in front of them, “I am sorry, Daisy. Can I continue to explain them?”
Small fairy named Daisy said, “I don’t have any problem. You can continue, Cathy. Knowledge favors the people who spread the knowledge they know. This is a sacred cause.”
Although she is too small and only as big as seven inches doll, her sweet voice was clearly heard by everyone at the scene.
After stating her opinion, Daisy flew over to a nearby bookshelf and sat down on the free space of the shelf.
After seeing that Daisy had taken a random seat, Cathy smiled and continued talking, “Only the transcender, who has already condensed his true soul, will be recognized as Tier two transcender or True soul realm powerhouse.”
“They are special because their soul bodies can reincarnate into what they want after death of their physical body. Their attacks are also mixed with unique soul power. If one is injured by their attack, it would be hard for the victim to recover before the mixed soul powers were cleansed.”
“In rumors, it is said that true soul realm powerhouse can evade law enforcement of underworld as long as they can find a new physical body in time. Scary, isn’t it? After all, normal people would not know whether your familiar person’s physical body was taken away by true soul realm powerhouse or not.”
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After saying it, Cathy paused because she became thirsty. She took out a water bottle from her handbag and took several sips. She didn’t put it back.
While holding the bottle in one hand, she continued, “Tier three, I don’t know much but it is said that they have a super powerful power and can easily destroy a city.”
“About tier four, demi-god, there are even few knowledge about them. Demi-god level transcenders have already formed the unique divine power and they have almost immortal body. Years cannot leave any traces on them. They can destroy a country as long as they try their best. That is all I know. So, I want to advise you to run away when you meet tier three, no, just run when your enemy is tier two transcenders.”
“By the way, you might not know it yet, that one, who caused the Cerriro town accident, was a Tier two creature from Abyss. Before that creature was purified by The lord called Symbol of Light, it had already advanced to Tier three.”
Saying here, Cathy blinked at the two men and said, “Now, you know how dangerous the situation you were in, right? Don’t do it next time.”
Only then, Peter and Chester realized about how dangerous they were in the previous struggle at Cerriro Town.
If there was really a Tier three in their enemy’s side at that time, they were really lucky to come out alive from that tier three. Probably, that creature might be just playing with them.
Otherwise, they wouldn’t even know how they died if they were taken care by that creature seriously. After all, Cathy would not lie to them and Tier three creature could be really powerful.
Not to mention, one at Tier two can take away the physical bodies of other creatures. Thinking of their bodies being taken away, chills climbed up on their backs and they suddenly sweated.
They are really tough guys for no doubts. But who could stand against this kind of rouge fight of taking away the bodies at every turns after he was killed.
While fighting against the powerful enemy, they also has to guard against being backstabbed by friendly allies because enemy could have taken away your ally’s body.
This is a nightmare for those who has no method of defense against this kind of things.
Cathy looked at Chester and smiled softly. She said, “Come on, I can recommend several books which contain the knowledge you would need. They would help you guys a lot in the early period of your journey into mysterious occult world.”
Then, she said to Daisy, “Daisy, can you get them a copy of ‘Basic Knowledge about Human Body’, ‘Various Things in Our World’, ‘How to Purify One Hundred Evils’, ‘Introduction into Grand Tera’, ‘Influences of Tera’ and ‘Basic Apprentice Knight Training Manuel’.”
Cathy looked back at the two men and said, “You are paying, right?”
Peter nodded in agreement. After all, he can’t just let her pay for them. He is a smart man. When he heard the teasing of Lilac about Cathy being their recommender, he had already realized that they were already owing her a favor.
They saw that Daisy was muttering something and raising her one hand as if she was summoning something.
If their senses were already strengthened to the limit at that time, they would hear her saying ‘Basic Knowledge about Human Body, come, come. Various things in our world, come, come. ...’
After a moment, several books with a thickness of at least two inches each flew over from various bookstands and bookshelves to Daisy.
The books stopped at the air in front of the two men magically and they were floating silently with slight up and down movement.
This magical sight brought amazement and great impact to Peter and Chester even if they already knew that everything could happen in this mysterious world.
Cathy walked forwards a few steps and took the books. After confirming the names, she nodded and asked, “How much?”
Daisy thought for a while and said, “20 gold coins in total. The first five books are only two gold coins each. The last book about knight training costs ten gold coins.”
Cathy nodded and said, “Reasonable price.”
Then, she turned and looked at Peter with a smile. She knew that Peter had money while Chester didn’t.
Peter twitched slightly and silently opened the smaller cloth pouch to take out the gold coins inside.
He felt sad for his money. These are all hard earned money he got from various struggles. Although most of them were bounties, rewards and kickbacks, it is undeniable that he did a lot of works to get them.
Peter counted and asked foolishly after he put them on his opened palm, “Where shall I put them?”
That was not his fault. After all, Daisy is only one slap size. He was doubtful about how this little guy would take them.
Peter forgot about the magical scene he just saw. His brain was short-circuit for a while. It was due to the damage left by the curse, even if it was already purified unconditionally by Symbol of Light in Cerriro town.
Daisy just simply pointed at the gold coins and said, “Gold coins, come, come.”
The gold coins floated towards Daisy in a slow speed. Meanwhile, Daisy took the small pouch from her belt and opened it towards the gold coins.
Under the strange and unknown force, the gold coins flew into the opened bag fast while becoming smaller on the way.
When the last gold coin got into her small pouch made of unknown leather, Daisy pulled the strings and closed it swiftly. Then, she hung it on her belt again.
After making a successful business, Daisy became happy and said, “Cathy, do you want to buy some more books? I can give you ten percent discount.”
Cathy smiled and immediately said, “I want one copy of Formal transcender level Sun Knight training manual.”
When Daisy heard the name of book, she felt bad. But she didn’t take back her offer. She summoned the requested book in the previous way and turned her little head to the other side while pouting.
Cathy took the book, which flew over, and said after she took out a sealed bottle from her handbag, “Blue Orchid nectar, my apology for you. Don’t be unhappy. Your monthly quota is quite useless since few people come to buy books.”
Daisy turned her head and looked doubtfully. When she saw the small sealed bottle, she smiled sweetly and said happily, “You know I love you, Cathy. Blue Orchid nectar, my favorite drink. Emm, ya, one hundred and eighties gold coins for the book.”
Cathy took out a checkbook and a fountain pen case. After taking out her favorite purple fountain pen, she wrote down the exact amount on the blank check swiftly and signed her signature beautifully.
Then, she tore the check from the book and handed it over to Daisy, who just put away the sealed bottle into her small pouch.
Since they had bought everything they would need here, Cathy said goodbye to flower fairy Daisy. After all, she still needed to take the two men to other shops.
When they went out, Daisy also flew back to her little nest. She couldn’t wait to taste her favorite nectar. Umm, that sweetness, the taste of home.
After drinking a sip, Daisy happily sang unknown lyrics which sounded very beautiful while flying and dancing around the bookshelves.