Shira let out a quiet yawn which was muffled by BB, who was sleeping on Shira's face. Shira slowly sat up, causing BB to lowly roll down her body and stop on her lap. A loud thud could be heard from outside of the room, causing Shira to snap out of her sleep daze. Shira glanced around the plain room and wondered why she wasn't in her bedroom. BB caught Shira's attention when she yawned and stretched.
"Right I'm in another world now.". Shira looked up to the ceiling and sighed. She moved the bedsheet of her legs, causing BB to hop on top of the bed. BB hopped onto Shira's shoulder, climbed into Shira's hoodie, and wrap around her neck like a scarf. Shira sat up and wobbled over to the door. She exited her room and hurried over to the railing.
Shira leaned over the railing and looked at the spot where she last saw Devo was meditating. However, he wasn't there anymore, causing her to look around the lower floor for him.
"Good morning Shira.". Shira looked up and spotted Devo hanging from a branch of the red sakura tree by his legs and doing sit-ups. Devo flung himself from the tree and landed next to Shira.
"Morning... Devo.". Shira asked Devo why he was doing such an intense workout. He explained that it's to help him get used to his new body while occasionally looking back at the tree as he gave his exploitation.
"So, when were you and Alice planning on heading into town?". Shira thought about it and said she assumed that Alice would probably want to go as soon as possible.
"Right. I'll go wake Alice up then.". Devo walked over to and entered Alice's room.
A few minutes later on the streets of the Metal City, Alice let out a long yawn and restest her head on his shoulder. Devo, who was carrying Alice on his back, asked her where there were meant to be going. She started to incoherently mumble but he did manage to make out the phrase, "... Nola's store first.".
"I guess that makes sense.". Shira walked up next to Devo and waved to get his attention.
"So, where are we actually going to Devo, I didn't hear the name of the place Alice mentioned.".
"I think she's referring to her friend Nola's store, the Celestial Forge.". Shira mentions she remembers going in there once when she started playing Eldrian Online but she didn't have enough money to buy anything. Shira's story caused Devo to chuckle. Shira asked him what he found so funny.
"It's nothing, you just reminded me of a situation that happened to me when I star-". Devo's response was cut short by someone suddenly being launched out from a store and colliding with a lamp pole, causing it to bend slightly. The blond-haired guy tried to back stand up but was stopped by multiple shadowy tridents that sprouted from a pitch-black shadow on the ground.
A man in a black cloak, whose shadow was pitch-black and connected to the shadow surrounding the blond-haired guy, exited the store and slowly approached the guy. The cloaked guy crouched down and grabbed the blond guy by his hair. Shira opened the mini statuses of the two guys revealing the cloaked guy was named Xenolith and the blond guy was named Xander.
"Listen here punk, if I catch you in my sister's store again; I'll turn you into a pincushion.". He asked Xander if he understood. Xander panicked and said he did. Xenolith retracted the tridents before tossing Xander to his right. Xander disgruntledly mumbled as he walked off.
"What a pain that's the third guy today.". Xenolith watched Xander walk off.
"Seems like you're having a rough day, ey Xeno?" Alice joked. Xeno turned around and greeted Alice and the others with a surprisingly polite tone, catching Shira off guard. Xeno asked what brings them here today.
"We were planning on having a trip around town and helping Shira buy some new equipment while we were at it.". Xeno looked at Shira, who waved at him.
"Right. Well you're in luck, I think Nola has a few items in the store that are around her level.". Alice hopped off of Devo's back and the group followed Xeno into the store.
Nola tossed her Fire Wyvern leather apron on the ground before lazily resting her head on her store's counter. She glanced upwards when she heard people entering the store. She spotted Alice in the group making her energetically sit up and causing her, yellow and blue, gelatin hair to rapidly wobble. Nola transformed into a blue and yellow ball and hopped over the counter. She bounced through the store before launching herself at Alice.
This book is hosted on another platform. Read the official version and support the author's work.
Nola reverted to her human form mid-air and tackle hugged her, causing Alice to hug her back. Nola's heterochromatic eyes, a yellow right eye and a blue left eye, lit up as she stopped hugging Alice and grabbed onto her hands. Nola and Alice playfully swayed their arms from side to side.
"Alice, It so nice to see you again. I'm surprised you're visiting my store two days in a row, how's the new gear treating ya?" Nola asked. Alice happily informed her that the gear was doing great and that she even used them during combat, hearing this made Nola happy.
"So, what are you looking for today?".
"Well, I was hoping you could help my friend Shira with getting some new equipment.". Alice introduced Shira, along with her status and class menu, and Nola examined them. Nola nodded and got an idea.
"I got just the thing give me a second.". Nola quickly hurried off into her workshop. While the group waited for Nola to come back Devo took a walk around the store and came across a broken Verollium short sword. He picked up the sword and headed back to the others.
Nola returned and presented an assortment of outfits which consisted of a light red/white short dress, a yellow/black version of the red short dress, a purple/black armored witch outfit, and a light red/magenta version of the witches outfit but with a hood with fox ears.
Nola apologized, with a joking tone, for not having any other torso equipment in Shira's size and level range on hand. Shira started to inspect the equipment. Nola noticed Devo returned and asked him if he saw anything that caught his interest.
"Yeah... I found this." Devo presented the broken sword to Nola, causing her expression to sour a little. Nola took the sword from Devo and sighed.
"I was in the middle of restoring this sword which Xeno found but then that guy barged in and demanded something from me, but when I told him that I was busy he struck the sword out of my hand and it broke into pieces. ". Nola snapped herself out of her gloomy mindset.
"But let's not worry about that, Is there anything you need?". Devo thought about it and said he was thinking of getting a sword. Nola quickly placed the broken sword on her counter before taking a notepad out of her inventory and asking him to explain what kind of sword he'd like.
He explained he would like a sword with a Verollium handle and hilt. He also said he'd like the blade to be made from Voltium and at least fifty enchantment slots. Nola quickly jotted down Devo's request and placed her notepad back into her inventory.
"Yeah I can totally make that but there's only one problem". Devo slightly tilted his head.
"And that would be?". Nola explained that she was all out of Voltium and Verollium, but she can use the broken sword for the Verollium. She was also running a lot on rune stones.
"That so, I could probably get some from the nearby Thunder Cave Dungeon.". Xeno even joked he'd help.
"Really? That'd be really appr-". Nola's thanks were cut short when a pop-up appeared inbetween Devo and Nola. Everyone, including Xeno, crowded around the pop-up.
[Nola's Collection (Re)Quest]
[Rank C]
[Collect 60 Voltium Ore and 200 Rune Stones]
[Accept?]
[Yes/No]
The group was intrigued by the pop-up and Devo clicked yes, causing the pop-up to disappear and a short melody to play. Devo quickly opened his quest menu and confirmed the quest has been added to the tab.
"That's pretty convenient." Nola comments. Devo closed the quest menu and said he'd be going. Nola noticed Xeno was just standing next to her. She nudges him in the hip, causing his face to cringe.
"Aren't you forgetting something?". Xeno rubbed his hip.
"Yeah yeah, I'm going.". Xeno scrolled off after Devo while the other went back to focusing on Shira's new equipment.
A little bit later, Devo stopped on the outskirts of the city's wall and started to stretch. He heardXeno approaching and turned to look at him.
"I thought you were joking when you said you'd help.". Devo finished stretching and completely turned around to face Xeno.
"Well I was but things change. So, you planning on flying?". Xeno's cloak proceeded to split in half and form into two crudely wing-shaped objects.
"I did get some practice last night so I guess.". Xeno became slightly paranoid at Devo's response. Devo formed four wings made of purple magic and the two took off.