After some time, once he had registered with the kingdom authorities and completed all the procedures, an ordinary-looking Alchemy Shop opened at 14 Marigold Avenue.
The shopkeeper was a young man with a somewhat delicate temperament. His complexion bore the pale cast of someone who had not seen sunlight for years, and his features were gentle, making him seem easy to bully.
However, after several thuggish mercenaries who came looking for trouble were turned into Luo Luo Beasts on the spot and thrown out the door, no one dared come looking for trouble again.
From that day onward, the people living nearby learned that the unremarkable shopkeeper was actually a Fourth Rank Spellcaster! Although Malamoss City was the Royal Capital of Morn Kingdom, as a remote small kingdom with limited territory, Morn Kingdom's current ruler was only Seventh Rank.
A Fourth Rank mid-level Spellcaster was already a major figure in Malamoss City's Central District, someone not to be provoked.
According to the nearby residents, that Traveling Mage seemed to come from the distant Gloria Empire. He had crossed multiple kingdoms of the Federation along the way and was now preparing to rest here for a while.
Of course, in the eyes of those residents, being from the Gloria Empire was much the same as being from any other prosperous kingdom in the Federation. They were always somehow superior to the locals.
In this era, the untended wilderness between kingdoms was overrun with Magical Beasts and bandits, with deadly dangers lurking everywhere.
Other than Mercenary Groups and merchant caravans, most ordinary people and Low-Rank Professionals in the Federation might never leave the borders of their own kingdom for their entire lives.
But in recent years, the emergence of Construct Airships had changed all that.
The prosperity of those great cities was