Apricot Grove Town was made up of roughly fifty large Sky Islands, with towns and the like built atop each one.
The Sky Island Jiang Han and Histeria had arrived at was called Nostalgia Island, while their destination lay beside it: Nightcry Island, named for its proximity to Nightcry Lake in the Five Great Lakes water system. Strange Rune-Drawing Cat Lamps grew within Nightcry Lake. They possessed a powerful urge to create and promote art, and once night fell, they would often wail and yowl like ghosts, giving the lake its name.
It was the only lake in the world that steadily produced Rune-Drawing Cat Lamps. So long as one placed high-quality talisman paper outside their door, they would find a whole mess of spell talismans strewn across the ground the next morning.
Of course, Rune-Drawing Cat Lamps merely scribbled and scrawled while yowling, so perhaps only one in every twenty talismans was useful...
Still, that was enough for some witches with weak magic power to make a decent living off those talismans.
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"...As for spell talismans, they're relatively rare items in our witch system that can provide all sorts of recovery-state bonuses. Basically, there's no need to worry about finding buyers, especially when South City and the neighboring Nightwatch Town both have so many combat commissions. After all, how could one deal with violence without preparing a few tools for healing injuries?"
Histeria led the way along a cliffside path on the southern side of Nightcry Island. Along the way, they could see the ancient apricot groves, their leaves drifting with fluorescence, and look down from above upon the entirety of enormous Nightcry Island. It was an exceedingly pleasant way to travel.
If Xiya ever failed to make a living in the future, she could always become a