The little girl with her eyes wide open was the beloved daughter of the shop owner from whom Green bought inferior materials.
The two shops were not far apart. This six-year-old girl seemed to have been drawn in by the ancient rune patterns on Green's ring. Before learning to use electronic instruments as aids, the natural-force talent in her wizard bloodline had formed an inexplicable attraction with the runes on the ring. To her, these magic rings seemed like flesh extended from a wizard's body, far more intimate than those cold electronic instrument-assisted rings.
The little girl watched silently. Green was also happy to have company, as though he had returned to the fulfilling days of his wizard apprentice years, pursuing progress in the most minute fields every day and exploring the profound truths that only he himself could understand.
"Hey, the owner of that Ice River Vegetation Specimen Shop is quite something, huh? Hehehe. Tell me honestly, do you keep going there to buy potion specimens for some other reason? Hmm? Hmm? Hmm!"
Waggling his eyebrows teasingly, the young wizard with tri-colored curls walked arm in arm with a young wizard with chocolate-black skin. After leaving the Ice River Vegetation Specimen Shop, the tri-colored-curled wizard asked with a lecherous grin.
"An angelic face, a devilish figure, a mature temperament, outstanding wisdom, and that elusive, aloof, icy mystique... Hehe, she's a famous beauty in Bili Fort these days. Who wouldn't have a few thoughts?"
The chocolate-skinned young wizard admitted it without hesitation, then sighed. "But I heard she already has a partner—the owner of the wizard artifact shop next door. That shop seems to sell only magic rings. I looked at them too. Their attributes are a little better, but the prices are outrageously high. I wonder if he's gone