Every member of the Blushing Mermaid's staff, whether ordinary servers or singers and dancers in the middle of performing, was suspicious.
They were completely controlled by enchantment magic, and some even had illusionary magical auras surrounding them.
All that remained was to identify the hag, and then I could leave. Marvin silently counted the number of compromised employees.
Like an ordinary customer, he found a table and sat down, drinking wine, watching the performances, playing cards with the other guests at his table, and passing the time.
However, Marvin's eyes never stopped moving as he continued observing his surroundings.
"Every candelabrum has three candles. The decorative paintings on the walls are all arranged in groups of three—just as Master Halsin said, hags always follow the Rule of Three."
Since the hag had an obsession with the number three, there were plenty of ways to make her reveal herself.
Using his card game as cover, Marvin quietly summoned a Mage Hand and had it slowly creep upward along the wall before removing one of the decorative paintings from its hook.
Clatter!
The painting fell to the floor.
While the noise drew everyone's attention, Marvin controlled the Mage Hand again, sending it floating to another wall to knock down another painting.
After repeating the little trick three times, Marvin immediately dismissed the Mage Hand without drawing attention to himself.
Then, a sharp female voice that was nearly piercing rang out. "You damned lazy fools! You must have cut corners while hanging them, or the paintings wouldn't have fallen off the walls!"
A dark-skinned woman wearing a captain's hat went up to the second floor and loudly berated the servers.
This was Captain Grisly, the owner of the Blushing Mermaid. There were faint traces of illusion magic on her body as well, difficult