(Miluno)
Having witnessed the miracle of rejuvenation, the audience clearly had no intention of leaving.
How could shopping possibly be more interesting than watching magic?
"Come on, Falcon, put on a show for them."
"Damn it, go, Hu Lie!"
Falcon immediately did several aerial somersaults without touching the ground. To put it plainly, she was flying with magic...
It had a bit of a street performance feel.
But since she wasn't charging money, it didn't count as busking.
After seeing off the grandfather-and-granddaughter pair, we picked a few more spectators from the crowd to come up and drink the potion.
Given that old gentleman's case, all the people we selected to receive potions afterward were women—grannies, aunties, older sisters. Every one of them was thrilled. Women clearly had even less resistance to a potion that could return them to youth.
Splat—
Azura was stirring, so I patted my pocket to tell it to settle down.
I knew why it was excited.
Darkness gathered with the crowd. Azura reacted because it sensed this energy so close to its origin.
She wanted to "eat" that Dark Energy.
But unfortunately, I wanted to "eat" it too.
For whatever reason, Aldebaran's Black Light had failed to gather all the darkness in the world.
As a result, the Earth Crystal had been unable to seal away all the Dark Energy either.
And that was why I had the chance to scavenge these scraps.
I left my seat and slowly walked past the crowd. Those scraps, invisible to the naked eye and too faint to even form black mist, flowed from the people into my empty body...
My body now resembled a vessel of darkness. It naturally attracted this scattered Dark Energy and likewise yearned to be filled.
But there was far too little!
Several hundred