Sifa returned to Cookawa City without lingering long in the Scaled Folk Archipelago.
After meeting with representatives of the Gray Dwarves and Winged Folk, Sifa reached several agreements with them.
The Demi-Humans of Dragon Turtle Island were willing to help Sifa and the other Demi-Humans enter the Dark Corridor. To ensure that nothing went wrong with the plan when the time came, they would send warriors from their tribes to the Scaled Folk Archipelago to take part in military training overseen by Amyrius's projection.
In return, Sifa would provide the potion formulas they needed according to their contributions, including, but not limited to, the Sequence 3 formula of the Warrior Pathway.
In addition, both the Gray Dwarves and Winged Folk promised to bring Beyonder materials their tribes had no use for on their next visit. These would be exchanged with the other two Demi-Human races for things they needed, or entrusted directly to Sifa to sell in the outside world.
Sifa had no shortage of sales channels, either. He planned to give priority to the members of the Tarot Club, followed by the Church of Storms, then the Antiquities Protection Association.
Thus, after returning to the hotel, Sifa wrote to Oswald and the Church of Storms, hoping to secure those two sales channels.
Once that was done, he rested briefly before taking out the war records to continue reading and analyzing them, preparing for his advancement to War Bishop.
Two days later, Alfred's assistant, the black-haired, brown-eyed Paroni, came to see him. He told Sifa that a slave deal would take place that night-the very one involving Vice Admiral of Ailment Tracy. Paroni brought a verbal message from the colonel: Alfred wanted to know whether Sifa was interested in joining that night's operation against the slave traffickers.
Paroni left after