Novel Bin Chapter 342 - Seashore Town
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"Well… perhaps a month, at most," said Ervas.
"Sounds good enough… I\'ve left the guys (monsters) loose into the wilderness so they can hunt some food and get off their stress," said Veronica.
"Sounds good, you told them to not attack people, right?" asked Ervas.
"Yeah, yeah, they\'re with Charlotte and Aqua so I don\'t think they will get to do anything bad," said Veronica.
"W-Woah, the town is indeed… quite beautiful…" said Ismene.
"Is it, right?" said Kireina with a proud smile.
"We spent a night in a hotel in here, doing it before such a beautiful sight was very romantic," said Ditoyle as she and Kireina kissed.
"You two are going at it even outside, huh?" said Desephise rather surprised.
"It could be said that love is on the air, fufu~," said Feroya.
"Well, here we are…" said Jason.
The party finally reached the town of Seashore, where they would spend around three weeks to one month investigating and trying to find a solution to the problems of this town\'s excessive use of slaves.
The beautiful town was made of white stone and filled with beautiful and large buildings, paved streets, and colorful paintings all over the streets, indicating their names and even some of the cultures of its inhabitants.
After having lunch it was close to 5 PM, and the sun was still shining brightly atop the sky, although it would soon begin its slow descent into the horizon.
At the side of the town, there was the beautiful and calm ocean, shining brightly as it was bathed in the sunlight.
Many small or large boats roamed the coast, fishing for the bounty of the seas which feed this large town.
From time to time, a giant Sea Snake, a Rank 3 Monster, would sometimes emerge and attack the boats that stole their food, but Adventurers would be quickly called to defeat it.
Such scenes were rather normal, and the town and even the fishers were used to sea monsters sometimes moving to shallow waters and the coast due to being hungry.
As they fished most of the animals around the town, aquatic monsters usually had a very hard time getting enough food to sustain their rapid metabolism and large bodies and often went as desperate as attacking the people fishing and stealing their bounty.
Due to these incidents, Ervas and Veronica\'s party got to know about an Adventurers Guild building within this Town, where not only humans, elves, and dwarves were Adventurers, but also beast-kin and demons, which surprised them greatly.
"I wonder if we should register as Adventurers and do a few shenanigans so we can get the attention of the aristocrats and then get to know their identities and territories better…" wondered Ervas.
"Eh? That\'s actually quite smart!" said Veronica.
"Oh? Did I said that out loud?" wondered Ervas.
Veronica and Ditoyle led the group as they reached the large entrance to the town, where there was a large line of people waiting to enter.
Each time someone entered the town, they needed to pay an entrance fee, and they were also given an Entrance Card, which those within the group that explored Seashore Town already held.
With these cards, they were able to receive a discount each time they enter the town again.
To not pay at all, they needed to register as citizens within the Citizenship Registration Building, although they were not planning to do that.
Indeed, although this place was called a \'town\' it was really more like a full-on Duchy or a small nation at this point, as its government and systems to control the population were very advanced and not loosen at all as it would usually be for small towns where people could get in and out without any problem.
The party that made up this expedition were Ervas, Veronica, Anna, Ismene, Kireina, Ditoyle, Jason, Azra, Gaius, Desephise, Lilith, Leonidas, and Alesia, it was a hefty party of people.
And that only if the people within Veronica\'s shadow were not counted, as Veronica had learned the ability to harbor people inside of her abyssal soul, she easily figured out a Shadow Storage Spell using her soul and shadow, letting people in so they can see things through it.
In fact, Veronica wanted half of this group to get in her shadow, but they all were eager to explore the town, so she and Ervas gave up at the end, as they also wanted them to be happy.
As the line advanced, the colorful group of demi-humans couldn\'t help but gain the attention of the people.
"Look, is the fairy woman from before…"
"Oh, and the squirrel woman too…"
"W-Why does that fairy has horns?"
"Maybe it\'s a hat or something."
"Mommy, look, that woman looks oddly phantasmagoric!"
"Eh? Oh, she is very pale… is she a Vampire maybe? Don\'t be disrespectful with Demons, okay?"
"Okay…"
"There is another pale woman there… and that one kid with a horn and wolf ears… Are they a Vampire family?"
"Oi, aren\'t Vampires kind of dangerous though? And what are they doing on broad daylight?"
"They are not Vampires, they\'re just bathing in the sun like nothing, they must be another race."
"Oh yeah… Perhaps they are Dhampirs, that might explain the boy different features…"
"Damn a Harpy… There aren\'t harpies around here, she must have come from very far away…"
"And that one bear-kin pair is also from far away…"
"I wonder what they\'re doing all the way here…"
"Do they want to go the Demon Continent or something?"
Ervas and Veronica\'s group were rather expressionless and getting a bit tired of the remarks of the very expressive people of this region of the continent.
It was as if they talked about everything they had in mind without even minding if it could hurt others…
Although they valued expressiveness, these people were a bit… too much.
But perhaps living in such environments with so many different cultures revolving around making money, expressiveness was key to make good sales and leave nice impressions in people that you see, especially in marketplaces where everyone meets new people every day.
"These people are very loud," said Ervas.
"I get that we are a bit…" muttered Veronica as she glanced at their group, noticing all the different shapes, sizes, and colors…
"Picturesque… But that doesn\'t mean that they should look at us like aliens or something…" finished Veronica.
"Well I am literally an alien, and I\'ve gotten to the gaze of thousands of people every day, so I don\'t really mind… All of them are praising my beauty so it just feds on my ego," said Kireina rather honestly.
"You never change, huh? Although you could perfectly shapeshift your horns and perhaps the color of your eyes and wings to be more natural… You sure love to get the gazes of everyone…" said Ditoyle while pouting a bit.
"Well, I enjoy the gazes of others over me a bit… But the most I love is of my Ditoyle of course~!" said Kireina apologetically, caressing Ditoyle\'s tense shoulders to not anger her.
"Muh… Well, you\'ll pay for this at night…" said Ditoyle as she glanced at Kireina rather smugly.
"O-Oh? Playing dominant tonight? Sure thing, fufu~" said Kireina with a mischievous smile.
"Are they aware that they are speaking all of that out loud?" said Ervas.
"Yes, they are most likely well aware," said Veronica.
"L-Love is on the air indeed…" said Feroya.
As the minutes went by, the line finally became smaller as the party neared the entrance, however, as the line advanced, more people got behind Veronica and Ervas\' group, and a group of shady-looking men from all races approached them.
"Oi, you people are new in here? You should pay an extra fee for letting you in the file, to begin with!" said an old and bald man with a perverted grin and a large scar on his face, who was glaring over the women of the group bodies.
"Fee? What do you mean?" asked Ervas.
"Shut up kid, let\'s the adults handle this," said the man.
Ervas narrowed his eyes as a strong aura was emanated from his body.
Suddenly, the bald man was almost paralyzed, as he slowly glanced back at Ervas.
"Tell me what fee you\'re talking about," said Ervas, his crimson eyes flashing with bloodlust as the shady man almost pissed himself out of fear.
"A-Ahh… W-What the… what with this… brat?! S-Shit!" cried the man, falling to the ground as he began to run away, leaving the rest of his group dumbfounded!
"Oi, boss, where are you going?!"
"Come back!"
"Shit he keeps looking at us!"
"Damn vampire brat!"
The rest of the group ran away following their boss, as they quickly left most of the normal people in the line in surprise.
"Oh, maybe he a had the detection Skill," said Veronica.
"Ervas did you had to go so far?" asked Jason.
"I didn\'t do anything, I just asked him what he meant," said Ervas, as he dissipated the strong aura he emanated.
"Haha, that was funny, there is a lot of stupid people as well," laughed Kireina.
"Well, you can never escape from such people, but at least they evaded the issue altogether when they felt Ervas presence," said Ismene.
"He was a very intelligent man," said Lilith.
"Oh, it seems that it\'s finally our turn!" said Veronica, as Kireina and Ditoyle showed their cards and paid the fee, which was one bronze coin per person, and waited for the rest of the group inside.
"Well, hello, what\'s your purpose to enter Seashore Town?" asked the town, a young elf man with blue air and emerald eyes.
"Business," said Veronica.
"Business? I don\'t see you carrying anything to sell…" said the man.
"Oh right… Here," said Veronica, as she suddenly took out of her chest a giant bag of ores of various types, extracted from her body or made through Golem Creation.
"A-Ah… Spatial Storage Magic?!" asked the elf man in shock.
"Y-Yeah, that," said Veronica averting her gaze.
"I see… do these people all come with you?" asked the man.
"Indeed, that\'s right, they\'re all… my peers," said Veronica.
"Very well, the fee could be… around one silver coin for everyone," said the elf man.
"Sure thing," said Veronica, generating out of thin air a piece of silver which was perhaps equivalent to over fifty silver coins.
"E-Eh!?" asked the elf man, glancing at the giant piece of silver, a valuable metal that would cost a fortune, especially by how pure this piece was!
"Keep the change," said Veronica, petting the man\'s shoulder as she grabbed her card.
"You\'re very generous," said Ervas, grabbing his card.
"Generous? I guess it cost like 7 Million Mana to make it. It\'s nothing, really," said Veronica.
"S-Sorry for the inconvenience," apologized Jason rather shyly.
The rest of the group also grabbed their cards and entered swiftly, joining back with Kireina and Ditoyle.
"W-What… do I even do with this?" wondered the elf man, glancing at the giant piece of raw silver…
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