As night came down on the city, the still few awake people going up and down the main streets could be seen looking confusedly at the sight that appears a few hours before. On the once empty plot of land where abandoned and damaged old buildings once stood, a large fence covered in thick fabric like matter has closed the view.Evidently, as this was the same street as the famous Hostess of fertility, it didn"t pa.s.s unseen. After a few enquired at the guild, it soon knew that the plot of land was bought by the Hestia Familia.
This has surprised not a few as, being only a week old, this particular Familia seems to have already enough funds to buy land in the city. Even being the cheapest part of the city, this plot was near to quite a few good places, the pub, and even the guild was only on the other side of the block.
It has gains the attention of quite a number of Familia, but after inquiries were made, they would need to spend millions of valis, to destruct, clean, and rebuild the place, making it even more expansive that better-placed plot near the Dungeon, so n.o.body care about it.
Now that it has been buying, quite a lot of adventurers could be heard openly mock the enormous amount of debts that Familia had surely contracted to obtain the land and establish their base here. While those low-level adventurers were jeering at them, the smart one remembers the unknown adventurer that had to rejoin the Familia as captain, and to this day, the only members.
Some of their members were sent to know with construction Familia had received the job, but to there astonishment, they had found none. It was as if the Hestia Familia" adventurer was taking on his own to do the entire job, as his G.o.ddess wasn"t known for her authority on those elements.
That fence was here for a complete day now and to the surprise of those leaving on both sides, not a single sound of crashing down buildings have been heard until now. When they see that those same buildings exceeding above the fence where now nowhere to be seen, the Familia gain quite a few positive reactions from their new neighbors as they seem to have been sensible enough to work without disturbing their surrounding.
The next morning, when they exit their house to start their day of work, they were astonished to see that nearly all the fence has vanished, leaving the place to newly built, st.u.r.dy-looking, 30 feet high wall made of a smooth light grey stones. Raising above all the surrounding buildings, the now enclosed place inside was completely hidden to all.
It had been Alex"s will, that no one would be able to spy on them without being seen, as the would have to climb the walls to look inside. After all, why construct walls if they won"t hide you from others?
The previously paved and constructed place was now completely barren, as earth could be seen once again. At the cost of a good hundred of 8th-floor crystals and gathered seeds outside the city, gra.s.s soon recover it, feeding on the magical energy to grow rapidly. Mixing the stones collected from the land, buildings, and around those constructions and crafting Familia, he starts to produce a large slab of Rorik demise" stones.
Being mined in the Dungeon, those Familia were quite wasteful of those resources to nurture their members, so when he asks for the debris generated by it, they were more than happy to let him, not knowing that they were throwing away what would, in Alex"s hand, transform in millions of valis" worth materials.
Recycling those broken shards of gems, he rapidly made a fortune, that was used to buy a level 3 crystal from the guild. When he deconstructs it, he learns that the only thing that separates them in level was the concentration of magic inside. Even by using level 1 crystal, Alex would be able to craft high-level crystal.
Seeing this, Alex takes a day to farm as much as possible orc crystals. Mixed with diamonds, he soon crafts eight cubes of one meter. This done, he pa.s.ses another day to engrave runes schemes on the surface before they were fused with the wall, warding the propriety. Why eigh? Simple, rather than a bubble-like that enclosed place, he wanted a fully enclosed s.p.a.ce. As they were using those cube as the limit, not only the walls, but the gound and air were encompa.s.sed in this.
It had taken him three days, but he could now start to construct the shop. Using the prepared slab, it was nothing more than a heavy lifting job, so the shop rapidly takes from behind the cover of the fences. Keeping his previous idea, it would be constructed on two floors.
The first one would be for civilians and would offer board games, Dungeon plushies. Wood, stone and metal, realistic monsters figurines, 3D model of the famous spot in the city, and a large diversity of children-friendly toys, building block, and the like.
The second floor would be adventurer only with available expanded pouches, general pr specific ones, leather armor for starting adventurer before they move to a metal one, as well as starting weapon. Those would be the same as the guild but of better quality. He also decides to try to sell premade bento with stasis charm and inscribed run formation that would warm the meal inside at the cost of specially crafted crystals only available at the store.
When he finished constructing and fill it, Hestia was astonished by the sheer quant.i.ty of unknow entertainment games and goodies. He even creates his own version of "magic the gathering" card game, themed on monsters and race of this world. He even made a bas.e.m.e.nt with few ready tables for games.
All of the goods where under enchanted gla.s.s and only the owner and employee would be able to open them. Not being in the HP world anymore, he abuses his knowledge of wards, the result? Short than specifically oriented arcana or a full-blow a.s.sault of ten levels 6 the blood wards around the land would take the beating like a champ and won"t waver. Even with those, they would need at least a good hour to break in, leaving enough time to flee.
Those wards were even better than those sealing the Dungeon, and with the huge amount of G.o.d here, their divine power was flooding the city non-stop. With a drop of Hestia on each of the cube, he was able to synchronize them to feed on this unused energy to protect them. With the same done to the Rorik demise" stones, the shop was even st.u.r.dier than the walls! I was only because he didn"t have still enough material that he didn"t make the entire walls of the stone, but would slowly do so.
So it was after five days and nearly three weeks since his arrival that the shop was ready. The shop stood in the last hole of the walls, and one would need to cross it to have access to the land behind, and the house.
On the morning of the six days, all could see that the previous fences have completely vanished, leaving the front of the newly constructed building, appears. before the shop front stood two carvings of beasts facing each other, on a pillar of deep blue stone. Those beasts looked like leopards, but with thicker furs and longer tails. Between their paws were sleeping kitten rolled up, the former made of clear whitish-blue stone and the later of what seems light green fade.
Those were so life-like that one would think they would jump on you at any second. The shopfront was made of the same blue stone of the pillar, with a large gla.s.sed window showing the interior. Above the door was a deep red wooden board with "Creator"s" inscribed in.
A few curious children already up boldly enter the empty shop under the curious gaze of the struck pa.s.sers-by. A particular little girl tumbles out of the shop, before taking her mother"s hand, dragging her in while squealing excitedly. two minutes later, those two where seen exit the shop, the little girl squeezing tightly her new chibi drooling kobold plushy.
The sight of the unknow thing made a few trickles in, exiting the shop with amazed faces, some holding board games under their armpit, rushing to their friends to share their find.
Because of her somewhat reckless nature, Riviera was with Ais out to keep an eye on the girl, who would have gone in the Dungeon all day if not restraint. All their plan for the day came to a halt when she sees that the girl wasn"t following her anymore.
Looking behind, she sees her fixedly gazing at a little girl who was holding a familiar creation in her arms. Searching her memories, she rapidly remembers where she had seen this creature before, on the pouch of the redhead boy.
As the two follow backward the path she came from, they soon discover the new shop not far from the Hostess. As she was about to follow Ais, who was about to enter the shop, she froze when she sees the creatures posted on each side of the door. She clearly feels the magic in them, but relax when nothing happens to Ais that was already ready to vanish inside the shop.
She was surprised by what she found inside. Nothing was made for adventurers here at first glance. Being his the labyrinth city, nearly all shops would deal with adventurer if they want to exist, but there, all seem to be made for civilians.
The shop was divided into four aisles, a "Kid"s section" on the far left, just before the "goodies" one. On the right was the "adult"s section", filled with board games and the last aisle of "construction" one.
She was fascinated at the diversity and large range of difficulty for the board games available, she immediately takes a liking of this "chess" game after reading the description and rules. This was not dissimilar to war games, two fronts battling each other via strategy to win. This game alone came under multiple form, ranging from the cheapest made in wood to the most expansive made of crafted metalwork.
She could see that those few "social" games could also be a good way for those of the Familia to form bonds between them around a game. While it wasn"t obvious at first, this shop was giving what all of the adventurers need, a means of relief after a stressing day of exploration.
Taking a basket available all around the shop, she rapidly takes a few of the tags. As all of them were only exposed to display, tags have been made and available to give the reference, to let employee retrieve the goods. Her G.o.ddess could do with something to occupy her mind while they were gone on expedition.
Taking a look at this "construction" aisle, she marvels at the product here. She could see a great part of the famous spot of the city available in model form to construct yourself, even the twilight manor was present in a different sizes. At first, she didn"t understand those numbers but rapidly learn that it was the scale of the final product once complete.
She also takes some to try. When she finally remembers that she came with Ais, she was about to search for her, until she sees her already at the back of the shop with a small number of tags. When she rejoined her she found that all the merchandise was on the other side of the counter in long, high shelves.
"h.e.l.lo, welcome to Creator"s!"
Says Hestia at the two, before checking the tags refer to the shelves behind her. When she sees that all of them where for plushies, she turn back to the two.
"As you have quite a few large products, we could deliver them anywhere for you for a small fee, letting you able to go unbothered with them all days."
Seeing the girl give a nod, she started to enter the tags reference price on the calculator Alex made for her, allowing her to count rapidly.
"It would be a total of 159.000 valis, for that much, we could deliver them freely tonight."
Ais rapidly fetch out the price without question and pay, before Hestia turn to Riviera, who use the same service, leaving the manor as the site of delivery.
"Thank you for your patronage." Said her with a large smile. "We also have a second floor only available to adventurers, if you want to take a look as I prepare your order."