“Customer, the two sets of robes you ordered have been altered!”
In a somewhat quiet tailor shop, Ariel took the two bags handed over by the young female shopkeeper.
“So fast? I thought it would take a while.”
“Your requirements were just some simple modifications and integrations, it didn’t take much time. By the way, miss, you’re not a local here, are you?”
“Eh? Can you tell?” Ariel was taken aback. Her outfit was clearly very plain, and she was wearing local styles; at most, her hair color was a bit distinctive.
“After all, you’re so generous, and locals here don’t really go that far, altering a priest robe into that kind of style…” The female shopkeeper blushed slightly.
As expected, people from the big city know how to have fun.
“What’s wrong with that style?” Ariel asked puzzled.
Was there something strange about a priest robe?
But when she noted down Truth’s requirements, she didn’t think anything was wrong?
Wasn’t it just ordering a few pairs of socks and making simple modifications to a couple of places on those two priest robes and cutting a few openings?
“No…nothing! Welcome to visit again!” The female shopkeeper respectfully escorted Ariel to the store entrance.
Since the Demon Hunter announced the lockdown at noon, only Ariel had come to the store all afternoon.
But mercifully, Ariel was generous and didn’t make as much fuss as those stingy old ladies usually did; she didn’t even check the clothes before leaving… This was simply a perfect golden patron!
She had to serve her well!
After leaving the store, Ariel curled her lips slightly.
‘Hehe, I earned five gold coins from this errand. As expected, that demon doesn’t understand the current monetary system. I casually said altering clothes might cost ten gold coins, and she actually gave them to me.’
She felt the five cold gold coins in her pocket and was in a great mood. Living under someone else’s roof, it was reassuring to have some private savings.
Even though she had embezzled half the money, the remaining five gold coins had genuinely gone to the tailor shop owner, who was so excited she almost screamed like a monkey.
Ordinarily, a single order at the tailor shop ranged from dozens of copper coins, occasionally a few silver coins for big orders, and gold coins were unthinkable.
Yet today, Ariel dropped five gold coins at once, contributing more than a year’s income to the shop!
For a patron of this level, the tailor shop gave it their all, using the best fabrics and techniques, and even turned a blind eye to altering the priest robes into intimate apparel, a blatant act of pissing on the Church’s face. Making money is fine, no shame.
Thus, the shop owner reaped huge profits, Ariel gained private savings, and Truth got what she wanted—a perfect triple win.
As for whether spending ten gold coins on custom alterations was too extravagant, Truth could only chuckle.
Did these natives even know the units “tera” and “peta”?
In version 9.0, Truth already had so many gold coins she had nowhere to spend them, more than her deposit in the Garden Bank.
When bored, she would go to the newbie gathering area and scatter gold coins everywhere, throwing several thousand at a time from morning till night, only to find that the number of gold coins in her bag seemed unchanged…
…
At the gates of Deya City, after presenting the special pass that Earl Mayna had given her earlier, Ariel smoothly left the city.
At the moment, people trying to enter couldn’t get in, and those trying to leave couldn’t get out; everyone was crowded together in chaos.
Meanwhile, on the city wall, a few Demon Hunters and Enforcers were scanning the crowd and shouting, “Attention! At least two Blasphemers and one demon are mixed in the crowd. They must be found!”
“Demon, huh…” Ariel muttered, heading toward the Mist without looking back.
When she came out, she had sensed a demonic scent on one of the passersby, but she didn’t point it out on the spot.
The reason was simple: her current boss was a Seeker Demon so powerful that even Heavenly Fire, one of the Disasters, couldn’t defeat it.
She was afraid that if she pointed out and helped the Demon Hunters capture the demon, Truth would severely punish her.
‘You actually dared to join others in persecuting my kind? Don’t you want your soul anymore?!’
‘So better to avoid trouble, just leave.’ But just then, a faint smell of rust entered Ariel’s nose. “Blood?”
“Look at the sky!” Then an adventurer pointed upward toward the sky above Deya City.
Everyone else also looked up and saw an unforgettable sight… The originally blue sky had suddenly turned crimson for no reason, and the cotton-like white clouds were like wounds on the sky, continuously bleeding, as if the whole world was oozing blood.
In an instant, the world lost its color!
“What’s going on? The sky is bleeding?!”
“I feel something wrong, we need to escape quickly! Hey, let us out!” …
Everyone present felt deep unease and discomfort. Instinct told them to flee immediately, so the already chaotic city gate erupted into a riot.
The Demon Hunters and Enforcers couldn’t stop the crowd from rushing past, and more and more people began escaping Deya City!
At the main entrance of the Church of the Goddess of Life, Kashan hurried out of the prayer hall and looked at the sky, her face turning pale. “Could this be…”
“That’s right, it’s a ninth-rank field distortion, and it’s hostile!” Ze’en said seriously from the side.
He hadn’t expected to encounter a ninth-rank powerhouse other than the Saint’s Shadow Guard in Deya City!
All high-rank professions have their own unique field skills, and their effect is simple: to temporarily transform an area into a battlefield suited to oneself, gaining substantial terrain bonuses!
Ze’en had once seen a high-rank ice mage summon a blizzard within a five-kilometer radius during battle, gaining massive boosts while also wiping out most of the enemy’s low-rank fighters…
“…So who does this field belong to now?” Kashan asked anxiously.
But Ze’en truly had never seen a high-rank human profession with such a field. So this ninth-rank powerhouse was most likely…
“Not human?!” Kashan was startled.
If the arrival really wasn’t human, as her guard said, then given how things were on the Dea Plateau, either it was a high-rank Beastman from the Northern Region or the East, an Elf, a Hidden Race, or some other tribe… or else…
“…Senior Kashan, what’s going on outside?” Just then, Little Mist also came out of the church with some worry and asked curiously.
Seeing the eerie bloody scene in the sky, she was even more startled. “Eh?!”
“Holy Maiden, hurry back inside, it’s dangerous!” Ze’en shouted urgently, but it was too late.
“I’ve found you…” The next second, a sinister, evil voice pierced through all of Deya City, then clearly drilled into the minds of everyone in Deya City.
The powerful pressure instantly silenced the noisy crowd.
In the sky, a black-red rift tore open in the bloody sky.
A huge eyeball packed with countless pupils rotated twice and then stared directly at Kashan, Little Mist, and Ze’en in front of the church!
Ze’en and Kashan shuddered, and Little Mist’s legs trembled so much she could barely stand.
At that moment, Kashan finally confirmed that they had encountered something worse than a ninth-rank foreign race… They had encountered a ninth-rank Original Demon!