Chapter 289: City of Merchants

“What are you doing?” Jareb asked while leaning forward to take a better look at Bael, who was scribing the rune circle onto the ground.

An hour had passed since they returned from the bakery after denying all the ladies who wanted to eat Bael instead of their desserts, and from then on, Bael had been continuously drawing the runes on the floor of an abandoned stone house within the eastern market.

Bael offered him a glance and said, “As you can see, I am drawing the rune circle, which will allow us to go to the location we want to.”

At his words, the two noble heirs looked at each other and mumbled at the same time, “Is such a thing possible?”

Bael nodded his head and said, “There are some conditions that need to be fulfilled for it to be used, but we don’t have to worry about those.”

“Why is that?” Henry pressed.

At the same moment, Bael finished the rune circle and answered, “Because I am with you.”

Both noble heirs fell silent and stared at him with deadpan faces, seeing which Bael let out a chuckle and said, “Get ready.”

Henry and Jareb’s expressions turned serious. They nodded their heads and stepped to the center of the rune circle, where Bael already was.

He patted their backs and said, “Close your eyes and think about Ironvilla city.”

They followed his words, and Bael took out the half-ether cores with an activation rune on them. Using the Ruler’s hand, he hovered them at their position before he dropped them at the same time.

Just as the core touched the rune circle, they let out a soft glow, and their size began to decrease as an ether flame appeared on them.

The lines connecting the center invocation with the respective ether core brightened, and the flame flew towards the center.

As they neared the center, the outermost ring of the circle shed blue light, and green flames began to swirl around it.

Then the invocation let out a bright light, and the flames shot towards the three figures standing at the center.

The innermost ring glowed, and the flames disappeared.

With them, the trio also vanished from their spot.

Like the previous two times, Bael felt as if he was drowning, but this time the sea was way more chaotic because of the presence of the nobles.

After a moment, the wind brushed their faces, and their hair moved with it.

Before them was a city with the banner of an anvil and a golden hammer at its gate, and carts and carriages were going in and out of it.

This place was Leonara’s trade hub and was known as Ironvilla, the city of merchants.

Bael took in the city and mumbled, “You can open your eyes.”

The two nodded and finally opened their eyes, which widened at the sight of where they were.

“W-What?!”

“How!?”

They stared at the city in disbelief, and Bael said, “Let’s go, we don’t have much time to waste.”

He stepped towards the gates; however, Jareb and Henry didn’t move right away; instead, they stared at Bael’s back and thought, ’Who is he, and how is he capable of doing such things?’

Even though they were somewhat emotionally connected to Bael, seeing how absurd he was and how much he could do, they couldn’t help but look at him suspiciously.

Bael preferred that they defied him instead of following him because he said so, as they did it for the kingdom and not for some personal gain.

The corners of his lips lifted upwards, and he said, “Stop stalling, we have a lot of things to do!”

They came out of their thoughts and sprinted forward. “Wait for us!”

Using Illusion Zone, the three entered the city without anyone finding out about them, and with his Zone, he found the locations of the merchants that would help him sell ether core to the kingdom.

After walking for some time, they reached the first store.

As they neared it, Bael removed the illusion, and they all became visible. Since no one was around them, no one could say they had appeared randomly, and they entered the store without any wait.

“Welcome to our humble store!” The slender storekeeper said as he walked out from the back, but as his gaze fell on the customers, his lips formed a bright smile, and he spoke softly, “Young master Jareb! Young master Henry! How come both of you are here?”

Jareb and Henry smiled at him and turned around as they answered, looking at Bael. “We want you to sell something.”

The storekeeper looked at the white-haired man and gave a slight nod as he turned around. “Follow me.”

They followed the storekeeper into the room at the back. He tapped the wall, and the wall at the front parted in two, revealing a downward tunnel.

He glanced at the three as he walked closer to it and descended the tunnel.

“Let’s go,” Bael mumbled, and they did the same.

After about ten minutes, they reached a grand chamber with multiple chests, wardrobes, and a set of a sofa and a table. Two superhuman guards stood at the gate, and the merchant sat on the sofa.

“Uncle Brent,” Jareb and Henry called out with faint smiles tugging at their lips.

Brent was a big man with a pot belly; his brown eyes had the craftiness of a merchant, and his hair was hidden by the strange, tall, round hat he wore.

Seeing the children of two of his friends, Brent laughed, “Hoho! What are the young masters doing here?”

His gaze shifted towards the third person, and he spoke in an impressive voice, “Weren’t you two at the battlefield?”

Jareb and Henry sensed the bad mood and their lips parted to speak, but before they could do that, Bael took out an ether core and placed it at the bronze table before Brent.

“I want to make a deal with you.”

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