Chapter 0120

“Charms make a nice welcoming gift for your future lifelong partners. Come see my wares. Wind Blade, Ice Bolt, As Swift as the Wind and many others. Start off on the right foot when meeting your lifelong partner. A welcoming gift is always appreciated, and none is better than a charm that can save your life when used at the right time. Come see my wares. Wind Blade, Ice Bolt, As Swift as the Wind and many others.” Tempest, ever the opportunist, started selling her charms to the new recruits gathered at the courtyard where the Sphere of Spiritual Influence was enshrined.

Unlike the new recruits streaming in into the football stadium size courtyard whose priority was to pray for a good group since they didn’t realize it was their spirits who chose their partners and attribute everything to luck, Tempest never forgot her first priority is to earn money to redeem her sisters.

She acted like those flower salesmen at a highschool graduation and started selling her charms to everyone.

There were three reactions to Tempest’s brazen behavior - customers who bought her charms, window shoppers who linger around and the wealthy recruits who look down upon her wares.

Unlike her previous opportunistic behavior where she sold her charms for ten silver a piece, Tempest priced her charms at five silvers a piece, hoping to attract customers with her prices.

They aren’t heading into danger anytime soon so there isn’t an urgency to buy her charms.

The occasion did call for a bit of splurging, so Tempest made quite a bit of money. Beside, she’s selling her charms for silvers, not hard to obtain cultivation materials, so the customers were a bit freer with their coins.

The older mages, and by older Tempest meant the mages who look like they are 13 or 14 years old but who knows how old they really are, bought the charms directly from Tempest without any fanfare, treating the purchase like a normal transaction.

The shy, timid or weaker mages mumbled their request with faces red from embarrassment and meld back into the crowd after acquiring their newly purchased charms.

“Business would have been better if everyone didn’t stare at me like a some kind of monster. It’s not like they haven’t seen a charm seller before.” Tempest grumbled in her heart but continued shouting her advertisement.

Tempest can be completely oblivious at time.

A merchant hawking their wares can be seen on any street in any town. There is nothing special about a merchant taking advantage of the situation to make money. It is expected.

It is also expected to beat the crap of anyone who messes up the special occasion with their silly antics and a few of the new recruits want to do just that. They worked their butt off to gain entry into the Eternal Spirit Guild. It should be one of the glorious moments in their life when they step into the Eternal Spirit Guild be accepted as a member.

The momentous occasion is cheapened by Tempest selling charms as if the Eternal Spirit Guild is any old market place where she can set up a stall.

Many of the new recruits want to beat up the little mage making a racket in the middle of the sacred place. They didn’t have the courage to mess with Tempest.

What place is the Eternal Spirit Guild? It is only the number one guild in the Magus Alliance for the last seven thousand years. No other guild has been able to come close to their might and power. The Eternal Spirit Guild has a long history, deep roots and strong foundation. Furthermore, the founder of the guild hasn’t ascended yet.

No one has ever won Cardis in a fight.

It isn’t as if no one had tried either. There were plenty of immortal mages who challenge Cardis to a duel on to be used as foil to Cardis fame.

The last time Cardis made a move, he created the Emblemic Mountain Range. The massive amount of mana requires to rearrange the geography of the Cardinal Realm is staggering.

It is easy for cultivators to destroy.

It is not easy for cultivators rearrange the landscape and the flow of mana and force it remain in the state the cultivator wants it to be.

A mountain is a mountain. Even though it was changed into a crater, over time, the hole will be filled and dirt will pile up, creating a mound, then a hill and finally a mountain again. It is part of the balance maintained by the Cardinal Realm.

If the cultivator wants the mountain to remain a crater, he or she must supply mana to it. The Emblemic Mountain Range is a mountain range comprise of active volcanoes. Since it is man made, the volcanoes would have gone dormant after the mana is dispersed and becomes regular mountains again. The mana involved in maintaining a series of volcanoes is staggering and serve as testament to Caridis power.

Knowing this fact, the recruits would not act rashly in the Eternal Spirit Guild. Those who dare, say set up a stall right in the middle of the courtyard of the Sphere of Spiritual Influence without being kicked out or reprimanded by the Elder had to have a strong backing.

Tempest did not have a strong backing in the guild.

All the Elders believe the Kataigida, the Mizu controlled puppet, was Cardis Successor and Tempest was her Resonances. They announce Kataigida as Cardis Successor. Something as major as that can’t be kept hidden. By some flux, they never mention Tempest.

Cardis attitude towards Tempest remains ambiguous. Therefore, Tempest’s strongest backer is a mage with high position but no power to back it up.

The people overseeing today event was simply too lazy to bother with a small fry like Tempest.

Afterall, there was no rule stating that you can’t sell merchandise before the start of the event. There are plenty of rules set up for the event itself, but none for the time before the event.

Hence, Tempest created an image of the greedy merchant taking advantage of her connection to cons the new recruits out of their hard earn money.

She became a thorn in the heart of the solemn righteous mages.

Tempest didn’t care. She continued to sell her charms up until the bell range telling everyone the event was going to start.