Velin didn't stay idle while waiting for news from the council.
He took Ola and Ryo to the Arcane Path once again.
Unlike their last casual stroll, this time he had a very clear objective.
"My lord, look at this!" Ryo pointed to a glass jar on a stall. Inside was a heart, still beating.
The stall owner, a dwarf with a covered face, explained, "An animated heart. Transplant it into a construct, and it will gain rudimentary emotions. Only three hundred Golden Suns."
Velin glanced at it and immediately lost interest.
He had little interest in such crude alchemical creations.
He walked into a shop called "Underground Roots," which specialized in selling plants and creatures from the Dark Nether Realm.
The shop was dimly lit, its air filled with the scent of damp earth and fungi.
