Equipment Printing School Mage

"As for you," the shop owner waved his hand impatiently at Emiya. "If you're also interested in demons, I'm sorry, but I'm tired of accepting adventurers. Go somewhere else. Anyway, let me be clear: I can't control the Hell Knights, but for everyone else, don't even think about entering this door unless you buy this shop."

"If you dare to sneak in by any illegal means," the dwarf boss now counted on the Hell Knight, "it would be illegal trespassing and you'll go to jail. The Hell Knight is here as a witness!"

Given the situation, it would be difficult for Emiya and her group to get in.

Will had been hiding in the back, trying to avoid his boss seeing his face. He then whispered, "...That's troublesome. I don't really do much in Eltoril. I mainly stay around this inn—after all, I'm not familiar with this place at all."

If they can't get into the hotel, their trip tonight will be in vain.

Mars was silent for a moment, then said, "In Eltoril, casting spells on others without permission is a serious offense. Enchantment spells like friendship and charm will leave serious marks. It's very troublesome."

As for persuasion? It was obvious that the boss was furious. If they even took a step closer, they would be glared at. At this moment, there was no way such a person would listen!

"...Sigur?" Faced with this dilemma, Emiya could only seek advice from the team's bard. "Do you have any ideas?"

But as soon as he looked over, he found that Sig was also looking at him with a puzzled look on his face.

"?" Emilia was stunned for a moment.

Sig shrugged. "You haven't seen Miss Imoen's style of attack, so you didn't expect it for a moment. Ordinary adventurers really can't do anything at this time, but are we ordinary adventurers?"

"What do you mean?"

The poet turned around expressionlessly, hid her right hand in front of her, and pinched her index finger and thumb together.

Then, rub vigorously.

"—Do you understand?"

"............!" After a few seconds, Emilia finally realized, "Okay, I'll leave it to you—just don't take too many kickbacks. I'll pay."

"Oh, I'm short of these three things, just leave them to me."

As he spoke, Sig trotted over to the boss. Although short, Sig was quite tall for a dwarf, even slightly taller than the boss. "It's not easy to meet a fellow dwarf in Eltoril. I hope your fortunes will turn and you'll make a fortune. What's your name?"

The boss, however, looked at Sig's delicate face and showed some hesitation: "...Are you really a dwarf? You look too much like a human... Forget it, just pretend I didn't ask."

"Why are you expelling me right away?" Sig glared. "Let me put it this way. We are adventurers, but we are also interested in doing business. Name your price."

When these words came out, not only the boss, but even the Hell Knight beside him was shocked: "...Ask a price?!"

Sig shrugged. "That's right. Tell me, how much do you want for this store?"

The boss was stunned for a moment, then immediately retreated cautiously, hiding his face behind the wall. "Are you planning to use illusions and enchantments to mess with me?"

"The Hell Knight is right before our eyes, how could we possibly do such a thing!" Sig thought for a moment and simply pulled out a gold bar from her own dimensional bag. She weighed it firmly to show that it wasn't fake brass. "--Here's a 10-kilogram gold bar. 1100 gold coins for you."

At this moment, the boss and the Hell Knight were really stunned.

1100 gold coins is not a price that everyone can afford.

The boss paused behind the wall for a moment, then shouted, "That Hell Knight! Take a look for me! If this deal goes through, all my previous grudges with Eltoril will be wiped out, and I'll withdraw all those dozens of complaints!"

The Hell Knight thought for a moment, then stepped forward, took the gold bar, and weighed it. "I can't estimate the exact value of this gold bar, but it's so thin, it must be very heavy."

The boss gasped and shouted, "Fifteen thousand gold coins! I spent fifteen thousand gold coins when I bought this shop!"

Sig's face fell. She took a deep breath, pointed at the wall where her boss was hiding, and said, "Mr. Hell Knight, someone's robbing us. His shop, which he owned for years, has been exposed to the elements and passed through countless hands. It's been looted, burned, and destroyed, and its reputation has been ruined. And he actually wants to sell it to me at full price! How can that be possible?"

Hell Knight naturally couldn't speak on this matter, although Sig didn't really say that to him.

"Then ten thousand!"

"Ten thousand? You're so stupid!!" Sig was merciless to his fellow tribesman. "Such inferior assets are a good deal if they can be converted into money! And we're paying real money right here! Five thousand gold coins!"

"Five thousand?! It should be at least eight thousand!"

"Eight thousand... eight thousand..." Sig's face showed obvious hesitation. "Eight thousand is not impossible. But this store was targeted by the devil. Maybe there is a reason. What if..."

As she spoke, she casually took out two more gold bars from her dimensional bag and gently rotated them in her hand.

"If you give me goods worth eight thousand gold coins right now!" the boss's eyes widened as he shouted, "I'll give you everything tonight... No!"

He patted his chest heavily and said, "I will leave alone now. Everything in this store will belong to you now, immediately, and instantly!"

"Okay." A smile appeared on Sig's face.

Amidst the crisp, high-pitched clash of the swords, and the eager gazes of the Hell Knight and the boss, she calmly took out the remaining gold bars. "First, take out the title deed and the land deed. These gold bars will be yours."

"—Wait, wait, wait, I definitely have these at home. Please wait a moment, I'll bring them over right away! I'll also find a pastor to be a witness. I'm really selling them! Don't go!"

The boss couldn't bear it any longer and rushed out of the store, running towards his home frantically as if he was escaping for his life.

Behind him, Xige called out from afar, "Then it's okay for us to go in and take a look first, right?"

"Go ahead! Go ahead!"

Twenty-four Devil's Sanctuary (Part 2)

"……Well."

This scene clearly caught the Hell Knight by surprise. He turned his head several times, clearly confused about what to do next. Finally, he took a few steps back and said, "I'm sorry, everyone. I have orders and can't leave yet."

Sig, however, walked over and patted him on the back with ease: "I understand, I understand. Withdrawing troops after such a big event would be too conspicuous, and too many people would also discourage curious adventurers. One person stays in the open, and the others watch... and monitor! This is safer! Anyway, we've already taken out the money, so we can go in."

"Ha...hahahaha!" The Hell Knight had no intention of participating in this topic and just started laughing dryly. "Anyway, this inn called the Flash Gold Coin Inn has indeed stopped restricting entry - but if you are willing to reveal your identities..."

"Oh, don't worry." Sig said calmly, "We are from the Selune Church. Everyone who has been to the Selune Church in the past few days knows us."

"Then please do as you please." The Hell Knight stepped aside. "But if I may be frank, this place looks like a tomb that has been visited dozens of times by tomb robbers and adventurers. Even the floor tiles have been turned over."

"That's our business." Sig made a V-sign behind him: Done!

Moving around in this inn was no easy task—as the innkeeper had said, the recent battle had reduced it to virtual ruins. At least half the rooms were severely damaged, with broken furniture and even the smell of burnt charcoal everywhere. Emiya had simply cast levitation on everyone, preventing them from destroying any evidence by moving around.

Twenty thousand gold coins was indeed a staggering sum for an old inn. However, the sheer size of the gold coins barely justified the price. This inn was known as the largest in Eltoril, and the former owner might not have been exaggerating.

"...Here." Will led them to the top floor of the hotel. "I stayed here at the time."

Emiya opened the room. This was one of the few places in the hotel that was still well preserved. The decoration inside could be called a presidential suite on Earth, but the super-large bed was too shocking.

Sig's face immediately showed the smile that a bard would inevitably smile when he saw gossip. "Interview, Mr. Will, do you live alone in this room?"

"...No." Will tilted his head to the other side.

"what!"

His dark cheeks flushed instantly: "It's not what you think!"

"Could it be that your clan leader sleeps on the floor in his own lair?"

"How can it be."

"So you sleep on the floor?"

“…………How is that possible?”

"Then I reasonably suspect that this female devil might be a copper sorcerer."

Will didn't want to continue the conversation. He said bluntly, "If you want me to show you the way, I'll tell you everything I know. But I have to say this: I'll tell you everything. As long as there are people working in Eltoril, any remaining clues will have been taken away."

"That's not something I can decide."

Of course, Will did not lie: all the luxurious decorations in the room had been kept in their original places and were not easily stolen into the bags by the searchers, leaving the room in its original state.

However, various containers that might have hidden items, as well as the floors and walls, showed signs of damage. It was obvious that the investigators had considered the possibility of various secret rooms, but had apparently returned empty-handed.

Emiya pondered for a moment, placed her hand on the wall, and activated her structural sense.

The conclusion came out quickly - unexpectedly, this was indeed the devil's lair, but to be more precise, it was the devil's residence.

These demons seemed to really treat this place as an ordinary residence, and there was actually no secret room in the house.

He shook his head and snapped his fingers: "—Reappearance Technique."

Then, the echoes that had occurred in this room appeared again.

The ones who appeared were the slim and beautiful woman and Will.

******************

"Are you running away?" Will asked.

"Ah, it seems our Flame Fist Prince hasn't forgotten to take his moral high ground," the devil named Mizora replied. "Now, you are one of us."

"We have an agreement," Will said. "Anyone who has read the agreement will know that we are not on the same page."

"Even though your body temperature remains on my arm every night?" Mizora covered her mouth with a smile. "Anyway, don't be silly—Raphael is finished. Now that Apodel survived, Rex's situation has become extremely serious."

"We are preparing to retreat. There is still space on the carriage to Avernus."

"I'm not leaving," Will said flatly. "I'm giving up resistance. I believe the Eltoril people won't make things difficult for me."

"Whatever you say." Mizora shrugged, then raised her head. "—It's about time."

At this moment, a subtle buzzing sound suddenly rang out, and a blazing light instantly enveloped the upper floor of the hotel and roared in through the door.

Because of the location of the room, Mizora's room was spared, but the devil's screams were heard next door first.

*******************

Therefore, the demons knew exactly what they were about to be besieged, even down to the time when Eltoril would arrive.

But Emiya and his group had already guessed this - if the devil had already infiltrated Eltoril, it would be impossible for him to be unaware of their doom.

Even in this situation, the devil will be publicly eliminated. This may be a deceptive trick to divert the attention of ordinary people and make them relax their vigilance against the devil.

After several castings, no more valuable information was revealed - this is also the drawback of the powerful spell of Reappearance.

First you have to go to the place where the event happened - but in reality, you may not know exactly where the event you want to know took place.

Secondly, the information you want to know may not be the most important thing in this place. In other words, you may need to cast spells many times.

The combination of the two makes the use of this spell highly dependent on the caster's own acumen.

But no matter what, this spell solves the problem of creating something from nothing. If you use a less-than-ideal spell to achieve the desired effect, that's not the spell's fault, that's the mage's fault.

"—"

Emiya shook her head - the real highlight was the large room next door.

Such a former landmark that has become a ruin is the perfect stage for reconstruction.

*********************

Several demons were dumping boxes of documents into the fireplace and madly fanning flames into it. The surging heat caused their figures to distort slightly.

One of the devils complained, "To put on a complete show, we even have to buy white paper to burn... and we have to pay for it ourselves! Corruption is not allowed in Eltoril, so it's not reasonable to work and pay for it!"

Another slammed the paper container against the fireplace, making a loud thud, muttering to himself, "Raphael... In order to gain merit for you, a young man, we've thrown away all our years of hard work! Damn it! Damn it!"

At this moment, Mizora burst through the door: "—Silence! As long as Eltoril and the Companion Sun still exist, our efforts will not be in vain. But unfortunately, I bring bad news: the cause of the burrowing worms in Trill Town has been found—a lich has awakened nearby, and his activities have frightened the burrowing worms."

The two devils in the room were stunned for a moment, then jumped up together. "Then quickly send a message to the Supreme Hall. What should you tell us? Can the resurrection of the lich be delayed?!"

"Even if he only ate one soul, it would be an irreparable loss!!! Hurry, hurry!!!"

*********************

The shadow dissipated.

There was silence.

Mars was silent for a long time before he said, "What on earth is going on with Eltoril... These demons' sense of belonging to Eltoril is almost comparable to that of the Church of Torm."

Twenty-five embarked on the journey, looking

"Well, let's get going then. This is the first time our team has officially split up to act separately."

The dawn had passed, and the sun had already come directly above the companion sun. It was also time for Emiya and his group to officially set off.

Although Team Emiya has many spellcasters, their functions don't actually overlap much.

However, the situation had reached a point where they had to split up their forces—Eltoril clearly had immense problems. But to say that the Church of Torm and the Church of Amaunator had completely sided with the devil was a bit of a stretch.

Apart from anything else, the Church of Amaunator is so arrogant that it is simply wishful thinking to ask them to submit to the devil.

Not to mention, they were entrusted by the priests of the Selune Church to manage an entire parish. Regardless, they couldn't just withdraw as a whole.

This is an unprecedented show of goodwill and intimacy, and cannot be interpreted as a forced sale.

"...If there's any danger..." Emiya hesitated, then said, "Why not just ask the Church of Oghma for help?"

The Moonfire Bell Tower District was indeed weak in terms of strength, otherwise there wouldn't be so many churches banding together for support. If something were to happen, Mars's team might become the diocese's primary fighting force.