Chapter 76
The tavern’s second floor was Joshua’s workshop. Joshua has been sleeping here the past couple days. Ciri was doing the same.
But, the situation today was slightly different. Today, Joshua brought over all the money he earned since the opening of the Hearthstone Tavern to the second floor.
“If this pile of gold coins are placed in the countryside somewhere, it will most definitely attract a dragon to guard and sleep on top of the gold coins!”
Ciri was repeatedly using illumination magic to increase the brightness of the room. It was all so that the giant hill-like pile of gold coins could glisten with light.
Having been by Joshua’s side for so long, Ciri has witnessed Joshua doing a lot of astonishing and unimaginable things. But, of all the things, it was this that caused her to feel a sense of loss toward the reality.
Money! An enormous amount of money, so much that she would not have to worry about food and whatnot for the rest of her life, was placed before her. If it wasn’t for Joshua stopping her by saying that those gold coins were too dirty, Ciri would’ve thrown herself into the pile of gold coins and started rolling around in them.
“Ciri, calm yourself.”
Joshua looked at the young woman who was once nearly driven mad from being so poor. No matter who it might be, if they had to catch bears and tigers in the mountains just to feed themselves, they will most definitely not be able to calm themselves with such a vast sum of wealth was placed before them.
Oh Vengert, the God of Flowing Waters and Healing! In the Elementary Magic School, Ciri was pursued by countless boys. She was the sweetheart of their dreams. Yet, annoyed by their pursuit, she would beat them all up.
Furthermore, she didn’t use magic. Instead, she beat them up with her fists!
From that day on, Hyrlan thought her younger sister will not have anything to do with ‘feeling shy,”being soft and gentle,’ and all sorts of womanly vocabularies.
“No you’re not!”
Ciri shouted at her big sister. As for Joshua, he could only shrug his shoulders to express that she was not bothering them.
“Mr. Joshua, I have an item that I wish to show you.”
Hyrlan didn’t come to Joshua’s play purely to visit her sister. Instead, she caught sight of a troublesome matter on her way back to her alchemic atelier — a gospel from the missionaries of the Nation of the Holy Church.