The next three days also went by like this with them helping the association to farm the zone. Nothing exciting happened to them unless getting more bored with their work.
The monsters – Grotor– might once have been powerful monsters, but years of careful farming had started to evolve them into domesticated monsters. Already, their claws and fangs are getting shorter and flatter as they eat both meat and vegetables.
After their successful 'hunt' that day, they made their way to town as usual and dropped off the monsters, both dead and alive. Temur promised to cook a special food for them when they got to their ranted place so they stopped to buy raw foods and ingredients at the local market.
Jael stopped as he noticed something in the middle of the town. "Wait, is it me or is there a lot of Awakeners going around?"
Calan is one of the less close towns to the capital town, and the general atmosphere around here is slow and unhurried as people go about their jobs, but now, there's a loud raising of voices, and Jael couldn't go more than a few steps without running into someone.
"You are right." Litha nodded, her sharp eyes taking it all in with a slight frown on her face.
"Let me lead," Temur said and stepped forward.
Just then, something whirled above and cast a long shadow; they all looked up. A large ship that made the air vibrate was passing above them– the ship was painted blue and black with a sleek body and a pointed tip.
Flying ships are one of the most popular means of transportation within the Tower.
"That's the Tower Guard. What the hell could be going on that they need to bring a ship? I don't like this. Calan should be far from all of this." Litha watched it pass them and headed east.
They hurried to their rented place, a big building complex where they rented a three-room space. It also houses quite a lot of Awakeners.
"See that." Jael pointed, at the front of the building another ship but smaller. It was painted gold and carved in such a design that Jael thought it wouldn't be bad to have one. "Someone must have an important guest."
"Just so," Litha said, because ships are expensive, not to talk of the massive amount of mana stone it'll take to fly one. It's one of the ways that Guilds show their wealth.
"Come on Cele, they are my friends. Look how happy they are to see me."
The woman, Cele, looked at the face of their 'host' and then at the broken remains of the door then back at him. Thayer raised his two hands. "Alright! Alright! But we know each other!"
Temur glanced at Jael and Litha. "I'll leave this to you. I'll go and start cooking."
There was silence as they all watched Temur made his way over to the kitchen and closed the door with a firm click.
Litha opened her mouth, but Thayer beat her to it; he dropped some gold coins on the table. "This should pay for your door."
She frowned, displeased but she dropped her hand and went to pick the coins. "What exactly are you doing? What are you playing at now, Thayer."
"Nothing! Nothing! I'm just here to say hi."
Everyone gave him the 'really' look.
"Are you here to pick a fight again?" Jael asked suspiciously but he won't mind a fight.
Thayer smirked and adjusted his suit. "No, but yes. I'm not here to pick a fight with you but with other people, a whole lot of people."
"Stop playing around and just say what you want." Jael chided.
"I'm a businessman and I'm here to start a business. More importantly, I'm here to debut."
"Debut what?" Litha asked, mistrust thick in her voice.
"The creation of my Guild of course! What else? I'm here to let the whole Tower know!"