Looking closely, she rapidly found the ones that she had seen him with. They were described as extension pouches and were specially made to gather fallen crystal of the 1st-floor goblins. It had an expended s.p.a.ce of five times its original capacities, around 500 crystals. It could been also enchanted with blood securities, leaving only one person being able to interact with it. It would need maintenance since running on specially crafted crystals. A timer enchantment was also responsible to either tell the amount currently inside or the amount he can absorb before needing maintenance. The most maddening thing was that it was dirt cheap! Only a 100.000 for the basic expended s.p.a.ce, after that, you would need to buy the other enchantment if you wanted them.

Going through the rest of the shop, she sees similar goods, leather armor, knives, throwing knives, expanded skin for water, bento box with already made a complete meal just needing to be heated.

This was revolutionary. With those, their expedition would be much simpler, the skin could allow them to carry much more water, those ready-made meals would save place, time and resources, those pouches could also be useful, shame that they were available only until the 10th floors, but even then...

She was about to go down to speak with the previous girl but she feels someone coming from the door behind the counter. When she sees him she was surprised to see a carbon copy of Alex, only in a smaller size.

"All the goods are available on command only, I don"t want morons trying to rob the shop." She nods at the wise decision, before asking.

"I want to pa.s.s an order, is it possible now?"

"Sure, look around and bring me the tags and I will register your order."

She nods, returning in the aisle, selecting a few tags. They wouldn"t start ma.s.s order, but this would be enough for a test run. If they are what they say to be, then, she would ask her G.o.ddess to establish a contract with the shop to gears them for the next expeditions

Wanting to test them at their peak, she only selects tags of items with the full enchantment available for them. Returning to the counter she pa.s.ses the tags to Alex. Taking a pencil, he starts to note the order in is the order book.

"A goblin pouch, fully enchanted, a skin fully enchanted, and an upper floor item pouch. I must warn you that the last one, as for now, will only work until the 10th floor, id that alright with you? Ok, once they are available, I will contact you to updates them fully, free of charge, after all, I"m selling an uncomplete item at full price."

She was agreeably surprised by his word, not a lot of crafter would accept to bring additional free of charge, or warn their customer of the limit of the item.

"For the goblin pouch with a 5-time expansion, security and full-timer enchantment are 160.000 valis. The 10l skin with a 25-time expansion, security, and full-timer enchantment are 310.000 valis. A low floor item pouch with 25-time expansion, security, and full-timer is 310.000, for a total of 780.000 valis, the first maintenance is included in the price and I will need a drop of blood for each of the items. A third of the payment required upfront."

Like she was thinking, the price where cheap, other than the pouches for the crystals, they would be rapidly paid by the amount of s.p.a.ce they would free. Nodding at him, she p.r.i.c.ks her finger with the offered needle, letting a drop fall in each translucent cube he put on the counter.

She gazes astonished at them, when a ball-shaped small crystal was put in the grove of the cube, sealing its content.

"Here were done, the pouch will be done today, you can either came for them this afternoon or they would be delivered to you the very same night."

She nods at him before the two made their way back, taking with them the two bags that Hestia had prepared for them.

As they return to the Twilight manor, rumors were starting to spread about the new shop.

"Weren"t you going to the Dungeon today?" Ask Finn when he saw them return to the manor that early in the morning.

"We found a new shop selling interesting thing that I need to speak Loki about, you better came too." He nods as the three made their way to their G.o.ddess room, taking Gareth with them while pa.s.sing.

The playful G.o.ddess became serious the instant she hears Riviera talk about the pouches and their possible utilization. Like her, Finn couldn"t help but be sad that they weren"t any responsible for deeper floors.

"Do you know why?"

"The logical reason would be that they haven"t been able to go deeper."

"Do you know if there are any means to override this?"

"No, but he says that they should be ready this afternoon, so he mostly be here too. Any news about this Alex yet?"

"No, it as if he vanishes, why?"

"It just that the boy was strangely looking like him, seeing the wears in the shop, it must be that they came from here."

"You think there related?"

"Either it a common trait shared by their race or a family member."

"I will come with you to retrieve them, if they as you say, it could be better to seal a contract with them." Said the until then silent Loki.

The morning soon pa.s.sed, as they wanted to go there as soon as possible the group of five lunch at the Hostess, hearing rumors of the shop by the excited client, a few of them were even playing a card game while waiting for their meal to come.

At first, Mia wasn"t sure of what to do but when she sees that not only were they calmer while waiting but also ordering few drinks in between, she allows it as long as they don"t go overboard. Being simple civilians, they wouldn"t cause any ruckus, knowing that they would be thrown out immediately.

Lunch is done, they all enter the shop, the three others couldn"t help but give a gaze at what she had said to them. Seeing the huge amount of available and never seen games was a shock to them, but they know that the shop would make a fortune until other Familia either copy them or try to smash them.

When Loki see the girl on the other side of the counter, she couldn"t help.

"you!" Hearing the shout, Hestia turns her gaze to her, before a jeering smile draws on her face.

"Ho ho, so the flat chest... Ouie!" She yelp when he bonk her head

"Don"t insult the customer, Hestia! You must be here for the order? Follow me."

"Alex, how could you betray me like that!"

"I don"t, the fact that she came here buy our goods his already a victory for you, so now stop rubbing salt on her wound and do your job, otherwise...!"

"No! I go, promise!" She immediately flees to the other end of the counter, taking care of the waiting customer.

"Sorry, she became quite childish sometimes. Follow me please."

The entire group was shocked, the four for the seeming lack of respect for his G.o.ddess and Loki for seeing Hestia completely dominated. He leads them to the second floor, before leading them behind the counter, in a private room he prepares for a situation like this, as he knows their no way Loki would come just for looking around. He gives them some refreshments while he goes retrieve the items.

"Sorry for the wait, here they are." Said him while opening the three wooden case containing them. "The pouch had a capacity of 500 crystals max, a load of 5000 crystal before maintenance. Blood ward tying it to its unique user. The timer allows you to see how much you actually have inside and how many can be had before you need to be maintained. The same for the two other, the skin can store until 250l of any beverage that doesn"t have magical propriety, so no potion inside. The item pouch is like the crystals one, all possess enchantment making them as light as they are empty. I know that it difficult to accept like this, so if you are free after that, I can go with you to the labyrinth, where you would know if it works, how about that?"

They were all surprised to hear his proposition, as no one would dare to sell them purposefully defective devices, be him willing to join them in a dive to show it wears was a good surprise to them.

"Excuse my question if it blunt but why not creating better pouches, one for deeper floors?" Ask Finn, curious.

"Two reasons, first, my Familia isn"t strong enough to ward-off others to steal our product, second, it"s a simple lack of resources, were I be able to make my hand on those crystals, I could create them without no much trouble."

"How far can you make them?" Ask seriously Finn for the second reason.

"I"m not limited by my art, only by lack of material. Would you give me a monster rex crystal and I can create a pouch to store it."

This was mind-blowing for them, monster rex core was enormous, even storing only them would free so much place. Before they could be too high, he brought them down.

"As much as it is good, the only downside is that I would need the entire core to create it. If you ever bring them to me, you would still need to pays for the craft, so at least one of your expedition would have much more severe monetary repercussion."

"He is right, not selling those cores would be a huge price, needing to pay for them to be made even more." Thinks the three tops.

"How about that? You bring me the core for creating pouches and for every ten cores of the same monster, I give you one pouch free." Loki"s eye immediately lit up at this while Gareth ask.

"How much would you estimate the cost of a monster past the "first line"?"

"Until the 13th floors, they should be much more than 100.000 without the enchantment, with them all 160.000, for monster past that point? at least 420.000. for the middle floor, 1.080.000 for lower floors, the deep floors at least 3.000.000 per monster."

The sum where astronomical, but if true, they would need more freely, on his deal of a free pouch per monster ever ten core would be too good to pa.s.s.

"If you bring me to the 18th floor today, I could even throw in a free pouch of each monster encounter until then?"

All four look at their G.o.ddess, who only nods, he starts to draw the contract where Alex would become the exclusive provider, for this he would provide them with a free pouch of each monster every ten cores brought to him, along with a 10% off. On their side, the Loki Familia would bring him the needed crystals to create the one they ask for along their protection. He would buy from them directly if he needs cores and he would give them 5% of the sum to buy from his shop freely.