Chapter 749
Deny deny deny deny.
He woke up early the next day and left while both Thera and Sonya still slept, off to do exactly what he’d thought about only the day before, going to get ingredients.
He did his best to ignore the shop as he passed through, not wanting to feel any temptation from the things it held but chose to take the mini gate to his workshop in Anailia rather than pass through Thera’s family home to get to the main gate network and went on from there to do his shopping.
With many of the original gate cities at least partially abandoned due to their proximity to invasion points, he used what little knowledge he had of the safe ones to go to a city he’d built the gate for himself, walking through to one that was enjoying a breezy afternoon on a coast.
While coastal cities made for an easier route for the terrestrial and aquatic races to meet, it also meant they were valuable regions for trade, telling him that even if he hadn’t been there before, their shops and markets would likely be filled with interesting products and ingredients to get his hands on as he started his exploration down the streets, jogging through them to see as much as he could while popping into any shops that caught his eyes.
With the rings on his fingers, he wasn’t much limited by space either as he went, finding a spice store early on and peppering the shopkeeper with questions as he asked how different ones would be used and what they would be good for before buying a few pounds of every variety that was held to play with later and going on from there.
It wasn’t long after that he found a fish market to spend some time in too, looking deeply at the options while finding out what he could from the salesmen about those strange forms of life.
Like the terrestrial side of the planet he lived on, the ecosystem of the aquatic side was a mess as well due to all of the groups that had been scooped up and brought along by their gods, accidentally or intentionally bringing along some of the life of their worlds too, carving out new niches in their new home that was kept constantly out of balance by the sheer virtue of the scale of that change.
He couldn’t imagine the scale of what had to be near-constant extinction events taking place as what native life there was ended up constantly and repeatedly devastated by the things that were brought but on the plus side, it gave him plenty of interesting options to choose from before inevitably deciding not to choose at all, instead buying bits of everything.