Chapter 90: A DOWNPOUR
Once Iris returned to her bedroom, the first thing that she did was take a bath. This room had a huge bathroom and when Hanna finished filling the wooden bathtub with warm water, Iris happily proceeded to take a dip in it. She breathed in relief when the warmth engulfed her.
This wooden bathtub was big enough for three people.
Hanna wanted to help her, but she turned her offer down, because she needed to be alone. There was something that was bothering her.
Iris read the documents from the Andelus continent and from what she read, she could tell that the Howling Wolf pack had started exchanging magic stones for rations. It was understandable, knowing how dire the situation in this pack was.
If this pack didn’t want to be so dependent on the Blue Moon pack, they needed to find a way to meet their necessities and right now, magic stones were the only valuable commodity that they could rely on.
Winter would come and if they couldn’t acquire enough rations, they would face great trouble during the harsh winter.
However, the people in the Howling Wolf pack had to return to their pack because this place would be so vacant and it wouldn’t be able to defend themselves if there was a monster attack, which happened so frequently during winter.
If they didn’t return, this place would be destroyed and all the people that moved here first after regaining their freedom would be killed, not to mention all the progress that Cane had made to make this place as livable as possible would go to the drain.
However, it seemed the merchants from the Andelus continent knew their plight and wanted to use it to their benefit, because they were bargaining for way cheaper exchange than the market price.
Cane just became an alpha for less than six months, thus his connections were not so great and he needed to build some. In that case, he didn’t have many options, especially when their time was limited.
The Andelus continent was the place where magic was born and they were in a great need of magic stones, which could only be acquired from this Ogregon continent, in other words, there were only two magic stone mines in this realm.