Chapter 62: The Talk of the Tower (5)
0% Is this good bros?
Having unintentionally committed the taboo known as salt baiting, Risir was quite flustered.
Dammit, I didn’t mean for this to happen.
Didn’t the creator herself repeatedly emphasize it was a degraded version of the original? That’s why Risir had vaguely thought, “It’s probably good, but not that good.”
He never imagined it would be something to make big shots like these master mages and even a high priest go wild-eyed.
But what could he do? What’s done is done. All he could do was emphasize his genuine ignorance and plead for leniency.
Risir discreetly pocketed the elemental core while the predators were distracted with each other.
He watched the chaos unfolding before his eyes.
I wondered how far it would go, and it’s going all the way to the end, huh.
What began as an emotional free-for-all of “Aaagh! Move aside! That’s mine!” gradually evolved into a rational debate of “Please step aside. That belongs to myself.”
“Now, allow me to explain why our group should have the elemental core.”