Chapter 118
Touring a whole city is exhausting.
Especially when it involves shopping with Lelou. We are currently teaching the others the joy that is crepes, taking a short break before someone breaks down crying.
We’ve seen all the major sights, even toured the residential areas, visiting unused suites in each zone to give the newcomers an idea what their options are. All that’s left is a quick bit of shopping to ’make sure the merchants are bringing in quality goods’ as Lelou put it.
"The villas up here are fit for royalty" Vinnie sighs. "It feels like betraying my Sect upbringing to live somewhere so luxurious, but the energy is so dense, as high as the Inner Sect area of Sacred Thunder."
"There’s bachelor apartments on this floor over in the west wing, should we head there next? See what it has for amenities?" I suggest, curious myself how the area designed to appeal to cultivators not interested in material objects has been developed.
Even a single week away at this point is enough to greatly change sections of the city as they fill up. New businesses by new residents are a daily occurrence, so you never know what might have opened.
The Northwestern edge of the city, where all the small cultivators apartments are reminds me very much of the inside of a sect, except for the variety of uniforms. Everyone is in cultivators garb, every store sells cultivation or combat related items, even the restaurants specialize in magical beast meat.
There’s a clothing store that catches my eye. It’s full of beautiful dresses in the style Elder Song made for me. They’ve even got a male equivalent, just as flowing and beautiful, but in a different cut that better emphasizes their stature instead of hinting at cleavage.
"We’re going in" I declare, allowing no argument.
Everyone spreads out for a moment Kel’Mira gravitating towards a rack of white themed dresses with pastel colored accents.
We are still gathering beautiful outfits with help from the attendants when Vinnie and Paul come out in matching outfits, bearing their Sect’s Blue and Grey color scheme. They manage to look noble and refined, instead of like the mercenaries they entered as.