Chapter 239
"You can cast the creation spell?" The male shopkeeper asks incredulously.
"Of course I can, I cast the originals in Arcana, so there’s no reason I couldn’t create a small one for your shop." Karl tells him casually.
"But at what price?" The Junior Priestess asks the important questions.
"Loyalty to the Dragon Gods. I am going to set a lock on the spell so one of you are required to operate it and it will dissipate if moved from the location you pick. As long as all is normal, your shop can be fully stocked every morning, but if you’re attacked or others are attempting to steal it, it can be easily deactivated to prevent theft." Karl says.
"We have a stock shelf in the back where we receive deliveries. It is heavy and doesn’t easily move, but it’s not bolted down. If we put the spell there it won’t draw attention." The White Dragon Priestess says helpfully.
"Normally I’d say a lot about fair pricing and not playing favorites, but you should have learned all that during your clergy training. What does your store usually sell?" I ask as Karl turns to look over the shelf intended to receive the spell.
"Mostly groceries, but we’re a general goods store. See there we’ve got paper and school supplies, dishes, canned food, cloth, Chain, rope, nails, a few tools."
It looks like they really do have a bit of everything in here, they just had a display of produce out front because it is the big seller and can be hard to find in town. Karl has started on the spell already, causing repeated flashes of light as he adds products to the layers in the creation spell. He’s really adding a lot of stuff, or it takes multiple casts per item, but twenty minutes later he’s finished and Karl hands over a handwritten list to the shop owners.
The list appears to be a flyer, or product list. The heading reads "Luther’s Merchantile, est’d 1846" and there are no prices, just a list of items. At the bottom are a bunch of vegetables and meat cuts listed in Karl’s own handwriting.