Chapter 35
Companionship.
"Please, eat comfortably! This is all just my gesture of goodwill in return for hearing your story!"
Aurelius shouted heartily as he reached out with his golden hand and grabbed the nearest meat, chewing it with gusto—bones and all.
Though the Goldkin (金人族) looked like creatures that should be consuming petroleum or coal, contrary to appearances, they could taste like normal sentient beings and thoroughly enjoyed cooked food. In fact, their range of consumable materials was even broader than that of ordinary creatures.
The food chewed by the Goldkin was converted inside their bodies into energy to power their metallic forms, and a portion of it was absorbed into their "core." This core, as it absorbed more energy, would gradually grow in size.
And the larger the core became, the more metal a Goldkin could manipulate.
A race that grows stronger with rare metals and time—meaning money and patience.
That was the Goldkin.
I picked up a piece of food from in front of me and put it in my mouth as I quietly observed Aurelius.
Was he someone I could trust? Goldkin were known for being pure-hearted when it came to rare metals, but in all other matters, they were usually like snakes.
Well, expecting purity from merchants in the first place was probably a mistake on the part of the one expecting.