The Vastness of Magical Destiny

The astute Finitz immediately understood the situation, in this group, the main players were surely Komer who had brought her back, and the two silent women standing there. While she handed the Ironwood Knife to Burianos, she bashfully approached Eve and stopped in front of her, "Is this Sister Eve? Finitz is not very sensible, and I must ask Sister Eve to be patient with me. Your skin is really smooth, unmatched even by the Swamp Elves of our Elf Clan. This is a Water Spirit Crystal given to me by the Swamp Elves; it is said that keeping it close to one’s body can maintain the skin’s moisture. If Sister Eve could wear it, surely you would remain eternally youthful."

Eve saw the oval crystal held in the hands of the elf girl, glinting and shimmering with multicolored light, even indoors, which cast the girl’s pale pink palms in an extraordinarily dazzling light. Eve didn’t know whether she should accept this apparently expensive gift.

She didn’t quite like this overly sweet-talking girl, and of course, she didn’t know that these words had been specifically taught to the elf girl by Komer on their way here. But catching Komer’s approving gaze, Eve hesitated; it would be a lie to say that the Water Spirit Crystal had no appeal to a girl who loved beauty, but accepting such a gift from someone else would probably mean accepting the person as well, and yet the hostility in Grace’s eyes was obvious. Eve didn’t want to upset her relationship with Grace over this.

"Eve, accept it, this is also a token of Finitz’s sincerity," Komer, realizing Eve’s hesitation, stepped in to smoothen things over. Indeed, Grace shifted her gaze away from Eve with an unhappy huff.

After Eve thanked Finitz and accepted the Water Spirit Crystal, Finitz, with a sweet smile, approached Grace, "You must be Sister Grace. I heard from Brother Komer on the way here that Sister Grace has the best figure. If I could have just half of your figure, I bet I’d wake up laughing from my sleep. Sister Grace, can you teach me how to get a figure as fabulous as yours? Oh, and I heard from Brother Komer that Sister Grace has the strongest swordsmanship and the fastest flight magic. This is a Kapok Cloak woven from the silk vines of the unique kapok trees in the great forest; it can not only enhance the effects of flight magic but also resist Fire Magic. I think Sister Grace is the perfect fit for this cloak. Could you honor me by accepting this gift from Finitz?"

Komer had to admit that this elf girl’s comprehension skills were extraordinarily strong. He merely introduced the preferences, personalities, and tempers of each member of his little group during the trip, and the girl immediately asked him to figure out how to make the other companions accept her.

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Of course, the gifts had been selected by Komer; aside from the Water Spirit Crystal and the Ironwood Knife, which were the girl’s, the Kapok Cloak was bought from a magic equipment shop near the Morsonas Monument District for three thousand gold shields. Additionally, the gifts for Havier and Bayezid were costly purchases from Komer, but he had to pretend they were generous offerings from Finitz, unrelated to him.

Grace really wanted to refuse the gift, but under Komer’s gaze filled with a special meaning, and the fact that the cloak indeed had a strong appeal for her as a speed-pride assassin, she reluctantly accepted the white cloak delivered into her hands after several changes in her expression.