I Was The Hero, But I Woke Up as a Phoenix Princess! – Chapter 97

Chapter 97 Chapter 15 Shopping (1/66)
The Adventurer’s Guild in Rubiel City was not hard to find. In a short while, Verafia, dragging Ig, found the building with the symbolic sword and shield crest.
As an organization jointly established across the continent, Verafia could deliver the requests she accepted at other guilds here.
After delivering the B-rank quest to defeat the Wind Demon Wolf, as well as selling the Wind Demon Wolf’s magic crystal and materials, Verafia received more than 300 Bright Silver Coins at the Adventurer’s Guild.
Adding her own assets and Baron Yuwen’s gift from yesterday, the young lady had nearly 50 Kingdom Gold Coins in her hand.
Although it seemed like a drop in the bucket compared to Ig’s debt of over a thousand gold coins, Young Lady Verafia finally had some spare money to enjoy herself!
Looking at the shiny coins in her hand, Verafia’s face lit up with joy, and she turned her eager little face towards the boy beside her.
“Ig! Where do you think we should go to have fun!”
“How about, Young Lady, we just wander around Rubiel City at random?”
Ig smiled awkwardly.
Fortunately, Verafia was not unreasonable or spoiled and willful. After thinking about Ig’s suggestion, the girl nodded in agreement.
Although it was still morning, as an important component of the city’s economy, Rubiel City’s Commercial Hub was quite prosperous. Merchants with golden threads opened numerous shops here, selling clothes, weapons, accessories, weapon materials, and even many alchemy and magic potion shops.
Verafia looked around with great interest. The girl’s toes lightly touched the ground, and the flowing red skirt around her delicate body fluttered like a lively fiery red butterfly.
Such a beautiful and luxurious girl naturally attracted many fiery gazes and discussions from onlookers. However, Young Lady Verafia seemed to be in a good mood today, so she naturally wouldn’t bother with them.
Verafia weaved through the crowd, raising her fair little face and looking around.
However, unlike the relaxed and happy expression on her little face, the pupils hidden beneath her slightly blinking long eyelashes, which were covered in a brilliant golden color, showed a hint of confusion.
Verafia’s choice to come to Rubiel City was certainly not for the reason she had told Ig before… Half a month ago, when she found the blood-patterned stone on the three bandits on the outskirts of Vist City, Verafia had already noted down the name of this unfamiliar city in her heart.
And in the past few days, both Duke Dawn, whom she had only heard of, and the Bloodwind Blade, whom she had glimpsed and subsequently fought personally, proved that her guess was not wrong.
Her wandering around Rubiel City with Ig today was just a pretense of shopping, as she wanted to find other traces.
Verafia felt a bit discouraged.
After nearly half a day, Verafia had found nothing. If it weren’t for the slender shadow that had been quietly following her, the girl would have almost suspected she was wrong.
“But, the clues…”
Verafia murmured softly, then glanced at Ig beside her again, wondering if she could use his Eye of Insight.
But the thought had barely surfaced before the girl shook her head and rejected it.
Let alone whether it would have any effect, any person related to that person, in Verafia’s opinion, was at least at the same level as Duke Dawn, or even Lancaster.
Given Ig’s current level, not only would it alert the enemy, but even if he could touch the spiritual traces of those people, with their level, a slight fluctuation of their spirit might be enough to choke this little Bronze to death.
Ig, struggling to carry the heavy bags behind her, obviously noticed the girl’s sudden glance at him and quickly asked,
“Young Lady, what’s wrong?”
“Ah, nothing. Ig, look quickly, the fruit at that shop looks delicious!”
The girl pointed with her jade-like fair fingers to a snack shop on the side of the street. A rather flirtatious expression, befitting her identity, appeared on her delicate jade face as she looked up at the boy.
Ig followed the direction the girl was pointing, then looked at her bright, sparkling big eyes and chuckled.
“Young Lady, this should be the Jade Berries from the Elf Forest. They taste sweet and crisp. They were also very popular among many nobles in Peka in the past. I’ve also eaten them many times at family banquets when I was a child. But as the elves became more reclusive, they became less common.”
Ig explained with a smile as the girl pulled him along.
“As for the sugar coating on the outside, it’s probably made by melting frosting and then solidifying it. This seems to be a pretty popular method recently. What, Young Lady, do you want to try some?”
“Mmm-hmm!”
The girl nodded her little head vigorously, then pulled him to the front of the shop.
The shop not only had the verdant berries that the girl had spotted earlier, but also more exquisite pastries and biscuits that were fluffy from baking. The moment she got close, Verafia felt the sweet aroma, and her big eyes lit up with a gleam.
Although the dessert shop was doing good business, with quite a few children and young girls buying things, a shop attendant quickly came forward when she saw Verafia approaching.
“Beautiful lady, what would you like?”
“Mmm, I want this!”
Verafia’s slender fingers pointed to the verdant fruit she had spotted earlier.
“Is it the Emerald Jade Berry? Miss, one will cost three silver coins.”
“Three silver coins… Why is it so expensive?”
Ig frowned slightly and asked.
As far as he knew, although the Jade Berries from the Elf Forest were tasty, unless they were deliberately watered with the Water of Life, they contained little demonic power or life energy. Calculating them by the silver coin per piece was obviously a very expensive price.
The shop attendant was used to such questions and explained with a slight bow.
“After all, the trade route between the Kingdom and the Elf Forest has been cut off for many years. The only place to communicate with the elves is in the Mountain Kingdom of the dwarves.”
“From the Mountain Kingdom to Peka, most merchants used to choose the sea routes of the Stormy Inner Sea. But recently, most of the sea routes in the inner sea have been blocked by the dark elf fleet, so they have to take a long detour through the Empire. Not only has the customs duty increased, but the transportation cost has also increased several times.”
Hearing the explanation, Ig nodded in understanding.
Verafia naturally didn’t care. A few silver coins were not enough to stop her pursuit of sweets, so she took out a few silver coins. Then she suddenly thought that it might be a bit embarrassing to eat alone, so she took out a few more.
“I want two… Um, and get one for this guy!”