"Now that you know, can we come to the important business?" Leana said a little annoyed. Seth had categorically avoided them and any kind of responsibility for the past two weeks, as he was either traveling with Mina and Fin or hiding with them playing.

  “Rayki and Luf are waiting in a valley close to Delta.”

  “Who?” slipped from Seth's lips before he remembered Rayki, one of the Faer that decided to leave and take care of business from when they were alive. The blacksmith dimly remembered that he had appeared to help Tearlach and Uno

  “They are the-” “Yeah, yeah, I know, I remembered the moment I asked.”

  “They have been waiting for a few days already,” she reminded him.

  “Okay, I will go and meet them tomorrow. What else?” He readily agreed to visit them. He remembered that he promised to meet them if they got to Delta since he didn't want to get close to the two horned ones.

  “Neeco Boos wanted to see you, he said he made a revolutionary breakthrough or something.”

  “I see..., guess I will look for him after this,” Seth agreed with a note. Not everyone took a two-week vacation. It looked like the master tailor had been doing his own project.

  “Mike had something he wanted to tell us. Mike?” Mary gave him the word.

  “I was given a quest by Maahes, to create the special material for my new armor and weapon,” the cat boy announced. Hearing that Maahes was giving him materials, Seth pricked his ears.

  “You are getting special materials from Maahes?” the blacksmith asked interested.

  “Not directly. I have to get something called from the perpetual storm in the southwest of the central range. Maahes can't just give me that many materials, but he can bless the to create enough metal for my armor and weapon.”

  “?” Seth asked, surprised. “Did anybody hear of that beforehand? Why didn't I know there was such a material in circulation?”

  “I knew you would ask that. When Mike informed me, we ran a small investigation. Seems like someone was secretly mining it as a byproduct of trying to cross the storm. However, the company doing it went bankrupt when all contact with their base camp close to the storm broke off.

  We also tried to look into the place where they tried to cross the storm, but all our informants got were weird rumors of monsters in the storm that killed anyone coming close to the raging winds.

  Before you ask us to get all the still on the market, I tried. All the mined until then was processed by blacksmiths and became unusable,” Mary gave a short summary of the result of their investigation.

  “Once it’s processed it becomes illegible for the blessing of Maahes,” Mike added readily, choking off Seth’s next question. It seemed like there was no other way than to send someone there to have a look at the situation.

  “So, your quest is to go there and mine the ore yourself?” Seth concluded.

  “Do you have to do it alone, or can you bring someone along?” the blacksmith asked after the beastman nodded. Mike currently only had Oathguard Standard equipment, except for his legendary helmet and accessories.

  “I have to go alone, but I also have a sample of Neeco’s new suit to wear under the epic armor,” Mike added.

  “... new “suit”? Don’t tell me he went back to his old ways and the new thing he made is a superhero suit?” Seth asked threateningly.

  “No! No, it isn’t, it is called a power suit and specifically meant to be worn UNDER the armor as padding,” Alison suddenly spoke up, putting special emphasis on the fact that the suit was not meant to be worn alone, like the spandex pajamas Neeco used to make. Seth squinted at her.

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  “Fine, I will decide after seeing it. As for you, Mike, you aren’t leaving before I at least give you a proper temporary weapon and you should ask Bulko for the frost resistance armor. You will need it more and I don’t want to rush to make a second one when you are getting a new armor anyway.”

  “Alright.”

  There were a few other more broad points they talked about, which could be summed up as Urth not knowing when to take a break. However, none of the topics needed there, or Seth’s immediate attention.

  “If there is nothing else, I think should go and take a look at my lost child and the woman he brought back;” he joked and concluded the meeting.

  “Here, let me mark their position on your