Chief Iromin tapped the table, listening to Sonarot’s words. He was a busy figure within the Iyr, especially after it was revealed that it would be happening so soon, but when it came to Adam, he made the time to listen.

  “Do you thiold you this on purpose?” Iromin asked. What Sonarot had told him was truly eous, but when it came to Adam, Iromin could believe it.

  “I believe Adam is showing his siy in speaking to me first,” Sonarot said. “I do not thirusts himself in a matter like this. The things he thinks about are dangerous, and I believe he knows it.”

  Iromin recalled their versations previously in the year, about the item which could cost a handful of gold. The things it could do would revolutiohe world, but it wasn’t something the Iyr would allow to ehis world.

  Creating a formu to mass produce magical ons was equally as dangerous, in the right hands. However, he had offered it to the Iyr, and it was something which even Iromin’s heart was tempted by.

  ‘Will you tio reveal so many dangerous things, Adam?’ Iromin thought, w how much stress the young Half Elf would bring to him. ‘How many times will you make me think twice about you? You have threatehe Iyr so many times, and now this?’

  Yet, even Iromin knew how beneficial it would be if the Iyr got a hold of all these items. It wasn’t as though they could grab Adam and torture him to reveal all the information he possessed, not since he hew of the Rot family.

  Iromin sipped his drink, before taking a bite of his fried dough snack. “I will call for the Great Elders. Bring him to us.”

  Adam’s eyes gnced between all the Great Elders, noting Shamir taking his pce where ohe previous Elder Wrath sat. “Good evening, Great Elders.” Adam bowed his head.

  There was something about the way Adam spoke and bowed which caused most of the Great Elders disfort.

  This was not how Adam behaved.

  It was only Elder Wrath who did not feel the disfort.

  Adam did not wear his breastpte, and though he wore his ring, he uood that he was pletely defenceless before the Great Elders. Even the new Great Elder would have been able to beat him down without much assistahe silence caused his heart to pound harder, and his body to grow colder.

  “Good evening, Adam,” Iromin finally said, breaking the tension in the air. “I have heard from your Aunt that you had a business proposal for us?”

  “Yeah,” Adam replied, his eyes glued to Iromin’s. Iromin would at least warn him if he was in trouble, Adam assumed. “I mean, yes, Chief.”

  Iromin’s face twitched slightly. He did not like this demure Adam. Though Adam was queer, and sometimes rude, he was still good at heart, and so he fave the Half Elf for any minor, and sometimes major, transgressions.

  “Please, tell us your pn,” Iromin said.

  Adam expined his pn, including all the reasons why he wao do what he eaking of. ‘I should have made a presentation.’

  Elder Wrath was new, and had very few dealings with Adam, so he looked to the reat Elders to judge the situation. They seemed to be listening ily, aaking Adam’s words extremely seriously. It was no doubt they’d take his words seriously, but the way they looked at Adam, it was as though it usible.

  Once Adam was dohere was a long silence. Iromin exged a look with the reat Elders, before nodding his head.

  “We had asked Romaezi to ent the on which Elder Zijin had asked for,” Iromin said. “It worked.”

  “Oh?” Adam said, surprised.

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  “Nice.”

  “It seems that you ent a on and Romaezi finish the entment,” the Chief said.

  “How long did it take?” Adam asked.

  “Eleven days,” the Chief said.

  Adam smirked, but only for a moment. ‘St to kill yourself, idiot.’ Adam blinked repeatedly, trying to get the words to stick within his mind.

  Elder Wrath remained silent, but his face betrayed his surprise. Romaezi had finished an entment someone else had made? Not just that, it had taken such little time? He hadn’t been told of this, for he was still catg up on all the goings on in the Iyr, especially with it happening soon.

  “We are sidering your proposal,” the Chief said. “You wish to create your business, which will train youths to beembers of your business iure. You wish to gain a foothold within the region by the services you offer. You do not wish to make as much money as possible, but rather, to give your people a good life. You will allow the Iyr to design the yout of your buildings, including the secret corridors and safes, and you will give the Iyr preferential treatment?”

  “I will give the knowledge of the safes to Aunt, but everything else is correct,” Adam replied. It was a small, but important, difference.

  Iromin took the o sideration. “You also wish to create a way to ent using formus to mass produce magical ons, which will then be hao the Iyr?”

  “To Aunt,” Adam corrected, once more.

  Iromin fell silent, and the reat Elders also ruminated ohoughts. Elder Wrath wondered what was happening. How could they all take the Half Elf so seriously? This was an impossible request.

  “If the formus you create are trolled by your Aunt, we will take it into sideration,” Iromin said.

  “How do you mean?” Adam asked.

  “You may create as many formus as you please, but it is Sonarot who will choose which of the formus you may use. She will also choose which of the formus which will be passed to the Iyr, including those which she may not allow you to create.”

  Adam narrowed his eyes, but not out of suspi, he was trying to uand what the Chief was saying. “So I give all my formus to Aunt. She will choose which will be given to me for me to mass produce. She will give the Iyr any of the formus, which may also include those I am not allowed to mass produce?”

  “Yes.”

  “What if she doesn’t give either of us a formu?”

  “That is acceptable.”

  “What if she lets me make the formu, but not the Iyr?”

  Iromin paused for thought. “That is acceptable too.”

  Elder Gold and Elder Forest did not react, though they had disagreed with his statement. However, they couldn’t show Adam that they disagreed oopic. Teically, this came uheir jurisdi.

  “Will you allow us to request formus?” Iromin asked.

  “Sure. I nning on making a shield which bsted out thunder, like the ones I made previously,” Adam said, nodding his head.

  “We will not allow such a shield to be mass produced out of the Iyr,” Iromin said. He wondered if it was a ce Adam had mentiohat particur entment, because it was the entment which was to the forefront of his mind.

  “You’re so mea-,” Adam began, before pretending to cough, clearing his throat. “It is a shame, but I uand.”

  Iromin didn’t like the way Adam was behaving o. It made him feel dirty. This was not how he wanted Adam to act.

  “If you are willing to accept the terms id out, the Great Elders will discuss the matter further, and we will inform you once we e to a clusion,” Iromin said. “If you have any ideas about formus you may have in mind, you may speak them, for they may assist in we Great Elders’ decision, for better or for worse.”

  “There was the thundershield, but also a firesword, a fire anything, really. Those were my big ideas, sihe firesword is such a cssitment, but there’s also different kinds of fireswords, too. Those which deal a small amount of fire damage with each swing, or a burst, like…” Adam paused, w if he should mention Phantom. “There are also those which shoot out fire in front, sort of like Burning Hands.”

  Iromin here were teically many types of fireswords as Adam had mentioned, and even more that he had not mentioned.

  “Then maybe I could make some iceswords, or thunderswords, lightning swords, basically all kinds of different elemental swords. Not just swords, of course, all kinds of ons. There are probably better entments out there, but I think those may be the most popur.”

  The Great Elders uood that the ons would be the best selling, as they were also the most numerous among the magical ons.

  “I was thinking about selling different tiers of ons. Those with a basius, which could sell for slightly below the average price since, I think, they’d be the easiest to produce. At the same tier would be those which hold no basius, but held the different abilities, like the fire sword. Theier above would be those which held both entments, of the basius, and the enhanced abilities. Then maybe a greater bonus above that?” Adam wondered. “Greater enhanced ons wouldn’t be mass produced, they’d be ade by myself, though perhaps some basihanced ons would be ade too. The mass produced basihanced ons would be weaker than those which would be ade.”

  It all made seo the Great Elders. They could accept the mass produ of basic ons, and even the ons with different abilities, depending on the ability, and perhaps even the basihanced ons. Mass produg greater enhanced ons was a step too far, so they were gd he had moderated himself.

  “Oh!” Adam said. “I should tell you my story.”

  The Chief raised his eyebrows in arm. Adam was going to tell them all his story? He hadn’t been ready to tell the Great Elders, assuming it would have broken Adam’s trust.

  ‘Are you that desperate, Adam?’

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