The storm had arrived quickly and it covered the moonlight, so the only way that the three of them could see was whenever the lightning flashed in the sky, yet even from afar Arturia could hear the sounds of music and men loudly laughing as they drank.
Yet as they neared the door both Kazum and Aqua looked at one another and nodded to each other and as if they both pushed the door open and with a loud thump they announced their arrival to everyone inside.
"Alright people the Greate Kazuma and the Goddes aqua have come to trade with you, goods that you will never see again" Kazuma said as he walked in front of Aqua.
"It's hard to carry these things around so we want to get rid of them" Aqua followed
All of them and the whores looked at the two before they went right back t doing what they were doing before the three of them arrived.
"We don't want your junk so leave" the owner of the bar said to them and Kazuma reached into his sack and threw a ring at the man
"What if I told you that these are things we took from elves," Kazuma said to the man with a low voice as he neared the man, the man opened his hand and his expression said everything
With wide eyes and a light gasp, the man said "No man can make something like this" and the entire room fell silent
"How the elves left these lands years ago" the man added
"And they are gone, we found the last of their things, but its too much trouble to carry all of this, so who wants to trade" Kazuma said to everyone in the bar
No one said anything
"A drink for a ring, a horse for a bunch of things, and a cart for even more things," Aqua said to everyone, her smile was wide and as she loudly placed her sac in front of her she looked at everyone in the room
"Why would you trade something so valuable for such things?" a man said to the two
"These things bring unwanted attention, it's better to get rid of them," Arturia said to the man she kept her voice under control and despite not having her companions bright smiles her words seemed to affect the men in the room
"Get these three a drink!" a man loudly said as he placed three coppers on the table and Kazuma threw the man three rings, the moment the drinks were placed in front of them
Aqua and Kazuma looked at each other and Arturia watched as everyone in the room widened their eyes in disbelief, cups made with gold, silver plates with flower designs.
Rings and necklaces made with all kinds of gems
"Six silvers for the plates and cups!" a man loudly yelled before he fell spilling his drink on himself.
"First the silver" Kazuma answered the man
"I have a horse if you want it but it doesn't answer me, I'll trade if for the necklaces and the rings," a man with a feathered hat said
Aqua walked up to the man and placed a hand full of rings in front of him before placing another handful of necklaces in front of him immediately after
Arturia watched as the things they had collected started to vanish and the people inside the bar began to get louder and louder as they tried to get their hands on what remained of the loot and by the end of the night they had traded everything.
Arturia watched as Kazuma flung a gold coin in the air and looked at both the new horse and semy new cart they had gained during the night.
He caught the coin before it fell on the ground and inside the cart, there were two barrels of ale, four buckets of vegetables and two buckets filled with fruit, and a barrel filled with water.
"I think I can put a ceiling on this thing and call it a wagon," Kazuma said as he looked at the cart, his smile never left his face
The sun had fully risen now and Arturia began to tie the cart onto the horse securing it so that it wouldn't separate for any reason, Kazuma and Aqua hurriedly got on, and neither of them had any attachment to the town and once again they were on their way
Or at least that is what Arturia would have said if it wasn't because Aqua jumped off the cart and ran up to a beggar lying on the ground gasping for air
"Heal," Aqua said before the woman began to cough uncontrollably and vomit out some sort of black slime.
The woman was filthy, her hair was unkempt and cover with mud, and had it not been for the rags she wore, the woman would have been completely naked.
Arturia couldn't help but feel a sense of familiarity as she looked at the woman and then it hit her, she took out a cup filled with water and threw it on to the woman's face and used her hand to wipe away all of the mud.
Arturia couldn't believe her eyes, soft cream-colored skin, with bright green eyes and short gold hair that once was long.
This beggar, was\ is no beggar, she is or was Nero the Emperor or Empress of Rome
"Not again" Arturia heard Kazuma say in a low voice
"Let me guess, you want to bring her with us?" Kazuma asked Arturia, and despite wanting to help her Arturia knew that problems would only occur if they stayed with the former Emperor \ Empress
"She's like us," Aqua said to Kazuuma before Arturia could answer, and the girl was already taking Nero by the legs and Kazuma hesitantly began to help her carry the Empress to the cart.
So once again they were on their way, unbeknownst to any of them, word had already begun to spread within the town about the three strangers that had raided an Elven town and brought with them things that the Elves had left behind.
Most people dismiss those words as the talk of drunks and people with wild imaginations, until three days later when word reached the town about a small village that had sold several trinkets for seeds and food.
And so men and boys set out to find this mysterious land where the treasures of the elves could be found.