Allowing Costogolomo to catch up with Hyneward who were old friends, Elena's group left the reception room and went out. Costogolomo transformed into his small form so the problem regarding his massive form was solved. Duke Moronto had already asked if Costogolomo was still willing to work for the Moronto family or not and his answer was a yes. So Karl was also very happy.

As this matter was now over, everyone would finally be able to enjoy the festive city to their heart's content. So immediately the ladies did not waste any time going out to visit the city.

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Even though there were still a few days left before the start of the official start of the festival, the city was already bustling with crowds. It had not been too long since the ladies had entered the city, but in that short duration of time, many more new people had appeared here.

As this festival was famous throughout the whole continent, many tourists had come to visit it. From the duke Elena came to know that, the famous magic academy of this city was also going to hold their annual seminar just a few days after the festival. So many scholars were also coming to the city who were planning to participate in the annual seminar.

That was the reason why the city had so many people now. But this was actually a good thing. After seeing that many people had already appeared, all the shops which were supposed to open a few days later were already open for business.

Seeing this everyone was excited and they started to check what these shops were selling. Most of them were selling souvenirs which were not bad but the ladies were expecting something else more spectacular as this place was also called the city of magic.

After searching around for some time, the ladies were finally able to find a shop which was selling magic items. These magic items were actually toys and had a very simple structure. But the work done on them was exquisite and it was definitely done by an expert magic craftsman.

Anna really liked these toys so Leshia was just about to buy them for her. But Turin stopped her and took out his own money to gift Anna these toys. When Turin came here he had zero money. And he had not even tried to earn any afterward. So this money that he took out was actually his pocket money that Elena had given him. Seeing Turin proudly spending that pocket money to buy his sweetheart a gift, all the ladies could not help but to have a warm feeling in their heart and chuckled a little bit.

Grace was extremely interested in the intricate work of these magic items and asked the owner of the shop about the creator. As this person was seeking his items here in such a remote location, he must not be too famous. But as his work was very exquisite, he must have a high talent or skill. So Grace was thinking that if she could convince this person to join the Utreyana family, then that would be very good. That was why she was so eager to know more about the creator of this place.

But the answer that the shopkeeper gave was disappointing. The creator of this item was actually a famous professor from the academy. He was not interested in earning money so he did not book any prominent spot to sell these. All the toys here were actually something that he had created for fun in his free time. So even if he did not earn anything from selling them, he would not worry too much about it.

After knowing that the creator was an already famous person, Grace knew that she would not be able to convince him to join the Utreyana family anymore. So they did not stay too long in his shop and after Elena also bought a few of these toys, they all started to walk around the city again to find something interesting.

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After some time, all the ladies came across a fortune telling shop. It was not like this was the only fortune telling shop that they had seen so far but there was a reason that the other shops had not attracted their attention but this shop did.

The reason for that was because this shop was radiating a lot of mana. It was at least equivalent to the mana of a top B ranker or it might even be an A rank. Even though Elena's group had quite a few A rank powerhouses but in reality they were all extremely rare and famous. So for an A ranker to open a fortune telling shop was bizarre to say the least.

Getting interested everyone entered it. The interior of the small shop was exactly similar to any other run of the mill fortune telling shop. But the man who was sitting in the main chair as a fortune teller was definitely not simple. He was an A ranker but currently he was badly injured. Any other A rank powerhouse would be able to easily kill him now.

But his method to disguise himself as a perfectly healthy person was very good. So Kaya and Leshia were completely unable to feel that anything was wrong. Tomoe did feel that something was going wrong here but she was unsure about what was actually wrong.

Elena had no reason to pry into why this person was trying to hide here. So she did not say anything and just allowed the ladies to do whatever they wanted. As for the fortune taller, he was overjoyed after seeing so many A rank powerhouses coming here. Obviously he had his own reason for releasing his mana like this. He wanted to attract the attention of some A rankers. As for why, that was something only he knew about.

But the ladies only came here to see what a supposed A ranker was doing here and they had nothing to ask him. Fortune telling was not really something that a mortal was capable of doing as it was the supreme goddess of fate who controlled it. So basically all the fortune telling was like a fun fun game of luck that some people enjoyed doing.

After thinking about it for some time, all the ladies and Turin decided to play the game once to check it out. So they just needed to pull out a card from the box and depending on the colour of the card, the fortune teller would swing a magic item for a certain number of times. That would randomly generate a number between 1 to 9 and getting a low score would be equivalent to having great luck. The people who would be able to score 3 or lower in this game would get a special prize from the fortune taller.

All the ladies did not ask the man about his identity and just paid him. Then they all tried their luck out. Elena and Anna were able to get 1 which was quite amazing. Tomoe got a 2 and Grace got a 3. All the other ladies did not get a score which was below 3. Then all the winners took their prizes and left this shop.

Anna was very excited to win a big prize and she immediately opened it after coming out. Inside the box that she was given, there was a large golden bell that looked quite beautiful. But that was not the only thing which was here and there was also a letter inside the box.

Now what was this letter doing with the prize ?

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