Chapter 798 798 Open Markets

Chapter 798 798 Open Markets

It was five in the morning when a sense of danger pulled Wolfe awake, and he instinctively brought up a basic armour spell, half a second before a pair of fingers grabbed his ear and tugged.

"I'm up. Did you rest well enough? Surely, another hour or two wouldn't hurt." He asked while Cassie glared at him.

"Yes it would. We've got to get all this currency moved out before the shops open for the morning. The breakfast stalls will be preparing to open in under an hour, and they will need money to do business." Cassie informed him.

"Alright, I'm up. Let's go see the bunnies." Wolfe agreed.

"Why do you assume we're going to see the bunnies?" Ella asked sleepily.

"Who else is up at the crack of dawn and cheerful enough to work retail without murdering someone? Of course, the bunnies are on morning shift. Even in the dining room, most of the breakfast servers are bunnies or witches who worked the overnight shift and just want the morning rush out of the way before they go home." Wolfe replied.

It was fairly obvious, at least to him, but it looked like neither of them had actually noticed the preponderance of the two groups among the morning crowd.

The stores had been notified yesterday to meet here first thing this morning, so it wasn't just the morning shift workers, it was also a lot of the managers who normally worked afternoons and were very bedraggled as they came to convert the store funds to the new coins before they started the day.

Not much of it would actually go to coins, as it was easier to have Wolfe extract the mana from the crystals and directly transfer it to the cards. Some coins would still be passed out, but the general atmosphere was eager to try out the new payment method.

The stores had come up with a foolproof method for making payments. They had asked for one extra card to keep at the register. Then they would use it for transactions, so it would only show the amount paid, which they would transfer to the store card afterwards.

"But I need this bag full of coins. They're pretty." She explained.

She likely still had all the empty crystals at her house somewhere, decorating the walls and embedded into charms and talismans.

Cassie smiled as she dipped the bag into the one unit coins and then handed it back to Wolfe.

"Two hundred and five units in coins, and the rest is on the cube." Wolfe announced as he made a fresh cube for her.

"Are cubes not money?" She asked, not really familiar with civilization or any of its trappings.

"No, it just stores money. The mana with my aura signature is the money, and when the mana is taken out of the coins, they become worthless. But you can bring them back to me and I will make sure that the crystal of the coins isn't wasted."

The Fae creature nodded happily, but Wolfe got the feeling that there would be no empty coins coming back from her. Whether they came to her empty or full, she wanted the crystal as a decoration.

It was actually quite shocking to see her here in town at all. The Bog Witches were normally feral Dark Fae, and very difficult to deal with unless you had something they wanted.

She took two steps, then seemed to melt into the grass before vanishing.

"Alright, next." Wolfe called, keeping the line moving.