Chapter 248: Tea shop


    Before Yunan sent everyone on their way, Hephaestus presented him with a small bit of information. "There is a hidden valley somewhere in the continent, inside it you may find a test made by someone, I discovered that location by ident, there are many rumours about it, one of which is that it''s a dream world where one can find anything they desire. If you look for it then there will be a chance you will finish your quest much earlier than the 3 decades".


    There was a smile on Hephaestus as he left the house, even though he was getting scolded by Luna secretly, she was certain that the ce was sade if Hephaestus was the one to rmend it, but she still feared the bloodline rejection that may tear Yunan into shredded meat if it got out of hand.


    On the other hand, Luna made her decision to stick the night with Yunan and lecture him a bit about the dangers of the world and legacies that stayed sessfully hidden even to this day. That left the girls with the option of making a team meeting from that night to discuss their next moves or worship the lucky artefact Yunan made with the enthusiastic Debauchery.


    As promised, Debauchery became the recipient to an idol in the image of a scantily dressed Fortuna, it had the same lucky aura and ording to Yunan had a bit of the divinity of luck in it. Lady luck was not the only goddess of luck, she was just the main one, and Yunan had gotten his hands on the divinity of a "rabbit foot" when he was dishing punishment to the gods if you remember that time when Morpheus yed dirty.


    In the end, Luna was not the only one who lectured Yunan about the dangers of the outside world, mainly Bai and Leader, it felt like they really did not want Yunan to die. The girls also joined in the lecture making sure their husband would not fall into the woos and wiles of the women out there, he was a catch and they made sure to teach him every single entrapment trick they knew about, extending the end of the party a few more dayster.


    When Yunan left the dungeon through the main entrance he found Martin himself waiting for him outside the checkpoint newly set up by the guild, the two shook hands before heading to a small tea house in a corner manned by an amiable olddy, the kind of ce that would be popr in a small neighborhood, upon stepping inside Yunan got the same feeling he got from the barbershop, a ce where you get served by the will of the owner and money was just to keep the illusion of business.


    When the two took seat and started exchanging mundane words a young female waited upon them, Martin asked for his usual while Yunan asked for anything personally made by the olddy, he was disappointed to hear a firm "no, owner does not serve anyone" so he said "well anything that can lift my mood would be great". Again the waitress had to disappoint him "we do not serve such things, please read the menu and choose a drink from the list" Yunan just randomly pointed at something from the tea list and made it his order.


    Martin was intrigued by Yunan''s way of ordering, it was not the typical way but he also had the feeling of him being wee in the ce with strict conditions, upon asking Yunan he found himself chuckling at the answer. "I visited a barber shop once, it looked like this ce old and decaying but had a certain sense of being forbidden grounds, that shop is where I visit to have fun and not to get a haircut, you should ask Markus to take you, his nuns liked that ce so much i bet they drag him there to have fun".


    "What makes you think that this ce is the same, a ce to have fun and not to drink in peace and quiet?" Asked Martin between chuckles. Yunan just shrugged "I just felt like the olddy at the entrance had the same glint in her eyes as the barber, so I thought perhaps it was the same, well it really is disappointing to have to choose from a menu, I prefer to be served a drink designed personally for me, especially if the ce has this kind of exclusive feeling".


    Before Martin could process the information there was an angry shouting from the doorway "disappointment in my shop? Thrice in one sitting? Who dares offend my customers!" The olddy briskly walked inside the tea house and found Yunan, the very source of dissatisfaction polluting her precious tea house. "What made you feel that way?" sheid a hand on Yunan''s shoulder that felt heavier than the itself, she was strong, unfathomably strong and she was enraged.


    "I asked for anything personally made by you and got rejected, they said you serve no one, when I asked for a drink to uplift my mood they said I have to follow the menu, and the feeling of this ce reminded me of a certain fun shop that made me feel it''s wasted on this funless ce". The old woman had a really beautiful smile on her face "well, well, aren''t you a brave little one, I like you, it has been too long since anyone else told me off in my own shop, I''ll make your mood uplifter if you pay 10 gold coins".


    Martin did a spit take dousing Yunan in some rather minty-fresh tea, 10 gold coins was not even a drop in a bucket when it came to the prices in this ce, even entering the ce cost a few tens of thousands let alone the drinks, and this guy just got to pay such a measly some for getting a drink made by the owner and it was something that was not on the menu, that would usually cost millions if one asked for something not in the menu.


    Yunan took out a pouch full of gold coins " I will pay for ten different mood sses for two" the old woman took the pouch while the staff were getting nervous and fidgeting about, it has been years since the owner got involved and they felt from her stares that they were in for a spanking once she was done, so the closed the shop and hid in the kitchen away from her sight for the moment.