Chapter 2830 - 1341: Toadtail Alley

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Academy City, Outer Ring District, Toad Tail Alley

After opening an account at the Gold Coin Commerce Association with Showering Snow Sword and transferring his limited amount of gold coins to the other party, Motan parted ways with the former and strolled into this lively dim alley located in the western part of the Outer Ring District.

This kind of place is usually referred to as ’Black Street’ by industry insiders, a standard feature of most medium to large population gathering places, belonging to a gray area that borders black and white and may lean more towards black.

In rural backwaters like Stacked Rock City, the function of ’Black Street’ is mainly replaced by the Thief Guild; a neutral large population gathering place like Anka Market has a whole two blocks of ’Black Street’, and its scale is not insignificant; as for places like the City of Freedom... well, there is no so-called Black Street, but the city itself is a super-sized ’Black Street’.

In conclusion, every place must have some gray domains where filth can be hidden away, not even the Miracle City or the City of Light at the center of the Holy Church Union can escape this tradition.

And Academy City is naturally no exception. In fact, some Channeling colleges (mainly teaching knowledge about the domain of Necromancers) or Magician professional teachers and students often visit here, and although Toad Tail Alley is not large in scale, it can be considered fully equipped with everything needed and can satisfy most people’s needs.

"Wow, there really are quite a few good things here."

Motan curiously looked at the withered hand holding three candles behind the window display, chuckling as he spoke to the man and woman standing respectfully behind him: "An evil alchemy creation that only provides illumination for the holder, not bad, not bad. If I hadn’t given almost all my money to our Spade A, I might have impulsively splurged already."

Cole immediately took out his wallet: "Sir, I still have some of what you gave me earlier..."

"The activity fund I gave you earlier, I know."

Motan raised his hand to stop Cole, who was about to rush into the store, lazily saying: "But this fund’s scope doesn’t include doing such things, honestly pal, don’t you think it’s a little strange to use the money I gave you to curry favor with me?"

Cole awkwardly lowered his hand holding the wallet, laughed sheepishly, and nodded: "You’re right."

"Remember, your admiration for me shouldn’t come first, my orders to you should. Of course, I’m very touched that you have such a sentiment, but being touched cannot serve as food, nor can it bring Rona Moonlight back to life, so what you need to earn from me isn’t being touched, it’s merit."

Motan glanced at Cole, casually comforting him, then suddenly grabbed the hand of the other person next to Cole excitedly, pointing at the alchemy creation behind the window: "I want that!"

"No."

Blood Seeker maid Lijie Te · Xueyi, with her fluffy silver hair, combining a cool and lazy tone and blood-red eyes, shook her head and said flatly: "Liz thinks the master doesn’t want it."

Motan shook Liz’s arm forcefully, acting spoiled: "I really~~~ want it!!"

"Oh."

Liz nodded slightly, then shook off Motan’s paw, rubbed her hand on the apron of her maid outfit with her eyebrows slightly furrowed, and said nonchalantly: "Then want it."

Motan circled behind Liz, flattering her with a shoulder rub, whining pitifully: "But I don’t have any money right now..."

Considering Motan’s excellent massage technique on shoulders, coupled with Liz’s impressive chest size indeed causing some burden on her shoulders, she didn’t swat his hands away this time but instead enjoyed closing her eyes, saying in a relatively gentle tone: "Then go make money."

"I am making money! I’ve been working really hard to make money!"

Motan muttered out of frustration, resting his chin on Liz’s slender shoulder, saying persuasively: "It’s just that the capital chain broke. I didn’t expect Showering Snow Sword to not regard himself as an outsider at all. On the first day of joining, he first rolled away my last bit of resources..."

Liz gave Motan an annoyed sideways glance, saying lightly: "It wasn’t Liz who rolled the money away, don’t talk to Liz."

"But as soon as I negotiate things over there and the contract is signed, I’ll immediately have money!"

Motan shamelessly coaxed and cajoled Liz while kneading her shoulders, whining: "At that time, how about I give you double the pocket money?"

Liz nodded without hesitation and replied crisply: "Okay~"

"Mm-hmm, then it’s settled."

Motan happily clapped his hands, striking while the iron is hot: "Then I want..."

"Want it."

Liz did indeed seal her master’s words in advance without any hesitation, saying righteously: "The pocket money Master gives Liz is Liz’s money, and it’s not related to Master anymore."

Motan was immediately furious, his face very gloomy as he shouted and questioned: "Last time I’ll ask, will you buy it or not!"

"I won’t."

Liz answered without a second thought, without a shred of hesitation, and also glared fiercely at Motan, swatting away his gradually mischievous but already unable to be more mischievous claws under system limitations.

"Tsk... if you’re not buying, then you’re not buying."

Motan pouted, angrily leaving the window display, while kicking a small stone on the road, muttering quietly: "Why so fierce."