Location- Sky Blossom City, Guild Association Mall, Warehouse no.234.
"Aba, for the last time, I will not join your mercenary group, stop wasting your breath and vacate my property, you two!" I yelled at Aba and Agatha, not only were they wasting my time but also indirectly called me a liar. I know Aba was jealous of my achievements but girl I had no time to deal with this.
"Wow! Is this how you treat your potential client? Maybe I should leave a one-star review to your online card boutique." Aba spoke exaggeratedly.
Seeing how I was showing zero interest in joining her Mercenary group Aba decided to wear me down with constant offers but to do that she needed time. Therefore to buy the time she needed she decided to continue with the story she used to contact me at the start.
"You already gave a one-star review to my online shop, prior to our conversation remember!" I reminded Aba in annoyance.
"So, what? I will ask Agatha here to leave a one-star review. And ask each one of the mercenary group members to spam your online shop review section with one-star reviews. So, good luck at getting any customer with so many bad reviews." Aba scoffed as she said these words.
"Are you threatening me with a grimoire network war?" I asked Aba, staring into her eyes.
"What?" Aba didn't understand what grimoire network war meant. Yet she continued, "I am not threatening you, I am letting you know the consequences of pissing off a customer. That is all."
"You do that. And while you are busy with that I will post these pictures of you posing in your cow costume on your high school forum. You learn to live past that." If Aba wanted a grimoire network war she got one. I have my super brain card locked and loaded.
"You said you deleted those pictures!" Aba yelled in disbelief.
"I deleted the bunny pictures. These are the recent ones. That I took right now." I don't know why Aba was still wearing the cow costume but it worked out for me.
"Fine! You win. But I do require assistance with the creation of a mutated slime summon origin card. This project is yours should you choose to accept it." Aba gave up threatening me with bad reviews and stuck to the part of the plan where she becomes my client.
"I will but considering the difficulty you put me through, my service fee will increase by 20 percent." I always welcomed the creation of an origin card open-handed but I did demand a 20% hike in my service charge.
"So, who is my client?" I asked Ada, and I ruled out her as a client because demigod Windsor could afford diamond-grade card creations for his daughter.
"One of my mercenary group members. His fated ingredient is a slime core. He needs an expert's help with his origin card creation." Aba narrated.
"Okay, so go, get the client for me to get started with origin card creation right away," I asked Aba to get the client so that I could start the creation of the mutated slime summon origin card.
"I want to, but somebody here is stopping us from doing so," Aba said while giving Anna the stink eye. Obviously, she was referring to Anna locking the surrounding space. Stopping her, Agatha, and everyone in the city from using teleportation cards.
"Don't look at me. That is not happening. I will not unlock the surrounding space until your father pays the ransom." Anna had reason to lock the surrounding space. That was to have Aba and Agatha stranded in the Sky blossom city until their ransom is paid by the demigod Windsor.
"..." I couldn't argue with Anna because she was trying to make some money. Though her ways were quite questionable.
"Anna, l will stay, let Agatha go and fetch the mercenary member. That should work, right?" Aba suggested.
"Nope, I don't think so. Honestly, I don't think demigod Windsor will pay me enough ransom just for you. I don't blame him, if I had a prodigal daughter like you I wouldn't either. So I need Agatha here to sweeten the deal." Anna was purposefully being unreasonable.
"You are the prodigal daughter whoring around the world. How dare you call me names? My father will pay the ransom so let Agatha go and fetch the mercenary, you big cow." Aba snapped, forgetting the punishment she faced earlier. As the demigod's daughter, arrogance and pride were ingrained in her bones. Aba made such rash judgment because somewhere deep down even she felt that her father would be better off without a daughter like her. Anna touched her hidden fears with her words.
"Little cow, you didn't learn from your mistakes, did you? It seems you need more training." Anna announced with a sadistic smile. The smile on her face sent a shiver down Aba's spine and her legs couldn't help but tremble.
"You three figure it out. While I attend this call." Receiving a call notification from my grimoire I left Anna, Aba, and Agatha to discuss how they were going to answer the situation they were in.
[Rami Kaga calling…Answer/decline/ignore/reply/]
"Answer" walking away from the trio I answered Rami's call, "What is it Rami?"
"Master Wyatt, good news. I had my people dispatched throughout the city in search of core Circle members like you asked and they were able to find a person who fits your demands." Rami hurriedly answered.
"Great," I praised and asked, " who is the target, and what is their position in the circle?
"Master Wyatt, the target is named Roy Blanc, he is a big fish. His father is a core member of the circle and he is the new representative of the inner Circle. All in all, he has high-level security clearance in the circle. He is in town to meet his girlfriend."