Dream Sea Coast.
Recently, the peaceful coast had seen an influx of people.
These people set up camps around the area and were busy collecting various kinds of shells day and night.
Initially, they were worried about the Dragon Clan living along the coast, but after having been there for so long without any encounters, they ran into people from different places instead. Gradually, they stopped worrying and focused entirely on harvesting shells.
After all, everyone standing there knew one thing, that these shells were money.
Besides the quantity they harvested, they were themselves hired for a high price.
"I really don't know what these shells are used for? Why do so many nobles need them?"
"Anyway, they are pretty valuable; otherwise, they wouldn't spend so much to hire us."
"But I've never heard of it before!"
"Maybe they didn't discover its uses before, and now they have."
"The nobles are paying us such a high price to harvest them; if we were to sell them ourselves..."