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After Skylar went through three to four more designs that are roughly similar to one another, he passed madame Juli the tablet.
"Those beggars kids; the clothes they wore.. what Tier is it?" He asked as he watched madam Juli leaned forward and returned the tablet to the floating table.
After madam Juli straightened herself, she turned to him and replied, "Lord player, they are tireless clothes. Although they may look fanciful... they are very cheap... their fabrics are ordinary Tier zero fabrics—they have not been enchanted. And clothes like that will only survive inside the safe zones; outside, where everything to even rays of light is hostile, they won't last long. So they are for poor users won't can't afford clothes made from enchanted fabrics."
"I see." Skylar nodded his head, smiling.
"So, what about clothes made of enchanted fabrics, but are not enchanted? What Tier are they?" He glanced briefly at Madame Juli black kaftan dress that manage to illustrate her massive assets, despite being large in size.
"Lord player, they are Tier zero clothes, we also call them unenchanted clothes. And they are the only Tier of clothes we users can wear, except for rare users that can grow and evolve like players, who will then later wear clothes of higher Tiers when their level increase..." Madame Juli replied.
When she was done, she moved closer to Skylar who fixed his gaze on her massive bust region as she approached. Then with Skylar wondering what she is up to, she holds and starts feeling a part of his cloak that barely covered the left side of his dark bronze chest covered in a white flame-pattern tattoo.
"Lord player, what Tier is your robe? It looks ordinary." She raised her head to look at Skylar, and as her eyes caught his green eyes in the process, she stood stunned as she watched his peerless face from close proximity.
"I don't know. I've never had a reason to know." Skylar shrugged as he answered. He then playfully pinched her nose, making her regain her composure.
"So, where is the mask." He smiled at her whilst gently poking her chubby cheek.
Madame Juli caught of guard by his action, blushed furiously, then realizing her embarrassed state, she turned around and bolted away with the outline of her back sway disernible on her oversized dress.
She was definitely one of those innocent and playful young girl that had someone guide them closely as they grow. I am certain if not for the attention and care she was given, she would have been a wild and lawless woman instead of a proud mother...
With thoughts on his mind and a smile on his face after turning around, Skylar starts rubbing his sculpted square chin as he watched madame Juli entered a room behind a chameleon glass door that seamlessly fits with the chameleon glass wall of where it opened.
He turned around again and sets his eyes on the sleeping beauty venus dimples on her back.
She is like a copy of her mother from behind...
Meanwhile as he appreciate the incredible beauty of the sleeping beauty—Remi, madame Juli's daughter—he sent Starboy who is about forty meters away a voice transmission.
["Abbas, how many seconds do we have left until the ship takes off?"]
["Big bro, we still have enough time. It usually takes more than an hour before they take off after they position the ship on the dock; passengers and cargoes still have to be sorted out."]Starboy replied in the same manner.
"I see." Skylar smiled, however he did not respond to the voice transmission. Then later, which is about three minute after, Madame Juli returned, and her steps quicken as she got closer to Skylar.
"Lord player, we got this mask from a player faction..."
She passed Skylar one of the two masks in her hand; a black full-face mask that has a hollow that will only fit the shape and form of the face—it has no holes or depression for mouth, eyes and nose.
Skylar collected it from her and starts examining it.
She continued, "The player faction we got it from said it dropped from the heavens, and that they tried many times to figure out if it was a useful artefact or an ordinary mask."
"But after they weren't able to figure it out, and they tried selling it for big money unappraised, some people started the rumor that their claim of the mask falling from the heavens was made up... those people said the mask is a cheap mask they crafted, and that the entire thing is a ruse and that they were trying to scam people. So at the end, our store was able to get it for a small amount after we bid for it."
"I see..." Skylar nodded absentmindedly as he continued to examine the mask; but meanwhile, he has already concluded despite the mask looking plain and ordinary, its materials surprisingly contains traces of black gold that will render the attempt of anyone to investigate its structure and figure out whatever gimmick was designed into it.
"So, are you selling this to me?" He raised his head and made eye contact with madame Juli.
"No, lord player." Madame Juli shook her head, then she passed him the other mask in her hand kept in a nylon packaging.
"This is the one we are selling, lord player can have that one for free; its been with us for a very long time and since we have no use for it, I decided to give it to lord player... there is a possibility lord player might be able to figure it out. Lord player can see textile glyphs after all..." Madame Juli smiled as she watched Skylar who smiled back at her starts unwrapping the glossy black mask with dark gold flame pattern.
Skylar brought out the brand new mask. Unlike the first one, this one—metallic and attractive—has appropriates holes in the right places and indentations that won't only fit the face, but will fit the facial features, making it look like a carved out face of a person.
"Let's see." Saying this, Skylar puts the mask to his face, and it snugly fits it; It covered and mold his face, adding a different charm to it.
Seeing this, Madame Juli looked at him with a smile, then she moved closer and fixed his fringes, making his masked face look more attractive.
"Lord player, it fits your face perfectly. I got the right one." She said as her eyes meet his eyes visible through the eye holes of the mask.
Skylar nodded and shook his face several times, trying to see if the mask really fits. Then after getting his answer as the mask remains firm on his face, he showed madame Juli the previous strange mask.
"Are you sure you are given me this mask for free? You should know I can afford any price you name." He looked at madame Juli, seeking her final say on the mask.
"Lord player, if you think its valuable to you, you can have it for free. There is no reason for us to hold on to it... we can't figure it out anyways." Madame Juli replied, smiling brightly.
"Oh! you don't want money!" Skylar said jokingly and then put the mask inside the mysterious space of his cloak; an action that left madame Juli stunned.
"So how much is the price of the second mask and how do I pay?" Skylar asked, making madame Juli regain her composure.
"Lord player, wait a second."
She turned to the side, and from the floating table, she picked the other glyph tablet, and after tapping on it several times, she passed it to Skylar.
"Lord player, the total amount is fifty gold."
"Eh, so cheap." Skylar exclaimed. He looked at the tablet screen that displayed 50 G in bold letters and a blue circle below it.
"Its just a mask made of common material, lord player." Madame Juli smiled. Then she come over to his side and pointed at the circle on the screen.
"Lord player, you place a finger on this circle."
Skylar did as she instructed and as a result, the blue circle turned green and a green tick appeared inside it, signifying the success of the transaction.
...
"Second madame good morning."
"Idiot, its noon already."
Between two pergola that wasn't there before, under which people seat in a manner that those in one pergola all face those in the other pergola, is an imaginary wide passage that connects to the wide open entrance of the store, hence the interior of madame Juli store.
Then, as Madame Juli who is walking beside Skylar and Starboy exit the store together, stepping feet on the imaginary passage that is bordered at both sides by this two new pergolas, a greeting came from one of the people under the pergola to their left.
"Mr D king, good afternoon." Madame Juli replied, waving at the man that greeted her and that was corrected by another man next to him.
"Madame Juli, why are there a lot of men here. I thought your target customers were women." Skylar asked, he observed the number of men seated under the two pergolas to be almost equal to the number of women present.
"Lord player, they are here to buy for their wives and lovers." Madame Juli replied, and her answer sent Skylar go into a contemplative mode.
Later, Skylar returned his focus to her, he said to her, "Maybe I will come a later time to also buy clothes from your store..."
"Okay, lord player, I will be expecting your return." Madame Juli replied, she smiled at him.
Suddenly Skylar vanished from where he was close to her, and he appeared very far away in front, right next to the glass balustrades that edges the floor.
Suprised, madame Juli appeared a little excited by Skylar's speed and quietness of movement. She placed a hand on top of her huge bust and another on her blushing cheek.
"Small lord player, where do big lord player rank?" She directed her question at Starboy who is not far from her.
Not minding, the wordings of her question, Starboy turned his face to look at her briefly, then he chuckled. "High enough to be man among man."
At his cryptic response, madame Juli froze. Her smile vanished, and she turned her face to look at him. However, Starboy seemed not to care about her strange response, as he has already started walking towards Skylar who is two hundred maters away from them.
Meanwhile, Skylar leaned over the balustrades, placing his forearms on the flat top handrail, as he peered below, looking at the ground floor of the building —the atrium floor—and the fountain pools on it, which are right under the bottom of any perpendicular skybridge that joined the five skybridges that leads to he second floor.
So the water has has this guys...
In the clear blue water of the first fountain pool, just like the other three pool to his left which are positioned with the same distance between them on the atrium; Skylar saw a group of forty centimeter long mermaid looking creatures, that has glowing blue crystalline skin at thier torso where they look human, and deep blue crystal scales on their fishtail.
"Big bro, they are called fish ligua, and what they do is extract ether from the air and infuse it into water." Starboy informed him. He seemed to just arrived beside him.
"I see." Skylar responded.
A moment later, he raised his head, withdrawing from the balustrade.
"Let's go." He said to Starboy, and with Starboy following behind him and madame Juli far away waving and shouting goodbye at them, he heads towards the skybridge they came from, returning in the same manner as they came earlier.