"That's four…" Inside a covered wagon moving slowly through the streets of Windgrave, Enzo used a long silver sword with coiled sides to add and cross a table of counting.
Sword Cleaver had proposed they pay him for his services by completing four missions with him, but in truth, all those missions were just one big mission divided into four sections.
They all revolved around stealing star essence from Astoria, transporting it to a nearby trade city without being killed, and successfully handing it over to a group of off-world pirates.
What pirates needed star essence for, he didn't quite know, but this marked the end of their half of the bargain, which was evident with his Sword Cleaver sat counting a bag full of gems.
These things on the market would bring an estimated 700 years of lifespan. It was a lot of money—enough to set a normal family for several generations on Earth.
