finally! civilization

The phedoria empire is known as the wealthiest region in the lands the royal family control it with the four clans and the council elder as a moderator

"miss I will leave you here my road is this way" she descended and thanked him then walked to the city.

"did you hear the exam of the school of magic is going to be difficult this year" "what!! why do they like making life harder for us?" "it's because the imperial competition is going to be held this year, it has been six years already since the last one" "shhhhh keep your voice down, it has been six years since the previous emperor's death" two youths were chatting about the exam as it seemed it's the topic on every citizen's mouth while the wanderer Naya kept listening to them "it seemed this city has a complex situation, well, what imperial city doesn't have its own problems and schemes".

gazing at the shops she saw inns decorated beautifully with all kind of colors some have bodyguards at the entrance, tea houses filled with herbs aroma, tables outside some people were laughing some were gossiping and even some were matchmaking the people here wore ancient clothes but what she noticed is that nobody is wearing the yellow or golden color while everybody was giving her weird gazes.

what Naya didn't know is that yellow and golden colors are only for the emperor to wear them, this rule has been edited since the new emperor ascension at first everybody was opposing this but when people saw that the imperial guards crippled and even emprisoned every person who dares to say no this made them submitted to reality.

and she as a lost child is wandering around with golden one "roarrrr" just passing by a beast shop she saw cages inside there were some unknown beasts taking a look she saw that there was monkeys, rabbits, foxes, turtles and some other strange beasts "welcome to our humble shop miss, may I help you" rising her head it was the vendor he had a sly smile on his face obviously a cunning businessman "I'm just seeing" she stated not battling a glance at him he twitched his mouth he just came hurriedly because her robe was elegant and with a fine material what's more a golden one which gave him the idea that she is related to the emperor or something for a little girl to wear the forbidden color and stroll casually.

reforming his professional face "well miss may I recommend you one of our great beasts this week it's a black fire vulture it's a…."

"Actually, sir I want to know if there is a pawn shop in here?" right now she needed money to rent a room, not a beast that will be a liability she needed to sleep and bath like a human she spent the whole journey in the wilds" being cut off by her made him annoyed but with a still smile face nothing has been seen "ahem, well miss it's over there" pointing straight ahead " then you turn in the right corner, but miss this shop is near the bankruptcy why don't I recommend you.." "not necessary" he rolled his eyes in irritation this is the second time that she is cutting him already "very well miss have a nice day" he had enough of her after she left he scuffed " what an arrogant brat".

right in front of a pawn shop the poster above barely hang at the door's top it could hit the people but she didn't care entering the shop it was all dusty filled with spider webs "is this a customer I can't believe it, Charles come here quickly!" an old lady came hurriedly with a cane "welcome dear costumer to our humble shop" smiling gently "hello, I want to sell this pendant can you give it an evaluation" handing the white jade to the old lady "I'm here, mum what's wrong" a man was coming from the stairs in a lazy manner in a fragment of seconds she saw the old women hit the man in the legs she was quick which made him fall.

"Ma!!! are you crazy do you want to kill your sole son!?" groaning and screaming in pain raising his head he saw his mother's feet then her head "get up we have a customer" wrinkling her eyebrows at her son, getting up quickly "Ahem, excuse us miss how can we help you", getting a punch from his mother "ouch, why are you hitting me Ma?" they continued arguing as if Naya was a thin air " all this time I was holding the pendant so that you can see it, where is your focus?" "Arghhhh..." it was at this moment that naya realized why they were on bankruptcy if she let them go on, they will continue arguing until tomorrow "I want you to evaluate it, can you do that?" she asked with a cold voice stunned at her.

"ye-yes of course miss" he took the pendant swiftly and placed it in a pot filled with a jelly-like liquid it was transparent first but after putting the pendant it started changing to dark green Charles widened his eyes in seconds they held greed in them, then he returned back to his usual clumsy face "umm miss this is a top tier jade, how about this I will give you fifteen silver coin what do you think, miss it's already a fair deal you won't find a price like mine .." seeing that he started bragging she knew that he was planning to deceive her squinting her eyes and approaching to take the pendant "to think that I wanted to be your client, it seemed that the heavens still want justice to prevail sooner in showing the truth" saying this in a noble and a graceful manner almost gripping the pendant the old lady intervened she throw a punch on her son's back.

"what my son means to say that it's for twenty-five golden coins, of course," trying to appease Naya, what they didn't know was that Naya herself doesn't know how the currency works here she just followed her guts if they knew that, they would vomit blood from the nose.

even with twenty-five golden coins Naya didn't waver the old lady and Charles panicked "thirty then, thirty golden coins is the last price miss" Charles stated "I think that this is enough " she thought "how much is the night in an inn?" Naya asked.

she needs the money for a week rest in the inn "miss the inns here charge a forty silver tail for the night without meals if the inn is that of a shabby quality if it's in the luxurious district in the north near the imperial palace then it's ten golden coins