Chapter 123: The Festival of Blessings (III)
"Where too?"
"We'll start from the south district then move to the west, north, and finally to the east."
"Fine with me." I started to walk forward.
People scattered away like roaches, trying not to get trampled underneath my foot. We made our way towards the most densely packed district. One could say this place is a metropolitan for a variety of different types of stores.
Everywhere I looked, I saw clean red and pale bricked buildings neatly in a row. The tallest tower out of all the other buildings was the ten-story high mall with a giant sign stating the Wonder Shop with a beautiful painted white dragon symbol below it.
They were even banners of the shop symbols hanging in the entrance flashing into a dragon flying's intricate movement. I'm not sure how they were able to do that, but it was really cool. The last time I came in front of the Wondershop, I was in a bit of a rush, so I didn't get good luck at it until now. My reclusive life from teaching to going home was the majority of my day, so I often don't go out.
Truly Don had done a fabulous job in personal constructing the blueprint of the Wondershop. Anyone who steps foot in the South District, the first thing they would see is this eye-catching building. I heard it was even more spectacular at night with the light shows that went around it. Beautiful trees decorated the side, and a small garden was located next to it. What was also impressive was the large statues of a white dragon at the entrance, standing proudly like a guard dog.
I believe Siva had personally ordered those statues to be made in a rush order. I haven't seen them there for a week. People from different races and species stopped to stare. More and more streamed out to see me. I felt like an animal in a zoo. It felt really, really uncomfortable.
They pointed, chatted, and even took the courage to come as close as possible, but they were a brave few who actually ran up towards me. Like a tag game, they ran over to touch me and ran away, squealing in delight. At first, I was surprised that the younger generations would do that, but I just completely ignored them as time went by. There was no harm in it, so I didn't even bother. Plus, even if they wanted to try to stab me, they wouldn't even be able to penetrate my scales.
I walked over towards the entrance of the Wondershop, where both Siva and Seth stood, waiting for me. There was even Shiva's daughter and son next to her. Rose was peeking out from behind Shiva's skirt, while Bae was standing up even straighter than ever. Next to Seth was a beautiful flaming red hair lady, heavily pregnant. She reminded me more of a soldier than a magician by the way she held herself. Either way, I was impressed by Seth's catch in partner. I just didn't expect him to be interested in the opposite gender by how stiff he always acted.
"My lady." Seth bowed a deep bow of respect. "I am glad to see you are well."
"Seth, it's nice to see you up and running around without a hint of injury. I thought all that fighting would've made you tired and possibly injured."
"Hardly. This here is my wife. Juniper." Seth gently pulled Juniper to his side with a smile. "She is the love of my life."
"Hello." I gave her a small nod. "I'm impressed by how you opened up this thick-skinned muscle head into talking a bit more. Usually, he's not the type to start a conversation."
Juniper chuckled. "Quite easily. I gave him a couple good punches to wake him up." Her voice was surprisingly light and musical. She gave him a light punch to Seth's side, where he feigned being hurt by her punch.
"I'm glad you did because I was worried that Seth here would die of old age with no one. I wasn't worried about Siva here."
"You really didn't mean that do you? Yes, I was quiet, but that didn't mean I wasn't interested." Seth tried to blow it off.
"You want the honest truth?�� I smirked.
"I'm not so sure I want to hear it."
"I thought you were going to live your life as a hermit, maybe even like the opposite gender."
Alarmed, Seth scowled. "I am neither, so please don't put such dark thoughts into my head."
"If you say so." I couldn't help but laugh in my head at how uncomfortable Seth looked. His stoic expression that didn't budge with any expression was finally breaking into something different. Then again, I wish to see him smile a bit more than looking so cold.
Rose giggled behind Siva, catching my attention. When I swiveled my head over, she squealed and hid behind her mother.
"Oh come on now, Rose. That is the Great magician, Berry. You have met her." Siva frowned at her daughter's behavior. "I'm sorry, my lady, for her behavior. She's just a bit shy."
"It's alright." I tried my best not to scare her anymore.
Rose blushed; she shuffled over embarrassed. She stopped and gazed up with her big eyes, staring at me in awe.
I lowered my head and rested on my paws. Waiting for her to come over instead of scaring her.
She took a few small steps, stopped, looked at her mother, and went back to walking towards me cautiously. It didn't take long for her to come up to my side, her hands raised up and touched my cheek's side.
She gasped and pulled back. "You're so shiny!"
I raised my eyebrows at her and deeply chuckled. It sounded more like a dragon purr than a chuckle, but that didn't scare Rose away.
"Mommy! Her scales feel like snakeskin!" She cried out excitedly.
"Yes, dear," Siva replied with a gentle expression.
Rose continued to examine me; she finally dared to start to climb onto my back as if it was some kind of jungle Jim.
"Rose! What are you doing?!" Siva called out to her daughter in disbelief. She ran over and snatched her off my side, chastising her how inappropriate that was of her. Rose's head hung low from her mother's scolding and looked away sad.
I didn't mind, but I didn't want everyone to start scaling on me as if I'm some kind of wild beast for transportation. Children I can handle for a while, but Adults were slightly different stories.
"Now, what do you say to Great Magician Berry?" Siva cocked her hips and started to tap her feet in annoyance.
Rose whispered, "I'm sorry."
"And?"
Rose glanced back at her mother. "I won't do that again. It was rude of me."
"Good."
"It's fine." I sat up. "I'm just glad that you guys are doing well."
"You are too kind, young mistress." Siva bowed. "Now, let's go. Rose. We got a lot of things to do today."
"Okay." Rose reached over and grabbed her mother's hand.
"We'll be seeing you later, young mistress."
I nodded in acknowledgment as Rose and Siva turned around and left.
"We'll be going too. See you later at the festival." Seth relied; he had Juniper on his arm.
"It was nice meeting you!" Juniper waved her hand excitedly. The two of them left as well, leaving me by myself with Phil.
Through the afternoon, both Phil and I continued to walk around the city. Saying hi, byes, and even small conversation here and there. Talking to get to know the citizens and even hearing their problems. Most of the time, they were amazed as they didn't know what to say, only a few dared to come up to me and complain about the city's problem, but that was a rare few exceptions.
The others acted like it was a parade and came out to cheer in excitement at the white dragon that helped them win against the war. We were seriously outnumbered against the enemy, making the fight very difficult to win. Even though we had the magical barrier, everyone knew that we had to hold off for another if we didn't finish the war in the first hour. Holding off without the enemy's protection that many people were bound to have our walls breached.
If we did have our walls breached, the chance of our city falling was imperative. That war was seriously a race against the time. Luckily, killing the general and having a legendary creature appear brought fear to our enemies. Without having a General to lead, there were no more organizations. This made them run away, thinking that they would lose even though there was a higher chance of winning.
Still, it was great to hear their praises. I felt more a part of this city than ever before, and I knew that I had to do my best to keep my people safe. I never felt something like this before; I didn't mind it at all.
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