“Ah, hello.” Elena bowed her head. 

“Why are you guys here…” Elena hesitantly let out her words; she thought they must have come to complain about the item she sold. However, the words that came back to her were completely different from what she expected.

Zich said, “It’s because I was curious about your products.”

Elena blinked. With all her heart, she really thought she would never be able to hear those words. For that reason, she was unable to say anything properly and kept mumbling. Zich took out something from his pocket; it was Elena’s incomplete artifact.

“Why do you…!” Elena’s eyes became wide. She got up and quickly grabbed the artifact in Zich’s hand. It was rude and Zich could have easily stopped her, but he let Elena take it. Elena swiped the surface of her incomplete artifact; it was different from before. However, she could no longer feel the cold iron aura, which indicated her lack of mana, from the artifact. Instead, she felt a subtle warmth coming from it.

“…There’s mana in this.”

‘Her senses are normal,’ Zich thought as he coldly assessed Elena’s condition. Elena was able to notice...