"What did you say!?" Guliani, who was enjoying his afternoon tea with the addition of the pricey frosted sugar, startled out of his chair. His sudden movement knocked over the small tea table in front of him, scattering the frosted sugar and tea leaves.
The priests surrounding him took a glance at the scattered items with a look of regret. It was not surprising, the frosted sugar tea leaves were so expensive that even the pope's attendants like them rarely got a chance to enjoy it.
Sugar, already a rare commodity in this era, usually came as unrefined brown or black sugar. So, the snow-white frosted sugar was extremely scarce, even rarer than Demon Crystals.
As for tea, it was even more uncommon. It was a product of another plane, a small box of it cost a thousand Demon Crystals. The amount of tea spilled now probably cost several hundred Demon Crystals.
Guliani disregarded these losses, grabbed the priest delivering the report, "What? Say it again."
