One of the people—a short man with a bowler hat—ran up to me and said, "Can I ask you for a favor?"
"What do you want?"
The man bowed. "Please help me save my daughter! A dragon kidnapped her and imprisoned her!"
"Where?"
"In a cave located south of this town."
That must be the same place that I could find the sageflowers. In this case, I could kill two birds with one stone.
"I'll give you a reward, of course," the man said to me.
"What's the reward?"
"One thousand Szerath."
Even after spending a huge chunk of my money to craft the Grand Solomon armor set, I still managed to get back to 350,156 Sz because of the prize money from the Drachnum tournament. As opportunistic I was, one thousand Szerath was barely anything.
"Sorry," I said to the man. "But you'll have to do better than that."
"P-please! I can't spare any more money!"
His posh clothing said otherwise, but I didn't press the topic.
