St Chaos Healer

Ch 38 - A Makeover

After a horrendous strict checking and waiting in the queue for long, we were finally allowed to enter Delven city. One of the biggest cities in the Zephinya kingdom.

Usually, commoners like us could only ever just glance at the city from a mere distance. But due to the mage ascension ceremony being held this month, many citizens travel through the other cities to come here. Only the registered citizens can enter the major city during this event.

Although commoners like us will not be able to enter the city, we are still allowed to sit outside the city walls. At this moment the exterior of the city is filled with thousands of commoners camping outside the city to catch the glimpse of the blessing.

Only the commoners whose kids have turned 12 and have boarded the ceremony train are allowed to enter the city. These commoners are made to wear these bracelets which allows us to roam in the city while letting the patrol guards keep a tab on us.

At most, we can roam in the outer district of Delven city.
The interior region is still a forbidden zone as the elite and the noble families reside there.
But that's about to change as the almond family has acquired the three golden passes which allow us to enter the inner region.

This will allow us to get a better place during the ceremony, especially for my parents.
Although we have to wait for 2 days before we can move into the inner region.

The manager Bervice had instructed that he will send us one of his aides who will be escorting us to the inner region. If the three of us just charge in with just the three passes, we will surely be deemed to attract unnecessary attention and even the patrol guards might assume we stole it and have ill intent.

Seeing the temperament of the nobles, there's a good chance we will end up getting into unnecessary trouble.

The aide named Mr. Keith would be coming to pick us up in 2 days' time.

After checking in our inn, we dropped our luggage and then after getting fresh, the first thing we went out for shopping.

Mother dragged the two of us to the shopping district and bought an exquisite and fancy dress that could easily house months of rations. She forced us to spend at least 6 months of our father's income just to buy fancy clothes.

I would rather have bought some useful books with that amount of money and learned a few techniques in controlling mana. But my mother didn't bother to listen.

She instructed that going in the inner district, we must be dressed to our best.
She said that one's attire describes one's personality.

Even my father had to submit to my mother's wishes.

The next day we spent family time, going to visit the city temples and gardens. We even tried a lot of food dishes till our stomach would burst. Afternoon, my mother gave me basic knowledge about mana and its works. I carefully studied alongside and noted each and every point.

Meanwhile, father went on a stroll looking at other antique shops in the city.
Thankfully mother had stripped away all the cash so he won't purchase some nonsense.

The very next day finally arrived when we were about to be shifted within the interior.
Now we just have to find the man named 'Mr. Keith'.

Right at this moment, I was standing in front of the mirror in our room.
Dressed up with an alluring attire, wearing a white ironed collarless shirt that stretched till my knees. The shirt itself had beautiful embroidery of various petals and birds of the same color as my shirt.

The pants were matching the shirt although a little tight around the legs, which was said to be a fashion sense. This would certainly hinder my combat but nevertheless and quite useless to fighters like myself. But I still went ahead and wore it anyway.