He tidied up the messy lab a little, and before he headed to his bathroom, he went to the material stockpile to transfer every precious thing into his bracelet.
Yesterday, he fell on his bed as he was, and now, he could smell rotten bread[a][b] on his skin.
While waiting for the bathtub to get filled, Angor removed the Alien Eye from his neck.
This valuable artifact was the “culprit” that brought Jon to this world, and he had always kept it close. But now, he was going to keep it inside the bracelet.
To his surprise though, he couldn’t put the Alien Eye into the space storage. Or rather, something told him that forcefully stuffing it in would destroy the space storage.
He hesitated for a while before hanging it around his neck again. Anyway, nothing would go wrong since even Sunders didn’t notice anything from the artifact.
Angor enjoyed a nice, hot bath. He then put on some clean clothes. Then, he walked upstairs in a joyful mood.
“Toby?” Angor heard the gentle melody of City of Sky when he entered the main hall, along with sharp bird chirps. He then saw Toby singing along with the music box again.
He didn’t really want to interrupt Toby’s pleasure. However, he still called out, just to save his eardrums.
“Tweet!” Toby fluttered to Angor. The animal landed on his master’s shoulder and began to complain to Angor about various things.
Basically, Toby felt too constrained.
Ever since the incident at the auction, Angor didn’t allow Toby to go outside on his own. And now Toby was trapped in the lab again. As a bird, Toby’s nature was to fly freely in the sky.
Realizing this, Angor also felt a bit sorry for his action. He stroked Toby’s feathers and comforted him in a small voice, “We’re going home soon. I just happen to have some free time today, so how about we go meet your little partner tonight?”
Toby immediately slumped down upon hearing “little partner”; he did so by lowering his head and wings.
Angor wasn’t sure how to deal with this matter yet. He only put a finger on the bird’s tiny head.
“Profit moves everything around. Just keep that in mind when you make friends again.”
Toby nodded and rubbed against Angor’s palm.
“Get your things ready, and we’ll leave.”
Again, they needed to ride on the Iron Fortress to leave The Tributary.
Iron Granny greeted Angor with the same gentle smile. She asked about random things like what an elder would do. When Angor exited through the portal, the woman put up a frown.
“Good job, kid. I can’t find where you put your new item. Did he hide it inside a space storage?”
Angor didn’t hear the old woman’s grumble; otherwise, he would find it quite funny.
Walking away from the lake portal, Angor put on his wizard robe and injected some mana into Infinite Reticence to trigger the “isolation” effect.
On Angor’s shoulder, even Toby felt something strange when their presence was actively weakened by the magic array.
“Did you see the alchemy omen yesterday?” Angor asked the bird in a small voice.
Toby escaped from his confusion upon hearing Angor’s voice. He then shook his head and waved his wings around.
“There was nothing apart from strong winds blowing over?”
[a]rotten bread? just to confirm
[b]Maybe “his skin smelled like rotten bread” would be better?