Chapter 113 The Messenger (Part 1)
Jiang You asked curiously, "How do these birds know which cage they are looking for and where it is?"
"Well, I don't know very well." Lolisa looked embarrassed, like a student who was asked a question by the teacher without being prepared.
She frowned and pondered for a moment, then suddenly clapped her hands. "I remember now! These Raven Cages all contain the markings of the Nether Plane, and they have a unique direction! Ravens, as psychic birds, can sense where in the world the Raven Cage they're looking for is located and deliver the letter or item there!"
"That's right," Father Papason said with a smile. "All Raven Post Offices are owned by Charon, the ruler of the Nether Plane and the ferryman of the Styx. Three silver coins are the cost of setting up the Nether Plane's beacon and hiring a messenger. Of course, each time you use the Nether Plane's beacon or messenger, you'll also need to pay the corresponding postage.
"Unless you are a black magician familiar with familiar magic and recognized and favored by the Lord of the Underworld, in which case you can use your own familiar as a messenger, but you still need to pay the postage for using the beacon."
"I see! This is the owl from the magical world!" Takumi clapped his hands excitedly, his eyes ablaze with fire. "I've always wanted one!"
"Owl?" Father Papason repeated in confusion, scratching his head in embarrassment. "You mean the night owl? The night owl is indeed a kind of psychic bird, but we don't have any in our shop..." He looked at the skeleton of Jiangyou and seemed to have suddenly had an idea: "Wait a minute, see if you like this one!"
He walked into the small door behind the counter, searched in the warehouse for a while, and took out a pure white bone cage with a sleeping white bone bird in it. "This is our store's treasure, the white bone falcon! Look at her beautiful, gleaming white bones, how well she suits you!"
"Hey!" Jiangyou became interested. She moved forward and looked at the falcon skeleton in the cage. The falcon skeleton slowly woke up from its slumber, lifted its skull from under the wing skeleton, and its dark green pupils ignited as it looked into Jiangyou's eyes.
"Can I touch it?" Jiangyou looked up at Father Papason.
"Yes, of course." Father Papason opened the door of the bone cage and instructed Jiang You with great experience: "Please slowly extend your bone claws. Yes, place them in front of her like this, so that she can get familiar with you... OK, she nodded, you can touch her now."
"Wow, she's so cute." Jiang You scratched the falcon's small skull with the tip of her finger bones. The little falcon raised its head and rubbed her claws as if it was very comfortable.
Both parties were very satisfied with each other, so Jiang You decided: "She's the one!"
"Okay, one gold coin." Father Papason smiled broadly. "Don't think it's too expensive. She's our treasure, a rare animal lich. She can use wind magic to fly and travel through the Nether Plane, saving a lot of distance. Even traveling to the other side of the planet only takes seconds! This is not something an ordinary raven can do!"
The little falcon skeleton puffed out its chest proudly, and Jiangyou seemed to hear a tiny voice: "That's it! Praise me! Buy me!"
——It’s quite cute.
I kind of want it, but it's a bit expensive. It's not that I can't afford it, but the non-existent flesh is starting to hurt again.
Jiangyou hesitated for a moment, glanced at the gleaming metal sign on the bone cage: [Witch Forest Shop 666, Cage No. 1 Collection], then turned to Lolisa and asked, "I applied for a [Raven Cage] in the Witch Forest. Can I use it back in West Eston?"
"Sure~" Lolita nodded, "The store number on the cage is simply for the convenience of counting and identification. No matter where you put the cage in the world, it will not affect its use.
"But I heard that the raven post offices in some towns will record the buyer's name and raven cage number according to the requirements of the local lord. In order to circumvent this problem, many people come to us specifically to buy ravens~"
——It turns out that this world also has a real-name system.
Jiang You looked at the little falcon again. Its pupils flickered, sometimes turning orange and sometimes dark green. Although it had no feathers, its white bones sparkled as if quenched by starlight. The more you looked at it, the more you liked it.
The skeleton finally succumbed to the cute creature. She sighed and asked, "What's her name?" while reaching into her skull for her wallet.
"No name," said Father Papason. "All messenger birds are named by their owners. After you pay and sign the owner-pet contract with her, you can give her a name!"
Because it is an anonymous transaction, both parties only need to pay the money and receive the goods, and the binding contract between the master and the pet can be completed by yourself. If you don’t know the process, you can ask the uncle for some guidance. This service itself is free and you don’t need to pay extra money.
Jiangyou was still a talented layman in magic. She was a business owner, and she had to put the [Raven Cage] on flyers so that customers could order takeout. Naturally, she had no reason to hide it, so she directly paid the gold coin and asked the uncle to help prepare for the master-pet contract.
"Okay, that's easy." The uncle pulled a box from under the counter and opened it. Inside was a row of various bird leg rings with buckles attached. Those were probably parts used to connect to small mailboxes and other equipment. "What color do you like? We have gold, silver, rose gold, emerald, and white jade."
"Rose gold, right?" Jiang You liked the pinkish-gold hue. "It looks very valuable."
Uncle Papason carefully used tweezers to pick up a rose gold bird's anklet and placed it on Jiangyou's bony claw. "Hold it between your thumb and index finger. Silently recite the name you want to give it to your bird. Repeat it firmly three times, and the name of the bird will appear on this magic anklet."
Jiang You did as she was told. She wanted to name this snow-white skeleton falcon "Rice Cake". It was white, sticky and sweet, so cute!
"Nian Gao, Nian Gao, Nian Gao..." After repeating it silently three times, the word "Nian Gao" really appeared on the front of the rose gold magic anklet, and it was even in Chinese!
"Wow, that's a great name..." Uncle Papason complimented, "...and it's so elegant that I can't even understand it! Now, please call this name to your new messenger. If she likes it, she'll extend her paw and let you put the anklet on her."
"Rice cake~" Jiangyou called sweetly to the little skeleton eagle. The little skeleton eagle tilted its head, as if getting familiar with this strange word. After a moment, it nodded, puffed out its chest and held its little head high. It raised its claws and extended them forward to Jiangyou in a condescending manner.
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