Chapter 3: The Sheep's Devil's Shop
The Sheep's Head Demon's shop is located in the food court in the basement, which takes up a large part of the space, and has its own storefront, and does not share tables and chairs with other stores. The name of the store is "The Most Magical Corner". Compared to other shops, this shop is gray and lacks makeup. It's just white tiled walls, gray tiled floors, and a bunch of old tables and chairs. Some of the chair cushions and coasters and the like are also gray and old. There wasn't a single customer in the store. Outside, the shared tables were filled with demons, eating foods like eyeball fried rice or screaming radish soup.
After years of encountering a bad workplace, Joy immediately became vigilant. Why do we need to recruit people when business is not good? Is it because all the old people are running out, and even the basic manpower for operation is not enough?
The sheep-headed demon takes Rick around the store, and finally takes Rick to the kitchen, where Nick sees a demon more than three meters tall inside. His body was a very muscular, human male, wearing a full-face mask with gouging out of his eyes and mouth, and a pair of horns protruding from under the mask, as well as a rhinoceros-like horn on the bridge of his nose, but much smaller. The eyes that are seen through the eye holes do not have the whites of the eyes, while the fangs can be seen in the mouth holes. His upper body was staggered with rusty chains, his hands were clad in iron gloves, and his lower body was a snake with thorns. If he hadn't been standing in front of the stove with a long-handled spoon scooping up the foam in the soup, Rick would have thought he was the guard.
"This is our chef, Nylet. The sheep-headed demon said proudly.
Syk stared at Nylet, then at the sheep-headed demon in confusion. The demons were very good at reading expressions, and immediately understood what Rick was thinking.
The sheep-headed demon said, "Let him be a guard that will alarm the knights, and we don't want the whole place to be copied by the Holy Shield. γ
"Will the knights copy you? don't you have a work permit?" asked Rick. Demons need to have a work permit to stay in their own country. All you need to do is find a human with a mage's license to be the owner, and then go to the Staff of Light to register. Usually, there is.
"Of course there is!" The sheep-headed demon raised his chin, "We're honest people who run a decent business, it's just that we haven't been in touch with our master for a long time!"
Rick nodded. It turned out to be the head owner. Because there is no set number of demons that a single person can have, some poor mages who have the ability to summon demons will act as the head masters, collect some money to help the demons come over and register their work permits, but they have no control over the demons. This is an act of wandering on the edge of the law, but if you encounter a knight on the street, as long as you have a certificate, the other party will not specifically investigate whether the work card is from the head owner. If such a large group gathers together and is approached, the knight may investigate deeply, and it will not be able to hide it.
Rick thought for a moment and said, "The Staff of Light doesn't care about you?" This is the land where the Staff of Light is in charge, they should know about this, right?
"Mages are easier to talk to. The sheep-headed demon said as a matter of course.
In Aethero, it is true that mages are less concerned about the problem of demonic proliferation, and unless they attack someone other than their master, the Staff of Light rarely takes the initiative to ban it. So much so that this problem, which was mainly caused by mages, turned out to be mainly dealt with by knights. The Holy Shield has no complaints about this, and they also have some things that the mage is dealing with.
Then the sheep-headed demon began to say, "You should go firstβ"
Seeing that the sheep-headed demon didn't seem to want to mention it, Rick took the initiative to ask him what he had to understand before he went to work, "How much is the salary and what currency is it used to pay?"
The sheep-headed demon wriggled and shook his head, as if he was asking him what color ** was, "Can you pay it with Gemir?"
Gemir had never heard of anything. He stared at the sheep-headed demon for an explanation.
"It's delicious, and it gets more and more fragrant the more you chew itβ"
"No, forget it. I'll go work somewhere else. Rick didn't want his salary to be high-grade peanuts.
Syk turned and walked up the stairs. At this time, on the seat near the staircase, two eating guests, one who looked like a dryad and the other who looked like a cat demon, said, "Gaimir is really delicious. "That thing can be sold several times the price now!"
Nick stopped, grabbed the rough faces of the two guests one by one, and pulled them up, not surprised to see that it was dirty and stinking underneath.
Rick and the two guards faced each other and laughed dryly. Throw the prosthetic head and keep going up the stairs.
The sheep-headed demon pounced on him and grabbed Syke's trousers, "Don't go!
Rick stopped and asked, "How many Sacks?"
"Every day...... "The sheep-headed demon flew to the side of the head of the Tick to offer.
Nick calculated that Isa Coins were acceptable, and he reconfirmed, "It's the 'Sarafayido' coin, not the 'Sami Diva' coin, right?"
Samitiwa is a country in the island of Qamka, with serious inflation, about 70 million Samitiwa coins for one Sarafayi coin. The currency of Samitiwa is commonly referred to as "Samitivararu" in Etello, abbreviated as "Salaru" or simply "Laru". "Laru" is a transliteration of the Samiteva language for "coin", which distinguishes it from the "Sa" coin. However, the words of the sheep-headed demon are spoken in the demonic language, and the word "coin" is paraphrased, so the Sa-coin and Salaru are translated into the same demonic language.
Seeing that the sheep-headed demon looked like he was asking him about the ** color, Xike was sure that he was planning to pay Salaru.
"Farewell!" Rick turned and left.
"We'll pay for it with Sarafayid's coins!" the sheep-headed demon grabbed Syck's pants again.
"Okay. Rick sighed, how short of people he was? He found that he had a tendency to be a good old man, although he didn't think he should play in such a place. Rick asked, "What about the room and board?"
"Of course, you can take as many ingredients and meals as you like, and even your pet can eat as much as you want!" said the sheep-headed demon.
The word "pet" in the demon language can include "companion", "child", "pet", and "slave" in the language of the human world. Because demons usually join a larger group in a family (the meaning of this "family" is not the same as that of the human world, usually refers to a group of a few owners and "pets"), they have the habit of including pets in their work benefits.
Syk followed the sheep-headed demon to the kitchen. His "pet" is only the fog demon Ash, who is enough to raise with the leftovers of Xike, and he is not a picky eater.
The sheep-headed demon busily opened the door and let Rick look at the staff quarters. Xi Ke glanced at it, and it was okay, so he went back to the kitchen and opened the food cabinet to see if there was anything to eat. Cadavers that look like maggots, Miano dishes that writhing in the shape of red snakes, bottled scorpion venom with the words "Nono Farm Poison Selection" written on them, meat jellies made from various animal eyeballs, canned pickled fly eyes...... Thanks to Xike's specialty at identifying these things, he's quite familiar with these Demon Realm ingredients - most of them can't be fed to humans!
Rick smiled and said to the sheep-headed demon, "Forget it. He ignored the sheep-headed demon crying behind him and went upstairs.
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Nick had just reached the first floor when he heard the demons shouting, "That guy is here again!" "Stop him!" "That big truck!"
Wick turned his head to see a monster described by the demon as a large truck, stuck in the arch of the "garbage inlet". A group of demons grabbed its tail and hind feet and tried to drag it out, but its legs kept kicking, its front feet picking wildly, and shoved its head into the archway.
Syk thought the beast was familiar. The beast had long, rainbow-colored hair and looked like a wolf, but it didn't have long claws.
After the demons shouted, "Three, two, one!" and dragged it out of the archway, Rick saw that it had a loose monkey face and a faded red stripe on its nose. Rick remembered that it was the "Giant". Before, he had taken care of him when he was working as a magical pet breeder in a restaurant.
He had lost a lot of weight, his fur was dull, his nose was bruised, and his whole body was dirty. Judging by the way he struggled to shake off the demon and crawl towards the arch, he was quite hungry.
Rick stepped forward. The Giant recognized Nick and lay on the ground whining.
Rick bent over to check, no collar and no ankle rings. Nick opened his ears again, and found that the factory number of the order that was branded inside had been burned off. He wasn't lost, he was thrown away. Because of the previous amendments to the relevant laws, there are now many more restrictions on the ownership of magical pets. Many pets that could have been kept are now no longer available and must be handed over to professional institutions (such as the Monster Park run by mages), and many can still be kept but have strict requirements for the breeding environment. The Titano is the latter type of magical pet. Its owner was troublesome and didn't want to create a breeding environment for it, so he abandoned it in the wild and became a wandering monster.
Magical pets are different from naturally occurring magical beasts, when humans make them, they usually deliberately deprive them of their ability to survive in the wild, and they are raised by humans and have no chance to learn how to survive, so they cannot survive after being abandoned.
The Giant's stomach was screaming, and it lay flat on its stomach, looking at Rick with moist eyes, and then rolled over five seconds later, revealing its belly to Rick.
Syk remembered that the Mad had dragged him away in front of life-draining zombies. Although he wanted to escape on his own, his speed also helped Xike. Rick touched the rough, tangled fur of the Giant. When he used to take care of it, its fur was smooth and soft.
Once again, he felt like he was a bit of a good old man. He has a mage's license, and if he adopts the Giant, the Giant's legal status will become a demon instead of a magical pet. He didn't need to prepare the Megamania for the Magical Pet Amendment.
Rick patted the flank of the Giant, got up and gestured, "Get up, come with me. γ
The Titan obediently got up, hanging his head and following Rick. The demons scratched their heads, flicked their tails, and went back to their stalls.
Rick descends the stairs with the Giant Maniac and finds the Sheep's Shop: "I've changed my mind, I want this job. γ
The Giant Maniac eats a lot, and the food it eats is not ordinary, and Xi Ke can't afford it. But Wick has just confirmed the food cabinet, and the food in this store can feed the Giant.
He's going to keep the Madness his pet.
The sheep-headed demon came out of the kitchen and shook his ass and said, "But people have already found a replacement, and I can give you a job with difficulty, but the salary will be ......."
Syk is a mage, or a former evil mage, and even if he doesn't understand the culture of demons, he knows how to deal with it. With one hand, he grabbed the sheep-headed demon's neck, lifted him up, and laughed, "Don't mention the non-existent employee. My salary is ......" Rick repeated the sheep's previous offer: "...... Sarafayi Duo Coin with room and board, including pets. γ
"Okay. The sheep-headed demon had no choice but to agree.