As Marc looks through the assortment of old tech, trying to see if he could do anything with the parts. The part looked like it was in bad shape already, but what made it harder for him to find something useful was how old the tech really was.
"It seems there is not even any last-generation tech; it seems all of these are even older. Looks like the possibility of me finding anything useful is zero." Said Marc as he finished looking through a few of the boxes of old tech, there were now only 3 boxes for him to look through.
Marc started to look through the first of the 3 boxes. In the box, there were only old motors, wire, CPUs, and RAM. Marc nearly gave up looking until he suddenly saw something strange.
"Oh, now what is this?" Said Marc with curiosity, as he held up something that looked like schematics for something. As he held it, the paper felt so brittle that one wrong move could suddenly destroy it. As Marc slowly analyzed it further, the device described seemed to be ahead of its time even by today's standards. Which caught Marc off guard.
"That is, simply impossible. Judging by the state of this paper, it's at least 200 years old, but the instructions are for something that even with today's technology can't create." Said Marc as he continued to look at the schematics with awe. After a few minutes of examining the schematic over and over again, Marc decided to look through the other two boxes of tech, but it seemed that the schematics were the only thing useful in the shop. But he still wanted to look at other objects he may want and decided to look around more.
As Marv continues to go around the store trying to find something to buy or even just do, he sees something that he thinks might be useful in the future. As he walks towards something that looks like a bookshelf, he grabs a seemingly random book. But when he tries to open it, the book seems to be magically locked. When Marv used his gravity magic to make it float, the book opened with a gush of power emanating from it. When Marv looked at the book, it had figures and stances of a person using gravity magic.
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"Wow, I never even thought of using my magic like that!" Said Marv, now flipping the pages of the book to see if it has anything for any new move for the others, Magic.
"Bruh, it looks like nothing about, Ice, light, earth, just gravity." Said Marv confused why it was only on Gravity magic. After looking at it further, he decided to look for the others so that they could pay for the book.
As Jash wanders around the store trying to find something that could interest him, he wanders to the art section of the shop, seeing if anything is cool enough to buy. As he walks through the section covered in pieces of art, yet none of them seems to interest him in any way. Until he saw a small tapestry to the side showing an image of a ritual done by multiple hooded figures.
"Wait, aren't those the same guys we were investigating!" Said Jash with shock, now grabbing it and running to the others that he saw meet at the front desk, now just waiting for him.
"Guys, I need to show you something!" Shouted Jash, catching the attention of the others. After making it to the rest of the guys, he shows them the tapestry, now tired from running. The others seemed shocked that they were able to find something about the Cult of Dicion.
"It seems that this tapestry is thousands of year old." Said Marc, examining it more closely.
"Ok, let's deal with this later in the room, let's just buy our stuff and then go," said Isaiah with a calm look on his face.
"Wait, whose gonna pay for this stuff?" Said Marv, after a few minutes of silence, they all looked at Marc, and he pulled out his credit card to pay for everything.
