NOTICE: PERSPECTIVE SWITCH TO ZITILE
Sun light enters the room through the window on the second floor of the main building. Zitile wakes up and yaws *YAWNS*, she scratches her belly, "When did I fall asleep?" She gets up and walks to a door by the side of the room, it's the washroom. Zitile comes out a few moments later looking fresh, she stands before the mirror looking at herself. She strikes a few poses before her vision is clouded by screens, the screens shows her clothes and options. She scrolls through for a suit with a bow tie and a bow on her head.
Zitile looks in the mirror making a few poses, "Fabulous!" she smiles into the mirror, "Let's do business." She makes a sharp reverse turn and walks out the door, she walks downstairs to the main building. She sees Nytri stocking up from the AIS rods, she's nearly done with the entire building.
"Hi Nytri!" Zitile waves at Nytri.
Nytri turns smiling, "Hi, how was your sleep?"
"Hmmm," Zitile walks to the receptionist counter, "It was alright. Funny thing though, I don't recall going to bed last night."
"You just overworked yourself." Nytri speaks, she walks to the door and opens it wide. "I had some automata blend in with the people and spread the news of our reopening."
"Meh," Zitile sits down, "It's a backwater country, I doubt we'd get many customers on our first day." She rests her feet on the counter and a screen pops up before her, she swipes through it for anything interesting.
Nytri spreads her wings and flies away from the building, Zitile looks at Nytri flying away. "I wonder where she's off to this early in the morning." She swipes her hand and many screens appear before her showing the building and its surroundings. She moves from the counter and grabs a drink behind the country, she starts taking a few sips. She sees movement on the screen and spits the juice out, "Customers? For real?!"
Zitile tidies up and moves like a flash to the entrance, she arrives before a couple. "Greetings to the lovely couple." The couple giggles and Zitile continues, "Welcome to-" Her eyes open wide in thought, "CRAP! We didn't come up with a name or a signboard! Think think think." She grins, "The Golden Emporium, Azuria's outreach store. Currently the only place you can find Azuria products." She looks up with a charming smile but her thoughts, "WHY THE HECK DID I SAY OUTREACH?! Ugh, it sounds good so who cares."
The couple look at the huge woman before them, the man smiles and looks into the store behind Zitile. "I heard this is a new store and it's filled with very interesting artifacts. I came here with my darling to have a look and get a thing or two."
"Of course," Zitile smiles, "Do follow me for a tour." She turns and her thoughts, "I'll wring every gold coin from you when I'm done." She grins mischievously as the couple follows her. She showed them the isles and sections with food, clothes, accessories, magic artifacts, books and even weapons. Zitile is a smooth talker, maybe too smooth…..The couple nearly left in debt with happy smiles. The products being sold are limited to kingdoms technology level so nothing too advanced or beyond their comprehension. Like conventional cooking appliances that doesn't require power or energy to run.
Zitile plays with the coins between her fingers, "Nothing like hard earned money." She looks at the shop, "I might need more people to run the place." She stretches her hands towards the counter, "CONSTRUCT CREATION > Gearhead Automata x6."
6 runic circles appear before her, circuits appear in the middle of the circle but it warps raw liquid metals appear. The liquid molds and forms the automata, the automata bow before Zitile. Zitile walks up to them, "Connect to Nexusphere via Zitile Node Address." She links the Automata to the Nexusphere, "Download general attendant files." The automata's eyes start to blink and their memories are stuffed with files on how to manage a shop.
Zitile looks at the automata, "OBJECT REFINEMENT > Automata Humanoid Appearance." The Automata change and they now have human faces and clothes. Zitile claps her hands, "Alright, get to your posts once you're done learning." She walks to the receptionist counter, screens appear and she watches the automata work.
Some work at the entrance, meeting customers and giving them a tour. Some work in the sections and explain the artifacts to the people. Zitile sits at the counter watching everything and she nods. When customers come to the counter to pay, she introduces them to new products and wrings them dry. Zitile tosses the gold coins in her hands in a dance then she makes a storage portal and stores the coins inside. She actually gets people to pay her to do that.
The customers to come were originally nobility at first but various people came after midday, sales were through the roof though some had no idea what they were buying. Zitile and the constructs explained a lot of things to them and were kind enough to not let them buy things they couldn't use.
A little later towards sunset, Zitile is at the counter and 2 people walk before her. The leader bows to her, "Greetings Madam, we would like to work here if you are hiring." The second which seems to be female also bows.
Zitile tilts her head looking at them, "Aren't you the spies sent to watch mu- Nytri? What's with the change of method?"
The leader who is actually the shadow leader laughs wryly, "We've made no progress eavesdropping from outside so I decided to join you for a better look." The second shadow looks at the leader with her jaw dropped in shock, "How could you tell her that?" she asks the leader.
The shadow leader looks at her, "Face it, she already knows who we are. Besides, we never managed to gain anything from princess Nytri except the snacks she kept leaving for us."
"Ahaa," Zitile smiles, "So you want to experience things yourself, eh? I'll hire you and teach you the ropes around here." Zitile gets up from the counter.
The second shadow is surprised, "You're really going to hire us after this?!"
Zitile smiles, "Of course, since you're being paid to spy on us it means you can work for free." The two flinch, regret starts to boil in their hearts but this is the only way forward. Zitile waves her hand, "Come along now, let me show you into your uniforms and where you'll start. Nothing like free labor." Zitile shows them to the locker room and spends half an hour explaining how it works to them, next is the break room, wash room which took an hour for some reason.
[AU: INFO
- Azuria products are advances but they mainly traded common stuff used by other nations but they made it look 'sleek'. The weapons they sold are mainly just swords and bows but they've enchanted them so it's better than ordinary weapons and a lot cheaper and common compared to how they had to get enchanted weapons.
- Azuria even sold enchanted plates that clean themselves after using them, wine kegs that was inwardly way bigger than 20 kegs, clothes than auto-clean themselves and various other products that are just satisfying to watch.
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