A SWINDLER

There were around eleven rocks on the table after this old man tipped the package upside down and grinned at both of them.

"Pick! Pick!" He said excitedly, as he nudged the rocks toward them. "I will give them to you below market price! I got these from the Red Claw pack."

Red Claw was the richest pack in this continent and had the biggest mines, bigger than what Howling Wolf pack and Blue Moon pack had combined. Most of their magic stones had the element of fire, unlike their mines, which consisted of earth and water elements, though the latter type was hard to find.

Iris looked at Cane, who nodded at those rocks.

"Pick," he said.

She felt that he wanted her to pick the water magic stone to replace the one that she gave to Ania during their journey to the Howling Wolf pack.