Spider Puppet (Part 1)

The man looked up at Saleen. Seeing the tears in his eyes, he was astonished. He waved his hand and said, "Come over here. You are a friend of Aini?"

"Yes," Saleen said as he walked over. "I’m Saleen, Saleen Metatrin."

As he spoke, he took out the silver badge that Aini had given him, placing it on the table. At the center of the badge was the lion symbol belonging to the Clyde family.

The man did not move. The golden-haired woman moved first and took Aini’s badge into her hands, feeling it.

Saleen had already calmed down and was looking at the man’s laboratory. Like Faerun, he was using corrosive rays to carve gemstones, but Faerun used an alchemy array made of over three thousand metal parts and his setup was much more intricate.