As the high-status customers on the first floor of the Supreme Herbal Shop got a little off topic in their discussions, Sage Esenel and his guests had taken a shortcut and ascended to the Ninth Floor. Moreover, they were gathered within the most prestigious room on the Ninth Floor—the personal diagnostic room of the Shop Owner. It was usually only ever used to diagnose extremely powerful people, top-level world figures, or Kings and Rulers.
Yet now it was being used to diagnose a woman of seemingly ordinary status, someone who would normally never even see the Second Floor of the Supreme Herbal Shop. However, after getting Romulus's permission to place her on a cold, soothing slab of Ice Queen Jade, she touched something normally out of reach.