CH.151 Selling Boars and Orcs
<span style="font-weight:400">“WHAT THE HELL WERE YOU THINKING!?” I was being yelled at.
<span style="font-weight:400">The one yelling at me was Vivien, probably because everyone else was going different kinds of crazy. I hadnded close to the carriages that we rode with LV8 Horus, not really considering that I justnded arge dragon next to some horses. Vivien and Tye were able to keep the horses from running away, but that doesn’t change the fact that I shouldn’t have done that. I need some sort of calm field skill that I can use whenever Ind with a dragon or something.
<span style="font-weight:400">I was ready to unsummon Horus as soon as wended, but Tye realized what I was about to do and insisted that he could look it over first. He also asked some questions about how I was able to grow a summon that fast. I’m a bit surprised by him realizing that the LV8 Horus is the same dragon we took off on.
<span style="font-weight:400">Paulina was tired and seemed to be falling asleep on one of the carriages. Alice just didn’t care and was sitting next to her sister. I guess she is used to my BS already. Alex, Rhys and Arvin had taken the ce of Vivien and Tye in holding the horses down.
<span style="font-weight:400">“I’m sorry. I really didn’t think about it as no one said anything when I first summoned Horus.” I tried to defend myself.
<span style="font-weight:400">“Oh don’t try an excuse like that. That thing was tinypared to that full grown dragon.” Vivien said. “You’d better hope and pray that no one saw that dragon or you will face problems with the guild or even the feudal lord.”
<span style="font-weight:400">“... yes. I understand. I’m sorry.” I said again.
<span style="font-weight:400">“At least tell me you got what you headed out for.” Vivien said, turning to Lua.
<span style="font-weight:400">“Yes. We secured enough blood.” Lua answered. “We also have 10 forest boar corpses to sell.”
<span style="font-weight:400">“You really need to keep your summoner in check or he will cause you more trouble that you can deal with.” Vivien instructed Lua. I’m not positive, but I think she might be speaking from experience.
<span style="font-weight:400">“Well, he might just be worth the trouble.” Lua defended me.
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<span style="font-weight:400">As I unsummoned Horus, he let out something that sounded almost like speech.
<span style="font-weight:400">{Vinxa for shir ve ekess mavorge sia gliiwr adon pliso. Si charis ekess aso mrith dout reelojawale persvek wer papref.}
<span style="font-weight:400">Well, something like that, anyway.
<span style="font-weight:400">(That is draconguage, Master. Anyone with Language Comprehension (dragon) could understand it.) Laura said.
<span style="font-weight:400">(Oh. Can you trante it?) I asked.
<span style="font-weight:400">(No. I can recognizenguages but not trante them. Trantion might be possible if I reach advanced level or if Master figures out a way to improve his Language Comprehension.) Laura said.
<span style="font-weight:400">(I see. I should work on that.) Not that I have any idea how to do it.
<span style="font-weight:400">I wonder if Buster der or Dark Pdin could do it. Buster der is a dragon hunter and he took care of a baby dragon and everything. I think he might be able to speak draconic.
<span style="font-weight:400">Also, if Horus can speak, I wonder if Blue-Eyes can as well. I don’t know, but it is possible.
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<span style="font-weight:400">We got to the city and went through the VIP gate. I asked the guards about any reports about strong monsters, but they said they hadn’t gotten any, so no one probably saw Horus. Hopefully. Or the report just hasn’te in yet.
<span style="font-weight:400">On the way to the town, Paulina had apparently bought four of the eight orc corpses from us, even though she was part of the party that took them down. I have no idea what she wants that many for, but it''s not my ce to question her. One for the meat should be fine, but four? Is she nning on feeding an army?
<span style="font-weight:400">Well, at least it makes unloading the corpses easier.
<span style="font-weight:400">At the guild, we made a report about the sessful quest and also added a report about the forest boars. While it wasn’t the truth, the report said that we ran into the boars while searching for the orc settlement. Tye and Vivien rmended reporting it like that, as hunting monsters below your rank is looked down upon. Unless you have to do it for the quest or because they attack you. Or if they are trash mobs.
<span style="font-weight:400">The guild did offer to buy the orc carcasses, but the boars they rmended we should take to a butcher. Or just cut them up ourselves and sell the meat, hide and core. The guild could do it, but it would make us less money, as the convenience fee for having the guild do it is quite high. I probably would still use the guild’s service myself, but as we were partied up with some locals, they knew a few ces that would buy the boars.
<span style="font-weight:400">They took us to a medium sized butcher’s shop named Jeremy’s Meat. He took a quick look at the boars we brought him and immediately wanted to buy them. He seemed to have a good eye for the meat, as he recognized the skill with which the blood had been drained from them. I would say thank Lua, but these were drained by Vampire Lord. Though I think he might faint if I told him that. And Tye would definitely attack me for more information.
<span style="font-weight:400">The shop owner ended up buying all ten of the forest boars that we had, for a price that Vivian said was good. We got a total of 35 gold coins for the 10 boars. That means 3 gold and tworge silver per boar. Combined with the 80 gold coins we got for the 8 orcs, we were sitting at a decent pile of money. Saber Fang also got a separate reward for being the leading party in the search and destroy quest, but we decided to let them keep that money, while the four of us would split the money from the boars. (Paulina refused her share, as she didn’t actually do anything against the boars. She also didn’t take a cut from the orc sales, as she was the one buying half of them.) With that, Alex, Lua, Alice and I had 75 gold coins to split between the four of us. That ended with 18 gold and 3rge silver coins for each of us. As the sale money was all in gold coins, I ended up usingrge silvers from my own wallet to break up a few gold coins so we could split the money.
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<span style="font-weight:400">“Brian, could I ask you toe with me to the dhampir vige tomorrow?” Lua asked as we were going our separate ways.
<span style="font-weight:400">“Tomorrow? Sure. I have no ns.” I said back.
<span style="font-weight:400">“And I was hoping you could give my mother and I a ride there.” She added.
<span style="font-weight:400">“On Overdrive? Sure.”
<span style="font-weight:400">“Thank you.” Lua said. “I really want to get this done.”
<span style="font-weight:400">“Yeah. No problem.” I said.
<span style="font-weight:400">(I’ll send you the location of Mistress’ mother’s house, so you’ll know where to find it.) I heard Lua’s System Support in my head.
<span style="font-weight:400">That actually reminds me.
<span style="font-weight:400">(Laura, did we send the map data collected today over to her?) I asked.
<span style="font-weight:400">(Particle map data was sent, but not all of it. I was going to send the rest during the night.) Laura said.
<span style="font-weight:400">(Sure, but why not just do it immediately?) I asked.
<span style="font-weight:400">(Unlike what you assume, Master, we don’t have infinite processing power. And as Miss Lucia’s System Support is still basic, she cannot receive information as fast as I can send it. And detailed map data has a lot of information to process.) Laura exined.
<span style="font-weight:400">Okay. So the supeputers called System Support are not that super. They are just regrputers.
<span style="font-weight:400">(We could be super if we reached a higher rank.) Laura said.
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<span style="font-weight:400">“Could we make a few stops?” I asked Alice and Paulina on our way back to Sawyer manor.
<span style="font-weight:400">“What kind of stops?” Alice asked.
<span style="font-weight:400">“I need to buy a few things.” I responded.
<span style="font-weight:400">“What kinds of things?” Paulina asked. “Perhaps I can show you to a good store.”
<span style="font-weight:400">“Well, I need at least a magic pen. Christina actually gave me an order slip for one before we even left Alewatch. I also wanted to take a look at some armor. And perhaps some other clothing.” I said.
<span style="font-weight:400">The pen was the most important thing, so I could get into contact with Christina. I need to discuss the monster situation in the dungeon with her. The armor and clothing are honestly for Lunatite experiments.
<span style="font-weight:400">“A magic pen. I see. I know a ce.” Paulina said. “It’s a bit of a walk, so we should get a carriage.”
<span style="font-weight:400">“Oh. A carriage. I can take care of that.” I said before getting Overdrive out of the collection. “Overdrive.”
<span style="font-weight:400">“Wh…what is that?” Paulina asked.
<span style="font-weight:400">“Overdrive. My golem carriage.” I answered before opening the door.
<span style="font-weight:400">“... is it safe?” Paulina asked.
<span style="font-weight:400">“Yes.” Alice answered before getting on the front seat.
<span style="font-weight:400">“... Well, if you say so.” Paulina said.
<span style="font-weight:400">She got into the back seat and I got into the driver''s seat.
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<span style="font-weight:400">We actually got stopped twice on our way to the shop by patrolling knights, but I just opened the door and showed them the mithril medal and they would let us keep going.
<span style="font-weight:400">“Is this the ce?” I asked Paulina as we had reached the store she rmended.
<span style="font-weight:400">As I didn’t hear an answer from her, I looked to the back seat and saw her sleeping there. She really must be tired. Perhaps I can just let her sleep.
<span style="font-weight:400">I got out of Overdrive and an employee of the store came outside to greet me. I asked her where I should park my carriage and she showed me the ce. I ordered Overdrive to drive there. I love this self-driving APC. I decided to let Paulina sleep in Overdrive, but I was a bit scared of leaving her there alone, so I ended up summoning Dancing Fairy to keep an eye on her. And to make sure no one could steal Overdrive. Of course it would be difficult to steal a sentient APC, but I’m not sure how my machine monsters work exactly. There is a chance that Overdrive can’t resistmandsing from the pedals and the steering wheel on the driver’s seat.
<span style="font-weight:400">Summoning two monsters of course meant that I would need to keep my duel disk active, but that is a small price to pay for ease of mind.
<span style="font-weight:400">The employee then led both Alice and I into the store.
<span style="font-weight:400">We ended up buying a few things. For one, I got my magic pen. It looked like a normal ballpoint pen on the outside, except that instead of having the clickity bit on the top, it had a sliding thing on the side. When slid downwards, it revealed the end that could turn mana into ink. And when slid up, it would reveal an eraser end that could use mana to erase the magic ink.
<span style="font-weight:400">I also found something called travel jam. It was apparently a longsting jam that made travel rations taste a lot better, so I ended up buying one jar of it. I didn’t have problems with foodst time, but better to have it just in case. I also analyzed the jam for dungeon reproduction. I think it might be a good idea to have some cheap food avable in the first floor of the dungeon, just in case adventurers forget to bring some. Perhaps I should use a copy of Emergency Provisions and analyze the food thates out of it and add that as well. And maybe some sort of water source would be good as well. I could use one of those water dispensers that the adventurer’s guild has for that.
<span style="font-weight:400">Alice also found a book written by a retired A-rank adventurer. It does seem useful, but she paid 6 gold coins for it. Not a price I would pay for a book.
<span style="font-weight:400">There was also a travel tea set that I ended up buying. No, I’m not addicted, I just thought it would be nice to have. I also picked up a jar of high quality tea leaves and an infuser while at it.
<span style="font-weight:400">In total, I ended up paying 7 gold and arge silver for my things. Compared to Alice’s book, I’d say not bad. Of course the pen was paid for by Christina, so it might have been more than I should have paid for some jam and tea. But I guess you have to pay for the quality stuff.
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<span style="font-weight:400">Our next stop was a clothing store. I wanted some PJs of my own. And some other clothes as well. I had noticed that the clothes I now wore didn’t have the always clean enchantment that my originals had. My underwear did survive that incident, but I wanted to hold onto them as my final clean pair, as having always clean underwear as your backup just sounds like a good idea. The same went for my socks.
<span style="font-weight:400">I checked plenty of clothing, but I really didn’t like most of the materials used. And the style on the higher quality ones wasn’t great for my daily wear, as they were mostly button-up shirts. I did buy one silk undershirt and some silk boxers. As well as two sets of silk PJs.
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<span style="font-weight:400">One more stop before going back to the manor.
<span style="font-weight:400">An armor shop. I had seen it on the way to the first store and drove back to it.
<span style="font-weight:400">I, again, parked Overdrive in what I assumed would be a good spot for it and went inside with Alice. After all, I was going to make some Lunatite armor for both of us, so I needed host clothing for it. Assuming that it will even work.
<span style="font-weight:400">“Wee.” I heard a female voice wee us as we walked into the store. “How may I help you?”
<span style="font-weight:400">I looked around trying to spot who spoke to us, but the only one I could see was the dwarf behind the counter. I assume he is a dwarf. He definitely looks the part. Short and bulky with a luscious beard.
<span style="font-weight:400">“Mister? Is something wrong?” I heard the female voice once again asking. But this time, I realized where it wasing from.
<span style="font-weight:400">The bearded dwarf had a female voice. She hade out from behind the counter and I could get a better look at her. I noticed her chest is … swollen. She has to be female. Probably. Or dwarfs are weird. Perhaps both.
<span style="font-weight:400">Now that I was looking at her closer, I noticed a few things that could have given away her gender. Other than her chest area.
<span style="font-weight:400">Firstly, her hair and beard were both well kept and partly in braids. Her beard actually reminded me a bit of the beard of Thor in Avengers: Endgame. No, not fat-Thor, but thebat Thor from the final fight.
<span style="font-weight:400">Her hair on the other hand was in many smaller braids. Doing a hairstyle like that has to take forever as you would have to separate your hair to small sections and then braid those sections.
<span style="font-weight:400">“Mister? Are you alright? You are starting a lot.” The female dwarf said.
<span style="font-weight:400">“I’m sorry.” I said as I lowered my head. “I’ve just never seen a dwarf before and wasn’t expecting a voice like that from … “ I ended up shutting my mouth at that point as the dwarf got a dark look on her face. “I’m sorry.” I repeated.
<span style="font-weight:400">“Well, I suppose I can let it slide if you buy something.” Thedy dwarf said to me. “So, what will it be? A weapon perhaps? Or some armor?”
<span style="font-weight:400">“Armor, please. For both me and her.” I said.
<span style="font-weight:400">“Brian. You don’t need to buy any for me.” Alice said. “I can get it myself.”
<span style="font-weight:400">“No. Armor is important. You can just pay me backter if it is that important.” I told Alice. I’m actually a bit surprised that she was going to buy it herself, instead of just asking me to buy it for her.
<span style="font-weight:400">“That is correct. Without it, one blow could be fatal.” The dwarf said. “And both of you seem to have very little. The miss has a jacket that might do something, but mister has nothing.”
<span style="font-weight:400">“Yeah. My equipment kind of broke a few days ago and I haven’t had time to pick up new stuff yet, so here I am.” I admitted.
<span style="font-weight:400">“Oh. I see. I shall get you something better that won’t break in the future.” The dwarfdy said.
<span style="font-weight:400">I hope it is something that can also host Lunatite.