"How could you rember all their locations? I don't rember their places!"
I laughed and replied with pride:
"I knew they were a very important species. So I noticed their locations."
"You talk like an animal keeper. Wake up, this is not a zoo.
We are going to kill them, not ta them."
"Ta? What do you an by taming them?"
"Here in the ga, any player can ta any monster."
"Why would I ta such a dangerous fellow? It could kill from behind!"
"You got it wrong. When you ta a monster it becos your pet. This pet can help you in fight and beco like a loyal teammate to you. It also grows by gaining XP from battles like you.
So it's the best teammate ever."
"Really? Tell , my dear Shin, how can I ta a monster? I want to ta a legendary grade monster."
"You know your pathetic seducing try is not effective on . Listen carefully as I will tell you only this ti. To ta a monster you need to fulfill so conditions.
First, it must be a cub monster and its best if it was recently born or you owned its egg. Second, you need to reach a certain MANA value before you can ta it.
MANA is never to raise stat to us lee classes, but if you want to ta a monster then you need to pay attention to this point. Every monster has his MANA value.
So I don't recomnd you raise your MANA for now. The third condition is to be over lvl50. This condition is a loose one. The last condition is the easiest of all; if the monster chooses you then you can ta him easily."
These conditions were really bad. I thought I could ta a tiger or a wolf. These conditions were very hard to et. While I was sinking in my thoughts, I heard Shin scream of surprise pointing to a small stall at the end of the street.
"That stall is the legendary wanderer stall!"
Although he seed too surprised, I didn't understand his reason.
He didn't elaborate more as he looked around to see if he attracted anyone by his loud voice. We were in a very busy street and his sound though it was high but no one noticed it.
We were in the middle of a very noisy place. I looked to him in question but he just explained everything in the chat of our small team:
"This stall isn't just a normal stall. It only appeared in novice villages. Its appearance is usually random. When it appears in any village, it won't last there for more than one hour.
We passed through this place many tis and I didn't notice him till now. It must have just appeared."
I looked at this mysterious stall. Actually I didn't notice anything special about it. Without him pointing straight to this stall, I would never have noticed it. I said in the chat:
"I'm curious, how did you know it was this stall? I don't find anything special about him."
He walked towards the stall in big steps while saying in the chat:
"Do you see that NPC standing behind the stall? It's the stall landmark."
"I don't understand. What is so special about this NPC?"
"NPCs never open stalls. Not here not in the towns and not anywhere. If you saw a stall with NPC behind it, you know for sure it was a special stall. Never miss a chance of such rarity and quality."
We had reached the stall. When we appeared, the NPC looked at us with no interest and then continued his daydreaming attitude. When I looked at the stall I froze at once.
This stall sold skill books! I drooled over these books like a hungry cat looking at a delicious fish. Shin was like , he didn't move his eyes from these books.
Unfortunately, we couldn't know any info about these books or even their prices. Shin asked eagerly:
"Sir, can you please tell us what skill books do you have here and what are their prices?"
That cold looking NPC just glanced at Shin. They looked to the sky as if we weren't in front of him. I felt nervous about this weirdo. When I looked at Shin, I felt as if he was accustod to this man's cold attitude.
I was going to ask him again when his deep voice ca like he was speaking from a deep well:
"There are 5 skill books for each Adventure class.
Also, I have skill books for lifestyle classes. What skill books are you looking for?"
I was about to ask for skill books for my class but Shin was faster as he rushed saying like he was in front of a precious chance he was afraid to miss:
"I want lifestyle skill books for sure."
"Which skills do you need?"
He looked at while I felt like an ignorant little kid in front of him. Although he always behaved in a silly funny way, sotis he transford to be like a totally different person.
This transformation never occurred without good reason. Either we were in front of a crisis or a very big opportunity.
"I want a forging skill book, Alchemy skill book, gathering skill book, mining skill book, collecting skill book and machinery skill book. I also wanted a scout skill book and observation skill book.
Do you have any CC skill books for lee classes?"
I didn't understand any of these books except for the alchemist skill book. When I learned it I would be able to forge my weapons and equipnt, right?
"I have two CC skill books for lee classes."
Shin muttered, "That's a pretty shortlist."
"I do have five auxiliary skill books too for lee classes."
"What did you say? Auxiliary skill books?"
"Yes, but they aren't cheap. Each book costs 1 silver coin each. I don't accept anything except coins."
I was angry with both of them as they neglected as if I was invisible.
I entered this unknown discussion for asking in a similar cold tone:
"What is the price of the previous skill books then?"
"Each lifestyle skill book costs 500 copper coins. Each CC skill book costs 750 copper coins. As I said before, I only accept coins not a pawn shop."
That NPC stuff is really expensive. He also treated us like we were nobody. I felt humiliated. Before I did sothing foolish, Shin sent a ssage in our chat:
"Don't move even a single hair of yours. This NPC level is over 100. Just a breath from him and you will be dead before you even know. This NPC has very excellent skill books for us.
We just needed to be patient and endure."
I was about to argue with him but he added:
"This skill book of forging if you wanted to buy it from the NPC store in towns you won't find it. Only NPC stores in the city sell it.
You either learn it from a blacksmith association and pay 100 gold coins or you wait till your level exceeds level 100 to be able to go to the city and buy it with a price of 1 gold coin. This stall is very cheap."
That price fluctuation made worry. I understood that the blacksmith association was monopolizing the market in towns.
But the difference between 500 copper coins and one gold coin was imnse.
"Are you sure these skill books are authentic?"
He looked at first till he understood my aning. He replied at once:
"This stall is a kind of ga to help newbie players like us.
These prices are estimated on the net wealth of the whole players, not just us alone. The ga is planned by these prices to enable players to get only one skill book. We are the exception to this rule."
"Then it appeared from nothingness in front of us by luck?"
"Indeed. The main factor for its appearance in front of players is the Luck hidden stat. your luck value is very high so it's natural for it to appear in front of us after we get so wealth."
I tried to tease him like what he always did to saying:
"Now our poor money has turned miraculously into wealth?"
He laughed replying to :
"Money value isn't in its amount but by how much you can benefit from it. All these skill books here if you tried to buy them back at town will earn you a fortune."
"Really? So why don't we buy so useless skill books for us and sell them?"
"Silly girl will always be a silly girl. Don't you understand math?
Just do so calculations and tell how much we will pay to this NPC?"
I really didn't calculate our current small wealth.
We ca out from the NPC store with 22 silver coins and 660 copper coins. We bought 100 HP recovery potions for each of us. Each potion cost 20 copper coins, so we spent 4 silver coins on these only.
We also bought 50 simple bread for each of us. Each simple bread cost 5 copper coins. We also bought 100 obacle juices for each of us. Each obacle juice cost 20 copper coins.
That left us with only 18 silver coins and 440 copper coins. That was in case we added the original 100 copper coins we already had at the start of the ga.
We needed 19 silver coins to be able to buy all these books. I looked at Shin who said like the one who knew everything:
"Do you understand how poor we are?"
"Why don't we go back and bring back all the remaining trash equipnt and sell them. Their price will allow us to buy what we need and even more."
"There is no ti to do that. This stall won't be around till we finish all this. Give all the equipnt you got from the 10 player team that caused the previous strife."
I had 7 pieces of equipnt from these players. I gave them all to him while he moved to the busy street disappearing from my sight. I didn't understand how these 7 pieces of equipnt would change our dire situation.
We needed at least 560 copper coins. I didn't check those equipnt stats. If they had stats then our problem would be solved.
But if they were just like the trash equipnt we just sold, then we would get only 280 copper coins. We were still 280 copper coins short. I tried to know any info about these skill books on the stall but that cold NPC didn't agree.
He told to see them myself after I bought them. I kept my silence and got bored from this stall. After ten minutes, Shin appeared again with a big smile over his face.
I didn't know why he was this happy. Once he reached he said to the NPC with confidence:
"I will buy two skill books from each lifestyle book I have ntioned before.
I also need all the CC skill books and all these auxiliary skill books."
"That will cost you 19 silver coins."
"Here are the 19 silver coins."
I thought our luck was really high, as it seed all the equipnt I gave him was with stats. What he said next surprised as he said:
"I also need skill books for lee classes, specifically swordsman and spearman classes."
"I have many skill books for these two classes. Do you need sothing specific?"
I noticed Shin was thinking very hard for a mont then he said:
"I need AOE skill books for the two classes."
"I have one skill book for each class."
"How much is the skill book?"
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