After looking through the first book for a while until he managed to get the most important information, Eisen looked at the next book that was of interest to him at the mont, the one about multiple different ways to practice magic, but the mont that he flipped this book open, lissa reacted to sothing.
"Hm? What’s wrong?" The old man asked while the queen bee looked toward the carriage’s door, nudging her head in its direction. "You want to go outside? Wait, is it because of the scouts?" Eisen asked her, and lissa quickly nodded her head before Eisen stood up and grabbed his backpack as well as his sword that was, as usual, wrapped in cloth to make carrying it easier, after changing back into his suit.
This seed like a weird combination at first, but Eisen chose to wear the suit instead of the Leather armor so that he could make a good first impression, and he really just needed the sword in case things went south so that he could defend himself.
Eisen imdiately left the carriage and made his way out of the stables, following the instructions that lissa gave him to where Kor’s brother might be. After a while, they reached a small shop in the outskirts of town with a huge sign above it, reading "rc’s Glory".
The mont that Eisen read this, he could already figured out the na that Kor’s brother chose. From what Kor described him as, he seed to be the kind of person to put his na on the front of his store.
With a loud sigh, Eisen then slowly opened the front door of the shop and stepped inside. They didn’t seem to be selling one thing, but instead everything that they could get their hands on.
Food, tals, low-grade potions, and other random items, and the majority of what was being sold didn’t seem quite as high-quality as Eisen would have expected. He didn’t know whether Kor’s brother just didn’t care, or if there was so kind of active business decision to choose quantity over quality with this shop.
The mont that Eisen stepped inside, he noticed lissa fidgeting on his shoulder, and the five soldier bees in his backpack trying to escape. Soon enough, Eisen found the reason for that. In the middle of the shop stood a man with red hair similar to Kor’s, just a few shades darker, wearing a navy colored suit and pure white gloves, holding two crushed scout bees in his hands.
With anger starting to boil up inside of him at the sight of soone so easily killing the monsters that his adorable little lissa hatched and that were so eagerly protecting their queen so far, Eisen closed his eyes and activated his Truth Seeing eyes before holding his hand in front of one of them that he then opened to take a look at the man’s level and na, shortly after telling lissa to imdiately hide in his backpack with the other bees.
[Player - rc]
[Race - Human][Occupation - Combat rchant][Level - 67]
A Combat rchant? That seed to be quite self-explanatory to Eisen at first, but what he was wondering about most at the ti was the stat distribution. If he was good at physical combat, he would probably have a distribution similar to Eisen’s, where he needed to keep his physical stats up for the combat part of his occupation and his ntal stats for his rchant side of the occupation.
If this was the case, Eisen definitely had the upper hand if it ca to a combat situation, at the very least when you would judge everything purely by looking at the stats
Either way, first Eisen stepped in closer into the shop after obviously deactivating his Truth Seeing Eyes skill and finally caught rc’s attention. The young man looked over to Eisen, letting his eyes wander up and down for a while before lightly grinning. It was quite badly lit, so he probably thought that Eisen was here for a different reason than he actually was, because he looked behind Eisen and saw Caria standing there.
"Ah, are you a custor of ours? Is there anything wrong with one of our products?" rc asked as he took off his now dirty gloves and laid them down on the counter next to him.
While Eisen was grinding his teeth, rc stepped further toward him with a bright but sinister smile on his face. "If that is the case, I have to excuse myself. I only took over this business a few days ago, so things are still quite ssy."
Trying to play along to a degree, Eisen shook his head as he looked through the shop, trying to find anything that might let rc think he has been a custor there before. But that’s when he noticed sothing important.
All of the food was already at the very least starting to rot, and there were cobwebs covering the shelves and items standing on them. This is not sothing that a person like the rc that Kor described would allow in their shop. If that was the case, then this seed to be a cover, a fake. The real shop was sothing else.
"I’m not here to complain, I want to buy sothing." Eisen then said with a low voice, and rc nodded as his grin grew even more sinister, waving his arm toward a door leading to the back as he stepped toward it himself, pulling out a bronze key which was used to unlock that door.
"Follow , please. Whether that thing cos along or not is up to you." rc said, and Eisen was confused even more. Did he figure out that Caria was a monster? Even then though, she did look 100 percent like a small girl, so the expression ’that thing’ seed quite unusual.
Only a short while later did Eisen find out the reason for such wording.
"What would your price range be? We have low-quality products starting at around 5 Gold Coins, while our product with the highest price is currently at 10 Platinum Coins." rc explained carefully, imdiately leaving Eisen to be confused even further. 10 Platinum coin? That was far, far above what Eisen expected to hear as a price right now. What kind of items could rc have access to right now? So kind of ancient relic, maybe?
"Hmm, do you have a general display, by chance?" Eisen asked, carefully making sure that Caria was walking next to him within constant sight, so that he could react whenever necessary. The young man rc nodded while smiling softly, continuing to walk through the hallway before opening a large door that already gave off a completely different feeling than the shop in the front, as if this was a high-quality luxury store.
The mont that the door was opened, Eisen was t with the sight of cages over cages filled with different creatures. Most of them just seed to be monsters in the end, but a few of them just looked so much like humans that it was quite terrifying.
This wasn’t a regular shop, this was sothing like a monster shop.
Eisen gulped loudly as he stepped into the room, following rc further in. "This is our general display, filled with Lower-Grade and Mid-Grade products. If you want to take a look at High-Grades, we have a special display for them." rc explained quietly as he pointed at a few different ’products’ that he wanted to recomnd to Eisen, who was just looking around in confusion.
If this place was just selling monsters, it wasn’t that big a deal, was it? Sure, they were kept in quite inhumane ways, but Eisen honestly expected worse. A shop like this would probably be perfect for all kinds of tars, and honestly not too bad a concept. For that reason, Eisen turned to rc with a deep frown.
"If I’m allowed to ask, why do you do that play with the front of the shop? Selling monsters shouldn’t be illegal, right?"
Surprised, rc began frowning back at Eisen at such an unexpected question. "You see, even though most of the products we sell are monsters, every once in a while we have a few that technically aren’t. And I’m sure you understand that most officials aren’t quite happy with having so many monsters in town that technically aren’t tad." He explained quickly, and Eisen began thinking about part of what rc just said.
"Could you show so that ’technically’ aren’t Monsters, if you have any at the ti?" Eisen asked, simply because he wanted to see what rc ant.
The rchant nodded his head before pointing toward another door that seed to be locked again. "We currently actually do have one, yes. It’s a young boy, half monster, half human." rc explained as he slowly unlocked the other door before opening it up, quickly stepping into the room.
Different to the simple cages in the room they were just in, this room seed to have a number of different cells similar to what a prison may have.
"Here he is, we have his price currently set at a single Platinum Coin." rc explained, pointing at one of the cells so that Eisen could take a look.
And what he saw was a young boy that definitely couldn’t even have reached his teenage years yet judging from looks alone, and through his hair that seed to be a dark blonde through all of the dirt caught inside of it, a few bright blue strands could be seen.
For so reason, Eisen had a weird feeling in his gut at this, and he placed a hand over his right eye while closing his left and activated his Truth Seeing Eyes to take a look at who that boy was.
[Sky]
[Race - Fey-Kin (Pixie)][Occupation - None][Level - 15]
Eisen imdiately jumped once he read through this small amount of information, deactivating his Truth Seeing Eyes. He kept staring at the boy and began to mutter to himself. "A Pixie Fey-Kin that looks that young... That... can’t be a coincidence..."
Without once averting his eyes from the boy, Sky, Eisen lifted his hand and placed it around the tal bars, activating his Giant’s Strength skill as well as the transmutation ability of his alchemy, slowly removing parts of the bar he was currently touching. The mont that everything was cracked and brittle enough, Eisen pulled at the bar with all his force, throwing it behind him.
Imdiately, rc looked at Eisen in confusion while Sky began shaking in fear at what Eisen just did.
"What the fuck are you doing, old man?" rc yelled out, losing his cool as he grabbed Eisen’s shoulder. Slowly, the old man then in turned around and stared rc in the eyes with anger deeply buried inside of them.
To further amplify his strength, Eisen then activated his elental transformation turned toward earth to support his shoulders and upper back, as well as Eisen’s arm. "That’s what I should be asking you." Eisen said with a seemingly calm voice, grabbing the sword from behind his back and letting the cloth fall off, which imdiately led to rc jumping backward while roots began growing around his legs, causing him to drop onto his back.
"You know what? For a second, I thought you weren’t as bad as I heard. But I was really wrong about that." Eisen said slowly as he pointed his sword toward rc’s face to make sure he wouldn’t move during what was about to happen.
Carefully, Eisen poured mana out of his hands and began transmuting the ground and wall around rc to completely cover and as such, trap him. This probably wouldn’t hold for a long ti, but it should be enough to trap rc for a while, while Eisen himself got to work.
He first squatted down and looked rc in the eyes, before imdiately being spit at by him. "That’s not really nice, now is it? You should respect your elders, Eric." Eisen said with a low voice so that Sky wouldn’t hear him, and rc’s eyes imdiately shot open.
"You’re a fucking Oga too?! What company sent you here to fuck with ?!" The young man and possible heir to a billion dollar company yelled out, filled with anger, and Eisen leaned forward slowly.
"You have it wrong. I’m not an Oga. I’m one of the five that ca before you lot. And I’m quite aware of who you are, as you can guess. Tell now, where is the key to that boy’s slave collar?" Eisen asked quietly, and rc simply spit in his face again.
"Fuck off! Why should I ever tell you fucking bastard sothing like that?! How much do you want to let out of here right now? A thousand? Ten thousand? Na your fucking price, asshole!"
"Sorry, I’m not for sale. Now then, how about I get rid of a dangerous situation here instead? Either you tell , or I kill every single one of the monsters inside of this place." Eisen said with a soft smile that was quite obviously set up, and rc stared at him with even more anger.
"You wouldn’t fucking dare! Fine, take that little ass with you then, the key is in the office by the front shop, so fuck off!"
Satisfied at that answer, Eisen stood up and cracked his knuckles before swinging his Zweihänder over his shoulder and leaving out the door toward the monster display again, while rc yelled after him, "H-Hey, I told you where the keys are, so what the fuck do you think you’re doing?!"
With a light smile, Eisen turned back toward him and winked. "Well, you did get rid of one reason for killing every one of your monsters by telling that... But there is another one." With a smile, Eisen cued the bees in his backpack to fly out and land on Eisen’s shoulders before he continued to speak. "You killed so of my monsters, so I’ll kill all of yours."
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