“Thanks for giving so sugar, aunt Nina. Have a safe journey and see you soon!”
Eren said this and went to take a seat at the sa sofa they had their first ‘encounter’ on. He was looking at Nina who stood there with a blank look on her face.
Nina quickly gained her wits and processed what had just happened. Eren had manipulated her into kissing him and encashed on it hard.
Nina rushed to Eren to pull his cheeks as a punishnt for his manipulative act. But when she approached his face with her hands, he just showed her the spot that she had just nded with her spell:
“Aunt Nina, do you want to injure again only to nd back with your spell?”
Eren smirked at Nina while saying that. He had a good move to save him from her constant nips from now on. Injuring himself to get his hands on this trump card was worth it.
“Little rat, you took advantage of !”
Nina stood in front of Eren and looked at him scornfully while having a pout. A pout on a mature woman like her still looked surprisingly cute. She had managed to own that pout with her gorgeous face and her temperant.
Eren took her hand in his and said:
“Aah! I already said this, right? Whether you take advantage of or I take advantage of you, we both shouldn’t mind the other doing that. At least I didn’t. Why are you getting angry then?”
Eren caressed her hand again to pacify her while he said that. He had tried to pull her to his side, but she didn’t budge from her stance. Eren knew he couldn’t make her do sothing that was against her wish with his rankless status. There he had to nudge her towards him by holding her hand and caressing it.
‘I’ve made a huge mistake yesterday. This scoundrel will forever hold that against from now on.’ Nina thought to herself. But she also couldn’t help but find so truth in his statents. Therefore her mood lightened up a little.
The caressing of Nina’s hand was working but it wouldn’t stay effective for long. That’s why Eren decided to pacify her so more by complinting her.
“Aunt Nina, I like the rose accords in the scent that you wear. It suits you fine as well. But…”
“B..but what? Say it quickly? I have to make so preparations before going on a mission.”
“But I think there’s one more EDP that will suit you even better. Its na is Be Erna Soliflore.
I found out about perfu when I accidentally visited a perfur’s shop once. I imdiately knew it would be an ideal choice for you when I tested it. I will get it for you when the shop opens.”
Eren was trying to change the subject for the better. Then he rembered Nina liked wearing perfus with notes of roses. What would be a better way to pacify a scorned woman than gifting her sothing she likes?
“Hmph! Alright.”
Eren kept talking random things to her while sending ninja complints her way. Nina finally let go of her short lasted pout and smiled mirthlessly at him.
“Little rat, I see that you’ve got a glib tongue. I had told you we should wait till you grow up a little, but this incident was my fault for being swayed by your act. Rest assured though, I’ll be careful henceforth and treat you like the little devil you are.
I’ll have to prepare for the mission now. Don’t worry about . I’ll prioritize my safety above everything else during all tis.
But I need so potion related ingredients urgently. So I might go to the city of Laurel after I’m done with this assignnt. Assu that I’ll be out for almost a week.
You stay put during that ti. Don’t go outside too much till the Osan woods disturbance settles down.
And make sure you take care of the elentary potion delivery. We have all the raw ingredients ready that can last us for almost a month. That’s it. Do this much perfectly, and I might bring you sothing good from the city of Laurel.”
Nina still pulled Eren’s cheeks lightly while saying that.
‘Just bring dat ass!’ Eren said to himself while nodding externally.
Nina left the shop after a while. Eren closed the door behind her and traced his lips with the tip of his finger. He smirked lightly before shrugging his shoulders. He wasn’t disappointed in his slow progress with aunt Nina.
‘Eren, your patience will achieve more than your force. One step at a ti.’ The teen said to himself while making his way towards his hidden treasure. Eren had hidden the ID stones of his victims in the backyard, away from aunt Nina’s prying senses. He retrieved those stones and went back to his room.
Next, he called Reen up. She imdiately transford into her original form and stuck to his chest, spreading all over his torso. Only one emotion dominated her mind right now that she kept on shouting in Eren’s psyche repetitively.
‘Hungry for days. Starving for centuries. Famished for an eternity.’
Reen’s definitions of her hunger’s severity and duration kept on getting larger and more intensifying than the last thought. It took her a while to calm down. Eren said she’ll have her food by evening today. Only then did she regain her composure.
Eren was rankless till now. He couldn’t access the ID stones’ storage spaces even if he wanted to. But that didn’t an that he was out of ways to achieve the sa results. He had Reen. A starving C Rank demon beast with her ample mana sense, who’ll do anything for him as long as he keeps on feeding her.
First, Eren asked Reen to create an isolating shield with her mana sense to block any outgoing mana waves. Although unlikely, the ID stones might have a tracker inscribed on them that would let soone else track the location of the stone from a remote distance when he tries to activate it or access the storage space inside.
Eren knew about these things beforehand. Therefore, he already employed Reen to take precautions. Next, he made Reen use her mana sense to access the storage space of a random ID stone. He instructed her to take out all the stuff from within it.
After checking the content belonging to the first ID stone, Eren asked Reen to do the sa process with the rest of the samples, one by one. When he was done with the last ID stone, the teen found out that he had struck rich. But there were also so concerns.
Eren found out he was now the richest teen he knew of in both his lives with loads of Extols laying in front of him. He could surmise that there were around 100 Extols that he was now the proud owner of.
Extols are non-elental gems with the purest of mana contained within them. They can be man-made or be found in nature. Since the cost of manufacturing the Extols would normally be the sa as their original value, there was no use counterfeiting the items.
The gems are used and employed in various ways. They are incorporated in making inscriptions, arrays, weapons, artefacts, potions, scrolls, and other various items and accessories, which are widely used by hunters, adventurers, potioneers, inscribers, weapon masters, and artefact makers.
That’s why Extols has been used as the most common form of currency across many kingdoms and empires. Since it had many uses, its value never depreciated over ti. The currency was mainly used by ranked entities when they were dealing with other ranking personnel or buying ranked products.
Extols could be exchanged with the kingdom’s currency and vice versa in the kingdom’s banking establishnts spread across various cities and a few popular towns. Typically, the exchange rate would fluctuate among the kingdoms depending upon their respective financial conditions. But typically, even a single Extol would be sufficient for a normal, rankless person to spend more than a few months in complete leisure no matter which kingdom they belonged to.
Eren never thought that he would be having these many Extols this early in his restarted life. The sum must be close to Nina’s annual inco, more or less. Furthermore, the various storage spaces also contained the money in the form of the kingdom’s currency. Eren figured that he wouldn’t require aunt Nina to sponsor him for a few years with this much amount of the kingdom’s currency alone.
Eren continued looking through his loot for the ti being. Apart from the 100 Extols, he was now the new owner of so weapons, scrolls, potions, and a few artefacts he wasn’t aware of how to make use of. Eren could infer they all belonged to the F Rank, only their tier differed.
Stored within the ID stones were also random, rank-less items such as clothes, accessories, and even personal hygiene products belonging to both genders. But Eren didn’t pay them much attention.
But the most important and concerning thing within those rankless items was a palm-sized, wooden-like token that had unique insignia etched on it along with the word Osan written below it. It was a city lord’s token. That could only an one thing.
Eren had killed soone belonging to the Osan city lord’s family!
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