CH.78 Staff for Alice
“Please get this.” Alice said, pointing at a wooden staff.
The staff was just over a ter long. It was made of a darker wood and had a crescent moon carved as its head.
“Why that one?” I asked her. “There are three other staves there and all of them have more decorations.”
“I just think it should be this.” Alice said as she picked it up.
Why that one? It just seems basic. Not that basic is bad, but I thought that she would go for one with more decorations or gems on it. The other three staves had magic stones, or sothing like that in them. One of them even had six of them. So why this one? I guess price wise this is cheaper, but I just don’t understand why she wants that one when she was going to have pay for it.
“...sure, we can ask the owner about the price when he cos back.” I told Alice. “I just don’t understand why you chose that one.”
“It just feels correct.” She answered.
Is it sothing to do with her attribute? Or her skill in magic? Or is the wood just higher quality? So many questions.
“Sir Brian.” I heard Lawrence call for . “I got your money.”
“Thank you.” I responded and took Alice with to the counter.
“Here you go. Please confirm it.” He said as he placed a bag on the counter.
“Actually,” I interrupted. “Alice is interested in that staff. How much would that cost?” I asked him.
“A staff? Which one?” He looked at the staff Alice was holding. He opened his eyes a little wider when he saw the one Alice picked. “Miss, are you sure you want that one?” He asked Alice.
“Yes.” Alice responded. “It felt the best for .”
“... I see. That staff is carved from a treant branch. I’m surprised you like it.” Lawrence said to Alice. “I’ve heard that they are more difficult to use and require higher levels of mana control. But they also improve over ti as they are used, so so mages swear by them.”
I guess Alice would have higher skills than most beginner mages after all her training, so a difficult to master staff that will grow with her might be for the best.
“So, how much is it?” I asked Lawrence.
“I can let it go for 30 gold.” He answered.
Thirty? That sounds low. Is he trying to give a super good deal again?
“Are you sure it's thirty?” I confird. “You are not trying to give another super good deal, are you?”
“Deal?” Alice asked next to . “No. We will pay the full price. I can’t have the Watchman na ruined.”
Does she even care about it? I’m surprised that she does.
“...I’ve never heard of soone haggling like that. Fine. Forty gold. That’s it. I won’t take more for it.” Lawrence gave up.
“Pleasure doing business with you.” I said to him. I opened the bag of coins he put out on the table and took out ten gold coins. Then I placed the magic fanny pack onto the table.
…
After a second of awkward silence, I asked him. “Will you take out the flask or not?”
“Oh, right.” He realized that he was frozen. Then he pulled out the box he showed last ti. “Here it is.” He handed the box over.
I slid the cover of the box to the side and confird that the flask was inside. And it was, so we are good to go. Then I took the ten gold coins and shoved it all inside my fanny pack.
“Thank you.” I said to Lawrence.
“Thank you.” Alice repeated after .
“I think I should be thanking you. This is the biggest sale I’ve made in a while.” He told us.
“But we are the ones walking out of here with the coins.” I joked.
“I’ll make that money back when I sell this.” He said, padding the magic fanny pack.
“Good luck.” I said to him as I took Alice’s arm. “Let’s go.”
“Yes. Goodbye.” Alice said to Lawrence as we left.
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I noticed sothing strange as I placed the magic flask that I just bought inside my fanny pack. The strange thing is, it actually went inside just fine. The one I made in the dungeon didn’t, so I just kept it in my pocket, but the new one went in just fine. I wonder why.
(It is because the flask you bought is empty and stored inside a box. The box prevents the interference that would normally co from stacking spatial distortions.) Laura told .
(So I can place an empty magic bag inside a magic bag if there is sothing in between?) I confird.
(Sothing that is made to reduce spatial interference.) Laura specified.
(I guess I should at so point search for sothing like that then.) I told Laura.
(Why? You don’t actually need it. Master is not a rchant and even most rchants wouldn’t have many items like that. They are seen as unnecessary, unless you deal in magic items that require them.) Laura told .
(I guess.) I admitted. (And I do have this one now.)
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“So, where are we going next?” Alice asked.
“What part of the ‘I have no plan’ did you forget?” I countered.
“All of it.” Alice joked.
“Well, we can go wherever we want.” I told her until I looked to the west. “At least until the rain starts.”
“Will we have to call off our date?” Alice asked.
“We are already on a date, aren’t we? Can we call off sothing that is already going on? It would be more like cutting it short.” I told her. “And I think those clouds won’t be here until the afternoon, so we still have ti.”
“Can’t you do sothing about them?” She asked.
“Are you asking to change the weather just so we can extend our date, where we already have no plans. I think it’s better not to ss with natural things too much. Not that I know if I could even do anything about the rainclouds.” I told her.
I have so monsters that might be able to do sothing, but honestly I don’t want to try. Blue-Eyes might be able to make a hole in the clouds and I guess I have a monster called Weather Report as well, but Weather Report’s effect has nothing to do with the weather. He actually counters different kinds of binding spells.
“Then we have to hurry. We don’t have the ti to just stand around.” Alice said as she pulled along.
“Well there's always tomorrow. And the day after that.” I told her.
“But Father will be ho soon and after that I can’t do things like this anymore.” Alice argued.
“Then you’ll just have to show to your father that going outside is good for you. You just got a nice staff that you wouldn’t have had without this date, so that’s already an improvent to your magic abilities.” I told her. “By the way, why didn’t you have one already?”
“Father said he would get one when I casted my first spell. But then everything went crazy, so I guess he just hasn’t yet.” Alice told . “Staves are usually fitted with a magic stone with the sa attribute as the user.”
I guess the other staves had magic stones already. And if I had to guess, dark magic stones are rare. Everything dark magic seems to be. But what even are magic stones?
(Magic stones are refined from monster cores with magic. They take on the attribute of the magic they are refined with, but they favor the attribute of the monster they were originally in.) Laura told . (And like any magic, they don’t like their opposite elent.)
(So I can’t turn a monster core from an earth monster into a wind magic stone?) I confird.
(Exactly. But Master’s stones would be without an elent in the first place. Stones like that are good for beginner staves, but often are replaced with elental ones later.) Laura told .
I guess a neutral one would be nice when you are still learning. Makes wonder why Alice didn’t have one like that.
“Alice, why did you not have a practice staff while you were studying?” I asked her.
“I did have one.” She told . “But then it broke. Teacher said it could no longer take the amount of mana I used when I attempted casting spells.”
“So it was flimsy. Please be careful with that one. I don’t want to see it blown to pieces.” I told her.
“Sure. I’ll be careful.” She told .
I just don’t want her to break it imdiately. I just got it for her. Actually, analyzing it wouldn’t be a bad idea. That way, I could recreate it with the dungeon if it does break. And perhaps I could even make an improved version eventually.
With those thoughts, we continued our date.
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