When I woke up (around 7am), Silvie was still asleep and Quartz was hiding from the sun under the table looking like a white puddle of scales. I called room service for food and took a shower while figuring out our expenses and whether we had enough for me to buy some equipment or not.
I found that with the leftover 300,000 credits from my parents, another 50,000 from my old hunts/bounties, and 25,000 from the contractor association for my awakening as a high potential candidate it totaled to 375,000 credits. This was then subtracted by 200,000 for the house near Moonlit Forest and another 10,000 for the night spent here equaling 165,000 credits.
I sighed as 10,000 credits is a year's work for some and here I was spending a lot more than that like it was water. I stepped out of the shower and calmly said morning to Quartz who had tried to scare me by flaring his hood and opening his mouth to fake bite me in my face.
He sulked as he couldn't scare me even with his ridiculist size and scary fangs which made me smirk in his direction while sending a wave of satisfaction over the bond to tease him a bit more. He hissed at me sending a wave of annoyance over the link as I walked out in a t-shirt and jeans to see Silvie eating breakfast. I greeted her with a nod (and hug) and sat down taking a stack of pancakes soaked with maple syrup to poke at while I ordered my gear and research up on the area we were going to hunt in.
I thought over what equipment I needed starting with a weapon as everything we owned that wasn't overly sentimental or important was burned down with the cabin through fire. I am known for my aim but that just means that I have many different range weapons I can use including a bow, pistols, knives, etc.
There are many weapons I am proficient in but the ones I most rely on is the sniper for long range sneak attacks, pistols (2) for mid-to-short range chases, and dual long daggers for the really up close and personal combat. I stared at the prices of the guns that are actually strong enough to hunt elemental beasts and looked at my 165,000 credits feeling like a poor man in the face of golden trinkets.
After doing some browsing my search history is now probably bring monitored by the gov't so this better be worth it. The daggers are grey and have a lot of swirls and patterns in dark green. While the black guns have blue highlights.
I budgeted my spendings and shook my head at the price for rifles and pistols yet again. One Enchanted Black Ops Sniper cost 15,000 credits over 10x the costs of an ordinary Black Ops around here, while the custom Enchanted pair of Engraved Pistols cost 4,000 for 1 and 8,000 in total, and adding the Elven enchanted daggers which were 1,000 credits in total equaled to 24,000 credits.
Now with my 165,000 - 24,000 I had 141,000 credits left to get armor and other essentials. I was relieved with the final price as I had found that the high to top tier gear usually went for hundreds of thousands if not millions of credits and the ones that are masterpieces which are uniquely crafted by masters? They go for billions sometimes they can't even be brought for credits and need to be traded or gotten another way. With that in mind the money I spent on the guns and daggers was nothing.
Next, the armor, I not only had to buy things for me but also some spirit items for Quartz to use as I wanted him stronger in this phase when we were both pretty weak. I breathed a sigh of relief seeing the prices for enchanted armor but drooped over the table at the sales tag for spirit items.
I bought an outfit that was pretty much an exact copy of my gear during the awakening ceremony just with it all being enchanted and the cloak changed into a black but still with the dark green highlights. I also bought a belt for the daggers and pistols. For the sniper I bought a strap holder to tie it to my back for easy access and use. Except for my dad's hat I'm keeping that. The belt and holders are black with blue highlights same with the strap.
That done I had about 125,000 credits left, with 35,000 I bought 2 Moonlit Owl cores which I got this easily only because I was buying upfront and not through battering. This would help strengthen me and Quartz. With our bloodlines and my cultivation method we were aiming for the manifestation of wings which this should help with, along with strengthening our moonlight element.
That left me with 90,000 credits for any other thing I needed to buy though I would prefer leaving around 20,000 for the bills and other essentials while I get used to hunting elemental beasts for a living. So in truth it was around 70,000 credits.
My final purchases were consumable items for both emergency and special occasions. Such as a high quality stun gun for any beasts I would need to capture and some space magic items which would help with transportation (think cages). I also got a tent with a solid interior space and an alarm system, a space ring, a lot of antidotes, healing pills/potions, and two high level talismans one of which would give me a boost of speed that could get me a few kilometers away from the original spot in less than a second and the other is an attack talisman which fired one fully powered attack of a rank 2 stage 6 contractor at the enemy. They would be my emergency life saving items if something went wrong.
All of that especially the talismans and pills/potions was really expensive it took 65,000 for everything including the stun gun and space attribute items. Which left us 25,000 of 375,000 our life savings gone as quick as water down the drain. Quartz sensing my mood wrapped around me cuddling me and trying to get me to pet him.
I smiled tiredly as the equipment was scheduled to arrive in about 2 hours and it was 9 in the morning already. Silvie would be staying with me today as it was a weekend but we still had nothing to do until the items arrived so it was with only slight reluctance that I asked Silvie if she wanted to go down to the pool and look at my new ice manipulating powers.
-Don't mind me I'm a line break.-
Author's Notes -
Wuwu ;~; why is it so hard to get google docs to look nice on this app \*.*/ I keep on hitting the problem that I can't add images to make it easier on your guy's imagination. 😡 Wah 😩 so mad why can't this be somewhat like Royalroad where I know what I'm doing (kind of).
👏 * Pushes idiot back into the basement.
*Cough
Everyone don't mind the idiot, they have been pulling their hair out so had to rant here as they are a piece of human garbage that has no friends nor the money (for a psychologists) to rant too.
I am King 👑 the responsible and slightly sane one around here as such I shall be *cough 'disciplining' the idiot so until next time. 'Take care' 👋.
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*Looks around 👀
*whispers
Pish-guys I'm Dark I am here to tell you not to trust the tyrant he-*chokes🤢
What were you saying little one? - 👑
Nothing! Absolutely nothing my lord! *Bows 🙇 - 🌚
*quiet
*A door creaks as it closes Dark glances back apology in his eyes, all the same he walks away from the scene of carnage before him. For it isn't him that's the one hurting.