Over the next few days, I spent my time practicing and exploring the city's shops, I might not have found anything very interesting, but I still ended up getting to know some interesting shops and I particularly enjoyed visiting a draw shop.
This type of shop is basically a gambling shop, but rather than a card game, or dice the games played in them are of a nature of knowledge and luck. The most popular game and the secret item auction.
At two levels in this type of auction is the auction of popular items and secret items. The first mode is basically several known items that you can bid on it and at the end of the day if your bid is the highest you buy the item at random in this game and challenge your judgment the items cannot be scrutinized so if you are not able to identify the quality of the item you could end up spending a lot of money on a low-quality item.
The second mode of this auction is used, rare and unknown items. It is up to the buyer to assess the properties of the items and their value, if you and a competent appraiser you can earn a very large amount of money by buying a rare and expensive item for a small amount.
I'm not an expert in rating and identifying rare items, but because of my eyes I found these games very interesting. Even if I don't know the name and uses of most items, I can still study their internal structure, mana and elemental energy is different between different items, even though they have the same properties as the way energy moves and organizes within them and different.
Since I advanced to the gray core my body went through the purification and even though it wasn't over, I already noticed some differences in my body and one of them and my eyes. I can't see different energies yet, but the accuracy of my vision has increased I can see the mana structure and elemental energy more accurately, if I compare my vision before and after my advance, I would say my vision was still maturing, and she, like a baby's vision, is incomplete at birth and unable to see the world as it really is.
My eyes are only gradually maturing, before my vision was blurred the mana inside an object was like a stain on the object, animal, humans and other intelligent races and even on monsters that were by the way those who had the finest and most organized mana that I had already seen it with my eyes.
In my current view I can see mana much more as a substance that moves through the body than a stain on it, I'm really curious to see monsters' mana as their mana was the easiest to see before. During my visits to the game rooms, I have studied the entirety of various subjects and how mana behaves, although I'm not very fruitful at the point of identifying patterns between mana and elemental energy with the properties of the items I still learned to identify some characteristics. by studying the mana and elemental energy in a raw material.
I believe my eyesight can evolve even more so I just have to worry about advancing my cultivation and maybe physically strengthening my eyes, my eyesight will become stronger and more versatile. The only change I've noticed is this one and it's only useful in studying matters up close, but I believe I may soon discover that my vision has new advantages during combat and when tracking down enemies and natural resources.
During those days I too, visited Lofar's workshop to pick up my maturation, Durin wasn't there today the master blacksmith must spend most of his time in his own workshop, but that didn't stop Lofar, complaining that Durin has nothing better to do than criticize him and get in his way. It seems that yesterday, Lofar found out that Durin was looking for a bride for him.
I can understand why Lofar would be angry with his uncle, but analyzing Lofar's complaint, I came to the conclusion that among the various options Durin has to mess with Lofar's life, looking for a bride is not something that harms Lofar, maybe he can find a bride that he really thinks beautiful and is compatible with him, but I understand his concern, Lofar may be raised by dwarfs, but that doesn't mean he has the same tastes as a dwarf.
Not those dwarfs are ugly, but if you don't like the short, muscular women that are the most common traits among dwarfs, then I understand why Lofar is so angry at Durin today, he must be guessing that in a week he will. having to go out to meet some of Durin's chosen bridesmaids.
But that's something I won't find out about until a few weeks from now. Now my attention is on Hilda, who is coming towards me, at this moment I am waiting in a restaurant near the dungeon that we are going to enter this morning. Today and Saturday and I had arranged with my companions that we would explore the dungeon and the black burrow for the last time.
But now only Hilda is sitting at my table, where is Ingredi?
"Hi, from your face you must have noticed that we are not going into the dungeon today, Ulric."
"Has something happened to Ingredi?"
"Yes, but nothing bad, in fact she is finally getting her staff today. She is participating in the last stages of staff creation; it seems that to bind the Ingredi staff she needs to be there and she probably won't be able to come tomorrow either."
"That's good news, but it's also a shame that we can't get together before classes start, it looks like we're going to have to leave the dungeon exploration for another day when everyone has the day off. But I'm curious as to why not one of our friends showed up today?"
"I warned them that the expedition is canceled yesterday through couriers."
"And the reason I'm here today?"
"I thought we could talk a little, before our days get full of practice and lessons maybe spend time together Ulric. Interested?"
"Well since my day is free, I would love to spend time with you Hilda."
A beautiful smile blossomed on Hilda's face.
"Well then how have the last few weeks been for you Ulric, has your progress been smooth?"
"In addition to the pain I felt during the advance, I believe it was very good, my purification is not over yet, it has decreased a lot, it should end in two or three days."
"It is really painful to cleanse the core, short of it should find a better method to cleanse the core when people go through the first advance."
"That would be a very profitable discovery, but also very difficult if it were easy, it would have already become popular, but I thought you wouldn't be afraid of a little pain."
"Very funny, I very much wish I had seen your advance, to see if you resisted the pain caused by it without screaming Ulric. But if you like that kind of feeling I'm willing to try that kind of interest, but I'm surprised you have that kind of inclination."
"I'll have to disappoint Hilda, but I don't have that kind of inclination."
"But you still haven't told me what you did during your Ulric vacation, did some guild quests?"
"No, I just went into the dungeons during this month and you?"
"I'll want more details about the dungeons, but first I want to tell you that I participated in a tournament last week."
"Tournament? I haven't heard anything about a tornado happening here."
"Because it wasn't made here but was made outside the city, I was a meeting between those who awakened their cores in the last three years, only duels between warriors and mages of gray or black core are allowed, and also a tournament between nobles it is natural that you are not invited."
"Well technically I'm a nobleman, but I understand why I wasn't invited. But did you have fun during the tournament?"
"It was fun, I had to fight a lot of interesting opponents and I even tried to convince my aunt so she could get an invite for you, but unfortunately you would have to be a member of my family to enter the tournament. This one I turned and more to compare the quality of the young generation of the noble families and the last one I turned was very cruel because of the dispute over the territories."
"Did you kill anyone during the tournament?"
"Of course! That would be declaring war on a noble family, my mother would be pissed at me I only hurt a few opponents badly and at best I ripped off the arms of two idiots who flirted with me."
"They flirted with you?"
"And I sent a message during combat, to them and to the rest of the idiots there."
"That you're going to rip the arm off of everyone who has a romantic interest in you?"
"The idiot wasn't trying to ask me out on a date he was staring at me and drooling like a pervert. That kind of disgusting guy just looking at me I felt like he was messing me up he was lucky I didn't gouge out his disgusting eyes."
"Well, I'm overwhelmed by his courage, he must have some mental issues."
"Serious? I thought you would say I was too violent."
"Of course not."
"So, should I blind the next pervert who looks at my body? Because I think you're at risk now."
"I admire your beauty; I don't look at you like a pervert."
"Um, as far as I remember I felt a certain pair of eyes that locked on me during our training and when I ran in the aura class earlier in the year. That pair of eyes was locked on my ass, would you know who owns that pair of perverted eyes?"
"I only know that you are the most beautiful warrior I have ever seen in my life, even when you are reigning not the woman I can compare to your beauty and natural for a healthy young man to admire such a diva."
"That's not the most subtle way to dodge a question, but I liked it."
"I'm glad you liked it."
For the rest of the day I spent with Hilda, we talked about the dungeons, about courses we can write for next week, and we talked about equipment. Hilda is not a young woman interested in flowers and jewelry; she prefers to walk around the market looking for materials for her future maturity. I was able to help Hilda to avoid buying low quality materials from several shopkeepers who tried to sell low quality materials as high quality materials.
It was a fun day with Hilda, but unfortunately it came to an end when night fell.