With the arrival of the caravan, I spent the rest of the day at the Kelence family mansion, spent the day organizing my notes and taking my share of the spoils. After getting paid by Aunt Venus I feel like the richest man in the world, but that illusion ended when I started making my plans on how to spend my money and materials, I realized I was still a poor man, even after earning fifteen thousand gold coins.
Besides the payment of fifteen thousand gold coins, I also rescued some materials from the expedition, nothing very rare or high level, but I got several level three stories and among them I got some pieces of different wood, which will be useful for forging various level three elemental arrows.
I chose not to spend my heart and take tier four subjects because I can't use a weapon or even tier four armor effectively, I think it's a wiser decision and take tier three subjects that I can use to make one. tier three gear I still have room to improve which in my case are my arrows and bow, but I'm also going to use tier three elemental fire and wind crystals in conjunction with tier three mana crystals to speed up my cultivation.
I'm going to use them to create an environment in my four that is extremely rich in mana and elemental energy, and it's a shame that current plants and rune arrangements can't handle level three matters, I'm going to have to improve my room. I believe that after spending all that money and going back to being a poor man I'll just have to worry about earning money to sustain consumption since all my equipment will be level three.
After saying goodbye to Aunt Venus, I went to Calen's workshop, this was my first stop on my shopping trip.
Upon arriving at the workshop, I entered it only to find no one at the reception, I know that Calen is here because I can see her aura and she is not alone, just another aura with her. It didn't take long for her to come out of the back of the store and greet me.
"Hi, what's got you this time Ulric? Should you still be a poor young man or have you already saved the money for me to complete the runes on your armor?"
"Actually yes, I have already managed to scrape up the money and I also want to see what a high-quality tier three elemental bow and some arrows would look like."
"How did you get so much money in such a short time; did you steal someone? Will you need help to escape the city? I know some people who can help you, I normally wouldn't offer that kind of help, but since I ended up liking you, I'll help you but you'll owe me a favor, Ulric."
Because she thinks I robbed someone, maybe exploring a ruin could be called a robbery since during the exploration you are breaking into a place that was the home of several people, you have to go through the security matrices that were created to keep thieves out outside the temple or just killing them, we destroyed the temple guards and I ended up breaking into some coffers, which is something thieves do.
But in my defense, I still believe that exploring a ruin is in the item recovery category and not the theft category, as the owners of the place have been dead for a long time, even their bodies must have turned to dust a long time ago. a long time. So, I believe I can't be considered a thief, even if I have the skill of one, I think most thieves would have come to terms with my ability to break into safes.
"I didn't steal anything, Calen. I earned my money by completing a dangerous mission, I almost died a few times very dangerous, but as I survived, I have a lot of money to spend now."
"Assurance? If you're in trouble I can help you, Ulric, but you have to be honest with me."
"I'm fine, I didn't steal this money I got it working."
"Ok, I believe in you. What kind of bow and arrows do you want to buy today?"
"I want a level three bow with two fire and wind elements, I want the strongest bow possible, but it can't be level four as my aura won't work properly on it, unfortunately it's still a long time before I can advance to the green core. About arrows I have some interesting materials that maybe you can use, I don't know much about their property."
I take out several pieces of way and some nuggets of metal, they all came from the ruin and are grade two to four subjects. When I was taking the stories out, Calen already picked them up and started analyzing them, by the surprise reaction that looked on his stoic and handsome face I think there are some rare stories among all this junk.
"You really exchange some interesting things, metal is no big deal I can even buy them, but add these woods to some pretty rare ones and even some that can be called legendary. You stole a museum Ulric are these woods too old?"
"I didn't steal anyone."
"If you didn't steal these relics from a nobleman's collection or a museum, then the only other option I can think of is that you've gone into an ancient ruin and stole these items during the expedition. Didn't they make you sign a magic contract? How do you steal them?"
"I didn't steal anyone! All this is mine nothing is stolen."
"Okay, I believe you, but if you consider taking these items from a relic and stealing from the dead, you're still a thief, but if you'll let me say you are a successful thief, Ulric. There's a lot of good stuff here."
I won't be able to convince her that I'm not a thief, and that's very frustrating.
"What's up there?"
"We have here two very valuable and ridiculously expensive woods, one of which may be level three, but its value even surpasses some level four woods and great for absorbing mana it and a type of pine that was basically extinct on our continent, and the second level four comes from a very special cedar that was born near a volcano this wood may not even contain elemental energy now, but it can store a huge amount the only problem is that it is not very flexible so it can't to use a lot on a bow but it can easily be used on an arrow."
"I also have some elemental and mana crystals for making the bow, but I want to know how many levels three and four elemental arrows can be made with these woods, I cover the rest of the value by selling the wood that is not useful for me. and gold."
"I can make a single quiver of level four arrows from the fire element; from level three I can make two of each element. Doing the math, you'll have to pay me a total of thirteen thousand and eight hundred gold coins, so I can make the runes, the bow and the arrows. Do you have all that gold or are you going to have to go steal some nobles?"
I swipe fourteen gold cards to pay the cost, and ignore Calen's bad joke and after that I hand over the bag, I'm carrying my leather armor.
"How long will it take for everything to be ready?"
"Your armor will only take a day, finishing the runes is a quick job and easier than forcing a new item, but the bow and arrows will take a week because I have another order to do during the week."
"Okay, I'll be back to get the armor tomorrow then. And don't keep spreading the word that I'm a thief or where did you get those woods."
"Spoken like a true thief, your family must be so proud of your new career, Ulric."
"In my opinion, I get robbed every time I order equipment."
"If that's true, you're studying to be a thief at the institute, since you study runes there."
I leave Calen behind; I won't be defending myself anymore and tiring.
As I make my way to the institute, I stop by a rune shop and buy three very expensive rune arrangements. They were engraved on three stone slabs nearly a meter long and tall.
It must be a very different scene to see a person blinding three large dark stone slabs through the city streets. I didn't buy them at the institute because I don't have points to exchange for them, I had to use almost all the rest of the money I had earned from the trip to the ruin.
Upon arriving in my room at the institute and installing the plaques on the bedroom wall, I finally finished my shopping. Apart from the elemental energy and mana crystals I still have, but which will fade over the days as I'm going to sweat them out to feed these rune arrangements.
I went back to being a poor man, with many expensive possessions.