When both Mesakyle and Captain left the tent Carl waited and didn't move from his chair for what felt like an hour, Carl then finally stood to his feet as he cracked his neck and exhaled a sigh. As he looked over to the seated Polemos as he was reading Elder Spears journal in silence.
When Polemos heard Carl crack his neck it woke him from reading Elder Spears journal.
Carl gave Elder Spears journal to Polemos right after Mesakyle and Captain left the tent and Polemos was reading it ever since as he shut out everything else.
"Even, I was surprised when Elder Spear handed me that and told me what it was then asked me to give it to you Polemos. When I asked he only responded it was his journal of spear fishing but it definitely seems to be more." Even though Carl was given the journal he never looked at it and had no idea what it held.
"Sorry about that Carl, it's just there's a lot in his journal. It even had a theory about throwing the harpoon. It has a good amount about it but let's get to business then, I got a lot of things to sell." As Polemos pulled the two rings from his necklace.
When Carl saw that he smiled as he put the table and chairs back into his ring on his finger then pulled out his ledger and walked over to his counter. Polemos followed right behind Carl and arrived at the counter and handed Carl the rings. Polemos kept only his personal stash in his necklace including his money.
"Wow this is more than I thought you would bring back. These are filled to the brim with good stuff. You even got some Special Elite Desert Anaconda scales. Those are very good, very nice and it looks like there's quite a few. How did you kill it, you shouldn't be able to at your stage….it was Rose wasn't it."
"Nailed it in one. Yeah she was of great help. I would have had some of its meat but she really likes it." Then before Polemos could ask Carl spoke like he knew what he was going to say.
"I did hear back from that blacksmith he replied back about nine days ago and he was quite interested in what you gave me before you left."
"Did you give him the book or small details about it?"
"I gave him only small details to get him interested as I figured he would definitely want more of it as he spoke about buying it in the letter. It must be pretty good as he even mentioned his master was interested as he even invited you to the Minor Oasis."
When Carl said that Polemos was surprised when he was invited to a Minor Oasis! Polemos was excited as it was a Minor Oasis; he was only a part of a wandering nomad tribe of a Low-Tier.
"Really well that's good then makes one of my plans a lot easier to get done. Did he ask when I'll be heading over?" Polemos asked.
"No he asked whenever you're available and even sent a map along with the invitation." Carl pulled a letter and map out of his beard.
Polemos was even more excited when Carl mentioned a map but when he saw the map it wasn't even filled out as it only had an X on where the Oasis was at with written instructions on how to reach it from his current location.
'Well at least I have a map that just needs to be filled out great.' Polemos put both the letter and map in his necklace as he would look at the letter later.
"So how much are you taking from me Carl as I definitely will be taking the anaconda scales with me to that Oasis, but you can take and I'll sell everything else in the rings." Polemos spoke with a pondering smile as he felt like the Special Elite Desert Anaconda scales would make some great armor with the method he had.
"Sure I can do that, do you need anything else or need to stock up on anything while you're here." Carl asked ashe was writing the inventory of the rings into his ledger.
"Yeah if I could, that would be great, did you get a new shipment or inventory in?" Polemos asked as he was hoping he could get bigger spatial equipment or see if Carl had anything new.
"You're very lucky as I just got resupplied three days ago and no one has even asked about it yet. You're the first to ask." Carl smiled as he handed Polemos a piece of paper.
When Polemos grabbed the paper he was very interested to see what Carl had. As he was looking at the list he noticed that Carl didn't have any bigger spatial equipment but he did get more inventory of them. When looking through the remaining part of the list Polemos was only able to find four things he was interested in from what Carl had.
One, was some newer clothes as he was completely out of anything wearable as he only has rags and scrap to wear. Second, was spices Carl had actually stocked some spices but, Polemos would take everything he had as he had plenty of salt. Third, he bought a new heavy axe as his current one was chipped and cracked. Fourth, eight new spatial rings or rings to disguise as spatial rings.
"I'll take well for one what I'm currently wearing as it is pretty comfortable and everything you have like it. Plus I was wondering how many spatial rings I will be able to buy from yeah after everything else I've circled." Polemos handed Carl back the list as with the things he wanted.
When Carl saw the list he was a little surprised at the few things Polemos needed from the list but just nodded his head as he asked again if he needed anything else.
"Anything else?"
"Actually, yeah if you even have any information on it. The slave trade in the tribe do you know who owns it or is currently in charge of it? And do you know anything about what species centipede Rose is or anyone who might? It would be great and I'd definitely pay." Polemos asked as he wasn't able to figure anything out as to what type of centipede Rose is. And he was really hoping Carl had anything on the slave trade in the tribe.
When Carl heard what Polemos was asking about he stopped writing in his ledger and looked up and answered. "Well for the slave trade that'll cost you about 5,000 silvers there and for Rose I can give you that for free just head to the Minor Oasis when your done here. They should have a Mercenary Guild there that might be able to answer your questions about that."
When Carl spoke about how much the cost of the information was going to be he was glad that Resam and Nesam had enough silver on them as this was definitely worth the cost. Polemos just smiled as he spoke.
"No problem, just deduct from the rings for everything else and if there's not enough I got some silver to pay for the remaining."
Carl was a little surprised when Polemos said he had extra silver to pay for anything that remained as he remembered when he left he didn't have that much on him as he spent nearly everything when he left to temper himself.
"Could you tell me how you got that extra silver after I get everything you need if you don't mind." Carl asked as he was almost finished with the ledger and would have the total.
"Yeah sure. Just let me know how much everything will be plus how many rings I can buy." Polemos spoke with a disappointed sigh.
"Bad story? And it looks like you can get three more rings as some of those were requested and you have a total of 6,750 silver to pay after taking away from the stuff in the rings. You'd only have to pay 1,750 with the rings but, with the information and the three rings it made it more." Carl spoke with a merchant-like grin on his face.
Polemos was expecting it to be an expensive purchase so he was prepared for it but it still was a lot. "Still trying to bleed me dry Carl, and no the story's not bad in my opinion, just the outcome and ending wasn't what I wanted, that's all and here's the coins." Polemos reached near his necklace and pulled out a bag of coins and tossed it over towards Carl. "Also add some wine you'd recommend for a story as if I'm gonna tell you this story I'll need to start with Ellios."
When Carl caught the bag he was surprised by how much it weighed. "Know just the right kind of wine, just let me get everything and I'll shut down my tent and we can have a good talk. And again I'll buy whatever you're selling."
Carl took what he needed from the bag and tossed it back to Polemos and went to go and get everything he would need to grab.
Polemos shook his head as he went outside Carl's tent to check up on Rose and see how she was doing as she was outside the entire time.
"I'll be outside with Rose, Carl just call me when everything is all done."
"Sure can do, it'll be a little bit as there are a lot of spices I need to gather." Carl responded.
Polemos just smiled when he heard that then headed out to see Rose.