POV: Daniel
"Sir, I have to insist on not spending so much on Enchanting books. There's no need to get so many useless enchants on a diamond armor."
The secretary was trying to convince me not to spend so much on expensive books.
I would've liked to spend less emeralds as well if possible, but I don't have enough time or energy to learn Enchaning myself.
Why does it have to be so hard to do something that should be done in a few clicks?
I've already got sick of studying engendering, I don't plan on wasting my life in this world looked up in a dark room.
"Unfortunately, I can't compromise on my safety. And I'm using my own money, so it shouldn't be a problem for you."
"That's true, I always wonder how you can make such a large amount of money without a problem. Even as a nobleman, I'm getting jealous."
The man in expensive robes spoke while looking at my enchanted diamond armor with greed.
"I am the hero of the System after all, I should get this much to defeat the Monster Lords, don't you think?"
In the past few days, I took advantage of my new status and met as many villagers as possible to level up my Trading skills.
This resulted in getting a lot of raised eyebrows as I was getting richer and richer by the day.
But once I managed to buy my own enchanted diamond armor and tools, there was no reason for me to fear them anymore.
They were too weak to leave a scratch on my body.
A town is an amazing place to grow my skills and my wealth, unfortunately, I can't make an iron farm here, since nobody seems to know how to make an iron golem.
They only heard about it recently since the other hero made a squad of them to attack the Zombie Lord.
They don't know how they work or how they're made, but they know it's very expensive to make.
I'll have to build one for myself as well, it seems like a good investment.
I makes me wonder where the other hero is, and if she can help her fellow earthling to grow stranger.
She should have a lot of nice items such as Enchanted golden apples and totems.
What a shame that the Iligers didn't attack the Stone Kingdom.
I could've triggered a raid and farmed them for good items, not only that but I'd also get the 'hero of the village' buff to get even richer.
Speaking of trading, my skill is almost maxed, I can't wait to see what will I'll get from it.
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SKILLS
_Crafting lvl 5
121/1.000.000
_Enchanting lvl 1
0/100
_Brewing lvl 1
0/100
_Trading lvl 9
9.345.842.333/10.000.000.000
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I was proud of my progress in those few months, especially here in the town.
And in a few days, I should be the first one to reach level max in history.
What an exciting moment.
"If you have so much emeralds to spare, why don't you donate to this town? I'm sure the people would sing songs of praise about you."
Donate to him?
I don't want to hear a greedy old men sing for me, only beautiful women.
Such a shame that there's no one like that in this world.
But I still needed his help whether I liked it or not, I couldn't get this many people to trade with on my own, I needed to borrow his name to for this endeavor.
"How about I donate a few enchanted diamond sets in your name?"
"Hohoho! I wouldn't dare to refuse such generosity from the hero, I'm sure you'll be written in stories from now on."
As long as you keep providing me with villagers to trade, you can write as many songs as you want, those diamond armor would be much cheaper for me to give than actual emeralds.
I took the enchanted books that I had come for and went into my room.
Once inside I looked in all directions, before covering the windows and breaking a block from the floor.
Underneath the block were some stairs that led to an underground room, or more exactly my secret room.
I made this the day I was assigned my own room, and in case I would be moved I also dug a few tunnels to the other rooms.
Here I spend most of my time when I'm not Trading.
I don't trust the housemaster not to steal from me if he gets the chance.
Sometimes, he's more of a player than I am which could be dangerous.
My secret room was medium in size mostly filled with chests where I store my stuff.
But I also use this place to craft items and level up my skills, it's takes much longer than Trading, but it's still an essential skill to have.
There was another activity in this secret room that I did, and that was the redstone engendering.
More exactly, I tried to see what I could recreate from the game in this world, and I have to say that I was disappointed.
I could say it was more 'realistic' in a way.
I couldn't stack a TNT minecard in one block, neither boats.
Water wasn't infinite like I expected and breaking obsidian takes too much time.
Most villagers don't even know that you can break obsidian, much less recipes that use obsidian.
It's such a shame that I don't have access to an Ender Chest.
Maybe I should visit the Royal Family next, they should have a few important items.
But redstone was not a dead end, and most contraptions worked perfectly fine like the canon.
Just one is able to destroy any wall standing in my way much less a monster army.
Just thinking how the monster army gets closer only to get blown up makes me smile.
"Let's get back to work, the clock is ticking after all."
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"So I only have to sit here?"
I looked at the villager in front of me with a bored expression.
His outfit wasn't in the best shape, showing that he's not wealthy enough to regenerate his clothes, but from what I can tell he should be a Mason.
"Is this your first time doing this?"
"Y-yes, I came from the slums after I heard I could get some free emeralds here."
"I see, the deal is pretty simple, I'm going to buy something from your trading tab, and you can keep whatever the System gives you, plus the regeneration for your uniform. And today is your lucky day since this is the last one I'll be doing this."
In the past few days, I've been making a lot of progress on my Trading skills, and with the discount, I was able to 'donate' enough items to the nobles in here to leave me alone until I finish my task.
Once I'm done with this, I would leave this place and deal with the Monster Lords myself and ask for the gand reword from the System.
I'm thinking of going into creative mode or the ability to create my own creatures....I haven't decided yet, but I wanted something grand.
I looked back at the villager in front of me, who was waiting nervously for me to do the trading.
I let out a tired sigh and bought everything on the last row, not even bothering to check the other trades.
At this point, I already had everything I wanted, and only the last row gave me enough xp to progress.
The man was shocked at the emeralds he received from this trade and thanked me profusely, making me feel a little embarrassed that I only saw him as a walking bank.
The next one came in line, a regular from his reaction so the transaction went quickly.
One after another, the line was moving until suddenly I felt like my head was getting heavy, my eyelids were moving more frequently and suddenly I had my head on the table losing conciseness.
I opened my eyes and saw a familiar white plane with a huge floating angle I'm the middle of it.
This was my second time here, but it was as amazing as the first time I saw it.
Hero...your back much quicker than I expected, how so?
What do you mean?
"I've maxed out the Trading skill, that's why I'm here."
The Trading skill? Oh, I see it now, it wasn't something I originally made, but even then it's still impressive you got to this level in such a short amount of time, you should be rewarded for this.
While I don't know the original purpose of this skill, I should be able to make a personal trade with you, so what do you wish for?
The System wasn't the one who made this Skill, then who was it?
Who is so powerful that it could reproduce what only a God could do.
Perhaps the Ender Dragon?
But I don't remember her being this powerful in the game.
I shook my head to get back to the question, this was the moment I was waiting for.
I thought a lot about the options I could choose, but first I needed to know the limit of what I could wish for.
"Can I ask for items that can't be crafted or maybe don't exist?"
Hmm, depending on the item it could be done.
"How about an item that duplicates items, or a bracelet that makes me invincible once I wear it?"
Those require too much power from me, and it would bring more problems to you than solutions, choose something else.
That's a bummer, but at least I tried.
"How about a command block?"
As soon as I finished saying that sentence I felt time froze and a huge pressure pushing onto me making it harder to breathe.
CHOOSE SOMETHING ELSE.
Looks like I hit a nerve with this one, I didn't expect to get such a strong reaction.
"H-how about the Totem of Undying?"
Totem of Undying?
Ah, I see what your talking about. It's a very nasty item created by the Iligers, but I could clean it up a little and gave it to you.
Fine, I'll let you trade 10 blocks of diamond, gold and iron for 1 Undying Totem.
That was insanely expensive, I don't think I can get a lot of totems this way, but I guess it's better then not having them.
"Thank you, any news from the Monster Lords and the other hero?"
Let's see, the green one seems to run from the hero while the gloomy one is making a mess in the Coral Kingdom.
That's good to hear, one of the monsters it's beeing dealt with while the other I can deal with him later.
Hmm, I see the humans plan on doing something again... do you think your ready to fight the gloomy one?
"I would prefer to get the Netherite armor before I'll pick a fight with it."
You won't use that cursed armor!
The sudden raise of voice took me by surprise.
Why was it angry about that?
It's the strongest armor in the game, it should be a no brainer that I would use it in my final fight.
But I can't afford to anger the God of this world, not when I'm starting to get more powerful.
"I-I shall listen to your command then, I'm ready to fight If necessary."
I have a few potions and golden apples in my secret room, so I should be enough for the fight.
You are forbidden from using that material, and since you seem to be ready for the fight, and did such a good job at leveling up your Trading skill, I shall teleport you to the enemy.
"Wait, but I'm not re-"
Suddenly the world spined and I felt my guts being pulled.
When I opened my eyes I saw that I was in an unfamiliar street with viligers looking at me worried and confused.
"This is not good..."