Walking into the ability shop it was not as busy as Alex had expected but in his point of view this is a good thing.
He decided to take a look around the earth ability's first because he found that so he looked around with Kuma on his shoulder until Kuma tapped Alex's head.
(How much is the rock armor?) Kuma asked Alex but kept his eyes on the rock armor book.
Alex took a look and saw it was 55 copper seeing Kuma's intrest and also thinking of the multiple used he took it.
Now he started looking for the psychic books and he found a corner where they where and it was a mix between expensive and cheap.
Looking at the at the boos he saw a cheap one for 30 copper telekinesis Alex thought about and took it sure he would spend a 85 copper on just him and Kuma but their life is a lot more important.
Looking at Emma Alex asked her if she wanted anything and she shook her head no and said that it was more important they have something because its clear they have little abilities and she can be really creative because fire does not have a fixed form and her abilities also allow her to be more flexible.
So from the original 125 copper they now only have 40 copper which is not much considered that 2 rooms cost 30 for one night but they have two more nights before they either have to pay or leave the inn so there was time.
So after paying they go outside and Alex looked Emma before saying.
"Let's go to the inn me and Kuma need to learn these abilities and i want to talk to you about something and since you have been here for 2 weeks i hope to get your insight."
When Emma heard this she was suprised that Alex wanted to talk about something in private but she figured that it must be important so she nodded if Alex just said to learn the abilities she would have not thought anything about it but now its clear something is off.
When they got to Alex's room in the inn Kuma grabbed the book for rock armor out of Alex's hands and went to sit on the bed and it glowed and the book vanished.
Before Alex opened his book he looked at Emma and told her to take a seat and she sat on the bed while Alex grabbed the chair at the desk that was in the room and turned it to face Emma before talking.
"Tell me in these to weeks how much has the chance of a monster wave gone up how was it from day one to now what do you think if a monster wave happened and when?" Alex's voice was dead serious he was not very scary but just how serious he he is was unsettling.
Sure a monster wave is a serious thing but this was more than needed in terms of serious but still Emma just answered wondering if Alex realized something.
"Well the first day i took a quest to kill monster and they had just closed that part of the beach where we fought earlier under the reason of monsters coming out the water most people including me found this weird that it was just a part of the beach, so many people decided to stay away from the beach in general sure there have always been monsters on the beach from what i heard but not like this and also not in one area, and now it gets more dangerous since there are so many monsters not to mention that E rank monster thing i never knew sea spiders could do that, but anyway its getting worse and if you ask me what is the chance of a monster wave happening its atleast a 50/50 it could be something strange underwater but if you ask me when i dont have a answer but if it goes the rate it has been these two weeks then maybe another two weeks before that part is to dangerous for people under E rank and at that point i feel like a monster wave would be any day."
With all this information Alex started to think a bit sure he in general knows what a monster wave is but could they participate in it.
"If we want to participate in a monster wave could we?" He asked Emma he did not know her opinion on the matter so he made it sound like it would be a last resort.
"We could it would be at our own risk but there is also a change that we have to fight because the guards might not be enough if you ask me if we fight we would get a lot of money but we would get injured for sure and death is a risk to so i dont even know if we should fight but if we have no choice we have to or we need to run when it gets to much no one can really force us to stay when everyone is fighting."
Hearing this from Emma Alex nodded he knows ranking up in the guild would make him stronger and maybe strong enough to survive a bit longer if it happens.
"The reason i asked this is simple i noticed a lot of adventures going there but there is no decrease in monsters and i think multiple people realized this and a lot more will realize soon this is a beginning monster wave and i dont know how people plan to stop it because the sea spiders showed that if we push the monsters in a corner what is stopping them from bassicly sending a sos to their stronger kin."
Emma realized that everything Alex said was right but it did not show if he wanted to fight or not.
A thing a lot of new adventurers have is a hero complex thinking that that they can do anything or that they have to help people often leading those to a early grave.
She on the other hand quickly learned that she is not some chosen hero and just a human who could die against monster but she does not know if that same sentiment was the same Alex has.
So Emma asked Alex "are you wanting to fight in the monster wave when it happens?" Although she tried to hide her disapproving tone Alex still heard it but it did not change his answer.
"I dont know maybe it really depends on how strong we are and if we are forced to fight but i atleast won't fight against it if i know that i would be just a dead body i have things to do goals to reach so i won't fight for a city if it is clear that it will lose sure others might say that i abandon the city others might say that i am a coward but at the end of the day if it means that i live and if it shows that those people who called me a coward that they are dead does that still mean i was wrong just because i knew my limit and i left before i became a burden i dont think anyone could say that i made the wrong decision if they learn that."
Alex while he was saying that noticed that Emma relaxed a bit when hearing his answer the girl might not have noticed but she tensed up when she asked him about it.
Now that Alex had said what he wanted he opend to book for telekinesis and it glowed before the book disappeared.
"So now with that out the way let's take these abilities for a test drive what do you say?" When he asked this all the serious energy disappeared and Kuma who was listing but honestly did not care about a monster wave since he trusts Alex to make a plan for when it happens nodded wanting to test his rock armor.
And Emma just laughed even though Alex was so serious a moment ago he really can just flip the energy around and she also nodded.
"Then let's go we atleast have time before it starts getting dark we might be able to do two quest but if you get tired just say so there is no shame in knowing when you can't fight." With those motivational words from Alex who did not realize that he just motivated Emma opened the door and looked at Emma who stood up and walked to him while Kuma made his way to Alex and got into his shoulder.
Seeing this Alex slightly smiled back on earth he had trouble making friends so he decided that he should try a little harder to make friends but before he could try Emma found him and bassicly just asked to be his friend and he knows Kuma might not be the smartest but Kuma cares and has a interesting view on things.
And with that he and his party walked out the inn and towards the guild.