Chapter: 115
“Ok. I’ll be waiting at the guild.”
“Actually, can you wait at the Snakeraven inn? There’s no point for the others and me to come back up the hill.” Anya said.
“Others?”
“I have to recruit more people or we’ll probably die..” she shrugged. “But don’t worry, we’ll be in separate parties so they won’t see your class, and we can split up from them so they don’t see your skeletons either.”
“Hmm ok. See you later.” Jay waved one hand as he turned up the hill.
“See you.”
Jay kept walking up the hill, thinking about what to do now that his plans have changed.
“Hmm. I’ll need better armour because at some point my skeletons won’t be around, and perhaps a little waist pouch for my teeth – to make casting quicker. A few days supply of food and water. I won’t need a shield or weapon since I have the blue ossein sword, and my trusty sentry.”
Jay chuckled for a moment, thinking that his shield’s glowing skull might scare Anya.
“…Hopefully” he grinned evilly “That by itself will make the whole trip worth it.”
Making his way up the hill, he entered the guild through the floating mana stone gate. Entering reception, Margaret wasn’t there so Jay had to ring a bell. She appeared from a room somewhere behind reception carrying an empty food tray, seeing Jay she smiled warmly.
“Hello dear. How can I help you?”
“Hi. Uh, where do I sell my monster drops?”
“Oh, just go through that door and meet my friend Lilly” she pointed at a door off to the right of reception. The door had a round brass door knob with a window sill under a chest-high sliding panel that one could open up to pass things through.
Without a second thought, Jay opened the door and entered.
Entering the room, it had long wooden benches inside – two in the middle of the room with their backs together, and six against the walls. Looking around, Jay noticed a large, round, dark-blue gemstone embedded into the wall. It seemed to have swirling stars inside a dark mist.
Jay paused, observing it’s beauty for a moment before noticing a door next to it – similar to the door he just entered, with a hatch and a window sill. Wasting no time, he walked through it.
On the other side of the second door, Jay was glared at by a slender, tall woman with long black hair sitting at a desk. She was doing paperwork and eating a jerky of some sort. Her office was sleek and cold, paved with polished black-slate floors, it had a fireplace on one side. On her desk sat a frog covered in fur – a kind of novelty pet among the upper class. It was more like a fluffy rabbit than a slimy toad. It ribbited at Jay, and she patted it to soothe it before glaring at Jay again.
“You’re meant to knock..” she said bluntly.
Wearing a fancy sleeveless leather coat with gold-thread patterns, a red long sleeve shirt and denim pants. Her black hair was slightly wavy and seemed to curl perfectly on each side of her chest. She sat there silently, staring at Jay as if he was being rude. It was clear at this point – she was rich.
“Oh. Sorry. I was told to come through the door…” Jay gestured behind him “I have some monster drops to sell..?” he raised a brow.
She sighed, “Silly margie..” as she put down the jerky. Jay only half smiled from his uneasiness.
“I’m Lillian, this is where you come to buy items and sell drops. We don’t have a teleportation device, so anything you buy can take days or weeks to come via our couriers. When you sell us a drop, we buy it at ten percent off the market buying price.” she pointed to a large round gemstone which seemed to be built-in to the wall – the same one Jay saw from the other room; It was a sphere gemstone which could be touched from either room.
“Touch that and you’ll be temporarily connected to it – you’ll then be able to browse current items for sale as well as how much your monster drops would be sold for. Now when you want to sell something, you give it to me and I’ll pay you. When you want to buy something, I’ll take your details and you give me the gold. Simple right?”
Jay looked around for a moment, piecing together how the system worked in his mind.