Chapter: 117
Scratching the sill with his finger while he waited, the door didn’t open – instead, the hatch in the door slid across, Lillian greeting him with a slight smile and bored eyes.
“So? How’d it go? Buying or selling?”
“Good thanks, selling some drops. I have 30 minor green crystals and 28 ferritic plates.”
“Just a moment.” Lillian walked to the side of the room, touching the gemstone imbedded in the wall as she checked their prices.
“How the hell has he got so many drops… he’s only been adventuring for a few days.” Lillian wondered as she calculated how much gold to pay him “If he keeps this up, the whole economy could change” she joked to herself.
Returning to the window sill, she had calculated the price.
“It’s 85 gold, minus the 10% fee and it’s 76.5 gold. Since it’s 0.5 gold, we round it down to 76 gold. Are you happy with that?”
“Uh…” Jay thought that rounding down was lame, but this was the only reasonable place to sell drops. “..yes. Where do I put my items?”
“Hmm, since you have so many, come inside.” Lillian closed the hatch and opened the door, and after Jay entered, closing it again and locking it with a bolt.
What she did next made Jay hold his breath in awe..
Lillian summoned a light-sword into her hand, it destroyed all the shadows in the room – or so Jay thought. It’s blade was as long as her body and about half as wide. She thrust it downwards into the black slate paving of the room – a circle of golden light grew out from where it met the black slate ground; meanwhile the floor wasn’t damaged at all.
A series of otherworldly runes filled the circle – then disappeared as the whole circle lit up. Jay had to look away due to the brightness. When the light had died down, he looked back – a seemingly bottomless black hole appeared within a glowing ring, while Lillian had dispersed her light sword.
“Perhaps it’s a portal to another plane?” Jay wondered, as everything through the hole was complete blackness.
Lillian smiled in pride “Throw your items in here” she said “Obviously, my inventory would fill up if I had to hold onto everything; this is one of my skills. Blade bore. It’s basically a bigger, secondary inventory.. Also infinite.”
“Oh… Right, ok.” Jay snapped out of his stun from the display before pausing again at the last thing she said. The light-ring around the bottomless hole was still drawing out any shadows in the room, sucking them into itself – all shadows were gone except for the one inside the golden circle.
Jay promptly brought out his crystals and ferritic plates while standing in front of the dark, bottomless hole created by the sword. Against all his rational thoughts, he dropped the crystals and the plates into the black void.
Lillian nodded, counting the amount of items dropped in through her ability. Smiling as jay finished, she reiterated the amount.
“Thanks.” She smiled as her black portal disappeared, then handed Jay a small green pouch.
“Here’s your payment. Seventy-six gold.”
“Thanks.” smiled Jay. Lillian walked over, unbolted the door and Jay left the room.
With a moment of silence, Jay was thinking to himself, considering if adventuring was even worth it.
“Hmm, 12 gold per buckler…” he looked at the prices on the market list.
“I could’ve earned about 120 gold at the butchery in the last few days, and without putting my life on the line – but I only earned 76 gold… But at least I got stronger…” Jay held his hand on his chin as he was thinking, slightly disappointed by his earnings.
“Well, I guess I am low level. When I level up, it will surely be more lucrative… But maybe adventuring will become more costly.” he wondered to himself why high level adventurers didn’t simply clear out low level dungeons for some easy gold.
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