Chapter 345: General Magic Pt.1

After a while the land had flattened out but all that had done was make them move forward even faster. "There's a wall up ahead. Is it the Town we'll be going to to ask for food?" Hearing Fendis' question Donny was unable to answer because it wasn't something they had planned out before they had set out for the Earth Domain.

After a while he noticed they hadn't turned to go towards the town Fendis had pointed out so Donny used this as a clue to answer even though he was sure Fendis had already figured it out as well. "I don't think we're going in that direction."

This made Donny think there was a good chance the guard that was moving them had a goal in mind and just hadn't bothered to share for whatever reason. Either way Donny was sure it wouldn't be much longer before they arrived at whatever town they were heading to.

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Pushing the door that led to the 23's private training room Tiff quickly went in and stood by the wall. Like the main training room this one had more than one room and only five of the members stood out in the main room and none of them were Dawn. This was too bad because her plan had hinged on Dawn being around and helping her integrate into whatever was going on.

Now her best choice was to stand here and pretend she was watching until Dawn came out of whatever room she was in and invited her to join them. She had thought of another way to seamlessly integrate back into the group and make the others forgive her faster but a possibly empty promise of helping them get Legendary jobs would really blow up in her face in the future if she was unable to actually do it.

It was too bad that she wasn't able to just say this though because it would probably end the jealous feelings that had come between them instantly and allow them to prepare for the possible mobilization that could be happening as soon as the Temple Head got back. historical

Eventually what she was waiting for happened and Dawn emerged from one of the individual rooms and Tiff wasted no time in getting her attention by waving. Dawn looked surprised to see her but it didn't stop her from coming over and asking. "Are you here to train with us?"

The others were completely ignoring her presence so she just gave Dawn a small nod as an answer instead of saying something that made it clear she was here to try and make up with everyone. She knew just spending time around them no matter how awkward it was for all of them would make them realize she hadn't actually done anything to them and they were being childish.

She knew this would work because she had gone through a similar thing when they were younger being the weakest of them for so long. Then seeing the fact she was still much weaker than them after all this time would probably make them see that nothing had actually changed and she was still the weakest member of the 23.

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After walking around the city with Mana Vision active Lake had finally found a place that seemed to be worth his time. He didn't exactly know what kind of items were inside since the sign just said it was a general store for magic items he had been won over by the quantity of items that were inside and the number of people that were there.

With this many people inside they would never remember him poking around for a while before leaving and would most likely blame people that were inside at the time that the items started to vanish. To make sure no one ever blamed him he would also wait at least an hour after he left to start taking the items.

Depending on how the inside was organized he might also limit himself to things that were far away from the people inside so no one would see them actually disappear. Stepping inside he saw the place to buy the things you were interested in were close to the door and that there were three staircases that led upwards.

There weren't any items in this front room so he took the first stairs on the left up to the next floor. He was guessing there were multiple ways up because each set of stairs led you to a different type of item but he planned to look at everything so it didn't matter which way he went first.

Once he got done climbing the stairs he was met with a room filled with potions that had price tags around their necks. He wasn't too interested in these things since he could probably get any type of potion he wanted back at the Alchemist guild but he still went ahead and glanced at the prices for the various types that were scattered around the room.

Seeing the most expensive thing in this room cost only 100 gold he knew these weren't the type of items he wanted to waste his time on so he continued his way upwards to the next floor. The next room also held potions but they had a higher value and there were less of them.

The top price in this room was 10000 gold and he was interested but there was actually a guard here who had been watching him since he had entered the room so he didn't spend too much time looking at anything here and moved up the stairs again to see if there would be guards from now on.

Entering the next room he saw the amount of items had dropped drastically while the guards had increased to four. Wanting to know what was in the bottles in the middle of the room he walked closer to read the tag. All five things on the table were exactly the same and the price was 200000 gold for one.

Seeing such a high price he went ahead and got closer so he could read the description even though he was pretty sure he knew what they were based on color and having seen them before when he had helped Lucas retrieve Elixirs from thieves who had stolen them from the guild.

Reading the name he was able to confirm his suspicions and was confused to find these were actually the lowest level of elixir that was only able to raise your max stats by ten. If the price was already so high for the lowest level it made him wonder what the price of the Elixir he had been given by Lucas would be.

This was the last room though so he guessed he wouldn't be able to go upwards to find out. Turning around because the Elixir were all inside a barrier making it impossible for him to touch them he went all the way down and took the next set of stairs to see what types of items would be on the next path.

As he was climbing the first set of stairs he started to think this might be a place that was worth coming back at night for. All the good things that were here were protected meaning he would be unable to touch any of them and there was no way around this with guards right next to the barriers he would have to destroy to get at what was inside.

As soon as he tried anything they were probably told to attack even if it was just odd and not something obvious like hitting the barrier. Waiting till night was sure to make him miss the two day time limit he had placed on himself but after finding a place like this with such valuable things in such numbers he would be a fool if he didn't try to finish the mission once and for all.

He wasn't sure what percentage of the gold the Thieves guild would give him but he was sure it wouldn't matter if he took all the best items from here and brought them to the Thieves Guild. It would also mean he wouldn't have to waste his time trying to get the gold he had stashed with the Fighters guild which would save him a lot of time in the future.

Entering the first room on the new path, Lake took the room in and realized there was actually a guard stationed here even though there hadn't been one where the cheapest potions had been held. There were also a few customers and Lake guessed the fact this room was more popular made them place people here.

"Someone grab him!" After someone suddenly yelled this out he got scared that someone was able to read his mind or something but he quickly realized they were talking about one of the guys he had seen when he had first walked into the room. Seeing this as a chance to touch a few things since no one was paying attention to him, Lake moved towards the shelves while the guard tried to stop the man running towards the stairs.