13 Episode 12 Medicine and Cane

Return to the guild from the refinery and report back. You're up in rank.

"Hello Sally. I've completed your order.

"Yes, sir. Can you give me your guild card?

As usual, Ms. Sally is smiling and helpful. I also give her my guild card with a smile.

I felt Sally's smile twitch.

I'm not going to go into it. ...... I'm not going to go into it. ...... Yes. It weighs 9972 kilograms, which makes it 19944 tell.

I went into the back, mumbling something, and then Sally came back and handed me the coins and guild card. I threw them all into the item box. The guild card says "Rank F" on it.

There are four iron coins. The iron coins seem to have been minted, but the shape is a little awkward and the iron itself seems to have many impurities. I guess they can't afford to spend so much money on the cheapest currency.

I thanked him and left the guild. I'm a little rich again. It's likely to disappear soon, though, because you still have to gather the things you need for your life as an adventurer.

At any rate, you go into the general store next to the guild. It's about half the size of a convenience store on Earth.

Welcome. What can I get for you?

An old woman talks to you. The store is in a very good location, but the old woman seems to be the only clerk. Perhaps appearances are deceiving.

There are shelves in the store and products are placed on them, but the layout is different from that of a convenience store where security is considered. There are no cash registers or coolers, of course.

Instead of drinks, there are potions. The caps of the containers are different depending on the type. The container is a wooden cup (but about twice the size of a plastic bottle lid) with a wooden lid, and the space between the lid and the container is sealed with some kind of glue. I wonder how to open it.

It says that the price is high for the quantity, but that it is a good time to buy because the price is a little lower than usual. Is there something wrong with it? Did something happen? Did the old woman get confused and buy too much by mistake?

Compare the price of the potion with the appraisal result. As expected, the potions are quite expensive.

A single bottle of the potion, which is said to restore about 2 HP, costs 1200 Tel, which is enough for two days' lodging. However, if it can restore 1/15th of a normal person's strength, is it cheap? If it's simply 1/15th of your body weight, that's about 4kg of your body's functions restored.

I don't know what constitutes HP, but the fact that two recoveries are sold at such a high price suggests that they are quite useful.

Since I don't want to find myself in a situation where I can't use recovery spells, I'll buy about five of them.

It's unlikely that I'll be in such a situation, and I don't know if I'll be able to use the potion at that time. In the first place, it says that if you use one bottle, you can't use the same kind of medicine for 30 minutes. You can replenish it when you run out.

Potions that restore magic are also expensive. A potion that restores MP 7 times costs 1000 Tel. It may be useful, because it can instantly replenish the amount of magic that a wizard with 30 MP would take 4 hours to recover, but it is unnecessary for me. An MP of 7 or so could be recovered while I'm taking out the potion and drinking it. That may be an exaggeration, though.

The limit of continuous use of magic recovery potions is looser than that of strength recovery potions. Even so, it is said to be ineffective for five minutes.

At the end of the shelf of potions, I found about 20 dusty containers.

They are price tags - like the request boards used in guilds. The price tag?　It says "100 Tel" on it. That's cheap.

Let's check it out.

Magic Recovery Acceleration Potion

Description: Increases the rate of recovery of magic power by 10 times. The effect lasts for 3 hours.

This is a potion that is just for me. I can recover nearly 3,000 with just one bottle. There is no limit to the number of uses. And it's cheap.

I have no choice but to buy it. I grabbed all of the potions on the shelf, placed them on my hands and arms, and carried them to the old woman, balancing them dexterously with the HP potion.

It's not a magic potion, it's a recovery acceleration potion.　Are you sure you want to do that?

Yes, I'd rather have this!　I rather don't understand why this stuff was gathering dust!

Well, maybe it's because normal people have less MP.

I don't know why this stuff has been dusting around." "Well, you know, the potion is cheap because it requires very few ingredients, but that's all. It's useless even for adventurers if it doesn't work quickly, and even if you use it for a long time, you'll recover more if you drink a series of magic potions in the same amount of time. Magic potions are useless while they work. It's only used by people who work with magic in a safe place, not for combat.

"I see. Well, I have a use for it, so I'll buy them all. By the way, how do I open this lid?

You don't know anything about that, do you? Of course you can use life magic, right?　Just say "open" and it'll open. If you don't know better, don't push it. I don't care if you buy it, but if you die you'll lose a customer.

I don't have any life magic, but I suppose it's not impossible to use given my skills. I don't know if I should just say "open" or if I should just imagine it.

I don't know. I'll try not to overdo it. Also, please take this.

I offer you eight silver coins and an HP potion. I thought I might not have enough, but I had exactly twenty bottles of Recovery Acceleration Potion.

Thank you. Please come again. If we're both still alive, that is.

Then the old woman smiled. Please don't make jokes that aren't very funny. I have trouble responding.

She passes off the old woman's joke with her unique Japanese skill (Aisowarae), and throws the medicine into the item box while pretending to put it into her pocket, and leaves the store.

I'm tired of being shoved into the item box every time. But it was a good purchase.

What should I buy next? I don't think I needed anything in particular. Oh, a cane. There were no wands in Mr. Dverag's store.

I looked around and found a store that had wands. It wasn't recommended by Mr. Dverag, but it was near the guild, and if it was a strange store, it would have been weeded out.

At any rate, I went to the front of the store. The store was labeled as a "Mage Shop. There was a wooden staff about 1.2 meters long standing there.

There was no door, and although it was selling magical items, it looked like a used bookstore in a shopping district. There are no shutters or anything like that, but I guess we don't need to worry too much about security since stealing makes us bandits. Besides, this is in front of the guild, so it would be easy to be found if you tried to steal.

In addition to the long staffs, there are also staffs about 60cm long and magic tools that look like a smaller version of the light in the inn.

When I appraised the magic tools that looked like the light in the inn, I found out that they were called "magic lamps". As the name suggests, it seems to be a light that uses magic.

It says that it runs for about eight hours with one MP. It seems to be very fuel efficient. It is also reasonably priced at 500 Tel.

While I was looking at the lantern, I was suddenly approached from the back of the store.

Are you interested in magic lanterns?

The person who called out to me was a woman who looked like a wizard.

By a wizard, I do not mean an old woman with an eagle nose and a high hat.

I mean the kind of loli wizard you often see in romance novels. Short blue hair, blue eyes, short stature, chest armor that is not as thin as an armorer's, and a 1m20cm wand in her hand.

She's a perfect Lolita wizard in every way.

No, no, no. I'm not looking for a wand, but I saw it and just had to have a look. It's a short wand, like this one.

I was just looking at it when I saw it.

"Huh?　You're a funny guy, aren't you? There is no such cane. A wand of that length will only increase the speed of your magic by a few times at most. Even if your magic is a bit faster, it still needs to be at least ten times faster to be useful in battle.

The loli wizard looks puzzled, then starts laughing. Cute.

I'm pretty quick with magic, so that's fine. I've been fighting with a sword and shield while using magic, but the shield is attached to my arm so my left hand is free. I need a staff that won't get in the way.

I'd like a cane that won't get in the way." "So now you're going to use magic while using a sword?　I hope you're not joking. But if you have the money, I can make one for you. It'll cost you about 2,000 Tel for that size. I can't return it if you say it's useless later, though.

Apparently, they'll make it for you. But I wonder if there is a need to wait for them to make one.

"Can't you just cut down the one you have around? I don't mind if it costs a little more.

He points to a 60cm long cane, which has a price tag of 4000 Tel.

"Cut it down ......!　I'm not sure what to do with it.　Wand the ....... Puku puku .......

I think he was laughing at me. I don't know what I said that was so funny.

I'm not sure if I've said anything that's too funny, but I'm pretty sure I've said something that's too funny. (He seems to be saying, "A cane has a function depending on its part, so there is no point in cutting it down.

I see.

That's right.

I'll take that, please.

I waited for the loli wizard, who had fallen down from laughter, to get up, then handed him two silver coins and left the store.

Lori, who seemed to have finally recovered from her laughter, said, "I think it will be ready tomorrow afternoon. The equipment, including armor, will be ready by tomorrow evening.

The day after tomorrow I'm going to go hunting. I've paid for all my gear, and I'm not in trouble with money. If I hunt, my level will go up and my rank will go up easily.

I didn't fight today, and I wasn't tired, but I didn't have anything to do, so I quickly went back to the inn, ate at a restaurant, and went to bed.

Tomorrow I'll kill time by gathering herbs until noon, and then go pick up my gear.