321 7.49 A Prosperous Pill Merchant And A Pay2Win Bully...

Will.I.Am had readied a simple dinner of gruel and mixed vegetable from our basket of groceries and our guests had taken their spread and left with 4 pouches of shards to us. We notified the dwarfs that we might be away during a period of time and Will.I.Am would be accommodating them with breakfast and dinner later on.

The head of the dwarven mining group may pass the shards over to our young apprentice for safekeeping. He understood and he would be notified when we would be assuming our leave when we ventured out to other towns.

The 48 logs had been turned to planks, courtesy of the fusion chamber in the Realm of Mind and now were stacked and waiting to be made into a wooden hearth with a flat roof. The flat roof would be constructed with the help of the offscreen crews with scaffolding to hoist them up.

After Will.I.Am had completed packing the camp, we advised our apprentice that we would be leading the way towards Leeds and be back by sunup or earlier depending on how fast we can settle our tasks there. He bade us adieu as we make our way towards Leeds that would take us 2 hours on Cruising Along and the rest would be on normal speed.

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Leeds was a booming city that connects to other towns that were around it and there were a lot of other adventurers. Mostly are warriors with mighty swords, battleaxes and flaming wheels equipped with full plate armour or breastplates, archers, while some are mages and even a necromancer or two.

"Wow...! Look at this, Boss! These towns are full of these adventurers, and the way they looked down on us because of our armours and weapons, these fat sonofabitches sure are pay2win heroes. Look at us...we are not even equivalent to them." Jean Lethal lamented when he felt insignificant when other bands looked and at us and sneered.

All of us had concealed our stats and that's why we remained low profile except for our names and our classes can be discovered by them. Our weapons and armour are all hidden and remained unknown but they could be seen but not evaluated.

"Hey...a group of warriors wannabes had just arrived...these are easy fries, don't you think?" said a warrior in full plate armour, sneering and pointing at us with his middle finger.

"Don't bother about them now, set up a stall here under this tree, Matilda. Remember, guys...our main aim here is to sell these pills, rearrange our attributes and then ask about the refinement. We could all insert the poor gems into the sockets first before refinement. No problem, I could desocket them when we make the good ones."

I advised the rest of the band through a party chat that I saw in our interfaces that uses voice messages.

Matilda and Jean Lethal nodded their heads and Matilda went to the tree and sat down and set up a temporary stall that sells 'Ginseng Hee Ling Pills at 1 gold coin each'.

Soon a few of the lone warriors approached us and inquired about these pills and we explained then about the properties and soon it was snapped up by them at half a dozen each.

The same group that taunted us came by and good before us. "Hah...! Selling such a useless herbal pill...by this Robin and Jean Lethal...whats so Lethal about this Jean who is equipped with a paltry stick meant by the monks. Who is this Robin, by the way? A bird...?"

"Ay...the cat caught your little birdy's tongue, is it? Do you think you could be one of us? You three look so nooby, even if there's 5 Robin, you could never beat half of the lowest-ranked member from our band."

"We are the Band of The Flaming Arrows...! And we beat every single one of those nooby teams...we are the ultimate band here in Leeds...! Anyone wants a duel can send a duel invitation to us...! We are the best in Leeds and the best there will always be...."

"Hey, Robin...chirp chirp...I offer you 20 gold pieces if you can defeat in a round-robin match with 10 of our lowest-ranked member. 20 gold pieces per head. Choose your so-called Lethal Jean here or your pretty maiden here to fight us and you too birdy...!"

"Huh...? Oh...I'm so sorry...we weren't actually listening...were you trying to tell something to us?" I mocked the band leader of The Flaming Arrows and my words did leave them flaming...!!!

"I'm sorry Mister Flaming Arrows, we are here to sell off these so-called poorly made pills to adventurers who would be needing to heal in an emergency. It's very cheap. It costs only 1 gold coin each, would you like to buy some, Mister?"

"I am sure you are such a wealthy fellow and can afford these measly pills for your men. It's just 1 gold coin, or is it too much for you to buy them for your poor men? A leader like you would definitely have thousands of gold coins in your pouch, ready to splurge for your men at any time."

I mocked once more, flattering him so high and then bringing him back to earth with a slam. I wanted to see how such a leader would treat his men, or would he rather think only for himself.

At the same time, a crowd was forming and onlookers were looking at us with sympathised looks at our equipment and how loud-mouthed and boisterous my mouth is. The crowd saw the low-level bow that I had not upgraded yet and the empty sockets of my 'Heaven and Earth Splitting Divine sword at my side and shook their heads and felt sorry for myself.

The crowd was expecting another defeat of newcomers and seems to me that Flaming Arrows was some kind of bully here in this town. By the looks at it, these Flaming Arrows were trying to disrupt our sales of these pills.

The leader walked in front and jabbed his shimmering gauntlet covered middle finger at my chest while he spoke up with his most menacing words, "I'll come back in 2 hours time to finish you and your little pathetic band off the face of this earth, you little piece of shit...robin chirp chirp...!!!"

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"Boss, let's group up and hammer this guy into a small pile of scrap metal...! We can't take this lying down..."

"Don't worry JL, just remember our main purpose now. Hear ye...Hear ye...Ginseng Hee Ling pills for 1 gold each. We help you, adventurers, to keep your expenses low so that you would survive longer when grinding monsters...Come and get it. Limited stocks left. Evaluate before buying, please...thank you."

I made the available onlookers that we would rather make a killing over our sales rather than the killing fields.

"Boss, would you be taking up his challenge?"

"Definitely I will take up the challenge, JL...its just a matter of 2 hours. By that time, I'd show the arrogant guy a lesson he would not forget and we would make a name for ourselves."

I reassured Jean Lethal as Matilda was oblivious of what's happening because she is in a trading state and had shut herself off and only communicate to those who wished to open a trade link with her.

Despite the harassment we had received, some of the lone adventurers came and bought some pills after evaluating them and discovered that it was way affordable than getting from a physician which costs 5 gold coins per pop.

Soon, the pills were snapped up by half dozen to up to 4 dozens by those wealthier ones. 1 hour later, all the 258 pills were sold off and Matilda logged off her trade link.

"Hey guys, we just got 258 gold coins richer. I noticed there's a commotion just now but was unable to pinpoint the cause of it.".

"Matilda, open an exchange link with JL and pass him 100 gold coins. Keep the rest and pass 58 to Will later. At least he does receive something from his efforts."

"Alright, ring leader..." and soon Matilda opened an exchange link and transfers 100 gold coins to Jean Lethal.

"Done, ring leader...shall we find the refinement merchant?"

"We shall, of course, that's our second reason we came here right?" I winked at both Jean Lethal and Matilda as we went to ask some adventurers there for directions and soon reached the refinement merchant.

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"Now you've got the 500 gold coins I've given you right? Go ahead and make the highest refinement. It costs 50, 150 and 300 to get to the highest tier. Here, take this 3 gems each and socket them first before enhancement. Don't worry about mine, I have an idea later."

Soon, Matilda and Jean Lethal joined the queue to enhance to the highest tier and some onlookers that saw us being taunted earlier gasps as the formers all took out 500 fold coins to refine their weapons to the max.

By half an hour, Gotham and Vendetta had an aura of excellent blueish hue that shone very brightly, brighter than the rest of the weapons that most of the adventurers wielded. Some even need to shield their eyes when the formers held their weapons high before they replaced it back in their scabbard or on their backs. By that time, the hue dissipated and their weapon stats remained hidden.