The old crafter's name was Zen, he was rich because of his job and as the only crafter in this region of the grained earth kingdom to book his service was always expensive, also given that his rank in the job was a thing to be proud of.
Liam made his request, but the old crafter was kinda curious why he wanted it.
"I recently went to legacy place and I inherited an eye bloodline that gives me keen sight, but it is disturbing to always open it."
"Um, an eye bloodline, that's rare. can I take a look at it?'
"Nah, sorry I will have to to decline that." Liam let out with a smile, the old man laughed, Young ones this days are usually possessive and secretive of their findings.
Back in his days there was something like brainstorming, when they gather together to brainstorm each other on new methods and cultivation hacks they have discovered but kids this days don't even like it when they cultivate the same technique with their mates.
Liam then made his order for two, he wanted two of them.
The system said it was temporary but he is not sure when it will end so he had to take precautions, the demon eye is a very cherished treasure of his and he won't like to have people targeting him because of that, it was impossible that there are some evil ones with the ability to take care of him and extract the demon eyes.
"Your request is quite tricky, but don't worry this old man gat you covered. anyways a down payment of twenty thousand is needed, you said you want two, right?"
Liam nodded, he brought out the money from his spatial ring and gave it to Zen, the old man counted it with his divine sense and gave him a nod when he found out it was correct.
Liam left the place.
On his way to his house, he was bothered to see there was a lot of people packing out, most of them took with them carriages, taking their clothes and other pretty good stuffs that were really important them.
Most of them even regretted leaving their house behind, if it was possible to take their houses with them they would have done it without complaining.
'Weird, this is the first time I've seen others parking out from their houses in this world.' He let out in his heart, well he soon got to his place and entered his bedroom.
Then he met with one of his problems once again, he did not have clothes to change into.
With that he left the house, now he had the clothes hiding his eyes which kind of made it hard to recognize him, the only way one could recognize him was with his distinct red hair.
Anyway, he was going to buy himself clothes, he have not been there for once so there will be no one there to recognize him.
The reason was because of the demon eye which he did not want others to know about.
He walked into the busy boutique called the Dragon kings boutique, it was a one sex shop for clothes and thankfully it was for the male folks.
He did not have to pay fare here and the place was not a place that needed his identity so he had no problem entering.
After taking several steps he arrived at the first line of robes, they were without wrinkles making him wonder if there was iron in this world.
Anyway he went to the side for his size, he went through the line of robes and picked seven that equalled 2 gold coins, he calculated that with the price tags on them.
At the end of the day he ended up buying 20 robes and the same number of pants, and be payed 10 gold coins all in all, plus the five pairs of durable sandal, his total spending rose to 11.
After that he left the boutique and walked toward his house, he has been walking so much today and the thought of having a mount beast or a flying sword actually ran through his mind.
The Spirit beasts were good mounts but it's something unusual.
'I'll use it next time.' He was thinking too much about his wardrobe and the fitting for his eyes that he actually forgot about the flute and the spirit beast in his possession.
At the end of the day, he returned home blaming himself for the time he spent walking, the spirit beast could have saved him a lot of time.
When he returned home, it was already noon, the sun was already beating on him so hard that he actually thought that he has erred against it in some ways.
Elfina served him lunch, he discovered that there was meatballs prepared along with it, he actually have a peculiar feeling for meet balls, Emerald was good at making meatballs.
He used the fork to pick one of them and gently place it inside his mouth.
'Its delicious.' he let out in his mind, after eating he left to the room and sat on a lotus position on the mat that was in his room.
He entered a cultivation state, he held the primeval crystal in his hands.
When he was in the cultivation state completely, the primeval crystal left his hands and started floating in the air in front of him, wisps of primeval essence was released that he absorbed without difficulties.
Right now, he wanted to take his cultivation ro the human lord realm, even if it's the first level it's still okay.
He cultivated from the afternoon till the next morning, when the essence from the primeval crystal was finished his cultivation has experienced an increase, but he did not make it up to human lord realm.
"Well, the cultivation was great." He muttered to himself.
"Oh well, it's time to get started with alchemy"
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"Cletus behind you." Gabriel spotted something closed to Cletus, the thing was very long and flexible like a snake, at the end of it was a sharp pointed end.
Cletus was warned, he immediately made fast dash towards them but unfortunately for him for him he did not completely evade it, his right leg was torn apart by the strange entity causing him to cry out as right now he was in a moment of extreme pain.
Gabriel eyes widened, that thing that appeared has no name because no one has seen it before.
And also as big as that entity, there was no head meaning that it was just an extension of the real deal, and the real deal is not something they will be able to survive against.
However and fortunately for them that entity went back and was hidden from them once again.
"My leg, it's hot.. it's fuckin hot." Cletus cried out in pain.
"Cletus is poisoned, fast let's leave, if that thing comes back again we will be done for" One of the hunter, afraid of death suggested that they leave Cletus behind.
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Two of them agreed with that but Gabriel and the other disagreed.
"Don't be stupid, leaving a comrade behind is not part of the plan!" Gabriel yelled at them, he was afraid of the strange entity that appeared but that does not mean he was going to neglect his comrade.
"I'm not buying, I'm not spending even a minute extra in this place" The hunter said, the other who supported him ran with him and left the place.
Gabriel ran and squatted close to Cletus, another one who supported him brought out an anti-poison spray and a poison dispelling pill.
They gave the poison dispelling pill to Cletus and use the anti-poison spray on his leg that injured.
They applied a few more first aid, then one of the hunters with a large body build agreed to carry Cletus who has become unconscious after the poison.
Gabriel took out few items from his spatial ring and placed it there, the item is a magic one that can make one mark a location and use another of its kind to locate it.
After that...
Gabriel and the other ran with Cletus, they went with him toward the direction that led out of the Forest.
Meanwhile, on another part of the forest the three deserters were running with all their might but then from the top of a very tall tree, the same entity rushed down and chopped the head of one of them.
Three more of this entity rush down as well, and chopped the head of the one.
In this area, about seven of them appeared with the same appearance but there was different sizes in them, some longer and others shorter.
The tentacle like entity floated to the ground, they slowly floated toward the corpse of the hunters and then slowly wrapped around them before taking them off the ground, in a matter of seconds all of them have disappeared.