I need the Goat Skill Crystal quickly though, since it increases magic attack power, and that is exactly what we need right now.
After ordering the kobold & goat Skill Crystals, I leave Luke and walk out of the room. But instead of leaving the Merchants Guild through the portal on the wall, I am doing so by walking out through the front entrance on foot. That is because there is another place where I want to go right now: the nearby Weapon Shop. And that is because I have to find a good weapon for Sherry and myself.
Is a Steel Spear going to be a good choice here? Most likely, because it comes with an Empty Skill Slot in it, but as a downside, there are only two of them. The rest does not even have Empty Skill Slots in them. It would have been ideal if we managed to find the ones with two or perhaps even three Empty Skill Slots in them, but you know what they say, right? Beggars cannot be choosers.
Choose one of these two, Sherry.
I pass the two Steel Spears with the Empty Skill Slots to Sherry.
Um.. I will do my best.
Sherry sounds like she is straining a bit as she answers.
Even if you does not choose well, I do not think there will be that much of a difference, since all of these Steel Spears are basically identical anyway.
Um. Master?
Yeah? What is it?
You know that If I fail at fusion with this, I will not be able to remake it, right?
She is muttering in a quiet voice. I see, she is still worrying about Skill Crystal Fusion.
Sorry that this time were just getting weapons for Sherry and myself, Roxanne. I promise I will make it up to you when I get the chance.
It is okay, master. I do not mind.
I comfort Roxanne as I leave the weapons shop. However, it is true that I just cannot continue to buy things only for her all the time. I have to make sure to keep a healthy balance between her and Sherry.
At the current moment I do not have any problems in particular with the Scimitar that I have been using.
Okay, as long as you are satisfied with it, that is all that matters for me.
If our circumstances were any different, I probably would not have hesitated even for a moment to give her anything that she might have wanted, but as things stand now, I am her master, and she is my slave, so I cannot favor her too much, or else Sherry might end up feeling neglected. And besides, if I really was doing everything for her at her every request, Roxanne might have started acting too spoilt, so every now and then I have to show her a firm and decisive attitude, even if it might end up coming off as a bit cruel.
We will need to increase the amount of Party members to strengthen our battle potential. I cannot just invest all of our money into equipment alone, because then we would not have any of it left for other purposes.
Yes, that is most certainly the truth.
I cannot be a sweet master to you all the time, Roxanne, this world would simply not allow it. I cannot spoil you, and I definitely cannot pamper you. If I did that and people would caught wind of that, I would definitely be branded as a weird master who is not establishing his dominance over his slaves properly, and that would put me in the spotlight and the center of attention, and right now, such attention is the last thing that I need and want.
I need to think of our income and how to balance the things that we absolutely need with the ones that we can do without for the time being, because I do not want you to think of me as a bad, incompetent master.
You are not a bad master, master, and you will never be.
If you think that you might be bad or incompetent, then how is it possible that we have a whole house to live in instead of living in an inn? How is it possible that we have good armor and equipment that allows us to fight in the Labyrinths without putting our lives in danger, not to mention that you are always hunting and exploring it with us when you do not really have to? And how is it possible that we are capable of eating such luxurious meals every single day? If master was a bad master, then we would never had any of those things.