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Volume 5 - Ch 5.03
Volume 5 - Ch 5.03
So what you are saying is essentially that we should prepare ourselves for a difficult battle?
Not only difficult, but also the one where we cannot expect a complete victory like we always did up until this point, but hopefully the result is going to be that we will be seeing that thing much less often, and that alone should give us some relief.
If there is a way to decrease the rate at which that this is going to be showing in our house, then we have to take it. It does not matter that I will only be buying myself a momentarily peace of mind, that is going to be more than enough for me. Of course, it would be a great thing if we managed to make that thing disappear completely, but if it is not possible to achieve then I have no choice but to settle for the next best thing that we can get.
Seems reliable enough, considering that we do not have any other options on our plates. You said that we are going to need the leaves of Shiyurab? I obtaining them going to be difficult?
If we are talking about obtaining them ourselves, then yes, it is going to be rather difficult, because the enemies that drop those leaves only start appearing around the fiftieth floor of the Labyrinths, so if you do not have access to this floor yet, then your only option is to buy them from the Adventurers Guild.
In other words, that item can be harvested from the Labyrinth as a Drop Item from a monster, but at our current progress rate it is going to be pretty much impossible for us to obtain it, and that is why the only option left to us is to go and buy the leaves that we are going to need from the Adventurers Guild.
Right now, we have barely managed to get to the tenth floor of the Labyrinths, which means that we are only at one fifth of the floors required in order to obtain that item, but before we will be able to get it by normal means it might be way too late for us, so I think that even if these leaves are going to be a little bit on the pricier side, it is still going to be better for us to get them this way, because at the current point there is no way that we could brave forty more floors of the Labyrinth in short enough time, not when the Labyrinth grows more and more expansive with each floor that we are advancing on and the monsters getting not only progressively stronger as their level increases, but also growing in numbers, meaning that without a bigger Party we would quickly get overrun and annihilated by them. After all, the Labyrinths are not passive buildings, but living creatures that actively seek out new and improved ways to kill the Adventurers that are delving deep into its hallways in order to continue growing and expanding even more, so if we go to the higher floors while being outnumbered and outpowered by the Labyrinths monsters, the only thing that is going to be waiting for us is going to be certain death.
However, the one thing that we absolutely cannot allow ourselves to do is to just sit around and do nothing, simply tolerating that this thing is just keep going to show up at our house like it owns the goddamn place. Now that I have seen it, there is no way that I am going to allow it to keep appearing at our house and disturb its peaceful atmosphere, so we have to create the weapon that is going to allow us to fight it at all costs, and if we have to expend money I order to do it, then I say that in this particular case this is going to be well worth it, all the more so if it is going to mean that we will not have to risk our lives on an endeavor that may or may not end up in our favor.
Okay, Sherry. I will leave this matter to you.
Understood! I will make sure to do my best.
Sherry seems to be pretty motivated to do this. As for me, I am perfectly okay with leaving this matter to her for the time being, because I am going to be very busy from the early morning, since I am going to have a lot of things to do on my plate.
First, we went to the Labyrinth and stayed there exploring and slaying monsters until around sunrise while scoring one easy victory after another, and then it was the time to go to Palmasque in order to sell the amber that we have obtained from the cat-eared merchant in Bode, so I also had Roxanne and Sherry wear their Amber Necklaces to ensure that they are going to look their absolute best to make sure that this trip is going to be as successful as can possibly be.
All right girls, I am counting on you.
I gave a silver coin to each of them to pay for the City Entrance Tax, and on top of that Sherry was given sixty silver coins and rough amber gemstones. Also, this time I have refrained from giving Sherry any gold coins.
Umm are you not going with us again, master?
Yes, I will have you two go by yourselves once more.
But we have Amber Necklaces with us this time, and they are worth a small fortune.
Certainly, right now these two combined have more than one hundred thousand Nars worth of money on them, and since amber can be sold for a very high price in Palmasque, there is always a risk of misappropriation.
However, they will not be able to do it when they are in custody of such expensive accessory as Amber Necklace, plus, if they are not going to have any gold coins on them, then the risk of them being targeted because of the amount of money that they have on them should be considerably lessened.
It is going to be alright. I trust you two.
Thank you very much, master.
With all of the preparations ready, I warped us to the Labyrinth of Zabir and then to Palmasque from there, where I sent them out to make another round of the purchases. Because this place is the furthest to the east among all the towns and cities that I have visited so far, the sun has already risen completely here.
Well then, we are heading off.
Yeah, have a safe trip, and I will be looking forward to the results.
Now that Roxanne and Sherry were off to do business, I means that I have some time to kill before they are going to be back, but what exactly should I do? Maybe I should go to the Labyrinth of Zabir and hunt some monsters there? Or is this going to be a bad idea? Nah, as long as I will keep that trip on the shorter side, it should probably be fine. And just like that, I moved to the Labyrinth of Zabir where I hunted some monsters for a while and then warped back to Palmasque to come pick the girls back up. It was a fifty-fifty chance that they were still away doing business, but luckily for me, they were already back with another two mirrors by the time I have emerged from the portal on the wall of Palmasques Adventurers Guild, so we immediately returned home and then went to the of Quratar so that I could recover my lost MP.
We have already obtained four mirrors, so that means that we have to go to Palmasque like that at least four more times.
We have sold all amber gemstones at forty silver coins apiece.
Sherry reported to me after I finished recovering all of my MP and we took a break.
Oooh, that is great to hear. I knew that I could count on you two.
It means that they have managed to sell the amber at five times the cost of a singe stone. It is definitely more than I have initially expected. It is more than the total amount I paid to the amber merchant, so it means that the cost of the Amber Necklaces has already been recovered. It is good to hear that Sherry and Roxanne made such a good business, but now that I learned that it left me feeling more than a little unsatisfied. After all, if I were to go do business buying mirrors and selling raw amber, we would have been able to buy the mirrors for thirty percent less and sell amber for thirty percent more.