The Runic Alchemist

Chapter 38: Business

After taking a bath and resting for a while Damian got up to sell his first ever batch of products.

In the most busy street of the city where there was barely any space to set up a shop, Damian somehow found a little place at the corner and hidden from the public eye in an alley behind he got out a table that he randomly picked up from the old building where he made his potions and cleaned it enough to put his potions on it.

Also taking out the potions and setting everything up in the corner he had found, Damian was ready for making some money. He also used one of the blank paper and wrote 'Basic Healing Potion – 3 silver' on it. Usually the Basic potion bottle went for 4 silvers and he was ready to sell it for 2 but just to give himself a little room to negotiate Damian thought it better to write more instead of less.

People would be more happy to buy it in 2 when it's priced at 3. If all 25 bottles were sold he would make 5 gold which would leave him in 3 gold in profit after removing the production cost which was plenty enough.

Sitting besides his little table full of healing potions on an empty crate, Damian waited. People were coming and going all around him, the street was full of chatter and constant shouting of people promoting their stuff, Damian however was too shy to do the shouting so he just waited.

After some 20 minutes finally one guy came up after reading the sign and asked for the potion, Damian smiled and explained to the man how his potions were better tasting and had a higher quality. The man looked at him with doubtful eyes but bought 3 potions for 9 silvers. Damian was surprised that the guy didn't even bother negotiating.

And after that same thing kept repeating over and over, many people would come check his potions and would pay the price. Even some poor looking fellows came who did some negotiating to which Damian happy with his sells just gave them the potion for 2 silver. The poor lady looked so happy as she received it that she called him many nice things it almost made him embarrassed.

Damian did not realize until the very next day that healing potions were not something easily made even though the method was public just collecting or buying the material took so much resources that most people didn't think it was worth it and only shops that were struggling sold those instead of higher quality ones, and even that in limited stock.

When he bought the [Basic healing potion] from the apothecary shop it was early morning and he had to negotiate a lot to get it at 4 silver. And it definitely neither looked this good or tasted this good.

Damian had one bottle open to let people smell and taste to see how the potion looked and almost everyone had a positive reaction after seeing and smelling it, some even tasted it and immediately bought the potion without negotiating.

In just three hours he was out of stock, every last bottle was sold. Someone even took his sample bottle that he was using to let everyone see inside for 2 silver. And he was a whopping 7 gold richer than this morning. After removing 2 gold as production cost he made 5 gold as pure profit. He really could do it if he tried.

Damian thought about making more batches from tomorrow then dismissed the idea, he was so bored in just this 4 hours. It was already afternoon, Damian did not want to just work all day. He had the library and he really wanted to make good use of that. Not to mention his experiments and practices. It was already enough to make this much.

After gathering all his things and putting them back in his storage tool Damian got into one of the nice restaurants and ordered a premium meal. Of course it was a meat dish, and he fully enjoyed it. Seasonings were not as good as it could be but it was definitely better than anything he ate after getting lost in the forest with Lucian.

Happy with his little side hustle's success Damian walked to the library and showed his white card to the guards and got inside. Bowing respectfully to the scary library lady Damian went from shelf to shelf gathering books that he was gonna read today. When suddenly a hand just grabbed him on his shoulder from behind and forced him to turn around.

"Where the hell were you, huh? I was waiting all day..."

Sheela looked like a very funny pufferfish with her tiny face all pouting in anger. Damian totally forgot about her, not that they ever decided on time to meet up.

"Ahh ! I'm sorry I was busy doing my job."

"You work..?"

"Of course I do."

Damian said while puffing his chest. He was a wealthy man now after all.

"Let's do the practice... it's time for your next lesson..."

Damian did not like how excited she was for this. Did she really have nothing to do all day than abusing a little kid..? But Damian got his papers and quill and got behind her. Free spells were always welcomed, no matter how insignificant they were.

Once he had all the different unique runes and formulas that made the magic circle he could really go deep in this and make some real progress in this field. Of course it might take him awful long time to do so but he had to start somewhere.

They got to the open ground they had come to the day before and the overly excited girl just started giving lecture after lecture on mana and how a mage should be, in between she was really pausing and staring at him for him to call her teacher and she did not continue till he did. Damian was really tired of this brat by now.

But he endured since she did show some basic spells once in a while, most were the ones that Damian already knew but some were different and he was really getting at least something out of this.

After an hour of this he had 3 new basic spells [Water blade], [Water shield], and [Gale Barrier]. Water blade just as it's name suggested were blades of solid water, Water shield was solid form of water one could hold as shield or make it float around the user and the Gale barrier was high pressure wind rotating around the user protecting the user from any kind of fire or other attacks.

Damian drew them all and kept it in his collection of spell book.

After getting tired the 'teacher' and student both settled beneath the single tree that was behind them. The four guards were present today also, and Damian ignored them just like yesterday.

"Do you have an affinity to water and air..?"

"You brat ! You can't ask such questions to your teacher..."

"Who else would teach me about affinities dumbass..?"

"What did you just call me..?"

"Teacher.. teacher... Respectful teacher.. that's what I called you. What did you hear..?"

"Don't think you can be cheeky in front of me brat !! I'm the most respected teacher in the 5 kingdoms."

"You just started yesterday though..."

"What was that..?"

"Nothing.. nothing.."

"Yes, I do have water and air as affinity. Why are you so small despite being 11...?"

'Ahh, she thinks I'm older than I look.. Well I guess that makes things easier for me..'

"I don't know... I just look what I look like you know..."

"Why are you still working if you are a mage..? Recruitments are going on everyday.."

"I.. like being alone.."

"Ah.. People scare you huh..? I can understand...."

"Why do you have so much free time if you are such a good mage..?"

"I learned everything they could teach me here... For more I need to go to 'Arcane Athenaeum'."

Damian did not know what that name meant but it must be one of Faerunia's best library for scholars and mages to learn and discover new spells. Often they were connected to a school of their own and taught their theories and spells, of course not for free.