Komer scratched his cheek while seemingly opening his status page, before leaning against the wall. "Not a lot, really. I have Appraisal, Trading, Cooking and Mana Manipulation. Appraisal is my highest rank skill, and Mana Manipulation is my lowest rank one. Oh, and of course my racial skill, A Human's Perseverance."
"I see, then you really should learn a few more skills. Maybe a few crafting skills so that you can get a better feeling for the items you're selling as well. But Mana Manipulation might be surprisingly useful, so I suggest bringing that up a to rank 2 as well. Although, maybe wait a bit until your trading skill is a bit higher and you actually became a proper merchant until you actually rank it up from 1 to 2." Eisen suggested, and Komer tilted his head lighty to the side.
"Why is that? As a merchant, being able to use magic isn't really all that useful, right?"
"It actually is. Merchants probably have high mental stats rather than physical ones, so that's the perfect base for magic. And you do need to be able to defend yourself a little bit, considering that there are some pretty strong monsters. Also, when your magic manipulation reaches rank 2, you will get to choose a magic element. Depending on your actions, you may be able to get some kind of element that will end up helping you as a merchant."
Komer frowned lightly but ended up nodding. This definitely made quite a lot of sense, even he had to admit that. When he first tried it, controlling your mana was just way too hard and underwhelming compared to those awesome things you read in novels. That's why his skill was still at Rank 0, since he really didn't do anything to practice it after the first two or three times, especially after he suddenly passed out from losing too much of his mana. But if it could really be as useful as Eisen said, then maybe it would be worth continuing to practice it anyway.
"I mean, at the start you can barely do anything with mana, right? So I can't imagine it really changing all that much… But I'll trust you. So you also have that element thing then?" He asked, and Eisen nodded as he faced his palm toward a small open spot in the carriage, before a figure suddenly appeared that was basically just an utterly white version of Eisen wearing a just as white suit. Before Komer could even react to this, the figure suddenly turned into dirt, or at least that's what it looked like at first.
It didn't really seem to be dirt, and instead was moving in something like small waves, as if it was just some kind of smoke compressed into a body.
"Yes, I do. And trust me, you really can do quite amazing things with mana. The white version of me was the pure-mana double, and right now it's been infused with my magic element. The element is quite useful for crafting, so that's why I got this." Eisen explained, and Komer kept staring at the other version of Eisen standing in the room, before it suddenly disappeared.
"So just keep practicing your mana manipulation for a while, and as I said, try to only get it to Rank 2 once you've properly grown into your role as a merchant. Also, can you tell me what your Human Racial skill does?" Eisen asked while preparing to also turn the root-sphere into a decoration with the help of transmuted glass, but Komer only got confused.
"Er… What? You should know, right? Aren't you also a human?" He asked, unsure what Eisen was talking about, but was incredibly surprised when he heard the answer.
"Haha, no, I'm actually not a human. I'm half Giant, half Dwarf, so my racial skills are different from your's." After explaining this, Eisen chuckled lowly as the glass bottle in his hand slowly began to drip down while he turned it into a liquid, slowly moving it over the root-sphere.
Komer was still surprised, but when he considered Eisen's dimensions, it actually made sense to see that he wasn't human. "O-Oh, alright. Erm, anyway. The 'A Human's Perseverance' Skill doesn't actually do all that much right now. It just makes me lose my stamina less quickly when I activate it, and if I activate it when I'm about to fall asleep because of exhaustion, I won't be tired during the duration of the skill. That's all for now. A man in the village told me that later, it would passively influence some of your abilities depending on your surroundings, but I don't really know." He explained, and Eisen nodded in response.
"I see… Hey, Bree, you also have the 'A Human's Perseverance' Racial skill, right?" Eisen asked in a louder voice so that Bree could hear him while she was sitting on the bench at the front of the carriage, and she turned her head around to look inside.
"Huh? Ah, yeah, I do! Why are you asking?"
"It's just because of Komer. I wondered if you could tell us something about it."
Bree tilted her head to the side and began to think for a bit, before nodding slowly. "Hmm, I guess you could say it's kind of an all-rounder ability at first, but it grows into a more specialized area depending on what kind of person you are later on. That's because humans live basically everywhere, in any type of area, and they don't really have a racial specialization. They don't get any bonuses to stats, but at the same time don't have any disadvantages either, but the racial skill can change that, so some humans or actually on par in ability compared to more specialized races like dwarves or elves."
Eisen and Komer listened curiously, while Eisen was currently filling out the whole area inside of the sphere with liquid-glass that he quickly hardened, before also covering the roots in a thin layer of glass to make sure that these couldn't rot either. "And what did you specialize in?"
"Well, it my case, it supports my mental stats for the most part."
"I see, thanks, Bree! You really have an answer to everything, huh?" The old man laughed loudly while the sphere in his hand hardened and began glittering in the sunlight streaming through the small openings of the carriage.
"So, as you can see, you will be better off if you specialize on an area and concentrate on raising skills like these that will make you even better in that area. It's like synergy, you know? For example, in my case take Tailoring and Leatherworking. Since they are quite similar technique-wise, once I learned one, it was easier for me to learn the other. If you have a skillset that supports itself and pushes you up, you can grow to immense heights." Eisen chuckled, while placing the glas-covered sphere of roots down next to the other flower again, then looked back at Komer.
"Should I tell you about some of the items that you may be selling in the future?" He asked, and Komer nodded excitedly while standing up. "Yes, please!"
"Alright! Here, first these…" And so, Eisen began to explain the main types of items that would probably be sold with the use of examples.
This included the potions, pills, clothes, tools or weapons. And at last, Eisen also showed Komer some of the 'bottles' of mead that he was currently preparing, that have already been fermenting for a few while now, every once in a while letting out small pops as air escaped through the small air-locks at the top.
And Komer was simply stunned. "Wow, you're making all of this stuff? Is there anything you can't make? And you're even making alcohol…" He muttered to himself while grabbing one of the honey-containers that Eisen filled with the mead, curiously trying to figure out what this was.
"Did you make these… erm, Bottles, as well? They look pretty cool. And they fit the Mead-Theme too, since it's made with lots of honey, right?" Komer asked, carefully placing it back down onto the pile of the other containers, while Eisen shook his head.
"No, I didn't make these. I found them in a giant Beehive in a forest. The Bees used those to store honey in, and a few of them were empty, so I grabbed all that I could get. That's actually also where I got this here." Eisen reached out toward the perfectly round amber-colored egg still lying on its pedestal.
"It's a Queen Bee egg, so I'm hoping to be able to tame it once it hatches, similar to what I did with-"
While Eisen was trying to explain his plan for the Bee that would hatch from this, it actually began to shake a little bit.
Apparently his luck was quite great, wasn't it?
Chapter end
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