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"Here you are Caelan, this should provide you with the knowledge you desire." my guild advisor, for all of the last twenty minutes, Ron placed a book on the counter in front of me, "It'll be five hundred valis though."
I rolled my eyes, "What a rip off." I replied, but regardless I lifted five hundred valis from my pocket and handed it over to him, then grabbed the book. It was something I needed. I knew roughly most of all the monsters within the dungeon, what I didn't know was the layout the floors had. This book I had just bought, was a guild sold book with information on all the fully mapped out floors of the dungeon, and all the information on that mapping compiled by the guild itself.
"Thank you." he bowed his head politely as he accepted the payment and then bid me goodbye and moved on. I withheld the urge to sigh. Why couldn't I get a beauty like Eina or Misha? No, instead I got a straight to the point, plain faced old dude.
My eyes drifted over to a brown haired, spectacled beauty sitting at a desk behind the counter. The suit didn't show off her body well, but she was pretty damn stacked and had quite the ass on her.
Well, rather than 'quite the ass', she had a full on whooty booty pawg ass. Really not something you'd expect from an elf to be honest.
This time, I did sigh and turned away. Oh well, Eina's hot, but she ain't Hestia. Plus, she can be pretty fucking annoying on top of that. I'd rather have Misha than her, but really, Ron isn't so bad either since I can just cash in and fuck off without any lectures.
Another good thing about Ron was that when I came in and registered, he just got straight to the point, had me fill in a bunch of forums, list my familia and my goddess and we were done. It took all of five minutes at most. Sure it's most likely because Ron doesn't give a shit whether I live or die in the dungeon, the same way most guild advisors were towards adventurers, but the me that hated the thought of having to sit around in a boring ass place like the guild was ever so happy with the arrangement.
Besides, I don't really give a shit if he lives or dies either. I'm selfish like that.
I tucked my newly purchased book under my arm and made to leave. Only, I paused before I even took one step when the glinting of my crystal gauntlets and boots caught my eyes.
'These are made out of the same crystal that the crystal mantis can drop right?' I thought to myself. And I could make them on command as long as I had enough magic energy also known as mind here.
So couldn't I possibly cash these in as drop items like the goblin fangs and kobold nails I had?
With that thought, I stuffed my book in the waistband of my pants and slipped off the crustal gauntlets and boots and made my way over to the exchange booth.
"Back again already?" the man behind the counter asked, raising an eyebrow at me.
"Yeah, I was wondering what you would give me for these," I replied, setting the crystal gauntlets and boots down on the counter, "The shape might be off, but they're still crystal from a crystal mantis."
The man hummed, leaning over to examine them, "True the shape is odd, but they are indeed from a crystal mantis," he nodded after a moment, before looking me in the eye, "That begs the question though, how did a newly minted adventurer like yourself get your hands on these?"
"Familia secret," I replied flippantly with a shrug, hopefully that's good enough, I remember canonically that the guild wasn't allowed to involve itself with inner familia affairs unless it was outright law breaking, "So will you buy them or not?"
"Fair enough I suppose," the man shrugged himself, "And yes, from the looks of them despite the odd shapes they are very much still pure crystal mantis crystal, so the guild will purchase them. They are a bit bigger than the usual crystal brought in as drop items, but I'm afraid that doesn't change our rates. I can offer you ten thousand valis per each piece and not a single more."
My eyes widened in shock. Holy shit! That's a total of forty thousand valis! "That'll do nicely." I said, agreeing with the offered amount. After all, I can make these as I please!
"Very well, one moment." the teller nodded and prepared to walk off to where the money was kept no doubt, but an idea occurred to me and I stopped him.
"How much does the guild sell the magic stones of Infant Dragon's for?" I asked, a plan coming to mind to gain massive growth instantly.
He looked at me oddly, obviously wondering why I'm asking such a specific thing, but replied nonetheless, "We buy them for twenty-two thousand valis and sell them for thirty thousand." he replied.
Damn, steep as fuck. But; "Then keep thirty thousand of the valis and just give me one of those and ten thousand valis back." I said. It was worth it, totally worth it since the more my stats increased, specifically my magic, the more crystal armour I would be able to make and the more cash money I'd be able to sell them for.
He merely nodded at my words, and continued on. He returned a few moments later carrying a magic stone nearly as big as my head and ten thousand valis. I thanked him, and continued on my way and left the guild hall behind.
As I did, I ducked down the side of the building out of view of the passing people and began chomping down on the huge magic stone bit by bit with my enhanced teeth, crunching it down practically into powder and swallowing it.
When I was done, I was about to go take care of the things I wanted to get done when a thought occurred to me, "Shit, I need to get some magic stones for Hestia's lamp." I palmed my face.
I about turned and headed back towards the massive towering structure that was the tower of babel, and the entrance into the dungeon.