章 38: The cozy shop
Boden looking at the body of the snake 'If I do the triangle ritual, I can gain a lot of physical power. But who could the other two be? I need to find two reliable friends for myself' he thought.
The leader of the group had a space-ring and took out two special barrels of 2 cubic meters. Boden thought the man probably had a four or five cubic meter ring. They put the snake's blood, heart, venom sac and eyes in the barrels. Then he cut the snake into fifteen pieces and everyone except Naser carried one piece and brought it to the wagons. After placing the parts of the snake in the wagon, the group got on the road again.
Twelve hours later they arrived in town. The monetary value of the blood of the snake was high because the potion was made with the blood of the snake. The group earned a total of four hundred mana crystals. Boden's share was four percent. One mana crystal was worth a hundred gold. They gave Boden sixteen mana crystals. The group went their separate ways to meet again a week later. Boden re-entered the Hunter's Club and exchanged ninety-seven gold coins for a mana crystal.
Boden came to the town center after placing the gold and mana crystals he gained into the ring. Here he walked into a potion store. Inside was very wide and Boden smelled pleasant smells as he entered through the door. Boden looked around for a while, curiously, excitedly and approvingly. He could not hide the satisfaction in his face. There were potions of various colors and sizes, pills, plants, parts of living and non-living creatures, as well as things that he could not fully grasp what they were.
Boden thought to himself 'I think I'm just starting to see the benefits of being an agent. After years of being fired from every job I've been in, I used to think that this was what my life was all about. Now I had the opportunity to see another side of life. I must make good use of this opportunity. Yes, definitely. There must be useful things in this potion shop to accelerate my progress towards immortality.'
Boden was carrying a standard sword and an ordinary cloth bag. Boden's poor appearance made the shopkeeper a little unhappy. Shopkeeper was a young good-looking man. He could not stay indifferent any longer and said to Boden, who was looking around "Man, you look so poor. You really can't find anything cheap here." His boss, who was sitting in the back of the shop, heard what his employee said "Fann! You cannot talk to the customer like that. I'll cut your ears!" The man swallowed and looked at Boden angrily.
Boden didn't care about the man's childish demeanor. "I need a potion to open up my acupuncture points."
The sales clerk grunted "Bibi Elixir and Latus Solution can do the trick. The Bibi elixir is two mana crystals and the Latus Solution is forty gold. In addition, we have the right medicine to open acupuncture points in general. It is known as the Huk Pill. One to three acupuncture points can be opened with one, but only one is five mana crystals! "
After some thought, Boden said "I want to take three Huk Pills, one Bibi Elixir and two Latus Solutions. But I'll only give you fifteen mana crystals." The shopkeeper said without thinking "I guess you are not from here. There are no bargain items in this shop. This is the largest town within a hundred kilometers. We can always sell our products at the price we want. Why should we sell it to you cheap?"
Boden scratched his head a bit and said "I wanted it beautifully, I don't have to be ripped off. If I don't get the things I want today, when I get stronger in the future, I will stop by here and remind you of today. You will say "I wish I gave everything for free". And I'm not doing a robbery right now. I am making a reasonable bargain. I do not have much time. Ask your boss if you can't decide. "
The sales clerk went towards his boss. A few seconds later, his boss in the back room arrived. After looking carefully at Boden "Now you seriously threatened my shop?" he asked. Boden shook his head, pulled the fifteen mana crystals from his pocket and put them on the counter. "I didn't threaten anybody. I wanted to negotiate because the employee tried to humiliate me three times and I believe you will give me what I want."
Without looking at the mana crystals, the boss gestured at Boden to exit the door. "My shop assistant can be a little unstable and grumpy. While in this shop, I decide everything related to it. I decide how I will punish. Now grab your crystals and get out. There is no goods for you from this shop. "
Boden nodded in agreement. He took the mana crystals and left the shop without hesitation. After Boden left, the Boss turned to his employee standing next to him "You are so stupid. They want things like that if you're unnecessarily intimate with everyone. Stay away from customers while you're on the job. If you do your job seriously, you won't have any problems. I don't know if there is anyone strong behind the man's back who just left. If there was no one behind, we would kill that person very easily. But if there's someone behind him, I don't want to be out of my life because of your crass. Do your job properly. "
Boden rented a room in an inn within a distance of one kilometer from where he could see the shop. The fee for a single room was fifty silvers per day. While standing in front of the window, he was accumulating mana with breathing exercises. On the evening of the third day, Boden had just opened the 10th acupuncture point. He was a little stronger and faster than before. *(1)*
He was observing the shop with binoculars. Meanwhile, he saw the young shopkeeper come out of the shop and walk past the inn where he was staying, and enter a house about a kilometer away.
Boden, sitting three hundred meters from the house where the clerk was, was crawling on the side of the street with a bottle in his hand like a drunkard. The house was, of course, under his surveillance. Seeing the shop keeper leaving the house to go to shop the next day, Boden waited inconspicuously in front of this house.
A few hours later a woman came out of the house. He started following the woman. Unaware that she was being followed, the woman entered a bar after carefully walking a few streets. In the remote corner of the bar were three men sitting around a round table, and a chair stood empty.
The woman went to the table with the three men and sat down on the empty chair. Boden went into the bar after the woman and went to a table at a suitable distance where he could hear the conversation between them and ordered drinks.
"Izbel, will Naru really do the robbery?" someone asked.
The woman, who turned out to be İzbel, started talking with a giggle. "Of course, I brainwashed him. That idiot will steal the ring tonight. Recently, a guy had a problem at the shop. He said he would put all the blame on that man. There are over ten thousand mana crystals and hundreds of Huk pills. It is certain that the great prize will be placed on the head of the unfortunate man. We can gain twice as much if you can find the address of the man. When things progress, we catch him, so we win big. "
Boden got up unnoticed and quickly left the bar. He didn't have much time. This group was dangerous and he didn't know how strong they were. For now, all he had to do to get out of this trouble was to kill the shop keeper and confiscate the ring when the shop keeper left the shop after performing the robbery. If he could eliminate the shop keeper, it would be understood that the robbery was committed by the clerk. In this way, he would have both avoided the crime and all the pills and potions would be left to him.
Boden rented a room at another inn. This time it was only four hundred meters from the shop. He would kill the man by jumping out of the window and then run away. If he put the man on his ring when he killed him, there would be no evidence. After completing his preparations and eating something, Boden continued to gather his energy by looking at the cozy shop.
Nine hours later, in the evening, the clerk came out of the shop and was moving a little fast. Boden was just going to jump on the man when the shop boss came out of the shop. The boss was secretly following the man from a distance of three hundred meters. Boden knew where these scammers were going. As they moved a mile away, Boden thought, "So there's another game in the game." He left the inn and slowly came to the front of the shop.
One of the men he saw in the bar the other day came to the front of the shop and opened the door with the key. The man was alert and studied the street carefully. Boden entered the side street and continued to follow the man with his eyes, from an angle the man could not see. When the man did not see any suspicious actions from anyone, he entered the shop easily.
Boden came to the front of the shop and waited by the door at the entrance. He was secretly holding his energy sword in his suit. A few minutes later, as the man rushed out the door, his head left his body. The last thing he saw about the world was that his head flying up and spinning in the air independently of his body.
Boden quickly left the scene after taking the man's ring and went down the back streets to the shop where the shopkeeper was going. Five minutes later he was across the house. The owner of the shop had not entered the house and was waiting. The shopkeeper and the woman were at home. Boden thought I guess the other two guys aren't here. The owner of the shop must have been waiting for them. Then, Boden saw two men sitting at the bar across the road. He went into the same bar quicly and started drinking in a corner.
*(1)* [Boden Physical Power: 4.7 Agility: 4.7 Intelligence: 2.5]
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