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Village Chief.

His meat could be exchanged for many things, most interesting things was already in his possession. Currently, his plan was to get domesticated animals from villagers. Sometimes, people couldn't support themselves through winter and killing animal would be waste. It was better to exchange for something else. Aron asked around to find such people, one of them was Frank. His pig was rumored to be sick, problem was simple. It wanted to eat everything from food to wood, ultimate omnivore.

"Good morning, Frank." Boy greeted man with weird expression on his face.

"Good morning, young hunter. Did you come to exchange for our Brenda?"

"Yes. I can give you my game for it. What do you think?" White-haired boy displayed fresh carcasses of wild rabbits and quail.

"Are furs part of the deal?" The fur was precious to people, warm clothes could be made from it. Set of warm clothes could protect you from cold in winter.

"Yeah. I can dismantle it for you if you want!" Profiting from this would be Aron as grinding dismantling is still grinding skills.

'Accept deal. I don't want to go to my 'hut' for more goods.' Getting grains, linen or other plant matter from storage could be done only invisible to eyes of onlookers if he didn't want his secrets to be exposed.

"Deal is good. I will handle dismantling myself!" Smile appeared on his face, it meant he was satisfied by their trade or Aron was cheated.

'This pig cannot be such problematic.'

"Ok. Lead me to pig." Boy passed game and they went to small building where skinny pig was laying on floor.

"Do you want to help me carry her?" This pig was malnourished and rather its weight wasn't much. Boy understood smile of man, his game was worth more than this pig.

'It doesn't matter. It can be fed and brought back to healthy state.' Kid didn't lack food at all, so feeding few animals wasn't problem.

"Good bye." Frank waved his hand while smiling, Aron decided to scary him a little.

"Trickery, huh?" His last words while leaving with pig made person regret his actions. White-haired hunter could actually use meat to cause problems to him.

'HAHA! That's what you get for messing with me!' Aron didn't plan to take revenge for small matter like this.

He brought pig into his hut and closed doors. Animal was extremely terrified as boy executed aura of hunter and animals could feed such things.

[Brenda(Sow)]

[Traits: Malnourished, Gluttonous]

[Skills: Eating]

'Eating can be a skill…what a pig'

Inserting it into space and building small fence to contain it from eating everything on his farm.

'Better to put into workshop area.' Wooden fence could be eaten, and spaces were separated from each other with invisible barrier. He could move between them without any issue, however every entity other than host of the system was prohibited from passing those barriers.

He summoned big pile of grains and put it into container.

Brenda scanned food and started to devour it with happy oinks from time to time. Owners? The only thing that matters was foodie! As long it could eat, nothing would be important.

"TRY TO FUCKIN EAT THIS FENCE! I WILL STARVE YOU FOR WEEK!" Sow's expression became terrified when it heard word 'starve'. Another pile was thrown inside of fence and he left the space.

It was time to learn essential skills from village chief. He was taking care of his garden and seeing ambitious boy made him smile.

"Good morning, chief. I came to study. Are you available right now?" White-haired hunter wanted to finish his quest, and was quite polite to Carl.

"Hello. Little Aron! I need to finish plucking those weeds. Can you come tomorrow?" It wasn't good to leave things that were already started. His job as herbalist was even more important than being a chief of village.

"I can help you. I worked on farm and don't worry about herbs. I won't damage them either." Aron could consider himself as expert in plucking weeds. He started his work from simple things like this, it was possible to do such things unconsciously.

"That would be great! Thank you in advance!" Carl thanked sincerely, those herbs will be able to save many lives during winter. It would be tragedy if weeds suppressed their growth.

Aron's assistance allowed them to finish entire garden in a few minutes. The expression of chief was mix of shock and respect.

"You are quite multitalented. Come, let's clean our hands." People didn't care much about hygiene, however they were going to study writing and reading. It required contact with scrolls, and most of chief's scrolls had recipes or treatment methods on them. Dirtying them would be not only stupid but even more inconvenient if contents couldn't be recovered.

The main language of this kingdom was Adean, basically empire forced kingdom to use their language many years ago. Alphabet was totally different, there were no similarities to languages from Earth.

'It's like combination of hieroglyphs and normal alphabet with something odd mixed into it.' Another problem was lack of paper, they used stone tablets or skin parchments. Aron's comprehension was 20 times better than comprehension of ordinary person, so picking up some rules or learning symbols wasn't problem.

Chief handed him parchment with alphabet to practice and they parted their ways. The main source of light were torches, fire and scrolls didn't work together.

White-haired boy decided to learn inside of his space. There was no concept of day and night, so problem of lack of light disappeared.

[Reading skill generated. Reading lv.0(1/500)]

[Writing skill generated. Writing lv.0(1/500)]

[Quest complete]

[Name: Pen and Quill.]

[Reward: Library]

Gigantic building appeared next to storage, it was really imposing and boy became really intrigued about capabilities of this place.

'Library? BOOKS! KNOWLEDGE!' He didn't wait and entered the building, there was no bookshelfs inside. Most of walls were covered in display screens with unknown language for Aron.

[Welcome to the library! The biggest fortress of knowledge in this universe.]

[If you want to exchange knowledge. Use thought command 'Trade'...]

'Thought commands? Interesting…TRADE.'

[Welcome to Library Exchange Center. What do you want to do?]

[1. Do you wish to measure the price of the knowledge you are offering?]

[2. Do you wish to search for a certain book or information?]

[3. Do you wish to check your account?]

'1'

[What knowledge price do you want to check?]

List of mastered skills from system appeared and he choose one of the simplest ones.

'Cleaning'

[Price for 'Cleaning' knowledge is 5 knowledge points. Do you wish to proceed with selling?]

'Yes.' It was test run and even if something happened system would help him get back simple skill.

[Unknown user. Exchange centers requires simple registration before using its functions. Do you wish to register?]

'Yes'

[Type your username for future transactions.]

'Marcus'

[Welcome, Marcus! Do you wish to proceed with the previous transaction?]

'Yes'

[5 points added. Your current balance is 105 points.]

'I want to check my user account.'

[Username: Marcus]

[Balance: 105]

[Knowledge level: 0]

[Contribution: Cleaning]

'Where did I get 100 points?'

[The current balance is 105 points. 5 points for contributing the cleaning knowledge and 100 points for opening branch of the library!]

'OH, so there is no other library in this world.' It was quite useful information.

'Search for books in my reach.'

[Currently available books for user Marcus:]

[Argonis's Recipe Book volume 1]

[Desc: Book containing recipes of the expert of metallurgy. The volume contains knowledge for 0 level users.]

[Bestiary of Indiri]

[Contains descriptions of the beast from Indiri planet in Gurrea star system.]

[...]

Getting any of those books wouldn't help him in any way. It was quite regretful but access to interdimensional storage of knowledge was great opportunity.

'Let's go back to training my skills. This knowledge can be inputted into Library later, so I can buy something useful.'

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