Chapter VII. Arrival at StoneHeart

After being attacked by the horde of goblins, nothing unexpected happened on the journey, we had met some friendly adventurers or merchants on our way. After a long day of traveling,

we finally arrived at StoneHeart City.

I decided to leave the carriage and soldiers in a hidden part of the forest, and make myself into the city. Hiding under a grey robe, I walked towards the only entrance of the city.

Some guards were constantly patrolling and watching the newcomers.

When I entered the city, I was dumbfounded, never in my wildest dreams would I have imagined a medieval city to look like this.

The streets were clean and on every side there were little stands, selling many different things. Demonic Beast leather, magical stones, food and many other things.

It wasn't a lie to say that this was one of the biggest cities in the Unfailing Kingdom.

The Houses, wich looked very beautiful with flowers everywhere, were placed neatly next to another. As I walked deeper into the city, the houses got bigger and taller, sometimes they even had 3 or 4 floors.

Most people walking around me, were merchants or adventurers, who wanted to sell their loot and prey. Many were at the first or second stage and only some important people, like the captain of the city guards were 3rd Stage Cultivators.

One Stand got my attention as I went through the many small and large streets. There were 2 big eggs, one was covered by black scales, there were also some other stuff, the seller was an old men,sitting on a wooden chair.

On his face was a long scar and one of his fingers had been cut off. He was wearing black clothes and leader boots. Around his waist, was a belt on wich a small but sharp knife hang.

I greeted him and he only nicked his face a little bit before turning back to his sitting position as I looked at the offered items.

As I scanned the different items, something unexpected appeared.

[ Spiritual Leave ]

Can be used to craft and concoct pills.

[ Spirit leather ]

Skin of a demonic beast

(1st Stage)

..

[ ??? Egg ]

Contains the life of ????

(???)

[ Normal Egg ]

Laid by a chicken.

???. That's strange, with my 4th stage, I am still unclear to see this? I have to get it. I can experiment on it later.

"Sir? I would like to take this leaf and the egg."

"5" The old man showed a five with his hand and replied.

"5? Take them" I take out 5 silver and prepared to take the egg.

"No!" The man shouted! "5 Gold Coins"

"What? 5 Gold Coins?! For just a spirit leaf and a broken egg? Are you ill"

"Buy it or not." The man sat down again.

"Mhpf. Ok! Here are 5 gold coins. Take them!"

I threw the coins towards him and grabbed the egg. As I walked past many other stands, I felt someone stare at me, but when I turned around, there was no one. I knew I was being followed by someone. But why was someone following me? Because of my gold? There were many people here, who also had not any less gold to pay like I did. So why was I being followed. Well I didn't really care. What I was trying to find now, was a tavern. I felt a bit tired from the journey and I still had to visit the merchants and the ruler and mayor of this city.

Infront of me was a old and small house, a huge sign on the wall over the front door said:

<Even Tavern>

Inside was no one but I still decided to enter, because I haven't seen another tavern since I started looking for one.

When I entered I could see torches hanging everywhere, lightening the whole room, a bar with different kindes of wine, beer and liquor.

Round tables made the room look very small, and only one person was standing there, cleaning one table after another.

It was a girl wearing a colorful dress and her ears were very long, she had light blonde hair and a beautiful face.

"An elf? " My mouth formed the words and at first, it seemed so hard to say anything.

"Ehh!" The girl cried out and turned around, her long blonde hair swinging behind her head.

"Ah! Welcome new guest." She threw away what she just had in her hand and ran towards the reception table, wich was right at the entrance.

"How long do you want to stay? One night costs 10 Silver" she said without waiting for me to respond, she continued.

"A breakfast is included, we serve bread, fried egg, beer and more"

"I will just stay here for 2 Nights" I replied and handed her 3 gold coins.

"Thank your sir, but that would be one too much" She wanted to give me the coin back when she noticed I had already gone up to my room.

"Thank you" She whispered and then turned back to clean the glasses.

I was lying on the simple bed and looked outside through the crude window to the Main Street. There were many races in this continent, but it had been the first time that I met an elf, If I compared her to any of the celebrities back on earth, that would probably be a comparison between a water drop and a lake. Well, now I had to think about other things.

Should I let my soldiers bring the carriages in first? No! I first had to achieve the meeting with the mayor tomorrow, maybe something could help me.

"System! Open the shop interface!"

"I want to buy some potions, healing potions."

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[ Store - Searched: Healing Potion ]

Low Grade (1G)

Middle Grade (10G)

High Grade (100G)

(Money: 32.450 Gold)

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"I want to buy 100 High Grade and 1000 Middle Grade Potions."

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[ Bought 100 High Grade Healing Potions ]

-10.000G

[Bought 1.000 Middle Grade Healing Potions ]

-10.000G

(Money: 12450G)

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I take a round black egg out of my jacket and place it on the little nightstand next to my bed.

"System, I have another question. What is this origin of this egg?"