Spending my retirement in a game

chapter 92

The next morning, Eisen, Bree and Caria went to eat breakfast in a nearby restaurant, before seeing if they could meet back up with Komer somewhere near the merchant's guild. He was already out and about quite early to start that quest that Antonio the High Merchant gave him yesterday, so they couldn't see each other once more before then. But Eisen was sure it would work out in the end.

After all, Komer did seem quite intelligent once Eisen talked to him some more, and he definitely wouldn't have any problems talking to, or luring in, potential customers.

And it didn't actually take long for Eisen to find the young man, as he was currently the one selling items at a stall where a huge crowd ended up gathering. Luckily, it wasn't really all that hard for him to see what was going on, since he was at the very least a whole head taller than the majority of people standing in front of him.

It seemed like Komer was currently selling different smaller items, most of them apparently being items that made day to day life easier like some small enchanted crystals. But those weren't the only items that people took interest in, as Komer was also selling quite a large amount of jewelry that one wouldn't expect people living in such a small village to be wearing. But they were selling incredibly well anyway. And that was when Eisen saw why. This jewelry was being sold in the high copper to low silver range, although they should have been sold in the high silver to low gold range at the very least.

Eisen took a look to see if he found anything weird about this jewelry that might be a good reason for Komer to sell them this cheaply, and then saw that these didn't actually seem to be that high quality, and actually rather poorly made. There were scratches all over the surface of any type of gem or crystal inbedded in them, and part of the base were absolutely misshapen. It didn't seem like you could actually put on some of the rings that were being sold.

"I guess it does make sense if they're being sold so cheaply then..." Eisen muttered out. Most of these things seemed to actually be made of non-metal materials that couldn't be easily reused, so despite them being made of high-quality base materials, such as bones or claws of monsters, they weren't items that you could usually sell at a high price.

And behind Komer, Antonio was getting all of these different items out of different small wooden boxes, so these were probably items that Antonio himself couldn't sell, but somehow still needed to get rid of.

And when the seemingly skilled merchant took his eyes off of his student, he saw Eisen and began to smirk lightly before walking around the crowd to talk to the old man. "Good morning. You here to check up on the kid?" Antonio asked while extending his hand for a greeting, which Eisen quickly returned.

"Yes, actually. That's exactly why we're here." Eisen chuckled lowly and began scratching his beard with a light smile on his face. After looking over at Bree and Caria, Antonio once more turned to Eisen and jerked his chin to a spot on the other side of the marketplace that was currently completely empty.

"Would you mind if we talked about something without these two ladies?" He asked and Eisen nodded, although he was slightly surprised at this sudden request.

"Hm, sure. We're not really in a hurry anyway." Eisen said and followed Antonion to the open spot by the side of the road. The Elf was silent for a few seconds, simply staring at Eisen.

The old craftsman was quite confused at what Antonio was planning, when he suddenly felt shivers all over his body. They were a lot weaker than usual, but they were still there, and Eisen knew what just happened. It seemed like Antonio used Appraisal on Eisen.

"As I thought. You're also not a regular person, are you? I've never heard of the 'Original of the Mechanical Arts'. And your 'Limitbreaker' Title reached quite a high stage as well, hasn't it? But compared to that, your skills are incredibly low ranked. Someone of your age should have at least a few Rank 7 skills, if not Rank 8." Antonio said quite clearly, not beating around the bush or trying to hide that he appraised Eisen.