Heading over to the secretary Sara says "Hi Claire! We're back with the potions ingredients." Their hands over all of the plants that were requested and Sara asks "are there any other missions like this today?"
Clear shakes her head and says "No, sadly this is the only one at your guys' skill level." She hands over the reward for the mission completion. "I'll let you know tomorrow if there are missions that your party can accomplish."
Sara says with a smile "Thank you very much I look forward to them. She then walks off over to Steven who's heading down to the room with the terrarium in hand.
They get back to the empty room and Sara said about seeing looking at the slimes. After settling them on the ground in front of her bed. They sit in silence. Time passes slowly as they don't have a goal now.
Feeling antsy she says "you want to go into town? I know the others are doing all the shopping but I was looking at getting weapons for me and you. The reward money that we got from this mission was was probably enough to get us some basic weapons."
Stephen perks up at the idea of doing more during a fight. He immediately agrees.
After reaching the town they look for an equipment shop and head into it. Steven immediately makes a beeline to the weapons rack where many swords are held and other assorted weapons are held.
He picks up a sword and kind of balances is it in his hand seemingly thinking it over. Noticing that the shopkeeper is watching him. He turns to them and says "how much do your swords cost?"
The shopkeeper walked over and they talked about prices for a bit. Sara sees a staff that catches her eye a very plain bo staff. It has noticeably metal tips but the rest is just made of normal wood.
By the time she's done examining the staff and picking it up she comes back to Steven to find he's already settled on a sword. A basic but sturdy-looking two-handed sword. Holding it out like it's a precious instrument or a newfound love. She watches as his normally boring exterior changes into a happy energy.
She holds up the bo staff and asks "how much for this?"
The shopkeeper turns to her and just holds up five fingers and she goes "five coppers?" With a nod of approval from the shopkeeper, she states "I'll take it."
Heading up to the front counter. It looks to be made out of iron or Steel but she can't be sure.
The shopkeeper says "That will be 10 silver and 5 copper."
Handing over the money Sara turns to Stephan with a smile and "says that was successful."
Leaving the shop they see Percy and Rosa coming out of the shop across from them and wave them down. Noticing all of the bags that Percy and Rose are holding she offers to take some off their hands.
Heading home they tell each other about how their day went with those who are looking interested in the idea about the slimes and Percy looking utterly disgusted about the fact that they have to share a room with slimes. Rosa tells about how she bought some mild amounts of food and a Shield for herself.
Percy proudly shows off the bow that yet purchased as well as arrows. They show off the tools they purchased. Showing the kitchen knives, forks, and spoons as well as some clay bowls and a clay pot.
Rosa says we had a little extra money so I went and got us a few books. She kind of fumbles for a bit and then pulls out of one of the bags three books one on herbology one on geography and one on world history.
Steven looks impressed by her quick thinking and says "that was really smart." He looks thoughtful at the books until he comes to the conclusion "we're going to need more books aren't we?"
Sara groans and says "It's like high school all over again." She slides a hand over her face in false agony.
Percy pipes up at this point and says "Well some of us didn't leave high school before we left."
Sarah laughs and says "I had just gotten away, for shame."
They spend time chattering the entire way back to the end and then set about organizing all the items.
Sara points out that their level has increased. Looking at Steven and Sara's tags. Where they saw a 1, they now see a 3.
Opening up her directory page she finds a notification to level up. Sarah sees the words new spell available. Stone manipulation.
Steven opens up his menu and sees the same popup. The skill Inferno.
Looking up a description of what stone manipulation does. Sara comes to the conclusion that she could potentially build a house out of it. It wouldn't be a good-looking house. It would be a house none the less.
"I think our first step will be looking into getting some land," she announces to the group. "In isekai animes, the first step is always getting a base of operations."
As she says this the rest of the group looks up at her and looks confused. Stephan nods in agreement. "We could build it outside of town. Hidden away."
Rosa Adonishes "A house? You want us to build a house?" She says it with the tone of you know that's not happening right.
With a quick explanation of the new spell, she gets she's quickly reminded that amenities are not available with just Stone. They wouldn't have a bathroom a kitchen it would just be a room where they could sleep.
Sarah shrugs and says "well better than nothing. It's not like we have unlimited funds it might be better to start looking into that type of thing right now than later on when we have nothing left."
Sara says "I'll look into it more before finalizing it." Turning away from the group, having decided that the conversation was over.
Sara pulls out the herbology book from where the bags and sits down on her bed and starts reading it. She eventually finds the page on healing potions.
With a quick scope of the ingredients that she's required to have to realize that she has most of the ingredients on hand at the time she doesn't have the equipment though. With a shrug, she thinks to her self "Then I guess that'll be my first big purchase the entire potion set"
They spend the afternoon in the rooms with no other objective to have and mostly just sat down relaxing until dinner time.
After dinner that night Sarah is the last to go to bed spending the entire time studying the herbology book and when she finally turns in she looks out the window and thinks to herself "It's like a dream come true." She pulls the blanket over the top of her and tucked in for the night.
The next day they take on a fighting Quest to be exact they take on a quest to slay three goblins they have been tormenting a lady at her Farm. After arriving they look around the farm and notice an old lady with a few cattle and a Dead 2 Garden.
The lady greets them with a wave as she says are you the ones I sent from The adventurer's Guild. Such youngins these days.
Sarah looks around and asks "do you live here alone. It looks like a very large farm for just one lady."
The lady nods and looks somber for a moment and says "I do now." she then quickly moves on and says "There's been a group of three goblins that have been coming around my garden. I can't grow anything because every time I try they just uproot it. If you could take care of them that would be much obliged."
"Bring back some of their eyeballs as proof of the kill and I'll hand over the reward money right away." She smiles and says "I know they stay just in the woods right over there." She raises a frail-looking hand to point off into the woods where the tree line starts.
With words of thanks to the lady, they head off in search of the goblins. Rosa gets an idea to use the spell locate showing the path to the nearest goblin camp. With the directions showing the way. They follow Rosa as she leads them deep into the forest about a kilometre away.
Steven asks Percy "Do you happen to have any experience with that weapon." He gestures to the bow strapped to Percys back.
He looks at Stephen with a smirk and says "When I was alive. The only thing my parents let me do was taking archery classes for hunting season. Parents were butchers so we hunted a lot." He finishes looking back at the path ahead. A smile still on his face as his hand trails over the bow.
Sarah says "I wonder if all of us have a scale that made us selected for whatever happened to us."
Steven makes a jab at Sarah by responding "With what's your skill. From what I hear you spend all of your time on a computer."
Sarah turns to Steven with a smile and says "don't discredit somebody who has spent over 8,000 hours animal video games. We know a lot about how these worlds like this work."
Stephen and Sarah share a smile and they go back to silence as they walk. Rosa holds up a hand and says "we're getting close 50 m in front of us."
As they get closer Percy says "Let me show off these archery skills of mine." They then notches an arrow and pulling it back. The moments Of the Goblins come into sight the group mine is Percy sends an arrow goes flying straight through a goblins head as the other two goblins make a noise of surprise and fall backward go to the ground.
Percy notches another arrow pulls it back with swift movements and another Goblin is skewered through the head. With one last arrow, the other Goblin is swiftly done away with as well.
Sara sees Stephans's mouth fall open and red dust his cheeks as he stares at Percy in awe, she puts a hand up and shuts his mouth with a clack. Giving him an eye before turning back to the murder scene.
Percy then pulls out one of those kitchen knives and walked over to the goblins. He then stops and says "I don't actually know what's a harvest from this."
Sarah walked over and uses appraisal on them with little to no success on what body parts can be used.
She looks come over and then asked "is there any way to harvest them fully guts and all?" She looks at Percy hoping he can do so
They shrug and say "it may take a little bit but yes."
Sara says I don't know which part can be used for what. I think appraisal is limited to basic knowledge about things unless I know more about the stuff."
Percy nods at that and kneels down to start getting to work. Throwing their ponytail over their shoulder. They focus on their work.
Steven and Rosa have gotten over their shock. The two talk of how good Percy isn't firing a bow, Rosa suffering Stephans gushing, and have started looting the Goblins camp.
Sarah asks "System do we have an inventory?"
A voice is heard in all four of their heads saying "The inventory is the bag icon I hope you enjoy using it."
Sara scowls "So you answer direct questions but not help questions." her musing is cut off as Rosa opens her directory and then Sara sees her put a hand on an item. The item vanishes in thin air.
They set about collecting all the items the goblins had stolen, figuring finders keepers rule applied.
After Sarah finishes adding all the books to her inventory she looks over to see Rose and Steven wrapping up with their work as well.
Standing up Sarah walks over to the corpse of the goblins puts a hand on the goblin that is already had his eyes removed. she presses "add item" to inventory and watches as a new item is added to inventory with the words over the top of it sitting Goblin corpse.
Percy blinks and then goes "Well that's a quick way of dealing with it." they trail off unsure of what to do. Going back to harvesting they remove the eyes from the last two goblins and Sarah and both of them to her inventory as well.
With the items collected and all of the eyes harvested they head back to the Farm.
After breaching the Treeline they spot the lady still tending to her cows and Sir gives a shout saying hey we're done!
Sarah all the princes over to the old lady and drops six eyes in her hands and says proof of a job done well and does a little curtsy bow.
The other three slowly Meander over as they finally catch up with her and the old lady sputters for a second and says that was very quick of you all.
She says give me just a moment "I'll go collect a reward from the house." She walks over to the house, climbing the stairs to the front door.
Sarah spends on her heels and turns to the others as she says "if all our missions are like this will be done easily." Reaching her arms up to cross them behind her head.
Steven says "actually I don't think Percy is going to carry us through every job."
they kind of shake their head a little bit and say "I think the missions are only going to get harder from here so I'm about to be on our toes."
Rosa walks over to look at the garden and kind of examines the plants that are dead. She sees some of the plants went to seed and quickly puts them into our inventory. Turning back to make sure no one noticed, she walks slowly back.
The old lady exits the house holding a pie and a small bag. She walks over to them handing the small bag to Steven saying "Your payment for a job well done." and she hands the pie to Percy patting them on the arm. "just a little extra for asking your lives." She smiles at them all.
Percy stutters a little and says "it was no big deal it was actually over rather quickly no risk whatsoever." They smile at the lady.
Upon returning sea in Sarah sounds up to the front desk and says "Hi, I have a question for you Santa Claire, Are there any harder missions?" The nickname coming out with ease.
Claire after being startled. She takes a moment and says "We can get to tested for harder missions at the end of the week but no your party will not be allowed harder missions just yet."
Sara Lynn's on to the counter hands folded under her chin with a bit of a smirk on her face "Polite as ever, Thank you for the information."
Stephen walks over and puts a hand on Sarah's shoulder and then apologizes "Sorry to bother you, Claire." moving towards the stairs guiding Sara with him in the direction of the party's room.
Out of the corner of her eyes, Sara sees Rosa giggling behind her hand and thinks to her self "This is the first time she smiled since we got here." before she's obscured from vision as the wall blocks her view.
After returning back they start arguing about what to do with the items they got from this adventure.
At this point Sarah pipes up and says "Most times early game selling things isn't really as worth it as keeping it all." and she then recommends "we should probably just keep it all for the time being so we know we have it later. Low-level items like this end up being may be useful in spells and crafting." she finishes with her hands moving to somehow prove a point.
With the amount of stuff they did today catching up with them all, Stephan makes a choice to call it a night, recommending everyone else do the same.
With the sun having gone down hours ago, they all agree. Sara tucks into her blankets and settles in for the night. Not before thinking to herself. "This world is pretty great."
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