A Meeting 2/2

Jason leaned back and though

He knew some talented rangers and reconnaissance fighters in the green barracks, some of them definitely had rouge skills and talents, Ardem was definitely one of them with how he wielded those two daggers like a pro. But the thing was.... he didn't have a way to get them to teach Jack. Wait, nevermind the green barrack members loved the wolves and would do anything to get closer to them even robbing the meat storage apparently from what he had heard. Yeah, he could probably get some of them over here to teach Jack and a few other aspiring rangers and rouges.

Jason said to Perseus

"Alright, I think I can get some green barrack members here for a bit to teach them, but I won't be anytime soon."

Perseus nodded and answered

"yes, master, ill just make sure their foundational skills are solidified."

"good, what plans do you have for your guild now?"

Perseus answered instantly

"I'm going to invest and get into the underworld whether that be in business illegal deals mercenary requests, anything. Anything to get into the circle. Meanwhile, Jack will be challenging officers of the reapers and rising up the ranks. They are only about level 20-30 so Jack should be able to deal with them. I might make a few guilds members his helpers in that. He's young though, so I'm trying to drill in the knowledge and wisdom into him to make him a leader first"

Jason was a bit concerned about how Perseus was making some young children do this work. But from what he gathered the children almost worshipped Perseus, especially Jack. They probably would get even worse if he made them not do anything.

Perseus continued

"so the silver wings guild will keep on looking for members, we might get some people from the streets or something, currently we are the phase of getting more manpower, and thanks to the loyalty system we can monitor their loyalty and manage it well."

"So what's your first move in getting into the underworld?"

Perseus paused to think, then answered

"Well according to the book that you sent me, one of the foundational things in the underworld is money lending, after that is illegal gambling dens and things like that."

"Yeah and?"

Perseus grinned evilly and answered

"Everyone needs money, including us but merchants are the most money-hungry people here and I'm sure a good majority of them are somehow tied to the underworld. So I'm going to get in by the merchants guild"

"wait what? you mean you are going to focus on getting rich?"

"yes and the people who need "funding" should come to me and well you know the rest"

Jason sat back and thought for a bit, he asked Perseus

"Okay that sounds good but how are you going to get rich in the first place?"

Perseus smilled

"I have 30 or so people doing adventures quests and giving me the earnings, I also earn money when they sell the monster materials and herbs that they get along the way and since their only requests are that I keep them safe and give them food and water and a roof over their head. Of course ill give them a payment soon but currently, I'm going to push everything into this project"

Jason and Perseus discussed more things, but they weren't very important yet. Jason then handed over the items and skill books that he didn't need as Jason got up to leave Perseus added in a remark

"there have been tons of monsters lately. It's a good opportunity for adventures but a disaster for the kingdom itself, I've heard about monsters destroying villages and such all the time, be careful master, it seems your final trial might have something to do with that"

Jason thanked Perseus and went on his way. He accidentally ignored the lady at the counter who kept on trying to talk to him for some reason. He started to think all about the final trial. He also started to think about how he had no idea about the final trial details until now.

He now didn't have much time to prepare, but he was able to ask Perseus to go look for steel and mana crystals. If he could somehow make the mana bombs in time, he had a feeling that they would be very important.

Jason looked around the busy street full of people walking around doing their own business. Jason breathed in the salty fishy air, he had the rest of the day and night to himself, just to explore and have fun. God this was like his first vacation. He walked with a jump in his step for once being able to ignore the stares of everyone around him thanks to the joy that he had.

Most of the onlookers were impacted by Jason's joy, added with his high charm stat and the happiness started to spread like a contagious virus. Jason's head swiveled around looking at each and every shop.

He spotted one that interested him. it read Matildas Magic Shop. It even had a blue potion painted onto the signboard.

Jason opened the door and went into the shop. It was like how Jason had always imagined a magic shop to look like, it was dark but glowed with an eerie blue and purple light. Various items were placed on these wooden tables for all to see. And of course, there was the shopkeeper in the back with a blue orb next to her. With long hair and a witches hat and robe on. There were one or two other customers in the shop just exploring and looking at the various items displayed.

Jason walked to a table and started to look at the items. He saw some weird stuff. From the fur of a random monster to a cursed dagger that made you dance if you touched it for too long. There was also a pumpkin head that had a curse of binding on it.

Behind the woman wearing a switched outfit was a rack with wands of all sorts on it.

Jason curiously got closer to look at them.

The woman saw Jason looking at the wands and said to him nicely

"you interested in those wands?"

Jason nodded and the woman stood up and grabbed a wand to show him. It was a wand with a turquoise colored crystal on it. It had a band of silver and the stick of the pole was made out of some red-colored material. A coral piece was hanging from the bottom like a decoration.

She smilled with a bit of pride when Jason openly gapped at it.

"This is a wand made for water magic, the crystal is made from water elemental mana more specifically from the ocean. The crystal itself is worth quite a large amount of money young man as it can help any mage in water spells"

Jason was pretty amazed at how awesome the wands looked and the woman just got happier and happier the more Jason looked at the wands with interest. She put away the water magic wand and replaced it with a wand that Jason could only describe as very natural.

It was a literal stick, that twisted and intertwined until it reached the green crystal on the top. Which sat neatly on the top of the wand with the beach partially enveloping the crystal to make sure it didn't fall. When Jason gazed closer into the wand he could see the crystal shifting in colors, sometimes he could see a darker green color that reminded his of leaves. but then it would shift into the light clear green that reminded Jason of wind and the quiet breeze.

Only later from the woman's explanation did he learn that it was actually a crystal made from both elemental mana's of wind and plant since they both had a synergy with each other.

Jason kept on observing the wands while the woman kept on bringing in more wands to show to Jason. Jason wasn't sure who was enjoying it more, him or the woman. It was fascinating to see each wand, and its properties even though their were a set amount of elements they could be mixed if they had synergy with each other or crafted in the right way they could pull out more power then the rest of the wands.

It might have been the passionate explanation of the wands by the woman, who had been glowing in happiness at seeing a person as interested in wands as her. But Jason's interest in wands had grown, sadly to much time had passed and Boops told Jason that unless he wanted to stay here for the rest of the night, he should leave soon.

Jason said goodbye to the woman after having a good conversation with her. Right as he was about to leave. The woman called out to him

"Hey, young man whats your name?"

Jason smilled and answered

"its Arch"

"well Arch, come by anytime, I would love to talk with you more"

"will do ma'am"

"call me Matilda, I'm not that old"

[you have become friends with Matilda the magic shop owner]