After the completion of my quest, we decided to return to town. It was already starting to set and luckily for me Damian was offering to help me carry the rabbit bodies, which was appreciated. Even if my limbs weren’t injured, I would still have difficulty carrying them back.

  As for the Owlbear, he said he would return to retrieve the body once he was done helping me and I officially completed the quest.

  Once we returned to the guild hall there were fewer patrons inside, probably because it was getting late. Though they saw us holding my prize, they started to give curious looks. That’s right, let them see what I can do! Veehahahahaha~

  As we approach the receptionist desk, it seemed to be a different woman manning the station. It made sense, it was getting rather late so they must have changed shifts. Lucky for us she seemed to have been informed about me as she didn’t seem too surprised to see me and Damian appear.

  “Mr. Damian, glad to have your return. And am I to assume that this little guy is the new adventurer I heard about. Mister…. Dimir, right?”

  I was going to grab a chair to reach the desk when Damian started to speak towards me.

  “… Would you like some help up?”

  I gladly accepted, no point in arguing in letting a veteran adventurer lift me up, it’d definitely grab more of everyone’s attention. ~ As I allowed the bear Beastman to carry me up I could have sworn I heard some snickering from the others. No matter, let them think what they want!

  We placed the rabbit corpses at the designated table as they had someone inspect the bodies. After confirming the completion of both our quests. For my quest I was given 10 [Silver Coin]. I’ll have to keep a note to myself to understand the value of each coin is in comparison to my old world. I pocketed the money into a leather pouch I had forged to carry some money around.

  After that exchange me and Damian decided to split from here, he said he needed to return back to the forest to retrieve the Owlbear and report to the guild. Before he left, I asked for a place to sleep and any other place of interest I could find in this town.

  He pointed towards a cheap inn nearby, as well as where I could find a smith store if I ever needed to upgrade my gear and interesting enough a magic store, something to look forward to tomorrow. As he waved goodbye and left, I couldn’t help but think that I noticed his expression change slightly, though it’s kind of hard to tell with this wooden mask on.

  After finding the inn, I managed to rent a room for the night, though not without a bit of difficulty. For some reason, the innkeeper wasn’t taking me seriously! It was only after I showed him the [Silver Coins] did he finally offered me a room to stay in for the night which will cost me 2 [Silver Coins]. I don’t know if that’s a good price or not, but I would have to take it.

  Once I was given the room, I made sure it was secured. I began inspecting around and it was definitely a cheap room. Both the walls and rooms were not in the best shape and the bed looked like a block of wood with a thin blanket wrapped around it. There wasn’t even a locking mechanism on the door, I definitely needed my privacy so I used [Material Forge] to merge the cracks on the door enough that it would be a struggle to open it. I’ll make sure to have it return to normal in the morning.

  After assuring everything was secured, I finally took off my mask, gloves, and boots. With the day being slightly humid and that intense battle, it felt like I was ready to sweat up a storm! Though considering my reptilian body, it didn’t seem like I could. I will have to find a way to make the mask more breathable, maybe find some material as an alternative.

  After taking a few minutes to catch my breath I began processing the information I had gained and what I’ll have to do tomorrow.

  This town is definitely ideal for conquering, being a neutral location from any other kingdom. From what my kobold instincts can tell, there wasn’t anyone that riled it up except for Damian. So, I would have to assume that he’s the strongest one here. Recruiting him is definitely a top priority, problem is I doubt fighting him would do the trick this time around. Unlike us monsters, he probably isn’t under the same mindset of ‘Might makes Right.’ And I don’t know him enough to come up with the right tactics that would work, so instead I will need to take the time to get to know him.

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  As for what I should spend my money on, I think I’m good on gear at the moment and I still need to figure out how the currency in this world works. That magic store though, it might prove to be an opportunity to help improve on something I currently am lacking in my skills.

  While [Material Forge] is a very versatile and useful skill, I’ve come to over rely on it and there is a limitation on how I could utilize it. I’m hoping that that store will provide the skills I need to offset all that.

  With a plan in mind, I decided to rest for the night. It definitely won’t be the most comfortable, but I’ll deal with it. I’m more worried about how my henchmen and minions are doing without me. Though I’m sure they can go one day without me supervising them.

  *

  The next day after refueling for the day, I headed off to the magic store. Lucky for me it wasn’t too long of a walk there. The building didn’t look too different from all the other buildings, the only way I could tell it was the right place was the sign stating it as a Magic store.

  As I entered inside, I noticed there were shelves of scrolls and books as well as a bunch of random items with interesting shapes. Behind the counter, there was an old man wearing a brown robe, reading a book. He barely noticed my presence, so I decided to check around the merchandise.

  Unfortunately, many of them were too much above my budget. Lots of them were in the pricing of [Gold Coins]. I was stuck with looking through the scrolls that were within [Silver Coins] pricing. Going through them, it seems these scrolls were used to learn new skills, something I was desperately needing.

  After sifting through them, mostly finding rather skills that that didn’t appeal to me like [Power Swing] or [Magic Shot], I finally managed to find something that caught my interest. As I held the scroll in my hand, my [Game Screen] activated and provided a screen, showing me with details on it.

  This was definitely a skill I could utilize! With its low mana cost and versatile potential, I was surprised it only cost five [Silver Coins]! With my mind set, I quickly grabbed the scroll and brought it to the counter.

  The old man finally noticing me, looked at my purchase simply snickered and accepted the transaction. Happy with what I bought; I left the store. Ready to try out this new skill.

  Once I was out of sight, the old man started talking to himself.

  “Heh, he bought a skill every inspiring magic user has already huh. Kid’s will be kids I guess.”

  I made sure to register my new skill, causing the scroll to disappear from my hands. It wouldn’t be good to try it out in town plus it would be good to go back to base and check up on everyone.

  So, I got ready to venture out of town. I plan to go back soon enough so I made a mental note on how to come back. Once I was sure I was a distance away in an open field, I decided to test out my new skill. I took off my disguise, removing my mask and gloves. Feeling refreshed from not having to hide my face for the time being. I held out my claw as I prepared to use [Basic Elemental Magic].

  At first nothing seemed to have happened, then I remembered that the skill lets me conjure one of the four elements so instead I began to concentrate on one of them, starting with Earth. As soon as I did, magic started to shape around my claw, transforming into a ball of [Rock]. Interesting, as I stopped using the skill the [Rock] stopped reshaping and dropped on my claw. I had figured that after using the skill it would have disappeared altogether.

  But this is perfect! Since it doesn’t disappear that would mean that there’s a lot more I could do with this skill than I had initially thought!

  I proceeded to try out the other elements, starting with Wind which produced a small gust of air swirling around my claw. I tested it out and tried to throw it in front, it kept its shape for a small distance but scattered after a certain point. Afterwards I tried out Fire, like before a small flame was swirling on my hand. It seems the skill merely produces the element and nothing more, well it’s not called [Basic Elemental Magic] for nothing. Out of curiosity I tried using [Material Forge] on it and as I guessed it reshaped the Fire as I desired!

  This confirmed two things to me! First, [Material Forge] can be combined with [Basic Elemental Magic] and second, what [Material Forge] considered as nonliving materials covers a lot more than I had initially thought!

  With boosted excitement I dispersed the flame and proceeded to use the last element, Water. Just like the other three, a swirling ball of water had formed in my claw. I then began to test changing the state of the water into an Ice Ball as it chillingly landed on the palm of my claw.

  Satisfied with testing my new skill, I continued on my way back to my base.

  *

  Unknown to me back in town, Damian was going over the latest quests posted, finally deciding on an emergency B ranked quest.

  “Minotaur Investigation Quest…. I’ll take it.”