Chapter 80 - The Genes Skill Store (Part 1) (2/2)

Why? That is simple to answer.

Gene Skills, like Panspermia Weapons and physical boosts, are rewards earned after warriors defeat monsters, and this relationship between reward and rewarded creates an important bond for some people.

There are adventurers of all Ranks who choose to continue with their common and uncommon abilities because they have become attached to them.

”A-are you sure? That's a lot of Gene Skills… I mean, I'd be crazy to deny it.”

”I just want some money, young man...” She said, stamping a nervous smile on her face.

Then the merchant gathered twenty-two scrolls with octagrams drawn on them and placed them on the counter as well. At that moment, the woman placed her right hand on top of the square crystal and the man placed his left hand on hers.

For some reason, which Luke could not explain, he felt a restlessness in his chest at seeing this scene. 'What is it?' he wondered.

This was the first time Luke had witnessed a skill transfer, so he put the reason for the uneasiness into the situation.

With each skill transferred to the scrolls, a faint glow illuminated the surroundings, drawing the attention of some people passing on the street. This made the merchant smile because his establishment was new and few people entered a store without fame.

”Oh! I didn't know there was a Skill Shop around here.” A redheaded girl said as she entered the store, accompanied by a friend.

Nathalia and Luke immediately recognized the girl. 'She's the girl we found in the Giant Spiders' cocoon...good thing she's alive. We haven't heard from her again.' Luke thought, letting a small smile escape from the corner of his mouth.

'Make yourselves at home! I'm just finishing up some sales and will be right with you. Every scroll has a tag with a skill description!” The simple merchant shouted to the two who walked in.

The two just ignored the merchant, looked around the store for a while, and left. For Nathalia, it was a little frustrating not to be recognized by the girl, but for Luke, it was somewhat predictable.

After all, he was wearing his everyday cape, which hid any recognizable features, and white hair like Nathalia's was not that hard to find around the continent of Broteforge.

However, the girl's appearance was for one thing: after Luke heard about the tags on the scrolls, he began to consider buying a skill.

'Common Skills can't be very expensive, can they?' Luke thought and opened his coin bag to check how much he had.

In it were two gold coins, which were his first month's wages, thirty silver coins, and three bronze coins, which were his share of the rewards from various F-Class missions.

'Off! Why do I feel even poorer after I joined this world of adventurers? And to think that it's been over a month now that I've been living this life... I don't think I've ever been under so much stress.' Luke said to himself, massaging the sides of his nose with one hand.

But he still wanted to buy a skill, even with little money.

'Ideally, a skill that would help me to steal and also to escape...' he plotted.

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