Chapter 3 (1/2)

Chapter 3: Escaping the capital on the stagecoach

After breakfast, I set off from the inn.

Next, I went to the waiting station and checked out the departure time and when to make payment.

It appears that the stagecoach service cost 1 gold coin and the trip to the city near the borders would take at most 4 days.

There is still some time before departure, so in the meantime, I went to prepare food supplies for the 4 days and also some weapons in case something happens.

Using my Online Supermarket readily in front of people is not good; the item box is also considered a rare skill and using it could cause an uproar, so it’s best I don’t use both.

I bought a leather bag filled with water, dried meat, rye bread, and a slightly larger than normal knife.

Now my preparations are done.

All there’s left is to get on the stagecoach and get out of the capital.

Apart from me, other pa.s.sengers include a middle aged merchant, a young couple with their two children, and a lady in her mid-thirties.

Also, there were 4 adventurers that were acting as our guards.

After the stagecoach departed, I tried to have a chat with the merchant.

[So, what are you going to buy at Kiers?]

We started an undisturbed friendly conversation.

[Ah, a certain contact of mine wants me to help obtain some soap. I am planning to buy it from my friend’s company at Kiers.]

Oh, soap? This world has it too eh.

As I listened further, I learn that even though there exists soap, it is something used by the royalty as I expected.

One piece of soap can fetch around 3 pieces of silver coins if you sell it to the aristocrats, so it seems.

I tried to indirectly learn more about the item box, and from the merchant, I found out that the aristocrats and the big companies are hiring people with such a skill.

Not only is it rare, where one in one thousand have the skill “Item Box”, the capacity of the item box depends on the user’s magic powers. The aristocrats and big companies are only hiring those with a large capacity item box.

[No matter how small the object I am carrying on my back, it seems that the item box can carry about 3 times of that. Man, I’m so envious of people who have that item box skill!]

The merchant claimed while laughing.

I see, so there are people with the item box skill after all.

I believe if I reduce the item box capacity setting, using it may not be a problem.

[Having the appraisal skill helps a lot in becoming a trader right?]

Since I asked about the item box, I decided to try and talk about the appraisal skill in an indirect way.

[Ah~ having that skill is a dream for all merchants. However, the only people with the appraisal skill are from fairy tales where the heroes are summoned from another world. Yeah, but I do think merchants are the ones that should have the appraisal skills instead of those heroes.  The appraisal skill is surely a dream for everyone in the trade industry. Even without the appraisal skill, just allowing the appraisal magical tools to spread would be good enough. Well those are considered ancient relics and are seen very rarely and would have an eye-popping price tag, so even countries and guilds do not possess them. ]

Oh, that’s good. So it’s a skill exclusive to summoned heroes.

And there really exists appraisal magic tools.

Still, because of the crazy high price, an individual cannot possible own it.

Ancient relics mainly appear in high difficulty dungeons so there are limited numbers of them.

I was glad to hear this.

This means the risk of me being appraised is as good as zero.

While having the discussion and talking about numerous topics, I gathered that the middle-aged merchant was attempting to travel to the neighbouring country too.