87 Yales Time Healing (1/2)

Yale didn't expect such an offer, but as he was in an unknown region, traveling with someone experienced would be useful to him. Since both parties would benefit from cooperation, there was no need to doubt.

”Alright, let's collaborate.”

The merchant smiled after Yale accepted, he was already smelling the money he would obtain thanks to the cooperation.

”Then it is settled. My name is Oscro, nice to meet you.”

”I am Yale, nice to meet you.”

They didn't speak anymore after introducing themselves because they were business partners and not close friends, they had chosen to travel together because both benefit from it, nothing more nothing less.

At dawn Yale followed Oscro to another village, Oscro had a good knowledge of the area's geography, so it was rather quick to find other villages.

”Listen, Yale, I don't know if it is because of your lack of memories, but you are too honest. To a merchant that is a critical flaw, so you don't need to speak anything to the villagers, only use healing magic when someone asks for it.”

Oscro didn't detect any lie when Yale had spoken to him before, so he thought that Yale was an honest fellow incapable of lying, he didn't dislike that kind of people, but that kind of people wasn't suited for business.

Yale simply nodded, he didn't mind about speaking or not with the villagers as long he could obtain the thing his past life had planned to get from the Zuatania Merchant Association. In fact, Yale wasn't very talkative, so he was fine with being in silence.

Furthermore, Yale had to admit that he didn't have any experience in trading with others and he never had any intention of becoming a real merchant, so Oscro didn't say anything wrong about him.

The next village was similar to the previous one. Oscro showed his items to the villagers as he did before, but that time he added some other words.

”If any of you need some healing, this time a healer have come with me.”

The villagers seemed surprised, healers usually didn't appear in such remote zones, but the price Oscro asked was high, and they didn't have any serious problem, so they didn't ask for healing.

They left that village and started walking to another one.

”You have only traded by some dead beasts, even if you request a lot of them, is it worthy of all the effort?”

Yale felt that if he wanted to sell dead beasts, it was more efficient went hunting and store the hunted beasts in spatial artifacts instead of trading items to obtaining them.

”There isn't too much profit, but I am investing in the future. The villages which are near Trade City have more resources and trading with them also have better results, but there are more merchants interested in those. Furthermore, some of them have already a long history of trading with those villagers. Instead of only compete with them, trading also with the poorest could apport huge benefits if for some reason any of them one day become powerful. People usually don't' forget those who helped them in their weakest and making this bit of invest isn't too difficult.”

Yale then understood why in the first village he heard that they rarely sew the same merchant two times, those villages weren't important places, at most an inversion to the future, so people didn't go often.

Even if the merchants seemed to obtain a lot of profit from them, given that the merchants who aimed to the Apprentice Pill were practitioners, hunting beasts like the ones offered by the villagers wasn't difficult.

The merchants were doing a favor to the most impoverished villages by trading with them, and the middle-aged from the first village knew it, that was why he complied to all the requests the merchants ask.

”However, we will head to better villages later. Healers are still strange in those areas, and we will be able to get more valuables.”

Oscro wanted to try luck in better villages, so he wanted to finish visiting the other few poor villages nearby before heading to them.

In the next villages, no one dared to ask for healing, moderate wounds could be healed with the pass of time, so they avoided to expend their money on a healer.

”Next village will be the last of the poorest area. Tomorrow we will head towards better zones. People with a bit more of wealth have more chances of asking for a healing.”

Oscro wasn't surprised by the outcome, for poor people unless there was no other chance, they wouldn't pay for a healer as the cost was enormous to them.