The Novice Alchemist’s Store

"Hey, Iris!?"

To Iris, who responded immediately, Kate peels, but the amount offered by Nord was a little surprising, too.

Not to mention the countryside and local cities, even cities like Wang Capital, where ordinary people have worked for a month, 20 gold coins are hard to earn.

Compared to such ordinary people, collectors make quite a bit of money, but it is still difficult if not so handy, such as making 20 gold coins a day instantly.

If you dare, Mr. Iris and the others made about that amount of money when they were ravaging ice tooth bats, except for Arr.

Ice tooth bats that were abandoned and abnormally bred, my magic, a situation that sells higher than the usual buying price, because they were all unusual.

In other words, the rewards offered by Mr. Nord are as expensive as that.

Normally, I wouldn't give this amount for a request for an escort, and without Mr. Leonora's introduction, if I'm too suspicious, I'm just kicking you out at this point.

"Uh, Mr. Nord, are you okay? You don't have to let it out that much."

"Well, somehow? It's going to be quite dangerous, so we need to get it out somewhere. Instead, you'll have all the equipment and food you need prepared in front of you."

I see, heatproof equipment such as heat-resistant coats needed to break into the habitat of salamanders, including those costs, might in a sense be a reasonable reward?

The Iris guys already have it, but if I try to buy a new one, it won't even be worth the reward.

"Most importantly, if this paper is not recognized, I won't be able to take up my next research unless I save money for another job for a while. Ha-ha-ha!"

If you ask me, they're using the prizes paid for previous research results and the sales of books that summarize the thesis (though this seems like a tiny amount of money) and all of them to feed into the raw material of this Salamander survey.

But in addition to the remuneration we pay Mr. Iris and the others, it should be equally costly at the site of the investigation before we came here -.

"You get quite a lot of bounty, don't you?

"Well. Admittedly, though. It's a pretty tough job to expect a prize poorly and cover research costs with debt, because when you don't get it, you get an end-of-life notice."

"Yes, I knew it..."

No slaves are allowed in this country, but they are not even sweet enough to escape debt easily.

Semi-forced labor, enough to make you do a physically tight job is normal.

If it's not even illegal, you won't be able to choose a job, and if you're a young woman, you're often thrown into a whorehouse, and if there's even demand, a man is no exception.

I just heard rumors, too, that depending on the amount of debt you owe, it's illegal sleuthing, a little undecisive, and they mediate somewhere pretty bad.

Few of the children who left the orphanage have broken themselves in debt.

That's why I'm so scared of debt.

Well, it doesn't matter to me that I could be an alchemist safely! Pfft.

"By the way, what do you owe Mr. Nord?

"It's okay, because once I fail, I'm just suppressing it."

Is that supposed to be "suppression"?

Even without a sentence, maybe it means you have the ability to make money.

"So, what do you think? Can you ask me to do it?

"As I said earlier, I want to ask. What do you think of Kate?

"Right... Mr. Store Manager, what's the risk?

"... if you don't do something bad, you're not in that much danger, I think. There is little chance that Hell Flame Grizzly is back. Thinking about the last time, I don't think you'll ever encounter a dangerous demon on your way home."

To my answer, which I gave a little thought to, Kate put her arms together for a while, a thought.

Eventually I nodded slowly.

"Then... I agree, I guess. I want to pay my debts to the manager as soon as possible."

"I also plan to be repaid by Master Adelbert, and I don't need to rush that far...... if you would have given it back, I would appreciate it"

In the case of aristocracy, like the Rozze family, which only has a territory to the extent of the countryside, it is only after the autumn harvest that its tax revenues enter.

Mostly delivered on crops, storing it as it is, or selling some of it for cash.

However, right after the harvest is also the time when the market drops the most, so if you sell without thinking about it, you will lose money.

Until now, I can't seem to afford to take that into account because of the debt repayment, but I'm the one to pay it back in the future.

Tell him to get it in time, convert it to cash, and pay it back.

As a result, I don't have any repayments yet, but I'm not in any trouble with anything else... except for Mr. Iris' subtle approach.

"Okay, Nord. Let's formally request it."

"Thanks! No, that would help. - Because there was no one else in the past to ask me to do this."

"... hmm?

Mr. Nord gave me some disturbing remarks.

But before I heard back about it, he stood up with a smile when he hit his bread and knee.

"Well, let's get on with it!

"- What? No, no, that's just what we need to be ready for, too, right? Nord, are you all right in the first place?

If Mr. Iris asked for a moment, Mr. Nord would be proud to raise his cheek.

"Phew. Saving up on preserved food is sufficient so that you can enter research at any time, researchers!... Oh, but do we need to get ready for the tent this time? Iris, I can't interrupt your tent."

"Naturally."

Looking at Chirali and watching Kate shake her head, Mr. Nord thought a little.

"The last time the escort was a man, they let me in... Sarasa, you're selling a tent, right? If it's an alchemist's shop."

"Yeah, there's a floating tent. However, since it is order production, you will have a little time. - Oh, but if it can be a little higher, you can make it in a short period of time."

What takes time to make a tent is sewing leather.

Now that I'm asking the village aunts, it's taking less time than me to do it alone, but it's not fast enough to accept my order today and complete it in a few days.

Even my aunts have plans, and I'm not free enough to just mount them in my tent and tick them off all the time.

But here's a delicacy that solves that problem in one piece!

The "kawak" of the smelter (potion).

... Yeah, that's a weird name, isn't it?

The name is weird, but the effect is phenomenal.

Simply put, 'strong adhesive for leather', but what's amazing about this is that it's not just adhesive.

Apply it a little bit and keep the leather close to each other, and when it dries, it becomes completely integrated. In a literal sense.

There's no gap, no peeling.

If applied successfully, it can be stuck together as if it were a single piece of leather from the beginning, so it is possible to create a leather product with complex shapes without any joints.

However, to glue it so that it really doesn't discern, it's not easy because there are various conditions, like the type of leather, the novelty, and it's technically difficult.

But if you simply paste it, it's easy to use, it won't take long, and it's more intense than sewing.

In addition to that, water does not stain from the seams, so it is quite useful when making tents, leather bags, etc., so that high quality objects can be made.

The only downside is, is that price?

When it's an inexpensive actual product like a leather bag, I can't use it first.

Because when the quality is slightly increased, there is no way you can sell leather bags that have been multiplied by the price or dozens of times if they are bad.

If the main unit price is about as high as a floating tent and the sewing takes a lot of work, the cost of the kawak will go down in relative terms, but it is still never cheap.

At least, if you're a collector in this village, about as much as you choose to sew.

"How much if you rush to make a size for one? - Oh, about that? Then, so. How many days does it take to get it done?

Can you buy it? At the same time, Mr. Nord nodded lightly when I first presented the market with just a little color as an express rate.

While I was a little surprised because I thought the discount would be negotiated, I put my hand on my chin and think.

It won't take me three days if I just focus on the floating tent with the other jobs aside......