After about half an hour of walking, I finally began to see something like a village between a few hills.It looked pretty old, but it wasn't that bad looking, I guess. The houses were about as big as a house of the average person from earth, but made out of stone and wood.
I saw some people and carriages with horses that seemed to be carrying goods, probably for merchants. Most of the people there look pretty poor and some malnourished. Even though it looked pretty bad, there were stil some children running around and having fun. But most of the adults looked gloomy, sad and tired. I imagine they have it quite bad.
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When I took a closer look at the people, I remembered 'Wait, I'm still wearing my old clothes... Not good, they'll look at me weirdly, worst case arrest me or something. Maybe the bag could help with that?' As I thought that, I walked off to the side into the bushes, pulled my backpack of my back and imagined some rough looking clothes and a shabby dark gray mantle. The backpack once again felt warm for a second and I took the clothes out. It was a dirty beige shirt and some shabby pants, as well as some bad looking leather shoes.
I took off my old clothes, put them in the bag, and changed into the new ones. I also took some dirt and rubbed it on my arms, face and hands to look more like a traveller or something.
'It seems there aren't any guards here, nor are there people with weapons. Good for me, then. Let's go and look for something like a tavern, or even better, a guild. Maybe I could sell some things I found on my way here.' On the way to the village, when looking around, I found some pretty looking flowers, as well as some weird looking plants. 'And because I know how they look, maybe I could cheat a bit with my bag.' I thought and smirked before continuing on my way.
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I was now on the stone road, walking with the hood of my mantle on. I saw some people giving me odd stares, which was honestly not too surprising for me.
After some time walking around, I finally found something that looked like a tavern. Above the door, there was a sign which was written in a weird way, but I could still read it. It said 'Varvaros's Tavern'.
As I entered, I was surprised at how clean it was and how everything looked so good. It was completely different from outside.
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There were some people, mostly villagers I think, sitting around the tables drinking beer and enjoying themselves.
When I looked to the bar, there was a nice looking old man that was cleaning some mugs.
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I walked up to the counter and sat down on a stool before taking off my hood and saying "Greetings."
"Greetings, young man. You're new here, I presume?" He said and looked at me with a friendly grin.
"Indeed, I'm a traveller, you see, so I was just looking for somewhere to sell some things I found on my travels. I wonder if you know of such a place?" I was talking very politely so he would maybe think that I'm not just some boy running away from home and to make a good first impression, maybe.
"A traveller at such a young age? You must have had it hard. Well if you're looking for somewhere to sell some things, upstairs there are some merchants from nearby cities. You could sell something to them, maybe." He said and pointed upstairs with his thumb.
"Thank you very much." I said and once again stood up before walking upstair, where several relatively well clothed people were sitting around a table drinking some wine, I think.
"Excuse me, good Sirs. May I interrupt your you for a moment?" I asked politely, bowing down slightly.
"It's fine, young man. What do you need?" One of them said.
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He looked quite old and had a thick white beard and hair.
"I was wondering if any of you would buy a considerable amount of plants off of me. I don't exactly know what they are, but I think I read about them somewhere being medicinal plants." I didn't know what they were at all, but they looked special, I guess? But if I say that I read about them, they might give me more of a chance.
"If you're looking to sell plants then I'm the right person to ask. Come with me." The old man said to me before standing up from the table and walking into a room next to it.
I walked after him and entered the room, where a small table was standing with some chairs around it. It looked like a place for a meeting.
"Now, tell me more about those plants. Ah, I forgot, my name is Gratus Hauerman. I'm a merchant from a nearby city." He said and sat down on a chair behind the table.
"My name is Ra- Felix Kantor. I'm a traveller that would like to become a merchant one day. The plants I was planning to sell were some I picked up on my way here. I'll take them out for you." I said and took the bag off my back, turned it around and nealy the whole table was filled up.
"My god! Those are some pretty rare plants. And so many of them! Where did you get all of these?" He asked while picking one up and examining it.
"I found them in a nearby forest, all in one place." That was once again a lie, I got them with the bag beforehand.
"So how much would you buy these for?" I asked him.
"I would by all of these for about... 5 Golden Toro." He said after some time.
'Toro? That's probably the currency of this world... Fuck, how am I supposed to know If that's a good price?' I thought.
Explanation:
The currency of this world is called Toro. There are several kinds of Toro, such as the Golden Toro.
1000 Silver Toro = 1 Golden Toro
100 Golden Toro = 1 Platinum Toro
100 Platinum Toro = 1 Imprum Toro
'That's convenient. Toro, huh.' Suddenly, I heard a cough coming from Gratus.
"Ah, excuse me, I was lost in thought. I will gladly sell them to you." I said and held out my hand.
"Then I thank you for doing business with me, Felix." He said and shook my hand.
After that he handed me the money, which I quickly put in my bag , and we continued to talk.
Gratus turned out to be quite a well known merchant in the nearby cities, as well as the capital, which is called Gariand. I also asked him when he would leave for the next city and if he could take me with him, to which he said that he would go to a big town called Blurmand soon, and that he'd take me with him.
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When I was done, I said goodbye to Gratus and left for an Inn he told me about.
I checked in and immediately laid down, being very tired. As I said, I'm not very sporty and get exhausted pretty fast.