1 month has passed since the trio first entered Candor! Many things has happened during this one month! The news Cross has brought turned The City lord's mansion upside down! He on the other hand was oblivious to what's happening outside! He has gotten an advance payment for this month and passed all the money to Eric using his clone! he stayed inside his courtyard training and reading books and sent his doppelganger to run chores outside! He shared all the information about the kingdom, medecines , weapons, materials and herbs with his brothers! in short, he was reading and sharing them at the same time!

Their Link was evolving, at first they thought it was just getting stronger thanks to the laws of the new world! but that was not it! now They can send images and memories between them and maybe in the future share vision from three different bodies! So each time Cross read about a metal , herb or anything, the image would appear in the others's minds in an instant!

This was of tremendous help! they could now widen their knowledge 3 times faster! What made this even more precious was the fact That Eric went out hunting in the outer area of the primal mountain, he now knew the names of the beasts! of the herbs and metals! His essence eye aided him enourmesly in gathering materials!

With Cross's help he could now estimate a price and not get cheated when selling materials! Eric now gained a considerable reputation in the outer circle and a little in the inner city! He was called "The Collector"! he was hunting strange beasts and gathering materials as if collecting chickens!

No one knew his name nor his face. He always wore a mask on his face and a black robe with a hood. It was what Vince had ordered and it was of rather good matherials of peak strange beasts.

Cross's clone picked it up and passed it to Eric. Of course Cross's clone also hid his identity!

The name " Collector" started going around in the city and some even started requesting tasks of him! whenever he came to exchange materials .

The only request he took were those of the auction house and the golden pavilion! so as to build a good relation ship with them. And indeed this worked! Both influences gave him A seal of a first rank vip! they had guessed that he had some innate ability towards herbs! He only sold Herbs and never metals and ores! The number of strange beasts he hunted indeed proved his strength! They knew he was an archer from the wounds on the beast corpses and not a normal one! as most beasts had 1 or 2 wounds!

That meant that He never needed a third arrow to kill his target! This gained the respect of both influences and tried to recruit him! He politely declined and said that he would consider in the future after finishing his task!

They knew his task was to get money , from the fact that rate of his exchanges was extremely hard! they offered to give him a sum of money in order to solve whatever he needed. This was already enough sincerety on their part.

Eric stood awkwardly then said that it was a personnal matter and he was not at liberty to say. The two influences no longer pushed and reminded him to consider in the future, which he nodded to! They had not given up hope since he said he would do so in the future! This was the best way to ensure them a stable relationship and this would not seem as a disrespect to them! as he only partially declined for now!

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Another thing that caused him to start to tread carefully from now on, is the fact that he aroused the intrest of the alchemy faction of the Velasi family! They were indeed intrested as to which ability he had that made him sense herbs! Alchemists needed herbs the most and this ability was a treasure to them! They wanted to recruit him and wanted to offer rather generous conditions to entice him but they never managed to see him. They had put some guards with the only mission of informing them when he came to exchange so they would talk to him! The auction house and the golden gate pavillion had the same intention so they never released his location and always let him leave from the back door so as to help him! And they were indeed rather happy by the fact that he avoided the noble family.

Cross on the other hand has passed 2 of the force increasing medecines to Eric, and not Vince as he would get them from the Barzotti family. They were of a rather high quality since he belonged to the City lord's mansion! This medecine was not an immediate effect one, but it takes time to nourish the inner force of the body! So three were enough for 15 days to Cross who was not normal! and Because he had the same treatement as a second rank he recieved 6! just enough! As to why 2 , Eric needed to try his essence eye on the medecine to try and figure out the recipe!

a medicinal recipe was not available even on the nether market! or otherwise called the black market! the only ones who had the recipe were the alchemy faction of the Velasi family! and not even their blacksmithing faction was allowed to see it as security measures!

And indeed, he was able to recognize the herbs used! but not the method used to concoct them! Every herb had something like a print! same to an aura and herbal fragnance! Eric was able to see through the essence of the medecine , and he knew the herbs as he had gathered them and sold them before.

Each of the three brothers had an amazing memory! far above the average! A normal human had much unused space in their brain that they would end up not using even till their death! But now the trio had started to unknowingly open it! Because the day Vince unlocked Soul immunity, they also got a taste of the effect yet they had not realised for 2 reasons. It was sublte! The second was they were not aware of their soul power! But now with that imagine their brains as if three hard drives combined into an evolved hard drive a hundred times more wide ! with so much space , their brain now was like a sponge for knowledge and this made it hard for them to forget something they learned!

Eric could remember each essence of any herb he encountered and this was the reason he easily saw through the medecine . What's left now is the concoction method which they will leave for later!

Eric once had found a somewhat strange metal! its enssence was even stronger than steel! but it was indeed quite heavier! he immediatly heard Cross say he 'll send his clone to get it and that he needed it!

Cross wanted to help upgrade his family heirloom! He did not wanted another weapon but chose to keep the one his father granted him as a parting gift! Carter praised him for his choice even though knowing that this was even harder! as to when he'll upgrade it, he needed more metals and decided to embed it with a magical core! A certain item that belonged for Beasts of the second realm! in the meantime He would use the 1 star higher quality axe he had chosen.