We arrived at a general store about thirty meters away from the auction, here they sell a wide variety of goods, ranging from everyday tools, animal parts, weapons, armors, scrolls, books and other things that you can find at the other stores as well.

People usually visit these kinds of places especially when they are on a hurry, as you will only need to visit a single place rather than visiting different shops.

As we entered the store we were able to see around a dozen or so shelves, each containing different items, the place looks to be around a hundred square meters in area while different kinds of decorations are placed everywhere. Two clerks were arranging and dusting off the different kinds of goods in the store while a man was sitting at the corner of the store while holding a tobacco pipe and a reading a paper.

“Welcome sir, books and papers can be found at the eastern side of the store while equipments and simple jewelries can be found on the far eastern side of the store, food and ingredients can be found at the western side and alchemical equipments can also be found on the western side albeit a little father, anything that you may not be able to find must either be on the central shelves where we keep the rest of the miscellaneous items that cannot be categorized or on our stockroom where we keep most of the items that are rare or are not that popular.”

Hearing the clerk’s words I thought that it might not be necessary to tell us where to find the items that we are looking for as the store is pretty small and that you could actually see the products from the entrance, but as this is an alternate world, maybe the customs and common sense of the people might be different from Earth.

“Excuse but we’re looking for a bull’s blood of the second level, any blood of the second level will do, I was wondering if you have any of those in your current stock.”

The clerk searched first on the place where the alchemical products and equipments are placed, after a minute or two of searching without any yields, he searched on the shelves where they keep the miscellaneous items, after another minute or two searching for the blood that we are looking for he finally gave up and said to us.

“Hmm, excuse me sir but I would try looking for one in our stockroom. If you could just please wait here for a few seconds while I go look for that item.”

“Sure, we’ll be browsing the goods here while you’re looking for it.”

As the clerk left for the stockroom, we also started browsing the store; at most, people from the village would go to another village twice or thrice a year, more if their jobs are on the line of buying and selling goods and products or a job where they need to buy materials for their products like a blacksmith or leather worker as going to another village usually costs a lot of time which would be better off used somewhere else and at worse sometimes there are dangerous beasts leaving the mountains making the roads connecting the villages unsafe.

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So at most for the common villagers like my father who is a hunter, it would take a long time before he will probably come back to this village, around four or more months, and since we’re here, we might as well as enjoy it and see all the stuff that we could find here.

There are not that many things to see in this shop when compared to others, but since it’s my first time coming to this town their products and the quality really differ from the ones that you can find at Carna. Time passed, soon around six to ten minutes have passed, as we were looking around, the clerk who left to look for the bull’s blood came back.

“Sir, we have a single vial of the bull’s blood on the stock left, I do not know how much vials you will need but sadly that’s the only one we have on stock.”

“That will suffice, we will only need one and I’m glad that the first store that we have visited already the thing that we came for.”

“That’s great then.” The clerk was smiling while he led us to the counter to pay for the vial of the blood.

After we arrived at the counter, the man holding the paper looked up towards us, he gazed at the clerk who was holding the vial to confirm the things that we are buying.

“Ten silver coins for the vial.”

The denominations for this place goes as, a single gold coin is worth a hundred silver coins, and a silver coin is of the equal value to a hundred copper coins.

The man only said these words before returning his gaze to the paper that he is holding while occasionally smoking the tobacco that he is holding on his other hand.

After we paid for the blood, we made our way towards the door, as we we’re leaving I heard the man on the counter mumble.

“A lost soul, that’s something I haven’t seen for years, I wonder where he came from before arriving here.”

After hearing him say that, I was immediately frozen on spot.

“Hey Leon, what’s the matter, you still want to browse the shop?”

Seeing me frozen on the spot, my father thought that I would still like to look around the shop a little more.

Hearing this, I just smiled at him before saying. “No father, we should be going now.”

As we we’re leaving, I glanced back at the man on the counter, he does not seem to have any reaction or whatsoever in me leaving, I don’t know if it’s just a coincidence or if he’s meaning to say those words to me, but looking at his current movements and expression, I think that it’s the former and that he is just probably reading from the paper that he is currently holding.