Maron went straight to his room after entering the inn, and took a nap although he wasn’t exhausted only bored, back on earth he had a computer and a cellphone to play with when he had free time however here he had nothing to do aside from hunt monsters which is unsuitable now, because it’s almost nighttime, he only decided to stand up after an hour because his stomach grumbled, a sign that he was hungry.
He went downstairs, the inn was uncrowded at this hour, since it’s only noon and dinner is still an hour away, there are only a few customers eating, Maron took a seat by the window, to be able to gaze outside, eating beside the window while looking outside was one of Maron’s weird obsessions.
He ordered some food from Aunt Snak, which quickly came after a few minutes, he pondered on what to do next while eating, he didn’t really know what his purpose here was, so he decided that after the tournament he would party with Sakura and Wuglat to find the other people from Earth.
Maron finished his meal and got out of the inn to breathe some fresh air, while outside Maron thought of roaming around the kingdom, and then he started to walk without any destination in mind. He passed the street where the Potion Chicken was located, come to think of it, the ‘Eagle Eye’ potion that Julius owed him was still not delivered, so he decided to check up on it.
Maron nocked on the door of the shop for a while before finally being opened by an exhausted looking Julius.
“Hey” Maron greeted. “I’m here for the ‘Eagle Eye’ potion, is it done yet?”
“Yeah” Julius replied and gestured Maron to come inside. “The potion is done cooking, but it still needed to be refined a little more, which was completed earlier, I've been working on this potion ever since, so I just needed a little rest and planned to deliver it to you tomorrow.”
“Yeah, seeing your eyebags, it looks like you’ve been working hard on this potion” Maron said.
The two went to the backroom where the huge pot was located, Julius picked up five potion bottles on a desk and gave it to Maron, not only that he also gave Maron a bag full of coins and other potions.
“What’s this?” Maron asked.
“That’s payment” Julius answered. “I sold the other parts of the ‘Kingbird’ tailors, the skin of a ‘Kingbird’ can make a nice piece of leather, they even asked me who was the golden armored guy, which I didn’t tell by the way”
“You got anything else you need?” Maron asked suddenly. “I don’t really have that much to do, so I don’t mind helping you gather monster materials for half of the product you make out of it.”
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“Are you sure?” Julius said surprised. “I have a lot of recipes I inherited from my master, but I can’t collect the ingredients for it, if you’re willing to help me, I certainly can give you half of what I can make.”
“It’s a deal then.” Maron raised his hand for a handshake. “However, there’s still this tournament going on, and I joined it, so I can’t be hunting any monsters for you this week.”
“You joined the tournament?” Julius asked. “I heard that whoever wins gets to study in Courian.”
“Yeah” Maron said. “That’s what everyone says, all the adventurers seem to like to study at Courian, tell me about this Courian, what’s good about it?” Maron asked curiously.
“Are you kidding?” Julius was baffled. “Okay let me tell you the reason why every adventurer wants to study there, first because of the various Magic books and skills that could be found in their library, second their teachers, every teacher there are certified professionals at their craft, so if you could be taught by them your skills will rise by leaps and bounds, third is the entitlement, once you’re a student of Courian you are considered a genius, and not only you even your family will rise from society, and fourth Courian is the school of the strongest mages in the continent.”
“Wow” Maron was amazed. “It looks like you also want to study there, thank you for this, it's getting late so I'll be leaving now"
"Okay" Julius replied. "Take care."
Maron left the shop after, it was already dark by the time he came back to the inn, unlike earlier there are a lot of customers at this hour because it was already dinner time, he didn’t mind them though, he quickly went straight for the stairs and into his room, he wanted to check everything that’s in the bag that Julius gave him.
When he opened it, gold coins, health potions, mana potion filled the bag, afterwards he dumped all the contents on the bed and counted the coins, that totaled 300, he was shocked at the amount of it, he didn’t expect the Kingbird to cost that much, with this much money Maron didn’t have to worry about his lodging for the next few years, he even thought of buying some skill books, like the Power shot of Caeda, he was really interested in that skill, so he planned to go shopping tomorrow for magic books.
While fantasizing about the different magic that he wanted to learn, suddenly the sound of someone knocking on the door disrupted him, it was probably Sakura or Wuglat, only the two would concern themselves with him, Maron’s presumption turned incorrect, because the person who greeted him was a stranger, a young kid with glasses on, Maron wondered about the kid, he crouched down to meet the kid eye to eye.
“Can I help you?” Maron asked worriedly. “Are you lost?”
“Are you from earth?” the kid asked.