BXBX NOVEL Chapter 97 - Dungeon (7)
"Eh!" Alexander, Lily, and Natalie said in unison.
"Don\'t \'eh\' me… you might not have noticed it, but the monsters are getting tougher and faster, so you are spending more energy dealing with them," Billy explained. "The atmosphere isn\'t helping either, and due to our lack of experience, we aren\'t pacing ourselves. It is a bit sooner than planned, but we should retreat. Tomorrow, we will reach this place in one hour, so we will have a lot of time to explore… if we recover enough today."
"Yeah… while I don\'t look that tired, I don\'t know if I can recover my mana in a single night if we keep going today," Kate said.
"Is that so… I suppose that even though we are killing them pretty fast, a lot of energy was spent," Lily said.
Although the group used the shortest route, they still had to fight a few times… the fight didn\'t leave them alone even though they were leaving. However, the number of enamels decreased to three and eventually two, and that confirmed Billy\'s theory.
Billy\'s friends were also thankful for his preparedness. They thought that returning would be easy, but they had no idea which path to take. Their footprints couldn\'t be relied on either since other parties had been there… It was weird that they didn\'t find the parties, though.
The guards frowned when they saw Billy\'s group returning. It was hard to know if it was due to the fact that they returned too soon or by the fact that they were unharmed.
"I am going to the guild to sell the gems. Only one of you needs to come with me. The others can return to the inn and then rest or study," Billy said.
"Why only one of us?" Alexander asked.
"To be proof that I won\'t lie about the money that we earned and steal some from myself," Billy replied.
"We trust you, so that is unnecessary," Lily said.
"Just shut up and choose one of you to come with me… I want to make things right," Billy said while massaging his forehead.
In the end, Kate volunteered to go, while Billy wanted her to go with the others to make sure they would study, it couldn\'t be helped. In any case, Billy wondered if it would be more profitable to make accessories with the gems instead of selling them. Still, for today, it was fine to sell to learn their prices.
When they reached the guild, they talked with the big boobed receptionist since she was the one responsible for that kind of work, but she actually went to talk with Gerald, and soon he appeared. Making a lot of noise like usual.
"Oh? You guys returned pretty soon," Gerald said. "It didn\'t seem like something happened since you guys are completely fine."
"We want to sell the gems," Billy said.
"Is that so?" Gerald asked. "Well, follow me to our warehouse."
Billy had used Analyze on the gems, but he didn\'t see anything in those, so he assumed that they would have the same price. Since they got one hundred and fifty-four of those, he was expecting a good amount of money since the accessories were pretty expensive. The gems probably weren\'t more expensive than ten copper coins, but Billy would be satisfied with five. Regardless, the warehouse didn\'t have only the gems in store. They had many other parts of monsters… but they weren\'t from the bark beetles. The number of gems in the store was also pretty low.
"We are offering right now five copper coins for each gem. Are you fine with that?" Gerald asked.
"Supposedly, if I am not fine with it, what are my options?" Billy asked.
"You can sell to other cities and guilds in our territory, but you will need the documents necessary, or no one will buy them from you," Gerald said. "Considering that you might have a good relationship with the lord of our state, then we might also issue some papers for you to take the gems to your land, but that will take a while."
Billy could always just try to make an item out of the earth and then use the gems to see what happens. In the end, if someone sees that, he could also say that he bought it from one of the peddlers that visited his town. Still, he sold them and got almost eight silver coins as planned. Considering that he got fifteen from Edward for the expenses, it wasn\'t a half-bad start. However, he didn\'t forget the difference between the economies.
"I suppose you want to enter the dungeon around the same time tomorrow," Gerald said.
"That is right. Is that possible?" Billy asked.
"I already booked your entrance at the same hour for seven days, so you can rest easy," Gerald said. "By the way, I don\'t smell blood coming from your glaive. You people managed to defeat this many enemies with only four of you?"
"That is right," Billy said. "Anyway, I am thankful for your assistance. Until later."
"This is quite the sum of money, right?" Kate asked. "Once the word spreads, many people in our town will decide to become adventurers."
"Many of them will get themselves killed if they don\'t make the right preparations or work with someone experienced in this," Billy said.. "Regardless, I suppose this will improve the economy of our state, and even if some of us die, now that we are at peace, we won\'t decrease in numbers like before."