Chapter 1265: Ralgana Redstone
Chapter 1265: Ralgana Redstone
Her name was Ralgana Redstone, and she introduced to us rather casually, although she was blushing whenever she looked at my dad. I guess he was indeed the crush of many ladies, young and old, huh? If he managed to score with my mother, which is already over six hundred years old, I guess the same could be with Ralgana.
"So you kids are granny's new disciples? Well, my condolences," she laughed. "You're going to be... well, up for a ride."
"Hey, are you implying it's bad to become my disciple?!" asked Felicia, she felt offended.
"Eeeh, no, it's amazing..." Ralgana coughed. "Anyways, you're really the hero of blazing sword! And his kid too... Sylphy, right?"
"Y-Yeah, sorry, dad already had someone..." I apologized. "I'm sorry my Casanova father conquered your heart."
"C-Casanova?!" my father screamed. "Sylphy! Why are you saying such a thing of your father!"
"A-Ahahah! Don't worry about it, it was years ago, I don't really care anymore about that," Ralgana said. "My only and true love is the craft and alchemy. I've taken a few disciples myself, so even if I didn't marry and had a child... I'm happy as I am."n/o/vel/b//in dot c//om
"I guess we blacksmith women are destined to a life of solitude, huh?" Felicia sighed. "It's not like you even tried to get a man before, master!" her disciple reprimanded her. "Really? But no men ever loved me..." Felicia made a sad fase.
"Nobody?" my father muttered. "You're really clueless... there were like dozens of guys that had a crush on you, and that was when we were all in a big party back then, Felicia you're just really dense."
"Eh? Really?!" Felicia gasped. "Ah! So men like me?!"
"Hah... she's really hopeless, despite being quite beautiful, she ruins it with being so... well, I better not say it," Ralgana laughed. "Anyways, you're here to buy things, right?"
"Ralgana, what were you going to say? Say it!" Felicia started annoying her, grabbing her shirt and pulling it.
"I-I was going to say how charming you are, great master!" Ralgana tried to calm down the wrath of the granny.
"Hmph..." Felicia squinted her eyes and then told her what we came here for. "We came here to buy your products, obviously. I also wanted them to meet you, might as well introduce them to my older disciple, right? We need two Alchemy Cauldrons and three sets of all the basic to expert tools."
"Hmm, gotcha," nodded Ralgana. "I got it all ready, the previous batch sold off already, but I just made a new one two days ago. Wait here."
The strong dwarf woman quickly went to pick things, coming from her storage and carrying two giant cauldrons with her hands with ease. Honestly, I was too weak to muscular women, seeing her sweaty body was making me think of my cute Aquarina when she trains and gets all sweaty...
I miss her already...
"And there you are, the tools are inside the cauldrons," Ralgana said. "That would be... two hundred... one hundred and fifty... 350 million gold please."
"Eh?! That much?" I literally screamed. "I-I don't think I can afford it..."
"That's as expensive as a whole territory?!" Celeste asked. "How can you ask so much?"
"Well, these are made using the best of the best, from the best mix of Mithril and all sorts of other magical ores, embedded with the dust of hundreds of Alchemy Spirit Stones. You know what those are? They're synthetized spirits tones made by crystalizing Alchemy Spirits themselves." Ralgana said. "A very dangerous and intensive task. The price makes sense to me."
Alchemy Spirits, usually if the materials that make a certain item are too strong, their remaining energies and power will manifest as an Alchemy Spirit, by defeating them and fusing them into the process of alchemy, the equipment created could become even better.
They usually manifest when mixing very high-quality materials, usually when they come from powerful monsters, so they're very rare when crafting potions or elixirs, but common when making high leveled armor or weapons.
All the equipment I made for my friends manifested them, though I was always able to easily overpower them and mix them with the item I made, so they aren't really a problem to me.
However, using them differently, by somehow crystalizing them into Alchemy Spirit Stones?! Now that's nuts! The whole process alone feels completely insane to me. I can tell she's so defensive about the price.
"Celeste, the price makes sense if you remember what Alchemy Spirits are..." I sighed.
"Yeah, I can tell it would be really complicated, and the equipment is all shiny!" said Celeste. "But I don't think I have that much money on me..."
"I guess I could buy it for them," said my father. "We do have plenty of savings."
He was about to pull out his Merchant Guild Card, which also works to easily pay large sums of money by another member of the guild by touching each other cards, the deposited money would then be moved to the other person's account.
It was very convenient, but not everyone had it after all, so it also had the function of extracting money by summoning it out, the merchant guild takes a small tax for the favor of teleporting the money for you through that very expensive artifact though.
But even then, for very rich people, it sure is convenient beyond belief!
"Don't worry, I was going to buy these things, Allan," Felicia smiled, opening the bag of her blue dress and taking out a huge, disproportionately large bag of coins. "There!"
BAAM!
It made the ground sound once it hit the floor...
Wait, did her dress itself had a pocket space to store things?
Now that's amazing! They're usually either separate bags or accessories, but such an effect added into the dress itself is something else entirely...
"But you don't mind giving me a tiny discount at least?!" Felicia asked, grabbing her bag of
coins.
"No master, I need the money, the materials by themselves are very expensive, so gimme," her disciple stole the bag of coins from her master.
What a world we live in...