Skill Creation in the Fantasy World

Samantha stopped the boiling pot and quickly removed the waste liquid before glancing at the bottom of the pot.

There were a few damaged herbs present there and seeing it made her heart ache.

"Ughh all my herbs, they're wasted!", she exclaimed pressing her head tragically.

Mr.Dealer walked forward and nudged at her.

"Come on, I know you got a lot of herbs in your stash so what's with all that drama."

Samantha made an unhappy face and hit his leg with her cane lightly.

"What do you know? Whether I have less or more, I still lost my precious herbs there!"

He raised his hands and nodded, afraid of angering the lady anymore.

"Yes yes, you're right. That's a pretty bad loss."

Samantha snorted and carried the pot into another room before coming out and walking to the counter.

"So tell me, boy, what brings you to my store?"

Mr.Dealer eyed Felix and indicated toward her.

Felix nodded and walked near the counter, telling her about what he needed.

"Umm, I'm looking for potions or medicines that may help me build a good foundation and advance to the first rank."

Samantha nodded bringing out a book from under her desk, and started to write something on it.

"What's your current rank and main profession?", she asked.

"I'm still at the zero rank, and as for my profession, I'm a warrior.", Felix answered.

She nodded and asked some basic questions before going into a room and bringing out 4 vials of potions.

"Take this.", she kept all the vials on the counter and introduced them to him.

"As you're a Warrior then you'll need to reach the limit of your body to advance. So here are three potions that help in doing that. Use one every three days, and you'll be fine.", she reminded him casually.

But Felix seriously nodded as he didn't want to make any mistake with regard to his body.

"And this one potion removes most of the impurities in your body, making it reach a suitable state for easily advancing to the next rank. Use it only after you have absorbed all the power of the previous potions."

Felix nodded happily knowing the uses of the potions and raised his hand to take the potions, but Samantha quickly interfered and stopped his hand with her cane.

"Not so fast. You'll have to pay before taking them."

Felix took back his hand and scratched his head, looking at Mr.Dealer who just returned a shrug.

"Umm so how much is it?", he asked the lady to which she started to ponder about it and replied.

"Hmm, those three cost about 12,000 per vial while that one cost 20,000. So the total will be 56,000."

She casually told the price, but Felix widened his eyes hearing that and wondered if he had heard it wrong.

"So much? That's about all I have right now!"

Samantha gave a carefree smile and replied to his surprise.

"Well, give everything you have then. I've already given you a 20 percent discount considering that man brought you here, also if you go to different shops then you'll have to spend more than this for those potions."

Felix was not sure what to do about it and he glanced back at Mr.Dealer with questioning eyes.

Mr.Dealer softly coughed twice and told him.

"She's right. All of these potions are very sought after by every person and It'll be hard for you to find such a good deal in the whole underworld, but as for on the surface? It'' be twice as much as here."

He walked toward the counter and pointed at the four potions before turning to Felix.

"See. Just these items and you'll be able to advance to the next rank with the reward you won in one day."

"Do you still think that's a bad deal?", he tried to convince Felix who had no idea about what kind of precious potions he was getting.

Samantha was one of the few Alchemists in the underworld, and she sold her products only to some of the people as she had no ambitions and just wanted to earn to survive.

But her potions were of high quality unlike the others making the only few who knew about it come to a deal of appointing her as their private Alchemist.

She didn't reject that idea as they were willing to pay her even if they didn't need potions, resulting in her potions getting used by only the higher-ups of the underworld and her being protected by all of them.

Felix didn't know all this and was hesitating whether to buy all that with the money he had right now.

'Altogether I have about 76,000 tahl and if I bought the potions, then I'll be remaining with only 20,000 tahl.'

He pondered about it and thought about how he had earned more than half of that money in one day.

Not hesitating, he decided to finally buy those potions as they were the only way a person with an average talent like him would be able to break through to the first rank.

"Alright, I'll buy all of them.", he sighed at the money all gone and gave her his black card.

Samantha took the card and placed it on an orb before giving it back to him.

She then brought out a bag from under the counter, placed the potions in it, and handed it to him.

"Here. You're welcome to come here again."

"Thank you."

Felix held the bag and thanked her.

Mr.Dealer took out his silver pocket watch and checked the time before saying to the lady.

"Samantha, it's time we go. Don't fall asleep with your herbs boiling, we can't have them get wasted after all.", he reminded her with a chuckle.

Samantha just let out a yawn and waved her hand at him.

"Yeah yeah, I'll be careful about it. You can go now." -chapter

"Well goodbye then."

Mr.Dealer tipped his hat at her and walked out of the nameless shop with Felix walking behind.

Felix gave the shop one last look and decided to come back here for more if the potions he had bought just now were as useful as they cost.

The both of them came out of the shop and started walking away but Felix suddenly had a thought in his mind.

'Right, I still don't know what this guy wants.'

He stopped all of a sudden and called out to the man walking ahead.

"So Mr.Dealer, what exactly do you want from me?", he asked seriously and put on a guard as he was a bit skeptical about everything about this man.

Mr.Dealer paused and slowly turned around while glancing around the area for anyone eavesdropping.

Seeing that their surroundings were fine, he moved back his focus onto the boy who could help him achieve his goals.

His calm green eyes stared right into Felix's crystal red eyes as the man finally told what he wanted.

"Felix, do you want to make a deal with me?"