Soul Trader

Soon enough I reached home, Mia already went to school so I'm left to my own design. Well considering I don't have anything to do I will log into the game and continue playing.

One I'm in I checked my surroundings and I was still in the clearing without anyone in sight around me, this doesn't surprise me much because this area is somewhat desolate, there aren't much monsters here and therefore it holds no interest to players. It's a real pity though, this place looks fantastic, south of me are plains as far as my eyes can reach, north of me somewhat further in the distance you can see enormous mountain covered in greenery and this breeze feels just right, if my friends were here I wouldn't mind starting a BBQ right here. I heard that further south from here is sea; I didn't get to see it but considering Marko's words I'm ahead of the plan so I could spare some time to go and check it out. Also if I continue my journey west-ward I should run into some rivers and streams and some fishing villages near them and I could bring Mia there next time, I'm sure she will love it.

While I was indulging myself into scenery a familiar pigeon came flying to me.

[You have mail; do you wish to receive it?]

"Yes." So they already sent me everything, how odd, do they even sleep? And where do they get everything, I know Marko told me not to rush but they seem like maniacs with their progress speed.

[+2 Carrier Dove, +15 Low grade Emerald, +10 Low grade Ruby, +15 Low grade Sapphire, +5 Low grade Diamond, +10 Low grade Onyx, +1 Saint of Combat guidebook, +1 Archdruid guidebook, +1 Dimensional shard.]

I should reconsider my view of my friends, they are good, honest, hardworking bunch of freaking maniacs, what in the freaking hell is this, did they rob royal treasury or something? And what's with those classes, they look much more awesome than my own class, camaraderie seems to be dead…

Never mind, I'll just have to milk them later for some benefits for myself, I took out one pigeon from inventory for myself.

[Do you wish to bind Carrier Dove?]

"Yes."

[Do you wish to use Carrier Dove?]

"Yes." With that answer window popped up in front of me and I place everything I needed to send to Mia in it, once I finished up I clicked send button on the bottom right corner of the window.

Well considering I'm not rushing I could walk while carving out the gems as practice for my engraving, I did practice it in real life on wood and stones but doing it with gems could be a whole different experience.

So what do I want to carve on those gems? Well every gem has a corresponsive element if I may say it like that, if you carve those gems with fitting runes you can use those gems as some kind of shortcut for casting spells, this is something people will figure out much later once they notice that mage staff gemstones function in similar ways and then after a lot of experiments and stuff people will finally figure it out how to do it properly. Of course you can't just engrave any spell on a gem, it depends on the color of gem which element is most suited for that kind of gem and depending on the grade of the gem you can engrave different "difficulty" of a spell on it, low grade gems can only be used for beginner spells and even those have limits before the gem cracks of over usage. You can use let's say emerald for something other than nature spells but it won't be as efficient, every gem has a corresponding element, well except for diamond, diamond is considered all rounded gem and all elemental spells can be engraved on it, it will change colors depending on which spell is engraved on it. Well that's most basic description of gems and their potential usage, of course they have a lot more usages than just for engraving, although engraving is in my opinion their best usage but I'm sure female population might not agree with me…

I won't ever understand that girlish obsession with pretty and shiny stuff; I mean what are they dragons or something? I won't ever support hoarding stuff, it's pointless you know, what use is there of keeping some valuable stuff without spending it? But if I do mention this inner monologue of mine to any of the girls I know they might indeed turn into dragons and force me to regret every second of my life.

Women huh… Can't live with them and can't without them. Speaking of which I remember that Mia wants me to go on a blind date with some random chick, I of course don't want to do it and already have myriad of plans how to screw that date up but depending on the performance of that date my further living comfort might change so I need to think it through before I self-destruct…

Jesus just thinking of it makes my head spin, I wonder what kind of hag will Mia force me to go on a date with, I just hope she isn't utterly ugly, don't misunderstand me I don't really care about someone's looks because you can't really choose whether you are pretty or ugly once you are born, it's already decided and you can only suffer because of it, and yes you can suffer even if you are beautiful, beauty can really be a curse, or at least that's what I've heard, with my average looks I can't really say I understand either viewpoint but that does make me fair enough to judge everyone, at least in my opinion…