Female Novel
Chapter 47
The man grew excited when he heard Gravis ask about natural treasures for tempering the bones. "Do you have any?" heasked.
Gravis felt a little confused. "No, | am looking to buy," he explained.The middle-aged man deflated and sighed. "Sorry, out of stock," he confessed."Out of stock?" Gravis asked in surprise.
The man sighed again. "Yeah. About a week ago, a fire broke out in one of our storage rooms and ruined all the natural bonetempering treasures. The other treasures were fine, luckily. No one knew how the fire started, but when we noticed, it wasalready too late. On top of that, we normally get like three of those treasures per week, but for some reason, we have notreceived any since the fire. This is really some bad luck."
‘Bad luck, eh?’ Gravis thought. About a week ago, Gravis had killed the centipede. It seemed like Heaven's plan fell flat with thecentipede's death, and it immediately used its contingency plan and destroyed all easy ways for him to temper his bones.
Heaven saw everything, and it knew that Gravis would go to Body City for the entrance exams of the Elemental Guilds. Ofcourse, it also knew that Gravis would want to temper his bones. Heaven was really showing its ruthless side by destroying alleasy ways to temper one's bones for an entire city.
Gravis clenched his fist again when he thought about Heaven's actions. He could probably also forget about finding any of thosetreasures anywhere else in the city. Heaven would not allow for such an oversight. He had to take the hard path, yet again.
"Okay, do you, at least, have pills for tempering bones?" Gravis asked.
The man waved nonchalantly. "Of course! Even if they burn down, we can just make more. You don't have to worry about that,"the man explained in confidence.
"Okay, how much for a pill?" Gravis asked."One Bone-Pill is ten gold," the man said, his smile back on his face.
Gravis did some math and realized that he could buy about 13 pills. Gravis was absolutely sure that he would need just as manyBone-Pills as he needed Skin-Pills. "If | buy more than ten, could you reduce the price?" Gravis asked, hopefully.
First, the man was shocked. Who would buy so many pills? Then, he grew excited. This was a big customer. "Sure. We canreduce the price to 9.5 gold if you buy more than 10,” he offered. The supply of Bone-Pills was endless, so it was no issue togive such a big spender a discount. They wouldn't run out, even if Gravis bought hundreds.
Gravis did some math and realized that he could buy 14 now and still have around two gold left. Though he also wanted to lookinto Martial Arts, so he decided to buy 13 instead. "Alright, I'll buy 13 then."
The middle-aged man grew excited. "Alright, 13 pills cost 123.5 gold," the man said with a delighted grin. He knocked on thecounter again and told another set of confusing numbers to his assistant, who quickly ran away to fetch the pills.
Gravis took out 123 gold, and searched for the remaining 50 silver, but couldn't find any. "You got change for a gold?" he askedthe man.
The man just waved him off. "Ah, let's reduce the price to just 123 as a thank you," the man declared magnanimously. He tookthe gold, just as the assistant came running back with a wooden case. The assistant opened it, and Gravis saw 13 pills inside thecase. The assistant closed it again and placed the case on the counter. Gravis took it and stuffed it awkwardly under one armsince his broken shoulder had not healed yet.
Gravis nodded. "Thank you!"The man just smiled. "No, thank you!"Gravis turned around but stopped. "Do you know where | can buy Martial Arts?" he asked.
The man pointed to the exit. "Across the plaza is a big dark-blue building with lots of ornamental weapons. That's the MartialHall. You can find all the Martial Arts you need in there."
"Thank you," Gravis said and left the Medicinal Pavilion. When he came outside, he could already see the Martial Hall eventhrough the crowded central plaza. The building was just as big as the Medicinal Pavilion, and it was surrounded by many stoneand metal ornaments in the form of different weapons. A big sign showed the words "Martial Hall" written in aggressive andoverbearing strokes.
"Hm, argh!" Gravis heard from behind him. He turned his head just to see a man trying to pull on the wooden case from underGravis' arm. Obviously, the would-be thief didn't have enough strength. Though, Gravis was really surprised since he hadn'tnoticed the guy until he made those noises of exertion.
Suddenly, a guard bodied the thief and held him down. 'Huh, maybe that's why the city is called Body City,’ Gravis snickered tohimself. The poor thief was on the floor and tried to take out a dagger. Yet, another guard came and kicked the dagger away, andthe guards started kicking the guy. "Stop resisting!" they continued shouting as the guy cowered in a fetal position.
"Come on, man. That's enough,” Gravis said to them.
The two guards looked at him, sawhis pill-case, and, surprisingly,stopped. "He was resisting arrest. We
were only fulfilling aar@yty fhe!gpard spoke Wit confidence, andthen looked at the poor thief. "Well,he stopped resisting now. Boys, let'sget him to HQ," he shouted to thenewly arrived guards. One guardlifted the thief above his head and ranoff. The content is onNovelDrama.Org! Read the latest
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Gravis was not sure how he should feel about this. Thieves were a problem in a city, but the guards went a little too far. Gravissighed as he realized that might truly made right. Weak people were often suppressed by stronger ones, just because they wereweak.
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Gravis continued walking to the Martial Hall, now, being more careful about his case of pills. He quickly arrived and entered.
The inside of the Martial Hall lookeddifferent than the Medicinal Pavilion.It had a long wooden floor, andGravis could not see any display.cases. There were Alsh.Ao Counters.The\onl on of note that Graviscould see were multiple peoplecomfortably kneeling on cushions atthe opposite wall. Some others weresitting before those people and spoketo them. This was probably how theMartial Hall conducted business, andit surely was different than Gravishad imagined. The content is onNovelDrama.Org! Read the latestchapter there!
He quickly went to a free spot and sat before a vigorous young man with sharp eyebrows. The young man opened his eyes."What do you require?"
Gravis wanted to say Martial Arts, but that seemed kind of obvious. "I'm not sure how you conduct business around here. It's myfirst time in a Martial Hall. I'm looking for different kinds of Martial Arts to supplement my fighting style," Gravis explained.
The young man immediately stood up in fury and shouted: "HOW DARE YOU?!"