Chapter 34: Mana Revolver
There was only one problem with having created a Rare Quality Magic item with perfectly balanced stats. Nobody he knew could even afford to buy it. It was a nice notion to give it to his new friend, but in the city, that gun was worth more than the farm they were staying on, and not just by a little bit.
Dominic wasn’t flat broke anymore after the trip with the caravan, and he would be getting his share of the bounty from the Goblin Ears, but a Rare Quality magical pistol was so ridiculously valuable that it hurt the heart to even think of giving such a thing away.
But he didn’t know how to use it. Well, in theory he did, but he hadn’t trained in it.
Not just that, but his Core Skill wasn’t related to gun slinging, and he didn’t own any other magitech orbs or skill gems that would help him to target. It would just be a waste to use it himself.
So, he was left with a dilemma. Should he return to the Mayor to arrange the auction of the newly crafted weapon, or should he try to work out a deal with Bella?
It wasn’t an easy answer, at least not when he was looking at a single piece of adventurer’s gear that could buy him a farm or a simple life like Pops had, making tools in the city in a smithy that he owned outright.
Of course, getting a shop was the easy part. Getting customers was much more difficult, and many shops closed down every year after their clientele was drawn away by a new business opening somewhere else in the city.
Plus, the air in the big city was terrible. The only thing it had going for it was the fact that the people with all the money lived there.
This was a whole new experience for Dominic. Everything that he had scrounged, made and sold in his whole life wasn’t worth what he could make from one item made with a lucky recipe drop as an apprentice Blacksmith.
As he understood it, from his family’s intensive tutoring as a child before tragedy had befallen his family and he had been chased off by the invading soldiers, the drops were a result of the Monster Binding Tower, a magitech device somewhere in the world that rewarded those who killed the threats to humanity.
Ironically, while he wouldn’t get a drop item from human bandits, there was an excellent chance that he would give them one if they killed him. It was completely unfair in Dominic’s estimation, but that was how things were, and the majority of monsters, such as the Goblins, were a menace to everyone.