My Skills Are a Bit Weird in another world

( Scene change )

( Back in the castle ) :

Your highness said he gave up on his hero position just now .

Are you deaf or something Scar ? .

Don't get angry sir i just want to confirm what Silver Wallace told us was a lie .

Why are you mentioning him, what did he say to you .

He told us that the person inside his carriage and who the prince want us to find was a big hero and i even confirmed this myself .

Didn't you see his attributes how can we keep someone with that kind of worthless attributes .

I ...….. .

Say it .

I thought the king or the prince appreciated him and gave him a tool to hide his status .

Bam, Scar got slapped and crashed to the wall with blood coming from his mouth and he looked quite injured .

You thought we would give tools of this caliber to a hero who was just summoned even those heroes who are already under our control can only get access to these kind of tools when they are doing a mission , you thought !! do you think i keep you around for your brilliant mind search all of Trond if that what it will take if he left already or if you weren't able to find him then try your hardest to keep that head of yours, you understand ?

Iim jorggy youg giness , ag wegh gho ig imegiagly (I'm sorry your highness, i will do it immediately ) .

I don't understand what you are saying HEAL .

I will do it immediately thanks for your leniently your highness .

But if you allowed me your highness i want to as…. To tell you something .

What is it now ? .

About that Silver Wallace how should we deal with him .

That man keep appearing at the castle with a lot of strange items to sell like this vial so leave him be for now i have some suspicions about who was the mysterious merchant truly was ? .

Prince Ogo was holding a vial of unknown material with the word seal in the back of it .

Is that some kind of drug your highness .

No this is the vial that will allow me to force my way to the Shrine of Skills for the 4th time as every time the world will will be able to recognize the trick that i used to enter but with vial and the blood of that boy Ryuu i would be able to get another unique skill .

You are already monstrous enough .

Did you say something just now .

No, your highness i didn't .

You keep forgetting how the mark inside your brain work huh baam i can hear your thoughts with it and i'm monstrous but it's still not enough to forcefully get hold of the title of being the strongest .

Heal, the next time you won't need a spell to heal you would need a miracle and this is your last warning did you learn your lesson .

We are the hands and the tools we are the force to your goals .

Go and remember to only find him then come and report it , don't think it should be an easy job since his ID is marked .

Your wish is my command your highness now if you excuse me .

You are dismissed .

After Scar left the chamber the prince looked up to the ceiling and began to murmur as if he was talking to someone in the ceiling .

Do you really believe that he will fall into your trap that easily .

You will see and if he didn't fell into the trap it isn't like you will have anything to lose since your soul is already mine and instead you got enough power to shape and steer the chaos here as you like .

( End of the scene change ) .

Back on the road :

You still didn't tell me why are mana stones this valuable ? .

It's valuable because it's scarce , a mana stone mine need 100 years to form and another 100 years for it to be eligible to be mined and it's scarce due to the varying amount of mana stones that can be found in each and every mine .

You know i really have no interest in that i'm more interested on why it's valued so much and what is its uses exactly ? .

You are quite impatient but mana stones uses are quite simple it can help replenish the mana of the holder every mana stone can replenish 4 to 5 mana points but it is advisable not to consume mana stones occasionally as doing so have severe consequences on the consumer and in some cases will even lead the consumer to mutate and becoming something known as MANA DEMON a creature who lost all reason and will keep on wrecking havoc until he is completely drained of its mana and will burn himself to death .

Anyway other than being used as quick way to recover mana it also acts as a power source as even a simple shard can keep a few lamps on for a month or so before losing its energy and for how scarce and precious it is it also works as a common currency between the wealthy and those with great influence but those kind of deals do mostly happens in secret .

It's quite valuable indeed , but why is your carriage stopping for anyone shouting for it to stop is something wrong with the mana stone you put in it .

It was actually the result of a curse cast on my carriage by some angry sorceresses living in the Wicked Forest .

So why didn't you just change the carriage .

Are you crazy do you know how a carriage like this is worth , 70 mana stones do you understand now how much money was needed to do that , change it just because some problems with it stopping for anyone on the road don't kid me i would pull the carriage myself if i had to .

It's your funeral but just a little advice from me, have some gurads with you as to not keep falling in that Scar hands .

And risk paying more for them sorry but i prefer to be ripped off by Scar .

The only word that was on my mind was the word Miser i have no doubt that he won't think for even a second if he were to be tested of choosing between living a life cleared of any disease or getting a mana stone everyday for the rest of his life .

I played with the mana stone in my hand for a bit and tried using appraisal on it but only get the same details that the miser merchant already told me about but i can tell he was still eying the mana stone on my hands .

Say where do you intend to go after we reach Trond ? .

I don't believe that to be any of your business .

If you don't have a place to go to i can recommend some places that will suit your taste , and before you refuse remember that you will be hunted by that Scar when he finds about you giving up your position as a hero .

I kept quiet and didn't answer him .

Regard's inn is the place you need to go if you want to lay low for some time it also one of the few places that serves good food and drinks in all of Trond .

The second place would be your safe zone if you accidentally ran into Scar that place would be the Adventurer's guild eventually you would have went to it anyway but there you are truly safe from Scar .

The third place i would like to recommend for you would be Doren's smithy there you will find some cheap weapons that will be of help to your journey to Elohim .

How did y..... !!!

Please your acting skills was good but you can't con a con master your eyes sparkled at the mention of a cure to your mana pool but don't worry most of the people in the castle believed that you gave up on being a hero because you are depressed out of your inability to catch up with the other 5 heroes .

I looked at him up and down then sighed .

As a parting gift i will even let you see some of my merchandise .

Liar, he just wants to scam me for that mana stone he gave me earlier but let's see maybe he really have something good on him .

My merchandise is somehow rare so you won't be able to tell what each each item is until i unlock the seal around it these are the last few items i have A sword , shield , A passive skill book .

He waved and a flash of light appeared from the ring he was wearing and three items appeared suddenly in my sight hovering above the ground and each one of them were coated in a circular seal around them i guess that's the kind of prohibition he meant i tried to use my appraisal but it was futile as no information was available to see only the shrinked form and shape of each item .

What with that ring of yours another something magical i presume .

Oh a storage ring you don't have any like those in your world right , it can be quite expensive as its materials are usually auctioned for a hefty price , this ring have 25 cubic meters space for storage it costed me 2 mana stones its actual worth is around 10 to 12 mana stones but the man who sold it to me didn't know its worth he sold as a family heirloom it was quite the bargain .

So you scammed him , but this ring is quite handy .

Hey, he was the one who offered to sell it to me him not knowing the price of his merchandise have nothing to do with me now what item are you interested in i can tell you basic information about every item but since you are short on money if an item from those caught your attention i will break the prohibition and if you able to afford its price i will hand it to you but be aware this is a one time thing .

You look more a thief than a merchant to me .

Yeah, you aren't the first person that said so .

And quite thick-skinned too .

You are now going overboard , i'm just a businessman .

So tell me about those three item of yours .

The sword is a replica of the legendary sword Hellenhiem, you won't be able to afford even the replica its price is 6 mana stones .

The shield is a genuine great shield it's red in color as there were rumors about king Rosalt of Terra kingdom slaying an ancient dragon and the shield was the only item of his equipments that bathed in the dragon blood dyeing it all red and it gave ominous feeling to the weak willed but how true were the rumors no body knows but sadly it's way above your current purchase power its price is 3 mana stones .

The last item is an item will entice you instantly it's a passive Skill book with the name Troll Force this skill can enhance the strength and stamina of its holder by 50 percent this mean who ever has this skill will have his strength increase by another half and luckily its price is also just right for you to afford its price is 1 mana stone i tried to sell it to the king but he said that it's too expensive and that he have other skills better than this one in the kingdom treasury what do you say do you want it ?! .

That damn king have that many skill books yet didn't even suggested that i could take one to survive the hellish world he summoned me to .

I cleared my thoughts and told him : so all of this just so that you can take back the mana stone you just gave me how pity you are, but sadly i'm quite interested in that skill book of yours but i feel that you are going to scam me too .

If you are worried about this i can make an Oath To The World that what you are paying for is what you're getting .

Oath To The World , what is that ?.

It's something akin to a bounding contract and the one that supervise it would be the World's Will any breach to the contract will result in being penalized by the World's Will depending on the worth of the contract itself and on how was the breach in the contract the penalty vary some contracts will be so big that they bring horrendous curses on who breached the contracts and other time the penalty could be a few points drop in the attributes .

Sure do that then .

He looked at me surprised that i actually told him to do it he thought i'm going to fall for his so-called sincerity but he just scammed a person for his family heirloom and told me before that he is a con master what sincerity he was just blatantly lying if i'm not in need for some skills to increase my strength i wouldn't have chosen to make a deal with a sly merchant like him .

I swore by the will of the World that i'm selling a skill book to the person in front of me and nothing is wrong with the skill book and if there was something wrong with the skill book i will accept the judgment of the Will .

A light flashed for a second and disappeared i guess that means the contract is valid .

Happy now ? .

Very here is your mana stone.

and here is your skill book .

We concluded the deal and he broke the prohibition and handed me the skill book and used Appraisal and the information was the same the skill is called Troll Force i nodded to myself that at least now i won't be targeted for holding something precious as mana stone while still so weak and that at least he Silver Wallace was still a merchant that respect his deals i opened the first page and saw a blank paper .

Walllllllllllace .