Well now turning in those quests sure took quite a bit more time than I had hoped or expected, I should get back now so I can convert all those herbs to potions then afterwards head out to secure cloth from as many merchants as I can to grind experience.
Making our way back to the warehouse, and returning to our rented room on the second floor, I opened and started the alchemy crafting process right away before once again turning all my focus into the menu.
[hmm the more I look at the menu the more it seems stranger and stranger to me, not because of the user interface or anything but the potions, and things I can craft so far along with the items and gear I'm allowed to purchase in the store. Yggdrasill spanned the 10 realms of the world tree in the game, but from what I can tell so far I'm only seeing the goods, and crafting for a single world. My race is listed as human so even from the starting of the game the world goods I should have access to would be from Midgard, otherwise known as the Human Realm or Earth, but given the goods I can find and the apparent use of magic I have access to I think the "home" world of mine is not Midgard, removing the Higher realms that a human could never be born from, only two other realms remain as a possible to which one I belong to now, Alfheim the land of the fairies, or Vannaheimr home of the Aesier a colony realm for those who ventured forth from Asgard, blessed with strong magical talent due to their world's deep mana well's but having that power mutated them reducing their life spans from the long lived Asgardians. If I had to guess now I couldn't say but looking at the store I would declare I currently belong to Vannaheimr, since there are Companions and Mounts one would not find in Alfheim. Perhaps there's a way to also level up my Gamer Skill and unlock the other Realms? If I can then I might find a way to return home, and if not at the very least I would gain access to real earth foods again.]
'Ding'
The windows shook to announce the completion of the alchemy queue.
[Oh finished already, err rather wow that flew by faster than I thought has it really been 4 hours since I started… well I should check the progress of my skill before we head out shopping and to grab lunch]
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[Hmm so I leveled up to level 3 however with the sheer amount of potions I made I'd assumed my level would be higher I can only assume that means I've hit the cap with the herbs I can find in the forest for the potions I can make, perhaps I should find an Alchemy shop in town that has a cookbook perhaps I can import the recipes into my skill, or rather since it's a game skill usually you'd have to return to the profession trainer to purchase new recipes so, since I don't have access to that would they just appear as i level up?]
Quickly flipping open the profession tab and selecting alchemy I did not see any changes still only showing the pair of potions i had been crafting all morning.
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"Kurama wakey wakey it's time for lunch"
Snapping away as soon as the word lunch left my lips the little kobold scurried to the door.
"heh heh so full of life for one who was just asleep"
The pair of us walked down the now slightly familiar streets towards the market where we had lunch the day before.
"Did you hear the Kingdom used their Hero summoning ritual?"
"Really that's bold of them, guess they're the country to watch for signs of aggression now"
"Really? But I was just about to head to the kingdom, guess I should change my plans now"
As we walked along the voices of those passing by seemed to all be talking about only one thing.
The heroes that group of high school kids who were summoned and dubbed as heroes.
Seems my guess was right on the mark, given the goings on it looks like everyone expects the Kingdom to be the aggressor not using the Heroes to save themselves like the trope in most light novel or animes back on earth.
All I really saw was a group of brats who were so full of themselves with everyone parading around calling them heroes.
Though not too sure if they'd go with the kingdom to attack other humans, but if it was demihumans, spiritfolk, or demons I doubt they'd hold back.
"Satou is that you?"
Rooting myself to the spot, after hearing someone call my name scanning the crowds around me, until I finally spotted the familiar face, there wading through the crowds was the red headed woman Raisa, today she was wearing a flowing yellow dress, that shocked me more than anything for our entire journey and even when we were in the kingdom I never saw here in anything grander than leather or cloth trousers, and shirts.
Yet here now she was a glowing picture of femininity truly the dots connected in my head as to why Viktor kept referring to her as Lady Raisa.
Finally making her way through the crowd and stopping in front of us.
"Oh hello Lady Raisa surprise to see you in town"
"Pft. Really Viktor got you already huh, just go on and drop that Lady business Satou I'm just Raisa."
"But…"
I started to protest but was cut-off by her next statement.
"If you call me Miss, Milady or anything like that I will call you by your other name, understood?"
'gulp'
"Uh yea yeah I got it… Raisa"
[Great here I thought she was reasonable but she's almost as bad as everyone else one my scared of scale that gaze alone could freeze someone solid]
"So what brings the pair of you out into the city? I figured you'd still be holed up in the warehouse dismantling all your prey"
"Huh oh no we finished that work yesterday actually, at this point Viktor's just waiting on the hides, and furs to salt before deciding what to do with them all, as for why we're in town"
'grrowwwll'
[ugh he's going to do that again]
Looking down at Kurama standing at my side, a pleading look on his face as he gazed over at Raisa.
[If she falls for this, he's got ownership over her with his guilt trip begging]
"Oh dear me, did I stop you from going out to lunch, poor little Kura darling here must be starving his stomach growled so loud… Satou you are feeding him properly are you not?"
"What!! he eats more than I do"
Taking one glance to the side I swear I saw that little kobold grin from ear to ear.
[He's got her eating out of the palm of his hand; I wouldn't be surprised to see if he develops the Deception or manipulation skill]
"Well standing here talking to me won't feed him, we should go to a café and order some food, we can talk business while we're at it as well, I actually finished up with the work you gave me just now"
"Oh uh sure, but will a café let Kurama dine with us?"
"You'll be on your best behaviour wont you Kura?"
'nod nod'
"See, and if anyone tries anything I'll vouch for him, after thank to rumors of when we arrived everyone seems to think I have a pet kobold myself you know"
"Riiight"
[Well this could give me a chance for that experiment]