Chapter 448: Comparison Hurts
Once Jen left the game, Solitary Tempest gave a quick glance towards the mission board before making her way towards the direction of a merchant store that sells general goods.
âWelcome! How may I help you, dear customer?â
Being the largest building aside from the barracks, Solitary Tempest was immediately greeted by an attendant the moment she walked in.
Though the place is mostly made of wood and not as grand as those in the large cities with their brick buildings and glass windows, itâs interior looks decent and gives a homey feeling.
âI want to purchase some health and mana potionsâ replied Solitary Tempest towards the attendant with a pair of remarkable bust like hers.
âWeâre already out of the small and medium ones, the large positions are the only ones we have leftâ replied the attendant as she led her towards the other counter where thereâs lesser people.
âNo worries, I was planning to buy large potions anyway. Please give me a hundred pieces eachâ said Solitary Tempest while walking a step behind her.
The attendantâs eyes quickly lit up when she heard her, and it was because sheâs going to receive a huge amount of commission from it.
âRight away! Give me a couple of minutes dear customer!â
The attendant quickly went to the back of the store under the envious gazes of her fellow coworkers.
Only after two minutes had passed when she finally came out with two large trays stacked together and carefully placed them down on the counter.
âHere it is, one hundred health and mana potions each. All of it combined would amount to one hundred gold coins, dear customerâ said the sales attendant with a huge smile on her face, already thinking of the commission sheâll get from this sale.
Solitary Tempest immediately dug out precisely one hundred gold coins from her [Inventory] and paid for the merchandise before pocketing them all inside her [Inventory].
âThank you, dear customer! Please come again!â
The sales attendant gave Solitary Tempest a slight bow while the latter slowly made her way out of the store with her hand raised slightly above her shoulders as an acknowledgement to the words of the former.
âI wonder if thereâs any Mithril ores around these parts? After all, this is the Forest of Despair, it should have a lot of rare things inside right?â
Solitary Tempest left the place while mumbling to herself as she walked towards the direction of the thick, gloomy oozing forest.
âHey, isnât that her?â
âWhoâs her?â
âSolitary Tempest, thatâs herâ
When the woman in question walked past a group of three players making their way towards the army camp, one of them couldnât help but stop in her tracks and turned around to look at Solitary Tempest walking further away from them.
âMeh, itâs probably just someone impersonating her. Weâve met a lot those countless times already, theyâre pretty annoyingâ
âYeah, but the problem isâŠthat playerâs information were all question marks, while those impersonators, on the other hand, always had their levels visible. So thereâs a good chance that player was the real one, and letâs not forget the news that some players from the major guilds are hunting boss monsters with her around these parts recentlyâ
âOhh, now that I think about it. It really was all question marks, that playerâs level must be really highâ
âHey, how about we follow her?â
âThen kill her? Though we donât kill players unless provokedâ
âNo, silly! If itâs really her, then weâll pick up the scraps from her monster kills, then we sell them to the NPC shops. I donât believe that sheâll pick up every loot she gets from the monsters she kills. Donât the other Rankers do that too? Because unlike us, every extra space in their [Inventory] is very importantâ
The group of three friends immediately halted in their tracks, looked at each other, then eyed their surroundings, and when they saw that no one was listening or paying attention to them, they then looked back at each other and gave each an understanding nod.
âLetâs go, and maybe weâll earn a few gold following her,â said one of them.
Moments later, Solitary Tempest had unknowingly gained a group of faithful clean up crew.
She was walking around the forest with no destination whatsoever, and she would mine or break any boulders she stumbled upon regardless of their size.
âIâve been walking around aimlessly for about half an hour now, and Iâve only gotten a few Iron Ores so far. It seems like Mithril is really rare even for the Forest of Despair, and those bastards, are they seriously going to follow me all day?â
Standing before a huge lake, Solitary Tempest couldnât help but frown while looking back at the three players thatâs currently busy picking up the scraps from the monsters that she had just killed earlier.
âI only heard of this kind of thing from the stories of other players on the forum, but I didnât expect Iâd actually get to encounter this kind of people, and of all places, in Forest of Despairâ.
Normally, she would have just ignored this kind of players following her around to pick up her scraps, but right now is not a good time as sheâs looking for Mithril Ores which could really cause some trouble if she happens to find one as she canât trust this players not to blab about it to their friends.
Since Mithril Ores are only second to Adamantium Ores in terms of rarity and expensiveness.
The former might make nations weigh the pros and cons if itâs worth the trouble of making enemies, but the latter will make any nation go to war just to obtain it.
And right now, Solitary Tempest is thinking of a way to get rid of this group of buzzing flies.
âShould I try to shake them off, or should I justâŠkill them?â
Sheâs troubled as she didnât want to resort to killing them as it would leave a bad taste in the mouth, especially since sheâs not fond of killing players unprovoked.
Glancing at the players in the distance from the corner of her eye, sheâs only now noticing that the three players are only wearing equipment of ordinary quality, all worn out from the constant use, and with no sign of any Rare item on any of them.
âI guess Iâll just leave them be, not like they can do anything to me if I really happen to find a Mithril Oreâ
In the end, and probably out of pity, Solitary Tempest just let out a sigh and decided to ignore them.
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