Chapter 39: Chapter 39: Drake Scale!
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"You're tough to get along with." Said Alexander as I laughed.
"Indeed I am, after what I have been through you learn to not trust a lot of people. Plus I have a tendency to piss people off so I try not to talk to them." I said as I opened up my inventory and took out a potato I had managed to find in the forest beforehand.
I then started too far away on it as I looked up at the sky above me.
"Night is close." I said as I felt a small ache in brand as I quickly ate my potato.
As I finished it I slowly sat up and looked at the dense forest around us as I saw multiple eyes in the ghost shadows of the trees.
"Hmm…what to do." I said as I looked around and stood up as I stretched a few times.
As I did, people glanced up at me and I looked around slowly. My body was back at peak performance but I didn't know what to do with all these people around me.
Sure I could leave them but if I did I had a feeling that I would regret it in the future.
"Hey." I said as everyone turned to me as I stared at the fancy carriage.
"Is there any way to set up a barrier around this place? I feel many restless spirits around us." I said as all the students looked around us as they started to see the astral spirits in the trees.
Thankfully there were no possessed animals yet.
"Indeed there are many spirits. A barrier would be a good idea…but I unfortunately don't have any items that will make a barrier to last for the night." Said Miss. Night as I thought for a second.
"What kind of items would you need?" I asked her as there were laughs from the students.
"Like the barbarian would have such expensive items on him!" Yelled one of them as I didn't pay attention to them.
"Any item would work; it is simply the durability of the item. The better the item the better the barrier." She said as her voice flowed over all of us.
"How many items and what rarity would you need?" I asked her.
"6 items all of rare rarity." She said with ease as I remembered a certain item in my inventory which now numbered in the 700's.
With a flick of my hand I sent several of the epic level items towards her. With ease they flew right over to her and stopped a second right before they reached her carriage as they floated there for a second.
"My goodness, for such a barbarian to carry items. I am impressed, these will do splendidly." Said Miss. Night as her students looked at the items floating in front of her carriage. They all gaped at the sight in front of them.
[Rare item: Earth drake scale
A scale from the toughest species of drake. When a drake is born their scales will harden till the point in which they are the same as diamonds. Drake's scales will never grow harder or softer for their entire life.
Immediate consumption effect: .0001% chance to gain drake skin skill + 1% HP regain
Cost: 2 gold]
Everyone looked at me like I was insane as I sat back down on the top of my carriage.
"Where in the hell did you get such precious materials?" I was asked by a few of them as I sat there silently.
"I guess you obtained these when your spirit killed that beast that forced your mana channels to be shot?" Asked Miss. Night as I nodded.
"Indeed." I said simply.
"If your mana channels could handle a spell that could kill an earth drake in one hit you are indeed special. Though you might be special you are still a barbarian in my eyes." Miss. Night said as I chuckled lightly, somehow getting used to the title of barbarian from these people.
"Fine but set up the barrier." I said as she let out an 'hmph'.
"■▲■, ▲▲●, ●■▲… [Spirit Barrier]!" As she spoke while I heard the words it sounded like a song to me, this must be a spell chant.
But as she spoke the scales flew into the air and a large pentagram began to appear in the air.
In the next second the scales were in six separate places around the camp, five points around the camp and one in the very middle.
As it was complete the pentagram star points met the scales and the barrier wall slowly rose into the air.
The wall was glowing a faint blue color and seemed to give off a warm glow as everyone awed at its impressiveness.
As it did this all the souls made angry faces and went away, I could only feel a hint of a gaze on me as I glanced at the silhouette in the fancy carriage.
"This should hold for a week or two, maybe even longer if I strengthen it. I can even take it down and reuse it if I please, I think it will work perfectly as a barrier for traveling. Still such splendid materials…you wouldn't happen to have more of those would you?" She asked me.
"It will cost you." I said as I could almost feel her raise an eyebrow.
"How much?" She asked me.
"How much is two years' tuition for your academy?" I asked her as everyone was still admiring the witch's impressive barrier.
"Depends, each course costs a different amount. But for the wizard course it is 50 gold for a year. If you looking at all the courses for two years….hmm…a little under a 1000 gold." She said.
"Okay." I said as I reached into my inventory and pulled out 500 earth drake scales as they appeared in a very large bag the size of well…me. As I pulled it out I dropped it over the side of the cart as it landed heavily on the ground.
"Two years tuition for all courses. There is also a thank you for picking me up when you did." I said as the bag split open revealing hundreds of earth drake scales as everyone's mouth dropped open.
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