Abe the Wizard

ust one look at him and his magic staff.
Nothing was said, though, so he proceeded without making a stop.
It was quite common, actually.
If the wizard didn’t try to start anything, most bearmen wouldn’t want to waste their time bothering someone trying to hide their identity.

Abel called for a carriage at the city gate to do business.

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Abel said to a carriage coachman, “Hi there, mister! I happen to need to trade some gold coins with magic gemstones.
Do you know where I can get them?”

Right now, he only had gemstone and no gold coins that belonged to the central continent.
He definitely needed to trade some local currency if he wanted to get by.

The coachman replied, “Sir, most shops are already closed.
The only place you can go is the pawn shop.
They’ll take anything there.”

“Sure, then.
Can you bring me to the pawn shop?”

On the way to the pawn shop, Able could see that the shops closed.
The only things that remained bright were the street lights.
The coachman followed the road for about ten minutes.
After that, they came to the front of a building.

“We’ve arrived, sir,” the coachman spoke outside of the carriage.

Abel jumped down and said to the coachman, “Wait for me here, alright?”

Without saying anything, the coachman bowed humbly and returned to the reins.
Abel pushed the pawn shop’s door open, and after ringing a bell, he called for the front staff.
This seemed like quite a big pawn shop.
Lighting circles were used to brighten things up, but those were usually used inside magic gemstones because of how expensive they were.
It showed how rich this shop was.
The level of luxuriousness displayed inside helped him gain some confidence in the quality of its products.
Perhaps that was exactly what the pawn shop wanted its customers to think.

“The Moses Pawn Shop welcomes you, sir Wizard.
Is there anything we can help you with?”

It was a middle-aged man in a Chinese robe that came to greet Abel.
He was very polite in his demeanor but didn’t seem like a nobleman at all.
He was probably not born as a nobleman, so it seemed.
A lot of his actions seemed like he was mimicking a real one, but the movements of his fingers kind of revealed his true self.

Abel took out one intermediate gemstone and passed it over, “I need this for some gold coins.”

They could all see that he was holding an intermediate gemstone.
The middle-aged man appeared somewhat disappointed to see this, but he still took the intermediate gemstone and looked at it under the lamp.
He was the store owner, and after seeing the magic staff, he thought that it was a chance to get a good deal from a wizard.
All he got was an intermediate gemstone, though.
Intermediate gemstones were not a bad item, but to the Moses Pawn Shop, one intermediate gemstone was not something that they would be too enthusiastic about.

The middle-aged man looked at Abel and said, “This is one intermediate gemstone, sir Wizard.
According to the standard trading price, it’s one intermediate gemstone for ten thousand gold coins.”

Abel knew the market quite well.
Usually, it’d be ten thousand gold coins for one intermediate gemstone, but no one would actually do something like trading an intermediate gemstone with gold coins.
This was a special case, though.
The only thing that he lacked was gold coins, so he went along and nodded his head.

The middle-aged man put the intermediate gemstone away and asked, “So you want gold coins, or do I transfer through your magic card?”

Abel didn’t know what a magic card was, but he could guess that it was like a magical gold card.

“Give me gold coins,” he replied.
He came here for cash.
Besides, he didn’t even have a magic card yet.

“Wait for a bit then, sir Wizard,” the middle-aged man said, returning to the inside.
He quickly came out with two servants with him.
The servants carried a box and placed it in front of him.
Abel scanned with his power of the Will, and after confirming that there were ten thousand gold coins inside, he went and placed them inside his portal bag.

Abel then went on to ask, “Does the Moses Pawn Shop offer any alchemy materials?”

“The name is Kinglake, sir,” the shopowner smiled, “I’m the owner of the Moses Pawn Shop Silan City branch.
As the largest pawn shop business in all of the Stan Empire, the Moses Pawn Shop is dedicated to selling in every major city of the empire.
If we don’t have the things that you need, we can go and have the other branches send out goods to us.
It’d only take a day or two to get whatever that you need.”

The smile on Kinglake’s face grew thicker by the minutes.
Every alchemy material was supposed to cost a lot.

“I need these materials,” Abel said, meanwhile writing out a bunch of names of materials on a parchment paper.
A lot of these were replacement items.
They were all used for recipes like the “soul-nourishing potion” and the “gecko wall potion.” There were two versions for each of them.
One was the original.
The other was the improved version.
As hard as it was for Abel to find materials that could increase his strength as an alchemist, even if he had the help of the elves on the Holy Continent, he still needed a lot more ways of getting the ingredients for the improved recipes.
Actually, it was the same for the ingredients of the same recipe.

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Just then, after seeing that the store was lighting circles for lights, he became confident of the type of service that the Moses Pawn Shop was capable of providing.
This was when he wrote out a list of a bunch of ingredients.

“Have Master Alchemist Jose come here, please,” Kinglake took the parchment paper over.
He had a very confused look on his face.
There were a lot of names for ingredients that he had never heard of before, so he shouted in a panic to a servant beside him.

“Come to the VIP room, Master Wizard,” he said, then turned to bow to Abel in a somewhat awkward nobleman’s gesture.
Abel didn’t pick out the mistakes and instead followed him to the guest room.
The servants quickly came to serve coffee, but he decided not to have any of it.
He was becoming more aware of his diet ever since his level became higher.
He didn’t like the idea of consuming food that was going to affect his psyche.

Soon, an old man with a flask white bear came in.
He seemed quite relaxed.
Prideful, even.
Abel could clearly see the alchemist’s chest on his chest.
It was a crest that belonged to intermediate alchemists.

“What are you calling me for, Kinglake? I’ve still got potions to brew.”

So this was Alchemist Jose.
He’s started complaining the moment he opened his mouth.
He probably didn’t like the idea of Kinglake interrupting his job.

Kinglake didn’t seem to mind, though, “Alchemist Jose! Can you check to see if we have the ingredients on this list?”

As reluctant as he was, Alchemist Jose took the parchment paper over.
He looked towards Abel and realized that a hoodie was over his face.
That’s when he saw the parchment paper that was in his hand.
His expression quickly went from reluctance to shock, then to an extreme look of terror.

Alchemist Jose spoke very humbly, “Um, sir Wizard, are you an alchemist, by any chance?”

Abel replied, “Is there anything wrong with the ingredients I asked for, Alchemist Jose?”

It wasn’t a direct reply, but Alchemist Jose understood immediately.

Alchemist Jose continued to ask, “So are you an advanced alchemist, sir Wizard?”

“I didn’t know that it was mandatory to do an identity check here,” Abel replied in a displeased manner.

Kinglake bowed while dragging Alchemist Jose to the side, “Many apologies, sir Wizard.
Here, I’ll have a conversation with Alchemist Jose first.”

Kinglake whispered, “What’s wrong with you, Alchemist Jose! Asking that in the Moses Pawn Shop is against the rule!”

Alchemist Jose was quite emotional, “Didn’t you know, Kinglake? Most ingredients here must be processed by advanced wizards.
We can’t have regular alchemists sorting through most of them.
Do you need to know what that means?”

“What does it mean?” Kinglake asked.
He’s good at doing business, but it wasn’t his job to understand what it was that alchemists did.

“It means,” Alchemist Jose said in a softer voice, “If sir Wizard here is using the ingredients for himself, then he must be at least an advanced alchemist or higher.”

Kinglake dropped his jaw.
He was not an expert in this sort of thing, but he knew what advanced alchemists could do, especially if they were at a higher level.

“Do we have the stuff then, Alchemist Jose?” Kinglake replied emotionally.
Come to think of it, it would be important if he could be good friends with an advanced alchemist.
Only alchemists could differentiate the materials that were needed for alchemy, so it was a lot easier to have someone else sort through the warehouses if he was to do business in selling alchemy materials.

Alchemist Jose replied, “No need to look.
We don’t have the stuff in Silan City.
We can only get the goods if we go to the headquarter.
The problem is that these ingredients are pricey and rare.”

Kinglake turned back to Abel and bowed, “sir Wizard, please wait a day or two.
I need some time to verify the materials that you request.
By the way, are you confident that you have the amount needed to buy them?”

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Of course, Abel knew how expensive things were here.
Most of the stuff came from very rare climates.

“I’ll stay in Silan City for two days.
Don’t worry about the pay.”

As he said that, he waved above the table with his hand.
Several thousand magic gemstones quickly appeared and quickly disappeared.

Kinglake spoke after pausing for a bit, “Uh, well, rest assured, sir Wizard.
Actually, you can come here tomorrow afternoon.
I’ll give you precise news by then.”

Abel was brought out of the Moses Pawn Shop immediately after that.
Instead of rushing back to his alchemy work, Alchemist Jose came to send Abel.

“Are you really an advanced alchemist, sir Wizard?” Alchemist Jose ran to the carriage and asked.

After thinking for a bit, Abel decided to switch on his transformation necklace and unleash his alchemy rune’s essence.

“Get me a good inn, coachman,” Abel said to the coachman.

Alchemist Jose watched as the carriage left him.
He did guess that Abel was an advanced alchemist, but to really feel the presence of an advanced alchemy rune still had him quite shocked.
The alchemist was a rare kind among the humans.
It was like this no matter which continent it was.
In the Stan Empire, alchemists were so rare that they served only the royalty.
Abel didn’t know about this, of course.
He only revealed his true colors because he trusted that the Moses Pawn Shop would help him get his alchemy ingredients.

Actually, there weren’t that many alchemists either back on the Holy Continent.
It was most of the elves that produced the most alchemists, and they barely made any contact with human alchemists.
It was probably because of this that he never really felt how few alchemists there actually were.

After coming to an inn that he quite actually liked, Abel went inside his room immediately.
He didn’t notice how much effect there was for revealing his alchemist presence.

Alchemist Jose turned back and said, “That was an advanced alchemist there, Kinglake.”

“Are you sure about that?” Kinglake asked.

Alchemist Jose nodded like a maniac, ‘Yes, yes yes! Of course, I am! He just revealed an advanced alchemy rune! You can have anything fake, but that, you cannot fake that! I didn’t think I was going to see an advanced alchemist right here.”

“I’m going to report this to the headquarter.
Let’s do it now,” Kinglake said emotionally.
Unlike Alchemist Jose’s very enthusiastic attitude, he just knew rationally what an advanced alchemist’s title meant.
If he could somehow trap this advanced alchemist to the Moses Pawn Shop, then he was going to get a lot of goods out of that.

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