Re: Evolution Online-Novel

Liam grinned and nodded in approval. "Ok, you guys have three hours, so enjoy. We will be leaving this area after that." 

He quickly sent away the majority of the guild along with five of the wyverns whom he resummoned to help with the traveling. The others stayed next to the hive hill and continued to rest.

Meanwhile, Liam hopped on top of Luna, and the duo also swiftly the area. They did not go too far and, within seconds, arrived at their destination, which was none other than the crafty fairy's magic shop.

"Would you look at that…" Liam grinned as Luna landed in front of the shop. 

Just a couple of days ago, this place was completely covered in the wilderness, but now it was visible for everyone to see.

"I guess without the blood business, these guys are now open for actual human beings, huh?" Liam smirked and walked in.

"Oh? You are back so soon? Mr. Liam?" Aron, the store manager, quickly rushed forward to greet him with a begrudging smile. "I don't think it's time for your monthly visits yet, Mr. Liam. It's only been a day or two since your last free bonus."

"Free?" Liam's grin widened. "Since when are trades called free? But you don't have to fret. I just came here to make some purchases."

"Oh?" Aron's face twitched a little. "So you already know about the discount, huh?"

"Of course." Liam laughed at the guy's misery. It seemed as if none of the fairies were a fan of this so-called discount sale. However, that was not his concern. He went directly to take a look at the quest board of the shop. 

Unlike back at Tilia's shop, Liam was hoping that this one would have more options when it came to reputation quests. 

After all, the shop was pretty much in a dead zone, thanks to the vampires. For all he knew, he might be the only customer coming to this shop. So he had hopes that he could get away with submitting some insect parts and raking in big reputation gains.

Liam opened up the system interface, and his gaze glossed over the available quests one after the other. Almost immediately, it was clear that he had been correct in his assumption.

<Quest: Need 100 pairs of Ison wings>

<Quest: Need 50 units of Ison venom>

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Starting with wings and venom, all sorts of Ison body parts, including their eggs, were listed as wanted.

Haaa… Liam sucked in a big breath of air and prepared to submit a whole bunch of quests. However, before he did that, his eyes casually drifted to the corner of the quest board where his current reputation was listed.

And the spot where the term 'stranger' should have been… there was shockingly something else entirely unexpected written.

He was now in a 'friendly' status with the shop!

Liam instantly froze. 

He looked up at Aron, and the fairy had an even more unsightly expression on his face, as if Liam had just found out something that he should not have known so soon.

But this only made Liam smile wider. 

"Ha Ha Ha. What an unexpected surprise!" With his gaze still locked onto the fairy, Liam took out the store card from his pocket and fanned it teasingly in front of the guy.

"I am guessing both purchases and submitting quests can increase one's reputation in a shop?"

The fairy gritted his teeth and half-heartedly nodded.

"Well, I have some money. So let's see what you have on sale, shall we?" Liam did not bother with the quest board any longer and immediately dashed toward the sales desk.

He tapped his fingers in a hurry, and when the system interface popped open in front of him, there were now three tabs in total instead of two!

Ba ha ha ha!

Liam grinned from ear to ear. His decision to let go of the dungeon crystal had indeed been the right one. 

He might have given up on something very valuable, but the thing in front of him at the moment was even more valuable because, with this new reputation, he had finally unlocked the recipes tab!

And these were not just any old recipes from back inside the tutorial game!

These were actually recipes that were relevant to the world at the moment. He had heard about this back when the Gu family had managed to get their hands on one of these priced recipes.

Naturally, he had no idea what that recipe was or how it was used since he was a mere slave or a meat shield at most, but now this essential piece of information told him just how invaluable these recipes were.

"Ok, I guess I will start with the health potions?" Liam quickly scanned the list of available recipes. 

The thing was, he had some health potions stashed away in the spatial artifact, which he had obtained from inside the game, and even some herbs that pertained to concocting the same. 

However, their quantities were very limited. He was eventually going to run out of them sooner or later, and if he used it for the guild, it would barely even suffice for one fight.

So it was extremely important to get another health potion recipe only using the materials that were currently available on earth.

Especially with Dimitri here, they could instantly develop this further and improve the potion quality with no trouble at all. All he needed now was a started recipe.

With several plans already unfolding in his head, Liam hurriedly searched through the list, only barely containing his excitement.

The more excited he became, the more irritated the fairy became. 

Aron did not even care if it was one of the cardinal rules of the shop not to touch a customer physically. At this point, he simply wanted to punch the smile right off of the guy's face!

"I hope nothing useful shows up, you human trash!"

Unfortunately for him, at that exact moment, Liam's eyes widened twice their size, and in a rush, he even punched the desk at the counter.

"FUCK! I am totally buying this!"