Starting from Zero Vol 2 Chapter 5

Chapter 5 – Buying

Following Clark to the second floor of the shop, there was a small business room. After inviting me to sit down, Clark ran to another room, not long after, he returned with a blood red longsword in his hand. Placing the sword in front me. “ This is a sword I made when I just finished my apprenticeship, take a look and see if you can use it.”

I carefully took the sword to inspect. This model of the sword was standard without any special adornments, thus making it look very ordinary. Although I don’t know why it was giving off a flickering blood red glow, I took a look at the attributes of the sword.

Soulbound Vampiric Longsword

This was a really amazing weapon! Especially the attack speed and lifesteal bonus. ’s weapon attack speed was cla.s.sified into five grades. The best was Faster, then Fast , followed by Normal, Slow and lastly, Slower. The majority of short weapons generally had a Normal grade attack speed while longer weapons would have a Slow grade attack speed. You rarely saw a Fast graded weapon let alone a Faster grade! Not only did this longsword have Fast attack speed, but it also had a Lifesteal effect with a surprisingly large percentage. This sword was really a treasure for warriors! Fearing that the level cap was too high for me, I quickly checked the requirements. Haha! My current level was 29, Strength was 13*29=377 and Agility was 6*29=174. Barely having the stats to equip it, extremely lucky!

Clark saw me standing there motionless for a long time while looking at the equipment thinking that I could not equip the weapon, so he comforted me. “Purple Sun Brother ( We already knew each other from our exchange outside earlier, who said my character’s charisma wasn’t high ), if you can’t equip it don’t feel too hurt! This is the sword that I unintentionally crafted successfully. Although the stats are not bad, it’s a pity that the requirements are too high for low level people to use. High level people who want better attack damage and are able equip don’t even bother since there are much better alternatives, thus this sword is redundant. I kept it as a memento to remind myself of my first successful work!”

I was focusing so hard on the sword that I forgot to answer Clark, I hurriedly replied,“Oh no, that’s not it! I can equip it, this is great! How much does it cost?”

When Clark heard that I could equip it, he happily said,“ Keeping it here has no use for me, I’ll just take 7 gold coins from you… Here is the 6 gold I still owe you.

I didn’t reject him, I was dirt poor and still needed to buy potions! Furthermore, Clark was not a fussy person, and probably wanted to care for future business.

Equipping the sword, I took out the shield I found outside the city. Looking at my character, although I looked like a mess with different varieties of equipment that looked somewhat out of place, at least my whole body was equipped. While I was feeling good about myself, Clark reb.u.t.ted: “What kind of c.r.a.p are you wearing! Black, white, red, look at how messy you look!”

“What’s wrong? It’s not bad! At least I have completely filled up the necessary basic equip slots!”

“You call this complete? Where’s your helmet? Shoulder pads? You don’t even have bracers! You’re missing a belt, faulds, a clock and you only have one ring! ( In , you’re technically able to equip up to ten rings, but only the index finger, middle finger and ring finger of both hands can have effects. The rest are for decoration!)”
(TLN: Took me awhile to translate this piece of armour: Faulds )

Hearing him talk to this point, I countered, “I have another ring but it hasn’t been appraised yet!”

“Okay, even if you have 2 rings, you are still missing 4! Furthermore, you are lacking an amulet and bracelets. You can only have two bracelets but they give a lot of bonus attributes! Head ornament, do you have one?”

At first I was quite satisfied with my equips, but being told off by him, I now felt that I was as poorly equipped as a beggar!”

“Forget it! Even if lose money, I need to equip you, otherwise you will soil my reputation when the other customers see you leaving my store! Come, take everything off, I will take a look and see what I can do!” saying that, Clark came to help me change my clothes.

I quickly moved away! “No,no,no! How can I let you lose money, I will come back and buy better equipment when I level up!”

Clark thought about it and then nodded his head, “You’re right, since you are low leveled right now, you will level up very fast. Having to replace your equipment when you outlevel them is very troublesome. Send me your basic stats right now and I’ll prepare a level 200 Dark Knight set for you. Although your level cap is 1000, after level 200, each level up will become much steadier and slower. Right now you need to level as fast as you can!”

“Alright then, thanks a bunch.” While expressing my thanks, I sent a copy of my attribute points to Clark.

Right after leaving Clark’s shop, I was swept away like a gust of wind by Medicine King who was lurking at the side of the door. I couldn’t see where his strength came from on skinny body! Arriving at Medicine King’s store his store was actually not far off from Clark’s, separated by only a few stores.

With a grin on his face, Medicine King brought me a bunch of potions, “Hehe, let me introduce you to these pills.” He held up a dark black pellet. “This is called the Undead Pellet, although it is black, it’s effects are quite good!”

“What use does it have?”

“It’s main purpose is to replenish blood. Each potion restores 500 HP and regenerates health twice as fast as normal Red Potions. What do you think, it’s good right?”

“Is it expensive?” I firmly believed that quality goods would not be cheap or there might be something dishonest going on.

“Expensive? Of course not, if it was why, would I call it a bargain! Each pouch goes for one gold coin.”

“What? Are you robbing me!” With a leap, I rushed towards the entrance.

Medicine King ended up pulling back with his higher speed. “Don’t be in such a rush! Listen to my explanation first, then you’ll realise that it’s not expensive.”

“Alright, speak!”

“Alright! The first thing I want to say is that each pouch contains 10 pellets. This means each pellet will cost you 1 silver coin. Buying a Greater Red Potion elsewhere will also cost you 1 silver but it will only restore 300HP and regenerate your health at half the speed. So do you still think it is expensive?”

When I thought about it, it wasn’t expensive at all, rather it was quite cheap! “Not expensive, not expensive!”

After hearing me say it was not expensive, Medicine King became even more excited, he immediately brought out a large stack of Undead Potions and then said, “For a one-time purchase, if you buy 10 pouches right now, i’ll throw in an extra for free. How about it?”

“Unfortunately I only have 9 gold coins!”

“No problem! I told you I’d offer a 20% discount., you just need to pay me 8 Gold Coins for the 11 pouches!”

“Thank you so much!” I was so happy I nearly forgot to jump for joy!