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Chapter 65 - The Goods for Sale

The Magic Bag Yuri presented had been unusable when he first discovered it in the village ruins, which were even older than his own. It was out of magic power. He could have used it by either replacing the Magic Stone or refilling its magic, but as it happened, there was something Yuri wanted to try.

It all started when Yuri realized the true nature of his Rural Life Guide skill, that it was an integrated skill with multiple sub-skills under its umbrella. Among skills like Pharmacology (Basic), Alchemy (Basic), and Smithing (Basic), one skill in particular caught his eye.

Magic Tool Creation (Basic).

It was grayed out, indicating it was unreleased, but its presence there meant that with training, he would be able to create magic tools, albeit only at a basic level. For Yuri, who was enjoying a fantasy life in a world of swords and sorcery, this could not fail to strike a chord in his chuunibyou heart. Of course, it was also true that the thought of needing to be able to create magic tools, not just use magic, in order to survive in this land sent a slight chill down his spine, a misunderstanding on Yuri's part, naturally.

In any case, now that he knew the creation of magic tools was within his reach, it was only human nature to want to obtain that skill. In this world, skills were something like a blessing from the gods that dwelled in diligently honed techniques. In other words, to acquire a skill, one first had to tackle and master the technique on their own. However, in Yuri's case, with it being included in his Rural Life Guide, its acquisition was all but guaranteed. The hurdle to challenge it was low. And what's more, a half-broken magic tool, a Magic Bag, had fallen right into his lap, as if made to order.

To put it simply, Yuri had brought back the Magic Bag, appraised it thoroughly, and then repeated a series of trial and error experiments. Thanks to his efforts, after spending a full day working on the Magic Bag, he had been able to acquire the Magic Tool Creation (Basic) skill. He had immediately put that skill to use and expanded the Magic Bag's capacity to the absolute limit that the situation allowed.

"In there? With a bag that small, you can't have much..."

"No, wait. Yuri-kun, is that a Magic Bag?"

As expected of the experienced Old Man Audel, he seemed to have realized what the leather pouch was.

"Yes. It was a memento from my grandfather."

With that one line, he shut down any prying into its origins. Thank you, unknown grandfather. Yuri put his hand into the bag and, for show, pulled out a jar filled with grain, a size that should not possibly have fit inside the leather pouch. It might have been more standard to use a burlap sack or a straw bale in this situation, but cloth was a precious commodity for Yuri, and as for straw, he had neither the surplus nor the time to weave it into bales. Besides, wheat straw has nodes, making it more troublesome to process compared to rice straw. For Yuri, making a jar with Earth Magic was the most hassle-free option. And so, the three of them stood there, too shocked to even speak. It seemed that even after all the surprises Yuri had given them, they still had not had enough. Glancing at the three of them, Yuri laid out the items he planned to sell. Incidentally, he was not offering any buckwheat this time. Compared to his other crops, the yield of buckwheat was low. Combined with his personal love of soba and his desire to keep buckwheat, which grows in barren land, as a card up his sleeve, he was only cultivating it in a portion of his fields, so he did not have enough stock to release.

"This is what I was thinking. What do you think?"

When asked, Old Man Audel re-examined the items laid out. There were four large jars each of wheat, naked barley, Soya Beans, and potatoes. One large jar probably held about fifty kilograms. As he had thought on his last visit, every single item was of high quality. Given the scale of those fields, he felt Yuri might have a bit more stored away, but perhaps the fields had only expanded to that size recently. He must have been barely scraping by in the beginning. And above all, it had only been five years since he had come to this land. This might be his limit. Separate from those, there was one smaller jar of salt. He had probably dug up rock salt. Then there was the dried meat...

"Yuri-kun, this dried meat..."

"Oh, that's dried boar meat. Bear meat has a bit of a gamey taste, so I thought some people might not like it."

"You hunt bears, too?"

"Are you sure about this? Giving us so much?"

"Yes. Getting about one boar's worth isn't much trouble."

"One boar's worth? This?" they all exclaimed.

It clearly looked to be an amount that would easily exceed two ordinary boars.

"I guess they noticed the fields, because they show up around here quite often. Well, they just charge in like idiots, so if you get them in a trap, hunting them isn't that difficult."

"Not difficult, he says..."

A child who hunts an obviously abnormally sized "boar," which was probably a monster, with "not much trouble." He did not seem dangerous in the slightest, but the three of them felt a premonition that their future relationship with this boy, who was so different from them in so many ways, especially in terms of common sense and basic perception, would be a difficult one.