The Runic Alchemist

Walking out of Vidalia's place, Damian continued his job before heading back to his room to think about what he wanted from both lists. A quick glance showed him there were some interesting options. Vidalia had also given him another spatial storage item, containing some additional rewards for his service to the army till now, but he hadn't looked at its contents yet.

Starting at one point of the perimeter, Damian made a full circle around the area, pointing out hidden people in various locations. They had become fewer and had retreated deeper into the forest, but Damian's mana sense covered a huge range. Once he knew what anomalies to look for, it was an easy task.

The special unit was following him which attacked wherever he pointed, as if he was playing some Real Time Strategy game, they even went into the forest a little bit to handle it.

It took about an hour and a half, but he successfully covered the entire area, finishing his task. When he returned to his room, Damian found Sam working on polishing and sharpening his sword. That was new; Sam usually spent his free time either lazing around or talking to people outside, curious about what was going on.
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It seemed he was finding it hard to reintegrate with others after being on the run in a small group for so long.

"Oh, you're back," Sam said with a smile.

"Yeah. You didn't go outside?"

"I just got up."

"Hm," Damian nodded, removing his cloak and placing it in its spot.

He sat on his bed, legs crossed, and took out the new credit exchange list he'd been given.

'Let's see how much that greedy elf gave me,' Damian activated the badge. His status window appeared, everything was the same except for one additional section at the very end.

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BROKEN GREED WAR | ELDORIS | CREDIT RECORDS :

1. Unranked Enemies:

- 0 kills: 0 credits

2. First Ranker Enemies:

- 0 kills: 0 credits

3. Second Ranker Enemies:

- 0 kill: 0 credits

CREDITS EARNED : 6000

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Hmm, that's good enough. But what's with this name? Was it assigned by the system? It appeared with the status window, so no one could change or edit it except the values of credits that was determined by the authority that made it. It was a simple tool that impartially counted how many people one killed and assigned a value to each, then totaled them.

Damian opened the new list, skimming through it with interest, and mentally selected the ones that seemed worthy of exchange. In the end, he added three more to the four items already occupying his thoughts. Now he just had to decide which ones he needed the most.

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Mirrorblade (Sword) | 2300 credits

Effect: Reflects 30% of the damage taken back to the attacker, and can absorb light-based attacks to charge an energy strike.

Everspring Staff (Staff) | 2600 credits

Effect: Boosts healing spells and causes nearby plants to grow and bloom, capable of regenerating a portion of health over time.

Dragon's Heart Amulet (Amulet) | 2400 credits

Effect: Grants a temporary berserk state when health is low, increasing strength and mana tremendously, lowering defense and intellegence, and protection against mind control spells once used. (1 time use.)

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Runic Blade of Storms (Sword) | 2500 credits

- Effect: Calls down lightning strikes once a day.

Grimoire of the Arcane | 2500 credits

- Effect: Contains advanced spells for manipulating five elements.

Chronomancer's Codex | 2800 credits

- Effect: Lifetime experiment notes of Chronomo - The Eldoris mad spacetime mage.

Sacrium Steel Ingot | 2500 credits

- Effect: A rare metal with incredible strength and magical properties, used to craft legendary weapons and armor.

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First of all he needed The Runic Blade of Storms, so that was decided, that left him with 3500 credits.

The Grimoire was important for learning new better elemental spells, and maybe this was also the only chance of getting anything related to spacetime element written in detail, also Damian wanted to try making Sacrium steel golem with the same method he used for the steel golem, he also wanted to see what runic circle Everspring staff used as spell to do such a high level healing that gave life to plants and had regenerating effect overtime..

'Goddammit, there are so many things I want.. Am I perhaps the greedy one..? No, no that was stupid, I am the most nicest guy in the two world..'

Damian deluded himself as his mind continued comparing various aspects of the each item and it's need and potential use to him, everything seemed important but he knew he could only choose few. Sam, seeing Damian staring at the list for over a minute, got up from the floor and sat beside him.

"What's this?" Sam asked, curiosity breaking Damian's calculations.

"The new credit list Vidalia gave me. I also have 6000 credits, trying to decide what I want," Damian muttered.

"6000?! What the hell did you do for that?" Sam picked up the army badge Damian had put aside. "Whose badge is this?"

"Ah, it's mine. I'm a captain now," Damian replied offhandedly, not looking up from the list.

"You...! You're staying? You accepted her offer?! Why?" Sam exclaimed forcing Damian to put everything aside to look at him.

"Yes, and I don't know... It just made sense..."

"You're going to attack with her tomorrow?"

"Nah, I don't have a death wish. I'm not sure what I'll be doing, but I'm not going with them to attack. Now forget all that crap and tell me how many credits you have..? We've gotta get some nice things before they die and leave us hanging..."

"Your loyalty is inspiring," Sam said dryly. The old 'If they die, at least we'll try our best to carry on without them' strategy.' I like it. Really makes the whole 'Joining the army' thing shine. Those two will kill you if they hear this."

"The lightning sword is a given. That leaves me with 3500 credits. How much do you have? Maybe we can pool them."