Spending my retirement in a game

chapter 85

Eisen was sitting on the front bench of the carriage, looking forward through the forest he and Bree were driving through. While Caria and Aulu were in the back, the Myconid still practicing her plant control and the automaton simply laying on the ground as if she was napping. The Fey-Kin on the other hand was actually sitting right beside him, using her Scanner skill to search for an important part for the Adventure's Guild's request that Eisen took a few days ago.

She was currently looking for a beehive large enough to possibly contain a honey crystal. When they were in areas that had the right conditions, she kept doing this while Eisen was driving.

It's already been about five hours since they started driving, and they finally left the mountainous area close to Melroe and were now in relatively flat land, making the drive both much easier, as well as much, much more boring.

But Eisen didn't mind. He enjoyed the beauty of nature and hearing the forest's birds chirping all around him. And there was even something that made him even happier, as Eisen learned the 'Riding & Driving' Skill about an hour ago, and it was leveling up quite nicely. According to Bree, this skill wouldn't only help with driving the carriage, but also the control he had when riding any creature.

While checking up on it every once in a while, Eisen also continued to practice some of his other skills that he could while doing something else. This meant that Eisen activated skills like his 'Truth Seeing Eyes', or even 'A Dwarf's Hands', the latter of which he managed to gain proficiency in through simply playing with a marble in his fingers for a while.

It didn't give him much proficiency, but still enough let him gain his first ever Rank 3 skill.

[A Dwarf's Hands reached Level 100 in Rank 2, upgrading to Rank 3]

[Your hands can now withstand immense heat and pressure]

[Due to Ranking-up your A Dwarf's Hands Skill, you gained +1 AGI and +1 END]

"Immense heat? So that means I can handle metal more easily, huh?" Eisen whispered to himself, and Bree happened to overhear him.

"Hm? What do you mean?" She asked, tilting her head to the side ever so lightly, still looking into the distance to keep an eye out for the beehives.

"Ah, I just got my dwarven racial skill to rank 3, and I was talking to myself about the new effects it got." Eisen laughed lowly, smiling at the young girl next to him. And Eisen knew that she wasn't actually a young girl, despite looking like it, but compared to him, most people were young so Eisen didn't really care too much.

"Ohh~! That's cool! Ah! Eisen, stop the carriage, I found some beehives!"

The carriage came to a halt as Cabarum slowed down in response to Eisen's command. Soon enough, it seemed like Eisen would be able to finally start brewing one of his favorite alcoholic drinks! But of course, Eisen wouldn't just leave the carriage in the middle of the road, but instead he decided to park it behind a nearby thicket.

"Alright, let's check them out then! Cabarum, if anyone or anything beside us comes close to the carriage, try make as much noise at possible. We won't be too far away." Eisen explained to his automaton, hoping that it wouldn't be necessary for it to do so.

So now, Eisen, Caria, Bree and Aulu made their way in the direction that Bree saw the beehives in, and soon enough they found a small hive in a hollow treestump.

Although, 'small' was quite relative, since the bees themselves were around two or three times larger than regular bees, so of course the hive's size grew in proportion to that as well. Once Bree confirmed that these were Honeybees and that there was a Honey Crystal inside of the hive, Eisen grabbed a small mana crystal that he prepared just for this situation.