Spending my retirement in a game

chapter 91

Shortly before making their way to the largest merchant company in town, Eisen and Komer met back up with Bree and Caria while Cabarum and Aulu still stayed behind at the carriage for protection.

At first, Eisen expected a large building with a huge amount of traffic, but the Merchant company seemed to take up only one office floor of the rather small building it was situated in. And in the end, that should have been expected. After all, even if it was the largest company, since this was only a small village it still wasn't too big.

So, Eisen, Komer, Bree and Caria stepped into the building and looked around. It was a rather crowded space, with desks placed wherever there was space in the room behind the front desk. The merchants were quite loud as well, which was to be expected considering that the whole room was basically packed to the brim with men and women of different stature. But that seemed to be quite unusual, since there simply couldn't be that many differnet merchants in such a small village.

Curious, Eisen walked up to the woman at the front desk and asked if something was going on, and the busy secretary nodded hurriedly, but still took her time to be professional and tried to answer Eisen as best as she could. "Yes, Sir, something is going on. Have you heard of those people that suddenly appeared out of thin air? Most of them seem to be natural merchants, and especially two of them are quite troubling. They instantly bought up a large majority of food in some towns around here, and are now selling them at a largely increased price. Since this town was the only one in the area that didn't fall victim to this, many merchants are now trying to buy whatever food we have, so this has turned into quite a troublesome situation. Anyway, how can I help you?"

After this explanation, Eisen frowned strongly. Some players bought up so much food? How was that possible at this point in time? And it seemed like not only Eisen was asking himself that, but Komer was deep in thought as well. Eisen chuckled lowly and slapped Komer's back to get his attention, and then faced the secretary once more.

"My young friend here would like to talk to the owner of this merchant company, if this is possible." Eisen smiled softly and looked at the secretary, who in turn simply sighed out loudly.

"I'm sorry, I'm afraid that won't be possible. There are many people here that want to talk to the Owner currently." She smiled wrily, seemingly actually sorry that this situation was such an inconvenience to Komer.

"Are you sure? I really just need to talk to him for a second!" Komer protested, hoping that the extra charisma from the suit would take effect, but this seemed to be a situation that pure charisma couldn't overcome so easily. After a bit of discussion, Komer ended up giving in and sighed loudly as he was just about to turn around to leave. But Eisen didn't want Komer to become unmotivated because of something like this, and then turned to the secreatary again.

"Would it be possible if we stepped inside and talked to one of the other merchants currently inside? It doesn't necessarily need to be the owner."

"Hm, I guess that would be fine. But if they don't want to talk to you, I would please ask you to leave them be. They are here for business as well, after all." The Secretary explained, and Eisen nodded in response.

"Of course. Thank you."

Komer started frowning as he looked into the large room with immensely busy people, not even knowing where to start. While he was doing that, Eisen held his hand in front of his eye in the same way that he did when inspecting Komer, in order to look at more information about the merchants. Luckily, people didn't seem to get shivers when being inspected with Truth Seeing eyes, quite opposite to Appraisal, so simply appraising such a large amount of people wouldn't be a problem. But it seemed that most of them weren't that skilled in the first place.