Spending my retirement in a game

chapter 94

While Eisen was still praising Caria for making something so interesting, he suddenly got an idea. It looked really beautiful, although it was somewhat hard to see the flower in the center. It would probably be possible to sell these kinds of items, and might actually bring quite a good amount of profit.

But since Eisen didn't want to treat Caria as a production slave, it wouldn't be sold in high quantities, but since that meant there couldn't be a constant supply, it had to last longer than a regular flower would, that's for sure.

And so, they would need something to cover the whole thing in so that it wouldn't wilt. The easiest thing to use for this would probably be something like epoxy resin, but the type that you could use for smaller crafts like this was usually synthetic, so Eisen couldn't get his hands on it if there wasn't a similarly suitable substance that was both as clear and easy to work with as epoxy resin.

For now, though, Eisen chose something else to work with. He stood up and looked through some of the crates in the back of the carriage, before grabbing some glass bottles together with the two flowers made by Caria standing on the shelf.

He first grabbed the regular flower that Caria created through Plant Control, and took one of the glass bottles in his other hand. Slowly, Eisen used transmutation on the glass to turn it more into a liquid, which was far easier at this point in time. Not only did Eisen manage to change the state of the glass far quicker than he used to be able to, but he also managed to turn it into a thick liquid rather than something like slime. The consistency actually reminded him a slight bit of honey.

Eisen first formed a small base to set the flower on with this glass-liquid so that it may look somewhat as if suspended in mid-air, and then covered the direct layer with the glass, using his transmutation to continuosly change between its solid and liquid states to make sure he could properly fill out every little nook and cranny around the flower.

So at last, Eisen only needed to expand from there, adding layer over layer of glass to the outside of the flower until it grew in size enough to be compared to a small version of the glass bell that the rose in 'The Beauty and the Beast' was kept in, although this one was completely solid all the way through instead of being hollow like the one in the movie.

But this version still looked nice nonetheless, and it should be more than enough to keep the flower basically stuck in time.

"Oh, wow! That was amazing, Eisen! I didn't know you could do something like that..." Komer said surprised while leaning in to the small decorative item that Eisen just created. There wasn't an alchemist in the town he started, so it made sense he would be surprised to see this for the first time. After all, changing the shape of something with your thoughts is just incredibly weird to see, isn't it?

"Haha, this is just a basic Alchemy Trick, kid. Maybe you should actually learn a higher variety of skills to get used to everything here. That reminds me, what kind of skills do you have?" Eisen asked Komer while placing the glass-covered flower away and grabbing the root-sphere that Caria made.

Komer scratched his cheek while seemingly opening his status page, before leaning against the wall. "Not a lot, really. I have Appraisal, Trading, Cooking and Mana Manipulation. Appraisal is my highest rank skill, and Mana Manipulation is my lowest rank one. Oh, and of course my racial skill, A Human's Perseverance."

"I see, then you really should learn a few more skills. Maybe a few crafting skills so that you can get a better feeling for the items you're selling as well. But Mana Manipulation might be surprisingly useful, so I suggest bringing that up a to rank 2 as well. Although, maybe wait a bit until your trading skill is a bit higher and you actually became a proper merchant until you actually rank it up from 1 to 2." Eisen suggested, and Komer tilted his head lighty to the side.