Spending my retirement in a game

chapter 112

After looking through the first book for a while until he managed to get the most important information, Eisen looked at the next book that was of interest to him at the moment, the one about multiple different ways to practice magic, but the moment that he flipped this book open, Melissa reacted to something.

"Hm? What's wrong?" The old man asked while the queen bee looked toward the carriage's door, nudging her head in its direction. "You want to go outside? Wait, is it because of the scouts?" Eisen asked her, and Melissa quickly nodded her head before Eisen stood up and grabbed his backpack as well as his sword that was, as usual, wrapped in cloth to make carrying it easier, after changing back into his suit.

This seemed like a weird combination at first, but Eisen chose to wear the suit instead of the Leather armor so that he could make a good first impression, and he really just needed the sword in case things went south so that he could defend himself.

Eisen immediately left the carriage and made his way out of the stables, following the instructions that Melissa gave him to where Komer's brother might be. After a while, they reached a small shop in the outskirts of town with a huge sign above it, reading "Merc's Glory".

The moment that Eisen read this, he could already figured out the name that Komer's brother chose. From what Komer described him as, he seemed to be the kind of person to put his name on the front of his store.

With a loud sigh, Eisen then slowly opened the front door of the shop and stepped inside. They didn't seem to be selling one thing, but instead everything that they could get their hands on.

Food, metals, low-grade potions, and other random items, and the majority of what was being sold didn't seem quite as high-quality as Eisen would have expected. He didn't know whether Komer's brother just didn't care, or if there was some kind of active business decision to choose quantity over quality with this shop.

The moment that Eisen stepped inside, he noticed Melissa fidgeting on his shoulder, and the five soldier bees in his backpack trying to escape. Soon enough, Eisen found the reason for that. In the middle of the shop stood a man with red hair similar to Komer's, just a few shades darker, wearing a navy colored suit and pure white gloves, holding two crushed scout bees in his hands.

With anger starting to boil up inside of him at the sight of someone so easily killing the monsters that his adorable little Melissa hatched and that were so eagerly protecting their queen so far, Eisen closed his eyes and activated his Truth Seeing eyes before holding his hand in front of one of them that he then opened to take a look at the man's level and name, shortly after telling Melissa to immediately hide in his backpack with the other bees.

[Player - Merc]

[Race - Human][Occupation - Combat Merchant][Level - 67]

A Combat merchant? That seemed to be quite self-explanatory to Eisen at first, but what he was wondering about most at the time was the stat distribution. If he was good at physical combat, he would probably have a distribution similar to Eisen's, where he needed to keep his physical stats up for the combat part of his occupation and his mental stats for his merchant side of the occupation.

If this was the case, Eisen definitely had the upper hand if it came to a combat situation, at the very least when you would judge everything purely by looking at the stats

Either way, first Eisen stepped in closer into the shop after obviously deactivating his Truth Seeing Eyes skill and finally caught Merc's attention. The young man looked over to Eisen, letting his eyes wander up and down for a while before lightly grinning. It was quite badly lit, so he probably thought that Eisen was here for a different reason than he actually was, because he looked behind Eisen and saw Caria standing there.