Chapter 8: The First Shop And Immigration

“Lao: Thank you so much for everything you have done for us, It’s sad to see you leaving but I hope that you come to visit us again if possible, you are my first friend after all”

“Ryo: no need to thank me and you don’t need to be sad about me leaving, here I’ll leave this with you”

I was standing outside the village south gate with all the beastmen and Lao, Rex and Sheldon along with some of the elfs from the village.

They came to see us off, but Lao was sad to see me (his first friend) leaving already, so I decided to give him one of the artifacts I made before leaving the village, the Telepathy Orb. This artifact can be used to communicate with me and other holders over long distances.

“Ryo: with this artifact you can talk to me anytime you want, all you have to do is to channel some mana into it and think about me and it will activate, I also made it so you can talk to Nash, all you have to do is think about him”

“Lao: thank you!!”

“Sheldon: Ryo, I’m really glad to have met you, thanks to you this village can prosper again, really thank you so much!”

“Ryo: I’m an adventurer and all I did was complete the quest given to me, you don’t need to thank me that”

“Sheldon: hahahahaha!! I thought you would say that. By the way, your reward for completing the two quests I gave to you plus the reward given to you from the elder is more than one hundred platinum, but we don’t have that much money in the village so I’ll give you 15 platinum in the form of gold coins and the rest will be in your account in the guild and you can take the rest of your money from any guild in big towns”

“Ryo: thanks, by the way, can I use some of the money to buy something here?”

“Sheldon: of course you can, do you have anything in mind?”

“Ryo: yes, I want to open a gear shop in this village”

“Sheldon: Oho, that’s interesting, what kind of gear do you want to sell at this shop?”

“Ryo: normal and magic weapons and armour, artifacts, normal and magic tools”

“Sheldon: that would be wonderful indeed, but why are you discussing this with me the guild master?”

“Ryo: because I want the shop to be managed by the guild and leave the collection of the raw materials to the adventurers, the shop will buy the raw materials from the guild and will sell the products to the people of this village”

“Sheldon: Umu, but you are leaving today, how do you plan to keep the shop going?”

“Ryo: with this…{Storage} this box’s name is Trader’s Warehouse, inside the box is an infinite space filled with things I made to sell, all you have to do is to choose a clerk for the shop and the box will open only to that clerk and so he can supply the box with raw materials and the box will send the materials to me, and I’ll make all types of things and send them to the box, and the clerk can take the products from the box and display them in the shop”

Trader’s Warehouse is in the shape of a big chest, the chest is three meters wide and a meter long and a meter high with my crest on the top, I enchanted it with {Storage} and connected it to me, the chest has two short posts on each side and each post has a black orb on top of it, the posts are two golems I made to protect the shop in case someone attacked.

“Sheldon: that only leaves the clerk, do you have anyone in mind?”

“Rex: I’ll do it!!”

“Sheldon: Oho, Rex. You want to be the clerk even though you are an (S) rank adventurer?”

“Rex: yes, working in this shop seems to be fun, and I want to do it!!”

“Ryo: that’s it then, you can take the initial cost of the shop building and the raw materials from my account, and once the shop is open you can buy the raw materials from the profit, and I’ll send your pay to the Trader’s Warehouse at the end of each week”

“Rex: okay!! But what is the name of the shop?”

“Ryo: The Divine Blacksmith Gear Shop, I want the name of the shop to be written on a big sign on the front of the shop with my crest on it”

“Lao: do you have any plans to open more shops in different places”

“Ryo: yes, I want to have shops in many towns and villages”

“Lao: you said that you’ll claim this forest as your domain, will not that case troubles from the kingdom?”

“Sheldon: don’t worry about that, the king of this country is not stupid enough to challenge an (SS) rank”

“Lao: is that so?”

“Sheldon: in the first place the human countries aside from the holy theocracy around here are acting this arrogant is because there is no human (SS) rank to crush their arrogance like the other races”

“Lao: are (SS) rank really that powerful of an existence?”

“Sheldon: they are more than that, just imagine Ryo being your enemy and he really wants to make you suffer, how would you feel about that?”

“Lao: ….that’s way beyond terrifying and I don’t even want to imagine that!!”

“Sheldon: see, that’s how the other races feel having an (SS) rank among them, and all the (SS) rank adventurers hate discrimination, arrogance and slavery”

“Lao: somehow I understand their feelings, I feel sorry for the human's kings”

“Sheldon: since it’s Ryo we are talking about I’m sure there will be some falling countries in the near future”

“Lao: I totally understand what you mean”

“Oi!! Enough joking around!! Okay then I’ll leave the shop to you guys”

“Lao: yeah, take care!!”

“Ryo: you too!!.......{Teleport}!!”

I used {Teleport} to take all the beastmen with me to Armonis Village, we were greeted by Nash who was at the village gate waiting for us since I told him I’ll come back with a big group of immigrants.

“Nash: Ryo! You finally came, please tell me everything that happened in Elvens!!”

“Ryo: calm down, I’ll tell you everything that happened since I left the village till now but let’s assemble everyone first”

“Nash:….*Sigh*…sorry I lost my composure”

“Ryo: don’t worry about it, I know that you are concerned about your students and your brother Lao, but don’t worry they are safe”

“Nash: really?!”

“Ryo: yeah….”

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We assembled everyone in the village and I started telling them what happened to me since I left the village.

“Urak: to think that you’d reach (SS) rank this quickly, that’s my son for you!! Hahahahahahaha!!”

“Annsia: you are right, but it seems like you are still straggling with magic as always”

“Nash: I’m just happy to know that Lao-chan is safe”

“Ryo: by the way, Nash. I gave Lao a Telepathy Orb before leaving Elvens, so you can call him anytime you want using yours”

“Nash: what!? Why didn’t you tell me earlier?! I’ll go back home right now and call him, bye!”

“Celeca: Oh my, look at him being that happy, I better go with him to prevent him from saying something stupid”

“Rime: hahaha, you are having it hard as always Ce-chan”

“Celeca: fufufufu, well, he is cute when he is like that so I don’t mind”

“Sal: on the topic of ‘cute’ I have prepared a lot of cute dresses and cute clothes for you Ryo-chan, *hah* *hah* *hah* *hah*”

“Ryo: oh crap!! I have to escape!!”

“Sal: you can’t run away from me!!”

I bolted away from Lyara’s perverted maid Sal and exited Lyara’s mansion and started running toward the gate of the village, the beastmen who were in the mansion were surprised at seeing me chased down by a maid.

What is this? Is she really a human?

When I looked back I was surprised to see her catching up to me and started running as fast as I can, I continued running for 30 minutes and she was still running behind me.

“Sal: Last spurt!!!”

“Ryo: Noooo!!”

She started running faster and faster, I was scared for my life and started running even faster, but she was still catching up to me, her hand was about to catch my shoulder when she suddenly falls down on her face.

“Sal: r-re-regretful…..”

“Ryo: ….finally….. out…… of.. fuel……”

She finally runs out of stamina and passed out, I used {Teleport} on her and sent her back to the mansion and dropped myself to the ground to catch my breath, and suddenly Seth appeared next to me.

“Seth: who was that girl just now? It’s my first time seeing master scared like that”

“Ryo: she is the maid of the lord of this village, Lyara. And she used to look after me since I was little, she is the one who taught me how to read and write, and she is the one who explained a lot about politics to me, but she is one hell of a pervert, she would always try to make me wear girls clothes and stuff like that”

“Seth: that must have been hard on you, really”

“Ryo: it’s all Lyara’s fault, she was the one who started this girls clothes thing. I have an idea, I swear to have my revenge on both of them”

I talked with Seth for a bit before going back to the village, we started working with the beastmen to erect tents outside the village’s wall and called it a day for today.

In the next morning, I visited the village’s builder, Nos the giant to ask him about the number of materials needed to build new homes for the beastmen and farms and barns to provide food for the expanded village and for the livestock I’ll be sending from other towns after the farms start producing.

“Nos: I need a ton of trees to build all the homes and farms and barns and the new wall, I’ll go to the forest with half the beastmen men, you take the other half and destroy the wall and the gate and after that have them take some weapons and go hunting for meat”

“Ryo: roger that!! And here take this, it’s a {Storage} ring I made for you, use it to store the wood you collect”

“Nos: Oho, that’s convenient, I’ll take it”

After that, he took half the beastmen men and entered the forest to find the wood he needs, and I went with the rest of them and started taking the wall down, with me using Scarlet and with Seth using his martial art we finished our job in two hours.

After that I asked the beastmen men to go hunting after giving some magic weapons that Urak made and ordered Kage and his family to go with them to help them with the monsters they can’t defeat alone, I took Seth with me into my interdimensional house Jigen Domus to work on something I had on my mind for some time now.