After she was done, he carried her like before but slightly distant, though luckily he couldn’t smell anything like a goblin’s blood, or the like.

Looking into the sky, he could see that it was already a bit late in the afternoon, sadly he had no clock-like device as those were quite expensive, and the only public ones were either in rich buildings or the guild, with there being no tall clock tower in the city despite how big it was.

But either way, he knew it wasn’t time for any stores to really close, according to Chrisel, this world, or to be specific this kingdom also had daylight savings and he said that it was around the beginning of fall, so if it's nice and bright, it wasn’t night, compared to winter.

Since it wasn’t closing time, he headed into a place that was selling legal drugs, herbs, and alchemic items. Showing the owner the paper that the healer had given him, the owner got all the necessary things while giving Yuu some tips regarding how to process them, recommending that he also buy a small mortar and pestle.

Even though he knew that the owner was also trying to make some sales, he did so anyway. He carried it in a bag while feeling slightly sluggish due to the weight of it, wanting to just dump it on Leah to store it.

Either way, he instead went past the inn and quickly went to the guild. He had to collect the money from the guild as he had to start being picky about it. While living and food expenses weren’t too costly at all, weapon, armor, and other things like consumables started to be more and more expensive, with adventuring having one of the potential in making money, but also the most risk as they had to buy, repair and do so much more.

To give a brief rundown of the money system in this world, at least in the Kingdom of Temploran and most places in the surrounding area, from the very bottom you had copper. With 100 copper making an iron coin, 100 iron coins making a gold coin, and 100 gold coins making a gloren coin.

And to give some insight on the value, a vast majority of people, whether it be a farmer, labor worker, fisher, etc, would get a few tens of copper, depending on the job itself. A higher profession like an intermediate alchemist, blacksmith, an average businessman, making a varying amount that involved iron coins. The ladder would keep going depending on what you did. With the highest power, whether it be kings/queens, the greatest merchant, the strongest adventurers having the abilities to have access to gloren coins.

While many people would think from novels and shows, the trope of commoners starving or having little to no sustainability, depending on the place, at least around here, you could buy a loaf of bread for a single copper or two.

Though food was generally cheap mainly due to magic, allowing even a commoner to be able to somewhat feed themselves while having a low-income job. With magic being a mystifying force, even if society didn’t have technologies like on Earth, they most certainly had magicians and cheap tools made by blacksmiths or alchemists who were able to make the production and storage of food easier for everyone.

So while Yuu wouldn’t necessarily have to worry about food and living as much, as G-ranked adventurers could get the bare minimum to live, he still had to get armor, later on, repair his gear, or get a new scythe, and many other things.

Entering the guild building, he saw an increased number of people who were wearing masks and were carrying shovels or a mop-like pole. When he came here a few times he did see people like this but he didn’t think of much as there were only a few who did wear them.

Seeing Caryne at the counter, he went up to her, “Hey Caryne. What’s up with the people wearing the masks and stuff? Are they here to clean?”

She took a sip of coffee before responding in a slightly tired voice, “Yup. Killing monsters isn’t the only ability of an adventurer. Think about it for a second, when a dragon fights against an adventurer, let’s say in a plain, what happens after? The environment, ecosystem, and everything else are ruined. That’s why adventurers, magicians, and many other groups up to protect the environment.

“Thousands of years ago, when these systems and roles were ignored, a huge famine spread through the land, most of it became infertile, and you either had major earthquakes, volcanos, deserts, deadly waves, you name it, rolling down and causing a mess. If a war between ordinary soldiers in a kingdom and the mercenaries of a nation were to fight, it wouldn’t do much besides shedding blood. Now apply that to more powerful beings.

“So the city placed a quest for the recovery of the battle earlier just to polish things, but more importantly, telling people to get ready since a few big shots will be smashing things up.”

Looking with a surprised face, Yuu wouldn’t have imagined that such a thing existed here. Coming here, he thought adventurers just fought, maybe had a second profession, murder beasts, and just get stronger. Though it would make sense that they and many others were responsible for actually cleaning things up.

The ironic thing was, this sounded similar to Earth. The more powerful civilization became, the more we had to be aware of our effects on the environment. Though hopefully, we would be able to. “Magic and technology really aren’t that different huh… They just serve others in different ways,” he thought to himself, comparing Earth and Remshal.

“Hey, you still listening?” she stared at him grumpily. “Though I heard the news. You successfully eliminated goblins and bandits during the raid earlier. Good job! Keep it up and qualifying for F-rank won’t take long at your pace. Though killing only humanoid beings won’t make you a god you know. If you can find another partner, I’ll allow you to take an F-rank quest for silver-wolves when you’re ready.”

After talking for a small bit, she handed him the money from the herb gathering quest from yesterday and Yuu stretched his arms before checking the time and exiting the building. He sat down at a nearby bench and sat Leah on his lap while laying his back against the bench, like a middle-aged man.

Staring at the blue skies, he thought to himself, “I wanna go to sleep. Today was too eventful. I have to leave Leah at the house with the herbs, go to the late History class, then tomorrow I have basics.” He yawned while grabbing a small grape-like fruit from his bag. Throwing one in his mouth before feeding Leah one as well.

After resting for a couple of minutes, he went towards the inn before placing down his backpack. Remembering to give Leah the herbs he took out the mortar and pestle and tried to remember which herb needed to be grinded.

While most of the herbs he bought could be consumed raw, there were some that he had to grind, mix with oil, and combine with a few other herbs before consumption.

While grinding, he quickly realized how tiring this was since while he did work on training his body, the herbs were extremely rough, taking a minute to even show progress and the pestle was uncomfortable to hold. Taking small breaks while enduring the pain, it took him ten minutes before he managed to grind it all up and made a greenish yet slightly purple paste.

Seeing Leah about to finish the rest of the herbs, he handed her the mortar and pestle and she slid inside of it, absorbing the paste at a slow pace. While slimes and other creatures could eat herbs raw, without the need for refinement, these herbs would take just too long to absorb and would slightly lose their efficiency.

Waiting for her to finish, he stared while thinking about how strange their relationship was. They met about seven days ago, he saved her while being careful of her, not knowing whether she’d attack, but without realizing it, even on the second and third day, they were pretty much comfortable with each other. It was like meeting a stranger and suddenly connecting with them immediately, even with more lesser-known hobbies or interests.

Though he couldn’t think much about it currently. After making sure she took all the herbs that were requested, he told her to stay here and headed out, heading to one of his classes.