Chương 404: Chapter 377. Shop Owners And Feeling Right

" Looks like she didn't do that paint job like I said she should."" She probably didn't to spite you, Ben."" I wouldn't be surprised, Jessie. She's got Great Items... It's just all of this that's stopping her. You know what I mean?"" What do you mean, Jessie? Ben? This is great!"" Yeah, you're right, Ashley! This is great! Why don't you guys like this? I'd definitely enter this shop!" Ashley and Lucy disagreed with Jessie and Ben's comments about the shop we've walked in front of.

I'd imagine as men, they're biggest critique of the shop was the fact that it was painted pink on the outside. Along with that, there was a cute looking statue of a Monster that looked like a panda bear from our world. All of this against the drab, brown brick stores for Adventurers littered across the town that we observed as we traveled to this shop, it certainly made the shop stand out. Along with that, the 2 people to drag us here were both S-Rank Adventurers, so that means the items had to also be good.

But from the sound of it, it looks like most Adventurers ignore this store for some reason? I wonder why that could be? / BOOM! /" Ah!" / BANG!... CLANG! / It looks as if my answer came flying at us. The sound of an explosion happened. It sounded like when a car malfunctions and begins to smoke. Something came flying at us and nearly hit Jessie before he was able to swipe it away by drawing his sword and slashing at the flying object.

One it made contact with the ground, I was able to figure out from the sound that it was made of metal. Once it had stopped moving around, I saw that it was blade of some kind. But it looked like it was only half of the blade. I thought at first that Jessie cut it in half, but nothing has landed on the ground besides the one long, thin piece. Where the other half was, became the most important question to everyone now." Ah, Dammit! I've told her countless times to not experiment during business hours!"

Ben quickly rushed into the shop. I could hear shouting between Ben and a woman's voice. We quickly followed Jessie into the shop. It was quite a decent-sized store, you could probably fit around 75 people in the shop at a time and there were rows and rows of different types of weapons, shields and armors. It was like a small armory for an army battalion. I noticed that Jessie had the look on his face like nothing about this situation was surprising to him." You could've killed someone!""

This town is full of Adventurers! They would've dodged it or repelled it! Besides, if my experiment worked, Adventurers from all around would be tearing my door down trying to buy one of my swords!"" That's not the point! It's a safety hazard! Someone could report you to the Town Guards and put you in jail, you idiot! Then what!?"" Oh, those fools would love to take me down! They fear Scientific Advancement!"" Gods!" Ben seemed to be fed up with the woman he was talking to.

She seemed to be around the same age as Ben. She had brown hair with a few strands of white hair sticking out in random places. She had light-green eyes like 2 pieces of jade. She was quite slender, but looked to be healthy. If not for the eye bags under her eyes and extremely pale skin she had, she'd probably look younger than she looked now. She quickly turned to look at us as we entered the store as Ben began to pull a piece of metal from the left side wall of the shop.

I guess that answers where the 2nd piece went." Ah! Lil Jessie! How have you been?" The woman shifted from displeasure to a smile as she saw Jessie and us. Jessie responded with a pretty friendly tone to his voice." Hi, Barb. Long time no see. Still trying to make new weapons I see? Any luck since the last time I was here?"" Yes, I've been mostly successful... But this last idea. I've been stuck on it for about 6 months now."" What are you even trying to make?""

It's a blade that explodes into a bunch of little metal pieces, away from the user of course! If I can figure out how to make it all work, it'll work as a great way to escape a bad situation. But I just can't figure out the mixture of explosion powder and where to place it on the blade."" Have you tried placing it in different positions all around the blade?"" Huh?" I opened my mouth after the woman.. Barb, spoke. It looked to me that her issue was actually the amount of "explosion powder" that she was using.

Explosion powder works similar to gun powder back in our world. The problem with her invention seems to be the placement and concentration of powder in one spot. I couldn't help but ask if Barb had tried moving the powder around. This book was originally published on Royal Road. Check it out there for the real experience." No... I've just kept it in the handle... But if you were to hollow out the blade... Not bad, little girl..." Barb seemed to have figured something out from my words.

I could tell that she wanted to immediately try out whatever it was she was thinking about. But before she could attempt to go off and attempt a new experiment, Jessie began to speak to her again." Wait, Barb, before you go, we want to shop here."" Sure! Just try to make it fast, Jess!"" That customer service isn't good!"" Shut up, Ben! Just go through that barrel over there or something!" Ben and Barb seemed ready to start another argument, but before they could, Jessie began to speak to us." Okay, you heard her!

Go around and see if you can find a backup weapon. Barb's Items are top quality and quite a few are one of a kind! So, make sure you take your time and find something that fits you. As for you, Jaime, you should find a light-weight weapon for when you begin to train in the Clear Sky Style. You should be looking for something that feels right inside your hands. If I were you, I'd look for a short sword or something similar. I'd look over in the Northeastern corner, that's where Barb keeps those types of weapons.

Okay! Meet back in half an hour everyone!" tap. tap. With that, Jessie went off to negotiate between Ben and Barb. With him gone, I felt a tap on my shoulder." Hey, Jai, why don't I help you out!? I'm going look for another dagger since we're here!"" Hey, Lucy! No fair, I was going to ask the same thing! Though I'm looking for gauntlets! Hey, Laura, want to go look together?"" No! She needs to look for another mace or club, right? That looks like it's over there, next to the swords!"

Luke quickly put an end to the idea that all of us girls would go shopping together. Laura just looked at him with displeasure." He's technically not wrong, I'll find something and then head over to you guys in a minute."" Huh? Hey! Wait for me, I need a sword!" Laura quickly walked away from us. She spared no time for Luke as she did everything but run to the mace section of the store.

Luke followed behind her, of course they went into different isles, but I have no doubt, Luke will magically end up close to Laura as he looks for his weapon." Well, all we can do now is find your weapon! Come on, let's go!" With that, we all ended up in the Northeastern side of the shop, I was going over the weapons looking to see if anything stuck out to me... So far... No luck... It didn't help that Ashley and Lucy had to go and try the weapons they found to see if they really were right for them... Yeah...

If it "feels" right... I mean, I've been using staves since I learned I was a Mage! What am I supposed to do now that I magically am going to be taught a Martial Art? How does something "feel right?" exactly!?" Ahh..." I release a small sigh as I put back a purple rapier as I realized none of the items I've tried have felt right to me... I mean, what would even feel "right to me" in the first place?" What am I going to do?"" Why don't you try this?"" AH!"" Sorry, I didn't mean to scare you, little girl...

"Jai" is what your friends called you before, right?"" It's a nickname, my full name is Jaime."" Well, Jai. I can see that you're having issues, so I thought you might want to try this!" I was startled by Barb, the Shop Owner, sneaking up on my right side. I didn't even see her approaching me. She quickly reached into her pocket and took out 2 gloves from it." Gloves?"" Not just any gloves! They're a special kind of glove! They're 1 of a kind! Here! Try them on!"" Uhm... Okay..."

I was handed the gloves; they were lightweight and looked to be made of cloth... No, it's not cloth! It's strong... Like, barely moving as I try to stretch the material as I put my hands in them. It's some kind of metal." What the?"" I knew you'd be able to do it! I could feel your mana as soon as you entered My Shop!"" What?" She's confusing me a lot..." Ah, sorry, these gloves are special, I call them Mage Gloves!

Basically, they're made from a special alloy mixture with different Magical Metals along with a few special things that I added. However, there was a problem, no one could use it when I tried to test them. Except for you! Okay! Now that you have them equipped, point them away from yourself and me, then, imagine some kind of weapon."" Ah... Okay!" / ZHING! / I turned around and did what she asked. For some reason, I thought about claws, like from that one superhero from the movies. And...

They appeared from the gloves. They came shooting out of the back of my hands. Strange... The gloves formed the claws, so now my hands weren't protected... However, it was like I had a pair of claws coming out of me still. They were grey and they were glowing as well. I could tell that they were made out of my mana... No, not just my mana, I could see particles inside the claws... That must be the metal from the gloves." Huh? That's not a sword?"" Oh, sorry, I'll try that now!"" Wait! Before you do!

Try thinking about your favorite Magical Element to use as you do!"" Uhm... Okay?" I have an affinity for Water and Earth Magic, for this specific request, I thought about Water Magic. / ZHING! / And like that, a sword appeared in my hand, and it had a blue hue to it as well. What exactly is going on here?"" Hey! Cut this!"

"?" Swing... / CLACK! / Barb didn't seem like she wanted to answer any of my questions and instead she stuck a sword in front of me. Without thinking, I just did as she asked and cut the blade in half in one swing." Yup! Just like I thought! It works!"" Ms. Barb.."" Please, just call me "Barb", Jai, everyone else does!"" Barb, can you please explain what you just had me do?"" OH! That's right! Sorry! Basically, my Mage Gloves take a person's mana and makes it into a tangible weapon.

Thanks to the Special Alloy I used, the mana gains a physical form together with the metal of the gloves. Along with that, they are able to take on different properties of different Magic. These effects, however, are still a bit of a mystery to me. From what I can tell, it looks like water increases the "sharpness" or "cutting power" of the weapons that are formed."" Hm... Is that so?" / ZHING! / As I focused on Barb, the sword disappeared and instead, the gloves formed back instead. Why though?

I still had a good amount of mana left?" Ah! It looks like a good amount of concentration is needed at the start of using them? Maybe it'll be less of an issue the longer you use them? Oh, this is so interesting! You have to take them and research it for me!" Barb was looking super excited at me. I couldn't blame her, since I could finally understand what something feeling "right" means now, these gloves... They fit like... Well, a glove. And not just that, but I can use my Magical Abilities along with them...

It's almost too perfect! I could feel my smile growing as I made the decision in my mind to use these Mage Gloves. And Barb couldn't help but smile as well as I nodded to her request for me to research these gloves for her. I think with these gloves, I'll really be able to get stronger, not just Magically, but Physically as well.