Spending my retirement in a game

chapter 68

As Caria couldn't do a lot of damage, she also didn't get a lot of experience, but at the very least it was enough to have her rank up before they reached Melroe again. To be fair, Eisen went out of his way to look for monsters when he saw that Caria was getting closer to ranking up.

When she did, Caria turned into Myconid Child, doubling her size. On top of that, she even finally gained two arms! They were just small stubs, but it was better than no arms at all, right?

Seeing her new tranformation, Caria looked up at Eisen with her dot-like eyes happily and jumped at him, for once giving him a real hug.

"It's fine, Caria, I'm happy about it too, trust me. Now, how about we get back to the Inn and see if we can practice some mana manipulation later, alright? If I can do it, then I bet you can as well!" Eisen laughed out loud and waved at Aulu to make her follow him as they came closer and closer to Melroe while sitting Caria down on his shoulder.

It was somewhere around early evening, and the last of the laborers that were working outside of town were now returning as well.

Eisen walked through the crowds of people that wanted to meet up in order to go drinking after a long day at work, and made his way toward the Inn. It took a while longer than it usually would, since Aulu didn't know how to walk through crowds like this yet and simply walked straight ahead so that she simply pushed everyone aside if Eisen didn't specifically told her where to go.

Even so, after a while they made it to the Inn safely. Eisen walked through the front door and then stepped up in front of the front desk to talk to the Innkeeper.

"Oh, old man! Haven't seen ya in a few days! Where've ya been?" The Dwarf asked in a loud voice once he set eyes on Eisen, causing the old man to chuckle lowly.

"Yeah, I was doing something a little out of town. Say, are Bree and the beasts we came with last time here?" Eisen asked.

"They're in their room. Ah, that Monkey kid woke up as well yesterday, so he should be in there too." The Innkeeper explained, and Eisen thanked him before making his way to the large room on the bottom floor where him and Bree brought Jyuuk and his beasts a few days prior.

He knocked on the door and heard someone rush to the door that slowly opened up a few seconds later. "Yees~?" Bree asked with an already bright smile that only grew brighter when she saw that it was Eisen at the door. "Ah! You're back! How was it?!" She asked excitedly and pulled Eisen inside of the room to talk to him.

Inside was the other person that the Innkeeper mentioned to be awake, Jyuuk. He was currently seated on one of the beds, feeding his beasts. When he saw Eisen, he immediately stood up and walked up to him. "Eisen! Bree told me you were on top of some mountain! Come on, tell us how it went! And... what are those two?" Jyuuk asked slightly confused, and even Bree looked curiously at Aulu.

"Ah, let me explain. First off, this is my cute little girl Caria! She's a Myconid! She actually hatched out of the egg that you gave me." Eisen explained.

"So that was a Myconid egg? Interesting!" The Monkey Beastperson exclaimed and leaned in closer, which made Caria try and hide behind Eisen's head somehow. Bree tilted her head, though, and asked, "But she seems a little bit bigger than before, right?"

"Yeah! She ranked up not too long ago. On my way down the mountain, I killed a few beasts and had her attack them as well so that she would get some experience to rank up. She grew in size and got arms, but other than that, she's the same as before." Eisen explained and held Caria forward on both of his hands to basically show her off. Both Jyuuk and Bree looked at her a few seconds, until their gaze inevitably moved over to Aulu.

Eisen then told them about the tests that he got from Ailren, and how he created Aulu as an automaton in order to use all of his most important skills. He then showed them the effect of his new skill as well so that they knew what it looked like.

After he finished his story, Jyuuk leaned back against the wall. "Oh? Maybe I should go see that Dragon as well..."

But Eisen shook his head to advice against it. "I wouldn't, if I were you. First, I don't even know if you can simply go to a dragon and ask him to test you. If one of them thinks you're worthy, then they will approach you themselves. Also, I'm not too sure how well the Truth Seeing Eye would fit to you. Sure, you could probably use it to identify different monsters and plants, right? But maybe another dragon would find interest in you that can give you a gift that fits much better to you. For me, it's perfect. It let's me easily identify different properties of tools, weapons and materials. I can tell most of it myself, but I can't really do so with magical materials. Maybe I'll be able to see the flow of magic at some point or something, and considering my two magic related crafting skills, that would be perfect. Well, it's your choice, but I would wait for a dragon to ask you to take the tests. I'm sure it will happen, don't worry."

Eisen explained to Jyuuk, and he ended up sighing loudly. "Yes, that makes sense. So, Eisen, what do you want to do next?" The Beastperson asked, and Eisen chose to tell them his plans.