Spending my retirement in a game

chapter 98

Now, she was currently residing at a large, luxurious Inn in Ornier, the capital of the country she started playing in, Litgern. She managed to earn quite a lot of money already through selling artwork off the street and through donations after simple musical performances, so she had no problem with paying for this Inn.

She was lying on her bed with a scrappy guitar that she bought from a random merchant, trying to play a few songs, but it was working out far worse than she had hoped. 𝒻𝑟𝑒𝑒𝑤𝑒𝘣𝑛ℴ𝘷𝑒𝑙.𝒸ℴ𝑚

"This guitar is just horrible! The strings are way too stretched out! Why ain't there any proper instruments in this town?" she yelled out and jumped up from the bed, laying the guitar down behind her.

"Maybe I should visit some shop to have myself some custom ones made." Evalia sighed loudly, grabbing her small backpack and strapping her guitar over her shoulder.

She left her room and locked the door behind herself, stepping down the stairs into the lobby that was already quite busy, despite the early time.

"Good morning, Miss Evalia. Did you have a nice rest?" The young concierge asked her with a smile as he opened the door for her, and she replied with a simple smile.

"Yes I did, thank you very much. Could ya tell me the way to the next art supply store?" Evalia asked before the concierge nodded.

"Of course, Miss Evalia. Simply follow the main street for a few minutes until you get to see a clothing store called 'Mister and Mistress', and then turn right. It should be on your left side if you keep walking for a few more minutes." He explained, and Evalia listened closely.

"Gotcha! Thanks for that, bud!" She said and waved at the concierge while making her way along the route that was described to her. Immediately, she was greeted by a few people in town, mostly young men, that have seen some of her performances before.

With a soft smile, she waved her hand at them and continued walking. It's actually been a while that she's been able to freely move around like this, and even though there were still people that knew her inside this game, it was only to the extent of recognizing someone from your neighborhood and greeting them, instead of hordes of fans running up to you and trying to get pictures and autographs. This was a nice feeling! Although it might change again once the regular playerbase was allowed to join the game.

There already were a few of those 'Omegas' in town now, and some of them apparently recognized her, but luckily they just stayed away.

Soon enough, Evalia entered the art supply store that she could easily find through the concierge's instructions and took a look around. She grabbed a few canvases of different sizes and walked up to the counter and quickly bought them, tying all of the canvases together so that she could carry them more easily.

"Do you need an Easel as well?" the employee asked, seeing that it seemed like Evalia was carrying basically all of her belongings with her, and that she didn't have one such important artistic tool when it came to painting on canvas.

But Evalia shook her head and waved at the employee as she was leaving. "No thank you, I'm fine!" She chuckled as she left the shop and made her way toward the closest town gate, where she would try and find a good spot to paint for a while.

She already checked out the surrounding areas, and the view from that gate was truly beautiful! You could see the giant mountain ranges that shot through the clouds in the distance that seemed like enormous walls, and the forests and rivers below. It was really a perfect scenery to paint.

So, Evalia walked through the large stone gate and looked around to find a nice out-of-the-way spot to start painting. She heard a few of the guards arguing about something, so she thought she would try and listen in to see if there was some kind of quest possibility, but it seemed like they were just arguing about some bees that some old man was carrying with them while entering the town. One of them was saying they shouldn't have let him in, while the other said that they were tamed beasts, so it was alright.

Evalia figured that it was just some random conversation, and she wasn't really interested, so she just moved on to finding a nice spot. And it didn't take too long until she found a nice hill with a good view of everything, that at the same time looked to be somewhat away from the road so that not many people would come and bother her.

She stepped up the Hill and smiled, extending her hand forward as she slowly released mana from her hand as it turned into the shape of an Easel. With a smile, Evalia placed one of the canvases onto the mana easel, before grabbing some of her brushes and placing them into her breast pocket, before pushing out more mana out of her hand that suddenly turned from pure white to a dark grey, while it also seemed to turn into something like a liquid.

Evalia began humming as she dipped one of the first brushes into the liquid above her finger, before slowly moving it over the white canvas.

What Evalia was using right now was her Magic Element, 'Colors of Beauty'. It was really quite useful, since art supplies like paint were some of the most expensive things that one needed as an artist, so having something like this to use instead was definitely perfect, and helped Evalia save a lot of money. Or rather, it saved a lot of trips to art supply stores.

When used on paintings, it would usually give it some kind of effect, for example accelerating mana or health recovery speed, to a person that looked at the painting for a prolonged period of time.

But you couldn't only use it for regular paintings, as it could also be used as camoflage. Evalia could basically copy what a rock wall looked like, and then apply a layer of her magic element onto herself to make her harder to spot. It only worked when she was holding still, and it needed a certain amount of preparation, but it definitely worked quite well.

This, combined with her momentarily charming and controlling monsters to attack other monsters, she was able to level up relatively easily once she earned this element.

After a while, Evalia was finally finished with her painting of the scenery in front of her, and as she was quite happy with it, she grabbed it once it fully dried, carrying it with her back to town. Another good thing about using her magic element to paint was that it was easily removed from her paint brushes, and didn't need to be washed out. It was easy to do that in this game anyway, but it was still far quicker to be able to simply 'will' the color away.

So, after she went back into town, she decided to bring the painting to the marketplace to see if anyone wanted to buy it so that Evalia could make a little bit more money, because it could never hurt to have even more. She already knew a few people from here that bought some paintings of her before, and she knew that they would definitely pay a good price. But there was one thing that took her attention, a large crowd centered around a single person selling items.

"Come one, come all! Buy one of these items, and you will never regret it! We have potions, purses, weapons, and a multitude of Mana Crystals enchanted with whatever you may need!"