Shattered Lands: A LitRPG Series by Darren Pillsbury

Author:Darren Pillsbury [Pillsbury, Darren]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fantasy
ISBN: 9781940989181
Published: 2017-08-24T06:00:00+00:00

New Skill: Bargaining

This skill increases your ability to bargain with NPCs and thus expend less of your monetary resources.

Points Awarded: +1

Effect: Every point increases 1% ability to bargain, plus 1% for each point of Persuasion skill level.

Hmm…

“I have more,” the frog said, splaying his webbed fingers over his merchandise.

“Maybe later,” Eric said, and moved off through the market.

Now how do I absorb the mana? he wondered, then decided, If learning the Demonomicon was so easy, then this shouldn’t be that hard. It IS a game, after all.

He closed his eyes, clutched the crystal in his palm, and relaxed –

Suddenly he felt a coldness enter his veins like a drug administered through an I.V. tube. Within seconds he felt energized, pumped up, alive.

He opened his eyes and looked down at the crystal. The black shape no longer swirled in its crystalline prison, and there was no text box hovering over it anymore.

He moved his wrist in the air and checked his stats.

He was still regenerating his mana from having summoned the spectral demon a few minutes ago – but his overall total had increased to 130. 100 to start with, 5 for leveling up earlier with Cythera, and 25 from the crystal.

He smiled, and one single thought formed in his mind:

I want MORE.

He discarded the crystal and made his way quickly through the market, finding objects with the highest mana ratings and trying to bargain the shopkeepers down as much as he could. Within ten minutes he had exhausted all his gold coins, so he switched to paying with diamonds and emeralds and purchasing as many objects at one time as he could.

That turned out to be the right approach. His shopping spree in the market sparked a lot of interest and started something of a bidding war amongst the shopkeepers. They began calling to him from nearby booths, promising a far better deal than whoever he was talking to.

In addition, the more he bargained, the more his skill level went up – and the easier it was to get more for less.

Thirty minutes later he had used up all his money and gone through a pile of mystical objects, but he’d increased his mana to 735. He had no idea how high it could go, but 735 wasn’t bad considering he’d received just 5 points for learning how to summon demons. Plus he’d basically gotten the other 625 points for free. After all, the coins and jewels had all been stolen.

And I still have more…

He thought about going back for the rest of the purse’s contents.

No, I can’t do that to Daniel. He really wants to do the quest, and we need the rest to pay for everything.

Reluctantly he set off for Cythera’s to learn the basics of maging.

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