Chapter 91
Ch 91 -- Oh Lord How More Money Rolls In
At the warehouse door Johan-ojisan was waiting as usual . I wondered idly if he lived there, I'd never seen him anywhere else even within the Guild . We went inside after the Guild Master explained to him that we had dealt with the Wyverns and the Guild was purchasing the materials from the monsters .
"Can you take out just one Wyvern out for now?" the old man asked . I did as he requested and the two of them examined the beheaded Wyvern carefully .
"There's not much damage . " Johan-ojisan declared . "Huhu, I'm gonna get a lot of good materials outta it . " The old man grinned . "13 Wyverns in all, you say? Are the other 12 like this one?" I nodded and his grin broadened .
"Ummm, thirteen of them, that's maybe too many . . . " The Guild Master said to Johan-ojisan, looking at the giant body of the Wyvern . It was really very large, a true monster and I'd not even brought out its head -- well, they were all jumbled up in my Item Box, I wasn't sure which head went with which body .
"Yeah, if we took all of them in one go they'd not all fit in here . " Johan-ojisan confirmed, looking around . The warehouse was pretty big but twelve more Wyverns were going to fill it right up and then some .
"I guess you're right . In that case can you disassemble them in two batches?" The Guild Master inquired .
"That's the only way I can do it, Guild Master . " He thought for a moment . "I can start with seven of them and then once I'm finished with that lot I can deal with the rest . " Johan-ojisan turned to me . "You okay with that, sonny?"
"You're wanting to disassemble them in two batches, is that right? Fine by me . " I agreed . Leave it to the expert .
"Now that's settled . . . You're wholesaling all the Wyvern's materials to us?" The Guild Master asked .
"Well, you can have everything else but I'll hold on to the meat . "
"That's fine . Selling the materials from so many Wyverns is going to be very profitable for us . There's always a demand for such items . "Almost all of an S-rank Wyvern's materials are valuable, the Guild Master explained . Not only the meat but also the skin, the fangs, the poison sacs and poison needles are much sought after . There's also a mana stone in such high-ranking monsters, of course . Even without including the meat the materials from thirteen such creatures will sell for a lot .
"The disassembly of all 13 monsters is going to be free of charge for me, right?" I asked . The Guild Master nodded in agreement and I thought for a moment . Right now I've got plenty of money and it's not going to cost me anything for the disassembly so . . .
"Can I change my mind? I'll wholesale the other materials, the fangs, poison sacs and poison needles from all thirteen monsters but can I hang on to the skins and magic stones from five of them?"
"Yes, that's fine . " The Guild Master agreed . "Actually it's a bit of a relief if you want to hold on to those materials . We're running low on cash to pay you until we get paid for the other materials you've brought us . " He shrugged . "Purchasing the materials from the Wyverns, even without the meat will cost us more than 2,500 gold coins . "
More than 2,500 gold coins . . . ? I can understand why they're running out of ready cash . . . I'm going to buy myself a bath . Will that cost more than 2,500 gold coins? I don't care . I'm going to buy myself a bath . I expected the Guild would pay me in large gold coins given the amount but that didn't matter . Bath store, here I come .
"As S-ranked monsters," The Guild Master explained . "All the materials from Wyverns are exceptionally high quality, especially the skin and the mana stone . " It seems the Wyvern skin is highly resistant to magic, thin, durable and light so it is often made into cloaks although the price tag for such a cloak would make your eyes pop out . The mana stones are very large and don't appear on the market very often . "Thanks to your good self this branch of the Guild is earning its highest-ever profit since it was founded," the Guild Master said with some satisfaction, "but purchasing all the materials from 13 Wyverns in one deal would be difficult for us . You should take the remaining skins and magic stones to the Guild of another city and sell them there . "
Oh, other cities have Adventurers Guilds too? Well, of course they do . I could hold on to those items and sell them later at another Guild . Saying that I had more than enough money as it stands . Maybe I could get a cloak made for myself instead . The only outfits I've got are just regular clothing, nothing special . Since it's leather maybe I could ask Lambert-san whether he could make me a Wyvern-skin cloak . Even if he couldn't do it himself he should know someone who could .
"Hey, can you give us six more Wyverns to start with?" Johan-ojisan interjected . "Guild Master, it's gonna take me three days to get through this first lot . Oh, and I'm gonna need the Guild's Mithril knife for this job . "
"You're right, Johan . " the Guild Master replied as I pulled out six more Wyverns from my Item Box . "It's been a while since I handed out the Mithril knife . " Monsters like Wyverns with resistance to magic can't be dismantled without using a Mithril knife . It seems that because it's such a valuable item the Guild Master keeps it under lock and key until it's needed . Without such a knife disassembling the Wyverns would be impossible .
That reminded me about the Mithril Lizard which was still in my Item Box . "Umm, Guild Master, I will give you the Mithril Lizard now if that's OK? The attack of the Wyverns stopped me handing it over earlier . "
"Oh yes, that's right . I almost forgot about it . " The Guild Master looked embarrassed . "I paid you a lot of money for it, if I didn't get it from you that would be a real problem, ha ha ha . "I pulled out the Mithril Lizard from my Item Box . The Guild master and Johan-ojisan both admired the creature .
"No matter how many times I see it, it's wonderful . " The Guild Master said reverently . "Yeah . " Johan-ojisan agreed, transfixed by the monster's gleaming skin .
"Right then, I'll come back in three days and hand over the rest of the Wyverns then . " I said, impatient to go back to the inn .
"Yeah, I'll be ready for them . " Johan-ojisan said, tearing his eyes from the Mithril Lizard's body .
"You truly saved our lives today, Mukouda-sama, and we are in your debt . " the Guild Master said, clapping me hard on my shoulder . He may have been an old man long retired from adventuring but he remained strong and the blow hurt . I tried not to grimace . "If there is ever anything we can do for you don't hesitate to ask . "
Right then, I said telepathically to Fer and Sui, let's go back to the inn . We got more money today so I'm going to the bath store tomorrow and look at some baths and then if I see one I like then I'm going to buy myself a bath .
