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TBE Chapter 8
🕑 Added 2025-01-17 07:38:03 +0000 UTCChapter 8
While Ezekiel was preparing the pieces of cut-up cloth that he would use to store the jelly gummy candy that he bought from his system’s shopping site, he thought about this world that he came into. He hadn’t seen any evidence that this world had any magic aside from his since normally in any sort of transmigration novels, the protagonists would have seen goblins and orcs by now. He also went to the village market and even though Eagle Village was called a village, it was as huge as any town even to Earth’s standard and he hadn’t seen any magic there as well.
His brother didn’t know even know what goblins or elves were but they did know what a wizard was. Given, that he had only been in this world for less than 24 hours he couldn’t come to any conclusions yet and he shouldn’t but to be honest about it, Ezekiel didn’t know if he wanted this world to be a magical world since if it were a world filled with magic, it meant that it would also be filled with danger. Not that he wanted his magic or his system gone since if they disappeared, this world was going to be really stale.
Once everything was ready, Ezekiel and his two brothers traveled to the market again. When they neared the village proper, Ezekiel and his two siblings hid somewhere where they couldn’t be seen casually. Then he immediately retrieved the boar and the wooden board and put the boar on top of the board. The three siblings then proceeded to drag boar using the board toward the market and soon everyone noticed them and the board they were dragging. Some of the villager children followed them and kept asking how they killed the boar and Robert kept boasting that his brother killed it using magic.
Ezekiel didn’t mind since what Robert said sounded just like some nonsense boasting by a child and he was sure that nobody would really believe it. When they arrived at the butcher’s Ezekiel was tired and full of sweat.
When the butcher saw the boar, the burly man was very surprised.
“How did you kill that, Boy?!”
“My name is Zeke and I used traps to kill it of course.”
“I wouldn’t quibble with you since you know what you’re doing now. I’ll purchase it for 50 coppers, is that fine?” The butcher asked and Zeke nodded.
After receiving the copper coins, Ezekiel surreptitiously stored them in his 4th tab which was his inventory. The price of the boar was equal to a 1st level spell so that meant that he could now purchase the spell Healing Elixir.
The siblings then went to the candy store and the candy shop owner invited Ezekiel to go to the back of the store while his two brothers would remain in the shop looking at the candies. The owner asked his assistant to look after the shop but before Ezekiel went to the back he noticed the candy that he sold to the man yesterday. The candy shop seller was selling the jelly gummy candies as “Heavenly Jewel Candies” according to one of the customers and he was selling it for 1 copper per four pieces and half only sixteen pieces were left.
Ezekiel knew that he should soon attend to one of the most important things that he should know, which was the ability to read the language of this world.
Ezekiel didn’t mind since that was just how business works.
In the back of the store, Ezekiel laid out the 6 packs of candies that he retrieved earlier from the 4th tab of his browser, and the candy seller was happy to see that the cloth that was used to pack the candies was very clean.
Ezekiel saw that the candy seller was delighted that the glistening candies had different colors this time. One of the packs was red, one was blue, one was green, and so on.
The man immediately took the candies and hid them then gave 48 copper coins to Ezekiel.
“How soon can you supply me with another batch?” The candy seller asked.
“I’m already in the process of making them deep in the forest. It was hidden and I’m the only one who knows where they were. After 5 days, I should be able to supply you with 700 pcs.”
The candy seller laughed when he heard Ezekiel’s statement regarding the cooking of the candies being hidden deep inside the forest.
“You don’t need to worry, I will not steal your candy recipe. When I was young, my father tried doing something like that and it ended in disaster. I heard that you also brought a boar to the butcher. Why do you suddenly want to earn a lot of coins?”
“Look at me and my brothers. We’re severely malnourished and nobody seemed to be interested in helping us so I decided to work hard to make sure that me and my brothers would be healthy,” Ezekiel calmly said.
The candy seller blushed when he heard what Ezekiel had said about nobody helping them.
After their transaction ended he gathered his brothers who were looking at candies so they could go home.
“Brother I saw the most wonderful candies! One of the other kids said they’re called Heavenly Angel candy! They looked really pretty and delicious,” Robert said.
“That candy was conjured by me. I sold it to the candy seller so we could have more coins. I’ll give some later when we arrive home.”
Robert cheered when he heard that and Luke cheered as well even though he didn’t know why his older brother was cheering.
At least there were no bullies on the way home this time. Ezekiel was a bit surprised though since he thought that those bullies would pester them every time they went to the village.
When they arrived home, it was still early, around three in the afternoon. He gave the two boys a couple of slices of bread and a cup of milk each and he also prepared a couple of slices of bread for himself and a cup of milk. Of course, Ezekiel used his Prestidigitation spell to make sure that the food tasted good. He made sure that the two slices of bread tasted like chocolate donuts and the milk would taste like Strawberry milk. There were only six slices of bread left and about a quarter of milk in the 1-liter carton. After their snack, the two boys played near their small house and Ezekiel sat just outside to watch them but what he was doing was he was looking at his system browser.
Ezekiel was looking at the Wizard Spell List DnD 5th Edition and was still hesitating about which first-level spell he could purchase. A 1st level spell would cost him 100 copper coins. He mistakenly remembered it being 50 copper coins. It was the cantrips who were priced at 50 copper coins. If he purchased a 1st level spell, he would have 0 copper coins left so he decided to review the list of cantrips again. There were a lot of useful cantrips that he could purchase but he decided to save his coins first since he really wanted to purchase Healing Elixir first.
Suddenly Robert and Luke ran towards him.
“Brother, you said you’ll give us jewel candies!” Robert said so Ezekiel spent a copper coin to purchase another pack of gummy candies.
Robert and Luke’s eyes grew wide when they saw the pack of gummy candies.
“Wow, you have a lot!”
“I’ll only give you three candies each since this is bad for your teeth.”
After he gave the candies to the boys, they ran off again to play but they were still in view. Ezekiel went back to reading the spell list. When he was done perusing the spell list, Ezekiel turned his attention to the shopping site. Now he would need to create a list of what he would need to buy to make their life easier.
He would need to buy some toiletries so he bought 3 small toothbrushes, a small tube of toothpaste, and a dental floss for 1 copper coin. For another copper coin, he bought a liter of liquid body wash and 3 washcloths. For another coin, he bought a large plastic basket where he could put their toiletries and three thin bath towels. Ezekiel was glad that all the things that he purchased fit inside the plastic basked that he bought.
“Robert, Luke! Come here, we're going to the river to take a bath!”
The boys ran toward him and when they saw the plastic basket, the young boys were fascinated.
Ezekiel remembered that plastic was probably non-existent in this world.
“What is that?” Robert asked.
Ezekiel opened the plastic basket and showed his siblings the things he purchased.
“I conjured them using my magic and we’ll use it while we bathe.”
The three siblings went to the river which was around a thirty-minute walk from their house. When they arrived there, there were no other people. The first thing that Ezekiel taught them was how to use the toothbrushes and toothpaste reiterating that they shouldn’t eat the bubbles. For the most part, his two young siblings learned how to do it. Then they all removed their clothes. Besides, all of them, even Ezekiel who was supposed to be 14 years old looked tiny so they all looked very young.
He taught them how to use the liquid soap with the washcloth to create a lather and then use the cloth to remove all the dirt from their bodies. The kids enjoyed the bubbles that were formed all over their bodies and after they were done, they dressed themselves in clothes that were cleaned by Ezekiel using the Prestidigitation spell.
