Hearing the name of the shopkeeper, Arthur was intrigued.
"Melcher is an old Adventurer too." Fredric informed thinking that Arthur didn't know.
"I see… its good that we have more strong people. We'll need as many as we can gather." Arthur nodded his head.
"The entirety of the Adventurer's Guild will be helping as well." Caleb chimed in.
"Of course." Fredric agreed.
By the time Arthur was done talking to the two, Alchemist Lugan had already returned.
"Here it is," The old man presented a box to Arthur.
Upon opening it, Arthur saw four balls inside it. Each of the balls was grey in color and was about the size of an orange. At the top of the ball, one could see a thick bulge that looked like a candle head.
To this a wick was attached that was nearly ten inches long!
"Isn't that… a little too long?" Arthur was surprised by the wick's length.
"I've kept it long to adjust the explosion time. You can cut the wick if you wish to reduce the time. Every inch that you cut will reduce the fuse time by 3 minutes.
If you keep the entire wick, the explosion will be triggered in 30 minutes." Alchemist Lugan explained.
Hearing that, Arthur was pleased.
"This is good. It'll give me plenty of time to escape." Arthur replied. 'They'll be more than enough too. I might even be able to keep the extras.' He thought.
>Player Arzhur has obtained Mid quality Incendiary Bomb! X 4Player Arzhur has obtained a Signal Flare!Player Arzhur has killed a Bone Blade Beast!Player Arzhur has obtained 1% Experience<
"Sure enough, the experience gain has fallen too." Arthur said as he looked at the notification.
He didn't mind it though as he knew he'll probably be getting a lot more later.
"Brambles, you kill all the foes that we come across now. It won't give me that many benefits." Arthur stated.
"KRRR!" Brambles was up for it and seemed excited too.
Since Arthur's Level was now at 18, the experience he gained from the Bone Blade beasts wasn't as good as before. Thus rather than him killing and getting a small amount of Experience, it made a lot more sense for Brambles to get it.
That way, the beetle would be able to level up faster too.
And sure enough, just an hour later, they had killed enough Bone Blade beasts that Brambles was already half way to the next level!
Along the way, Arthur hadn't been looting the beasts though as he didn't want to spend extra time on that. Plus, the extra loot he got from that would slow him down anyways.
'I'll always have time later, I suppose.' Arthur thought to himself.
By now, the duo of Master and Beast had reached the middle area of the Trunel Woods. This was about the same depth Arthur had come to find the Black Root Hemlock before.