Green Monster Epic

Chapter 258: Caution is Always Best (First Update, 4000 words)

The next day, after accepting Kaia's suggestion, Allen finally doubled the price of all food items. As for the buns, he completely followed Kaia's advice and directly announced a high price of 25 copper coins.

Initially, Allen's confidence in setting the price was truly lacking, especially under the complaints of those returning customers who had enjoyed the delicious food yesterday and came to buy again today. Allen seemed very guilty. However, despite the complaints, those who were willing to spend money to buy buns and dumplings to enjoy the delicious taste did not hesitate. Fearing that the limited supply of meat buns would be bought up by others, they almost swarmed and snatched them up. Allen's meat buns, which he had prepared early in the morning, were sold out within half an hour.

With the meat buns as a foundation, Allen's confidence grew. At this time, he was no longer so hesitant and lacked confidence when setting prices. Soon, a group of people was squatting and standing around his stall again. Allen sold out all his pasta in just one hour later than yesterday.

Finally, after a unified calculation, as expected, the profit after the price increase was enough to satisfy Allen. If he could guarantee an income of 2 gold coins a day, with a net profit of one and a half gold coins, then this business would be worth doing.

Mansa City is very large, and Oak Avenue, where Allen is located, is not the most prosperous commercial street. On the contrary, it appears somewhat desolate because the temple requires a solemn and steady atmosphere. But even so, Allen's pasta stall can still earn so much in a day, which is already considered good.

According to Allen's estimation, even if he opened 6-7 more pasta stalls in the four districts of Mansa City, east, west, south, and north, across dozens of streets, the business would probably be very good. After all, the taste of the people in Mansa City, in Allen's observation over the past two days, doesn't seem to be much different from that of their Greenwood Tribe.

Allen had even begun to envision the further development direction of the pasta stalls, just like the scene in his dream: directly renting a spacious room, setting up a dozen tables and chairs, so that customers could have a better dining environment, and the chefs could have a more spacious operating space. The daily production of pasta would definitely be much higher than it is now.

Allen has already taught the pasta-making skills of the tribe to the females like Camellia. After returning, he can cultivate another batch of gnomes and let them specialize in making a certain kind of pasta, and then send them to Mansa City. In this way, the biggest problem that has been troubling Allen will be easily solved!

The Greenwood Plain is too barren and closed off. Even though Allen now has two inheritance crystals related to magic potions, after he has searched through the contents of these crystals, he has not yet found a way to quickly obtain a source of funds for the Greenwood Tribe. Whether the magic potion cultivation will be successful and what the output will be all need Allen to return to Greenwood and verify step by step. But even the Red Sun Grass, which Allen is most optimistic about, takes at least 3-4 years from seed planting to rooting and sprouting, and finally to maturity to become a magic potion material.

Such a long time to cultivate, and there are too many uncontrollable factors in the meantime, so Allen is no longer as optimistic about magic potion cultivation as he was at the beginning. With the strength of their tribe, I am afraid that they may not be able to make much progress in magic potion cultivation for at least ten years.

Without money, the Greenwood Tribe can only rely on stupid methods to improve their strength: one is to let the tribesmen constantly reproduce offspring, or to go to farther places to annex goblin tribes; the other is to excavate the newly discovered pyrite mine and create a set of fine steel armor for the tribesmen to improve their combat power.

However, after seeing the capable strength of the guards in Mansa City, Allen was full of doubts about the combat power of his tribe's people.

Of course, Allen didn't know that the city guards stationed in Mansa City were all elite warriors selected from more than a hundred member tribes, and at least they were all advanced existences, which was naturally not comparable to his small tribe with only 3 advanced warriors.

Fortunately, Allen now has an Inheritance Crystal of the Berserker, which means that it can help the Greenwood Tribe to tap the potential of the tribesmen as much as possible, so that the advanced ones will no longer be the existence that the tribe looks up to.

One Inheritance Crystal of the Berserker is naturally not enough, especially after Allen has seen the great effect of the Inheritance Crystal, he hopes that the tribe can have more Inheritance Crystals.

If there are sufficient funds, Allen can buy ordinary Inheritance Crystals from large chambers of commerce such as the Oak Chamber of Commerce, or organizations such as the Oak Temple. Allen has inquired that the value of an Inheritance Crystal is about 5000-8000 gold coins. Although it cannot be said to be out of reach for Allen now, it is completely impossible for Allen to devote himself to the adventurer industry to make money.

After investing too much effort and energy in the Greenwood Tribe, the existence of the tribe has become a deep bond for Allen, and even Allen himself has not noticed it.

Watching the tribe grow and develop little by little in his hands, and then undergo a earth-shaking transformation, that sense of accomplishment even surpasses the joy and satisfaction brought by Allen's own strength improvement.

In the next ten days, Allen devoted all his energy to the pasta stall. The signboard of 'Allen's Pasta' also gained some fame in the southeast corner of Mansa City. And these ten days of hard work brought Allen the gold coins in his wallet that gradually bulged up again, earning a full 30 gold coins.

"Allen, why don't you just not go back to your tribe and just stay in Mansa City! !"

Alba, who was eating a hot meat bun, was already a regular customer of Allen's pasta stall. Every time he came, he had to eliminate 1/4 of the ingredients Allen prepared that day to satisfy his own needs.

"Alas, how can I never get tired of eating this meat bun! !"

"Heh heh heh, Captain Alba is right, Allen, you should honestly run your pasta stall!"

Richard took on a mission some time ago, and after just returning, he heard that Allen had started setting up a stall to sell pasta. Today was not his first time coming to patronize Allen's business. After hearing Alba's remarks, he also jokingly echoed. Who would have thought that a bear goblin who was full of fighting spirit and murderous intent in the fight is now dyed gray-white by oatmeal flour all day long. This contrast still makes Richard feel interesting.

"Yes, I think so too."

A head popped out from between the cutting boards of the flatbed cart, and it was Reder who was holding a bowl of fried sauce noodles, gobbling them down.

"Don't worry, in the future, your Mansa City will definitely not be without my 'Allen's Pasta' signboard."

Allen proudly patted the tall, fluttering banner beside him and said with full confidence.

Richard looked at the serious expression on Allen's face, hesitating to speak.

"I'm treating you to this meal today. You can eat as much as you want. After you're done eating, accompany me to do something."

Suddenly, Allen saw that Alba and Richard had almost finished eating, and brought up something.

"Haha, for your words, I won't be polite."

As soon as Alba heard Allen's words, he unceremoniously loosened the leather bag around his waist, ready to go all out.

The food Allen made was delicious, but the price was not cheap. Alba's salary as a big eater was not low, but he couldn't stand his own gluttony. Every time he wanted to satisfy his cravings, he could only make a plan first, how much money to eat today so that he wouldn't go hungry in the days to come.

"Well, it's rare for you, Allen, not to charge money, I have to eat more."

Richard's appetite was naturally not comparable to Alba's, but after a good sorting out, he could still eat a few more bowls of dumplings.

Richard actually knew what Allen wanted him to help with, because he was also one of the parties involved.

Allen had stayed in Mansha City for more than a month, just to wait for Levi's armorers to produce that batch of leather armor, right? Counting the days, it seemed that the date Allen agreed with Levi had already arrived two days ago.

The reason why Allen didn't keep the appointment was that the eyes and ears around him hadn't disappeared until now, which made Allen feel very insecure.

Mansha City was full of hidden dragons and crouching tigers, and Allen didn't think that he could completely protect himself with his own strength, especially after discovering that the other party could even mobilize the official energy, Allen didn't dare to leave the sphere of influence of the temple. This was also the reason why Allen had only been setting up a stall near Oak Avenue to sell pasta these days.

If Richard and Alba hadn't arrived at the same time today, Allen would have asked Kaiya to invite Alba and Richard over to accompany him to Levi's armorer's house.

It's just a pity that Kaiya was still here yesterday to help him with work, eating and drinking for free, but she didn't show up today, and I don't know what she's doing.

"Redel, come with us!"

Allen looked down on Redel, his goblin compatriot. This guy might be able to enjoy the good life, but he was definitely not the type to endure hardship together.

When Allen's business had just started and he was not yet adapted, and he was busy all day long, Redel was hiding far away in the temple, ostensibly to entertain the believers, but in reality, he just didn't want to be dragged by Allen to work as a coolie; but as soon as it was time for Allen's pasta stall to close, this guy would definitely appear, because he knew that most of the pasta had been sold out at this time, and the customers were no longer as tight as they were at the beginning, so he could help Allen and get a bowl of pasta to eat.

There was still some pasta left, most of which had been wiped out by Alba. Allen decided to simply close the stall, and the rest would be used as today's dinner after Alba and the others helped him back.

"Ah, do I have to go too?"

Redel was just about to wipe the grease from the corner of his mouth and slip away when he was stopped by Allen, and he hesitated a little.

"I'm just asking you to accompany me to a place and bring some things back."

If it weren't for the fact that the other party was a registered priest of the Oak Temple, Allen really wouldn't want to have too much interaction with this compatriot. Regardless of who the master lurking in the dark was, now Allen had Alba, the captain of the city guard, Redel, the priest of the Oak Temple, and a mage with strange and mysterious magic as companions, Allen felt relieved about going to Levi's residence in the northeast district this time.

"Oh, okay, no problem!"

Hearing that he didn't have to do any heavy work, Redel finally showed a smile, with an expression of delight.

The group hurried towards the northeast district. Behind them, a shadow walker arranged by Hornatan to follow them, after seeing all of this, muttered, "Coward," and then took out a bamboo tube from his arms and released a tiny flying insect from the tube.

The flying insect cut through the sky and flew towards the inner city. At the same time, the shadow walker quickened his pace, chasing after Allen and the others, and then his figure slowly disappeared into the air, and he went into stealth again.

"Hey, if you didn't come again, I would have taken your good things and run away!"

Levi saw Allen's green face again after a month and two days, and immediately pretended to be greedy.

"Fortunately, my craftsmanship hasn't declined. This time, I made six sets of leather armor for you. Four of them have stimulated the magical energy contained in them, which can effectively defend against poison-based spells below the third level, and also have good defense against other spells. As for physical defense, it can withstand several attacks from ordinary early-stage cultivators, no worse than ordinary chainmail."

"The remaining two sets are not bad either. Although they are not as good as the previous four sets, they also have a certain degree of magical defense, and the physical defense is almost the same as the other four sets. However, one of them was made by me using the scraps of python skin, so it may be much shorter in terms of service life, and the style is not so beautiful, you can take a look for yourself."

Unexpectedly, Kaiya, whom he hadn't seen at his stall before, was now in Levi's wooden house. Looking at her face now, it seemed that she was sulking with Levi. Even after Allen and the others arrived, she just raised her head and gave everyone a perfunctory smile before continuing to lower her head and remain silent.

The leather armor sets that Levi took out looked exactly like exquisitely crafted chainmail at first glance. The unique patterns of snake scales were like carefully polished iron pieces, overlapping to form the body of the leather armor. Allen couldn't even find the seams of the leather armor for a while, as if this set of leather armor was born that way.

When Allen told Levi the size of the leather armor, except for one set that was based on his current body shape, the rest were made with his body outline enlarged by two sizes, and now he could tell these sets at a glance. However, one of the leather armor sets had mottled patterns, and the style of the leather armor seemed to be different from Allen and the others' body shapes. Although Allen was strange, he was busy trying on the python armor made for himself, so he didn't care, anyway, there would be time to ask and understand later.

The leather armor was divided into three parts: upper body armor, lower body armor, and a pair of bracers. However, because Allen had a pair of bracers himself, the leather armor he made for himself did not have bracers.

Therefore, the pair of bracers with intricate metal patterns on Allen's body were very uncoordinated with the set of light green python-patterned leather armor on his body, but for Allen, who had always focused on practicality, these aesthetic aspects were never within his consideration.

In front of Kaiya, a human woman, Allen quickly took off the old leather armor on his body, which had several cracks, and then, under Kaiya's delicate scolding and peeking through two fingers covering her eyes, quickly put on the set of leather armor.

The tailor-made leather armor was different when worn on the body. Allen could feel the leather armor fitting the muscles of his body perfectly, but it didn't feel tight, and it didn't hinder Allen's movements. That kind of comfort was not something Allen could feel in his previous life when he was just making do with some ill-fitting leather armor.

"How is it, my craftsmanship is not bad, right!"

The half-elf Levi rubbed his hand on his smooth chin, admiring Allen's heroic posture after wearing the set of leather armor. Although he had a big bear nose, if you looked closely at Allen's figure, it would be one of the best even among the elves, who had many handsome talents. Allen, who had broken through the limits of the human body, had a symmetrical figure full of the beauty of strength, but it didn't make people feel too muscular.

Kaiya was attracted by Allen's figure, so she couldn't help but peek at him.

"I didn't expect this bear goblin's figure to be so good!"

Kaiya couldn't help but have such a thought in her mind, and then she suddenly reacted and spat several times in her heart, feeling that she had stayed in the wilderness for too long, and even the hairy bear goblin looked good. This was not a good sign!

I really miss my hometown, when will I be considered to have completed my mission and be able to return home!!