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I (Albus) decided to become a peddler, and for a while I lived between the village of Yak and the neighboring town of Molt, where the adventurers' guild is located.

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I (Albus) decided to become a peddler, and for a while I made a living mainly by doing "a certain job" while traveling back and forth between Yak Village and the neighboring town of Morto, where the Adventurers' Guild is located.

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I am not a peddler, by the way.

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My first business plan.

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I'm going to make 6,000 mana by selling herbs I bought for 30,000 mana for 36,000 mana, which is twice as much as I paid for them at the guild.

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No one buys that many herbs to go on a little quest.

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"I mean, wouldn't it be cheaper to just go to the nearest store and buy them?

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The price was reduced to the same level as the regular price.

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The price was reduced to the same level as the regular price, and at most they could sell 500 mana a day.

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The profit is only about 50 mana.

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It was not a very good business, but it was not enough to earn a living.

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The only one who was happy was the owner of the herb farm, who suddenly received a large amount of money.

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She said, "This is a big relief!

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Thank God, mother!

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The woman was so happy that she and her daughter were hugging each other.

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She was even shedding a few tears.

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I didn't understand why they were so happy.

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I couldn't go and return the goods to them, so I had no choice but to continue selling them at a slim profit.

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Then, as I was sinking as a merchant, I had an accidental flash of inspiration and started a new business, "baggage handler during quests.

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Baggage handler."

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In other words, I would go along on quests with parties that didn't have the "warehouse" skill and help them transport the monsters and materials they had killed.

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Seriously...

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It's no different from when I was a member of the heroic party.

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But after 15 years of doing just that in a party of heroes, it's no exaggeration to say that I'm now a "professional baggage handler!

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I quickly store the defeated monsters in the warehouse while passing through the magic-spewing, sword-wielding members of the party.

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Incidentally, no living creatures are allowed in the "warehouse.

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If a monster had been killed, its mana, or life energy, had been drained, and it was now in a state called a "corpse," it could be stored as an "item.

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Normally, when a monster was defeated, it would be dismantled on the spot and only the necessary parts would be cut out.

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With the "Warehouse" skill, this process is no longer necessary.

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Immediately after a monster is defeated. Only the mana from the monster is sealed in the sealing stone.

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After that, the corpse is stored in the "warehouse.

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Then, after moving to a safe place, it is taken out again and dismantled all at once.

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This is a technique that is often used with small monsters.

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But it was a method not often heard of with medium-sized or larger monsters.

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Ryan's party routinely did this on every quest...

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Apparently, the capacity of my "warehouse" was somewhat larger than normal.

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A normal "warehouse" would be limited to holding four or five medium-sized monsters when empty, but my "warehouse" could easily hold 20.

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When I sold this to my clients, even parties with "warehouse" skills asked me to be their "luggage bearer.

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I started to get regular customers, and I was able to make ends meet with this job for now.

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I was able to make ends meet with this job for the time being, but I thought, "I'm not a merchant at all, I'm just a baggage handler..."

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Today's "baggage handler" reward: 1,000 mana.

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Then, looking at the 150 mana (cost: 135 mana, profit: 15 mana) I earned from today's sale of medicinal herbs, I let out a grand sigh.

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I let out a huge sigh.

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My main job had become a baggage handler.

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After all, already. I'm a professional baggage handler.

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The road to becoming a big merchant still seems to be a long way off.

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