The Merchant God

Chapter 8: The Patriarch of the Gaidar Family

After Alexander sold the last batch to Merck, he invited the two kids in his room to settle down and called it a day. By morning, he wake the kids up to have some breakfast and instructed Kratos to purchase once again all of the ingredients to the market using all of the money that he previously earned. 

While waiting for the shipment, Alexander decided to call on the system. “show me my status.” And with a ding sound, the status panel appeared.

Name: Alexander F*cking Mcdowell

Age: 16

Money: 0

Power Level: 90(Mortal Rank)

Strength: 12                     Intelligence: 13

Charisma: 11                   Wisdom: 12

Endurance: 10                  Luck: 20

Agility: 12

Skills:

Hide(Mastery)                Tracking(Mastery)

Appraise(Mastery)         Apothecary (Intermediate)

Smithing(Beginner)       Haggle(Beginner)

Titles:

‘The one reincarnated for the 100th time’

‘Sole Survivor’

After checking the panel, he noticed that the apothecary skill change from beginner to intermediate. Upon seeing it, he hover is fingers on the skill “Apothecary(intermediate) – host now is able to brew potions and other concoction faster and easier. As the skill is upgraded to intermediate, level 2 and level 3 brews can now be produce.(Note: Success rate varies from ranker’s current power level)

After reading the description of his upgraded skill, a smile appears on Alexander’s face and suddenly a knock was heard from the front door. Upon opening, he saw a stack of wooden boxes “here’s the delivery for Mr. Alexander.” As he receive the wooden boxes, he carries it all to the kitchen and start to process the ingredients. “hmm… not bad, I have a total of 38 sets of ingredients.” After processing all of the ingredients, he started the concoction for the beast repelling ball.

Just after an hour has past, Alexander made a total of 240 beast repelling balls. He put those in cloth pouches, every cloth pouch contains 20 balls and right now, he has 12 pouches. He still have remaining 14 sets of ingredients, he thinks for a while if he will continue or not and decided to stop for now. He walks out of the kitchen and goes to Merck’s study room to sell 200 pieces of the beast repelling ball. Without anything to say, Merck readily give the money to Alexander. After receiving the money, Alexander left the room and goes out again to the market to shop for new idea.

While all of this are happening, in a certain room of the pill pavilion, a bland voice can be heard with aa hint of disappointment. “almost half of the stock that we purchased to make the apple gel potion has been used and you are telling me that our alchemist was only able to make 40 vials! You can’t be serious right?!” if alexander is here, he would be able to recognize the voice, which belongs to the fatty manager off the pill pavilion. “sir, as per our top alchemist Mr. Lars, the method of making this potion was already lost and what they are doing is simply like trial and error.” The receptionist replied but in his mind he is laughing at the failure of the fatty in front of him. “Tsk… Alright, bring these 40 vials to the ‘Treasure Pavilion’ to have it auctioned so that we can coup with the losses.” the fatty instructed the receptionist and he nodded before taking his leave.

In another place, in a conference like room, a man is sitting on a chair and in front of him are few old and middle-aged men and women sitting across the table. In the corner off the room standing is Levi. “Father! The alchemist are ready for tomorrows demonstration! With this, once we are able to produce this potion, we would be able to face the Paule family head-on in terms of business.” The man sitting at the end of the hall opened his eyes and can see that there is a hint of beast like fierceness. This man that has is the current patriarch of the Gaidar family, Leonardo Gaidar. “mhm… good work Levi. You have nothing to worry about offending the Paule family, if he really able to teach our alchemist the process on how to make it, it will be worth it.” The other members also nodded. “thanks to this brat, our family will not be in stalemate with the Paule family!” the old men laugh. “moving on, regarding on the mysterious girl that injured my son. Any results?” Leonardo asked. “patriarch, base on our Investigation, that mysterious girl is possibly one of. The survivor from that ‘village’ however we only about 70% certain.” One of the middle-aged man reported. “mhm… that’s good enough, I don’t want to gamble the future of our family just because of this incident.” Leonardo replied and look at his son. “don’t worry father! If it’s for the family, I am willing to take this loss.” Levi bows his head sincerely. Leonardo smiled. “good! In Gaidar family, if we have an enemy, we face them head on with no tricks and no regret!!” Suddenly a heavy aura exploded on his body and all of members of the family nodded and smiles like madmen and women.

While all of this are happening, Alexander is roaming around the market to check some herbs that can be use for his new product. “since, I already sold the process to make the apple gel potion, hmm.. Should I make orange gel potion?” he thinks for a moment and decided to try make some to sell at the auction house together with the weapons. “now what was it… 20 grams of lemon grass, 20 grams of clarified honey, 10 grams of thyme, a bottle of spring water, and 20 grams of savory.” Listed the ingredients on his mind and venture to the herb shops to purchase the ingredients.

After some time, alexander was able to procure 25 sets of ingredients and decided to go back straight to Merck’s house and start brewing the potion however before he was able to make his way home, he was blocked by someone. The person is wearing black and purple robe with a black veil. “this woman again.” Alexander frowned as he stare to the woman. “why do you have my young master’s body?” a soft but chilling voice fluttered through the air. “would you believe me if I say that your young master is already dead that is why I am able to use his body?” is what would Alexander would like to answer however, he is feeling a bit of killing intent coming out from the woman hence he didn’t mention it. “I don’t know. When I came to this world, I am already in this weak mortal body.” He plainly replied. “who are you!” the woman asked again. “I am Alexander, Alexander Mcdowell.” The woman was shocked! “no, no, no NO!!! YOU’RE LYING!!!!! THAT’S MY YOUNG MASTER NAME!!!!” the woman shouted. Crazed by the killing intent, she attacked Alexander however this time another voice was heard “Shadow bind!” a shadow like figure suddenly appears and bind the woman to stop the attacked. “girl! My master wants to have a talk with you.” Without waiting for the girl’s reply, the woman was taken by the shadow and disappears.

Alexander was dumbfounded on what had happen and just to ignore this “nope! Nope! I didn’t see or hear anything! I don’t want to have something to do with this BS.” And he makes his way home to start his concoction.