My Muscle System in the Mage World

"That bastard still hasn't arrived yet." He looked around at the few people who were still staying at the place with very many people in sight. Aur started to doubt the authenticity of that notebook.

"Are there some variables I am missing?"

However, just then, a man tentatively made his way through the crowd. MVLeMpYr-com-story

His clothes were all dirty and patched up as well as his messy hair. He looked like a beggar.

However, seeing the beggar, Aur's eyes lit up instead.

"Finally, Sebastian is here." He mused, however, still, he was expressionless outside.

However, to Aur's disappointed eyes, Sebastian walked past the shop without a single glance at it.

"Is he really not going to pick?" Aur thought with a frown on his face. Since Sebastian was mortal, it wasn't hard for him to snatch the mana stone from him at all. This was his plan.

However, life never went according to the plan that you expect, even if you have the most genius mind and even knew the future of it.

To his disappointment, Sebastian carried a medium-sized box with him and left the place without even looking at anything.

"Damn it, I haven't barely gotten my pay to eat till my stomach is full, and I didn't even get the bonus from the Steele family because of it…" He cursed while muttering. His eyes seemed to be lost in thought.

"Can I never have a chance to rise?"

Aur's ears twitched as he heard the words from Sebastian, a fleeting figure as he disappeared into the town.

His crimson eyes narrowed to a slit.

"Did he really not choose from here?" He looked back at the purple stones that were on display and gritted his teeth.

"Is this the butterfly effect? Did I do something that changed the future by cutting the salary of his, making him not try his luck? But I am not related to the Steele family in any way. I don't even know them, so…" Aur thought.

The more he contemplated, the more he felt like he was going down a rabbit hole with no conclusion in sight.

Either way, now Aur had only one chance to get what he wanted, which was to painfully spend the mana crystal he had just earned for buying all these useless things that most likely have nothing inside them.

"Hey." Aur called out to the servant who was tentatively looking at him from the door.

"Yes, young lord." The servant said as he hurriedly arrived in front of Aur.

Aur nodded his head and casually looked at all the stones. "I want to buy these." He casually chose twenty of the stones as randomly as he could.

"This…" The servant was stunned.

"Is there something wrong?" Aur asked with a cold glint in his crimson eyes.

"Nothing, nothing." The servant shook her head nervously and took out her tools before slowly starting to scrape the mana stones carefully.

Aur just peered at the stones carefully. These things could only be cut manually, and using machines was an impossible task for it, because of a special trait of the mana stone.

If these mana stones were introduced to active mana near them, they would all be broken almost instantly, melting into the ground, and the treasure it had inside it would also be damaged or even melt with it.

And since almost every device in this world was run by mana.

The result was disastrous, so it was advised to still use this primitive method to open the mana stone.

Just like the woman had already opened five stones already, which were all a dud. She was already breaking out in cold sweat but still kept a calm expression as a business person.

Aur was expressionless as well, although his heart pained from losing his mana crystals he got from the sca-, no, a business deal, but still, it was his precious sweet angels.

Fortunately, he gained a long, slim, stainless black blade in the sixth one.

"Young lord, here." She obediently handed him the blade.

"Hmm," Aur nodded his head and accepted the blade, carefully scrutinizing it with his crimson eyes.

The blade looked like it was attached to the handle of a sword, now broken in pieces. As for its grade, Aur still needed to verify it.

Aur released a strand of his mana into the blade, and it started to flash in red color, increasing its sharpness.

Which made Aur satisfied since mana could travel in the blade; it was at least a magic sword. All he needed was a blacksmith to construct a handle.

He suddenly looked at the servant girl. "Do you know the grade of this blade is?"

"This…" The girl hesitated, however, she still spoke. "Yes, young lord, these should be a tier one blade."

Aur nodded his head, however, he was quite disappointed inside.

"Tier one sword would only be around ten middle-grade mana crystals, and for all the cost I will need to smith it." He sighed with pity. "The most I can profit off is around five middle-grade mana crystals."

It was still a good haul, however, compared to the 35 middle-grade mana crystals he had spent, this was like seven times the loss.

"Are you sure you want to continue, young lord?" The servant girl asked with a nervous expression, her hands trembling.

She had never dealt with people of people around Aur's status since most who stayed outside the shop were mortals or rogue wizards.

The wizards from the village or even the students who were comparable to Aur directly went into the shop rather than staying here where there was barely any chance for you to gain any treasure.

The price and the ratio of the chances was very thin here.

As it could be seen from Aur's luck as well.

"Continue cutting all the stones." Aur said coldly without a care.

"Y… yes, young master." She hurriedly said and started to cut the stones one by one.

Before long, the remaining fourteen mana stones were cut with nothing inside him.

"Umm, would you like to cut more young master?"

"No, I will come back tomorrow." Aur reluctantly shook his head and left the place with a regretful expression.

The servant woman looked at the fleeting figure of Aur with a glint in her eyes.

"That man finally left." She heaved a sigh of relief and returned back to the shop where barely any customer was left in the caravan as everyone was already asleep. She reached the only lit room inside the store.

The moment she entered, the servant girl heard an authoritative voice questioning her.

"Has he left already?"

Without even daring to look up, she immediately bowed and said respectfully, "Yes, tenth master."

"Good, he probably won't come back ever again." The authoritative voice was tinged with mockery.

Hearing this, the servant girl tentatively said, "Tenth master, he said he will come back again."

"Oh." The tenth master that the girl addressed to raised his eyebrows.

"Is there some kind of secret hidden there?"