Karl rolled his eyes at Rae's antics, and shifted his focus back to Remi, who was currently undergoing Tribulation.

With the separation between worlds, the connection felt a muffled, but it was clear that she was much more curious about the nature of Tribulation than she was concerned about her safety.

That was a good sign, both for her as a Shaman, and for her future as an Immortal.

Karl waved the next customer forward, and waited as the man stared at him without saying anything. Concerned, Karl checked his system messages, but he hadn't gotten anything new, and the man was still standing there.

"Greetings, how might I help you? If you are trying to communicate mentally, I am afraid that I am not receiving your System Messages or telepathy."

Finally, the man spoke. "Sorry, I was trying to find out what was wrong with the System Interface. I have some enhanced features, and they were giving me a strange reading when I saw you."

"Oh? My friend tells me that most just show my title and not my name."

The man laughed, "That's the smaller issue. Being Karl the Karl is less weird than some of the other glitches I see every day. The 'Epic Grade Mob, approach in a group' warning was more concerning, but I think that I have figured that one out.

The only one that I couldn't make sense of was the guidance it was giving me.

Normally, my Interface suggests the best way to interact with others. However, it just keeps cycling through options, as if they're either all equally good, or it has no idea what will work."

"Oh, now that does sound fun. What one did you go with?"

"None of them. I didn't bring food, baby dragons, fluff, fire, nuclear weapons or a Wrath Demon."

Karl laughed. "Don't bother with the hatchling. Every time I get close to obtaining one, one of the Black Dragons comes to remind me that their god is very insistent that I am not allowed to have a baby dragon."

"I will keep that in mind. Do you know why my interface is going crazy?"

"I am a Beast Master. With multiple Immortal Rank beasts bonded to me, it's likely reading everyone at once. I'm more interested in what nuclear weapons are."

The man laughed. "It's a Chaos Element bomb that splits reality, as I understand it. Gigantic explosion, hot enough to create a small star."

On the mortal world, Cara perked up. That sounded fun. Hawk would be so jealous of her.

Karl sighed. "And now I know which one of them wanted the bomb. What can I get you from the Alchemy Warehouse?"

The man handed over the list, and Karl quickly rang it in. "Four Clan Credits or equivalent."

"I will pay with credits. Now, I just need to go to the warehouse and see if they have a strength ring in stock yet. I've been waiting weeks for a good one to come back, but there are multiple teams out at the trial instance since yesterday."

"How about a bracelet? I've got one that can be for sale, once I have the warehouse appraise it. I'm new, so I don't know the cost yet."

The man shook his head, and raised his sleeve to show off a golden watch that was an Epic Grade attack speed-based accessory.

"Oh, that is good. Yeah, you're not going to be able to replace that easily if the one on the other arm is as good."

"The other arm?"

"You have two arms, one bracelet on each arm. Is that not how it works for most people?"

The man shook his hand. "You can't use identical items on both arms. The bonuses don't stack. You need to have different bonuses on each item."

"Oh, now that is inconvenient. Especially for Warriors, who really only need three or four different bonuses. However, I think if you devote one arm to attack speed and physical stats, you can devote the other to skill bonuses or even resistances."

The man nodded. "That's how most of us do it. One is all offensive, the other defensive."

"In that case, I will have to keep my eye out for items with common bonuses. I might be able to obtain them for cheap, as I can stack matching bonuses."

That was the best excuse that Karl could come up with for his curiosity without revealing that he was the one making the items to someone who wasn't immediately going to be a customer.

"Well, good luck with your Alchemy, and hopefully, there will be something good in the warehouse for you today."

As the man left with his goods, Karl fed the bunny, and Elder Socrate came out to inspect the front counters.

"You're not going to offer to make him a perfect item for an exorbitant price?"

"Nope. I'm going to make one for the warehouse and let him buy it from there. Until I know the pricing, it's safer to do things through the intermediary, even if it adds a markup to the price."

The Alchemy Elder laughed. "That item likely won't ever go up on the open shelves. The moment that it comes in, the staff in the warehouse will alert their Elders to come over and buy it.

When he said a 'good strength ring', he meant Rare Grade at best. Or Uncommon with a peak bonus to strength."

Karl sighed, then took out a simple Overlord Rank wooden ring.

"You mean like this?" He asked, then carved the runes for [Titanic Strength] onto the surface before putting it in his mental space to upgrade.

Elder Socrate watched Karl's mana fluctuate as he upgraded the item to Immortal Rank, then put it on the counter.

{Ring of Titanic Strength} Uncommon Grade, Immortal Rank 1/50, increases base strength by 400 percent, adds 500 points of base strength.

Socrate whistled in appreciation. "Now that is exactly what he wanted. It even adds base strength, so it improves all his other buffs. I'm surprised that it's not a rare grade item."

Karl shrugged. "It's technically one buff. Titanic Strength. It needs a second to be Rare Grade. But if this is what people want, I can make them. I've got plenty of good wooden rings."

Lotus made a thousand of them one day, for the team to practice on. But they didn't make that many Overlord Rank combat bonus rings.

They were the in-between Rank. Everyone either wanted cheaper ones, or Totem Ranked items.

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