Dragon Ball: Saiyan's Gourmet Journey

Chapter 181 Do you want to fight the undead with pickles?
Ever since the sale of vitality potions was handed over to the Succubus shop, the popularity of Wiz's magic item shop has plummeted.

However, the commercial success of the Vitality Potion still made many people quietly pay attention to this magic item store.

"Ms. Weiss, do you have any new products in your store?"

On this day, a customer dressed in tight clothes came to the counter and asked Miss Lich behind the counter in a low voice.

"Hey, isn't this Mr. Crystal? You haven't visited our store for a long time."

Seeing that it was an acquaintance, Wiz greeted him.

"Shh, shh~"

Seeing that his identity was exposed, the guest, who was dressed warmly, quickly raised his fingers and made some strange noises.

"Mr. Crystal, what's going on? Do you want to go to the bathroom?"

Wiz asked, feeling curious.

"I'm not going to the bathroom. I'm asking you to keep your voice down. For some reason, I offended that bastard Lord Alderp, and now he's looking for me."

Seeing Wiz's puzzled expression, Christo could only speak frankly. He was the adventurer who resold the vitality potion to Alderp at a high price.

That one order alone made him feel free for a long time, but afterwards he was also hated by that bastard lord.

Recently, Aldap's people have been looking for him everywhere, wanting to teach him a profound lesson.

"I came here this time to ask Miss Weiss if she has anything similar to the vitality potion?"

Christo did not beat around the bush. He now ran a traveling merchant business, but he had to purchase vitality potions from the Succubus shop. As a result, as he was doing business alone, he could not compete with those wealthy businessmen.

Therefore, he could only come here to try his luck.

"Something like a vitality potion, does a mana recovery potion count?"

“Not something to be fought, but something to be endured.”

"That's not the case."

Weisz shook her head. Her shop was a more serious store.

"Really, that's disturbing."

The man was a little disappointed. If he couldn't find a stable and profitable business, he would probably have to leave Axel and go to the Adventurer's Guild in other towns to beg for food.

"Hey, masked uncle over there, here are some newly added goddess pickles, do you want some?"

Broly was helping to clean the magic tool shop. When he saw the man's lost look, he stopped him as he was about to leave.

It just so happened that the pickles that Master Aqua forced to sell at the magic tool shop were in a state of slow sales, which was causing Wiz some headaches recently.

"Goddess Pickle, what is that?"

The man stopped and, his curiosity aroused, he asked directly.

"It's pickles made from demonized cabbage."

Seeing that the customer seemed to be interested in buying Aqua pickles, Wiz quickly walked out of the counter and introduced them to the other party.

"Well, this doesn't seem to be anything special, right?"

Christo was a little confused. After the harvest day, this kind of pickled vegetable was still quite common in Axel, but he had never seen anyone selling it because they were simply unsalable.

However, this thing is still relatively rare in other places where there are not large numbers of demonic cabbages flying or growing.

Scarcity makes things valuable. The man thought about it and asked casually, "How much do you sell your pickled vegetables for?"

"That's good. I only need 40,000 eris to buy a big jar of these pickles!"

Wiz kept smiling as he picked up the clay jar and explained the price of the pickles to the man.

“Forty thousand eris?”

The man's eyes widened. If he remembered correctly, a demonized cabbage would cost about one or two hundred eris at that time.

The jar in the other party's hand can only hold four or five demonized cabbages, and the cost is more than a thousand eris at most, but the selling price is forty times that?

"Well, may I ask if this goddess pickle also functions as a vitality potion?"

If any other store dared to sell pickles at such a high price, Kristo would definitely call them idiots, but this is Wiz's magic tool shop.

You know, when the vitality potion first appeared, it was regarded by many adventurers as a potion of no use in daily life.

But now, the commercial success of this potion is obvious to all. Who knows if this pickled vegetable will be another dark horse like the vitality potion.

"Well, this one doesn't have the same function as the vitality potion."

Wiz answered the question honestly.

"You dare to sell it at the same price as a vitality potion when it doesn't have the same functions as a vitality potion?"

the man asked.

"Don't worry, this pickle actually has a special function."

"What special features?"

"These pickles are made by a certain goddess, so they can drive away demons."

Wiz personally tested it and found that Aqua's pickles really do have the divine power of purification.

"No, what's the use of pickles with exorcism properties? Do they allow adventurers to fight undead creatures with pickles?"

Christos wanted to complain like this, but suddenly noticed the information "pickled by a certain goddess". Thinking of the not-so-serious correct usage of the vitality potion, he narrowed his eyes and asked.

"Excuse me, Miss Weiss, how exactly are these pickles made?"

"This one……"

Wiz tried to make an excuse, but Broly answered the question first. "Of course, we first squeezed out the excess water from the cabbage with our feet, and then sprinkled salt and various seasonings on it to marinate it."

[It's over, this deal is over!] Wiz was sad, but there was nothing he could do.

"Is the one stepping on the cabbage the goddess?"

Krystal asked with a gleam in her eyes.

"Yes."

"Is she pretty?"

"That's the most beautiful one Axel."

Broly answered without hesitation, saying that his master was the champion of Axel's first beauty pageant, so it was actually correct for him to say so.

"Okay, then give me two jars of these pickles first."

Crystal no longer had any doubts and spoke directly.

"Ok!"

Broly responded and went to get two hemp ropes. He tied rope loops around the two clay jars for pickles so that they could be lifted.

"No, Mr. Crystal, are you going to buy these pickles?"

"Ah."

"Two jars of pickles cost eighty thousand eris!"

"I know."

"After the sale, there is no return option on my side."

"I am clear."

"You still want to buy it?"

Wiz was a little confused.

"Are you going to fight the undead with pickles in your hands?"

Wiz only thought of this possibility, but when she carefully imagined the battle scene of adventurers holding pickle jars and throwing pickles at the undead, she felt it was a bit outrageous.

"Haha, that's an idea, but I have a better one."

The vitality potion that can restore physical strength is selling well because of its unorthodox uses.

Likewise, the seemingly useless Purification Pickles, Krystal felt, might have potential similar to the Vitality Potions.

But it is hard to say whether it can reach the level of vitality potion, so he just bought two bottles to test the waters first.

Fortune and wealth must be sought through risk, and the first person this courageous adventurer thought of to test out his sales pitch was Alderp, the lord who was causing trouble for him.

"Sir Alderp, I want to apologize for selling you the Vitality Potion at a high price. This is my apology gift to you. Please forgive me."

In the evening, Christo took the initiative to find Aldap and respectfully handed over the clay jar he had brought.

"Hmph, are you scared now? I'm glad you, a lowly person, have good sense. I, Alderp, am not a noble who would care too much about a small person."

"Lord Alderp, the contents of this jar are just pickles."

Just as Alderp was expressing his magnanimity as a noble lord, the servant had already opened the jar to check the contents.

After learning that the apology gift sent by the adventurer was just pickles, Alderp, who had originally claimed to be a generous noble, immediately changed his expression.

"Asshole, you are so bold that you only gave me this cheap food that only low-class people eat as an apology gift. Someone, come here..."

Just as Alderp was calling for help and preparing to deal with the bastard in front of him, Christo shouted out first.

"Lord Alderp, these are not ordinary pickles, these are goddess pickles!"

"Well, you guys still want to fool me?"

"No, no, no, how dare I? This is really not an ordinary pickled vegetable. It is said that this pickled vegetable was made by a certain extremely beautiful goddess who came down to earth and stepped on it with her feet. And I have evidence to prove this!"

"What evidence?"

"This pickle is blessed with the power of the goddess that purifies the body and soul. Lord Alderp only needs to taste it to know whether my words are true or false."

The man said confidently.

Before coming here, he had tried the pickles bought from Wiz's shop.

Although this pickle does not have the effect of the vitality potion, it has the effect of superior holy water.

Alderp was skeptical, and when the guards came in, he left one behind and let the other take the pickles out of the jar to eat.

As a result, the pickles that Aqua guaranteed would purify the undead after eating one slice did indeed purify the guards' bodies and minds.

"how do you feel?"

"I felt my mind was completely free, all my worries seemed to have dissipated at this moment, and I felt as if I had been elevated..."

Alderp was stunned by the guard's answer and the expression of entering the sage state.

“Is this pickle really so magical?”

Alderp's expression was uncertain. As someone who secretly colluded with the devil, he was actually somewhat wary of the erosion of devil power.

After trying a piece of pickled vegetables and feeling their miraculous cleansing effect, Alderp temporarily forgave the adventurer who had offended him.

After asking for more goddess pickles, he was told that the things were very rare.

"One jar costs at least 400,000 Eris. I spent a lot of effort and money to get it..."

"Buy it. Do I, Alderp, look like I'm short of money?"

(End of this chapter)