I need to learn skill before joining a party

I stabbed my salad that was trying to run away from me and ate it. It was honestly quite tasty. It was already a week that I lived here. But I rarely took any quest, if any at all, those harvest quests were rare in between. I only participate in it twice, one harvesting carrots and the other harvesting mackerels. Again, what the hell with fish growing like grass in this world?

Other quests weren't much better either for a newbie like me. Slaying quest? I am level 1 and have no spell to kill it. Cutting down trees? I doubt that I can wield the axe based on my strength stat. Teaching swordsmanship? I don't know how. Be a magic test subject? Despite me being a mage, my HP and magic resistance are quite low too. So for the past week, I mostly worked as a fruit and vegetable seller for my boss. Those paid me well that I can last for 3 days per pay if I'm careful.

I didn't know how blessed and rich I was in my previous world, even after offering everything to my masters. Honestly, this new world gave me a new perspective on everyday people. It was hard to navigate this new world, but I'll preserve for my potential future master, only he can take away my everything and be.

I also found the town libraries and joined its membership to access some magic teaching books. Most of them were magic theories and their applications, but not magic spellbooks or grimoires. Not a single of them gave me a spell or skill to learn.

I ate the last piece of my salad as I mused this conundrum. Well, time to ask the guild lady~

After paying for my meal, I walked and started a conversation with Luna. "Miss Luna, can I ask something?"

"Sure, if it is within my ability."Damn, I can see why so many male adventurers coming to Luna's counter after seeing those boobs and smile.

"How does a mage usually learn magic spells?"

"Oh, you ask the usual route the mage learns magic spells?"I nodded at her questioning, "Well, the prospective mage usually attended mage school before becoming nation mage staff, city helper mage, or adventurer mage."

"It's my first time hearing about a mage school, so what age does someone usually attend mage school?"

"Well, in Belzerg, their curriculum usually being attended by someone aged 10 to 15."

Great, I passed that age. How the hell am I going to learn magic spells? Wait, I remember something from my introduction to this whole adventurer stuff....

"Can I still learn magic spells if some mage shows me their magic?"

"Oh you can, but you need to observe them repeatedly."

"Great! Now I just need to get a mage teacher...."

"Do you want to post a quest about teaching magic?"

"Hmm, how much money does it cost to post a quest in the guild and provide rewards?"

"Depend on the quest, as for your case, it's about 75000 eris."

Oh, really great, this was about the amount I made this week.

"Hmm, no thanks. I think I will just ask if someone can teach me magic."

"It's okay, you can post if you didn't find any."

I walked back and looked at the quest, They were covered by the slaying quest today.

I asked some random mage for their basic magic for paying for their meals once. I repeated this action for some days if I had spare money after working as a seller of fruit and vegetables.

I now had a whole of basic magic on my learnable magic spell on my card, I can't learn them yet because I had 0 points.

I looked at the list of my learnable skills and wondered if I missed any basic element of magic. Fire is tinder, wind is wind breathe, earth is create earth, water is create water, ice is freeze, electricity is shock, nature is growth, light is light mote, and darkness is smoke. Quite the array list despite being basic magic.

I saw a female mage wearing a green jacket with a brown ponytail walking towards me as I left my sight on the card.

"I hear you offering one free meal for teaching you any magic."

"Yeah, do you want to teach me magic for a meal?"

I saw her shake her head, then what is she here for?

"I will teach you magic if you help me find some tomatoes in the markets, I crave them, but this week, I rarely encounter any tomatoes in my salad, and finding them in the markets is quite difficult."

Oh wow, an alternative path for learning magic found ways for me. Well, who am I to judge? I will help her find her tomatoes.

"Well, I will search tomatoes for you. After that promise me that you teach me magic."

"Of course, I will teach you a whole lot of magic if you can bring a bag of tomatoes in this low supply situation to me. If you need to search me, I'm Rin."

"Rin.... okay I will remember it, I'm Kurone if you want to know."

Rin and I walked out of the guild and started searching for a tomato seller. Well, it was mostly me leading her to the market.

First stop, my boss stall. Doesn't have tomatoes. Second stall, none. Third stall, nada. Fourth stall, zero. Almost all vegetable stalls don't have tomatoes, they said their supplier encountered a devastating infestation. I only found a bag of tomatoes from a dog girl seller from the north after I remembered a therianthrope shop supplier was from the far north and not from nearby fields.

"Oh wow, I didn't know you could pinpoint which shop has tomatoes after passing 20 other shops."

"Consider it lucky, Rin."

"Oh am I lucky, Kurone."

She then gestured me to a nearby field that had some firemarks. A training ground?

After assessing the surroundings, Rin nodded before giving me a tomato and nibbling another one.

"Okay, ready to learn magic Kurone?"

"I'm ready."

After a week of tutoring from Rin, I have intermediate wind and fire magic in learnable magic spells in my card. Wind and fire are Rin's specialty, if I am being told, but she also gave me an overview of the relationship and difference between mana, skill, spell, and adventurer card.

Hehehe, now I can learn offensive spells, but how am I supposed to level up if I never slay creatures? Oh well, it's time to buy a cheap knife and temporarily become a dagger user.

After I bought a knife, I watched the recruitment party poster in the guild to join. My first pick? Of course, all male parties. Why? To make them pass me around like a cum dump, that's why.

"Hi, I see your group recruitment poster. Can I join?" I smile a my potential male masters.

Hehehe, I can use this party to help me level up and make them my masters.