>master books are a thing
>realize they only go down to 4 in the conventional shops
>need a master book 1
>have to go to one of the first cities ever
>talk to some esoteric random who doesn't fucking matter outside of this singular thing keeping him relevant
>do a quest i don't give a shit about to access his store
>spend like 2k on a block of wood at the mb
>to access a bunch of old shitty recipes from 2012
why dont they just sell this shit at an npc
why do they have to make everything so needlessly convoluted when the reward is so shit