"Nothing else unusual tonight, though, I think," she murmurs when they're gone, meaning that she will not put up another Rope Trick and keep trying but will instead sleep like a responsible person, just in case they check in again. 

"Shortly it's not going to be night anyways.  The innkeep would've been even sharper if that wasn't so.  Should I let you sleep in, let you sleep a couple of hours or some other defined time period, any missions you want me to do in the meanwhile?"

"I will probably sleep eight hours undisturbed and don't presently see reason to disturb me though if you got nervous about this location that'd be plenty of reason. I don't suppose you can similarly grab any Tier-2 mats? I have been having a terrible time of picking up Tier-2 just from the explanations in the book, and it might be that I haven't enough channeling yet but it might just be that I need to see the interference patterns or something."

His liege is a fucking crazy person and Almys is feeling more than slightly fond about it.

"I haven't ever heard that Summoned Heroes get Tier-2 on their first day.  But sure, I'll grab scraps of everything I can find."

"Good." And she rolls over and falls asleep with the ease of someone for whom it is a survival skill.

When she wakes up again, Almys will have scraps of all the tier-2 mats except for Void and Vacuum.  Also children's affinity exercises and some books of basic spells that he bought off particular likely prospects who seemed like they might have them - avoiding the merchant's markup on used books is more than enough reason for a new father to run around asking likely mothers of aging children if they want to resell a children's book.

Also a shattered Acidic dagger that he picked up at a pawnshop, with the sort of damage that advanced crafters would consider too much damage to bother repairing, that a very poorly-off crafter might try to salvage for mats (if they could successfully use any very small bits of mats or string them together).  If his liege can repair the dagger using the Acid mat scraps (Almys got extra of those) and some metal-glue that he can activate with his own Metal affinity, it'll pay their living expenses for a month.

He wouldn't particularly think this was worth even a Summoned Hero trying, with such paltry materials, if not for the part about her Unique Skill.  Unique Skills are often utter bullshit, and if hers is weapons-crafting then it wouldn't particularly surprise him if she can fix the dagger just by staring at it.

Oh, and there's also a meal!

The food is excellent and she's in a very good mood about it. 

What's broken about the dagger?

It's been broken in half, is what's broken about it.  Mommy System can no longer tell that this was supposed to be an acidification-of-what's-stabbed spell.  Just gluing it back together wouldn't fix it; the break has halved some finely carved Acid-affinity metal laid into the blade.  Even after gluing it back together, there'd be a break in the Acid-affinity mana shape, which literally only a Creation mage could remove (according to her crafting books).

A Tier-2 crafter who makes Acidic blades can't look up in a book a standard pattern of affinity mats to layer into the break, in order to cause Acid mana flowing through a repaired blade to come out in the shape the System wants to see; they're specced on DEX more than INT, in order to carve the mats finely enough into those standard patterns.  A Tier-3 crafter could figure out how to fix it, no doubt, but it's not worth their time.

Well, it'll pay for their meals for a month if she figures it out, so she'll just have to figure it out. 

...to start with, can she channel Acid yet, or is she in fact being totally ridiculous here and needs to go adventuring and patiently level if she wants to wield the local magic better than a toddler prodigy?

NO she cannot channel Acid yet!  The laws of magic may have been giving the Summoned Hero something of an overly optimistic impression of how permissive they are just because she's been doing a bunch of other impossible stuff!  That's TOO impossible!

She doesn't know how impossible anything is! She'll keep trying! After a while she'll stop, prepare and cast Fly and Haste, do aerial maneuvers in place in the Rope Trick, and then try again, in chase she was just missing a fresh perspective!

She still can't get Acid!  It's too early for her to do Acid!

...her Fly and Haste spells are lasting noticeably longer than they were a day ago.

She will graciously accept this consolation prize from the universe and be pleased with herself for like ten seconds.

....she doesn't want to have them last longer, she wants them permanent. She wants the universe to just believe that it's a fact about Carissa Sevar, that she is Hasted and can fly. She wishes she'd never let it catch on that spells have durations; maybe then they wouldn't.  (Probably that's not how it worked; they originally behaved just according to their character, if there was nothing in the universe like them.)

The next time she gets tired of failing to channel Acid she prepares Gaseous Form instead of an extra Fly, and makes herself Invisible and Gaseous and then seeps out the window to observe the locals in their natural environment. Maybe some of them will be channeling Acid.

...most people do not need to use a lot of Acid in order to get through their everyday lives!  Is there anybody in particular she's going to try spying on here?

The powerful adventurers are the most interesting and the most likely to notice her. Too risky. 

She'll hang out mindreading random commoners to see if there are any discrepancies with what she's been told.

It's harder, in this world, to discern who exactly is a "random commoner".  People dressed just like the modal townie, wearing nothing visibly expensive, sometimes direct a puzzled look at the Invisible Gaseous form.

If she keeps herself to mindreading the people dressed in ordinary clothes who don't do that, she won't discover any particular evidence that Almys has lied.  For the most part, they think ordinary townie things just as one might expect, as adjusted for another world.  An apprentice is falling behind on his quota of smithy jobs, hates his master, hates his life, hates that he had to stop being a girl except on weekends because his physical Skills aren't up to par and his master decreed that he needs the biological boost to upper body strength, suspects his master of being an ex-woman himself with some sort of thing where he's getting off on staring at his maleified chest.  A clerk is smugly thinking of how much he managed to embezzle last week, the fools still don't even seem to suspect.  A young mind filled with thoughts of homework; an old mind filled with resentment of lost youth and how she can't dance the way she used to or even go running very much.  A mother and father other mother push a very new baby along in a pram; the mother's mind is too filled with love still to have much in the way of words, and the other mother (the one dressed in more masculine fashion) is planning out the baby's entire life.  A pretty woman is playing off three lovers against each other and is having so much fun, she doesn't even care if she gets stabbed about this, she bets if you die that way you get to go somewhere extra-interesting.  A mind full of shopping list; a wearer of overly-worn shoes that transmit the unevenness of every cobblestone; a searing grudge against a beloved lover, nursed and cherished and fed like a precious flame...

Pretty normal, really?

- well. She had her break.

Can she channel Acid yet???

THAT'S NOT HOW ANY OF THIS WORKS.

If the approach you're trying isn't working, try something different; but if the approach you're trying isn't working after less than a day it might just be that you haven't tried intensely enough yet.

What if she uses Acid Splash to coat the ground with acid and then has to learn Acid channeling to get the Acid to stop disintegrating her feet. 

WHY and WHAT HAS THIS PERSON BEEN DOING and also NO.

Well she's not going to give up NOW that her FEET HAVE BEEN DAMAGED BY ACID on this approach!!!

YOU DON'T HAVE THE WATER AND LIGHT CHANNELING CAPACITY TO DO THIS.  IT DOESN'T MATTER HOW MUCH WILLPOWER YOU USE OR HOW MUCH YOU MAKE YOURSELF SUFFER.

There is simply no way to know whether you can do something or not other than melt yourself with acid for failing.

Is this some kind of THREAT because this magical system does NOT YIELD TO THREATS.

Carissa Sevar is just a sincere Asmodean who believes that if you fail at things you should be melted in acid until you stop that nonsense.