Chapter 14: Money in the Bank

Jia Yuan headed toward towards the part of the city where

the store owners had said the BlackWing Merchant Guild was located. This was in

fact not a pill shop, but a general trading location that also traded in pills,

as was the same with the other two locations. After all, pills were usually

very quickly bought by customers, and pills were relatively rare. As such, it

was easy to implement a pill shop in a store that sold other things.

He saw a gigantic building with a pair of black wings

sprouting from either side of the entrance.

I guess this is it... but what the hell is the size of this building??

He strode into the building and was greeted by an attractive

female receptionist.

“Hello sir, my name is Shi Guo. What brings you to our prestigious

Black Wing Merchant Guild Hall?”

Jia Yuan glanced at the receptionist from under the brim of

his straw hat and said in as low of a voice as he could, “Pills.”

The receptionist blinked her eyes in surprise, but promptly

recovered. “Of course, sir. I will lead you to our pill specialist on the 4th

floor.”

As the receptionist lead Jia Yuan through the Hall, he saw

many interesting things, amongst them some shiny weapons and armor, as well as

some extremely well crafted clothing studded with diamonds and other jewels. He

even saw a sign that said “Warning: Poison Exhibit.”

After a bit of this, they arrived at the Pill Shop on the 4th

floor. A single elderly man was sitting at a desk.

Shi Guo said to the man, “Hello, esteemed elder. This guest

is here to trade in pills.”

“Thank you Shi Guo.” The elder turned to Jia Yuan. “Hello

guest, are you buying or selling?”

In the same deep voice he had used earlier with the

receptionist, Jia Yuan said “I am here to sell a few pills.”

The elder’s eyes twinkled. Most people who came would only be able to sell one or two pills, but this young man had said he wanted to sell "a few." “Would you be willing to show the

wares?”

Jia Yuan nodded, and from inside the long sleeve of the blue

robe, he extracted an Absorption level soul pill and a Fire pill. After doing

so, he raised his arm, and placed the two pills on the desk.

The elder carefully picked up the pills and began examining

them.

In his mind, he was rather shocked. The quality of these

pills were simply too high! In fact, despite working for the Black Wing

Merchant Guild for more than 30 years, he had never seen pills of such high

quality. If he could buy these pills for a good price, the Guild could easily

flip the pills for a huge profit!

“The soul pill, we can buy for 20 thousand small fire shards

or 2 thousand medium fire shards… as for the Fire pill…30 thousand small fire

shards or 3 thousand medium fire shards. Will that do?”

Jia Yuan didn’t respond. He didn’t even move.

After about half a minute of silence, the elder sighed in

his mind.

“Very well, we can offer 400 large fire shards for the soul

pill and 700 large fire shards for the body pill. I trust that this should be

enough?”

The elder had seen that Jia Yuan didn’t react at all to his

earlier offer, which he took as an absolute refusal to the prices he had set.

As such, he actually raised the offer by more than threefold. One has to know,

that although 10 small fire shards equates to a medium fire shards, large fire

shards are hard to mine, and as such are sold at a rate of about 15 medium fire

shards to a single large fire shard.

This was also because the elder had decided that if he

couldn’t make a huge profit instantly by low balling the customer, he would

give a generous offer to lay the grounds for a future partnership. After all,

the quality of the pills was truly too high, and it was possible that this

guest was part of a noble household, or even better, related to an alchemist.

How could he have known that the reason Jia Yuan had no

reaction at all, was because his mind had simply exploded from the initial

offer. As soon as he heard the offer, his mind had quite simply shut down. 50

thousand small fire shards! That was more than 10 times the amount his brother

Dou Di had been sold to the army for. It was enough for an entire family to

live in comfort for hundreds of years.

For only 2 pills!

And apparently, this price was only a low ball offer, as the

elder had quickly raised the offer! Jia Yuan struggled to come to his senses

and managed to utter a single word. “Deal.”