Chapter 1341 - Transaction (1/2)
Faleau was completely confused. Nevertheless, the result was in favor of the Gilded Rose. The other organizations were deterred, and the negotiations were easier. He had to pretend that the Gilded Rose punished the two robbers, even though he knew it didn’t.
Nobody asked him anything directly. They all kept silent on the matter, believing in the truth that they thought to be.
The negotiations went well. He signed barter contracts with multiple mage organizations. The Blue Demon Potions could be exchanged for many special materials they gained from other planes. Only the forces that controlled such planes had access to the materials.
But not everything was successful. Some organizations proposed harsh terms for the barter, so Faleau gave up.
He knew that the Blue Demon Potion was not costly at all. Its greatest cost was the materials from the monster plane. Except that, the cost for one bottle of the Blue Demon Potion was less than 1,000 purple gold, and most of it was the alchemists’ wages…
However, he couldn’t lower the price of the potion. Many of the materials he needed were in planes that the other organizations controlled. They were just like the plants in the monster plane. They were very cheap in the planes they originally belonged to, but very expensive in Noscent because of their rarity. So, their prices could vary significantly, just like the Gilded Rose could peg the Blue Demon Potion’s price freely.
Faleau looked at the inventory in his hand, which was five meters long and two meters wide, and was full of materials that were needed. When mana was filled into the inventory, there would even be holograms that displayed the materials and their features.
There were thousands of materials in the inventory, but the Blue Demon Potions could only be exchanged for 100 of them. The organizations that came for negotiations didn’t have most of the materials in the inventory. All of them were precious, and the amount behind them gave Faleau a strong headache.
30 tons of refined metals, which were usually sold by kilograms at auctions, were needed in the inventory.
10 kilograms of Floating Red Golden Ore would suffice as raw materials for a good True Spirit Magic Tool, but 200,000 kilograms of it were needed in the inventory.
Faleau’s eyes almost popped out when he saw the inventory for the first time. He wouldn’t even have dared to think about it if he hadn’t seen the check signs on the inventory. The most difficult item was the 3,000 tons of refined Eternal Dark Gold.
There wasn’t so much Eternal Dark Gold in the entire Noscent, but the check sign indicated that it had been completed.
Holding the inventory, Faleau calculated the materials that were being exchanged. In a couple of years, some of the materials needed in the inventory would be gathered enough. However, most of the materials on the list hadn’t been collected yet.
Some of the specially marked materials in the inventory gave Faleau a headache.
That greedy and cunning vampire. Those Super Heavy Crystals are the cheapest materials in the plane his family controls, even though they are not very easy to exploit. Yet, that idiot offered me one ton of Super Heavy Crystals for one Blue Demon Potion.
Damn it, a ton of Super Heavy Crystals isn’t even as big as a human head. One cubic meter of Super Heavy Crystals weighs hundreds of tons, and 8,000,000 cubic meters are needed. I cannot get enough of them in a millennium. Did the idiot think that the Gilded Rose would offer them Blue Demon Potion for 1,000 years in exchange for things that are as worthless as stones for him?
Damn it. But the lack of Super Heavy Crystals is truly a problem. Sir Merlin said that the Super Heavy Crystals are among the materials that must be collected in the first batch. The vampire family is the only one that controls a plane which has Super Heavy Crystals.
Do I have to collect them in the Earth Plane? But it won’t be possible to bring them back. Also, nobody could possibly do mining there except Xiuban, who is sturdy enough. No kidding…
The Blue Demon Potion was seriously in demand, but Faleau was still upset. Since the Blue Demon Potion would significantly enhance the mage organizations’ power and increase the speed of their conquests, they shouldn’t refuse to exchange some materials for it. However, Faleau underestimated their greediness.
They were so greedy that they proposed to exchange one stone, which they usually used to build floors, for one bottle of Blue Demon Potion.
The progress on the deals was slow. Faleau was quite anxious, but he knew he couldn’t break his boundaries. If he did, it would be very difficult to make deals with other organizations.
While Faleau was feeling frustrated, a mage organization from the south of the Odin Kingdom arrived, hoping to purchase the Gilded Rose’s Blue Demon Potion and other special potions.
“Sir Faleau, I heard that you’re exchanging the Blue Demon Potion for some materials. I’m just going to save your time. These are the materials we can offer. Do you need any of them?
“By the way, the Blue Demon Potion is a powerful, paradigm-shifting potion that will boost the development of magic in ways people cannot imagine. Only those who are as greedy as devils are too tempted by short-term returns to realize it.
“The northern folks always think that we southern mages are greedy. However, it seems that they’re too stupid.”
This level-1 Heaven Rank expert wore a glamorous robe, and seemed reliable and trustworthy. He was definitely stronger than most mages on his level, and he was from the south of the Odin Kingdom.
Faleau was slightly puzzled. Why would an organization that was based in the south of the Odin Kingdom come to the Gilded Rose?
Didn’t the southern mages of the Odin Kingdom always consider themselves the strongest? They despised all the northern forces, except for a few. They regarded most people from the north as bumpkins…
The people of the Sten Kingdom and the Andlusa Kingdom were no better than barbarians in the eyes of the southern mages. Why would they come for negotiation?
Did they not know that the Gilded Rose came from the Andlusa Kingdom?
The questions flashed in Faleau’s head, but he didn’t have time to consider, as he saw multiple materials he needed on the list, including the Super Heavy Crystals that he was in dire need of.
Calming himself down, Faleau pointed at two other materials first, and asked the man his terms. Finally, he pointed at the Super Heavy Crystal.
“Sir Dick, how would you like to exchange the Super Heavy Crystals?”
With a smile, Dick shook his head.
“Sir Faleau, the Super Heavy Crystals are only rare in Noscent. It will be a waste to exchange them. If their price is too low, then I won’t be satisfied; if their price is too high, you won’t be. So, let’s not exchange them directly.
“I propose another way for the Super Heavy Crystals. 10,000 Blue Demon Potions for the right of mining a Super Heavy Crystal mother lode for a year. You can exploit however many Super Heavy Crystals you can mine during the year. Whatever else you find by the way will be yours too.”