Chapter 186
Leon didn’t bother asking if they needed his help. After all, when he’d politely offered this morning, Demetrius hadn’t exactly been friendly. No point in offering warmth only to have it met with a cold shoulder.
After greeting Demetrius, Leon returned to his cabin and stored all the items on him into the chest—especially the remaining pearls. Even after trading eight of them to the traveling merchant Egger, he still had sixteen left.
“Rich indeed,” he muttered.
Tucking the pearls away, Leon couldn’t help but marvel again. Twenty-four pearls in total—based on Egger’s price, that was 84,000G. Not a small sum.
A shame Egger couldn’t take them all. Otherwise, Leon would have gladly “donated” the lot to the treasury to repair the bus to Calico Desert. If he was lucky, he might even make it in time for the Desert Festival in mid-month.
Leon had never heard of this festival before, but when he’d gotten a calendar from Abigail last time, it had been marked clearly—three days long, no less. Naturally, he was curious.
Since Egger couldn’t take them all, Leon still had two other outlets: the shipping box and Clint. He took one pearl out and tossed it into the shipping box, planning to see the price there. If the price was good, he’d sell them all that way.
As for the Void Essence he’d exchanged with Egger, Leon wasn’t sure if he should ship it out the same way. The shipping box was mysterious—he had no idea whether it could reach the City of Elements. If the buyer on the other end didn’t have a market there, he might end up taking a loss on the investment.
To get the best value for the Void Essence, he needed a merchant with access to the City of Elements.