1.99 Lucky Player

The crystals of the slain dragons were placed in a furnace to generate energy for the city’s protection.

Shinomiya was concerned about energy consumption and mana generation, so he personally went to each company of the three families to turn off the machines.

Within a few hours, electricity consumption had returned to normal.

Masaru was angry, he wanted the consumption to remain high. But he understood the dangers of high crystal consumption and the accumulation of mana in the environment.

The energy companies had mechanisms to prevent mana from escaping when the crystals were consumed, but excessively high consumption prevented the mechanism from working properly, so a lot of mana was leaking out, and this caused all the monsters to become agitated.

The soldiers were still fighting in the remote areas, the walls had suffered a lot of damage, but Shinomiya was calm about the repairs.

Shinozaki was becoming more nervous, she started biting her nails, she did not know what to do. Kazuma was trying to free her, he sent several appeals to the general, who ignored everything and kept the arrest order active.

The leader of the Tsukishiro family was furious, no one was willing to help him, he was considering using his own strength.

Shinomiya was enjoying the whole situation, he had always been treated very badly by the great families, so he felt satisfied keeping the three of them imprisoned.

Himura was restless, he wanted to know who had turned them all in, but it never crossed his mind that the army had control over the city’s entire electricity consumption.

Shinomiya was a very cautious man, he always liked to read the reports about the amount of mana the city was releasing, this allowed him to always know what he should do at every moment.

The three of them always asked about the person who had turned in the plan, they did not even understand that this only served as a confession.

The cameras were recording all the conversations, he would use this in case they were released due to lack of evidence.

At one point, Shinomiya felt like explaining how he had obtained the information, but that would take away the fun.

Moriyama was calmer, but he still had a very large debt, he would only truly be calm once he managed to receive payment for the electricity consumed and pay the crystal suppliers.

He turned off some furnaces, he wanted to give the machines a rest, since all the equipment had been running for many hours and its operation was causing a lot of heat.

He did not like leaving all the equipment running at the same time because of the risks it caused, since overheating could cause an explosion that would destroy a large part of the city.

All the energy companies had many measures in place to prevent this from happening, but the fear was real and this could happen even with all the precautions.

Moriyama got up from his chair and began walking around the company, which at that moment was full of employees, most of them did not know what had happened, only the night workers had been there during the crisis.

At some point everyone would find out about it, but he wanted to keep the information secret for as long as he could, because he feared that this could cause some discomfort among the workers. Since this could reduce their effort.

Masaru went to bed, since everything was over, he decided to sleep for a few hours.

The guild remained closed all morning and part of the afternoon, when they opened, it took a few minutes for some adventurers to enter and begin working in the dungeon.

Mio was happy to see more adventurers entering, but at the same time she was worried, the guild had a huge stockpile that would take many months, or years, to sell, this could cause a new crisis that would make it difficult to pay for all the items the adventurers would sell to the guild.

Masaru had a plan, he wanted Runa to use all the remaining crystals to create potions and other items.

"This is much more than I could sell," she said as she sat down in the chair.

Masaru remained standing, since the room had no other chair.

"I understand your concern, so I am willing to sell them much cheaper, that way you can lower the prices of all the products and thus manage to sell them faster and in larger quantities."

"The idea is good, but you know the problem this could cause, although I will disregard that depending on your offer."

"Fifty gold coins per dragon crystal."

Runa was surprised, very surprised.

But at the same time she was afraid, since it was difficult to honor that price.

"Do you have any proof that you can sell them to me at this price?"

"Yes, I can prove it."

"I know that you buy these crystals for one hundred and seventy to one hundred and seventy-five gold coins, so I cannot believe that you are willing to sell them to me for less than half the price."

"Yes, I completely understand your distrust, but I am not buying them for such a high price, I managed to get a shipment at low prices," he said without going into too much detail.

Runa was still suspicious. But she wanted the crystals, because she had always had a personal project that she had never managed to complete because of the number of crystals she needed. The high price made it difficult for her attempts to create a potion she desired so much.

"All right, I want to buy five thousand crystals at once, in a few days I will buy more, can you guarantee that you will keep the same price?"

"Yes, I give you my word that I will keep this price for at least five months," he said while looking into her eyes.

Her distrust had decreased a little, she believed him, although she still had some doubts. Since in her line of work, sellers who committed scams and lied were very common.

He left the store very happy, he knew that he was still far from having enough money to pay for all the crystals, but he would receive her money faster, so he would be able to pay at least an amount to the three of them.

He had talked to them about selling the remaining material more cheaply, they all agreed, since that was the best option.

Masaru looked at a panel, a familiar face was there.

Suzuki Jin, who was wanted by the police.

A reward was being offered, Masaru remembered the time when he was a bounty hunter and always went after these criminals, but at that moment he just wanted to rest.

’Better to let the young ones have this opportunity,’ he thought as he walked toward the guild.

Haru was studying, he wanted to learn as much content as he could, the exam would still be in two months, but now that everything was over, he wanted to focus on this.

He wanted to become more skilled in combat, but he did not have much to do, since he would only be working for free.

Mio and Hina continued entering the dungeon, but they were also discouraged, before they trained and received something in return. The crystals they collected were useful for something, now they were certain that they were rich and that all their effort would be in vain.

They were like Haru, who before having money felt some pleasure in certain tasks such as betting.

However, they had willpower, so they did not immediately stop all their work, they had really become stronger and wanted to become even stronger.

Hina was level 24 and Mio was level 26.

Reaching level 27 was almost three times more difficult than Hina reaching level 25.

Both wanted to have a class that would make leveling up easier. Some classes could earn more than twice the XP in combat.

"We lost a lot of money and experience," Hina said.

"What do you mean? I went up two levels."

"I went up three and I think Haru went up four or five, but we would have gone up more if he had used that ability to let us gain more XP and make the monsters drop more items."

Mio thought about it, she did not remember that, neither did Haru.

"True, none of us remembered that," she said, feeling disappointed.

"Unfortunately, dungeon monsters do not give that much experience, so we need to go to the remote areas soon and sell the drops to the army, that way we can get more money and more strength."

Mio took out her cellphone and began filling out a form, she entered all her information and then Hina’s, lastly she entered Haru’s information.

"What did you do?"

"I just used the information the guild had on the two of you and registered us to go to the remote areas. Soon we will receive an access card and will be able to go to the remote areas without any supervision."

"But isn’t that risky?"

"Yes, but at the same time we will not go to any very dangerous area."

Mio said while looking at her email inbox, a confirmation had been received, she only needed to wait for the card.

Haru looked at the email and thought about it, he did not know whether he had registered or not, he did not remember. But he accepted.

He stood up and began doing some exercises, first he did some sit-ups. Then he did some push-ups and lastly some squats to strengthen his legs, but he got goosebumps when he thought that his butt would also become bigger. He just remembered the hungry femboy doing things he wanted to forget.

But strangely, his penis became erect.