Chapter 128: Striking A Deal
"Seventeen million dollars."
Juliet finished Jason’s sentence for him in a low whisper. Her eyes were slightly widened as she looked at Jason in shock. The fact that Jason was capable of carrying out the calculations in his head showed that he had a very good head on his shoulders, but what really surprised her was how close he had come to the actual amount that they would sell those crystals for. He must’ve done a lot of research before coming here!
When Juliet looked into the crystal Jason had given Fiona to show her, she already knew that the crystal wasn’t from a Red Gate. She used a magical measuring device and saw that there were nearly two hundred Magicule units in that one crystal alone, so she knew there was no way it was from a Red Gate. And if the other crystals were all in the same condition, then this could be Tenet’s single largest purchase to date!
Jason smiled before nodding.
"And that’s only from the first deal we’ll be making. Imagine what you’ll be getting after ten, twenty, thirty Gates. Your company will rise from the ashes. You are the first company I am speaking to about this deal, and if things turn out well between us in the future, then you’ll be the only one I speak to. All you have to do is agree to the terms I laid out."
Juliet was stuck in a dilemma. At that moment, she knew that what Jason said was true. Making this much money from only one sale was like hitting gold in a mine! And it would be even more amazing if they had a lot more deals like this! But the percentage that Jason was giving her was just too low! Twenty percent left a bad taste in her mouth, and as a businesswoman, she couldn’t accept being cheated out of so much money.
The second part of the dilemma was whether or not she could trust Jason. Juliet had read up on Jason’s file before arriving and she knew that he had an ocular ability that allowed him to see from far distances. How in the world did an A Rank with an ocular ability come upon this many crystals!? It just didn’t make sense that Jason would be able to get this many crystals from anywhere! The only answer that rang through Juliet’s mind over and over again was that Jason had stolen the crystals from someone. But that was even more outlandish.
The only people that would have this many crystals were the guilds and the government. There was no way an A Rank would walk into one of the S rank guilds and take all of this from them without getting killed. And it was even more impossible with the government since the Enforcers would have caught him already. The Enforcers were not to be trifled with! So then, how in the world did he get it?
Juliet asked this question to Jason with as much seriousness as possible, and Jason waved the question away.
"You don’t need to know where I got them. Just know that they are legitimate and no one else has any rights to them. It’s getting late and I need to go meet with my girlfriend soon, so I need you to give me an answer. We either have a deal or I’ll take my business elsewhere."
Juliet felt like she needed to talk to someone else about this before making a decision. Her face was perfectly calm, but on the inside, her mind was running a mile a minute as she weighed all the pros and cons of this deal. The part where Jason wanted to hide his identity wasn’t impossible to do since they could get a legal NDA and create an auxiliary route for the crystals to come from as well as a funded account with an elite bank that was outside of the government’s control. No government audit would be able to get through that, but the part where Jason wanted eighty percent was the real problem. Her business spirit would never let her make such a deal.