Genetic Ascension

There was a shudder and the star ship took off.

Sylas stood by a window, looking out as the planet receded from his sight. All around him, there were what were meant to be luxuries, but **they** seemed a bit dim and dull compared to what he should have received considering how much they had paid.

Of course, at least for now, money was no object to Sylas. The Golden Grove might be a medium-sized power in this Sector, but they were still a merchant guild. In addition, the entire wealth of a power in the hands of just one person would always be quite a pretty sum.

But after his time with Andromeda, Sylas had a strong understanding of the market and pricing systems in the Sector. He had specifically dedicated time to exactly that. Not understanding how much things should cost seemed like an unimportant weakness, but in action, it might be life and death in many situations.

Not only did understanding this allow him to know how much someone of his standing should be capable of spending, it also helped him not to get scammed.

Now, however, he felt like he was getting a bit scammed. It took 90,000 C-Grade Aether Stones to take this ship. Of course, they were fragmented as this Sector didn’t seem to have any above that Grade, but even so, that many quality Aether Stones was absolutely ridiculous.

You could buy two Level 151 C-Grade Treasures for that price in the FF+ range.

In the entire Golden Grove, one of the three largest merchant guilds in the whole Sector, they might only have a couple dozen or so of those weapons to sell a month. But you needed to be able to buy two of them just to ride this star ship for a month.

This was clearly the Beast Warlord Sanctum’s method of making money. Though, to be fair, Sylas had picked up the most luxurious room they had.