Having roamed the marketplace for several hours, he witnessed many instances of obsessive mech designers forced to pay an exorbitant amount of money because they insisted on buying a specific exotic!
The more interest they showed, the more the shopkeepers ripped them off!
It actually amazed Ves that so many mech designers made the same mistake. Obviously, these mech designers had never operated their own businesses!
For this reason, Ves did not immediately demand to buy the ugly lump of rock that reacted to his senses. Instead, he leisurely browsed the wars of the neighboring stalls, showing a vague amount of interest for random chunks of ore and radioactive fluids contained in protective containers.
"What's this?" Ves asked as he picked up a transparent cube that encapsulated honeycombed rock.
