January 15, 2018.
Green Planet.
In these days, Rey has been stockpiling salt and sugar in his house that was built in Luo Village. Rey face was full of smiles noticed that the bags of salt and sugar has suppressed 100 bags each. Rey also had asked the village chief regarding the beast core. The village chief explain that they indeed had several beast cores that kept by him.
The cores were acquired from hunting the beast. The villager did not sell the cores because the price of level one and level two beast cores was not much. The villager chose to use the cores by themselves strengthen the villagers rather than selling it for a cheap price.
Rey planned to borrow those beast core and Luo Zi instantly agreed the moment he listen to Rey's request. The beast cores might be precious for them, but the friendship with Rey was more precious to them. After all, Rey has a 'noble' background.
Rey open the door of his wooden house and greeted by the cozy vibe from the village. The sun has just begun to rise, the villager started their training while other prepare to hunt in the forest. Luo Zi noticed Rey and approached him.
"Good day, Mr. Harry." "Good day, Old Chief." The two exchange words for several minutes until Old Chief excuses himself. Rey began strolling in the village and enjoying the village's scenery. He nodded respectfully to every villager he came across and the villagers nodded back to him.
"A good village indeed." Rey's face was full of satisfaction. He really loves to see this kind of scenery. HE continued strolling in the village until a certain sound was heard. He instantly goes to the village's gate and saw the guest. 'Merchant Ji! They had arrived.'
The caravan attracted the villagers' curiosity. They stopped whatever they did and shifted their gaze to the caravan. The caravan has many carriages. Most of the carriages were full of goods while most of the goods were the beast skin. Some carriages were left empty so that the Merchant Ji may bought the villagers good.
Luo Zi heartedly greeted Ji Xia. Rey marched towards the two and Ji Xia noticed him. "I never think you would come personally, Brother. Aren't you afraid of the bandits?" "Hahaha. Brother Rey is joking. I bring lots of bodyguards today, so what bandits would dare to attack us?" Ji Xia laughed heartedly. He was not bluffing because he really brings lot of bodyguards. Ji Xia even brings his two most powerful guards, two level 4 warriors. No bandit would dare to rob them unless the bandits were assisted by some nobles in the dark.
The three continue their casual conversation while Merchant Ji's employee loaded some beast skin that hunted by the villagers recently. The beast skin was not much, but Merchant Ji still bought it regardless. After a while, Rey asked Ji Xia to follow him entering his wooden house. Ji Xia complied with full of smiles. Upon entering the room, Ji Xia noticed the bags of salt in the corner of the room. His face was full of smiles.
"You sure have a lot of salt here, brother." Ji Xia squinted his eyes when he noticed that half of the bags has different shape from the other half. "Brother, what is it?" Ji Xia curiously asked.
"That's sugar, brother." "Sugar? May I have a taste?" "Sure, go on." Ji Xia tore one of the bags of sugar. He took a little in his hand and have a taste. His eyes were lite up instantly. "Brother, you were truly magnificent. In my life, I never seen any sugar in this shape, but you could gather a lot of it by yourself. The sweetness of this sugar is not as strong as ordinary sugar I used to taste, but those noble surely would be interested in this sugar because these sugars were really good looking. A crystal-clear looking sugar, hahahah."
Rey was relieved hearing Ji Xia. 'It seems sugar business is open now, kekeke.' "Say, how much would you pay for this sugar." Ji Xia was smiled. "Actually, I really do not know how much." He silent for a moment before continued. "How about I give you the same price as the salt? If the prices were higher than the salt, then I would give you the remaining profit after I come back her." "Deal."
The two smiled. "Bother, I have something to ask you." Rey said. "Oh, what is it." "Did your trading company sold beast core." "Surely we do, we sold everything that could be sold, hehe." "Nice, then do you have some level 2 dark element beast cores?" Ji Xia was caught off guard. He was silent for a moment.
"Brother, Dark Element beast core was among the rarest elemental beast cores. As for now, my company only has one level 2 and one level 3 dark element beast cores. I truly sorry brother." Ji Xia took out two black, one ball was smaller than another. Rey was clearly stunned by this, but he was more stunned by how Ji Xia took out the ball. 'Storage Ring!' Rey cried in his heart.
"You have a storage ring?" "Ah, this. Hehe brother, I am not gonna lie but this ring is one of the most precious things that I had. With your family background you will surely has storage ring with higher grade than mine, but for a small company as mine owning one of this storage-ring was a fortune.
The storage ring in Ji Xia's hand was 10 meter cubic space. This storage ring was not in the lowest grade, but it could be considered among the lower grade storage ring. The lowest grade storage ring has 1 meter cubic space in it.
Rey could only smile bitterly. 'No, I don't have one.' "Well, how much for this beast core?" "The average price for level 2 beast core is 1 gold coin, but for dark elemental beast core, you should spend 20 gold. While for the level three beast core, the average cost is 30 gold, the cost for dark elemental beast core could reach 200 gold coin."
Rey took a deep breath. 'This price was absurd! How could the dark elemental beast core price differ so much?' Ji Xia noticed Rey's expression and suddenly explain. "Brother, this price was so high because in Kingdom of Zhu, there almost no dark elemental beast. The dark elemental beast cores mostly come from the Dark Orc Kingdom."
"Dark Orc Kingdom?" "Yes, that kingdom. The kingdom rarely got any light. Sunshine is a rare sight in that kingdom. A perfect place for dark elemental beast." "I see. Let's back to business. How much do you want to buy from me?" Ji Xia laughed listening to Rey's question. "You are joking, brother. I will take them all, of course."
The two laughed for a moment and suddenly Ji Xia asked a question. "Brother I really curious about this bag of yours. I never seen this kind of bag before. This bag is flexible and waterproof, but it was easily burned. I am really interested to this bag of yours. So, could you sell this kind of bags to me?"
"You interested in plastic?" Rey was confused. 'Why would this merchant interested in plastic?' "You named this bag plastic? Well, yes. I am really interested." "I could sell it, but not today. I need some time before the plastic ready." "Great. About the price…" "I will let you decide it when the time comes." Rey interrupted. "Alright."
Merchant Ji handed the two beast cores to Rey. Rey accepted it. The cost of the beast cores was taken by the money from bags of salt and sugar. After deducting the cost of best core, Merchant Ji handed 950 gold to Rey. The two laughed heartedly because of the successful trade. Both sides were satisfied with the result of the transaction.
Merchant Ji excuse himself because it was the time for him to depart for other chosen villages with Green Leaf City as their final destination. Merchant Ji would remain in Green Leaf City for a day and then he would depart for Red Rose City, a city close to the sea.
Merchant Ji's want to spread his wing to Red City. This action also could justify his action selling the high grade salt as well as high grade sugar. After all, Red City was a city that produce salt as well as sugar that would be sell around Kingdom of Zhu.
Merchant Ji would send some of his subordinate to the Blue town doing the business as usual while he and his two strong bodyguards would head to Red City, expanding their business. He would build his salt and sugar business there. This to prevent other merchant to think that he got his salt and sugar from the villager.