He knew that the young student called Eylon had a high-quality Florist occupation. With this knowledge, he wanted to gamble and expose the fact that he had unscathed Nightshade flower roots.
Even unscathed [Trash] quality Nightshade flower roots were worth 50 gold coins at the bare minimum while [Common] ones were worth more than 300 gold coins.
This was something he didn't expect and Shane could have never imagined that Mortal grade ingredients were so valuable!
As such, he was astonished about this price and pondered whether he should sell a few unscathed roots or not.
However, when he researched more about unscathed Nightshade flower roots, he found out that the chance to find a single unscathed Nightshade flower root was less than one in a million.
When Shane read that he was baffled, thinking that he misread something. Yet, after reading carefully through the forum thread he found on PrimWeb, the ratio was still 1:1,000,000.