The next morning James woke, after the daily routine of watering the fungi and cleaning. While cooking he opened the chat to see if there is any progress in yesterday's trade request.
So as soon as he opened the chat he was directly bombarded with thousands of private messages for the request. He just casually opened a few and his head was feeling a bit dizzy...
"Boss, I have a hot thing with two big bunnies, can be traded for a lot of water. Wanna try?"
"Heyy, handsome I think I have what you are looking for...."
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Seeing these messages James was a bit tempted to reply but his single status of the past years helped him to calm down.
'Shi*t I was almost sold out...', looking at his shaking thumb which was almost on the accept button he hurriedly took it away.
After calming down his bachelor's heart he simply filtered all such messages and then he started to take a look at a few of the messages.
While searching a certain message caught his attention.
"Boss can this be traded: Magma Slime",
Seeing the name of the product James was a bit interested and send a message to the person
"Trade: Magma Slime
For: Icex 20"
Before he could close the chat panel there was a new message notification from the same person,
The trade request was accepted directly with an added message, "Boss if you need more you can message me I have plenty of these things here.".
Seeing this James was a bit shocked, but he didn't think about it much for now. If this thing can help him melt the Ice faster it will be best.
With a thought, he took the Magma Slime out of the storage in place it on the Ice surface. The Magma Slime looked no different from the Magma, red in color but there was smooth texture on the surface.
Even though it looked once the heat around it stopped James from getting near that thing.
The moment it touched the ice there was a sizzling sound for few seconds and then....over.
The one unit of Magma Slime dissipated all its heat on the Ice but not even a small about of Ice was molten while the Slime has already lost its red color and has the appearance of an ordinary transparent slime.
After probing it a little bit James picked up the cold slime and was surprised to find that the side touching the Ice was frozen into solid with cracks on it while the upper part maintained little properties of the slimes.
After not finding anything from the slime he looked at the Ice surface and found a very minute depression at the place where the Magma Slime was placed. Though the depth was not even a complete centimeter.
After thinking about it for some time he opened the chat and put a message to the guy who traded the slime.
"How much of these things can you provide?"
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At the same time inside a cave,
There was a person sitting near the entrance of the cave. In front of him was a small extinguished bonfire with a burned out wood. His face was covered with black color of smoke, hair curled at the edges due to high heat, dry lips with obvious cracks and clothes torn from many places.
This is Albert, he belonged to a rich family. Een though not among the higher level citizens his father was the founder of a huge business firm.
Due to this Albert was tutored by experts in various fields, from the time he can remember he has made the decision to expand his father's business in the Star Space.
With the knowledge and information he had that was not available for the lower level poor citizens he thought he will form a team slowly by recruiting little brothers and then expand together.
But all his plans and confidence were destroyed the moment he was spawned here.
The place he was spawned at was completely surrounded by barren mountains till the eyes can see. After traveling for more than 8hours he didn't find any resources according to what his tutors has said. After facing this conditions he knew he was doomed, either he was fooled by those so called 'experts' or this place was completely different.
After giving up travelling he found a huge mountain and luckily found a cave at the top of it. He didn't want to place thesafe house in this dead place.
After staying in the cave for some time he found that there was a lot of heat dissipating from the depth of the cave. In the beginning he didn't have the courage to check out what was inside until the hunger and thirst took over his fear and he decided to explore the cave.
After exploring a little deeper he found that the whole mountain was like a sleeping volcano filled with Magma Slime while at the same time he found small traces of living activity in the Magma.
From then on he has moved into many mountains to leave this place but to his dismissal this entire land seemed to be filled with these things. On the day he gave up and was thinking of returning there was trade request in the chat and he decided to try his luck out. If he can succeed he might have a strong thigh to hug in this dead place.
Seeing a new message from the Ice guy, Albert hurriedly replied.
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On James side he didn't have to wait for long time for the reply.
"Boss, there is no problem with the quantity. I have almost a few mountains filled with those things. If you can buy a large amount of it we can discuss the price."
"For the time being here a little gift from my side."
After the reply there was a trade request
"Trade: Magma Slime 100x, no price."
Seeing this guy's enthusiasm James was a bit surprised. But knowing that now he was a big personality among the people due to his almost inexaustible water resources everyone wants to hug this thigh tightly.
After thinking a little bit James added him in the friend list where they can easily trade and contact each other.
Seeing the friend request there were almost tears welling in Albert's eyes. Fortunately he persisted till now and he has received the fruit of his hard work.