A spell that slows down time is much cheaper than a spell that speeds up time.
Although this is a "time delay", it is not a time stop in the conventional sense.
The school of plastics can save an apple by depriving it of energy; the school of necromancy can save an apple by suppressing its life process.
In short, the principles of spells designated as stopping time are diverse, and most magicians today cannot really control time, but simply use other means to make it stand still or slow down.
"In fact, a private magician's challenge to unleash a time delay on an apple will probably cost 10 gold at a time."
"Yes, Mr. Fente already knows enough about the market in Karafrog. We are already showing the greatest respect to Mr. Fente by agreeing to only one day of delay."
"But your chamber also has contracted magicians to store the goods, right? It's not so necessary to rely on this temporary commission price to save the goods, is it?".
"Unfortunately, we have several employees who are able to cast spells, but there is not one capable of imposing time delays. After all, as a luxury goods merchant, a bestseller like the Apple of Golden Autumn is just an accident; we usually sell enough goods to open a store in two to three months, and besides, ores, jewelry and watches don't need a time delay to be preserved."
This was an omission in Fente's calculations; yes, luxury stores were almost always the kind that could be opened once and eaten for six months, and the rest of the goods were mostly from the category of easily stored.
"240 gold then, there's nothing to be done, I really can't talk to you big people from the Chamber of Commerce."
With a pleasant smile on his face, the buyer gave Fente a bill and stamped it so that he could just go to the finance department and get the money later.
But 10 gold could not be lost just like that, and such a quick agreement was also not part of the other party's plans, which could be considered as a service that Fente had rendered.
Therefore, after chatting for a while, Fente immediately moved on to the topic and asked, "Is any country planning to reissue silver coins recently."
"I can't say for sure, but the branch in Taraka seems to be preparing to close its doors."
The buyer didn't look like he was hiding anything; most people in the Chamber of Commerce wouldn't hide anything from a traveling merchant if it wasn't an enterprise entering an exclusive market.
After all, the volume of a traveling merchant could hardly pose any threat or influence to the Chamber, so it is better to provide a service to the traveling merchant in case he becomes prosperous and forms a new Chamber in the future.
"It is clear, the Chamber of Commerce in Tarak is preparing for evacuation."
Fente nodded and went to the treasury to exchange money for goods, after which he pawned the cart and left the city.
Although it was already late at night, Fente was not going to stay at the inn in Karafrog, it was too expensive.
Although he was always engaged in buying cheap and selling expensive, or, if you like, speculating, he did not really like currency speculation.
Buying cheap and selling expensive is the art of a businessman dancing on the balance of supply and demand, a mutually beneficial thing, but speculating with coins is quite another.
It is almost impossible for anyone other than those who have succeeded in making a lot of money on speculation to profit from them.
But Fente's situation was not optimistic either: there was still half a year left before his cheap old mother forced Fente to return to the world, and it was not so easy to earn the difference of 1000 gold coins in the usual way, so Fente would not be able to convince Rhea not to speculate in coins right now.
Unlike unusual transactions, there were not many people who could profit from something like currency speculation, and as a result, there were not many directions in which such transactions could go.
And what about the fact that, although this is a business opportunity for a lot of money, it is actually more innocent than going to buy and sell apples with the villagers.
He doesn't think that for the sake of grandiosity; what Fente thinks is just the truth.
At the very least, the foreign exchange market will either rise or fall, or remain as it was.
Even if things get complicated, a little more brainstorming shows that almost all the possibilities are guessed.
In other words, if you think carefully about who will make a profit and who will lose money from what Gerian offers to trade, then there are not so many options.
Whatever the trick of Gerian's offer, Fanta just needed to be able to make a profit and not lose money. Nothing could be more important than that.
After receiving 240 gold and hiding 2,200 gold, Fente turned to Tristral and headed for the city.
With a capital of 2,400 gold, it was an adventure that could only succeed, and now that Fente found out that the price of Tarak silver could fall, this news could be used to confirm Gerian's claims.