"Fatty, I don't know you will come this early, I thought you will be coming a little later but now...!" Ryu said immediately after getting downstairs and seeing the fatty.
Fatty Bryt immediately stand with his round body and ran toward Ryu, he looked like a rolling ball while running which looks comical.
"Ahhh...I'm sorry if I disturbed you from your sleep but I was getting quite excited because I was informed by my father that the MYRIAD BEAST FIRMS is auctioning off rare weapons and pills even medicinal herbs and many more, you won't want to miss it" the fatty rambled while crossing his hand over Ryu's shoulder.
The fatty rambled and continue.
"And I know you have a lot of spirit stones right? You really wouldn't want to miss it" the fatty added.
The fatty said and they move out of the inn walking towards the MYRIAD BEAST FIRMS.
Ryu looked at the excited fatty and shakes his head, he put his finger around his chin thinking about what the fatty said,
Though before he thought he still gets a lot of spirit stones but now he is not confident that he can get anything with the small number of stones inside his save.
After the fatty explained everything to Ryu about the spirit stones, he now understands that the stones with him are low and middle-grade ones.
And also the middle grade is in small amounts so he can't get something valuable from the auction.
He looked at the fatty and said.
"Hey fatty Bryt, how many spirit stones do you think will be needed for me to buy something good at the auction, so I can prepare well"
The fatty thought for a while and said nonchalantly
"Well to estimate, the lowest amount you should have should be about 50.000 middle-grade stones, and it may be more than that but you will still get some things from the auction"
When Ryu heard the figure the fatty said he almost stumbled from how the fatty said it nonchalantly as if the figure is a small amount of money.
'I don't even have up to 10 middle stones but this fatty is saying 50.000 middle stones 'Ryu thought desperately.
Ryu started to think about ways to get spirit stones for the auction.
'what if I sell pills..but what pills to sell, I don't even have medicinal herbs to refine high-grade pills, and the ones I picked in the way coming or the city are too low to refine any good pills to auction'
Ryu kept thinking of different ways to get spirit stones.
He thinks for sometimes when something clicked in his mind.
He had forgotten about the cultivation Techniques scrolls in his save, the skills and whatnot inside his save that are useless to him should be made useful.
And as he already has the Indestructible Primal Body Techniques and The Worldly Fist Canon, he doesn't need those Techniques, though some may be useful for him like some movement skills and other skills not part of his two major techniques.
'Maybe when I reach the auction I should sort out the skill and techniques to sell for the auction to get some spirit stones '
Ryu thought and they continue to move toward the center of the city where the auction is being held.
Fatty Bryt was curious when he saw Ryu being absentminded and thoughtful for a while but he doesn't ask Ryu anything and they continue to walk for about 20 minutes till they arrived at the big golden 3-story building.
They entered the building and Ryu was instantly amazed by the interior of the building,
Yesterday, when he comes here to register, he didn't see the interior as the registration is done outside inside a counter, though the exterior of the MYRIAD BEAST FIRMS is by itself already majestic, the interior is even more majestic.
Inside the first floor of the building, there are counters used to sell all kinds of things like the stalls Ryu first encountered when he first entered the city but this one is different.
The counter only sells one kind of thing as there is a label on them that tells what is inside the counters.
The first floor is divided into many sections that sell specific things like the pills section, Formation section, weapons section, medicinal herbs section, and other sections.
Ryu looked around the orderly sections and moved toward a particular section,
When Ryu moved toward the section, fatty Bryt followed him and asked,
"Where are you going to, you shouldn't be moving towards this place as the auction hall is upstairs, the second floor and the auction should be starting soo..." The fatty want to continue but stopped when Ryu arrived in front of a counter with the label 'Earth boost grass root ' and he started to scrutinize the herb from outside the glass around the counter.
"what are we doing in the medicinal herbs section? Don't tell me you want to buy this medicinal herb now! but this can wait till we finished the auction right? The auction is starting let's quickly move to the second floor to participate" the fatty said in a fairly urgent and high tone.
Yes, Ryu moved to the medicinal herbs section to buy medicinal herbs as he urgently needs this Earth bost grass root now to refine the Earthly breakthrough pill used by cultivators in the Earth realm which he also needs, and as he sees it, he has to get it now,
Who knows he may not find it here after the auction as the grass is quite rare, even encountering the grass root still sitting on this counter is baffling, it should have been a hot commodity but why is it still here though it's a great and rare herb?
Turning around while mumbling in confusion to spot the fatty, he urgently asked
"Do you know the name of this herb, isn't it a rare commodity?! But why is it still lying here not sold already, I'm confused " Ryu asked the fatty to clear his confusion.
With a strange expression on his face, the fatty looked at Ryu intently and when he see the dead serious expression on his face, he understand that Ryu isn't joking and doesn't know the uses of the herb, he said,
"Ohh come on... I know you don't know the uses for this herb but why are you saying it's a rare commodity? Are you kidding me,
This grass root is not a rare commodity though it is highly sort after, If because you are seeing only one of it inside the counter, it's because it is practically useless for other than being a supplement herb for a tea named spring root tea which is used in clearing peak stage man realm cultivators acupunctures in preparing for breaking through to the Earth realm
And although they get some boost when they breakthrough, that is all about it as it can only be used once, if they use it again, it will be just like they are normal bitter tea as they won't have any other boost again and the tea is naturally bitter because of the grass root so tell me who will be willing to drink bitter tea?! Huh," the fatty looked at Ryu with a questioning expression.
'Ahhh... So that's it? These people don't know the real use of the herb but use it for tea! That's ridiculous! No wonder the fatty is looking at me with a strange gaze,
Well, good for me, I will just buy it, should be cheap with it being practically 'useless' to these people
Ryu thought while smiling widely to himself and recovering from his thought to ask the price of the herb from the sales girl when he noticed strange gazes from the surroundings gazing at him
Ryu was startled and looked skeptically thinking
'why are they looking at me with those gazes, what happened, did I do something, or Is it because of this fa....' Ryu wanted to continue his line of thought when he froze, he remembered smiling when he was in thought earlier.
He smile wryly and looked around to see that the people are not looking at him anymore, heaving a sign in relief, he looked at the fatty questioning with his eyes saying ' Why didn't you warn me earlier '.
As if understanding Ryu, the fatty throw his hand up in the air and said
" I... I didn't see you when you were smiling till the people in the surroundings noticed so you can blame me right? And why are you even smiling like mad...like that earlier, don't tell me it's because of this herb? " The fatty said defending himself.
Ryu raised his eyebrows and shrugged, he didn't mind being called 'mad' by the fatty for the Earth boost grass root, he needed the herb in advancing his cultivation stages faster though it can also only be used once by him, after that he won't have any increase in cultivation stage even if he used it again.
He turned back to the sales girl and said with a smiling expression,
"Please, do you only have one of this herb as I want more than one and how much is the herb"
Though the sales girl is annoyed at Ryu she still said with a professional smile on her face.
" The price is on the tag on the counter and as you can see it's 6,000 low-grade stones customer and for now there is only one of this herb because of the disturbance by the sky firebird kingdom in the continent forest as our herb pickers can't enter the forest for now so the herb is not available for now"
Ryu gawked when he heard the price of the herb and hurriedly looked down at the tag on the counter to confirm the price, when he confirmed the price he turned back to the fatty with a slightly angry expression.
Bryt understanding that Ryu want an explanation hurriedly said,
"Though I said the herbs are not rare, I didn't say its cheap, though it is only used for a supplement, it important in the concoction of the tea, and also the fact that it only boosts a cultivator cultivation stage for a short period and can only be used once is already surprising, so it well sought but it is not rare in this part of our continent for a reason we also don't know about yet "
Ryu expression eased and nodded in understanding though he is still annoyed at how the fatty first described the herb earlier as if it will worthless and should be quite cheap.
Ryu checked inside his save and bring out his remaining small mound of 6,000 low-grade spirit stones to give the sales girl and collect the herb.
When Ryu collects the herb, he was excited and also bitter that he spends almost all his spirit stones just on a herb.
A herb!
I haven't even bought the other supplement herb for the Earthly breakthrough pill, though there should be some inside the Spacetime Void, it's not complete.
Ryu accompanied by the fatty left the counter and started to explore the medicinal herbs section to get the remaining supplement herb, though he have spent almost all his low-grade spirit stones he still has about 7 middle-grade stones which are about 7000 low-grade stones, he can still get the remaining herbs.
Unexpectedly, Ryu moved around the section when looking around and spotted all the remaining herbs for the supplement herbs, Ryu was amazed and thought that this firm deserved its reputation.
He goes around to buy them, and this time he looked the prices and pays using his middle-grade spirit stones,
And there are some herb that is almost 2 middle-grade spirit so By the time Ryu finished buying the herbs he looked a little bit sad and speechless seeing the remaining spirit stones inside his save,
There remain only 1 middle-grade stone and exactly 257 low-grade spirit stones, so he is back to being miserably poor now, Ryu thought and mumbled,
"Ah...I'm too poor! miserably poor"