Title: My First Trading Partner is An Awaken
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"10,000 gold coins!"
Henry was stunned when he heard Tyler's offer. It was the price he offered for a single oil talisman.
He thought that he would raise the price to about 100 gold coins but his trade partner is offering him 40 times greater than what he intended.
"Yep, it's the maximum amount that I can offer you if you manage to give me this oil talisman," Tyler said as they conversed using the platform.
"I didn't know that the talisman is highly appreciated in your world." Henry commented as he still thinks that the price is too expensive.
By normal range, the oil talisman is worth 20.95 million pesos if the gold is converted to his currency. However, he knew this was far-fetched.
He knew that even with his gold coin in his room that is now about 5,900 pieces of gold coins after dealing with Tyler, he can't immediately convert it to cash. Thus, a closet millionaire as what had been pointed out.
"It is. Can you possibly provide some pieces every month?" Tyler asked. For a rare A-rank detection talisman, the fair price is around 20,000 gold coins or more.
He needed to bait Henry to trade him the oil talisman with a high price even if he only earns 50% of the profit. Although he knew that his trade partner had stacks of gold coins, it's the only thing that he can offer.
'Unless, I can trade him some magical items which in my authority and means, I'm still limited to those fancy things,' Tyler thought.
"It's actually a generous price. If that's the case, I will try my best to at least secure some of it," Henry assured.
"Thanks Henry. Anyways, since I had reached you out for this, why not trade another wastewater with you?" Tyler suggested.
"Let's do it, Tyler." Henry agreed.
Tyler explains that these are the wastewater that had accumulated in his villa that were purchased by his attendant, Emil.
There are another 2,100 cubic meters of wastewater in his villa and in front of the villa as he had instructed Emil to use the 7,000 gold coins to purchase the wastewater alone.
There are certain accidents that happened along with the inventory of the said wastewater. He doesn't want to repeat it again as the weeds are growing exponentially in their area.
"Here is the full 21 tons of salt. Do check it in the substation trading platform storage, Tyler." Henry didn't hesitate to buy the green liquid.
As a recap, he only seems to pay 148,600 pesos worth of the liquid green solution but gained hundreds of times as he used it to their 1,200 square meter greenhouse with hydroponic setup.
The only hustle in his part is the hauling of the salt in the warehouse where his supplies were stored from.
"Alright, I will send to you the rest along with the other wastewater as I truly need to dispose of it," Tyler gladly accepted the 21,000 kilogram of supplies.
They closed the deal with a win-win deal. Tyler got his stocks and a promise of another great product from Henry's world while the latter got another huge volume of wastewater.
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"Brother! Fear my fist!"
Dylan exclaimed as he hit Henry. They were matched up in a fight in the small gym they made concealed from the prying eyes of their neighbor.
Henry easily dodge the attack coming from his brother. The sparring is intense and creates a pressure sound that whenever Dylan releases a punch, a sound of power is created.
Bang!
Bang!
If someone would see them, it was like a boath of really strong individuals as their speed is too fast for a naked eye to see.
"Tsk.tsk. Come on bro! You can't even hit me with those punches of yours!" Henry teased.
"You're too fast, bro! And the heck! This is frustrating!" Dylan tried to land a hit again but he failed miserably. He was drenched with sweat while Henry was smiling at it without even forming a single drop of sweat from his forehead.
It was five days after Henry's encounter with the Sales family, Mang Dondon and the Aswangs. Yes, it took him such time to calm down and accept it wholeheartedly that even with his composed face during the encounter, he is not calm.
Thus, for the past four days, he trained and trained until he finally reached about 80 percent to breakthrough E-rank power. He can feel it and with the booklet he managed to trade from Tyler, had given him indicators about the changes.
Although the booklet only provided information until the C-rank breakthrough, it was still helpful for him.
In this time also, he finds that all of his family had already reached the optimized version of themselves and since Dylan is also training in the track and field of their school and is also interested in boxing, he asked him to have a fight with him.
Now, this is the result.
"Bro! Let's take a break, I'm so tired as he had been here for two hours! How come you didn't even sweat?!" Dylan asked.
"That's a secret for now. Your strength, I believe it will be dangerous if you fully utilize your power in punches, it will lead your opponent to the hospital, or even worse, to the morgue."
"Just like me, I think boxing will be a good sport for you to at least manage to control your upper body strength," Henry advises as he also sits beside Dylan while the latter is drinking water.
"Yeah, I have been breaking things in the house lately, even father had broken some of his tools while working in the greenhouse," Dylan laughs as he remembers what made his father frustrated.
Just like him, his father had already optimized his body and may even have achieved it before him since he has a lot of time to do so.
"Worry not about father, I think is managing himself in his own way. You see how he enjoys his farming and seems to prefer to live in the greenhouse if you didn't remind him to eat his meal."
Henry had encountered this also. His father's routine now is to cook meals where the vegetables and spices are harvested in the greenhouse and then, until the afternoon, he would spend his time in the greenhouse.
"Yeah, he needed to as he had been greedy with the profit. You had reminded him to control the quantity of the green liquid solution yet he was still trying to experiment the extent of the solution's capability." Dylan said as he smiled when he remembered one thing.
"You should have witnessed how Almirah and Shienna got involved when dad broke one of the pvc pipes where a lane of vegetables was destroyed. The liquid solution is so strong that the weeds grow like a forest in just a single day inside the greenhouse. The two were asked to pull those weeds and their faces can't even be painted as it was too ugly to look at!"
Dylan told what he had witnessed. Henry also laughs as he can imagine the faces of his two sisters.
"Brother, that liquid solution is truly amazing! And just like you said, it was only possible to use for this kind of setup as it would literally make a small amount of such a solution to make a forest out of it," Dylan praises.
"I know, that's why we need to keep this as secret as possible," Henry reiterates.
However, one of the things that he keeps secret is his addition of the white powder from the crystals that would increase the bone density and muscle strength of his family.
He stops using it as Tyler instructed that a person can only consume 300 grams of it. Consuming even further will not be helpful. His saving plan is to ask them to drink the F-rank healing potion once a week for his family to flush down those toxins that had accumulated in their body and of course to increase their mental aptitude too.
"Bro. After sparring for two hours a day, I seem to control some of my strength. This is more effective along with jogging and running," Dylan said.
"You see. It's effective. I trust that you don't reveal it to your sports career, Bro." Henry said.
"I know bro." Dylan replied.
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While the Ramirez family continued doing their own thing, Francis Morante, the son of the former mayor had some plans in mind.
After three weeks of staying low as he was grounded by his father, he wanted to take action against the Ramirez Family, specifically Dylan whom he had a grudge against.
As a bully, he had some connections with one of the group of delinquents in the city. In a city with more than a million residences, such things are common.
These are the gangs that riot in the streets at night, they do thievery in the crowds, they collect protection fees in secret and vandals on the street walls.
"Francis, my friend, 20,000 pesos is enough to beat up Dylan, silly." Luis said.
"Thank you, Luis. That guy made me stay in the house for weeks and yet my father wanted me to not go against the Ramirez Family again." Francis said.
"Well, your father is a wise man bro. Why not heed his advice?" One of his friends, Dyana said.
If Luis holds the BLD gang as they used his establishment to waste their time in the billiard hall and just standby outside the vicinity of the bar, Dyana Gomez is on the lighter side.
Dyana Gomez is one of the family friends of their Morante Family and had been with him as they grew up. She is a good friend and smart ass one.
Agreeing to Willy Morante's decision against his son made Francis roll his eyes from irritation.
"Come on Dyana, that guy is poor enough and I think Luis can dispatch some of his newbie group as their initiation rites," Francis said and even suggested to Luis.
"Hey don't antagonize me, Francis. I'm a friend here and just so you know, the listed company of your father had lost around 5 million due to that video that was released anonymously," Dyana remembers.
"I know, that's why we make sure that we beat him in some secluded place. We have a lot of it in the city," Luis interjected.
"Just make sure to do it without leaks. I'm pretty sure your dad will be very upset when he learns about it. He had already warned you," Dyana yielded.
She knew that Francis had this attitude of unforgivingness and she can't help but wonder why she stays as a friend to someone like him. She is smart, yes, but she was attached to these guys.