Title: My First Trading Partner is An Awaken
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"Greetings, Henry! I have received your message."
It was Tyler.
"Yeah, I hope you can trade these things with gold." Henry replied. He had just finished talking to his father who seems to be busy now with the greenhouse.
He also collected himself and tried to see if what he did last night could affect him as it was his first killing, ah no, it's his first massacre of Aswangs.
Anyways, with the evidence that he had seen, it justifies his actions at that time. It's true that his brutality had become noticeable but when he reviewed himself, it was his first time to use it to kill those Aswangs.
He even becomes calmer when he trains himself using Ezio's Breathing technique. He did use this time to train as he waits for Tyler's reply.
"I can actually, Henry. However, can we make another contract about the payment? As you know, I have a small reserve of gold here." Tyler suggested as he is truly short of gold coins.
"No problem, Tyler. Anyways, I can't use the gold coins here in my world as I need to sell it per batch. What I want to know is if you have excellent products there that I can sell." Henry asked.
He wanted to use his trading platform to at least acquire some rare products in Tyler's world. Tyler suggested the wastewater as he had profited much on it, yet Henry reminded him about the limitation of the market.
Tyler suggested weapons but Henry didn't want them. He also suggested some low grade Breathing technique and it piqued his interest and wanted to exchange it with any C-rank he can find.
"That's only 26,400 pieces of gold coins for a C-Rank breathing technique. What you have here is 188 pieces of oil talisman and based on our agreement, a piece of it is worth 10,000 gold coins."
"Do you have any suggestions that I can concentrate on? Or why not dilute the F-rank healing potion to distribute it to the rest of the people in your world?"
Tyler is desperate as he has offered some of the excellent products he can find in Wadas City. He needed to pay 1.88 million gold coins but it will only be given after the auction that will be held by the end of the month.
"I can't use it due to the side effects of the potion. You know how embarrassing it was." Henry said, reminding Tyler about the use of the potion.
"Alright, I get it. Wait —-- are you going to use it to earn some coins from the common people in your world?" Tyler asked.
"Yes. They are my target consumers," Henry said.
"Oh, I thought you're going to sell it to those superhumans in your world." Tyler said.
"I can't sell some more magical items to them as they had created chaos already. If they have powerful weapons, a bigger problem might occur." Henry said.
"Yeah, that's true. The strong rules of this place and the awakened wouldt dare to act like they wanted to in most of the places here unless they wanted to challenge the authority," Tyler added.
"Well, if your target is the common people. I had some excellent products that you can use," Tyler excitedly said.
"Show me then, Tyler." Henry requested.
"I can't show it yet, but I'll let my servant purchase some samples for you to choose from." Tyler excuses.
As Henry waits, he tries to check his phone if there are some messages. The three Albularyos and even his new acquaintance, Diego, texted him to say thank you.
He replied to it with welcome and browsed some news on his phone but there's no news about the two warehouses he ransacked.
Henry plans to use most of it to pay for the 5 percent fee of the trading platform whenever he trades with Tyler. After he checks it with his mindscape, there are still five tons of human flesh and the corpse of Aswang that can be used as a replacement fee for his trade and not included the five warehouses, the machines and the cars.
He started to read some of the books he purchased and he truly wanted to have business to deal with. Since his father had stable profit and wanted to solely provide their basic needs, he became idle.
He now has more time for his training, and readings. Even his salt had been taken care off by the Manila Salt Trading Inc. and he just needed to pay through the bank online.
After which, he just needed to go there to collect his salt in the DnD warehouse and ready to trade it to Tyler if he needed it to.
As for trading the gold coins with Mr. Fernandez, the owner of the PAL jewelry, temporarily stopped trading gold. With his money, he can now start doing business.
However, he wanted to know if there are some products that can be traded from Tyler's world first to introduce it to his own world.
And when Tyler came online, he sent some samples to Henry along with their tags.
"This —----!"
"Are you sure that these are hot items in your world, Tyler?" Henry asked.
"Yes! The most high end there is the mirror. Have you seen how clear your reflection is when facing it?" Tyler asked.
"Yeah, I saw it. How much is the mirror by the way?" Henry asked.
"That's 2 silver coins. You can have 15 of that in a gold coin." Tyler replied.
The mirror is decent as the frame is handmade. However, with the price of gold coins at the moment, he can have hundreds of mirrors in an instant.
"I see. But I need to reject this as we have mirrors here in my world." Henry retorted.
Aside from mirrors, he also rejects products like soap, and other toiletries. Fabrics like cotton are also rejected along with the leathers, glass containers and the perfume.
Almost everything is not worth business as he finds that most are roughly done. He can have more beautiful counterparts in his world and try to sell it to Tyler but he rejects such an idea.
However, what surprises him are the three other things —-- the jade, the ginseng and the taste of the wine.
"Tyler, this stone called jade in your place, how much for this?" Henry asked.
The jade is about 350 grams and Henry checks the internet if it is what he thinks it was. Still he needed the expert's eye and planned to hire one.
"That jade?"
Since it's an exchange, Tyler raises the price to 1 gold coin. His servant, Emil, had purchased it from the merchant for only 5 silver coins. So he will still profit more than 600 percent.
"One gold coin?! That's a bargain!" Henry thought. If it's what he thought it was, that jade would have a higher value as compared to 1 gold coin in his world.
"Hey, isn't that too much? I just find it attractive so I asked." Henry said. He knew that Tyler increased the price but he doesn't know how much.
"Well, I can give you a discounted price if you buy more than ten of these for half a price." Tyler offered. Still, with half price, he still earns 300 percent.
"Maybe, I can consider that. Anyways, how about this ginseng? You claimed that it was a hundred year old ginseng. How much for it?" Henry asked again.
"That's more expensive, Henry, since it's a hundred years old. I will offer 3 gold coins. The effectiveness is a quarter that of the F-rank potion." Tyler priced.
However, in his world, this kind of root herb is far too common. He just offered it to Henry due to its medical effectiveness and popularity. He only bought it for half of his offered price.
"I see. I would like to check this if it's really about 100 years old. Can you give me a discount like the jade that you offer if I get some?" Henry asked.
"Well, if you buy 10 pieces of it, I can give you 2 gold coins each." Tyler said.
"That's awesome. So for your last item, I would also want to know how much of this wine you send here?" Henry asked.
"Ah that one, I give you 1 gold coin for a barrel of that. It's a popular wine in our place and for that, I can't give you a discount." Tyler explains.
Although with his pricing, he can only get 10 silver coins too.
"Then, give me three days to check the authenticity of some of your products here. If there is no problem, I will accept and trade with it." Henry said.
Although he has some knowledge about these three items, he still needs to ask the experts.
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After drafting the temporary contract with Tyler, Henry contacted the owner of the DnD warehouse. He also needs to empty out the tons of salt in his rented warehouse.
Henry knew that Mr. Alrik is a wine lover, so he tries to give it to him and probably ask for his expert suggestions about the wine. Although, he tried it and tried to compare it to the wine he had tasted, he knew that his knowledge about it is far limited.
As for the jade for evaluation, he could probably ask the opinion of the PAL jewelry but he decided not to since he revealed to Mr. Fernandez that he only had gold coins in his possession.
Possessing of other expensive items if the jade is evaluated as jade will be too hot for the eyes of many, even for Mr. Fernandez.
"If the evaluation is true. I might as well have established a jade jewelry shop," Henry thought.
He knew how profitable it was, and the profit is greater compared to gold jewelry only. Based on his research and readings, if the jade in his hand is an emperor jade, he would probably earn not less than 20 million pesos.
When he reached the GnD warehouse, he was immediately welcomed by the guards. After all, he rents one of the warehouses.
However, there's a rumor about the disappearance of the people and the warehouse near the company and he learns about it.
Most of the guards and the employees of the warehouse talk about the compound of warehouses managed by one of the companies of the Ortiz Family.
"It seems the warehouse disappeared without a trace, look. The compound is empty." When he went to the office of Mr. Alrik, he also heard about their talks.
With his enhanced senses, listening to the gossip is easy for him but it takes time for him to train on 'focus hearing.'
At first, it gives him trouble whenever he activates this kind of ability but eventually, after doing it again and again, he has mastered it not in perfection but enough for him to not be annoyed.
"So it was Mr. Ramirez! It's been a long time since you visited my office." Mr Alrik said in surprise.
"What can I say, I had some things to do. Here, a wine for you. I wanted to know your opinion about this since I know for a fact that you are a wine lover." Henry said.
"Of course, of course. You came with good timing, Henry. Have you heard about the OTZ group of companies?" Mr. Alrik asked.
"Yes, aren't they the companies who own many companies here and abroad?" Henry said.
After knowing that the Ortiz Family is an Aswang clan and after destroying two of their warehouses. He did a quick research about their legal front and it was the OTZ Group.
"Yes, they are basically one of the most powerful group of companies here in the country and one of them are warehouses." The middle aged man reveals.
"Yeah, I heard that your guards and your employees are talking about the sudden disappearance of the warehouses? Is that possible?" Henry acted out frowning from unbelief.
Mr. Alrik laughs about it and his merry personality is even more evident. "Yep, I am not sure how but look at the compound out there! It's really gone! The only thing that is out there are the walls of the compound and the three mango trees!"
When Henry reaches the telescope that the middle aged man used to peep on the compound that is around 400 meters away, he can surely see what he had done.
"It seems that there are people in the compound trying to know what had happened," Henry said. He was glad that he collected everything and the compound now looks desolate.
"Who wouldn't? Even me will be dumbfounded for the thieves who didn't spare even the cement and the foundation of the warehouse!" Mr. Alrik smiles as he pours the wine in his glass.
The secretary who accompany Mr. Alrik also nodded in agreement to his boss' statement.