[Is this really your price?]
[Tell me what other conditions you have.]
[I don't believe your new to trading.]
Arthur is not stupid.
He knows the value of orange items.
Although the bones of the demon wolf are a rare item.
It is still a material after all.
If you want to use it to max effect, you need to add a lot of other precious materials.
So, while he didn't know the true value of the wolf bones he had a rough estimate.
That's why he has doubts about the price offered by the Artisan Alliance.
They must have some other requirements.
The price of the orange equipment is probably also the lowest of the low or has a very niche use making its value go down.
And the next message from the artisan alliance soon confirmed his thoughts.
After all everyone was from Blue Star.
The book of tricks used will be the same for everybody.
[We, the Artisan Alliance, can use the Mutated Demonic Wolf Bone to forge five pieces of orange equipment for you.]
[We will provide the rest of the rare materials.]
[But you need to pay us a portion of the forging fee.]
[The fee is not cheap, after all, it is orange quality equipment.]
[I would recommend, you use the mutated source crystal to exchange for the fees.]
[I'm sure you know of our Artisan Alliance.]
[If you exchange the source crystal for five orange pieces of equipment made by us.]
[you will definitely not suffer a loss!]
Staring at the other party's confident words.
Arthur stared blankly; his eyes however had a look of exhaustion plastered on them.
As he thought a scam!
The value of a mutated source crystal of orange quality can not be measured by just a few pieces of equipment.
Although equipment is good, it depends on who wears it.
Without the right heroes even if you forge a divine weapon, you may not even be able to lift it.
So, the heroes at the lord's disposal dictate the value of the equipment in his hands.
Arthur had a deep understanding of this before entering the battlefield.
In order to not be foolishly deceived.
After all, most items in the battlefield of ten thousand worlds do not have an average price.
It doesn't depend on your wants as a lord but your needs.
Lords who don't understand this will sell artifacts for dirt cheap but buy trash for a small fortune.
After all it isn't hard to be taken advantage of by people who know the market and take advantage of the information gap.
And is his opinion, the people from the Artisan Alliance have obviously taken him as a sucker.
Since they take him as an idiot.
Arthur didn't hesitate to reply directly feeling as though his pride was just attacked.
[What are you daydreaming about?]
[You want me to provide the main forging materials for the equipment.]
[You also want me to give you the more valuable source crystal]
[You would make the devil blush!]
[Do you think your I'm that easy to fool?]
[Everyone knows that forging alliances are scammers in fancy suits.]
[You will use some garbage orange equipment to make up the number of items you would owe me.]
[If I did that the demonic wolf would curse me from beyond the grave.]
[Don't embarrass yourself if you can't afford it.]
[Get lost!]
On the other end, the leader of a branch alliance within the Artisan Alliance who was responsible for closing the deal with Arthur sighed.
The Artisan Alliance had a simple model of using large guilds to take control of smaller guilds.
Similar to brands on Blue Star, as long as you paid the naming fee, you can "join" the Artisan Alliance.
After that all the equipment a guild produced could have the Artisan Alliance trademark.
But the cost of this was that the main guild of the Artisan Alliance also controls the supply of raw materials.
Relying on this business model they can harvest a lot of benefits from the smaller guilds below them.
This was the setup for a typical business alliance.
The drawback being the franchises using the name of the Artisan Alliance were also a mixed bag.
All you had to do was pay the fees besides that the main guild didn't care.
This led to countless small guilds that specialize in scamming and cheating people.
If such a franchise were to appear on Blue Star it wouldn't take long for the entire Alliance to disappear and go bankrupt.
However!
This was the battlefield of ten thousand worlds.
The main guild of the Artisan Alliance was very powerful.
It had strong forging capabilities and a monopoly on technology.
Most lords who are cheated can only bite the bullet.
There was nowhere to complain and if they did, they may not even see the next morning.
In addition, the Artisan Alliance carefully handle big customers.
Small customers were usually low-level lords and could not damage their monopoly.
This also created an arrogant attitude inside the Artisan Alliance as Arthur was about to see when he sent that message.
The small guild leader under the Artisan Alliance was now producing smoke from his ears.
[Boy, don't be ungrateful.]
[No lord in the United Kingdom of Gondor dares to provoke our Artisan Alliance.]
[This place is just a small remote kingdom.]
[if I were to give the order, I would be able to find the address to your city.]
[Then I will mobilise the arty to surround your city.]
[By that time even if you kneel and beg me it will be useless!!!]
[So, if you know what's good for you give me the items.]
[Don't worry when I'm feeling better, I'll give you a few pieces of garbage to honour our trade.]
[if you don't know what's best for you though then you can only blame yourself.]
After Arthur read the wall of text.
He couldn't hold back laughing.
Although Gondor is a small kingdom that was only compared to other kingdoms in the battlefield in reality it could be a small continent by Blue Stars standards.
What's more he is in the northern border completely isolated from the vast majority of lords.
It was a foolish dream to think he could find me any other time.
But now it was even more impossible because the kingdom is suffering from an undead disaster.
A golden-quality undead wizard polluted by the fog of war is wreaking havoc in Gondor.
The entire territory is swarming with high level undead.
Now the lords of Gondor are struggling just to keep their lives.
Now, the lord of a business alliance wants to go on an expedition to hunt me down.
Bragging is not taxable.
Must be why businessmen love it so much, like hell he can cross Gondor to get to him.
Arthur replied lazily.
[come then, I will be waiting for you with my materials waiting.]
He immediately blocked the other party.
He had wasted to much time with him already.
He still needs to make full use of the novice period and develop his territory.
As for the demonic wolf bone.
If he can't sell it forget it, I will probably be able to use it in the future.
Arthur was planning to take down the wolf bone to save himself a headache while concentrating on the territory.
When another message appeared flashing to too familiar golden light.
Thinking it another lord of the Artisan Alliance coming to harass him again he was about to block them.
But looking at the chat he didn't expect the other party to directly send him the item panel of a wonder.
There was also a message.
[Do you want to change it.]
[orange for orange!!!]
Arthur narrowed his eyes slightly looking at the item panel in the chat box.
[Temple Guardian Badge]: orange wonder, after using it, increases the probability of recruiting orange heroes of the Temple camp
The temple is a special camp force.
So far, to his knowledge no lord has been able to become a lord of this camp.
The only thing lords can obtain are some building cards of the Temple camp.
These types of building however are usable by the human camp.
They are known as the strongest front line meat shield units.
Leading them to be very popular with lords of the human camp.
However, the Temple building cards are difficult to obtain.
Not to mention the heroes of the Temple camp.
On the surface the guardian badge looks good, but it only increases the recruitment probability the prerequisite is that he already had a chance to recruit orange level heroes.
Of course, he did but the other party didn't know that.
Not taking this into account I will suffer a loss if I take this deal.
But this item is useful to me!
Especially since I have the Mutated Demonic Wolfs Skull and the mutated source crystal.
This is what I will use for my second hero recruitment.
If I get this badge, I can try my luck at a Temple hero.
My luck has always been good.
But I can't suffer too much of a loss because the other party is the one that want to exchange.
Thinking for a moment Arthur replied.
[You can exchange, but the value of this badge is too low.]
[This is the bones of a mutated demonic wolf.]
[If you have a high-level forger, you may have the chance to forge mutated orange equipment.]
[So, you need to pay more!!!]
Soon the other party responded.
[ill add another 100,000 gold coins and resources.]
[do we have a deal?]
Seeing the other party so straight forward Arthur had no reason to stop.
[Add another five green building cards.]
This was for this next city upgrade.
There value is not high.
But he is a novice lord.
Every bit saved is important, he knows there will be many places to spend money in the future.
When the other party saw his request, he was speechless, but he did not refuse.
He quickly wrapped up his transaction with Arthur on the space market.
When Arthur received the temple badge, resources and building cards he almost jumped with joy.
And saw the last message the lord had sent him.
[Add me as a friend, we can continue to trade often in the future.]
Arthur thought back to before he teleported into the battlefield.
Adding a friend will expose his coordinates, like the men before tried before.
He did not trust anyone as a "friend"
[let's talk about it later.]
After sending the message, he exited the trading channel.
"Now I have money, resources and buildings!"
"Now it's time to expand my territory!"