Reincarnation Of The Strongest Spirit Master

Realising this made few quite enraged as they took this as an insult to their ego. Of course, they were just bleeding inside from the loss they suffered by William's rejection. Driven by greed, they refused to deliver the promised goods to the fat merchant.

That made that merchant exert more effort and strike more deals with other merchants to supply what he lacked. Thankfully he distributed the goods before among everyone. When few refused to cooperate, he could still fulfil William's needs from others.

"Here," and when he sat back on his seat, he extended his hand with a black ring. William received the ring, examined its content to find to his surprise that this dude brought back more than what he asked for.

"Don't give me that look," the merchant got what went inside William's mind just from the momentary change in his face, "I had to add extra to guard against the greediness and stubbornness of others. The extra amounts are all on the house, and you don't need to pay more than what you asked for."

"Thanks," William wouldn't say no to such a generous offer, "how much do I have to pay?"

"Well…" when William mentioned this point, the merchant forgot all about his exhaustion, and his face brimmed with a bright smile, "the cost of everything inside is four hundred thousand, fifty-three thousand, and twelve spirit crystals."

"And?" William didn't immediately act and kept fiddling with the ring he received while gazing up and down at the merchant.

"Ahem… I already gave you twenty percent off as a VIP customer of my stall. Not to mention I added at least thirty percent of what you asked for… So…"

"Let's round the price then," William knew the offer seemed a bit generous and fair, but he was well aware of how greedy the nature of any merchant was, "I'll pay four hundred thousand only."

"This…"

And for the next hour, the two kept hustling back and forth about the price. In the end, William paid the price he wanted, with ten thousand spirit crystals extra.

It might seem like a big loss to the merchant, yet with the look on that dude's face after concluding the deal, William knew he still ended up winning a lot!

Of course, most of the gains came from the difference in price between what William asked for his cores and what this merchant could get from behind them.

During this entire time, the merchant wasn't just dealing with the greedy merchants. He already fetched many messengers to the customers he had in mind, and already secured good deals for these cores.

William paid eleven dark gold cores and got in return thirty thousand spirit crystals on the spot. At the same time, he sold five more and gained two hundred thousand spirit crystals extra.

From just this deal, he managed to sell his cores with a low price in the eyes of the merchant, but a good price in the eyes of William.

Such a deal would spread over the merchant circle, and it was expected for Berry's grandfather to hear about this. The response of that old man was predicted by William, and the latter was quite sure next time he'd arrive here, the prices of these cores would fall to the rock bottom.

So, William decided to take such a chance to liquify more of his cores and secure enough crystals for his future plans.

After taking the ring and finishing all the deals with the merchant, the latter escorted William out from the entire market zone, under the envious and greedy eyes of his friends and colleagues.

William could feel daggers of enmity and greed issuing at his back while he left the market. He didn't look anyone back in the eye, leaving a backdoor for any future potential work chances with them.

Depending on a sole merchant was a mistake. Monopoly was always the root of misuse and evilness. William returned back to his home and then checked the content of his ring.

"The quality of this ring isn't bad," this was the third ring William got after coming back in time. And the space inside was at least double of any of his other two rings.

Right now, there were lots of things stored inside his black ring, chaotically messing up the space inside. William planned to start organising the three rings' content after returning home. And once he arrived there, he locked on himself, before sorting things out and arranging all the harvest he gained from different sources.

And he started with his black ring first.

As the merchant said, and he wasn't lying, there was at least thirty percent extra in any single item William asked for. Even in weapons and gears, William got extras than what he asked for.

The quality he asked for was all silver grade, decent silver grade weapons and gears. These weren't that costly to him right now, at most would cost eight thousand crystals per piece at the market price. And William was sure he got these almost at half of their selling prices.

As for the ring itself, William doubted its price to be as high as fifty thousand crystals or even more by market rates. Running a fast calculation over everything he got, he estimated that he'd have to pay at least six hundred thousand crystals if he decided to purchase these items personally, one by one.

Of course, the merchant managed to secure low prices for him using his relationships and ties with other merchants, and by asking for a large amount of each item. On top of that, the merchant even gave him a good discount that was close to thirty percent compared to the total market prices.

The merchant might have lost close to two hundred thousand crystals, but that wasn't true. The deals he reached for the sixteen cores William gave him were enough to secure more profit than such loss.

Merchants would never strike a losing trade, even if sky would fall and land would turn apocalyptic!