With the Moon Pupils Elixirs sold out, no more had appeared on the Auction House for half a day, leaving every player who had managed to snatch one filled with regret as they stared intently at the Auction House listings.
"Damn it! I just got here — how are the Moon Pupils Elixirs already sold out?!"
"Ugh! I should've stopped hesitating earlier! Even grabbing just two or three bottles would've been enough for our team to use in the ruins!"
Players who had been sitting on the sidelines at the Auction House regretted not acting sooner.
Previously, they had assumed that selling one hundred bottles at once couldn't be an individual's doing. It had to be some guild or trading house trying to make money by releasing batches to drive up the price.
But after waiting over ten minutes, no second batch of one hundred had appeared…
Meanwhile, Melancholy Smile at the Candlelight Trading House was absolutely delighted.
"The absorption rate is truly astonishing. Even selling in bulk won't be a problem at this pace." Melancholy Smile looked at the 262 gold he had just received, brimming with confidence as he gripped the large stock of Moon Spirit Flowers in his hands.
Two or three hundred gold might not amount to much for the current Zero Wing Guild, but the market's powerful absorption capacity was the truly terrifying part.
The Candlelight Trading House produced massive quantities of goods every day, but just because items were crafted didn't mean they would sell immediately. It took considerable time for the market to absorb them — and some items might never sell at all, simply sitting there indefinitely. Items that could be snapped up quickly in the market were extremely limited in daily volume, aside from those ultra-rare, powerful items. And those ultra-rare items were by definition scarce, difficult to produce, and something even the guild itself was reluctant to use, let alone sell.
But now things were different. As long as Moon Pupils Elixirs were produced, the market would absorb them immediately.
In other words, however many were made, that many could be sold.
And the Candlelight Trading House had nearly a hundred high-level alchemists. As long as materials were sufficient, producing Moon Pupils Elixirs in large quantities was almost trivially easy.
During the period these elixirs were being sold, Miao Wuyin and the others had already crafted over two thousand bottles of Moon Pupils Elixirs, which were once again shipped to the Auction Houses in the major cities of various kingdoms and empires.
Earning two to three hundred gold in less than an hour — and with forty-eight hours in a single day inside the Divine Realm — meant they could easily pull in over ten thousand gold per day. That rate of earning was far faster than the entry fees collected by Zero Wing City.
Although this money couldn't change the overall balance of power, it was more than enough to resolve the Zero Wing Guild's current predicament.
As Melancholy Smile gave the order to release the second batch of Moon Pupils Elixirs, fierce competition erupted across the Auction Houses of the major kingdoms and empires. Players who had been holding back could wait no longer and decided to grab whatever they could first.
Instantly, the price of Moon Pupils Elixirs climbed once again. The previous peak of seventeen silver and fifty copper per bottle was already the highest price, but now it surged straight past nineteen silver. Another two thousand bottles were sold out in one stroke, netting Melancholy Smile over three hundred gold.
Back in Zero Wing City, Aqua Rose was bustling about frantically.
"Sister Aqua, since we posted the bounty quest, we've already paid out over thirteen hundred gold in bounty rewards. Combined with the gold in our treasury and Zero Wing City's current revenue, I'm afraid we won't last more than two days." Ya Ya looked at the skyrocketing bounty payments and said with great worry.
"It's grown that much?" Aqua Rose frowned upon hearing this.
The rate of increase was far beyond her projections. She had originally hoped to use Zero Wing City's income and their reserves to hold out for two days, but now that seemed impossible.