"Miss Aqua Rose, may I ask what ratio you're planning to use for the purchase?" Shi Feng cleared his throat lightly and asked.
If it were before, Shi Feng wouldn't have minded taking all Credit Points, but now things were different.
While Credit Points were extremely important to Shi Feng, gold coins were also very valuable now. Especially after coming to Black Wing City — anything decent cost a fortune, and the NPCs only accepted gold coins. No money, no deal.
"It would be best if it's two percent gold coins and ninety-eight percent Credit Points. What do you think, Master Hei Yan?" Aqua Rose batted her curved lashes and said softly, looking rather embarrassed.
After all, the Gleaming design was extremely expensive, and she was purchasing in such huge quantities that even paying ten percent in gold coins would be too much for Twilight Echo to handle.
Shi Feng nearly choked on his tea.
Two percent gold coins — that meant for every one hundred gold in transaction value, only two gold would be paid, with the remaining ninety-eight percent in Credit Points. It wasn't that Shi Feng was being stingy, but that gold content was absurdly low.
"Miss Aqua Rose, now that you've come to Black Wing City, you should know how helpful the items here are for us. But everything here is incredibly expensive, and the Auction House regularly sells top-quality goods. The value of gold coins goes without saying. Your gold content really isn't enough — it needs to be at least ten percent," Shi Feng said slowly.
"I know I'm making things difficult for you, Master Hei Yan, but Twilight Echo truly can't come up with that much gold. If you're willing to lower it to five percent, I'm willing to increase the Credit Points by twenty percent. Would that work?" Aqua Rose was also quite helpless. The money in the Divine Realm was just too hard to earn. Twilight Echo's three-thousand-person gold farming team barely generated enough to fund the guild. They'd been expanding the team constantly, but it was still never enough. Otherwise, she wouldn't have been haggling.
Shi Feng pondered for a moment.
Five percent was roughly his bottom line, and Aqua Rose's offer to boost the Credit Points by twenty percent was a huge temptation. At this stage, one silver coin was worth one hundred Credit Points — its peak value. Their transaction would be at least fifty gold, and a twenty percent increase meant over ninety thousand Credit Points. That was nothing to sneeze at.
"Alright, five percent it is. How many Gleaming design sheets do you want to buy, Miss Aqua Rose?" Shi Feng nodded and asked.
Aqua Rose held up five slender fingers.
"Five sheets?" Shi Feng was taken aback.
After all that bargaining, she only wanted five? Was she pulling his leg?
Aqua Rose shook her head.
"Don't tell me it's fifty." Shi Feng was startled. At the market price with a twenty percent markup, each sheet would be three gold coins — fifty sheets would be one hundred and fifty gold coins.
Just thinking about it made Shi Feng's heart race. He hadn't expected Aqua Rose's appetite to be this massive — a single transaction worth one hundred and fifty gold, far exceeding his expectations.
That would instantly earn him several million Credit Points and give him much more confidence at the Social Mixer. After all, when it came to building a power base, money was always indispensable.
"No, I want five hundred sheets. Do you have that many, Master Hei Yan?" Aqua Rose smiled gracefully, as if she weren't buying Gleaming design sheets but a stack of blank paper.
"Miss Aqua Rose, are you sure about five hundred sheets? You do realize this price is no joke." Shi Feng wanted to confirm once more. He had to admit, Aqua Rose had truly shocked him.
That many Gleaming design sheets would be enough for dozens of top-tier guilds. Twilight Echo definitely couldn't use them all.
"Master Hei Yan, I'm very certain. But with a transaction this large, I do have one condition," Aqua Rose said with a mysterious smile.
"Go ahead," said Shi Feng.