"Let's trade the two thousand stacks I have here first," Shusheng Tanxiao said, completely reassured.
"Sure," Shi Feng smiled faintly and nodded.
Shusheng Tanxiao opened the trade window with a smile and started the transaction.
With a contract in place, even if Wei Wo Du Kuang learned the secret, he wouldn't dare break the agreement. Five thousand gold or fifty million Credit Points—and gold coins took priority in payment—Wei Wo Du Kuang absolutely wouldn't dare back out. He'd have to grit his teeth and buy fifty thousand stacks of Sturdy Stones at fifty copper per stack.
If fully paid, it would come to 250 gold. Forty-eight thousand of those stacks were obtained by flipping from an NPC, netting an instant profit of 48 gold. Plus the 10 gold from two thousand stacks, he'd receive a total of 58 gold—enough to buy plenty of good items at the Auction House and significantly boost his guild's liquid funds.
The excitement nearly made Shusheng Tanxiao shout out loud.
"So satisfying!"
But he held it in. He still had to maintain appearances.
With this much liquid capital, Dusk Echo would be able to develop faster and better. With such a contribution, he wondered how the Guild Leader would reward him.
Meanwhile, Shi Feng was also feeling great. Getting this many forging materials for just 10 gold—nothing felt better than this.
Once he returned to White River City and resold them, the two thousand stacks of Sturdy Stones alone would fetch 200 gold. If he crafted them all into whetstones, that would be 800 gold. And if he made high-grade whetstones, that would be 2,000 gold.
Though he couldn't convert everything into regular and high-grade whetstones at a hundred percent rate, making a thousand gold in profit after costs wouldn't be a problem.
And this was just two thousand stacks. If it were fifty thousand stacks, the 30,000-gold task could be solved in no time.
"Guild Leader Wei, please wait a moment. I'll go grab some more." Shusheng Tanxiao felt satisfied after receiving the money. He could now use it to purchase even more Sturdy Stones.
"Sure. Let's meet at the bank, then." Seeing the satisfied smile on Shusheng Tanxiao's face, Shi Feng couldn't help but smile too.
The bank in Black Wing City couldn't withdraw items from a personal bank, but it could store them. With Shi Feng's backpack now full, it would be inconvenient to buy things at the Auction House later, so he planned to store his items first.
As for the remaining forging materials, Shi Feng had no more expectations—he could already predict the outcome.
He just wondered what expression Shusheng Tanxiao would make when he found that the NPC selling forging materials was gone, and that no NPC would be selling materials in the future either.
Soon, Shusheng Tanxiao rushed over.
"Where is he?" Shusheng Tanxiao looked at the empty alley. Aside from a few players, the NPC from before had vanished.
"You mean that NPC selling forging materials? You're too late. That NPC's forging materials sold out ages ago. I heard they'll only be available again tomorrow."
"You guys are so naive. How could there be such a good thing selling these materials every day? I reckon this was triggered by a quest—just this one time. There probably won't be any more. Otherwise, if they sold this many stacks of Sturdy Stones every day at a limited quantity, it would break the balance. The Main God System wouldn't make that kind of mistake."
Two kind-hearted passersby players happened to discuss the matter.
"How can this be?" Hearing their helpful answers, Shusheng Tanxiao's face turned the color of pig liver. There was no way to describe his current mood. "Oh god, what have I done?"