The Merchant God

Chapter 12: The Ensuing Danger!

Lunch break, the pavilion has set up another hall where guest can eat, rest and prepare for the second half of the auction. Alexander quietly exit their room to get his earnings after the heated auction for the orange gel potion. As he make his way to the backstage to get his earnings, a pair of eyes silently watching him. “organize an elite party of rankers from the family to tail that kid once the auction ended. If there’s a chance, kill the kid and do it cleanly.” The manager instructed his subordinates. “let’s see where you escape now.” The manager calmly took a sip on his tea and a hint of killing intent can be felt coming out from the manager.

“Hello Mr. Alexander! Here’s the total earnings for your items. It’s for 4 gold and 80 silvers, since we will only be taking 10%, your total earnings will be 4 gold and 32 silvers. Since we currently short in gold currency, would it be fine if we make it into silver and copper coins?” asked by the host. “no problem!” Alexander readily agreed and receive a big cloth pouch of silvers and copper coins. As he was about to walk out of the office with a big sum of money “system detected 100 silver coins, would the host like to convert them to gold coins?” the system suddenly spoke which startled him. “holy sh*t! You can do that as well!” muttered to himself. “yes please! Convert all of my silvers into gold coins.” Alexander commanded. “calculating… there are total of 400 silvers that can be converted to gold coins. Initializing conversion…” then suddenly, all the silver and some copper coins disappear from the cloth pouch. “converting complete! Please check the panel.”

Name: Alexander F*cking Mcdowell

Age: 16

Money: 4 Gold

Power Level: 90(Mortal Rank)

Strength: 12                     Intelligence: 13

Charisma: 11                   Wisdom: 12

Endurance: 10                  Luck: 20

Agility: 12

Skills:

Hide(Mastery)                Tracking(Mastery)

Appraise(Mastery)         Apothecary (Intermediate)

Smithing(Beginner)       Haggle(Beginner)

Titles:

‘The one reincarnated for the 100th time’

‘Sole Survivor’

As Alexander reviewing his panel, he noticed that on the ‘money’ section, the previous zero has now four on it. Before he thinks of anything else, another notification came out from the system. “since host has accumulated his fortune, system quest is now open. Initializing quest system…” as the voice of the system faded, Alexander smiles and a hint of excitement can be seen on his eyes when he heard a new function of the system. “first quest – host needs to accumulate 10 gold. No time limit. System reward: Ranker System function.” When Alexander heard the quest reward, he was in cloud nine. “Finally, I was getting worried that I may not advance through the mortal realm.” As a veteran ranker, Alexander has develop a technique where he can accumulate elemental energy slowly without meditating, however this technique was obsolete as he was in the mortal realm and he can’t feel any elemental energy. But now, with the quest reward, his worries has been solved.

While Alexander is in a very good mood, in another corner of the pavilion, in the meeting room, a gloomy atmosphere can be felt. “reporting to young lady, there are some movements in the eastern forest and base on our investigation, there will be a possible beast tide may swarm here at the hidden forest village in 3-5 days.” Said by the man in black uniform. “Thank you very much! You can now return and keep us updated.” The man in black nodded and disappear. “Grampa Grease, I’m sorry to impose on you but can you help us when the time comes?” asked by Sophie. “No problem! As long as I am here, the pavilion is safe. Also, I think the two old bags also attended the auction and just hiding among the crowd.” Said by Grease. “Royal prince, please leave the pavilion after the auction immediately. We don’t want you to be in danger. I will also organize an elite team of rankers to escort you and the princess.” Said by Sophie and bows. The royal prince smiled and patted her head. “no need, I already sent a message to royal father and he will be sending a team of red rankers and a bronze ranker to help with the beast tide and they should arrive in 2 days.” Sophie can’t helped but be touched with the royal prince help. “don’t worry sister Sophie, Big brother will not let you be in any danger!” a mischievous smile appear on the royal princess.

After lunch break, the second half of the auction is about to start hence all guest return to their own VIP room. Alexander also return quietly. “where have you gone kid?” asked by Grease. “just collected my earnings and you?” Alexander answered. “I had a meeting with Sophie. Also, after this auction, I may not be able to return with you as I will be staying here for the mean time.” Said Grease. Alexander nodded and suddenly a voice was heard on the stage. “welcome back ladies and gentlemen! For the second half of the auction, there are only a few items that our pavilion will auction off.” Then a maid holding a box appear on the stage. As she open the box, it contains a dagger. Upon seeing the dagger, all of the rankers in the auction hall has a serious face as they can feel that the dagger is not simple. As a silent atmosphere envelop the hall, the host smiles and said “this dagger is called Silent Reaper.” Then he pick up the dagger and infuse a bit of elemental energy and a cold piercing aura was unleashed by the dagger. “as you can see, this weapon is perfect for covert ops or assassinations or if you have elemental affinity with water or cold attribute, this weapon, will bee perfect for you. The starting price of this dagger is 45 silvers and every raise must be 1 silver or higher. Let the auction start!”

As the host hit his gavel on the podium, the rankers was thrown into chaos. Some rankers panic due to the weapon’s ability, some where excited and some where scared. Suddenly a voice was heard in the royal room “The kingdom will offer 5 gold coins for the dagger! As this dagger is perfect for his Majesty’s techniques. I hope seniors would not fight for this dagger and as previous agreement, I will not bid to the other items as long as we get the dagger.” The royal prince said. The rankers stayed silent as a response. “5 gold once… 5 gold twice… 5 gold… sold! Congratulations to his highness!” the host hit the gavel on the podium and instructed the maid to deliver the dagger. “for the next item…” after the host said it, 4 maids appear on the stage with vials of potion. “this vial of potion is called the apple gel potion.” When the sects and rankers heard this, another commotion exploded. “Silence please… since we are all familiar with the potion, as per the seller, we will also sold this by batch of 5’s and since we have 40 bottles of potion, there will only be 8 batches and per batch, the price starts at 20 silvers and every raise must be 50 coppers and up. Let the auction begin!” as he hit the gavel on the podium, he was expecting a swarm of offers, however what he didn’t expect is that, the crowd was silent. Some raises their eyebrow when they heard the price and some frown.

In another room, Alexander is smiling! “hahaha… die you f*cking pig! You want to steal my profit! In your wildest dream!” laughing and cursing in his heart. In the room of the pill pavilion, the manager is about to burst in anger as no one is bidding for the potion. “why are you not bidding you stupid fools!!! This is the legendary potion in the ancient times!!!” the manager wanted to shout at the crowd however he didn’t do so. What the manager didn’t know is that a rumor has already started to spread in the hidden forest village, sleeping forest village and other villages regarding the recipe on how to make the potion hence all of the guest was expecting the potion can be around 2 silver max per potion if we consider profits. However the seller wants to sell it for 4 silvers per vial. “f*cking hell! Is the seller trying rip-off these rankers?” Grease can’t help but comment. As no one is bidding, the host is already sweating profusely and after a few more moments, a voice was heard on the royal room “seniors, since no one is bidding for these items, would it be fine if the kingdom bid for this items?” as the royal prince ask the crowd, some rankers pondered about it. “the blue dragon sect and the red crow sect would like to offer 15 silvers for each batch. If the seller agrees to it, then we will purchase one batch each.” The elders of the sect spoke. When the manager heard the offer of the sects, he almost fainted in anger. To coup with their losses, they will need to at least a vial of potion for 5 silvers, that is why he made the starting price at 20 silvers per batch. However, what he didn’t expect was instead of bidding for a high price, the sect offer a cheaper price.

As the manager was recovering from his shocked, another voice was heard in another VIP room. “if the sect is offering that much for a batch of potions, then we the Gaidar family will offer to the sects that we are also selling apple gel potion for 1 silver and 50 coppers per vial.” Leonardo said. Alexander gave a thumbs up to the Gaidar family as they didn’t try to scam this rankers and sect. “as a merchant, trust is the most valuable currency you can provide to your customers.” Muttered to himself. As the sects and aristocratic family heard the offer of the Gaidar family, they were excited to the point that they want to raid the Gaidar family. “however there is a limited supply and I hope you seniors understand hence we can only accept a limited order of 300 – 400 bottles every two months.” When the crowd heard the follow up, they calmed down. As for the manager, due to the burning anger and hatred, he puked blood and lost his consciousness. When the host heard what happen “since there’s no one bidding for the potion and the seller is currently out, we will proceed on the next item.”

“Hahaha… die you f*cking fatty!!!” Alexander can’t help but laugh and curse at the same time. In the pill pavilion’s room “stupid f*cking fools!!!! You will pay for this humiliation!! Gaidar family!! Very good! Very good indeed!!” the fatty stand up. “get the carriage ready! And tell the Beastmaster to start the tide immediately!” As the fatty instruct the receptionist, the fatty left the room.