The Merchant God

Chapter 5: Selling Point!

As the morning come peacefully, Alexander ready himself again to go outside to sell his product. “I’m gonna check with pill pavilion today and try to sell half of the potion that I have and let’s see how much can they offer.” Mumbling to himself as he make his way to the dinning hall to get some breakfast. “so, how’s yer planning working on kid? Do ya want me to help ya sell yer product?” Alexander froze at the moment when he heard what Merck said. “don’t try to deny it kid, with the explosion happening in the kitchen yesterday, I already know that yer brewing something. So what is it?” followed up by Merck to dispel Alexander’s any suspicion. After pausing for a bit, Alexander brought out a vial of apple gel potion. “it’s this. It’s called apple gel potion. One vial and it can help a normal person to recover from any non life threatening injuries.” He explained. “hmm… and yer planning to sell it to the pill pavilion is that right?” asked by Merck as an interest can be seen flashes in his eyes but only faint. “yes that’s correct. I am indeed planning to sell it to the pill pavilion.” Then he suddenly tossed one of the vial to Merck. “that’s your interest old man!” then Alexander leave to go to the pill pavilion. “I am counting on you again Shadow.” Merck mumbles to the air. “yes elder.” Then a faint gust of wind can be felt in the hall while Merck sitting in the hall, sipping his tea calmly but you can notice a bit of worry in his eyes as he stares at the exit of the dinning hall where Alexander left. “if yer really a survivor from that village, then…” suddenly he closed his eyes and a petrifying aura suddenly leak out from the hall.

As Alexander makes his way to the pill pavilion, he noticed that someone is following him. He thought that it might be one of the young master’s underling that he encounter yesterday or it might be that girl again. While he’s thinking as he walks, he readily arrive at the front of pill pavilion without him noticing and as he make his way to the front door, 2 burly man blocked his way. “our young master wants to talk to you.” Said by the burly man on the left. “please come with us in peace. We don’t want to cause a commotion here. Followed up by the burly man on the right. “is your young master is Levi Gaidar?” asked by Alexander. Both man nodded, “I can go, but can you let me through first as I have some business with the pill pavilion.” The two man looked at each other looking like they are having a hard time. “you can follow me if you want to, if nothing goes wrong, it will be aa fast transaction.” As they heard the offer of Alexander, it’s like a heavy weight that is weighting on their body and readily agreed with the arrangement.

The 3 of them make their way to the front desk of the pill pavilion. “hello sir! How can I help you?” asked by the receptionist “do you buy products here? I have a medicine that would like to sell.” Alexander told the receptionist. “yes sir! We do buy some medicinal products. Can you show me sir what product you would like to sell?”

 Alexander take out a vial with red liquid in it and told the receptionist “it is called apple gel potion. As long as it is not life threatening injury and whether is it internal or external, it would only take one vial for a normal person. If it’s a yellow ranker, they will need to take 2 vial and for blue ranker, they will need 4 vial for full recovery.” Explained by Alexander. The receptionist froze due to shock when he heard the medicine’s description. For a normal healing agent, a normal person would need to take 2-3 packets and for a yellow ranker, he would need to consume triple the amount of a normal person needed and still he would only recover 80-90% from his condition. Not only the receptionist was shocked, even the 2 burly man behind Alexander was dumbfounded on how effective the medicine is. Before the receptionist was able to reply a voice suddenly said “would it be fine if I check this potion of yours young man?” the voice came from behind of Alexander and before Alexander was able to react “my name is Lars and I am the chief alchemist here at pill pavilion.” When Alexander saw who was talking, he just stared at the beautiful man in front of him. “its this monster again” muttered to himself. “sure chief alchemist, please check it.” Coolly answered by Alexander. Lars walk past him and pick up the vial and open the lid to have a smell of the vial. “hmm… this smell… it should be authentic as per the ancient book said, though there is no apple in the recipe, there will be a hint of apple and citrus scent.” As the receptionist heard the comments of Lars, he immediately sent a notification of the manager.

“hmm… young man, where did you learn how to make this potion?” Lars asked. As Alexander was about to reply, the door at the back of the receptionist open and a big fat man appeared with all smiles. “Hello Mr. Alexander, I am the manager of the pill pavilion and it comes to my attention that you would like to sell some potion is that right?” Alexander looks at the fatty in front of him and saw some luxurious rings and jewels that this fatty is wearing. “yes that’s right I have 10 vials of this potion and would like to sell it to the pavilion and with your chief alchemist confirming its authenticity, I think we can move forward with the price.” The smiling lips of the fatty twitched a bit “no problem Mr. Alexander, we can discuss the price but I think this is not a good place for such discussion, how about you follow me in the office?” the fatty invites Alexander and Alexander nodded in confirmation and followed the fatty to his office.

Inside the office, it can be seen that the manager is living his life as it was decorated with silver and gold wares that only aristocrat can afford. “have a sit Mr. Alexander.” Alexander sat on the couch while the two burly men stand behind him. “I would like to be forward with you, I would like to sell my 10 potions for 10 silvers. That means it will be 1 silver per vial.” Alexander opens the negotiation with a high selling point. The fatty pours tea at his cup and calmly sip on it “I’m sorry Mr. Alexander, but we cannot agree on that price, how about 3 silvers? Since it is more effective to the healing agent by a bit and this price should be appropriate as we will be the one selling it to the public so there will be some fees that needed to take care off ad well.” Calmly answered by the fatty. “no, I can’t sell it to that price, I will be losing by much. How about 9 silvers.” Alexander countered offer, “it seems that Mr. Alexander is not well versed with the market, 4 silvers, that’s the most we can offer to you Mr. Alexander.” Alexander frowned “this f*cking fatty is low balling me! I the great alexander is being low ball by this meatball!” said to himself. “8 silvers that’s my bottom line. Take it or leave it.” Answered impatiently. The fatty is still calm and took a sip on his tea “as a guest of the pill pavilion, Mr. Alexander, the best I can offer is 5 silvers. You can take it to the other store but, I would like to advise you that this will be the best price you will get.” Said by the fatty and smiles. “Deal!” he take out 10 vials of the apple gel potion and the fatty gave him a pouch full of copper coins. “it’s nice doing business with you Mr. Alexander.” The fatty smiles and Alexander take his leave in the office without saying anything. Clearly he is not happy with the outcome. “f*cking pill pavilion! Hmmpt, you think you’re so great huh… once I have enough money, I will f*cking demolish this pill pavilion.” A certain killing intent can be seen on his eyes as he walk away from the office and outside of the pavilion to meet the young master of the Gaidar family.

After Alexander left the office, the manager called one of the receptionist “order our men to purchase all of the things on this list. I want it all! Understand?” the receptionist look at the list and dumbfounded. It has goat horns, sage, lavender and blood orchid listed on the paper. “yes sir, I will mobilized our men to purchase everything that is on the list.” The receptionist replied. “very good! Also, send this letter to the Paule family and called all know alchemist in our ranks as well.” The receptionist nodded and leave the office. As he leave the office, an insidious smile can be seen on the fatty’s face and a hint of greed flashes in his eyes. “hahaha… let’s see how are you gonna react with this Mr. Alexander.” A loud laughed can be heard coming out of the office of the manager.