”I am selling them per kilogram, they ’re pretty light so you can get around ten for a gold coin. How about that? ” Asked the Mountain Giant.

A gold coin was able to feed a commoner family for a month, but for expensive merchandise like this, only ten were worth that, even if these were actually cheaper than they are originally. He probably is reselling them of course, that ’s how he makes money and how merchants ’ profit from traveling around, they buy and sell, they never just magically find things to sell, they do investments and find places where they ’re rare and sell them off. They ’re part of how societies advanced into modernity in Earth, as they were able to connect people and cultures all for the same sake… profits! …And surviving, I guess.

A Gold Coin is around a Hundred Silver Coins, so each Spirit Stone is ten silvers? I guess… He could had made a price for me and sold them cheaper like 90 Silvers for it, but maybe he ’s already making me a price and he ’ll tell me he ’s selling them at 11 Silver Coins instead or something like that, which is obviously false, this is how merchants sell, they ’re always making ”offers ” but these ”offers ” are actually just the normal price and they add an even more exaggerated expensive price to the side and scratch, making it seem as if this is being sold very cheap and you cannot miss it, very simple mental manipulation that actually works a lot, more than it should… This is why I believe that a good merchant is never honest.

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Nonetheless, I was loaded with gold coins, so I easily bought several kilograms, anyways! I already had made a big amount of money out in the Orange Village by selling all the mana stones I wanted to sell. Of course we are keeping a lot for our own people and the three- well, four counting my castle sects that we are maintaining, each one of those got their own small economy so I cannot simply extract all of their resources to make myself some money, I have to be equal if possible and be considerate with everybody so everyone can be happier.

”Okay then, I am buying twenty kilograms for each one. ” I said. I quickly took out twenty gold coins and paid them to the man.