An Extra’s POV

Profit and Loss

Buying and Selling.

Stakes and Rewards.

Business was simply a complicated game where the players were the buyers and sellers.

In the end, both sides wanted to win, and it was often the case that only one party became ultimately victorious.

The seller would desire to sell at the highest price possible, while the buyer desired to get the product or service at the cheapest rate available.

In the end, the one with the lesser bargaining power or skill ended up losing and compromising their positions.

That was how Rey saw it.

"It's not technically a lie…" He smiled at Noah, who didn't wholly understand his thought process.

"Don't worry. I doubt it'll get to that level."

The United Human Alliance was in a precarious state. Rey doubted they would have the luxury of worrying about where Rey got a single Enchanted Item.

'I even asked Aldred, and unless the item is appraised, there's no way of telling what it really does…'

Why would the United Human Alliance go to all the trouble of yanking off and appraising the property of one of their strongest assets?

It was never going to happen.

'It's a relief we're able to use Enchanted Items now, though.'

Rey wondered what his classmates had gotten with their Gold Coin.

'I doubt they'd spend it wisely…'

*********

'Ahh… I was right!'

As Rey joined the gathering students at the agreed-upon rendezvous point, he could see the junks they were proudly holding in their hands.

could make out from all their chattering, he realized that those were the

wanted to slap his

wasn't their fault that they weren't financially literate in

'Oh wait… it is!'

that if his classmates had taken their time to study the economics of H'Trae, or at least that of the United Human

of a Gold Coin. Look at how they're all

grinning faces of merchants who had taken advantage

very sure they had just popped up in stalls and asked "Hey, what can I

a result, they

And the worst part?

things are

got so much just from a

ate till my belly was

got a lot

were so impressed with what they had gotten that they

silver coin, idiot!' Rey wanted to yell out, but he maintained

from what he was hearing his classmates say, they didn't go to

some point, he grew exasperated with hearing their adventures that he shut his ears off from their noise and focused

what

boy at the center of the group didn't seem to have anything in particular, so

that stranger I saw back then,

Adonis with a mask, and

met someone who looked exactly like them—or who resembled them to a fault, so it wasn't all too strange to

and lookalikes exist

voice startled Rey,

everything out, that he

He glanced behind him and saw

me, Trisha." He rubbed his head as

she

very seductive body already

to maintain a balance between his teenage hormones and his

and very tight jeans today…' His

Trisha liked wearing stuff like this, but after hearing her talk to one of her new friends about it, he finally got

move in, since to her it feels like

Rey that wasn't

since she had no extraneous material hindering her movements and fluidity, but Rey