Lightning Is the Only Way

"Do you have a Space Ring?" Gravis asked.

Whoop!

A Space Ring appeared in front of him. "Please put the things you want to trade inside and give me an offer," the clerk said.

Gravis took ahold of the Space Ring and dumped all the ore he was supposed to trade inside. Then, he pushed it to the clerk. "50,000 Immortal Stones," he said.

The clerk looked with quite some surprise at Gravis. That was a lot of money, but some people always thought that the things they had were worth far more than they actually were.

The clerk looked into the Space Ring and was surprised by the amount of ore. After that, he frowned.

"The best I can do is 25,000," he said.

Gravis raised an eyebrow when he heard that. The goal his mother had set for him was 60,000, which would be about 80% of the retail value of his ore. Usually, shops bought resources at 70% of their retail value. After all, they had to store them, which cost money and sell them. 30% profit without the added cost was the usual.

Gravis had already made an offer of 66% of the retail value, which was very generous for the shop. Yet, this guy was lowballing him with 33% of the retail value.

"50," Gravis said. "That is 66% of the retail value."

The clerk frowned. "That is incorrect. The prices recently changed, and I'm offering you 65% of the retail value."

Gravis looked at the clerk, and surprisingly, Gravis felt no sense of falsehood from him. The clerk was something like two levels stronger than Gravis, but Gravis' Will-Aura was far more powerful. He should be able to see through any falsehoods. Yet, the clerk appeared completely truthful.

Gravis frowned. The clerk wasn't lying, but his mother had quoted a different price. Something was up.

"50," Gravis repeated.

The clerk sighed. "Okay, I can go up to 27, but that is my limit. We have to store all of this ore, and it will take us a long time to sell all of it. There are only so many heirs to a powerful person in this city that require equipment."

"50," Gravis repeated.

The clerk looked at the ring, sighed, and pushed it back to Gravis. "Sorry, I can't accept this trade. Please retrieve your items."

Gravis looked into the Space Ring, and his eyes shone.

Gravis had put mountains of ore into the Space Ring, and the ore was incredibly heavy.

Yet, several tons of ore were missing.

This would be hard to notice since that wasn't even 1% of the total amount of ore, but Gravis had checked very thoroughly. If he hadn't, he wouldn't have noticed that.

some ore,

'Today is my lucky day!'

problems had just

Gravis' smirk and panicked. "Wait!"

RIIIIINNNGGGG!

off his finger and flicked it, making it

and that was precisely why he was confident of the fact that he would be able to get away with stealing a

the son of the Opposer. Yet, exactly that gave the clerk the

were weak in power, but

lower and middle world. This was usually the way the Opposer's cultivating children cultivated. This meant that Gravis

mean that he accepted the contents of the Space Ring.

and never bothered with economy or business. They were even easier to scam than the usual heirs to

Gravis a lot about common scams that some scummy shops practiced. One of these things was the underhanded pocketing of some stuff from a Space Ring. She also

mother, who was walking around with Yersi and Orthar. "Someone just pocketed something from a

she asked back with shock. "Who would be so stupid? Did you already call

"Sure did," Gravis transmitted.

Gravis," she

relevant again.

acted accordingly, bad

table and put his head in his hands. He had really screwed up this time. Why had

of

Whooom!

white robes appeared in the

Gravis. "What happened?" he asked in a

pocketed some stuff while we were negotiating," Gravis said as he gestured to the

is happening!?" a new voice appeared as someone with an indistinguishable Realm appeared inside the room. He looked around with panic and then glared

of the Average Trading

Law of Time to create an image of what had happened inside the Space Ring in the last couple of minutes. He quickly

the clerk. "Do you have

owner stepped forward. "We do such small trades without a contract due to the contracting fee. The

contract, no official trade," the man

"But-"

done business without a contract. As per the rules, everything inside the Space Ring at the time of the offer

to set us up!" the owner shouted as he pointed

accesses the Space Ring at any given time by their aura," the person said. "As long as the caller isn't an outstanding

stole a little bit! Why do we have to pay so much

to not pocket something," the man said. "You can also decline,

scammed ignorant people to make some money. When this investigator looked through their entire business, they wouldn't just have