"Where is Sarah?" Nil asked immediately after emerging from the shadow not wasting any moment on pleasantries.
"Follow me, master. I'll lead the way." Karlac said swiftly turning around to take Nil to where Sarah is.
Contrary to Nil thought, the place where Sarah is is not far from where Karlac is as they arrive at where she is after taking a couple of dozens of step.
"Player Father, welcome." The lady Nil made the deal to mine the mana stones with some hours ago said to after seeing Nil.
"The mining operation have been going successfully without any problem, player Father. Except for some part of the wall that are too hard to excavate them.
So, I thought we should mine the part that are mineable for now and after selling some of the mana stone we can buy much more advanced mining tool to mine the hard part."
"For the main time though, I have made a log on the mining operation as it progress, what we are currently lacking and the mana stone we have mined." She then summon a book out of her inventory.
"This is the log book." Sarah said stretching the book at Nil however Nil did not take it.
"Take me to where the mana stones are stored." Nil said boring out by the report Sarah gave, already.
"Hmm, alright." She answered and led Nil to where the mana stones are stored.
But not before telling Karlac to watch over the miners while yelling at a couple of people to be more efficient with their duty.
"This is it." She said pointing at the stash of mana stones gathered in the room she brought Nil.
Well.. not really a room, since it is just a part of the dungeon that looks caved in more than looking like a room.
"Hoho." Nil mumbled in delight facing the mana stones as his eyes flash.
The mana stones are not just any mana stones, but tier two mana stones.
Tier two!
[Ding!]
[Form have been activated.]
*Whoosh*
With a single swipe of his finger all the mana stones gravitated towards him as he used [Form] to pick them all from the ground at the same time.
Then, under the speechless gaze of the lady, Nil threw all the mana stones inside his inventory.
[Ding!]
[You have added 172 piece of tier 2 mana stones to your inventory.]
"I am now richer than the whole of the players combined." Nil said as he rubbed his palm together still feeling elated.
"Richer than the players? That's a gross understatement!" Sarah chipped in behind Nil.
One had to know that a single tier 1 mana stone costs as much as a thousand gold coins. And a tier 2 mana stone?
Most wouldn't even exchange it with coins or currency because of how valuable it is.
A single tier 2 mana stone can store ten times as much quantity of mana as a tier 1 mana stone, furthermore the mana continued inside is also ten times or more than ten times as pure as a tier 1 mana stone.
So, if that difference is to be scaled. One can say that a hundred tier 1 mana stone can be exchanged for a single tier 2 mana stone.
However most people wouldn't even exchange a tier 2 mana stone with a tier 1 mana stone since the purity of tier 1 is too less.
If a person that cultivate their entire life with a tier 1 mana stone and a person that cultivate their entire life with a tier 2 mana stone is to to evaluated.
The one that cultivate with a tier 2 mana stone will easily surpass the one that cultivate with tier 1 mana stone, and also that person limit will be much higher than that of the person that cultivate with a tier 1 mana stone.
"We might currently be richer than some of the high nobles of Aurbloom kingdom."
Sarah said to Nil, recalling how her mouth had watered after discovering that the mana stones Nil tasked her to mine are tier two mana stones.
"Woman, it seems you are forgetting that we do not own the mana stones jointly."
Scrutinizing her with his gaze Nil continue.
"They are mine!" Nil claimed as he intentionally slip some intent his words— not the intent of wrath though, she might die of heart attack in the presence of even a fraction of wrath.
"And mine alone. You were only hired to sell for me and if I happen to find that you are not up to the task of meeting my standard." Nil click his tongue twice. "You are fired."
"So not think for once that because you have an SSS ranked talent you are like a treasure to me. I'll ditch you the instant you are not up to my expectations."
He said coldly as he walk out of the place and head to where they left Karlac.
One of the things he hate most is sharing things with someone, or someone coveting his stuff.
Though she haven't done much that could warrant her as coveting his stuff. He intentionally dealt with her that way so she can know her place.
"Karlac, how have things been proceeding since I left?"
"Master, let me give you the report of what has happened from the time you've left me with the girl."
Karlac said and start recounting everything that have happen to Nil without leaving any detail behind.
"Alright, continue the mining operation, let some of the workers rest for now and rotate them for night shift in order to make sure the mining is still ongoing even at night." Nil addressed.
"Understood."
Then Nil prepare to dissolve into the shadow and leave, but decided against it.
He have to to converse with Sarah before leaving and seeing that she is not emerging from where the mana stones were stored before, he summoned his status passing time with that.
"Status." He willed and then the screen unfurled.