Kael screamed out loud in pure shock and disbelief.
He even took a few minutes to process what he had heard.
"Eren, did you say they want us to buy everything?!"
Kael wanted to make sure he had heard it right once more.
"Yeah, they want you to buy everything. Redo all your calculations and send them to me immediately."
With that, Eren cut off the call without speaking further.
A wicked smile formed on his lips as he imagined his friends' current facial expressions.
His focus then shifted to the other items in his account.
"Alpha Core Fragment is currently selling at the price of 230,000, Gloomfang Heart is selling at 195,000, Shadowstep Boots are selling at 1.05 million, and Lesser Elixirs are out of stock with a lot of demand to buy them even at the cost of 11 million alliance dollars."
Unlike spirit stones, the tax for selling and buying items was fixed at 5 percent, which would be included in the buying and selling price.
"First, I should sell these little by little."
After pondering for a moment, Eren decided to place 100 of each item on an online auction with a minimum price.
Alpha Core × 100 — 200,000 each
Gloomfang Heart × 100 — 180,000 each
Shadowstep Boots × 100 — 1 million each
Lesser Elixir × 100 — 10 million each
He also enabled the option for buyers to purchase items individually by placing their bids from the batch of 100.
After that, his focus shifted to the most important issue he was facing right now.
"My inventory is lacking storage space. I need a storage item with a lot of space..."
Eren's heart still ached when he remembered how many drops he had abandoned in the dungeon because of his incapability to carry them.
When Eren searched for storage items, lots of images of rings appeared one by one.
Curious, he scrolled down and saw an advertisement with an attractive headline.
The price of storage rings started at 10 million alliance coins for a ring with 5 cubic meters of space.
"What the hell?!... This is... too cheap!..."
Eren exclaimed in shock.
He had spent billions worth of spirit stones just to get 1 cubic meter of space, while the Awakener Association was mass-producing and offering such storage items at dirt-cheap prices.
Eren felt like he had been scammed.
He entered the chat section to find out more.
[Host#70068821832: Who needs storage rings and who does not? Are these storage rings worth the price? Why is there a storage ring with the same space but showing a higher price? Here are the answers to all of your questions:
First of all, we all know how inefficient our inventory skill is when it comes to storing a lot of items. Leveling it up in its initial stages seems much easier, but each time the inventory skill levels up, it needs double the amount of spirit stones for the next level, which is very costly even for rich people in our society. Only fools would level up their inventory beyond level 10.]
"..."
Eren paused in the middle as black lines appeared on his forehead.
[That is where storage rings come into play. They offer a huge amount of space to store your items. Depending on your purpose, you could choose to buy rings with preservation effects or without any additional effects. Preservation effects could prevent corpses and food items from getting spoiled. So they cost more.
Unlike inventory space, which stops the flow of time and space inside it and stores items in the same condition, these rings are a little inferior as the time flow inside the ring is the same as outside.
Not only that, they could be easily stolen by thief profession holders and are easy to transfer ownership of by overwriting your spiritual signature. So be careful.
I wouldn't recommend Tier 2 or below profession holders who earn less than 5 million to buy storage rings at all. Buying a high-end truck for transportation would be a better choice.
Only people who have the necessity to store higher-value items and have the strength to protect them should buy one.]
"People who can protect the storage ring should buy one, huh?... This guy posted this message under the association advertisement about security issues... and no one corrected him..."
Eren seriously admired the courage of the person who posted this.
There were naturally some classes that awakened with professions that could lead them astray, like thief professions, which were also rare-grade professions like shapeshifters.
There had been countless cases where violence and theft kept happening inside dungeons and in the wilderness outside the cities.
What happened to his father was one such example.
When people reached level 10 and got permission to go outside the city's protection, they had to protect themselves not only from monsters but also from fellow humans.
Eren filtered out rings with below 100 cubic meters of space with preservation effect and set the price range as 700 million alliance coins.
His eyes fell on a ring that exactly fulfilled his condition.
[Preservation Storage Ring (Tier 3)
Type: Storage Ring
Storage Capacity: 300 Cubic Meters
Additional Effect: Preservation
Cost: 690,000,000]
Eren immediately placed the order and paid the money.
His balance fell to 27.9 million in an instant.
"Damn, it's really easy to spend money!"
"This storage ring also isn't available in this branch. It shows two days' time to arrive here."
Eren wasn't planning to raid dungeons again before he upgraded his skill and gets the storage ring, so he leaned back in the chair in a relaxed manner.
"I already have enough items to sell and I don't want to raid any dungeon soon either... What should I do now?... Should I go somewhere to fool around?"
Eren took out his phone and called Kael to enquire where they were, but before he could speak, Kael's urgent voice was heard from the other end.
"Eren! You called at the perfect time. Come immediately to the location I sent. We need your opinion right now."
The call ended just like that.
Kael didn't let him speak at all.
When he opened the location, it showed the Golden Plains Real Estate agency headquarters.
"Well... it's not like I have anything to do right now..."
Eren arrived at the location in 20 minutes, as the association building was close to it.
The tall four-story building made of glass walls stood proudly, and the words Golden Plains were etched at the top so anyone could see.
It's a very famous real estate agency all across the empire.
Dorian, Kael, Rowan, and Lyra stood outside nervously.
Only after seeing him arrive did their faces lighten up a bit.
"Eren, we didn't know the exact requirements or the limit of funds we have to spend. We also didn't know the value of lands, so we need your opinion on choosing them."
"Okay..."
Eren followed his friends into the building with a slight smirk on his face as he saw them like this.
'It seems these two days won't be as boring as I thought...'
When everyone pushed open the door, the sound of the bell on it rang and announced their arrival.
A woman with blonde hair, dressed in office attire, greeted them with an enthusiastic smile on her face.
"Welcome to our Golden Plains real estate agency... how may— huh..."
In the middle of her sentence, her smile froze as her eyes shifted from their faces to the clothes they were wearing and finally to their shoes.
Her twisted into pure disgust.
"Tch..."
With a click of her tongue, she directly went to another staff member behind the counter.
"Hey Alex, some poor school kids came here... go and deal with them. I don't have time to waste on poor punks..."