Chapter 1651

After all, there are ways to bypass the agreement, but they're definitely not legitimate channels.

A lot of things are hard to explain.

But they do exist.

Treating the agreement as absolute truth would be utterly naive.

So this time, let's set it at 48,000 gold coins.

If the cooperation goes well, we can gradually expand the transaction limit later.

The first thing to confirm is the Angel Bloodline — that one is a must.

Originally, it was estimated that it would finish growing in one month, but now it seems that timeframe was vastly underestimated.

After all, Hillier had never seen an Angel Bloodline sprout before; she estimated based on the Sprite Bloodline, so of course the estimate was way off.

And it's not just this case.

That previous "Werewolf Race Bloodline Sprout" also took over a month to finish growing, and in the end it only finished after absorbing one Werewolf Bloodline — and it advanced into a "Primitive Noble Werewolf Race Bloodline."

Even a Werewolf Bloodline Sprout takes this long to grow, let alone an Angel Bloodline Sprout, and a Primitive Angel Bloodline Sprout at that.

So.

If Zhao Chi doesn't absorb an ordinary Angel Bloodline and lets it grow naturally, he estimates it would take at least one year, or even several years, to finish growing.

This is something he can't afford to wait for.

Then let's buy it.

No matter how expensive, it's worth buying.

"Hillier, how much is an ordinary Angel Bloodline? Do you have it on record?"

Shopkeeper Wanyan looked at Gu Qing in surprise: "Hillier? Who is that? Young Lady Zhao Si, are you asking me?"

"Oh, right, sorry — I was just thinking of someone else. Slip of the tongue."

"Heh, no worries. I often have one thing on my mind and end up saying the wrong thing out loud. We haven't sold many ordinary Angel Bloodlines — one went for the normal transaction price of 23,500 gold coins, and one went for 33,500 gold coins through auction. The difference is quite significant, but since the latter was the auction price, I can estimate it for you at 23,500."

"Alright."

"But Young Lady Zhao Si, Angel Bloodlines are very rare. Are you sure you want to entrust us to do a full sourcing for you? There's a very real chance we won't be able to find the goods and a large sum of gold coins will be wasted for nothing."

"Let me confirm one more thing — entrusting you to source goods for me shouldn't just mean pulling from your own Ruby Chamber of Commerce inventory, right? If the goods I need are available at other local trading houses, you'll purchase them and bring them over too, correct?"

Shopkeeper Wanyan nodded repeatedly.

"Exactly. We'll first search our own inventory — if it's there, great, we'll just transfer it directly. If not, we'll search across all the cities where the Ruby Chamber of Commerce operates, including purchasing from other trading houses or finding it through our network. That 5% information service fee goes toward all of that."

"Alright, that's fine then."

"Let me confirm with you again — 5% comes to 1,175 gold coins. That's a lot."

Of course it's a lot…

Zhao Chi had just calculated it too.

But there was no choice — if Zhao Chi had to find an Angel Bloodline on his own, it would be an exhausting ordeal.

Letting the entire Ruby Trading House search across those cities together, spending those 1,175 gold coins is acceptable.

After all, the odds are far, far higher than if Zhao Chi searched on his own.

This is a necessary cost.

But it doesn't matter.

This expense is only the price of 78 pairs of silk stockings.

He can just make more stockings and sell them when the time comes.

A trivial matter.