Chapter 533

Zhao Chi said, "Sure."

The female sales associate raised her hand enthusiastically. "This way, please follow me."

They crossed the clothing store's main hall and came to a side room beside it.

There were very few people here, only an old man asking the sales associate some questions.

Zhao Chi followed the female sales associate to a counter.

The female sales associate introduced them eagerly:

"Sir, please look this way."

"Let me show you three options.

"First, this one is an improved baseball cap. Although it's only an improved type, it's of excellent quality.

"It adds a total of 40% to your Learning stat, which can greatly boost your experience gain.

"Whether you're leveling up or raising skills, it'll significantly speed things up.

"It only costs 8,399 copper coins.

"The second option is this super-improved scarf. Although it's of fine quality, it's a super-improved fashion item after all, so its stats are stronger.

"It adds 15% to your Learning stat, plus 30% to your Efficiency stat.

"And right now it's on sale, only 10,888 copper coins.

"The third option is relatively more expensive.

"It's a pair of premium super-improved wrist guards, which add 60% to your Efficiency stat.

"If you have production needs, these wrist guards will meet them perfectly.

"But please note, that 60% boost only applies to the Efficiency stat, not actual efficiency.

"In reality, it only raises crafting efficiency by 37.5%. You must be aware of that, right?

"These wrist guards cost 22,999 copper coins.

"Which one suits you?"

None of them were cheap.

All were more expensive than normal fashion items.

But this was a luxury store after all, with a hefty markup.

Zhao Chi asked, "Do you have any better fashion items that boost the Learning stat?"

The female sales associate shook her head. "I'm terribly sorry, sir. Anything better than that baseball cap would have to be a super-improved fine or excellent fashion item, but those are hard to come by. We don't have any in stock right now."

Zhao Chi nodded. "Alright, how many of that baseball cap and these wrist guards do you have?"

The female sales associate was stunned for a moment.

Then she felt her heart pounding wildly.

She said carefully, "There's only one baseball cap, but we have seven pairs of wrist guards. How… how many do you need?"

Zhao Chi smiled. "I'll take them all. Can I get a discount?"

"All… all of them? You want all of them?"

The female sales associate was starting to stammer.

Although this was a luxury store, it was still in a county town after all—a commoner's county town, nothing like the noble districts.

Daily transactions weren't many.

Let alone premium super-improved fashion items like these.

Although the boost was high, after all it only raised actual efficiency by 37.5%.

Yet it cost nearly 23,000.

And these were just wrist guards, which would continuously lose durability.

Not many people were willing to shell out that kind of money.

After all, if it only boosted efficiency by 37.5%, why not just spend 37.5% more time?

Why spend so much money buying this?

Zhao Chi had once thought the same way.

After all, he had been very poor back then, but had plenty of time.

Poor Zhao Chi's time wasn't worth anything.

But now things were different.

He could spend money to buy time.

"Yes, I want them all. Is there a discount?"

The female sales associate glanced anxiously outside. "Sir, please wait a moment. I'll go get the store manager. Don't leave, wait for me, will you?"

She figured that once Zhao Chi bought them, she'd earn a good commission.

So she really wanted the deal to go through, and was also afraid Zhao Chi would leave.

"Mm, I'll wait right here. Just be quick about it."

"Understood! Understood!"

The female sales associate clattered away in her high heels.

She grabbed the store manager, who was attending to a customer, and whispered a few words in his ear.

The store manager was a middle-aged man, dressed immaculately, a very refined-looking gentleman.

After hearing her out, the store manager couldn't help but look up.

Then he walked over quickly with the female sales associate.

The store manager smiled and extended his hand. "Hello, sir. I'm the store manager here, Zhou Cai. May I ask your surname?"

"Zhao."

"Hello, Mr. Zhao. You'd like this cap and these seven wrist guards, correct?"

"That's right."

Zhou Cai smiled and said:

"Very well, sir. Here's the thing — as you probably know, this kind of premium super-modified fashion is usually made by master-level tailors.

"These wrist guards are the same.

"So to maintain the relationship, we give the master an extra fee.

"On top of that, the tax on this kind of fashion is very high, so we can't give you too steep a discount.

"All that added together, I can offer you five percent off. Would that work for you?"

Zhao Chi nodded. "That works, but this price includes tax, right? I won't have to pay tax again, will I?"

"That's correct."

"Good, then five percent off. Help me take them out — I'll take them all."

Zhou Cai smiled. "Wonderful. Xiaoyun, hurry and get them out and pack them up for Mr. Zhao."

The female sales associate Xiaoyun happily nodded at once. "Okay."

The sales associate was quick and nimble, and soon had everything packed up.

Then she sent Zhao Chi a trade request.

Zhao Chi asked, "Mm… that's 16 gold and 912 copper in total, right?"

Zhou Cai smiled. "No need. Just pay 16 gold — those coppers count as a discount, rounding it off for you."

"Good."

The trade was complete.

Zhou Cai and Xiaoyun enthusiastically saw Zhao Chi out the door.

Zhao Chi turned the corner and entered the trading house next door.

The trading house was even more crowded.

Zhao Chi got a product list from the staff and sat down to the side.

He took out the fashion items again to look at them.

Now he finally had fashion items of his own.

He didn't really like the cap, but he could choose not to display it.

【Name】Learning Cap

【Quality】Excellent

【Grade】Modified