"20 bags of regular arrows, 5 bags of explosive arrows, 5 bags of frost arrows..."

Joey counted the arrows he had just bought, his heart bleeding.

We didn't buy any more expensive arrows; we'll just use these for now. Joey hadn't used these things before and didn't know how to allocate them, so he just bought some on his own.

"Mr. Joey, is there anything else I can do for you?"

Anna saw that Joey was already tidying up his quiver, so she stood aside and asked him a question.

"That's all, thank you! I'll come back to you if I need to buy anything else in the future!"

Joey was quite satisfied with Anna's service, and now that he was leaving, he naturally had to thank her.

"We look forward to your next visit!"

Anna stood ramrod straight, her hands folded back to back in front of her. This was probably the custom of the goblin auction house when they saw off their clients. Joey didn't think much of it, thanked her again, and then walked out of the auction house.

"This hunter's arrows seem to be a bottomless pit. If only I had a bow and arrows that didn't need arrows!"

Joey muttered to himself as he walked toward the goblin bank.

"This should be the road. Anna pointed in this direction!"

Joey turned a corner and sure enough, he saw a building with a style and design that was extremely similar to the Goblin Auction House.

He quickened his pace and ran towards the building.

"Mr. Joey?"

"Is that you, Mr. Joey?"

A short figure was standing in front of the building, and looked pleasantly surprised to see Joey coming over.

"You...you're Phil?"

Joey looked at the goblin dressed in a respectable suit and wearing a top hat, and didn't recognize him at first glance.

"Is it really you? I didn't expect you to remember me!"

Phil was also very happy to see Joey again in Ashfurnace City, the benefactor who had given him a promotion and a raise.

What Joey actually wanted to say was that he had face blindness when it came to goblins. However, he had just heard Anna explain at the goblin auction house that Phil had given him SVIP privileges. The scene of their first meeting flashed through his mind. The main reason was that he only knew Phil and Anna as goblins. If this goblin who could call him by name from afar wasn't Phil, he really wouldn't know who it could be!

"What brings you to Ashfurnace City?"

Phil leaned closer to Joey, tilted his head back, and asked him.

"I came here to continue working because of a job transfer!"

Joey made up a reason: it wasn't appropriate to talk about saving Catherine in Gold Rush Town to outsiders, so as not to cause unnecessary trouble.

"I see. If you have any spare money in the future, you can deposit it in our goblin bank. I work at this bank now, and I owe it all to your deposit back then!"

Phil didn't really expect Joey to save much money. After all, he had only saved a few hundred gold coins back then, and in Ashfurnace City, a few hundred gold coins in savings couldn't bring him the same good fortune as before.

"If you put it that way, I actually have some money to deposit in the bank!"

Joey's pouch was already overflowing. The gold and silver ore he had smelted in Sandstone City was all stored in his pouch. Now, with the arrows he had just bought taking up quite a bit of space, he really needed to organize his pouch properly.

"Really? That's wonderful!"

Phil was new to Ashfurnace City, and these days, the deposit business depended on personal connections. Since he had no connections, he naturally couldn't attract many deposits here. However, he was already quite happy to be working here. Seeing that Joey had money to deposit, he greeted him warmly, just like he had back in Gold Rush Town.

Phil led Joey to a private room. As an SVIP customer, his treatment would remain unchanged even if he deposited only one copper coin. This was the perfect service of the goblin system and a principle that the goblin system was proud of.

"Dear Mr. Joey, how much money would you like to deposit this time?"

Phil brought a cup of coffee to Joey and handed it to him.

"Let's deposit the money first, I still need to..."

"Smack!"

Before Joey could finish speaking, the coffee Phil hadn't even had a chance to hand over had already fallen to the ground.

"Excuse me, excuse me, Mr. Joey, let me get you another cup!"

As Phil spoke, he squatted down to pick up the broken pieces of the cup from the ground.

"I mean I need to set aside some money for my own daily expenses, you know?"

"I understand, I understand, I'll go get you a new cup of coffee right now!"

After saying that, Phil ran straight out. Joey picked his nose, wondering what he had said that had made the bank clerk Phil so flustered.

A short while later, Phil came back in with a cup of coffee.

"I'm sorry to have kept you waiting, Mr. Joey!"

"No, no, no, I haven't even finished picking the booger from the right side of my nose yet!"

To ease the tension, Joey joked with Phil, saying he had to get the guy to behave, otherwise he might miscount his money when depositing it.

Sure enough, upon hearing what Joey said, Phil's tension immediately vanished.

"Um... dear Mr. Joey, how many gold coins did you just say you wanted to deposit?"

Phil spoke very softly, so softly that it was hard to hear unless you were paying attention; he seemed afraid that others might overhear their conversation.

"Gold, but you'll need to exchange some silver coins yourselves, as it's not convenient for me to do it myself!"

"Of course, of course, our bank will be responsible for counting it. Rest assured, there will be absolutely no mistake!"

"But are you sure you want to deposit money?"

"It should be more than just a lot. I used to count it when I had time, but you know how it is when you have a lot of money, it's a huge undertaking, time-consuming and laborious. Eventually, I stopped counting it and just watched it pile up!"

"Where did you put that money? I'll arrange for someone to escort you to retrieve it!"

Phil thought he couldn't carry so many gold coins around, so he asked a question.

"No need, I've already brought it!"

Joey didn't keep her in suspense any longer and pulled all the gold coins out of her pouch. The room, which was originally quite spacious, instantly became a small mountain of gold coins, making the room seem rather small.

"Really... there really are so many gold coins..."

Phil stared wide-eyed at the mountain of gold before him, thinking that Joey was his lucky charm. However, a bright red color in the "gold mountain" caught Phil's attention.

He slowly walked forward, removed the gold coins covering the surface, and a fist-sized red gem appeared before his eyes.

He gently took out the ruby, examined it closely, and suddenly exclaimed in astonishment, "The Arkia Ruby!"