After leaving the Adventurer's Guild, Eryi returned to the Healing Inn. After eating breakfast prepared by Mrs. Eddie and waiting for Judy and Dale to arrive for work, she decided to go out again.
The five streets surrounding the Adventurer's Guild were mostly filled with hotels, taverns, and shops selling items needed by adventurers. The majority of the houses in these streets were rented out to adventurers, leaving very few ordinary residents.
Eryi walked into a second-hand store in a good mood to shop. As soon as she entered the door, she fell in love with a copper scale placed behind a pile of miscellaneous items. The pattern on it was the style she liked, but it was a bit dirty.
[Host, why did you ask me to turn off the measuring instrument just now?] Ling Ling Ba asked in confusion.
After the Healing Station reached Level 6, the system's control range expanded to 50 meters. The Adventurer's Guild was directly across from the Healing Station, with the road between them less than ten meters long. As a result, nearly half of the entire building fell within the Healing Station's control area, allowing Zero Eight to do whatever he pleased.
"What will happen if it doesn't go out?" Eryi didn't think too much at the time. He just saw that the light of the measuring instrument seemed to have strong staying power, so he subconsciously gave this order.
[Of course it blinded him.] Ling Ling Ba was inexplicably proud.
Eryi had an idea in mind. Pointing at the copper scale, he asked the boss, who was only half his height, "How much is this?"
The boss, his head buried in a book, seemed to have eyes behind his head. He didn't even look up when he replied, "Five silver coins."
After paying five silver coins, Eryi immediately put the copper scale into her personal space. She had previously inquired about this plane's formation through the application of spatial laws. While custom-made personal spaces were expensive, any magician with the money would be willing to order one. She simply put the item away without causing any disturbance.
The second-hand shop owner saw Eryi put the items away directly and paused turning the pages of the book, as if thinking whether the price he had just offered was too low.
"Do you buy magic cores here?" Eryi noticed that there were some beautiful crystals on the shelves of the second-hand store, but they looked a little different from magic cores.
"No." Seeing that Eryi had no intention of continuing the transaction, the owner of the second-hand shop decided to continue indulging in the ocean of books.
Eryi continued to stroll the streets. She discovered that some large grocery chains were willing to purchase magic cores, offering prices 5%-10% lower than the Adventurers' Guild. Their calculations were precise, accounting for the Adventurers' Guild's handling fees.
Occasionally, you'll see some shops with signs in front of their doors that indicate how many magic cores they'll buy, but they'll usually specify the type, attributes, etc. The purchase price for these is usually the same as the Adventure Guild, or up to 20% higher.
A sign hung on the door of a certain auction house read: "Long-term purchase of magic cores above level 5, price negotiable."
Eryi asked almost all the shops nearby, including hotels, taverns, etc., to get a rough idea of the prices of magic cores in this area.
First of all, except for larger trading houses, other places basically do not purchase magic cores because they do not have special instruments to identify magic cores.
Shops that are willing to purchase magic cores usually sell enchanting tools and have at least one trainee magician in charge.
After confirming the approximate price of the magic core, Eryi decided to return to the treatment station to make formal arrangements for the purchase of the magic core.
The adventurers noticed that a new, oversized sign was hung at the door of the healing station: Purchasing Magic Cores!
Adventurers often encounter magical beasts while on quests. As long as it doesn't affect the quest's progress, they'll choose to take care of them to increase their income. The beast's bones and fur can be sold, its meat can be eaten, and with luck, a magical core can be obtained.
Busy adventurers, or new adventurers, would choose to sell their magic cores directly to the Adventurer's Guild. After all, they would always go in and out of the Adventurer's Guild when handing over missions, and since they had been buying magic cores for a long time, they would not encounter any situation where they could not sell them.
If you're lucky, you might even come across a special Magic Core quest. The downside is that you'll need to pay a handling fee, ranging from 10% to 2% depending on the quest level and the adventurer's registration level.
The pharmacy also purchases magic cores for a long time, and the price they offer is not much different from that of the Adventure Guild, but they only limit themselves to a few varieties and have certain requirements on quality, not all magic cores are accepted.
A little further on, near the Magic Academy, there's a street selling all sorts of magical equipment. Almost every shop here has the ability to buy magic cores, but adventurers are reluctant to sell there. Because the clerks there are at least apprentice mages, ordinary adventurers shouldn't expect to be looked upon favorably.
The major churches would sometimes purchase magic cores, but the prices they offered were shockingly low, and only their believers would offer the magic cores as if they were giving them away for free.
So when the Healing Station put up a sign offering to purchase magic cores, the response wasn't very good.
Around noon, an adventurer hesitated for a long time at the entrance of the Healing Inn. Judy noticed that this person had made at least three trips back and forth from the Adventurer's Guild entrance to the Healing Inn within the past hour. He looked unfamiliar, like a newcomer to Sunset City.
"Is there anything wrong?" Judy called out to the adventurer as he was about to leave the treatment station for the fourth time.
The adventurer pointed sheepishly at the large sign at the entrance of the healing station and asked, "Are you buying magic cores now?"
"Yes," Judy replied, "Do you have any magic cores to sell?"
The adventurer scratched his head uncomfortably. "You could say that, but I'm not sure if you guys would want this." The adventurer was still very young and shy. He had just arrived in Sunset City and was not familiar with the reputation of the Healing Inn.
"Come in and sit down and talk? You can show us the things." Eryi strolled out of the treatment station with a teacup. She didn't expect that the sign for purchasing magic cores had been put up for half a day, but no one came to ask.
If this continued, she would have no choice but to post commissions through the Adventurer's Guild, where she would be charged a 10% commission. Furthermore, prices fluctuated, preventing her from purchasing items according to her own preferences. This was very unacceptable.
Seeing that both of them were very easy-going and did not show any discrimination against the country people, the young adventurer breathed a sigh of relief and followed Eryi into the treatment station.
"I have this." The adventurer placed his backpack on the table and pulled out a mini magic core with a missing piece. It was obviously not properly removed. The Adventurer's Guild would not accept such incomplete magic cores.
He explained, "This is the magic core of a long-winged bird. I got it a few days ago on the way from the village to Sunset City. I guess I hit it in the wrong spot when I chopped it..."
Magic cores are often found near the vital points of magical beasts, and sometimes a single strike can mean a loss of fortune. Lower-level magic cores are more fragile, while those above level four are protected by a natural magic circle, making them impervious to shattering.
A group of adventurers emerged from the prayer room and witnessed this scene. More inclined toward the healing station than the outsiders, they spoke up to stop him without further ado. "Little brother, your magic core is too... Normally, we don't accept this kind of thing."
The young adventurer's face was visibly becoming dejected. He was new and knew nothing. He had almost spent all the money he had brought with him, and the copper coins he had left were only enough for two days of accommodation in the inn's bunk bed.
"Not necessarily." Eryi actually already knew the energy value contained in this magic core from Ling Lingba's hint, but things still needed to go through the motions: "We need to measure it to know whether to take it or not." She signaled the adventurer to put the broken magic core on the scale.
The adventurers who were about to leave the healing station stopped in their tracks. The young adventurer took a look at the suspiciously old scale and, under everyone's heated gaze, placed the broken magic core on it.
There is a small display board under the scale. The moment the magic core is placed on the scale, the price written in the common language appears on it.
[12 Silver Coins, 50 Copper Coins]
Although the young adventurer wasn't very good at learning to read, he could recognize numbers and currency symbols. He pointed at the sign uncertainly and asked, "Does this mean you're willing to buy it? At this price?"
He looked a little incredulous, after all, he had never had so many coins at once. As a low-level adventurer, the reward for any quest he could take on would not exceed 1 silver coin.
"Yes, are you willing to sell it?"
The young adventurer almost jumped up with excitement: "Of course."
Judy counted out the coins from the cabinet nearby and handed them to the adventurer, while Eryi collected the broken magic core.
The swordsman in the adventure team looked at the young man happily counting coins at the counter and widened his eyes: "Priest, you also accept this?"
"Take it." Er Yi gestured, "Didn't you see it just now? That coin is not fake."
After hearing Eryi's definitive answer, the entire adventure team grabbed their archers and shook them. "Where did you put all those fragments I gave you? You said you couldn't sell them, but they looked nice, so you packed them up?"
"Let me go...we're all in the house."
The commotion attracted many onlookers, and some even criticized them: "Don't make trouble here."
The adventurer team finally explained the situation clearly. After everyone understood what happened, Eryi and Judy were surrounded by the adventurers.
"Are you serious? Can I bring the things over now?" a big man almost two meters tall asked excitedly.
Eryi pushed with both hands, tilting her head back. The man's saliva almost sprayed on her face: "Really."
"Great!" He picked up the curiously looking Fluffy, who was lying behind everyone, and spun him around before rushing out the door, leaving Fluffy in a trance.
A slightly mixed-blood archer with slightly pointed ears suddenly collapsed to the ground, heartbroken. "Damn it! I didn't think I could sell it for much, so I lost a lot."
"Me too!" There were many people who had the same experience. They complained together and finally cried together.
Before long, all the adventurers in the reception hall ran away, either returning to their residences to get magic cores or entering the prayer room to calm down.
The news that the Healing Station was willing to purchase the broken magic cores spread quickly, and those who knew the news offered their magic cores in exchange, fearing that the Healing Station would stop accepting them one day.
At night, Eryi absorbed all the magic cores he received and gained 13,500 energy points.
The scale used to measure the magic core is actually an ordinary copper scale purchased by Er Yitao.
She spent one energy point and had Ling Ling Ba build a display board on the scale. Whenever someone dropped a magic core onto the scale, the price would be displayed at a rate of 1 silver coin and 50 copper coins per 10 energy points. Damaged magic cores were charged 80% of the standard price.
While exploring the streets, she discovered that low-grade magic cores, such as those from the Tusked Rabbit, were the most valuable. They cost 15 silver coins and could be exchanged for 100 energy points.
Higher-level magic cores, however, didn't offer such a good ratio. For example, a tier-three beast's magic core could provide her with over 2,000 energy points, but the purchase price was over 10 magic coins. The higher the level of the magic core, the less cost-effective it was for her.
There was no need to set too many different prices; Eryi simply used the magic core's energy value as the purchasing standard. Adventurers could sell magic cores of rank three or higher elsewhere, while higher-level magic cores should have better homes.
She had already calculated that if she used this ratio to purchase magic cores, the coins she had would be enough to purchase magic cores worth 200,000 energy points.
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