370 7.98 Its About Time To Upgrade Those Gems Now (2/2)

”Good evening, kind Gemsmith. May I know the value of these gems?” I greeted the Gemsmith and I handed her a piece of Stanspar gem that had been fused recently.

”Good evening, young adventure. May I take a look at the piece first?” the Gemsmith replied and removed her monocle over her eye and sat up as I produced the gem to her.

”Hmm, a very good piece of Gem you have here, Young adventurer. It could fetch 15 shillings each for this Stanspar gem. Only those who know how to manipulate its uses would find this gem useful to them, like your Mage friend here.”

The Gemsmith replied as she returned me the piece. It is not that I want to sell it for profit by i wanted to see if any good would come for its exchange.

”So you sell shards for Ruby, emeralds, sapphires and diamonds and how much do you sell them for?” I asked and apologises if we are intruding into her business.

”It's alright, young adventurer. Information is free though. We do not sell shards of any of those, but we normally do buy from adventurers from time to time. Ruby and emerald shards would be bought for 3 shillings each, sapphires would be at 5 shillings and diamond would be bought at 8 shillings.”

”A poor quality rudy, emerald, sapphire and diamond costs 3, 3, 10 and 25 gold coins respectively.”

”Don't you want to sell those Stanspar gems, my young adventurer? It's 15 shillings per gem and if you happen to have a few pieces with you, I'm glad to buy all from you.”

The Gemsmith offered a price of 15 shillings per Stanspar gem and I find it I could fetch 1 gold each if I inserted into the sockets of the accessories the adventurer buys from us. A bracelet itself could socket 5 gems and it has a street value of 5 gold coins.

”By the way, one last question before we make our way, how much do you charge for the fusion of these gems?”

”Oh, we charge 1 gold coin for the poor quality Ruby and emerald, 3 gold coins for the sapphire and 10 gold coins for the diamond. Would there be any more queries, my dear friend?”

”Thank you so much for your offer. I just need to know the price of the shards that you're offering. We'd be taking our leave right now, thank you again and have a nice day, kind Gemsmith.”

I bade adieu and we went to the tavern and had ale and dumpling each and just being alone together for Stef... Makes it kind of awkward for me.

”Waaahhh... Fusing also can make money...!!! No wonder these merchants are so fat except for the Peddler and the Tavern Manageress... Hahahahaha.”

”So what do you want to do now, Robin. You have more than 10k pieces of Stanspar and you're not selling them. We are short of gems right now and the cost that Gemsmith sells are quite expensive.”

”Ah...I've got an idea... Hang on.” I replied as I open up the interface and appoint a broadcast message that reads, ”WTB. Ruby, Emerald, Sapphire and Diamond shards. 5 shillings for Ruby and emerald, 8 shillings for sapphire and 10 shillings for diamond. Robyn of The Vagabonds.” and I sent it to the friends' list and ask them to Cc to their friends as well in their list.

Within a few minutes I received a few notifications at first and then within 30 minutes, I had received over 500 messages, each selling a few pieces of shards and wanting to earn a quick buck.

The new interface had a system upgrade and atrade comm link could be made with anyone anywhere within England, but not Wales or Scotland.

”Cool, we now can make an exchange even without leaving this place. I've gotten some responses from the broadcast that I had delivered earlier and now people are selling their shards to me.”

”How much are you offering to them? Definitely not lower than the Gemsmith that offers right?”

”Don't worry, they learned of the pricing and I offer 5, 8 and 10 shillings for Ruby, emerald, sapphires and diamond. No one wants to spend extra money on fusing and what we are going to do now is to buy as many shards as we possibly can.”

”Hang on, let me settle these transactions first before we head back. Don't want then to think about why we were gone for so long.”

I quickly scanned all the notifications one by one and open a trade commlink with them and starts paying based on the base price that I had mentioned. After I had gone through 15 minutes, I managed to amass the following shards: 1234 rubies, 1768 emeralds, 1002 sapphires and 972 diamonds and I had financed 32,746 shillings all within 15 minutes.

We went back to the Camp where I made another investment of the shards at 965 Ruby, 799 emeralds, 723 sapphires and 456 diamonds before the notification had gone quiet for the night and I closed the future notifications and ended the trade.

This time I had capitalized another 19,164 shillings and had made me poorer and had only 4 figures left in both my gold and silver reserves.

But I've got a whole lot of shards that I could turn them into poor quality gems and then to fair quality ones later tonight.

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”Hello, Young adventurers... May we learn who is the leader of the band?” a man at arms chaperoned by another two flanking him emerged from the direction of Leeds as they arrived Camp Salvation.