Chapter 86: Dirt cheap (1/2)

After Omega introduced the real world currency conversion , many money making fanatics joined the game ..... There were buisnessmen ranging from people who worked hard in the game just to earn 300 dollars a day to some who earned 30000 to some who earned 3 million.

Many guilds also supported and employed those buisnessmen. And in a symbiotic relationship , they supported each other , the latter providing funds to the guild becoming a economic backbone , while the latter providing a stable market to conduct buisness and a ready base of players to use as a market to expand.

The most golden of such buisnesses was the True Elites lifestyle store , the amount of money the store made was simply off the charts , as many buisnessmen drooled to aquire the shops.

When the alliance declared its hostility to the True Elites , the lifestyle store was heavily suppressed , however due to its superior products , it still made a daily profit , despite of running at 10% capacity.

However the sharks smelled blood. As buisnessmen kept hounding Rudra to sell a portion of the buisness off ....

With the pressure of the supression mounting day by day , the demands of the buisnessmen became more and more outrageous. The prices they offered in exchange of shares of the Lifestyle store became dirt cheap.

Rudra just snickered at their offers , 5 dollars a share for 50,000 shares at a 50% stake , lol , i spend more money on my cars mentainance than that , Rudra thought.

However it was true that the supression of the lifestyle stores could not go on any longer ..... His guild needed money , now more than ever , the advanced mana potion needed to be introduced , now more than ever.

Rudra coldly declined any and every buisnessman approaching him , this resulted in most buisnesses BlackListing Rudra from buying from their stores, and they went a step forward blacklisting all True Elites members along with Rudra.

Rudra laughed at this childishness ..... He thought ' Fine , you all want to make a enemy of me , ill remember your names! '.

73 shop owners had blackflagged Rudra and 65 of them had blackflagged the True Elites also.

The guild members faced another huge obstacle due to this ..... First they were always hunted on sight , levlling was aldready difficult , now even buying materials became a challenge... It was truly a tough time to be a elite.

Two herbs were needed for the advanced mana potion , the Fragrant herb and the Rare herb. These herbs could be found in the wild and were widely collected by solo adventurers and small parties to sell for side income.

They were sold in a big marketplace in PurpleHaze city , the place was a exclusive of the capital , more of like a modern day flea market. Where tourists and locals shopped for local specialties and cheap prices.

Rudra went to the open market called the Bazaar to buy his goods instead. The Bazaar was the place where anyone could set up a stall for 3 silver coins , and was divided into all kinds of sections for sellers and buyers to choose.

Rudra went into the alchemy section to buy the two main herbs required for the brewing of the advanced mana potion .... Many did not know this , however all three mana potions , the basic , the intermediate and the advanced , had the same ingredients ..... It was just the potion formula and refinement method that changed the result.

With the advanced mana potion formula in hand , and the same basic ingredients , Rudra's profit in this endeavour was sure to be astronomic.

This was why Rudra had come to this bazaar to purchase Herbs in bulk, either Fragrant Herbs or Rare Herbs.

After making a round through the bazaar and investigating the general prices of Herbs, Rudra began advertising his need as he typed his message through the trade channel forum , ”Buying Fragrant Herbs, 40 Copper per stack; Rare Herbs, three Silver per stack! Will buy as many as you have!”

The trade channel forum was a unique channel only available in bazaars. Any players in the bazaar could receive the messages sent through this channel. However, players who wished to post their messages needed to pay a fee of 1 Gold per message. Though the length of each message was limited to 100 words, it was a valuable promotion tool.