Chapter 173 - Hundred And Seventy Three - I am an audacious small alchemist (2/2)
”You made these?” Jin Li's eyes widened in realisation, whispering these words to his small lover. Leon gave a slight nod, his eyes curved like half-moons as he smiled and leaned closer to reply in soft murmur;
”I saved a c-c-couple of each p-pill for you.” He watched as the martial artist's expression became proud and smug. Ursam noticed their interactions from the corner of his eye, quietly amused.
While they were talking, the price of the two small pills had sky-rocketed to 70 silver, Leon's heart beat rapidly and loudly in his chest as he heard the price. That was probably more than he'd made on all of the sales of his Improved Blood Pills to Pharmacist Clawse. It seemed like an impossible amount and still the price was rising.
”80 silver!”
”85 silver!”
”100 silver!” Even Ursam's jaw dropped at this point. Naturally, he was assuming these pills would bring in a higher return than the ten lesser pills, but still, there was only two of them. He rubbed his jaw thinking that it would likely be best to sell the next batch of these new pills at auction as well, although the variant Energy Pills would be best sold from his shop. Hee hee hee, he'd like to see how the Heavenly Pill Pavilion could compete with him on that score.
Just to mention; Ursam had already memorised the recipe of the Varient Blood Pills and could easily work out from them how to create the lesser pills, but he would be the first to admit that he was far too lazy to bother making them. The lesser pills were too much of a hassle for the price they would eventually command and the better pills required a meticulous nature in order to produce them, like Leon's. So while he would be happy to sell these variant pills, he'd rather rely on Leon to resupply them.
As for getting them from others, well, he believed strongly that the alchemists who tried reverse engineer the pills would struggle to figure out just exactly how they were made. After all, it was not as if the herbs within each pill were any different from the principal versions. So unless Leon was willing to sell or share his secrets, the boy would be his only supplier of the new pills. Ursam wouldn't sell out this immense potential source of profit... but he would purchase a bottle of quality Medicinal Wine to share with old Clawse once this auction was done and dusted.
”110 silver!”
”Any more bids?” The auctioneer finally yelled. ”Then going once...”
”150 silver!” That voice belonged to the same individual as who had purchased the Smouldering and Bursting Energy Pills. And again, no one dared raise the bid... though this time it may have been the rather large jump in price that caused the silence.
”Sold! For 150 silver, to the gentleman in Box 1! Congratulations!” Indeed, Congratulations, but that was less for the savvy purchaser and more reserved for the clever little alchemist who had the audacity to create new pills.