Chapter 292 A Visit To The Dahlia Palace (1/2)

It was a busy day for the people in the Manor Palace as they progressed with their casting business. Slowly but surely they pushed through with their merchandise and took a high market share in the whole of the Chaotic Region. Meanwhile, the Dahlia Palace was on the move, too. Even though they never had an experience with weapons and casting, they surely did a risky move to open a shop and compete with the Manor Palace.

Just like any other newbie in the business scene, most people would underestimate one's products and assume that they were in a much lower quality than that of the prime merchant. To the customers' eyes, the Dahlia Palace's weapons were much inferior to what the Manor Palace, Ricky's organization, made. Only a few people trusted and bought weapons from the Dahlia Palace because in the field of casting in the Chaotic Region, Ricky was lauded to have made remarkable masterpieces that anything that he did not make was marked as rubbish.

People started to get curious on what the Dahlia Palace had to offer. More and more people came over to check on the new weapons mainly for two reasons. One, some others went to them only because they could not afford the prices set out by the Manor Palace and two, they just wanted to check out how horrible and flimsy their products were. But to their surprise, they might have just hit the jackpot. A weapon of the advanced Mortal Level made by the Dahlia Palace was far cheaper and was in far better quality than the ones offered by the Manor Palace.

The people experimented to settle the quality check. Some warriors engaged in combat while using a weapon of their choice from each palace. And to their surprise, the weapons from the Dahlia Palace were far stronger and had only sustained minor damages.

Soon after their discovery, more and more people began switching their patronage from the Manor Palace to the Dahlia Palace when they needed to buy high grade and high quality weapons. After all, the deal was quite a steal-- cheaper and better!

This was bad news to all the weapon shops controlled by the Manor Palace because less people came to them after finding out that there was a better option.

This sudden increase in market and the superior quality of Dahlia Palace's weapons alarmed many large organizations. They sent out their men to find out why and how could the Dahlia Palace develop extraordinary weapons when in fact, they had never done one before. This competition between the Manor Palace and the Dahlia Palace was such a juicy gossip for everyone in the Chaotic Region. It was like a suspense movie that everyone was all ears on any updates regarding the inspection.

Some people had a generally good theory--a stronger casting master, more skilled than Russell, created the weapons in the Dahlia Palace. They never knew who this master was, and they never had a name for her. Whenever they talked about her, they referred to her as 'Miss Who.'

But the mystery was difficult for everyone. Even people from the Dahlia Palace never talked about their new casting master. Some of them didn't even know how they were able to sell such high grade weapons and they didn't know where they came from and who made them. The investigation became harder since they weren't able to dig up new information on this certain 'Miss Who.'

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Meanwhile, Ricky and some core members gathered around in the meeting room of the Manor Palace to sort things out. All of them discussed the issue with such heavy hearts for none of them really expected things to work this way so suddenly. All of them bore the same visage--furrowed brows and frequent fidgeting as stress engulfed their minds.

”Ugh, damn the Dahlia Palace! They are obviously against us. How could they steal away our business? This is our livelihood. I checked our weapon stores today and guess what? There were only one or two customers during the whole business hour! And what's even worse is that they compared the weapons in our store with that from the Dahlia Palace and finally left and went to their shop. We can't just sit around and do nothing!” Tyson exclaimed as he banged the table with his fist out of anger. ”I've done some research and found out that they had never run the casting

ace! I thought he was going to be welcomed by being rejected! I just can't believe my eyes! What is the chief of the Dahlia Palace up to? Hmmm... so strange.” The crowd began to whisper to each other in shock.