220 I Cant Accept This! (1/2)
The others in his room weren't as surprised this time. Slowly, they were becoming desensitized to Jack's seemingly insane spending.
Looking at his system, Jack chuckled.
[Unfair Exchange: completed]
[Be a part of a completely one-sided exchange of goods and willingly be on the losing side. Unique reward: 100 skill points.]
Also, Jack looked at two of the other money related achievements he found and sighed.
[Millionaire!: in progress]
[Spend a total of one million gold coins. Reward: 100 skill points]
[Billionaire!: in progress]
[Spend a total of one billion gold coins. Reward: 500 skill points.]
Though he had enough to earn [Millionaire!] a few times over, Jack was trying to think of how he could possibly get a special or unique reward. If he were to use the auction, he would have to do it before the second day ends, because the entire third day is trade based. Or he could…
”Hey, Argyle,” Jack suddenly spoke up and came out of his trance, ”Do you have any accessories or a dress that Lina might like?”
”Sure, I've got just about anything. Why do you ask?”
”Do you have one on you right now?”
”Yeah…” He took out a dress with a necklace without batting an eye. The dress wasn't anything special but Argyle proudly held up the necklace. ”This would be perfect for her because--”
”Do you have any regular necklaces? You know, the kind that is purely aesthetic and has no other value?”
”Sure… like this?” Argyle switched the necklaces, now showing one with a regular sapphire inside. It was beautiful and quite expensive for the common folk.
”Perfect! Can I buy those off you?” asked Jack, startling not ARgyle but the women of his party.
”You don't have to, consider them a--”
”No, I need to buy them! Name your price,” stated Jack.
”Umm… It'll cost one hundred gold for the two together, but--”
”Okay, here's the money.” Jack tossed Argyle a ring as he quickly took the dress and necklace over to Lina. ”Here you go, just for you!”
”Oh! I love them!”
Jack put the necklace around Lina's neck and handed her the dress to try later, making the other girls a bit jealous.
Argyle, on the other hand, was shaking as he held up the storage ring Jack had given him. ”Impossible! I can't accept this!”
”That's my payment, just consider the rest as a tip,” joked Jack nonchalantly.
”I'm serious Jack! There's no way I can--”
”I'm also serious, Father-in-law. I need to do this, so if you don't take it then I'll go offer it to Hurmot.”
”Father, what's wrong?” asked Eliza?
”You can tell them, that doesn't matter. What matters is that you accept that payment and offer me nothing more in return for it,” stated Jack, not letting Argyle offer anything else.
”But… Fine.” Argyle looked at the others and opened his mouth but struggled to admit the truth. ”He… This is way too much for those items… I--”
”Father, we all know that he paid you way too much. But how much is too much?”
”... Seventy thousand platinum…” muttered Argyle, still struggling to understand what Jack was up to.
”Seventy thousand platinum!? Isn't that the same as seven hundred thousand gold?!” Eliza had never seen platinum before, but she knew of its value. She guessed that Jack might have some with his vast wealth, but she never guessed that he had that much platinum, let alone enough to spend it all on a simple dress.
Looking back to Jack, Eliza glared at him. ”After this, you're taking me and the other's shopping and you're getting us whatever we want!”
”Eliza, I had a reason to do this. I--”
”No excuses! You have WAY more money than you let on yet you spent so much on a dress for Lina, yet you struggle to spend one hundred gold on your wives?” stated Eliza, not backing down at all. ”It's the least you could do, otherwise we'll be jealous and won't want to sleep with you.”
”I'm okay with that…” chuckled Jack.