Chapter 367: White Fox (2/2)
Kellis (Common)—Flexibility: 61, Business Sense: 70, Orderliness: 54, Ability: None, Permanent Employment Fee: 2209 gold
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One of the names of the NPCs had dark gold font. Clearly, it was the elite NPC. However, they also cost an insane amount of money to hire. With the same amount of money, I could pay someone a monthly salary of 1800 RMB and have them work for me for an entire year!
I read every detail carefully before I made my choice. Flexibility represented work capability, Business Sense represented the ability to identify the value of goods, and Orderliness—also the trait I valued the most—was the ability to sort goods. If an NPC was so stupid that they couldn’t even separate A from B, all they would achieve was raise the shop owner’s blood pressure to dangerous levels.
In the end, I gritted my teeth and chose Avni. If she could manage the shop properly, then the benefits were worth the cost!
I slapped exactly 20195 gold on the counter before replying, “I would like to hire Avni as my shop assistant!”
“Very well!” The clerk stared at the pile of gold with bright eyes while nodding vigorously. “Please give me a moment to bring Avni over, honored guest!”
The clerk went to the back of the inn after saying this. As promised, he soon returned with the shop assistant I hired, a purple-haired girl named Avni...
Wait a second... She’s no ordinary woman!
I noticed immediately that Avni had sharp ears and grayish brown eyes. Her fingernails looked sharp enough to cut, and she was wearing a sexy leather armor that accentuated her curves well. But all of these features were nothing compared to the fluffy white tail sticking out of her leather short skirt and swaying back and forth as Avni smiled at me.
“You fucker!” I grabbed the clerk by the collar angrily. “What race is she? Give me back my 20k gold, you fraudster!”
Clutching the bag of gold with an iron grip, he said, “She… she’s an outcast of a beastman tribe… a fox girl who was kidnapped by an adventurer and sold to this place, to be exact…”
He then moved closer to my ear and whispered, “But I can guarantee that she’s still a virgin. You’re definitely the one who got the better end of the deal, honored guest!”
My eyes turned as wide as saucers. “Fuck you…”
On second thought, maybe this was fine. A seductive fox girl was hardly an unacceptable shop assistant NPC, not to mention that she was pretty enough to increase sales by 50% even if she did nothing at all.
Once I had convinced myself, I looked at the NPC girl and smiled at her. “Come with me!”
“Yes, master…” she answered softly.
The two of us got out of the adventurer inn and walked toward my shop. It was right next to the equipment repair shop, but it was still empty and closed.
I looked at the NPC girl again and thought that her name wasn’t good enough, so I said, “I’m going to give you a new name…”
The girl turned red and looked at me with expectation. “What will be my new name, master?”
I thought for a moment before answering, “From now on, your name is White Fox!”
The girl looked confused for a second, but she quickly nodded. “Thank you, master. White Fox is here…”
“Hehe, you’re welcome!”
In fact, she was a member of the white fox race. She just looked mostly human except the tail. Speaking of which, I found it rather odd that a girl with a butt as round as hers would wear a rather revealing leather short skirt, not to mention the tail sticking out from beneath.
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When we arrived at the shop, White Fox entered it like she had done it a hundred times in the past before smiling at me. “Master, your shop needs a new name, working capital, and goods to sell. Please resolve these issues as soon as possible!”
“Mn!”
I brought up the shop interface and pondered for a moment. What should I call my shop? A while later, I decided to name it “Sky One”—or not. It didn’t sound cool enough in my head, so I changed it to “Air Force One”. Alright, now it sounds cool and domineering!
After inserting my shop name, I checked my backpack and saw 170k gold sitting inside it. I dumped 100k under working capital immediately. Then, I used that money to make purchase orders for all Magic Consumables between Rank 1 and 10, buying at 70% the market price, and set the sale price to 110% of the market price. This should be enough to make my business sustainable!
Besides that, I dumped all the excess equipment I had into the equipment and item shelves and left White Fox to decide the price. She had a Business Sense of 95, so she should be able to read the equipment and price them appropriately. The 20k I spent on her was worth it after all.
Finally, I went out and purchased a ton of Green Pepper, Garlic and Salt. Then, I made hundreds of stacks of Rank 8 Magic Consumables—Snow Rabbit Soup—dumped around 80% of them in the shop and raised their price. I wasn’t worried that the customers would balk at the high prices because the number of high-level mages and priests was growing each day.
I kept 100 stacks of Rank 8 Magic Consumables to myself, or more accurately, Murong Mingyue. She was a high-level priest and had over 4000 MP. A Rank 8 Magic Consumable could restore 1200 MP, so without a sufficient amount of Magic Consumables she could easily run out of MP and cause a party wipe. Countless players experienced this every day in the borders of Sky City.
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