After walking around the city for so ti, Yuan and the others finally decided on an equipnt store that was nad ’Spring City’s Spiritual Treasures’.
Once they entered the store, the middle-aged man behind the counter shouted: "Welco to our equipnt store! What kind of equipnt are the young ones looking for?"
"Hmm... What kind of weapon do you want to use?" Yuan asked her.
"I’m not sure, but sothing light and small is preferred," she said.
"Sothing light and small, huh?" The middle-aged man began to ponder for a mont before speaking, "We have daggers, throwing knives, and fans. Which of these suit the young lady’s taste more?"
"Fans? They are considered as weapons?" Yuan was surprised, as this is his first ti hearing such a thing.
"Of course! Anything can be a weapon in the hands of a Cultivator! However, fans are not commonly used due to their fragile appearance and weak presence, and most people prefer sothing that looks strong or cool— sothing like a sword." The middle-aged man explained to him.
"Can I look at the fans?" Yu Rou then asked.
"Sure thing! These are the best fans we have in store at the mont!"
The middle-aged man then retrieved a long wooden box from the room behind and placed it on the counter.
Upon opening the box, three beautiful fans that seed to be made of special materials were revealed to Yu Rou.
"Wow... It’s beautiful..." Yu Rou quickly beca fond of these fans.
However, her excitent disappeared as quickly after seeing the prices for these fans.
«Jade Fan»
«Grade: Spirit»
«Quality: High»
«Physical Strength Required: 100»
«ntal Strength Required: 250»
«Price: 60,000 Gold»
«Red tal Fan»
«Quality: High»
«Physical Strength Required: 170»
«ntal Strength Required: 300»
«Price: 75,000 Gold»
«Spirit Weaver»
«Quality: Peak»
«Physical Strength Required: 50»
«ntal Strength Required: 300»
«Price: 200,000 Gold»
"Do you have sothing less expensive...? A common fan is fine, too..." Yu Rou said to the middle-aged man while sighing inwardly. There was simply no way that she could shalessly ask her brother to buy sothing so expensive for her after he’d already wasted 30,000 gold on her.
"If you want sothing normal, you can find them on the shelves over there. Most of them are less than 5 gold coins." The middle-aged man spoke as he pointed at the wooden shelves by the window.
However, Yuan suddenly spoke as the middle-aged man prepared to close the wooden box, "Wait, I will buy the Spirit Weaver."
"Eh?"
The middle-aged man imdiately stopped his movents to look at Yuan, as did Yu Rou, who stared at him with a gawking expression on her face.
"Don’t look at like that, Yu Rou. I know you want it since you were staring so intensively at it." Yuan said to her with a smile as he paid the shopkeeper.
"E-Even if I want it, you can’t spend 200,000 gold just like that! Just how much money do you have, Brother!?" she said to him, wondering if he’d taken out a loan from sowhere shady.
"I have enough..." he said with a smile.
"Thank you for the purchase, Young Master!" The middle-aged man changed the way he addressed Yuan, even speaking in a more respectful voice.
After counting the money, the middle-aged man handed the beautiful white fan to him and said, "The reason this one is more expensive than the others is not only because of its peak-quality but because this treasure was born naturally, and naturally born treasures are naturally more expensive than man-made treasures."
After accepting the white fan, Yuan extended his arms at Yu Rou and said to her, "Money is ant to be spent or else it isn’t worth anything, Yu Rou. Furthermore, this is only a ga. Accept it."
"While that is true, you still shouldn’t spend so lavishly. Who do you think you are? Player Yuan, the richest player in the ga?" Yu Rou shook her head with a defeated smile on her face.
"..."
The smile on Yuan’s face imdiately stiffened after hearing her words, and he didn’t dare to respond to her question, fearing that he might reveal his identity sooner than he’d planned.
A few monts later, Yu Rou looked at the Spirit Waver with sparkling eyes. "This fan is truly beautiful! While I still want to fight using servants in the future, I definitely won’t stop using this fan, either!"
Hearing Yu Rou’s words, the shopkeeper suddenly said, "If you want servants, you can simply go to the Beast Contract shop that’s down the street. You can find all sorts of beasts there."
"Really?! Let’s go take a look, brother!" Yu Rou quickly said to him.
"Okay," he nodded.
They left the equipnt store shortly later and then went straight to the Beast Contract shop that was ntioned by the middle-aged man.
"Welco to our Beast Contract store! Are you looking to form a contract with a beast today, young guests?" The receptionist behind the counter called out to them after seeing them enter the store.
"We’re just looking around for now," Yu Rou said.
"Perhaps I can help you with what you’re looking for. What kind of beasts are you looking to get? We have matured beasts, young beasts, and even ones that are waiting to hatch."
"You sell even unhatched beasts? How does that work? I thought you can only form a contract with beasts with a will." Yu Rou asked.
"We simply do what’s called a Forced Contract, which will forcefully establish a relationship between the unhatched beast and the seller so that they will be contracted to you imdiately after their birth. Most custors tend to go for unhatched beasts because they are much easier to train than the young ones while the mature ones are harder to control. Of course, unhatched beasts are also more expensive than the others."
"Do you want to buy a servant here, Yu Rou?" Yuan asked her soti later.
She shook her head and said, "No, I don’t think I want to form a contract in such an unhealthy manner. I’d rather not force a contract and find a beast that’s willing to beco my servant, which will make our relationship that much more trustworthy and real."
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"I understand," Yuan nodded.
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