Souta took out a greenish orb from his bag and placed it on top of Jimmy's table. The orb was emitting a greenish aura.
"This..." Jimmy was stunned when he saw this. He looked at Souta asking for confirmation.
"Yeah, it's a monster orb." Souta nodded and asked, "How much can you give me for this?"
"Five hundred platinum coins but it depends on the quality of the monster orb," Jimmy said with a serious expression.
"Okay." Souta nodded at Jimmy. He knew that it would depend on the level of the monster. If the monster was powerful then the monster orb it possessed would fetch a high price.
Actually, five hundred platinum coins were a large amount of money. He could buy a lot of things with this money. A hundred copper coins were equal to one gold coin.
100 copper coins -> 1 gold coin
100 gold coins -> 1 silver coin
100 silver coins -> 1 platinum coin
There were many things he could with this amount of money. It was enough to buy his own villa and even vacation house in the other country.
"You really brought something nice. I'm not wrong to get your favor at that time." Jimmy laughed and broke the serious atmosphere.
"Of course, I wouldn't arrive here on time if you're not here. Also, you did all the things for me to enter the city." Souta said as a matter of fact. If were not for Jimmy then it would take a lot of time before he could enter this city. Just from that fact, he could see that Jimmy was an influential person.
"Anyway, do you really want to sell this to me?" Jimmy shook his hand and asked.
"Yeah." Souta nodded his head.
"Okay, I will give five hundred platinum coins right now as a downpayment. I still need to verify the quality of the monster orb." Jimmy said.
"Okay." Souta nodded. He knew the market price of the monster orb. If Jimmy cheated him about the prize of the monster orb, then he wouldn't do any business with Jimmy anymore.
This was just the first transaction and he would bring more in the future. He would stop if he saw that Jimmy wasn't trustworthy and he would find another merchant to handle things about his loot every time he did an expedition in a dangerous place.
Jimmy opened the drawer in his table and took out a paper. He signed it with a pen before he gave it to Souta.
"Here, give this to the receptionist and she will give you the amount written in that," Jimmy said.
"Okay, thanks." Souta nodded and he took the paper.
He bid goodbye to Jimmy and exit the room.
"Don't forget to come back here if you found some goods like this monster orb." Jimmy's voice sounded as he closed the room.
Souta went downstairs and gave the paper to the receptionist.
The receptionist took the paper and looked at it. She was stunned when she saw the amount of money written in the paper. She knew that Souta went upstairs to talk to one of the executives.
She processed the paper and give Souta the money.
"Thanks," Souta said as he took the money before he exited the building.
Inside the building, Jimmy was looking at Souta through the window.
"Who's that lad? To think that he would sell you a monster orb." A voice sounded behind him.
"That's Souta, a good lad," Jimmy replied.
"Will he bring more benefits to our corporation or not?"
"That depends on us. As long as we show that we're trustworthy then he will continue providing us something good." Jimmy said.
"Is he really that good?"
"That sword on his waist... You see I've discerned that it is a red grade weapon or maybe higher than that." Jimmy said.
"Hmm... If he has something like that on himself then he's no ordinary man."
"Currently, he's an ordinary man but I wonder in the future. Let's see how high he could reach with his potential." Jimmy said as he rubbed his chin. "You know the news about the Desolate Woods."
"Yeah, it was frightening. What about that?"
"Souta was there when that happened and he somehow survived that calamity," Jimmy said with a smile. "Let us help him this time. We will block all the information that he went there so that those countries wouldn't bother him in his study."
...
Souta met Yuko outside the building. Both of them went around the town.
"Yuko, we're rich now. Just pick anything you want and I will buy it for you."
"Mu."
Souta bought a three-story house and lot for himself in the residential district of district 1. It cost him 20 platinum coins for this house.
This house was for him and Yuko. He also would build a huge ranch so that Yuko could move freely.
...
Just like that one week had passed and Yuko's ranch was complete. He hired experts so that it would finish with less time being consumed.
Yuko was happy with her new home. Souta even stock up a large number of fruits for her.
In this time, he also received another 100 platinum coins from Jimmy. He was satisfied with this and Jimmy didn't let him down.
The ranking in the institute already started and Souta didn't bother himself about this. Other people were excited about this but he was different. He didn't care about that if it wouldn't give him any quest.
All he cared about was the quest. As long as there's a quest he would be motivated to do some trivial things like that.
Also, about Cluster. Souta, Lumilia, and Bryan talked about it. They decided to let her stay with Lumilia for a while. Actually, Souta wanted to recommend his house but he thought that it would be inappropriate for a girl of her age to stay with him. Also, Lumilia and Bryan would think about something if he said that.
Cluster was hiding some secrets about the True God's Holy Kingdom and Souta wanted to get that. He wouldn't let Cluster go easily without knowing that secret.
He will let her trust him to the point that she would be willing to diverge her secret when he inquired. He and Bryan visited her every day in Lumilia's apartment.
The news about what happened in the Desolate Woods spread out like wildfire this week. A lot of people talk about this piece of news.
Souta said to Lumilia and Bryan to keep quiet about the incident in the Desolate Woods. He doesn't want to gather attention right now. Although he prepared what he would say in case some people come and ask him, he still doesn't want to bother himself about that. It's too much trouble when those people were eyeing you.
The higher-ups of every country around the Desolate Woods focused their attention on the forest. The battle of that scale wasn't going to be ignored. A lot of nobles and adventurers died in this incident and some of the towns around the forest were destroyed. It gathered the attention of all countries.
They naturally send out people to know the truth about the calamity in the Desolate Woods.
And just as Souta expected, the True God's Holy Kingdom also sent out an elite squad to investigate.
...
Souta wore his uniform and went downstairs. He cooked breakfast for himself before he ate it. He then went out and bid farewell to Yuko.
On his way, he met Alice.
"What a coincidence," Souta said to her.
"Nnn. Yeah." Alice nodded her head.
"You really don't talk too much," Souta said as he walked beside her.
"I wonder about that," Alice replied to him.
"But not anymore," Souta said with a grin.
Both of them entered the institute and they went directly to their classroom. They found that Lumilia was already inside the classroom. As expected of class rep she always went to the class before anyone else.
Lumilia looked at the two of them for a while before she averted her gaze.
"Good morning, class rep." Souta greeted her as he walked towards his seat.
"G-Good morning." Lumilia greeted him back.
"Is there something wrong, class rep?" Souta asked him.
"Nothing. I'm just wondering why you always go early in class." Lumilia shook her head.
"Hmm... I came here so that I could have a coffee. The coffee here is good." Souta looked at her and said. He placed down his bag on his seat before he exited the classroom.
Lumilia and Alice looked at his back.
Souta went to the cafeteria and bought a cup of coffee. He then went back to the class and found that Bryan was already there.
"Oi! Souta, good morning." Bryan greeted him.
"Good morning," Souta replied as he sat down on his seat.
Suddenly, they felt their Adventurer's ID vibrated. The magic circle that was imprinted in the ID activated.
Then, they heard a siren outside of the school.
"Warning! A Monster Tide has appeared in the outskirt of the Gate 1 of the city!"
"All available adventurers should gather to the Adventurers Guild and help fight the Monster Tide!"
A warning issued throughout the whole city.
"Oh? what perfect timing to level up to twenty." Souta mumbled.
