An Understated Dominance (Maria Vittori) novel Chapter 1949

After an hour, Jackson walked into the hotel room carrying a whole sack of eclipse spiritstones and poured all of it on the table.

"Ms. Linsor, these are all the eclipse spiritstones that I managed to collect. This is around 70% of all the eclipse spiritstones out there.

"Those who have the remaining ones are either uncontactable or they refused to sell." Jackson gave her a simple explanation of what happened.

Initially, he didn't want to spend any of Grace's money. Hence, he tried to explain the gravity of the issue to those who had the eclipse spiritstones.

Unfortunately, no one believed him.

It was useless even when he tried to use the Embersteel Order's reputation to convince them.

Most of the people he approached thought that he was a liar. They thought that he was jealous of them for having the eclipse spiritstones in their possession.

As such, he was trying to steal the eclipse spiritstone from them by lying.

In desperation, he could only follow Grace's idea of purchasing the eclipse spiritstones at a high price.

Most people became less suspicious when they heard that he was willing to pay them for the eclipse spiritstones.

However, there were a skeptical few who still refused to sell the eclipse spiritstones to him. They remained steadfast even though he tried his best to convince them.

In the end, he could only give up as he had run out of ideas. He had done his very best. It was unfortunate that they didn't believe him.

"Thank you for your hard work, Jackson. We have done all we could. We'll let fate deal with the rest." Grace wasn't surprised to hear that.

She had never thought of saving everyone. She did it out of her love for the country and the people. As such, she had done all she could.

"I was just the messenger. It's not a big deal. It's just that I think you have spent too much money on this." Jackson appeared a little guilty.