The Fake Heiress Turns Out to Be a True Tycoon! novel Chapter 1000

Chapter 1000: Chapter 1000: Helping Scarlett Make Up the Numbers

In this world, there were no paths initially, but as more people walked, a path was formed.

What Scarlett Jennings wanted to walk was the fourth path, one that wasn’t within the official rules of the competition, but one she dug out herself.

"Nathan White and I just wandered over half of the Ghost Market and found that every contestant’s personal items had special rune symbols."

Scarlett Jennings picked up the mini skull and another item on the stall. As her spiritual power disseminated, a faint rune immediately appeared on both the skull and the item.

This is the official mark.

Scarlett Jennings pointed to the other item and said,

"This is Nathan White’s personal item."

It was a piece of thorn from his original body.

Hannah Hearne couldn’t help but be curious, "Your items just happened to be on the same stall?"

Scarlett Jennings shook her head,

"This item of Nathan’s, I exchanged it with another vendor for another item."

Because of this, Scarlett Jennings knew that participants couldn’t redeem non-personal items directly from vendors, but it was permitted for vendors to exchange among themselves.

This allowance for exchanges greatly enhanced Scarlett Jennings’s operability within.

"The rule of bartering is essentially using my surplus to trade for your scarce goods.

As long as you grasp market demand, even a bun can eventually be traded for a bicycle through continuous transactions."

Although Scarlett Jennings used to focus solely on Mystical Techniques, due to the influence of Luca Jennings and Donovan Jennings, she knew a fair bit about capital trading.

For instance, Nathan’s personal item was originally with a vendor who required Nathan to exchange it for an armor made of his hedgehog spikes.

This vendor’s request for the exchanged item was because he wanted a Magic Treasure for emergency protection.

Based on this need, Scarlett Jennings used a Jade Token that could gather Shadow Energy to protect a Ghost Body for exchange.

Successfully trading Nathan’s item from the vendor to her stall.

Now, for Nathan to retrieve his item from Scarlett Jennings’s booth, he only needed to meet an exchange item within Scarlett’s acceptable range.

This made a transaction originally limited to buyer and seller turn into a tripartite trade, significantly reducing the cost for Nathan.

The fourth option Scarlett Jennings mentioned was to proactively leverage this kind of staggered redemption, concentrating all items on her stall and then smoothly allowing others to redeem theirs under a reasonable exchange condition.

Simply put, it’s about laying out all items and conditions in the open, allowing the participants to choose the price they can afford and proceed to exchange.

One might complete an exchange under another person’s condition, yet successfully redeem their personal item at the stall.

What Scarlett Jennings provided was this platform to centralize all prescribed items and conditions.

Magnolia Hearne and Callum Yuan, along with the audience watching the live stream, finally understood what Scarlett’s fourth method was about.

But Magnolia Hearne and Callum Yuan still had another question—

"The officials probably wouldn’t give you a stall to serve as a centralized trading platform; where did you get this stall?"

This question could be answered by those who had been following Scarlett Jennings’s live broadcast.

Scarlett didn’t intend to conceal anything from them.

She said,

"I signed a betting agreement with the owner of this stall. Before the Ghost Market closes, I’ll complete at least fifteen transactions for him, and the final traded items belong to the original vendor."

After Scarlett Jennings explained this, she paused, as Callum and Magnolia waited silently for her continuation.

Though they didn’t quite understand human matters entirely, surely there would be penalties if the bet wasn’t realized.

According to the officials’ laid traps, at least half were to be eliminated in the first round.

With harsh redemption conditions, this number would drop below half again.

Not everyone would accept Scarlett’s proposed fourth method, but as long as more than half participated in her plan, she could ensure at least fifteen people redeemed their items without resorting to forced trades.

Even if she ultimately couldn’t achieve fifteen transactions due to conditions, her betting agreement with the stall owner didn’t specify the trades had to be official items.

If necessary, she could sell a few ordinary items from the stall for the owner, which would count as completed transactions.

Therefore, for Scarlett Jennings, the betting agreement posed minimal risk.

Instead, the Mystical Sect holds its competition once every three years. Many entered with high expectations as representatives, and being eliminated in the first round would be too disappointing.

After Scarlett’s thorough cost-benefit analysis, Hannah was still a bit worried.

Even if Callum and she were to find and redeem their items from Scarlett’s stall, that would only be four transactions.

Still far from fifteen required transactions.

Just as she thought about this, Gregory Xander, Evan Anson, along with Ashton Todd and Stella Gibson, whom they met at the entrance, walked over, their eyes gleaming, saying,

"Scarlett, we just circled around and, in addition to us four, found seven other items with special markings.

We’ve noted the vendors’ barter requests and now it’s about allocation, trading those from other vendors to Scarlett’s side."

Upon hearing they found seven items, Hannah’s ears perked up instantly.

She momentarily forgot the initial warning Emily gave to be harsh on Scarlett, now left with one thought—

Quickly find the items of hers and Callum’s, and others’ too.

She needed to help Scarlett "meet the quota!"