The First Legendary Beast Master novel Chapter 950

Chapter 950 Material Trade

That got the Dwarves excited. They had all sorts of good materials stored from their farms, and they weren't worth much here in town.

When everyone had the same things, the value plummeted. Water was worth more than anything else to most of the farmers, as the supply was greatly limited.

They called it a river that they filled the water wagons from, but it was hardly more than a small stream from a natural spring. With the amount that they used, it only ran for a few hundred metres before soaking into the ground and vanishing.

The rest of the water was all taken away to keep the people alive.

The Sand Trolls needed very little water for themselves, but the crops needed it. Normally, they relied on rainfall, but that had been getting more scarce by the year, to the point that many had already begun to abandon the higher areas.

They would move to a lowland, in hopes that it retained more moisture, or just move to the coast and start over from nothing.

The shirtless Dwarf had managed to find more neighbours, and between them, they had come up with a large pile of black veined Overlord Ranked Mana Jade.

"What about this? The striped Jade comes from the quarry as well, and it should be good for making statues." One of the Dwarves asked.

"How much do you want for it?" Karl asked.

"Ten Gold Coins a Kilo."

Karl tried not to smile as the Dwarves around him burst into laughter.

"Oi, shut it, you bunch of jackasses. It's called negotiating" He insisted.

"Ten Gold a Kilo" One of the others mocked in a singsong voice, which made the others laugh even harder.

"If you want the scrap jade from the mines, I'll trade you for half that price." Someone in the back shouted.

"You live in the city, what do you even want a water statue for?"

"I don't, but I'd pay just to see the look on your face."

Karl let the Dwarves argue among themselves, until finally the shirtless Dwarf moved closer to whisper to him.

"There's five hundred Kilos of stone on the ground there. I'll trade you for the statue while they argue." He whispered.

"Pass me the stone, and it's a deal,"

Tessa rolled her eyes as the stone vanished, then appeared in the Guild's Branch Location inventory. That was even more shameless than taking the mana jade countertops from renovation sites, like they had last time.

The Dwarves realized that the stone was gone, as was the statue, and turned on the shirtless Dwarf.

"You shameless bugger. What did you bribe him with? You'd better not have promised him your daughter, you know my boy is sweet on her." One of the men demanded, then glared at Karl's group.

(Forget that, if they bring back enough water, they're going to break the curse entirely. With those damned shamans working against us, all it will take is one major storm front for the entire curse to start crumbling.

How long until we can get Lord Bomgon to start sending us some of those Necromancers? They can't stay and curse the coastline forever.} The other man

replied.

That changed Rac's plans. [Karl, make up an excuse and work with Remi to make the largest thunderstorm that you can. Like, cover everything all the way to the horizon.] [Is there a good reason for this?] Karl asked.

[Of course. Plus, I need a soundtrack as I work.]

Karl chuckled and let Rae go about her business. The crowd in the market barely noticed as the two men simply vanished, and there was nobody working in the warehouse where they reappeared.

They were all taking the day off to sell their ware

"Gentlemen, it is a pleasure to meet you. Or I should say Gentleman? The other was a bit too frail and he's already dead. Now, I have a few questions for you, and I do hope that you can answer them in an honest and prompt manner.

There is no reason that this has to be a painful process."

The terrified spy looked upward at the much taller form of Rae in heeled boots, then over her sharp toothed grin to her blood-red eyes, as Rac increased the effect of her aura to its maximum. Then, he promptly wet himself and passed out.

"Fine, I guess we're not doing this the easy way." Rae muttered, then slapped the man to wake him back up.