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Big Gold Tooth was instantly made uneasy by everyone's looks.
He hurriedly looked at Ethan and said, "So… so exactly how much do you still have?"
"Not much, not much. Just about five hundred portions of octopus meat!"
[Passive Skill: "Sweet-Talk You Into a Limp" Activated!]
[Countdown — 9:05]
"Pff!"
Big Gold Tooth felt like dying.
But since he'd already bought so much, if he didn't grit his teeth and buy the rest now, the stock he had on hand would end up rotting with him anyway.
Luckily, there were only five hundred portions left. Even if he bought them all, at worst he could sell two portions for three Dragon Coins. Thin margins but high volume, he'd definitely sell them all.
If he sold everything, he'd make at least twelve hundred Dragon Coins. Subtracting the cost of less than eight hundred Dragon Coins, he'd still make at least four hundred Dragon Coins.
That was still a pretty decent deal.
Unfortunately, his entire brain was currently in a state of being completely fooled by Ethan, and he didn't notice at all.
That Ethan said five hundred portions of octopus meat, not five hundred skewers. And with Ethan's profiteer-style selling, five hundred portions of octopus meat meant five thousand skewers.
"I didn't bring that many Dragon Coins with me this time," Big Gold Tooth gritted his teeth, then took out a whistle from his backpack and said, "I just got myself a bone horse. The price is five hundred Dragon Coins per head. How about trading it for iron-plate takoyaki?"
"Bone horse?", Ethan looked at the black bone whistle in Big Gold Tooth's hand, "What's that supposed to be? If it's not Dragon Coins, I'm not interested."
"Fuuuu!"
Big Gold Tooth didn't waste words.
He directly put the whistle to his lips and blew hard.
A very low-frequency sound immediately spread far into the distance. Not long after, everyone in the entire Free Market heard the sound of hooves approaching from far away.
Clop! Clop!
Clop! Clop! Clop!
Before long, they also heard a horse neighing at the entrance.
"Hiss~"
It seemed a horse had arrived at the Traveler's Inn entrance.
But because of the gate, it couldn't enter freely.
The head butler glanced over, then simply raised his hand and waved at the gate. Instantly, the two massive doors swung open.
"Neigh!"
Then everyone saw a horse with nothing but bones left on its body happily run inside from outside.
The people in the Free Market all parted to make way, letting the bone horse walk toward Big Gold Tooth. For a moment, the entire market was filled with nothing but the sound of bones rubbing against bones.
Crack!
Crack! Crack!
Those sounds came from the bone horse.
But Ethan noticed that at the position of the bone horse's heart, there seemed to be a cluster of pale blue light. That light was beating up and down like a heart.
And from that pale blue glow extended many thin strands of light, like nerves or blood vessels, spreading throughout the bone horse's body.
It was as if this bone horse relied on light to sustain its operation, not blood and not neural signals.
[Bone Horse: A high-grade mount. Fearless of the monsters in the Fog Forest, able to move freely within it. A gentle undead creature.]
[PS: Raising a bone horse may be a bit costly. It consumes ten spirit stones per day.]
'Ten spirit stones?'
'That's fine. Barely affordable.'
"Alright! Deal!"
Only then did Ethan hand over the five hundred prepared skewers of takoyaki to Big Gold Tooth, while Big Gold Tooth handed the bone whistle used to control the bone horse to Ethan.
The bone whistle felt ice-cold to the touch, but Ethan still tucked it close into his chest.
After all, this was his mount. He had to build some rapport with it.
After taking the five hundred skewers of iron-plate takoyaki, Big Gold Tooth's expression immediately turned smug again as he said, "Big promotion right now. Three Dragon Coins for two skewers! Once it's gone, it's gone!"
"Damn it, having money really is amazing!"
"All those delicious and cheap iron-plate takoyaki still ended up being monopolized by this profiteer!"
"If only I had that much money. I'd monopolize it too and sell one skewer for ten Dragon Coins!"
"Oh, give it a rest! If you bought all the takoyaki, that wouldn't be monopolizing. That'd be feeding pigs!"
Though everyone was extremely unwilling, they still obediently took out Dragon Coins, preparing to buy iron-plate takoyaki at a fifty percent markup from the profiteer.
And Big Gold Tooth turned his head to look at Ethan.
With a look that clearly said, 'Since you've got nothing left to sell, hurry up and get lost. Don't just squat on the toilet without taking a dump.'
However…
Ethan wore an honest, kind expression and said, "By the way, can I ask how many bone horses you still have?"
"You… what do you mean?"
Big Gold Tooth sensed danger, and his face changed drastically.
But Ethan smiled and took out a large chunk of magma octopus meat, "What I said earlier was that I still had five hundred portions of this meat. One portion of magma octopus meat can make ten skewers, so I still have a total of four thousand five hundred skewers of iron-plate takoyaki."
"Pff! Pff! Pff!"
Hearing this, Big Gold Tooth collapsed straight to the ground.
His eyes went wide, his face full of disbelief. He never imagined that as a famous profiteer himself, there would come a day when he'd be fooled this badly.
'This shouldn't be happening!'
"Good!"
"This is great!"
"Profiteers like this deserve to be treated this way!"
"Hahaha! Now he's lost his money and his mom… oh wait, his horse! He really tried to steal a chicken and ended up losing the rice!"
"So satisfying! This feels amazing!"
"Boss, I'm so happy, I want to reserve twenty skewers!"
"I want thirty too!"
"I want fifty skewers of iron-plate takoyaki!"
Everyone happily took out their money to buy. As for the fallen Gold Tooth the Big Profiteer, nobody paid him any attention. Some even deliberately stepped on him as they passed.
Gold Tooth's only profit tonight was a face full of shoe prints and a belly full of rage.
As for those several hundred skewers of iron-plate takoyaki, there was no way he could eat them all by himself, even if he stuffed himself to death.
"Iron-plate takoyaki, one Dragon Coin per skewer!"
"Selling the rest cheap, buy ten get one free!"
"Last ten skewers, last ten!"
Ethan kept shouting, finally selling over two hundred portions of magma octopus meat, cashing in two thousand five hundred seventy Dragon Coins, plus one bone horse.
'Sigh! The purchasing power of these market people really isn't great.'
'Look at how awesome Big Gold Tooth is. One person alone swallowed a third of the stock.'
Even though iron-plate takoyaki wasn't selling well anymore, Ethan still had no intention of letting this batch of leeks off. After all, once you harvest one round of leeks, another round grows back.
So if he didn't completely empty the pockets of everyone in the Free Market today, he wouldn't deserve to be called Ethan the Super Big Profiteer.
"Pretty lady, this skewer of iron-plate takoyaki is on me."
Ethan held a skewer of iron-plate takoyaki, squatted in front of the scroll merchant, and smiled, "May I ask if that scroll of yours, the 'Totally Useless Ice Ability Spellbook,' could be sold to me a bit cheaper?"
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