In the first place, negotiations would only start once one of the parties involved told the other to get lost.

My goal was to check the system’s limits– to figure out the limitations on the compensation that could be provided in return for nerfing the EX-Class item. It was the most significant profit and opportunity that I could hold in my hands!

‘The status of the place is ‘very stable,’ and due to that, the government doesn’t have any motivation to Clear it at the risk of sacrificing their own hunters. If we’re going to Clear it, we have to do it as discreetly as possible, but… In order to accomplish such a feat, I will have to use up all of the Mana that I’ve saved up so far all at once.’

The trade would allow us to gain the excellent opportunity to save that many cores.

– … Any further than that is not allowed! Instead of lowering the quest difficulty by 50%, I will conclude by letting you receive the experience points rewards without any changes from the original arrangement!

I made an expression as if that it was a shame.

– Why don’t you consider what you’re supposed to receive? It doesn’t make sense that you’d get to reduce the difficulty of the quests and receive the same reward in the first place!

The dungeon survivors, whom the officials believed at that time had been completely rid of, were already preparing for a second Clear.