Chapter 74: System evaluation

Umbra's released pressure was already astonishing but it was nothing compared to the thick black mana cocoon that formed around it, which shocked Shane somewhat, as all mana particles within the room were absorbed by it.

Taking more than a hundred mana crystals out of his spatial ring, Shane noticed the mana within them being drawn out in a single second, as another batch consistent of several hundred mana crystals appeared on the ground.

The suction speed of the black cocoon slowed down and Shane sighed in relief, as he decided to dedicate himself to the system shop.

The first thing he did was purchase a few hundred glass vials in order to fill the liquid within the aqueous scales he acquired from the scaled lizards inside.

After filling the first vial with the liquid, Shane utilized another function of the System, which allowed him to evaluate the stage and quality of the product.

[(Aqueous scaled lizard) liquid will be analyzed...1%...9%...45%....76%...100%. ]

[Evaluation completed→ Energizing/Soothing characteristics detected. Analyzed liquid can be used as [Mortal-(Common+)] potion! →Aqueous fragrant potion]

Reading through the two messages, Shane was at first extremely expectant, before he almost jumped out from joy.

`Ohhh my!!!` Shane wanted to show his joy to everyone, but that was not possible as he had nobody to flex his wealth to and he couldn't leave Umbra alone.

Researching about the Aqueous fragrant potion, Shane figured out that humanity didn't have a high number of such potions, which indicated that they haven't found a race like the aqueous scaled lizard as he did.

The price for a single potion was relatively high and not low in any way, with 30 Silver for a single potion and Shane felt immediately like he hit the Jackpot.

With his last large venture into the elemental cave, he picked up hundreds of corpses after the small skirmish between purple furred wolves and scaled lizards.

Shane had roughly 40 aqueous scaled lizard carcasses, while not a single one of them was at the elite stage.

Even if that was slightly unfortunate, Shane estimated that a single scaled lizard had roughly 100 scales on it which meant he could fill 4000 vials.

Setting the price at 30 Silver would immediately reward him with 1.200 gold coins, without the need to sell the remaining hundreds of corpses inside his spatial ring.

A radiant smile blossomed on his face, as he purchased as many vials as possible with his remaining funds in order to start to decant the content within the aqueous scales into vials.

Once a vial was filled, he immediately exhibited them within his store, without caring about anything else except the set price at 30 silver coins.

More than six hours passed until Shane finished the whole procedure and he felt as if he was going to die, as the whole process was deadly-boring.

During the last six hours, Shane wasn't exactly sure how many times he almost fell asleep, which fortunately didn't happen, as he had more than enough to do.

While exhibiting the potions, Shane decided to add the purple furred wolves into the remaining vacancies for 4 silver coins for the peak-Wild stage wolves, while he set 20 silver coins for the Elite stage ones.

The price was not too high, because of the high electrical conductivity the purple furred wolves provided, while the claws and fangs could be used as arrowheads, as long as they were grinded slightly.

With this, Shane gained around 15 gold coins.

Once another vacancy was free, Shane immediately stored the first batch of scaled lizards within it, as each mutated scaled lizard would need its own vacancy.

Two hours passed and Shane gained a fortune of roughly 34 gold coins from the other scaled lizards and other beasts he hunted the day before.

Adding the 1200 gold coins, he obtained from the potions, that sold faster than he expected, Shane's finances reached 1249 gold coins, without him doing anything additionally.

This was more shocking than anything else and the Radiant Mountain-ring dimension grew immediately many folds more important to him, and most likely even for humanity altogether, once they figured out about the mana-, elemental crystals in addition to the mutated beasts with their perks.

If even Wild stage beasts can be worth 30 gold coins, the shelter would prosper more than any other, as long as the demand for the potion and other items once acquired there would stay high.

Shane was one of the first ones to hunt these beasts and mine elemental- and mana- crystals were the most fortunate one, which was noticeable if one were to see his finances.

In the end, the potion's value would decrease by a large degree, until they would be worth almost nothing, because of the oversaturated market, which would be created over time once everyone hunted aqueous scaled lizards.

It was only now, that he really had to think, what he should purchase with his newly obtained finances, as he had everything he needed.

More mana stones were probably the only thing he could really need right now, as the five tier-1 trash quality mana stones would not be sufficient for him to reach a perfect Mortal physique while purifying the mana within his mana pool.

As such, he decided to purchase an additional 10 tier-1 trash quality mana stones for 50 gold coins, with the additional transfer fee, which reduced his finances to 1194.

Right now, he didn't really want to purchase any extra nutrition solutions, because he wanted to test out their potency first.

After finishing all of them Shane wanted to test out a trash tier-1 nutrition solution to figure out if his body could handle it because a trash tier-1 nutrition solution would be better than the mortal stage nutrition solutions, as long as he didn't purchase an extraordinary one with an additional effect.

He already owned one [Mortal-(Extraordinary)] nutrition solution, but it didn't have any additional effect and was only there for him to test the waters.

The prices for such nutrition solutions were too high and Shane would rather purchase a tier-1 trash one rather than a lower graded one with an additional effect, as long as his body could use all nutrition within the solution.

It was already afternoon, when Shane finished everything within the Shop, as he noticed a notification that seemed to have gone under through the whole purchase log that filled his system.

[Primordial Shop's "Upgrade-function" has been <unlocked> Items worth 1000 gold coins have been sold. Congratulations!! Reward: +1 Vacancy]

Looking at the notification, Shane wasn't sure what to think of it because the shop wasn't that important for him anymore, because he didn't want to become a full-time merchant.

However, on the other side, he witnessed the annoying side of having only a few vacancies a few hours ago, which was extremely unpleasant to witness.

As such, Shane was still somewhat happy to have unlocked his Shop's upgrade function.

Having the option to do something, instead of working towards it painstakingly was definitely a pleasing feeling.

He wouldn't have to bother in the future about unlocking the upgrade function once he needed it.

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