「Even though I can most definitely expect that weapon to be sold out immediately with multiple people aiming for it?」
「Even if you fail, you can always look for other weapons. Should you decide to switch to a different weapon after all, I can search for weapons that are going to be even better than The Holy Spear.」
「I see.」
「Before engaging in bidding war, you should also better evaluate if the price is high or not, in my opinion. The thing that can definitely be said now is that the Baradam family thinks that The Holy Spear is going to be sold for a lot of money, and that is why they are doing everything in their power to ensure the selling of that one weapon is going to be as big of a success as possible.」
That sounds like a reasonable plan, but... can we really be sure that the Baradam family came up with such a well thought-out story? Because if you asked me, then it would be more probable that the family that was on the brink of collapse so much that they had to sell most of their equipment would not have the luxury of thinking ahead with anything when the proverbial knives are right against their throats.
But is selling one Holy Spear really solve all of their financial problems? Shouldn’t they try to fuse more of them? Maybe they should, but such a solution has one fundamental problem: Although the raw materials remain even if 「Monster Skill Crystal Fusion」fails, there’s no guarantee that the fusion is going to be a successful one, which makes every attempt at fusing weapons with Skill Crystals a hazardrous endeavor? And what if the fusion fails and the remade weapon is going to be worse than the original?
Now if it were us, then I don’t think it would have ended up as a failure now that we have been succeeding with Sherry’s fusions for a few times in a row. After all, the success of fusion is based on luck. If you can’t identify Empty Skill Slots via 「Identify」, that is. Now that I have access to that Skill, we no longer have to worry about guessing if equipment has Empty Skill Slots in it or not.
「What about Skill Crystals? Do you think they’re also going to be featured on the auction? And if so, would, let’s say, Scissoresque Carnivorous Plant Skill Crystal be available at around six thousand Nars?」
The topic of the conversation has once again changed.
「Could you get it then?」
To most people a difference of just a thousand or two thousand Nars might not be such a huge deal, but to me it is definitely a big one. That, and also the fee of five hundred Nars. So as you can see, going for it at the auction might really be a bad deal for me at the end of the day.
「In any case, if you’re planning to fuse the Scissoresque Carnivorous Plant Skill Crystal together with the Kobold Skill Crystal, I could get both of those for you and then you would buy them from me at the same time. How about it?」
「At the same time you say? And what would the price be?」
「The price for the Scissoresque Carnivorous Plant Skill Crystal would be six thousand six hundred Nars, and the price for the Kobold Skill Crystal would be five thousand four hundred Nars.」
「I see. The fee for dropping the Kobold Skill Crystals at the auction should be enough to make you buy them a lot cheaper.」
I was wondering if the price of the Kobold Skill Crystal stayed at the level of five thousand four hundred Nars, but thankfully Luke has stated that for me without me actually having to say anything.
That being said, even with all of the remarks he just made, I have to wonder if he really has a reliable way of obtaining those Skill Crystals as cheaply as possible? I guess it all ultimately boils down to the question of how much money he himself is going to be making from that transaction.
「Hmm, I wonder what should I do here?」
「Of course, I won’t force you to make a decision right now, especially since I cannot give you any guarantees as to the possibility of obtaining said Skill Crystals. Still, I think that this direction is the one in which we should be heading.」
If that means that you can get your hands on those Skill Crystals cheaply, then sure, why not. If Luke also decides to make a bid for the Kobold Skill Crystal at the auction, then I wonder if he’s going to be able to win it this time as well?
It would be great if he could, but I won’t be holding my breath here.