Figuro returned a few minutes later. I introduced my current slaves to Faenya. She was very polite to each of them. Although she was supposedly around 18 in our years, she had a motherly aura around her that seed to make the other girls look up to her. They all smiled at her and seed to really like her. I could never understand what led them to hating so girls while liking others. It was truly a conundrum.
“I will provide the slavery stuff for free, so you don’t need to worry about using your… ahem… skill…” Figuro smiled wryly.
What? I didn’t like being nickel and did. Is that really such a problem? Well, at least Figuro understood . Since those fees were being waved, I might as well do things as officially as possible. Well, I still used haggle as I handed over the money. However, he didn’t hand any back to after I signed the paperwork, so I started to frown.
He noticed frowning and then winked. “I’ll admit, I was a bit surprised when you haggled down, naturally I responded by upselling you. The two abilities end up canceling each other out. Any knowledgeable trader or rchant isn’t so easily brought down in price. It does leave wondering what job you have, or if you have a priest on retainer.”
I could only smile wryly. “I apologize.”
I had never bought a slave from him before. Miki was given freely and the cost was the resurrection spell to the priest. When it ca to Lydia, the town ca together and paid my fee before I could even attempt to use the ability. So, this was the first ti the pair of exchanged any money. As it turned out, Figuro had a skill that countered my own, so getting discounts from him was impossible. I felt like I had done sothing bad.
Figuro just waved it off. “Any good rchant always tries to haggle. It’s really how we make profits. It’s actually not uncommon for rchants to buy things at their value. In that case, that 20% is our only profit. Naturally, small store owners, seamstresses, blacksmiths, and these guys don’t have a rchant job, so they can’t block haggling, but any true rchant usually would, and if he doesn’t, it’s because he already marked things up 20% expecting you to haggle with him.”
It seed like the world of rcantile was far more insidious than I had originally thought. It wasn’t so easy to just abuse my haggling and beco rich, especially if I was going to deal with the rchant guild. I’m glad I learned this from Figuro rather than embarrassing myself against the experts. There might even be an advanced upsell and I’d find myself getting taken advantage of. Actually, there was a third-tier dungeon ability called Bargain that sounded like a higher-level version. Perhaps it’d get 50% off. It was too late to use it on Figuro though, and he might even have the higher-level version of Upsell. I should be happy he didn’t use it on . Or did he?
I definitely handed him two thousand gold, but maybe he hadn’t asked for two thousand originally. Man, these skills really screwed with your brain. What is real anymore?
I didn’t have ti to fall into an existential crisis, half the day was over and I had one more project, perhaps the most important things that dictated our future. After the mark was transferred over, I gained a new slave, and then bid my farewell.
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