Why was an Elental Stone so expensive?
Why did it seem so valuable and what were its uses?
These two questions were the questions Corey had when he knew about the absurd price of an Elental Stone.
Corey checked all his recorded books to figure out the reason behind the high price of an elental stone, so he had to call Divine to ask about the reason.
Although Divine gave him the reason behind the high price of an elental stone, he had to pay a price, which was… Ten Thousand Value Points.
Corey so much wanted to beat the crap out of Divine when he heard the price of the information, but Divine's reply was:
"Since an Elental Stone cost ten thousand value points, you'll pay ten thousand value points to get the information.
I'm not cheating you at all by the way. In fact, I'm even generous enough to not charge you a hundred thousand value points. Aren't I a magnanimous person?"
Corey's eyes twitched both in the past and in the present as he rembered Divine's words.
After he heard Divine's blatant lie, he wanted to cut the call and use the E-Underworld to find out the information he wanted, but before he could, Divine later warned him about what he searched on the E-Underworld, that whatever he searched for could be used against him in the future.
So with Divine's warning which to so extent, held so truth, Corey had to yield to Divine's extortion. Increasing Divine's account balance by sixty thousand value points- fifty thousand for the repaynt of the loan he collected from Divine, and ten thousand for the information.
After paying Divine, Divine first thanked him for patronizing his business, causing a vein to pop in Corey's head. Although Corey was at first pissed at Divine for extorting him, the information given to him by Divine was detailed and useful.
The main reason for the high cost of the elental stones was due to their source.
Elental stones were gotten from the twelve danger zones of New Earth. The danger zones were the twelve uninhabitable places of New Earth Ashley told him about. Every danger zone was called a danger zone due to the excessive amount of an elent in a particular area.
For example, there was a place that had an ever-burning fla, and another place had so much ice and the temperature of the place was so low that a normal human would beco an ice sculpture in an instant if they dared to approach the place. Another place had never-ending lightning strikes and thunderclaps.
The twelve danger zones all had their special reasons for being called danger zones, and despite the twelve danger zones being extrely dangerous, they were ways one could benefit from the zones.
With one of them being elental stones.
The danger zones produced elental stones that were respective to the elent of the danger zones. For example, the danger zone of fire would produce fire elental stones, the danger zone of lightning would produce lightning elental stones, and so on.
Due to the danger and difficulty in getting elental stones from a danger zone, the price of an elental stone both in the outside world and the Underworld was extrely high.
There were other minor reasons for the high cost of an elental stone, but those minor reasons were of no usefulness to Corey.
(Going back to Corey and the manager of the shop of the elents)
The manager had a skeptical expression as he scrutinized Corey from head to toe. He had heard a few things about Smile Reaper, and from what he knew, Corey was not ant to have the money to buy an elental stone…
'Unless he borrowed money from that freak nad Divine.'
As the manager had this thought, he realized his theory about Smile Reaper's words could be true and with that theory, the manager's curiosity about Corey died down. anwhile, his curiosity about Divine's actual wealth increased.
"Since you know the price of an elental stone, how many elental stones do you want?"
The manager asked with a smile and Corey seeing a change in the manager's expression, slightly raised his brows.
Although he was curious about the change in the expression of the manager, he decided not to make a comnt and buy the elental stones he wanted.
"I'll buy nine different elental stones. Each elental stone should contain the nine different elents."
Corey's gain from the selling of Neon was approximately two hundred thousand value points, and Corey was extrely surprised when he received his money.
The money gotten from the sales of Neon in the past two weeks was not actually two hundred thousand value points. It was much more than that, but there were expenses which were needed to be subtracted from the money so as to keep the business afloat.
An example of so of the expenses was the Terror Queen collecting her share of the money. The Terror Queen also collected a part of the money to pay the middlen she used to advertise and influence people to buy Neon.
He also needed to pay Divine and his group since he was using their identity as a sort of protection. Also, the group also had their work to do regarding their upcoming drug empire and they also needed their share of the money.
Other things took out of the actual money earned from the sales of Neon, but despite the many expenses, Corey still earned a whopping Two Hundred Thousand Value Points, showing the value of Neon to the Underworld residents and also, it showed Corey how much work the Terror Queen put into the sales of Neon, and he was extrely satisfied with her for that.
Although Corey earned approximately two hundred thousand value points, he had to pay back the debt he owed to Divine, along with the money for the information on elental stones.
So in essence, Corey had approximately one hundred forty thousand value points left, and he planned on using ninety thousand value points to buy elental stones.
Although he could buy five more elental stones, there was no point in buying just five more elental stones due to the Elental Breathing Technique.
According to the Paragon Ancestor and the Elental Breathing Technique, there were nine elents- Fire, water, wind, earth, ice, lightning, tal, wood, and magma.
And the elental breathing technique requires Corey to use nine elental stones to use the elental breathing technique.
The elental breathing technique was a technique that allowed Corey to absorb the elental energy from an elental stone, increasing Corey's stats in the process.
Although Corey had to absorb the elental stone from a stone on each of his hands, Corey had to make sure he absorbed all nine elents from an elental stone in quick succession or the elents could beco rampant and cause an implosion if not attended to.
There was more to the Elental Breathing Technique than just its elental stone requirent. The elental breathing technique would increase certain stats with every elental stone he absorbed. For example:
A fire elental stone would mildly increase his constitution, dexterity and intelligence.
A water elental stone would mildly increase his strength, constitution, and dexterity.
A wind elental stone would greatly increase his agility and dexterity.
And earth elental stone would greatly increase his constitution and mildly increase his strength.
An ice elental stone would mildly increase his constitution.
A lightning elental stone would greatly increase his speed, mildly increase his constitution and give a slight increase to his intelligence stat.
A tal elental stone would greatly increase his strength and constitution.
A wood elental stone would mildly increase his constitution and intelligence.
And a magma elental stone would greatly increase his strength and constitution.
Although the elental breathing technique used words like greatly increase and mildly increase, Corey had no idea to what extent the increase would be.
(Back to Corey and the Manager)
The manager had raised brows as he once again, found himself scrutinizing Corey for a few seconds.
"Excuse for being rude. But, I have to ask. Are you by chance a formation specialist?"
The manager asked and Corey looked at him with raised brows, his eyes having a tinge of confusion.
"Why do you ask?"
Corey questioned with a curious and confused tone, and the manager perceiving the confusion and curiosity in Corey's tone raised his brows also. His eyes containing intrigue.
"From my knowledge, only formation specialist or so other special Profession requires so many different types of elental stones."
As the manager spoke, his eyes glead with interest as he awaited an answer from Corey, but Corey's expression changed from confusion to that of indifference. His eyes and expression, revealing no hint of an answer.
A chuckle escaped Corey's lips a few seconds later and with a small harmless smile, Corey spoke:
"I think it would be best for the two of us if you mind your business… Mr. Manager."
Pin-drop silence engulfed the room for so seconds until the manager smiled and then clapped.
"I apologize for intruding on your business Mr. Smile Reaper. I was curious because a certain person also buys countless different types of elental stones, and the person is also not a formation specialist."
The manager explained and Corey raised his brows with an interested expression.
"And who is the person if I may ask?"
Hearing Corey's question, the manager's lips twitched slightly and with slight fear in his eyes, he replied:
"Pala, the leader of The Destroyers of Darkness."
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