He told the three of us to wait for a mont before he arrives. We all sat on the chairs that have been prepared for the guests, and while Roxanne and I were simply looking around, observing everything that was happening around us, Sherry decided to took out the notebook that she bought for herself with the allowance that I have given her yesterday and started to scribble down in it pretty eagerly. While we were waiting, the color of the wall to our side suddenly changed to black, indicating that a portal has been opened on it, and soon after people started coming out of it which prompted the clerk behind the counter to aske every last one of them what was their business here, and once they have stated it they have been shown to their seats in the waiting room, just like it was with us. So apparently they have to be other custors who ca here to do business with their respective brokers, right? Also, it would seem that the wall of the waiting room in the rchants Guild is yet another place where Field Walkercan be used, so maybe I should start employing that thod of transportation to co here from now on as well?
I am sorry for making you wait. Now, if you would please follow .
Luke the Broker has finally arrived, and after apologizing for making as wait for him for so long he guided all three of us to one of the conference rooms.
I have received your ssage, Mr. Luke, but just to be sure, let confirm this with you. You really managed to get your hands on a rmaid Skill Crystal?
Yes. Luckily for , there were no other competitors for this particular purchase, so I also managed to obtain it at a relatively low price that is actually even cheaper than the usual market price. Is that all right with you?
Yes, I see no problems with that. I hope that our beneficial partnership can continue.
Thank you very much. So, can I assu that you are interested in buying the rmaid Skill Crystal from ?
Yes, definitely. That is the reason why I ca here today, after all.
Of course. Well then, here you go.
Luke the Broker than cast the spell that summoned his Item Box and he proceeded to take out rmaid Skill Crystal out of it and placed it on the table. I then used my own Identifyspell to see it that was really the item in question, and sure enough, it was a rmaid Skill Crystal.
Now then, if it is all right then I will be taking
Before you do that, Michio-sama, there is one more thing that I would like to tell you, or rather, propose to you.
Propose sothing? What is he talking about?
Propose sothing? What do you an by that? Is sothing actually wrong with this Skill Crystal?
No, everything is fine with it, so allow to explain. The thing is, since I was the winning bidder for the purchase of the rmaid Skill Crystal, as a Broker affiliated with this rchants Guild I can use the special service offered by the rchant Guilds Temple.
A special service offered by this Guilds Temple?
A special service? What kind of service is that, exactly? I assu that it is sothing related to the item that you won in an auction?
Precisely. It is a special appraisal service offered to the winners of the auction that costs ten Nars. And since I was a Broker acting on your behalf, it ans that you have access to that special appraisal service as well. How about it? Would you like to go and use the service provided by our temple right now? You do not have to pay for it now, it is perfectly fine to do so after the confirmation process will be completed.
Luke told all that as I was practically holding the rmaid Skill Crystal in my hand.
A confirmation process?
Yes. It is a asure employed to make sure that the winners of the auctions could check for themselves if the items that they have won are genuine or not.
Aaaaahhh, I see what he is talking about now. Essentially, he is telling that the rchant Guilds Temple can use Identify on this Skill Crystal for so that I could have a one hundred percent guarantee that the thing I bought is really what I paid for and not just sothing extrely similar to it disguised as sothing else.
Now, I know that this thing in my hand is a rmaid Skill Crystal because I have access to Identifyand I could check that for myself, but ordinary people cannot do it at all, right? For normal people, the Skill Crystals must look like nothing more than ordinary pebbles, and they would not even be able to tell what type it is or to what monster did they belong in the first place.
So with that in mind, it might actually be a good idea to go along with Luke the Brokers proposition and have this rmaid Skill Crystal be appraised in the Guilds Temple. One of the reasons for going along with it is of course because I do not want to look suspicious in his eyes, and I kinda do want to take a look at the Guilds temple to see how it actually looks like inside.
Then again, since I can use Identifyto check the authenticity of every item myself, it would be incredibly annoying to go through with it every ti when I would be buying sothing, not to ntion that after a while it would also get really costly. Not after two or three tis of course, but you know what they say, right?
Ten Nars here, ten Nars there, and then, before you would even be able to realize it, you would end up with a hefty sum of money spent on the appraisal of items bought from the auctions alone. And if I am to be perfectly honest with you, if I have to pay soone to appraise my items for , then I definitely prefer doing that myself because then that costs literally nothing. And right now, when I have already appraised this rmaid Skill Crystal and I know it is a real deal, I at least am sure that he acquired a genuine article for and did not try to trick by getting so kind of forgery. So.
I kindly thank you for the offer, but I think that I am going to pass on it this ti. I trust you with this one, Mr. Luke, because you do not strike as soone who would try to swindle your clients with their very first transaction.
By showing him that I trust him, I might be able to increase his opinion of as a client. Of course, I have no idea if such a manuever on my side is going to work or not, but at this point it was a bet that I was willing to make, and everything seems to be showing that it was the right call on my part, because Mr. Luke did not look as disappointed as I thought he would be, but it might be possible that he was only feigning that while harboring different feelings inside of him, but at the current mont I do not have any way of knowing or checking whether that is true or not.
It might be possible that Mr. Like is not the person that I initially thought he is. It is entirely possible that he might be planning to use and do wrong, and if that is the case, then that is all the more reason to show him that I am not soone who is going to be agreeing to each and every one of his suggestions, because that would have been a clear signal to him that I am a person that is prone to being manipulated and led by the nose by others, and I am anything but that.
If there will ever co a ti when he tries to deceive by trying to sell a forged Skill Crystal, I will know about it imdiately and I would be ready to act accordingly, but for the ti being nothing seems to be pointing to that. If the need for that arises, I can always ask him to show around the temple so other ti, assuming that he is still going to be willing to cooperate with to such a degree that is.
As you wish. I understand.
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