33 Help?

With the information Eric got, he started to think about what to do next.

'The sect probably won't do anything rash to offend a mid-ranked alchemist and a forging master in case they have strong connections as most do.'

'The main problem is what will happen to Sara if the elder finds out about her being my sister. There is also no guarantee that the elder won't come to attack the store itself which will bring about a lot of problems.'

As Eric kept thinking about all the scenarios about what might happen and what he will need to do, an old man came up to Eric.

"It seems that you have a problem with the Crescent sect."

"Well yes, a small problem but it isn't something to be worried about."

The old man looked at Eric and turned around saying, "Oh I came here to help but it seems that isn't needed."

"What can you do to help?"

"It seems that you are interested."

"I have solutions but I would prefer to not use them if I have other choices."

"Well then I have a simple proposal, you let us buy pills and equipment from you and we will protect you if you need our help."

"We sell our pills and equipment to everyone, you can just buy it like normal."

"No, we don't want just low and mid-ranked items. We want to buy high-rank items."

"Hmm, why do you think that we have high-rank items at all?"

"It's very simple, no force would sell their highest rank items for everyone to buy up and even restock them up every day unless they were an idiot."