4. Having a good meal

The assistant placed a cube carefully on the black disk at the center of the table and operated a few buttons at the side. Light rays passed over the energy cube a few times and scanned every inch of it. Not long after, a transparent green panel made from the rays shown a detailed description of the cube and even had the price.

|| Item: Energy Cube (Top grade)

Description: The highest grade of energy cubes with a thousand energy units of the purest value, each energy unit is equivalent to hundred units from a top grade energy cube of the same value. Greatly increases the power output of energy based equipments. A very rare power source.

Price range per energy unit: 1000 - 1500

Price range per cube: 1000000 - 1500000||

Item rankings are low, medium, high and top grades from the lowest to highest.

Looking at the transparent panel before him, Ghengi then remembered his system did not have such functions or appraisal skills. He noted to get some from the trade center if possible.

Even though items placed in the storage space of the Starship are automatically categorized, only their names appear with no other details. And yes, it seems the system has been ignoring him for a while now. Getting his thoughts together he looked at the reaction of the people.

Yashar and his assistant looked at the screen as if they could not believe their eyes for a long time. It wasn't their fault for not having to see even medium grade energy units, the commonly used energy units were the low grade and the medium grade units were used mainly by high military groups of the Empire. As for the high-grade, it can be said to be a luxury used by only the high ranking armies of the Imperium.

Today, some strange people came to his doorstep with a case full of rare top-grade energy cubes, not just the top-grade but the legendary purest valued top-grade energy units.

He was lost in thoughts until his eyes met with the cold eyes of the guests, which woke him up from his day dream. This must be what he has been waiting for all this while.

At this moment, the value of these guests rised to a whole new height in his heart as he respectful stood and bowed, as he said, "Dear esteemed guests please forgive me for the delay."

He sat back down after the lead robot nodded and continued, "Please, our trade organization would appreciate if you could sell these energy cubes to us. We are willing to give 3000 EC per unit, 3000000 EC per cube and if you could sell in large quantities, we will give an additional 500000 EC per cube. What do you say?"

Silence

Ghengi was dumbfounded by the skyrocketing price of a single cube. Energy bank from the system is not surprising to be of the highest grade as everything from the system is the best of the best. Each energy bank contains a thousand units of energy cubes. He brought only hundred to test the waters, and the price range given by the panel surprised him a lot.

But now that the price doubled out of nowhere he could not react for some time but, Yashar on the other side thought his price was not satisfying and quickly raised it.

"Please esteemed guests, how about 4 mil… no 5 million EC per cube", Yashar nervously stated as he stared at them as if to see through the helmets of the group.

He could not let such great business opportunity slide. He could easily sell a cube for more than 15 million because of it's rarity, and not to mention his position in the trade organization would be improved greatly if he could rope in such clients to have a stable supply line.

When he did not receive any response for the second time, he was feeling quite uneasy and could only increase the price over and over again until he got close to his lose margin.

Ghengi who was dumbfounded by the prices and seeing the manager's reaction, he quickly got the idea to keep quite until the other party was at his highest offer as he remembered this was similar in the novels from his last life.

After some time he could feel the manager getting to his bottom line and ordered the lead robot to accept the offer, gaining a long sigh of relief from the manager.

The final price was 9500000 EC per cube but as a sign of friendship he removed the 500000 EC, gaining the manager's friendship was more important to him now that he could obtain such an amount. He had no idea he was still been cheated.

Ghengi had to wait for a while as the amount was not small for the manager to directly send it. It needed approval from the higher ups of the trade organization from the capital and for them to send it directly.

This method of the trade organization is also a way to obtain the details of the client in order to have a upper hand when dealing with them. But they failed this time.

[ Host's account received 900000000 EC. Current balance: 900000000EC ]

This account is a special account created by the system to avoid hacking, tracking and to perfectly hide his information.

Not long after, the manager walked in again with a bright smile full of respect as he had been given the order to form a stable connection with his clients in return for a direct promotion.

Simply to not offend him and keep him entertained at all cost. Yashar felt the fear in his superior's voice, he could not guess anything that can make the owner of an organization such as the Luna trade organization be scared.

Unbeknownst to Yashar, the fear of unknown for President Luna far surpasses anything else.

"Please here is a gold card from our trade organization. When you show this card in any of our trade branches, you will get a ten percent discount when the items you buy exceeds 1 million and a ten percent increase when selling things", the manager said and handed a golden card to the lead android who passed it to Ghengi, who also stored it in his suit space and asked Sindy to check for any tracking signals and shut them down.

The manager continued, "Esteem guests please accept our gesture of gratitude.", he signaled and a few blossom chest beauties marched in with plates of different kinds of dishes.

Ghengi's eyes immediately lit up and only now that he remembered his hunger and quickly gave an order to the lead robot.

"You can send them to our ship", the lead said in his solemn tone. And added, "We will be back after enjoying your gift."

The manager could only nod repeatedly and lead the way to the ship. This caught the attention of the other guests who could not get the attention of the manager no matter how hard they tried and could only receive a response through an attendee. Some looked on enviously, some angered and some did not care at all and returned to their activities after a glance.

…

In the red lunar galaxy, a space station four times the size of the Eastern coast where Ghengi is currently.

In a vast spacious hall with thick glasses covering all sides which makes it easier to view the beauty of deep space and the brilliant glow of the red moon.

A man with dark skin stood at the window staring at the red moon as his back faced the people seated on the large round table. The glow of the red moon adding a tint of red to everything it touches.

The man who is no other than the sole owner of the Luna trade organization, Kifo Luna. A descendant of the people of Luna. With the destruction of their motherland Luna, they all scattered across the universe until Kifo created a base space station to offer refuge to his kin.

Today he had heard a great news of a new formidable force emerging in the Far East. From the report, their ship appeared out of nowhere meaning the technology used far surpasses the warp speed. Their weapons are also unique with their armor suits.

And to conclude it all, the purity of their energy is overwhelming. Thinking about the information he received from the report, a smile formed on his face as he said, "Another wonderful show is about to begin."

…

Back in the battleship, looking at the various colorful and neatly arranged platter he quickly rampaged through the table. He seemed like a homeless who had not eaten for a long time. Luckily for him, only the robots were around to withness such a disgraceful state.

With his appetite he was not able to finish all the dishes as it was intended to satisfy his whole group. Yet he was able to finish half of the food which amazed him but he quickly placed it at the back of his head. He ordered two androids to store the rest in the ships storage which was connected to the main Mothership's storage.

(A reminder: the storage is not a place but a dimensional space which is accessed by specific and special teleportation disks and time doesn't have effect in the space).

The group soon emerged from the ship to find the manager and his group still waiting for them outside the ship. Ghengi felt a little impressed by this action and decided to give the manager a little benefit when possible.