Alchemist Guild

"I can get a discount?" Alex asked curiously. While he had enough money, for now, to buy the ingredients 10 times over and not worry about it, he wasn't going to go around spending the most for it.

Every single spirit stone he didn't have to pay, was a spirit stone he could use to buy something else. Perhaps, something more important.

"Yes, Fellow Daoist. If you have an Alchemist badge, you can get a discount," the woman said.

"Oh," Alex's hopes got crushed. "I'm afraid I have nothing like that."

He brought out the 12 spirit stones as asked for and handed them to the woman. 

The woman looked into her metal plate again, and suddenly, on top of the counter where Alex hadn't noticed a formation before, two wooden boxes appeared out of nowhere.

"Here you go, Fellow Daoist," she said.