Selling Spider Eggs// Cursemaster

I put a surprised expression on my face and argued," old man I don't think that you have enough gold shells to buy it".

The old man became angry and said," since you don't believe in me then let's sign a contract".

I asked," is it necessary to sign a contract".

The old man almost fell and said," of course. I will form one stating, I will buy as many as you have. And you have to sell all the eggs in your possession".

I felt something fishy here and said," wait old man I will not sign the contract", saying so I looked at Draco and said," Draco let's go".

The old man said," you rude man. Do you think you can leave my shop while waiting my time".

I took out ten spider eggs and said," here are all the spider eggs, and give the gold shells".

The old man took out 200 gold shells and handed them over to me.

Then I asked curiously," old man, now can you tell me, why you want to buy spiders' eggs in clusters".

The old man smiled and said," since you sold me these spider eggs so I will tell you a secret. You see after I got ten spider eggs, I will extract their essence. Later I can use it to make a high-grade potion".

I asked," how many high-grade potions can you make old man".

The old man replied," 4-5 potions are for sure".

I then asked," old man what is the cost of a high-grade potion".

The old man replied," normally it's hard to create this potion. Only a master alchemist will be able to do so. So its cost increased to 100-130 gold shells. Sometimes the potion price even goes to 200 gold shells".

We were stunned after listening to his answer and then as I was going to walk out of the alchemy shop with a dejected look the old man grinned and said," young man it's okay".

I said," old man don't grin at me, I know I am at loss", saying so I walked out of the alchemist shop and Draco said," Jack we made a loss this time".

I nodded my head and said," although we made a loss we also learned a valuable lesson. Next time we will first ask about its value and then sell it".

Draco said," yes. So what shall I do with the rest of the egg".

I smiled and said," let's go and sell it to that old man. Although he cheated us first he still explained the uses of the spider egg patiently".

Draco said," why not sell it to another floor".

I said," what would you do if there were already spider monsters on that floor then the value of the spider egg will be reduced".

Draco sighed and said," okay Jack. Anyway we are going to become rich this time".

I nodded my head and then once again we entered the shop.

The old man looked at Jack and said," why are you back again".

I replied," old man I want to know your name".

The old man said," no way lad, I am not telling my name to any of you stranger".

I looked at him and asked," why?".

The old man said," lad if you can bring more of the spider eggs, I will tell you the reason".

I replied," old man I can sell you but what cost price would you sell them at", saying so I grinned.

Seeing this the old man felt that he was cheated by the cunning kid. So he stroked his beard and thought for a while. After some time he said," I will buy it at thirty gold shell".

I began to walk out of the shop and seeing this the old man hurriedly said," wait I am joking. I will buy those eggs for 40 gold coins and not less", saying so he put a serious expression and seeing this I also felt that it might be possible so I said," okay old man I still have 195 spider eggs. Hurry up and take out the gold shell".

The old man almost fell and he screamed," what did you say? 195 spider eggs! Boy are you joking".

I saw this and then said," then old man be sure to watch it", saying so I mentioned Draco to take out all the eggs.

Draco took out all the eggs and then the old man checked and counted them twice and seeing this I couldn't say," old man do you still think I will cheat you".

The old man replied," hmph what do you know lad. This kind of spider eggs are unique".

My ears perked and seeing this the old man said," so let's do the transactions now".

I said," won't you tell me what is unique about it?".

The old man replied," no way, it's the alchemist's secret".

I almost said," alchemist secret my ass! If not for losing extra gold shells you might have already answered". But I couldn't say it loud so my face looked strange.

Seeding this Draco said," Jack stop making funny faces".

I returned to normal but my face had a pained look on it. Then the old man said," so the lad I don't have so many gold shells so I will give you notes instead of that. You can change it to a higher floor in the Adventurer Bank. The total amount is 7,800".

Saying so he took out a golden note written 1000 shells on it and then he handed me 7 notes of it and 800 golden shells were given to me.

After that, I said," old man will you not cheat me right".

The old man almost blew in anger and replied angrily," how can you say that I cheat you lad. You can ask anyone about the note in the adventure guild. They will tell you about it".

I then said," okay old man, I will believe you once".

After listening to Jack's words the old man wanted to slap him. But he controlled himself and then said," since a lad, you made such a big transaction so I will tell you a secret. There are curse masters who can curse you if they know your name. So lad tell your name only to a trustworthy person".