LRAB Chapter 1388 The true form of the Kumanthong is moving?
Chapter 1388 The true form of the Kumanthong is moving?
Chapter 1388 The true form of the Kumanthong is moving?
In just three days, the Starfire Giant severed five main roots, shot and killed seventeen Void-level Starborn, and then disappeared without a trace, making the Ancient Mane Snake so angry that it trembled and even lost many leaves.
It found Phoenix and said, "Pheromone dye, give me more pheromone dye."
Phoenix said hesitantly, "It's possible, but the price might be higher than before."
"What? You want more money? Didn't you say you'd keep going until I killed it? Why do you want more money?" The giant snake was taken aback.
“I did say that, but that was more than twenty days ago, and the dye had expired,” Phoenix said.
"Nonsense, how could it be so fast? Didn't you say it would expire in two months if it was sealed in the bottle? It's only been a little over twenty days now," the Kumanthong snarled.
Phoenix said with a wry smile, "It was sealed in a bottle, but we repackaged it."
As he spoke, he took out a bottle, exactly the same as the one he had sold to the Kumanthong, but the dye inside was no longer clear, but rather somewhat cloudy.
The serpent quickly took it, stretched out a branch and probed inside, then lit it with starfire. Although it still emitted a green glow, both the brightness and color were very faint.
Phoenix continued rummaging through the bottles, saying as he did so, "We had just received a big barrel, and after repackaging it, we figured it would expire in ten or twenty days anyway, so we said we'd keep going until the last drop. Now, more than twenty days have passed, and they've expired. If we want more, we'll have to buy them again. But you know, when you find something useful, unscrupulous merchants often raise the price."
I opened and tried each of the bottles of Gumanthong, and sure enough, they were all the same. They could only ignite a faint green light, and it was difficult to distinguish the dyed star flame from other star flames from a distance.
Phoenix continued, "Tree God, you probably already guessed where these things come from. The Evil Tree will definitely not miss the opportunity to raise prices. If you really want to buy them, I can help you contact the Evil Tree, but you should be prepared for a price increase."
The snake remained silent for a long while before reluctantly saying, "Contact it and see what price it offers. If it's too expensive, then forget it."
Although it said that, the Guman snake was already prepared to accept whatever fate had in store for it. If it didn't accept, the Tree of Myriad Realms would die.
Phoenix nodded and sent out a soul message. Several hours later, Phoenix said, "The Evil Tree needs five equivalent Starfire per bottle."
"What! It's gone mad, multiplying its price fivefold?" the Guman snake roared furiously.
Phoenix nodded: "It also said that it must be more than ten bottles at a time."
“Okay, have it deliver the dye,” said the manta ray.
Phoenix slipped and nearly fell over: "Uh, Tree God, aren't you going to try and negotiate a price?"
The snake was taken aback: "You can bargain?"
“I don’t know, what if, what if it’s willing?” Phoenix said.
“Alright, you can negotiate the price,” said the giant snake.
Phoenix closed his eyes, and after a while opened them, saying in shock, "It refuses to lower the price, and even says you don't respect it, so it wants to raise the price. Now it's six equivalents a bottle."
The giant snake felt an urge to kill Phoenix. Why was he haggling over the price? For beings of their level to haggle over prices was truly disrespectful.
"Six it is, no need for repackaging. I need it to last for two months," said the snake.
Phoenix closed his eyes and communicated for a while before nodding: "The Evil Tree agrees. The ten bottles of dye will not be repackaged, and the quantity will be equivalent to twenty bottles. Any excess will be considered as waste. The total is sixty equivalents of Star Flame. Since this is a direct transaction between you and the Evil Tree, we will charge a 20% handling fee as usual. You will receive half, and they will receive half. You will need to pay sixty-six equivalents of Star Flame."
The giant snake felt its entire body contort: "Handling fee? What do you mean? You're going to charge me a handling fee?"
Phoenix looked bewildered: "No handling fee? You want my king to serve you for free? You want Emperor Phile, the Lord of the Stars, to run errands for you for free, delivering the dye and the starfire over for free?"
Phoenix's words made Guman a little embarrassed, and he quickly retorted, "Why didn't you charge a handling fee last time?"
“The transaction was different last time. Last time, we bought the dye first and then sold it to you, adding a small commission. But this time, you traded directly with Evil Tree, and you negotiated the price yourselves. We didn’t charge any fees, so naturally we have to add a commission,” Phoenix said matter-of-factly.
"Too expensive. Last time you offered a price that included six units more?" the Guman snake said.
Phoenix gave a thumbs up: "Tree God is really amazing. You've already learned how to bargain. Okay, I have a little bit of authority. I can reduce the commission to five units. Any more than that, I'll have to ask Emperor Phile. If he doesn't agree, he might even increase the commission."
After hesitating for a moment, the Guman Snake decided not to take the risk and quickly paid sixty-five equivalents of Starfire, receiving nearly twenty bottles of dye barrels sealed together, thus completing the transaction.
As soon as the deal was completed, Negris couldn't help but ask, "Why did you make it so complicated? And you even multiplied it fivefold in one go. Aren't you afraid of messing it up?"
“Don’t worry, I had the little tree man ask the forbidden little fire man. It said that during the years it was imprisoned, the ancient serpent had plundered it eighteen times, each time by about ten times the equivalent of star flame. In other words, even if the ancient serpent’s source of star flame is only the forbidden little fire man, it still has at least one hundred and eighty times the equivalent of star flame. And how could it possibly have only one source of star flame?” Anthony said.
"How do you know it has more than one source?" Negris asked, puzzled.
"Because it agreed so readily, giving away dozens of units of Starfire without even haggling," Anthony said.
"So you're going to raise its price? And charge it a handling fee?" Negris asked.
“That further proves that it doesn’t care about this little bit of Starfire. It accepted two price increases, so it probably has more than one source of Starfire, and the amount is quite large. It seems that it can be squeezed a few more times,” Anthony said.
"What if it kills Geborg this time? Let's see how you squeeze him dry then," Negris said irritably.
Anthony shook his head: "It can't be killed. The master said that with these puppet snake clones, the Guman Snake can't kill Geborg unless its main body separates from the Tree of Myriad Realms and takes action itself."
No sooner had the words left his mouth than the little tree-man perked up atop the little zombie's head: ya ya ya—
Ang tilted his head and listened for a while, then turned and said, "It says the serpent is moving."
"The Gumanthong is moving? Isn't the Gumanthong always moving?" Negris said, then suddenly realized, "Is it referring to its main body? No way? The Gumanthong's main body is moving?"