He had obtained a full 500 Soul Crystals. This was the feast Su Xiao had been waiting for all along, and for this, he had stayed idle while farming reputation with the Sun Church.
Exchanging these Soul Crystals had cost Su Xiao a total of 1,159,500 reputation. Could he have bought them for less? Yes, but there was a price to pay.
Complete Soul Crystals were not for sale in the Sun Church. What Caesar had done was not forcibly buy the Complete Soul Crystals, but swap the "existence" of the Complete Soul Crystals in the reputation shop with items whose value was equivalent but whose purchase price was not.
Caesar's operation was to swap the "existence" of one Complete Soul Crystal with 30 Afterglow Sunstones. In other words, he had falsified the accounts.
Thirty Afterglow Sunstones equaled 30,000 reputation, which equaled one Complete Soul Crystal. That was roughly how the conversion worked.
In reality, Su Xiao's exchange had nothing to do with the Afterglow Sunstones. He had merely borrowed the existence of their value.
After the conversion, the Complete Soul Crystals appeared in the exchange list, but their price was far too high. Exchanging them all would require 15 million reputation. With his time limited, Su Xiao had no chance of farming that much reputation.
This was Caesar's second dirty trick: lower the price as much as possible without going too far. With Caesar's "Faction Bully" ability, he could lower the price of the Complete Soul Crystals in the list to one reputation each.
Even if someone beat Caesar to death, he would never dare do that. Such an action would immediately nullify his ability's effect and awaken the Sunbird in the underground treasury beneath the cathedral.
Normally, that thing looked adorably cute. But once flames ignited around it