"How much?"
Amid the booming sounds of construction in New Silver City, Klein, whose pockets had only just begun to fill, came before Xu Yue.
"Oh, my friend, Klein. We're fellow townsmen, brothers even. Heaven bears witness to our friendship. Talking about money hurts our feelings too much."
"How much!"
Klein's forehead throbbed.
Could you just name a number? You're scaring me like this.
"Fine, since you insist, I can't be so unreasonable or leave your conscience uneasy."
Xu Yue sighed, wearing an expression of concern for Klein.
"I'll throw in the earlier information for free. The contents of the Sequence 4 advancement ritual, bundled with clues to the formula—twenty thousand gold pounds, friendship price. What do you think?"
For a moment, Klein felt as though something inside him had been hollowed out, leaving him empty.
Still, he gritted his teeth and nodded.
Sequence 5 already required sums measured in tens of thousands of pounds. The higher Sequences were core secrets of every major organization. They would not even provide the formulas, instead preparing the potions themselves and directly bestowing them.
Only a very few people possessed them, and the prices varied wildly. They were priceless and unavailable.
Twenty thousand pounds for the complete Sequence 4 ritual and clues to the formula was not unacceptable. It could even genuinely be called a friendship price.
But that meant his pockets, which had only just started bulging, deflated in an instant.
And he could only pay with Beyonder characteristics and materials, using the reward he had received from Silver City.
"Sequence 4, Mysterious Illusionist. Rely mainly on your own strength and planning to direct a grand play before numerous Spectators. Use it to murder a demigod or an equivalent extraordinary creature, then consume the potion during the final act."
"A very reasonable