Chapter 424: The Red Dragon Group, Renewed
Nearly every adventuring party that came to visit spent some money on a batch of monster materials.
With help from the many adventuring parties, the more than ten thousand monster corpses scattered across the wilderness were quickly hauled away.
The Red Dragon Group consequently earned a fortune of nearly four thousand gold coins.
It was the largest haul they had ever made, and it made Gauss realize even more clearly that the maze was a tremendous source of wealth for powerful adventurers.
That sum was enough for an ordinary person to squander over an entire lifetime.
Especially in a small town like Grayrock Town, where prices weren't particularly high. The owner could buy numerous properties, shops, and businesses, becoming a wealthy local landowner.
If an ordinary person in a small town wanted to amass such wealth, and earned twenty copper coins a day, it would take thousands of years to save up that much—even if they neither ate nor drank.
Yet even counting the time spent killing the monsters and negotiating the business deals afterward, Gauss had needed only a few days.
The contrast was truly enough to leave anyone dazed.
Of course, the world of adventurers and that of ordinary people seemed to overlap, but in truth, they were entirely different worlds.
Four thousand gold coins was a lot, but after the initial satisfaction wore off, Gauss soon took it in stride.
He had long since outgrown the stage where money mattered most to him. He was no longer the young man from a small town who had once hoped to work for decades to buy a home.
As this experience had shown, strength was always more important than money itself.
Powerful adventurers would never be short of cash. They could earn