Lingering Wind and Fading Moon looked at the final price and still thought it was a little steep.
"Will anyone really buy it for five thousand?"
She had originally wanted to charge five hundred. The medicinal ingredients had only cost fifty sea shells, so a tenfold markup was already an enormous profit.
Ling Chu had rejected that outright. This was the Inner City of Black Reef Island.
The jewelry store next door dared to charge over ten thousand sea shells for any ordinary necklace. Selling a bottle of lifesaving medicine for only five hundred would only make people question whether it was genuine.
Besides, Lingering Wind and Fading Moon had only produced thirty finished doses in this batch. There were still ingredients left, but brewing more would take time.
So Ling Chu put out only twenty doses. Once those twenty sold, word would spread on its own.
Then the people who needed to come would come of their own accord.
The words "Scale Plague Cure" certainly had a powerful draw.
Less than five minutes after they set up the stall, a crowd had gathered around it.
But looking was all they did. Not one person took out any money.
"A curative potion that works with a single injection? Have scammers gotten this brazen these days?"
"But it's only five thousand sea shells. I want to buy a bottle and try it. Doesn't the sign say you don't pay if it doesn't work?"
"Don't let them fool you. You don't even know what's in that potion, and you're willing to inject it into yourself? Grace is the best sixth-tier Alchemist on the island, and she's about to advance to the seventh tier. Even she hasn't developed a cure, and you trust this roadside stall?"
"Exactly. Someone in the Outer City was