There was no denying it: throwing his weight around under the Abyss Clan's name felt pretty good. Of course, spending lavishly and tossing money around like water felt even better.
The Abyss Clan really was loaded. When they arranged to purchase supplies, they spared no expense, paying the highest prices for the best-quality goods, with a little extra on top. In other words, as long as you bought the supplies they needed to the highest specifications, you could keep whatever was left over as a personal reward.
Of course, you had to buy the supplies to the highest specifications. If you tried to pass off shoddy goods as quality ones and pull the wool over their eyes, you could land yourself in serious trouble.
Jiang Yue wasn't working for the Abyss Clan just for a petty profit like this. Although the daily surplus was indeed a considerable income for the Mushroom People, that was certainly not Jiang Yue's purpose.
After all, he had more than ten million silver coins on hand. Money was just a number to Jiang Yue.
So Jiang Yue took the purchasing seriously. For every item on the list, he compared prices at several stores, determined to get the best deal.
Countless wealthy families and powerful factions had poured into the Titan City-state in recent days, driving prices up without anyone noticing. The demand for basic spirit medicines in particular was more than ten times what it usually was.
Fortunately, the Titan City-state had started stockpiling goods long ago. Even so, supplies were barely keeping up with demand.
The spirit medicines on the Abyss Clan's list, however, weren't the popular ones everyone wanted. They were somewhat more obscure and higher-end, and the overall demand wasn't that great. Jiang Yue visited store after store without running into shortages;