He wanted this thing so badly, and his usual approach was to haggle if he could and buy it outright if he couldn't—simple and blunt, without overthinking it.
If he'd been a chaotic neutral sort, he might have activated Transcendent Confidence and then used Sleeping God Eye to read the Halfling's thoughts, figure out his bottom line, and slowly haggle him down.
In the end, Tachi Bro still paid for the staff with gems worth over 12,000 Gold Coins. As for how much he'd overpaid... who knew?
At least he felt it was a fair deal.
He'd find a use for the staff sooner or later, especially when it came to some powerful old men.
As for why the Halfling hadn't simply offered the staff to someone rich and powerful, that was anyone's guess.
Anyway, Tachi Bro didn't have much money left, so he eventually rejoined Lin Yun and the others.
Lin Yun and the others still had plenty of things on them.
But the gems were simply very difficult to sell.
So Lin Yun and the others didn't have much cash, either.
That was why, after looking around a bit and buying some relatively "normal" goods—their purchases came to less than 20 Gold Coins—they were done shopping.
Of course, one Dwarf Miner had been clamoring to buy a cannon... but cannons were obviously military-controlled goods, so they weren't easy to get hold of.
Even if the Dwarf Miner wanted to buy one, technically speaking, he wasn't qualified to.
As for Lin Yun, that was another matter, but considering the special circumstances,
Lin Yun naturally refused the Dwarf Miner outright.
The Empire and the Dwarfs had an agreement to keep the gunpowder formula for cannons, as well as some cannons invented by the Dwarfs, secret.
For one thing, the Dwarfs