Jasper Comes to Offer Goodwill (Seeking Recommendation Votes!)

"Where is your shopkeeper?" Holt looked around the shop, then turned to Mason and asked curiously, "Are you a new clerk here?"

Mason shook his head: "I'm a friend of the shopkeeper. He's upstairs discussing business with someone, so I'm watching the shop for him for a while."

"Oh, I see." Holt nodded thoughtfully, wondering to himself who could be meeting with Prince Ron.

"Are you looking for the shopkeeper for something?" Mason asked, puzzled.

"No, no, just asking out of curiosity." Holt scratched his head, then took out 20 gold coins and said, "I'm here to buy a Nether Orchid."

Mason didn't suspect anything, took the 20 gold coins, and retrieved a Nether Orchid from the grid shelf, handing it to Holt.

Just then, footsteps sounded on the stairs, and two figures walked down, chatting and laughing, coming into Holt's line of sight.

Having studied the dossiers of important figures in Chaos City, Holt instantly recognized the man in the luxurious magic robe as Professor Hicks from the Magic Academy!

He actually came here in person... Holt was secretly shocked, looking down at the Nether Orchid in his hand, It seems the effects of this plant might really be true...

Seeing Prince Ron and Professor Hicks walking toward the door, he immediately slowed his pace as he left, straining his ears to listen to their conversation.

"Someone from the Magic Academy will come to sign the contract with you tomorrow."

"You can take the note I gave you to the Gold Depository to redeem it at any time."

"As for the one hundred Nether Orchids for today, just hand them over directly when the people arrive tomorrow."

"Pleasure doing business with you."

Contract... note... pleasure doing business...

These words flashed through Holt's mind, and he suddenly felt he had discovered something extraordinary.

Does Prince Ron have the backing of Disode Magic Academy?

Is this flower shop actually being propped up by the Magic Academy?

But Prince Ron is the Seventh Prince... what is the Magic Academy trying to do?

Holt licked his lips, feeling that the situation was a bit beyond his imagination.

On the other side, Mason followed Professor Hicks out of the shop door, and Ron bid them farewell at the entrance.

Both Ron and Hicks were all smiles, clearly very satisfied with the day's results.

Just then, a carriage pulled up at the shop entrance, followed by a patrol squad.

Jasper stepped down from the carriage and, upon meeting Professor Hicks and the others, was momentarily stunned, a flicker of emotion in his eyes.

"Jasper?" Ron said, surprised to see him.

"Prince Ron." Jasper immediately adjusted his expression, greeted him with a smile, and said, "The three thugs who stole the flowers yesterday have already confessed at the courthouse. It was instigated by a magic apprentice from the Magic Academy. The patrol squad is planning to go there to make an arrest now. Would you like to come along?"

"I'll pass." Ron shook his head, feeling it was a bit of a hassle, and he still had to watch the shop. However, he did ask, "Do I need to be present at the courthouse later?"

Jasper saw that Ron found it troublesome, so he thoughtfully said: "If you don't want to go, I will handle it for you."

"Then many thanks."

"It's my duty."

Professor Hicks, who had been about to leave, stopped in his tracks and asked with a frown: "Excuse me, if I may ask, are you saying that one of our academy's magic apprentices secretly instigated others to steal flowers?"

"Greetings, Professor Hicks. I am Jasper, an official from the Glorious Mercenary Group." Jasper greeted him first, then said, "The thugs who came to steal flowers yesterday have been captured. After confessing, they pointed out that it was instigated by an apprentice from the Magic Academy, but the specific details require the apprentice's cooperation to clarify."

"Prince Ron, let me apologize to you on behalf of the academy first." Professor Hicks hadn't expected such a thing to happen, so he immediately apologized to Ron, then looked at Jasper and said, "I will go with you, so you won't have to apply for entry."

"That would be a trouble for you." Jasper smiled and then invited, "Please, board the carriage."

Thus, Professor Hicks took Mason into the carriage, and after Jasper bid farewell to Ron, he led the patrol squad toward the Disode Magic Academy.

As for Holt, because Professor Hicks and Mason were present, he didn't speak to Jasper, but quietly left the shop, intending to report what he had discovered once Jasper returned to the office.

With the excitement over, the shop returned to silence.

Ron didn't take the matter of the thugs to heart; with Jasper helping to handle it, there shouldn't be any lingering worries.

As for the future, with the Supplier Badge issued by the Magic Academy, there should be far fewer people looking for trouble.

At the very least, no one in Chaos City would be willing to slight the Magic Academy.

After all, it is a major power possessing three legendary mages; its prestige is still quite formidable.

Ron sat on the recliner and opened his System Panel, only to find that the main quest had not yet shown as completed.

"Quest Progress: 32/100."

The extra progress should be from the one Mason helped sell just now.

Ron counted the extra gold coins in the counter and confirmed they were correct.

Wealth Value: 541

"Wait, doesn't this note count as money? And since I've received the payment, the 100 Nether Orchids should be considered sold, right?" Ron took the 2,000 gold coin note from his pocket and asked, puzzled.

System: "First, the one hundred Nether Orchids have not yet been delivered, so the transaction between the host and the guest is not yet complete; second, the gold represented by this note theoretically still belongs to the Magic Academy. The host needs to go to the Gold Depository to open an account of your own and transfer the gold to your account before the Wealth Value will increase accordingly."

"Quite rigorous." Ron closed the System Panel, not particularly anxious.

After signing the contract with the Magic Academy tomorrow, he would receive payment for another 200 Nether Orchids, totaling 4,000 gold coins. Added to today's 2,000 gold coins, he would be able to convert a total of 6,000 Wealth Value.

It was practically an overnight fortune.

Even the Dew Technique and Soil Tilling Technique, which cost 500 wealth points, could be easily redeemed.

But Ron had already made up his mind to learn magic personally; unless absolutely necessary, he would no longer redeem magic from the System Shop.

Especially for the two first-tier spells mentioned above, there was no need to waste precious wealth points.

Spells with such ordinary names—why would he need the system's instant enlightenment? Wouldn't it be better to learn them himself?

He wasn't some talentless protagonist who had to rely on the system to slap villains in the face.

The system was constantly finding ways to swindle his wealth points every day, and Ron had already seen through it.

Afterward, Ron sold a few more Nether Orchid plants, bringing his task progress to 36/100 and his wealth points to 621.

During this time, he also found paper and a pen, wrote something down, and planned to do something else.

When five o'clock in the afternoon arrived, he closed the shop and headed to the alley next door.

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