Shattered Star City.
"Lord Golden Fang, here is the procurement list for your Pirate Crew. Please check it!" Drake respectfully handed over the documents.
"Mm!" Golden Fang looked thoroughly pleased, clearly enjoying being addressed as "Lord."
In the past, even as the leader of the Golden Tooth Pirate Gang, he had been nothing more than an ordinary customer in Drake's eyes. Now, the moment he appeared, he received VIP treatment.
Such was the allure of money!
Of course, more importantly, Golden Fang had a powerhouse like the Ghost Captain backing him.
Thanks to his lavish spending, Golden Fang was now a major patron everyone in Shattered Star City was eager to court. He was gradually beginning to enjoy his job as a senior procurement manager.
Not long ago, Nie Yun had also dangled another grand promise before him. Golden Fang's enthusiasm for work had reached unprecedented heights, and he carried out his duties with absolute diligence.
As he carefully checked the list in his hands, Golden Fang suddenly frowned.
"Hm? This isn't right! Never mind the weapons and equipment, why have the prices of all these ores and daily necessities gone up so much too? Drake, don't tell me you're using the Gold Coin Pirate Gang's clout to bully your customers and take me for a sucker?"
As a local heavyweight who had spent years clawing his way up, Golden Fang knew the prices of every kind of supply in the Shattered Star Region like the back of his hand.
Ores, for instance, had always found little demand as raw materials because the pirates had such a weak industrial base.
After looting goods like these, pirates generally dumped them in bulk, keeping raw material prices low across the board.
Yet almost every item on Drake's list had gone up in