Cat Lamp Trade

At first, Jiang Han had been a little worried.

Since the Cat Lamp Witches had practically monopolized Myao's foreign trade, she naturally worried whether the Cat Ring commercial district at Snow Phoebe Lake might threaten that monopoly.

But reality told Jiang Han that she had been overthinking it!

The trade between the witches and the myao was practically a scam.

The witches traded dried fish for Cat Lamp fur blankets. A single Cat Lamp fur blanket was worth one or two thousand yuan! Yet a large box of dried fish was worth only a little over fifty—sometimes not even that much... Moreover, what the myao sold here was all daily necessities; they had not put out any valuable loot for trade.

So the impact on the Cat Lamp Witches' monopoly business was not particularly great.

Of course... the longer Jiang Han watched, the less she could stand it, and she suggested to Olivia:

"Have you considered teaching the Cat Lamps about witch market prices?"

The myao were being bullied terribly by the witches... Jiang Han had just seen a Cat Lamp trade an entire crate of Cat-Tail Dragon Grass for two gems. Those two Cat Gems were merely decent, while the latter was an important ingredient for a certain seventh-circle spell and spells derived from it. That crate could undoubtedly have been exchanged for a fully developed seventh-circle spell—and even then, the other side should have thrown in another five or six Cat Gems.

Olivia did not seem to care at all.

"That is tuition. It is also part of the process of making witches more accepting of Cat Lamps. A witch's growth is naturally accompanied by suffering losses. They will be more tolerant toward Cat Lamps that have gone through the same growth process."

The commercial district did not