After coming to his senses, the mercenary receptionist immediately reported the news upward in wild delight.
Not to mention that this trade worth fifty Heaven Crystals had already reached half the highest target amount that several mercenary groups had joined forces to achieve at this exchange fair—even the successful sale and conversion into income of those battle-type Heaven-rank beast eggs, which had long gone unwanted, was tremendous news.
Yet faced with such happiness falling from the sky, the several mercenary commanders were half-believing, half-doubting.
Impossible!
Why would anyone buy battle-type Heaven-rank beast eggs at such a high price?
And with Heaven Crystals rather than Shattered Crystals, at that.
The difference between Heaven Crystals and Shattered Crystals was that the upper strata of Human Valley recognized only Heaven Crystals, and the laws recognized only Heaven Crystals as official currency, ignoring the existence of Shattered Crystals, a folk substitute currency. Because Heaven Crystals were scarce and not everyone was qualified to possess them, many commoners and mercenaries had begun using a kind of transparent crystal in place of Heaven Crystals tens of thousands of years ago... Though high society did not acknowledge it at all, the emergence of this temporary currency called "Shattered Crystals" had indeed greatly eased the lives of commoners.
To buy an egg or a bunch of vegetables, commoners could never possibly use costly, rare Heaven Crystals as the main currency of daily life.
So they used "Shattered Crystals" as substitute currency.
Rather than troublesome, inconvenient barter.
In Human Valley, although the authorities did not recognize it, the exchange rate between Shattered Crystals and Heaven Crystals remained fairly stable in ordinary people's daily expenses, with major fluctuations rarely occurring. Generally speaking, one Heaven Crystal could be exchanged for one thousand to over one thousand two hundred Shattered Crystals; in