"Over the past two months, we collected 3,612 gold coins in protection money, plus items worth another 1,851 gold coins."
"According to our split, your share is 4,371 gold coins."
"I've already exchanged them for 4,371 lower-grade magic stones. They're all here. Count them yourself."
With that, Hanks handed An Kai a ledger.
It recorded the resources he had squeezed out of the city's residents during this round of plundering.
Every transaction was recorded in meticulous detail.
And checking it would be easy for An Kai.
He only needed to randomly select a few entries from the ledger to see whether Hanks was trying to fool him.
Taking the ledger, An Kai held it in his hands and carefully examined the records, all while keeping his mouth busy. "Hanks, what kind of person do you take me for? Of course I trust you!"
With that, he moistened his fingertip and turned to the next page...
Hanks was already thoroughly familiar with An Kai's habit of saying one thing and doing another.
He wasn't worried at all, because he genuinely hadn't tampered with the ledger.
He hadn't even done much to undervalue the items.
The total value of this round of plundering came to 5,463 gold coins.
Even if Hanks didn't receive a single gold coin, he wouldn't worry.
As long as An Kai accepted the lower-grade magic stones he had exchanged for him in advance, Hanks would make a killing!
A whopping profit of 5,463 gold coins.
All because the lower-grade magic stones in Hanks's possession had cost him nothing...
That was also why he could exchange magic stones at one gold coin apiece. Hanks wasn't running a charity; his business simply had no costs.
The reason...
Was simple, too. Hanks owned a mine...
A magic stone mine!
"Young Master