Some voiced their doubts, but more were glad they had sold early. They had already pocketed the Soul Crystals anyway; wasn't a price drop even better?
"Everything has a price, and where there is a price, there will be rises and falls. Prices rising and falling is the most natural thing in the world. You can buy again when the price falls, then sell when it rises."
That was all well and good, but very few people offered to buy at this point. Clearly, they had yet to understand just what sort of opportunity they had encountered today.
The people from the City Lord's Manor were in no hurry either. Standing on the raised platform, they watched the Light Screen on the city wall. Before long, the price climbed back to two hundred and fifty.
"Why not buy another couple and give it a try? I've made quite a bit today anyway. Who knows, I might make more."
Someone was tempted. Muttering to himself, he walked toward the platform, gritted his teeth, and bought five stones.
"Someone really does have guts. I say he's a complete halfwit, paying so much for a stone. Is he sick in the head?"
"I agree. A stone already costs two hundred and fifty. What, is its price going to soar into the heavens?"
After this round of trading, the stones dismantled from the two statues had become commodities. How many people still remembered why they had bought them in the first place?
"Wow, it's gone up again! Look, it's back to three hundred!"
"Three hundred and fifty!"
"Four hundred..."
"Good thing I didn't sell earlier. Now I've really struck it rich!"
Seeing the price of the stones rocket to over four hundred Soul Crystals, those who had not sold the first time, whether because