Chapter 54: Devis' Decision
A month earlier...
The alchemist Davis, who had come from Stone Island with the group of Minos, was getting to know the Dry City. After the group arrived at the mansion in the central part of the city, Davis was accommodated in the local government officials' visiting area.
After resting from the trip for a while, Davis finally decided to see the city. He had previously seen the landscape around the town and some fields of culture not far from the here while traveling with the group of Minos.
The city itself did not attract Davis's attention. After all, he did not know the Dry City before that. So, he didn't know if this place was more or less good than it had been before Minos arrived.
All he knew was that it was not possible to grow any kind of plant on the Black Plain!
So, he was really impressed with that. Even though Minos said that this problem had already been solved, it was not easy to believe. There are certain things that a person could only believe seeing!
He had also noticed that the spiritual concentration in the Dry City was actually much less than in the city of Portland. He realized this after he started cultivating in the town since he was only at level 38, and he did not have the ability to feel the free energy in heaven and on earth without him starting to cultivate.
'Let me see what life is like in this place.'
Davis started walking the city streets, watching all the details carefully. He saw that the city's infrastructure was very well-prepared, with the capacity to receive several dozen carriages simultaneously, but he had seen none after he left Minos' mansion.
'Mm, there aren't many spiritual beasts either, and the few that I saw were all low-level.' He thought to himself as he watched the movement of the street that he was on.
Shortly thereafter, Davis arrived at a very busy place. In that place, there was a plaque with the name Central Market. This was a huge building, with 3 floors and a large entrance. Due to the great movement, Davis decided to enter to see the place.
However, as soon as he got inside the building, Davis frowned and muttered to himself. "So much movement just to buy apples?"
In one of the many stalls on the first floor of the Central Market building, the one with the most movement, there was a large pile of apples and a plaque with the price tag. '20 crystals per kilo.'
In this tent, several people were huddled together, shouting as much as they wanted to the three attendants.
"I want 2 kilos."
Davis continued to walk through the Dry City as he knew the place little by little. He did this for four days until finally, he had made his decision!
After noting that plants of high spiritual concentration could grow in this region and conversations with different residents of this place, he discovered all the changes that this city had undergone after Minos' arrival. He was stunned when he found that this place had been almost completely remodeled in just over a year.
Not only that, he learned that the city's spiritual energy was even lower earlier.
When he heard about it, he even tried to cultivate another part of the city, a place where it was unaffected by the spiritual meeting arrays, to know the difference.
When he did that, he found that this place was even poorer in spiritual energy than he thought. The city was only slightly better due to the various arrays that were 'burning' low-grade crystals constantly.
After all that, Davis finally came to the conclusion that Minos could put an end to the offer that he had previously made. With that, this place could certainly be a great opportunity for an alchemist without the support of large families like Davis.
Anyway, shortly after deciding, Davis met with Minos and worked out the last details, including the location of the alchemy store that Davis would run.
As for the resources that he would need to produce the spiritual pills, this would be provided by the young Elen, at least until some of these medicines began to be planted here in the Black Plain.
There were several spiritual medicines, but those from the Spatial Kingdom could not be used by someone as low-level as Davis. So, Davis could only start working only importing these resources from other kingdoms.
After that, a few days passed, and Davis finally opened his alchemy store. Because of the agreement he had made with Minos, he could charge prices far below the market for pills sold to the people of the Dry City.
To give you an idea of ??this, grade-1, low-grade, medium-grade, and high-grade, pills generally had priced in the range of 100, 500, and 1,000 low-grade crystals, respectively.
However, Minos made a deal in which he and Davis would charge only 30, 150 and 300, low-grade crystals for each pill he sold from those ratings.
This was an effort to increase the strength of the population of the Dry City and the soldiers of the Black Plain Army. This action could also attract less talented people to migrate to this region.
This was necessary since, for the labor for the fields of cultures, people with low talent were the most suitable for this type of service. After all, it would be a waste to put someone with high talent to grow grains...
Minos also did not intend to do this for a long time. He planned to give subsidies to some alchemists for 20 years.
After that time, prices would increase and be closer to the values ??charged in other regions. However, when that happened, the Dry City would already have other factors that could attract and keep cultivators.
It didn't take long, and soon the population of the Dry City was very excited about the news, that an alchemist was opening a store in the city!
The rumor also said that the prices charged would be so low that even farmers could afford to buy spiritual pills!