Hearing this, Merchant leaders from several other merchant guilds jumped in, their voices suddenly sharp.
"Your Guild can't just hoard all that! I claim twenty percent!"
"I'll take twenty percent too!"
"And I demand the same!"
The corners of other merchant leader mouths twitched.
These vultures—just as expected—weren't about to let the prize go without a fight.
Buying these magic cores at ninety percent of market value might seem like a bad deal at first, but the real prize was the huge quantity and, more importantly, the high quality.
Most were top-grade magic cores, the kind everyone across the continent was desperate to get.
Knights needed them to enchant gear, alchemists needed them for powerful potions—these rare cores were incredibly valuable, worth their weight in gold. Every magic school and army hoarded them like treasure.
"Impossible!" Ither merchants snapped. "The Guild claimed the whole lot! We won't give up a single core!"
"Greedy pigs!" someone yelled.
