Chapter 104: What is a high-priced item?
Charles was thinking about things with his head down, when he suddenly felt that there were two more people in the management office, and when he looked up, he saw that the steward with his own brand and a person who was obviously more in charge had walked over.
The "more steward" man had a shiny head, wore a neat and delicate dress, and showed a comfortable smile from afar, "I am Musar, the steward here, may I ask this Mr. Chenaniz, do you have any special requirements for the stall to be rented?"
Charles also put away his lazy attitude and said politely: "I don't know much about this place, so I don't have any special requirements." ”
"So, do you need me to give you a basic introduction?"
"Okay, I do need some sound advice!"
After Charles took out the Kopal sign, he expected that he might be treated differently, so he naturally agreed, and the calmness he showed made Musal even more convinced of his guess.
Musar himself walked out of the management office and led Charles to the side of the hall on the ground floor of the Academic Tower, but he remained parallel to Charles throughout, and his attitude was very modest and courteous.
This made the assistant steward Thorson, who followed behind, secretly admire, and kept these easily overlooked details in mind, paving the way for his future promotion.
The ground floor of the tower was so vast that when Musar and Charles walked around a manned porch, a large public area with a high dome came into view.
It is divided into small streets and alleys by wooden partitions and fences, and the small compartments are reminiscent of the wholesale market of the Great Celestial Empire.
But there is no noise of the wholesale market, it is as quiet as the streets in the early morning, and if it weren't for the fact that there is a figure dangling in the alleys from time to time, and there is a light in many of the stalls, the charr would have thought it was an abandoned market!
"Mr. Chenaniz, this is the free trade area for the temporary members of the association, there are four small streets, two hundred and sixty temporary stalls, and there are still twenty-eight vacant seats, do you need me to take you around?"
"Does it make a difference?"
Musar stretched out his hand to make a "please" gesture and led Charles into the free trade area, where some of the "owners" of Musar's stalls stood up and bowed to him, while others pretended not to see it, bowed their heads and continued to tinker with their own things.
Musar did not show a look of arrogance, and showed a faint smile from time to time, although he did not say hello, but he did not snub these temporary members and pharmacist apprentices.
Today they are temporary members, pharmacist apprentices, but who knows if they will be pharmacists tomorrow?
"These stalls are the closest to the door, so they are the easiest to see, and they have the most transactions per month......
"Mr. Chenaniz, this area is relatively secluded, and there are a lot of employers with special requirements who like to negotiate deals in this environment......"
Musar led Charles around the trading area, pointed out the advantages and disadvantages of several vacant stalls, and patiently waited for Charles' choice.
"I'd better choose booth 88!"
"Okay, booth 88!"
Musar did not make any further comments, but only turned his head slightly, and the assistant steward Thorsen immediately went to the formalities for Charles.
With this small move, Musar revealed his identity slightly, and at the bottom of this academic tower, he was the most talkative person.
Thorson's work efficiency was very high, and after a while, he sent Charles's entry voucher and some necessary materials, and Charles also smiled and expressed his gratitude, and only after sending people away did he look at his own eight-square-meter cubicle with peace of mind.
"In my previous life, I just started to set up stalls for the whole people, and I have also practiced stalls here!"
There are two reasons why he chose this position, one is that he can just see the door of the trading area in a hidden way, and with his eyesight, any special person entering the door can't escape his eyes.
It has been repeatedly said in police movies that safety is very important.
Who doesn't like an auspicious number? It's just that in this world, maybe only he knows the meaning of the number 88.
Cubicle No. 88 must have been unrented for a while, and there was a thin layer of dust on the tables, chairs, and shelves. Charles fetched a bucket of water and took out a handkerchief to clean it up briefly.
Sitting on a sturdy wooden chair and looking out over the dimly lit table in front of him, Charles felt like he was stealth.
There was no movement in a few nearby stalls, although Charles was brought by the chief steward, but no one came to greet him, and the clothes on Charles's clothes were in the style of "masked thieves", and everyone could see that this was a master who did not want people to approach.
Charles opened a book he had brought with him, thought about it and lit an oil lamp in the cubicle, although his current eyesight did not need additional light to read in this environment, but any clue that might cause others to speculate was a hidden flaw.
"A Detailed Explanation of the Basics of the Apothecary" is one of Kopal's gifts to Charles, and the book details the classification levels of pharmacists and spiritual potions, as well as some relatively common spiritual potion recipes.
Pharmacists are divided into four levels: pharmacist apprentice, junior pharmacist, intermediate pharmacist, and senior pharmacist according to the strength of pharmacy preparation.
Spiritual power elixirs are divided into levels one to nine according to the difficulty of preparation, and the simplest first-level spiritual power elixir only needs a spiritual power material, and it can become a spiritual power potion after being processed by special means.
For example, the "Endurance Elixir Burst Potion" used for combat support is the simplest kind of potion formed after the purification and softening of spiritual power materials.
Starting from the second-level spiritual power potion, it is only a pharmacist's apprentice's nightmare, how can two different types of spiritual power materials or even different attributes make the spiritual power in them fuse and match together, and the skills are all in the mastery of the pharmacist.
When an apprentice successfully concocts a second-level spiritual power potion, he can break away from the identity of a pharmacist's apprentice and become a junior pharmacist.
The Hunter Knight's exclusive Awakening Elixir is composed of four spiritual power materials, and according to the recommendations in the "Detailed Explanation of the Basics of the Apothecary", it needs to be prepared by an experienced formal pharmacist, preferably an intermediate pharmacist.
And Charles had never prepared a spiritual power potion before today, and he had never even seen a spiritual power material, a standard apothecary apprentice.
So now he knows how big the cowhide is to Olive Live, and after a few months of hard work, he has gone from an apothecary apprentice to a senior junior pharmacist, or even an intermediate pharmacist, and it would be good not to be beaten to death by someone when he said it.
Charles opened a copy of the "Potion Trading Guide" presented by the Occult Research Association, and after looking through it for a while, he found that he still had some work to do here, and there were really many types of first-class potions.
Ordinary Endurance Elixir: Guide price five louis.
Ordinary Outbreak Elixir: Guide price of eight louis.
............
Tabby powder: guide price ten louis.
The juice of the horse itch grass: the guide price is twelve louis.
"Tabby powder? I remember this kind of thing, how can it be so expensive?"
Charles opened the book "Detailed Explanation of the Basics of the Pharmacist" given by Kopal, found the specific use and preparation method of tabby orchid powder, and after reading it for a long time, he closed the book with a "snap" and said hatefully.
"Obscene and extravagant items, as expected, are high-priced goods. ”