Mixed Blessing System

"You can sell this on the Morning Star Academy. You can find many potential buyers for this spider's venom there." She said to him as she held up one of the claws that Lothur had shown her.

She then looked at him seriously and said. "Outside the academy, more people might be interested, but don't trade quality for quantity."

"The people in that academy are individuals of high purchasing power. Meanwhile, on the streets, you will find people with fewer resources, more willing to take risks to get what they want..."

"Anyway, if you want to sell this, keep a good paycheck, and not take unnecessary risks, then the academy is the best place for you."

"Oh?" Lothur looked at her closely as he remembered the place Elke had shown him during their first tour in Sector-1.

"On the other hand, by doing this at the academy, you can even get merit points." She informed him about such detail of that institution. "Every time you do business within the academy, you encourage the concentration of resources or cultivation items among the students."

"This helps to promote the level of cultivation and understanding of the students, which may have the consequence of increasing the academy's prestige in the future."

"In that way, trading within the academy is well regarded by the administration, and because of that, they give merit points worth 0.1% of the value of bronze coins traded in that place."

"I don't need to tell you how important that is, right?" She looked at him in a way that reaffirmed the idea that there were no other ways to ascend in that place without the merit points.

And since such points could only be transferred from the academy to the students and vice versa, there was no way to negotiate them. So, each student had to take advantage of those possibilities thrown up by the academy governance.

"I see."

"Hmm, thanks for the information, Viktoria. I'll look into it tomorrow when I go to that place."

"But tell me one thing." He stored that remnant of the spider in his storage ring and asked his wife. "How much will I be able to earn with that?"

"Five to ten thousand bronze coins. No more than that."

"That poison is precious for people at the beginning of the first stage, but besides having a limited number of uses, people of that strength range can't earn many coins."

"Then it will hardly go beyond that."

"What? Really? I heard that the meat of that spider is precious... How can it be so cheap?" He said with a slightly altered tone since he had imagined a much higher value.

Viktoria laughed at Lothur and said. "For 1st stage cultivators, this spider's venom is more valuable than the meat. But unfortunately for you, the meat of this species is prized by high-level cultivators, which raises the price of the kilo considerably."

Even ordinary food, with no natural spiritual energy in its structures, could be transformed into spiritual meals of high nutritional value and exquisite taste.

For this, all that was needed was a cook specialized in manipulating spiritual energy to prepare such a meal. Because of this possibility, high-level cultivators could even pay dearly for a pound of Giant Tropical Spider meat.

With the increasing demand and the purchasing power of people seeking such a resource, naturally, the price was high.

As for the poison of such a specimen, well, it was helpful in a restricted number of people, weaker and poorer individuals. Naturally, therefore, such a thing naturally had a more moderate price.

'Damn it!'

'Those damned adventurers took the fruits of my labor!'

'What a loss!' Lothur closed his eyes in disappointment, regretting that he had left behind that significant piece of the spider that had attacked him earlier.

'Anyway, that amount should be enough for me to recover some coins I have spent since I arrived in this world.'

"Sigh..."

After sighing slightly, Lothur's eyes sparkled with the thought concerning the lesson of this previous situation, and he soon set a goal in his mind. 'I need a spatial ring with more extensive storage!'

'I can't keep leaving my prizes behind!'

...

After finishing his conversation with Viktoria, Lothur made his way to an empty spot on that estate, where he had spent a few hours training.

He wanted to talk to Annaliese about what had happened between the two. Still, since she was not around, he simply focused his attention on his techniques. It was still not even half the day in Peters City, so this young man took advantage of the time he had to continue improving his attributes.

And as expected, after a few hours of diligent training, Lothur raised his physical attributes a bit more!

[Name: Lothur Ritter]

[Physique: what doesn't kill you makes you stronger]

[Bloodline: ****]

[Cultivation: level 4]

[STR: 7.1] [CON: 8.4] [DEX: 6.3] [AGI: 8.1]

[INT: 30] [PER: 12] [WIL: 45.3]

Lothur was looking at the system screen with a smile on his face, sweaty from head to toe when suddenly he heard voices nearby.

"Hey, did you do what we agreed?" A female voice sounded coming from behind one of the trees in the vicinity of the servant training area, where hardly anyone could be seen in the vicinity at the moment.

The voice then continued. "Did you do it or not? They are pressuring me so that I..."

"Shh!"

"What are you saying? What if someone hears you?" A male voice boomed through that area in a whispery tone, but still, Lothur heard it perfectly.

The female voice then reassured his companion. "Rest assured, at this time of day, none of the servants on this estate are in a position to waste their time training."

"Even so! I don't think we should discuss matters that could guarantee our death in such an open place!"

"Tsk!"

"What a coward!"

"Then how are we going to settle that? We will soon have the Province Conference, and our friends wish to see your family in the worst place..."

"I know about that problem."

"But with that useless man's participation, we just have to drug the food of an important competitor, and the results will naturally come." He said as he pointed to himself

"What can a declining house do against rising organizations? Just one more defeat will be enough to ensure the family's failure in this competition." He said this in an even lower tone, but still, Lothur heard him perfectly well.

'That voice...'

'I've heard it somewhere, but I can't remember who it was.' He closed his eyes in a mental effort, but nothing came to his mind.

The female voice sounded again, this time with a mockery tone. "You are truly determined, hehe."

"Not many work as hard as you do to sabotage their own organization..."

"Humph!"

"You can judge me as you wish. But I am saving my family in my way!"

"Some in this family don't understand that we are no longer great as we once were. So, they refuse to accept the passage of time, even if it results in our destruction."

"It's their fault we are being pressured on all sides!"

"So what I am doing is nothing more than taking one step backward so I can take two steps forward in the future!"

"Following the Third Prince will be the salvation of House Frost!"

'Third Prince?' Lothur looked in the direction of where those people were standing, curious to know what treachery was evolving in that family.

'Hmm, it seems my wife's family is not in the best of situations...'

'Crown Prince. Pressured on all sides. Not as grand as they once were. Hmmm.'

'I need to talk to Anneke about the province and empire situation. Maybe I can understand what is going on with her help...'

Crack!

A small wooden branch broke with a movement from Lothur.

As he pondered the matter, the man from before suddenly heard that noise coming from Lothur's direction and shouted. "Who's there? Show yourself!"

He then promptly spread his mighty aura over that area, intending to bring down anyone who was behind the subtle disturbance of a few seconds ago.

But Lothur was no fool to stay to meet those people. So, he simply activated his movement technique, disappearing from that area in the blink of an eye.

"Is someone spying on us? How come I don't feel anything?" That mysterious woman asked that as she also checked the area.

And realizing that there was no one around, the man frowned his eyebrows. "Tsk!"

"That's your fault! I heard the noise of a twig and already thought we were being spied on!" Such an individual said in concern while sighing in relief.

He was not the strongest in this family. But, still, with his spiritual pressure, he knew that he could even get in the way of some of the strongest in this organization. And if even someone stronger than him had been there, then he and his companion would not still be breathing!

Hence, if no one was left behind and they were still alive, then this could only mean that it had all been a false alarm.

Unfortunately, these people did not know about Lothur's strange ability not to be affected by the spiritual pressure of cultivators!

That man then said. "Anyway, let's not continue here. Now I'm suddenly feeling as if something bad is going to happen..."