Ten minutes later, Dragon Soul Aoshi arrived as promised. Together with Su Muqiu and Dragon Soul Whisper, he came to the eastern plaza of Blazing Ember City to meet up with Lin Mo.
Lin Mo opened his backpack and showed Dragon Soul Aoshi all the gains from this dungeon run, "E rank skill scrolls: 485 sheets, E rank skill books: 458 copies."
"D rank skill scrolls: 55 sheets, D rank skill books: 42 copies."
"Gold coins: 1,093!"
"These are the pure dungeon drops. The system loot pickup list is here."
After a pause, Lin Mo opened another system record panel in succession, "These are the distributable quest reward gains: 500 gold coins, one set of tier 3 gear, two A rank skill books, and one S rank skill scroll."
After just a few brief dealings with Dragon Soul Aoshi, Lin Mo already understood one thing. When dealing with this kind of business elite who had been navigating the commercial world for decades, you had to be extremely careful.
Because in the eyes of such people, there was no friendship, only profit.
Once he realized that he did not get the share of profit he was supposed to get, after today, at best, Lin Mo would never have another chance to cooperate with Dragon Soul Aoshi again. At worst, he would even be listed as an enemy of the entire Dragon Soul Guild.
Sure enough, Dragon Soul Aoshi directly had Dragon Soul Whisper check Lin Mo's system records.
After confirming there were no issues, the group of Dragon Soul core players who had come along with Dragon Soul Aoshi all felt their mouths go dry, utterly shaken.
"My god! The value of this elite hidden dungeon is actually this high?"
"So many magic scrolls and skill books… it's hard to believe these are real numbers!"
At this moment, Lin Mo did not say another word. He counted out 194 E rank magic scrolls, 183 E rank skill books, 22 D rank magic scrolls, 17 D rank skill books, the A rank warrior skill book Sword Shadow Storm, and 713 gold coins, and directly traded them to Dragon Soul Aoshi face to face, "According to what we agreed on, this is your forty percent. Rounded."
Dragon Soul Whisper finished the calculation, "Boss, the quantities are correct. No problem."
In the end, what remained was one set of level 30, tier 3, orange quality Shadow Set equipment, and one S rank magic scroll, Skill Expansion.
Lin Mo hesitated for a moment and let Dragon Soul Aoshi take a bit of extra advantage, "These two items are of equal value, so let's not talk about a six four split. You pick one."
After only a brief moment of weighing it, Dragon Soul Aoshi decisively chose the Shadow Set.
And in fact, Lin Mo had already guessed he would choose the equipment.
After all, the former provided a solid and massive boost to attributes in the early stages.
The latter only said that it would let you have a few more skill slots than other players, letting you learn a few more skills.
If your attributes couldn't keep up, then even if you had a hundred skills, it would be useless.
But the weight these two items held in Lin Mo's heart was exactly the opposite of Dragon Soul Aoshi's.
'I have the SSS rank talent Soul Flame, which allows me to evolve tier 3 gold equipment at any time, so this orange set doesn't have essential value to me.'
'But an S rank skill expansion gives eight skill slots after use, enough for me to learn one more SSS rank skill. For me, this is the urgent need right now.'
After the items were divided up, Dragon Soul Aoshi extended his right hand toward Lin Mo and said with a smile, "Hopefully, we'll have another chance to cooperate next time."
Obviously, trading a single Heart of Shadow for so many priceless resources made this cooperation and transaction extremely satisfying for Dragon Soul Aoshi.
"No need to wait for next time. How about this time?", Lin Mo said to Dragon Soul Aoshi with plans already in mind, "The magic scrolls and skill books on me, are you buying them or not? If you are, I'll sell them to you at ninety five percent of the market price."
Getting so many E rank and D rank magic scrolls and skill books from the dungeon had no real use value for Lin Mo. Their final destination would be entering the market and turning into money that went back into Lin Mo's pocket.
But for Dragon Soul Aoshi, it was different.
Every single E rank magic scroll, every single E rank skill book, they were all key to training the strength of guild players and building the Divine Oracle national server guild.
If Lin Mo chose to trade through the auction house, not only would it be time consuming and laborious, but the system would also take a three percent handling fee, meaning Lin Mo would only get ninety seven percent of the earnings.
Selling to Dragon Soul Aoshi for ninety five percent was only two percent less than the auction house, and he would also gain a favor.
Dragon Soul Aoshi saw through it but didn't say it out loud. He laughed heartily, "You really know how to do business, Rulebound."
"I will buy them."
The two sides quickly reached a deal.
In the end, Lin Mo emptied his backpack and received 15.4343 million in cash.
"Oh right," At this moment, Dragon Soul Aoshi set his eyes on the A rank mage skill book Shadow Storm in Lin Mo's hand and asked, "Are you selling this book? I'll offer one million for it."
Lin Mo didn't even think before blurting out, "Sorry, this one's not for sale."
Dragon Soul Aoshi's first reaction was confusion. Lin Mo was an archer, so why keep a mage skill?
But after glancing at the mage Ning Xi beside Lin Mo, he instantly understood.
Dragon Soul Aoshi said to Ning Xi, "You have a smart, capable, and very upright boyfriend."
Ning Xi's small face turned red, "We're just good friends…"
Dragon Soul Aoshi smiled without saying anything.
After parting with Lin Mo, he left the plaza with Su Muqiu and the others, completely satisfied.
Lin Mo, on the other hand, watched as the funds in his bank account surged from 16.7 million to 32.13 million, and a wave of joy rose in his heart.
There were still 1,100 gold coins in his backpack.
If all of those gold coins were cashed out, at the official exchange rate of one to zero point nine, that would be another ten million.
'Just these items alone have already brought in more value than directly selling two Heart of Shadows for twenty million.'
'Not to mention, there's still an S rank magic scroll and an A rank skill book in the bag.'
'More importantly, there's also the level 3 increase from the dungeon quest rewards, as well as over five hundred points of reputation.'
At this moment, Lin Mo couldn't help but feel glad that he hadn't chosen to directly sell the Heart of Shadows, but instead used them to enter the dungeon.
The only fly in the ointment was—
'What a pity. The fattest piece of meat in the dungeon, I didn't get to eat it.'
Lin Mo couldn't help but feel some regret, 'If I could have killed that level 50, tier 5 dungeon boss, the Dark Ruler, what I could have gotten would definitely be far more than what I have now.'
In itself, a tier 5 boss at the current stage was already a priceless existence.
And judging by the terrifying drop rate inside the Shadow Holy Hall dungeon, where even ordinary mobs could drop E rank magic scrolls, skill books, and gold coins, if the Dark Ruler were killed inside the dungeon, the value of its drops… would simply be beyond estimation.
"If there's a chance later, it would be great to enter the dungeon one more time."
Although with Lin Mo's current level and strength, he still couldn't kill the Dark Ruler, once he reached level 40 or level 50, it would be a different story.
Just as Lin Mo was thinking this, he suddenly realized that there was still an important item in his backpack that seemed to have been forgotten.
So Lin Mo immediately opened his backpack and took out a heavy, dark gold colored scroll from inside… the Shadow Codex.
Although it was a quest item, aside from being used to complete the dungeon quest, this Shadow Codex seemed to indeed record some extraordinary secrets.
Whoosh!
The moment Lin Mo opened the scroll, a system notification suddenly rang in his ears—
[Ding! Congratulations, you have triggered the A rank hidden quest: Eliminate the Darkness. Please choose whether to accept the quest (Please note! The system reminds you that due to the extremely high rank of this quest, if the quest fails, you will suffer severe punishment)!]
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