Is It Wrong To Devour Monsters In The Dungeon - Chapter 16.2

Amid stared wide eyed at the four phials, bringing the total amount I was offering up to five. Which in of itself, not even talking about the quality was an absurd amount.

As mentioned with how rare Mermaid's were, and drop items generally being a one in five chance, on the few floors mermaids did spawn, it was akin to a one in five thousand chance of finding one, killing it and getting the blood as a drop.

And as it would drop to the ground, contaminating most of it. only a small part would be salvageable. Not even close to a full phial of it.

For a full phial, it would could take anywhere between six and eleven or twelve Mermaid drops, meaning numerically wise with the spawn rate of mermaids and the drop rates, a standard full phial would take killing between thirty thousand and sixty thousand monsters.

An absolute absurd amount and why only the most top tier of familia tended to be given quests to farm for mermaids blood. Admittedly, some times the odd adventurer passing through those floors would come across one by luck, kill it and get the drop.

Luck was a big factor in it that could change the board, but at the same time, the logical numbers were insane even if they weren't fully and completely accurate.

A guy like Bell Cranel after all with his luck skill turned everything on its head there. if that guy was smart, he could leverage that skill to farm monsters like mermaids and their drops and make a killing.

But Bell Cranel was an idiot and Caelan Odhar was not.

Despite her shock, Amid quickly recovered and gave him a plain smile, "A deal, I see," she nodded, catching on to the subtext in his worlds, "Then would you be adverse to joining me in one of the business rooms?" she asked, handing me back the phial she had in her hand, that she had been examining.

"Sounds good." I replied with a grin. Being directed to business rooms to talk deals? Was a whole other level from just bartering for the price of an item.

"One moment then." Amid replied, before calling over one of her familia members, a girl called Martha to take over the front desk for her. Once she had, Amid stepped out from behind the sales desk and gestured for us to follow her.

As we did though, my eyes instinctively raked down towards her backside and my eyes widened, "God damn." I whispered under my breath. Amid was short and slender, and with a voluptuous chest, but her ass? Even in the unflattering dress uniform she wore, it put even her busty chest to shame.

She had a massive badonkadonk that stretched out the the back of her dress like the greatest shelf mankind had ever come together to create as their greatest masterpiece.

She was like an inverse Hestia in that regard, similar height even to go with it. Hestia had a great ass, big, plump, round, bouncy, perky and it stood out on her short frame, but her absolutely incredible tits drew way more attention than her epic ass.

Amid had great tits, big, plump, round, bouncy and perky. Yes, it did bare repeating. But her absolutely massive ass, stood out incredibly.

Like god damn, that ass!

"…Mr. Caelan." Lili's annoyed voice made me look to my side to see her giving me an annoyed, deadpan look.

She had heard me even though I had whispered it incredibly softly. That was probably because of the fluffy brow canine ears atop her head. The ears of a werewolf.

"Don't worry," I assured her, "You've got a great one too. Honestly once you start eating better you'll be insane."

"…Mr. Caelan has no delicacy whatsoever," Lili pouted, her cheeks flushing, "Completely unfair."

True that.

Before long we reached the business room and were directed inside. It was a pretty snazzy place actually. A simple rectangular room with white tiled flooring, white walls with mahogany wooden decoration reaching halfway up like a railing that covered each wall, a large green rug in the middle of the room with a small square table on it, with two large expensive looking couches facing each other on either side of the table.

"So…" Amid prodded once they sat down, me and Lili on one couch, her on the other facing him.

"Down to business then yeah?" I grinned, threading mu fingers together and leaning back in the couch, lifting one leg to balance my foot on the knee of the other, "Iet's start with this then, how much would you offer for one of these phials of mermaid blood?"

Amid stared at me for a moment, beautiful amethyst eyes looking straight into my own, searching, before sighing, "A tough question, I've never seen mermaid blood of that quality or that amount before at once," she admitted, "A typical full phial of mermaid blood, we'd generally purchase for between three and four million valis, maybe a bit more if our stocks run low. A single drop is enough to make a dozen elixirs. The sheer purity of the mermaids blood you have though, I'm not even sure how to quantify properly. The kind of elixir we could make with that blood, will be several times more potent than normal."

All very true. Yet, I'm not hearing a price. Either she wasn't sure what was a good offer, or she was waiting on me opening up my own to try and work out.

Okay then.

"And how much they're worth, reflects that," I replied with a raised eyebrow, "A higher quality blood, means a higher quality elixir, a higher quality elixir means it's better for healing. Which means ergo, the price for the elixirs themselves will be much higher."

"Yes." Amid responded simply.

Still no offer huh?

Well, it was good for her he'd already decided how he'd approach this in advance, "Ten million per phial." I stated simply.

The eyes of Lili at my side bulged in shock and she gaped at me stupidly, eye wide with shock.

Amid clicked her tongue, "That's simply too much, you need to keep in mind that turning them into elixirs takes time, effort and the skills we have," she replied shaking her head, "Eight million." she offered, bargaining.

If possible, Lili's eyes seemed to bulge even more, honestly if they got any wider they'd pop straight out of their sockets.

Though not that I don't blame her. Eight million per phial, with the five I have on me, that's a total of forty million. On top of that, I already have six and a half million left over after cashing in my drops from last night.

I'd have a total of forty six and a half million valis. Well enough to get started on the construction of my big epic mansion.

…Actually I need a name for my mansion when I build it, something cooler than Twilight Manor that the Loki familia has.

But beyond that-

"Fifteen million." I replied to Amid, raising my price.

"E-eh?" Amid blinked, completely taken aback.

"Mr Caelan, so ruthless." Lili shook her head at me, yet a small smile spread across her face.

Well, gotta know your worth and all that.

"Well, I'm well aware of the worth this blood has, honestly with between this blood, your abilities, your mystery skill and the potion makers of the Dian Cecht Familia, I wouldn't be surprised if you managed to create an elixir that can regenerate limbs," I shrugged, "And I'm the only one that can supply mermaid blood of this quality."

"Even so, that's an outrageous price to ask for," Amid lost the impassive look she'd been keeping up and gave him a dry huff, "Buying that much and the time it would take to sell the completed product, would make the profits minimal, Dian Cecht won't allow such a deal."

Oh I was well aware of that.

"I know, I was just making a point," I replied, I was the one negotiating here from the point of strength, "If I just wanted to sell these to you after all I wouldn't be angling to make a business proposition with you."

"You could have simply led with that," Amid rolled her pretty eyes in annoyance, "I assume you already have some demands for such a deal then?"

"Yeah, nothing too major though," I replied with a laugh, "How about this? Eight million per phial of mermaid blood and I'll give you two free per month on top."

I was originally going to ask for seven and a half million per phial, but that offered eight looked nicer, rounder, evener.

Amid blinked, "Two for free, per month?" she repeated, giving him a confused look, "I don't understand, I offered eight per each but now you're offering just the same after shooting me down and even offering me two free phials of blood?"

"Call it a gesture of good faith," I shrugged, "Well, there is something I want out of it at least."

"And that would be?" Amid raised an eyebrow back at him.

"My goddess Hestia is close friends with Miach," I explained, leaning forward, "I want you to drop the debt they have to you guys, no ifs and or butts, if you refuse, I'll take my business elsewhere."

"Nazza I see…Though that's not really a decision I can make myself, they have an outstanding debt just shy of seventy million valis," Amid admitted with a sigh, "As much as I would like to I-

"Yes you can, you're the captain of the familia, Dian Cecht doesn't actually have any more power than what you guys give him," I cut her off, "But I'm well aware of Dian Cecht's utter lacking in anything resembling common courtesy unless it has to do with money. The two free phials a month will well cover that and more in just a few months, but beyond is the fact I'm exclusively selling to you guys, honestly I could be demanding much more and we know you'd give in. I could be demanding you pay me simply to keep up this business deal I'm offering not even the amount you'd be purchasing the blood for and not giving you any for free, yet here I am."

I sighed and shook my head, "Honestly, I can't believe one of the celtic gods turned out to be such a buffoon, talk about disappointment." I huffed in annoyance.

Give me back my reverence you buffoon! Give me back the time I spent being proud of dumbasses like you!

…At least there was Goibniu, Brigid and Miach as respectable celtic gods.

"Celtic gods?" both Lili and Amid gave him confused looks.

"The place I come from had a lot of legends about gods and certain groups they were part of, my people specifically came from the land where the pantheon known as the celtic gods ruled, Dian Cecht is one of those gods," I huffed, before something occurred and I gave Amid a once over, "Actually, were you found as an orphan with no name or something by Dian Cecht? Because there's a goddess called Amid amongst the celtic gods as well. A goddess of healing actually, ironically."

Amid blinked, "No…nothing like that," she shook her head, "I assume it's just a rather bizarre coincidence."

"I guess, though you definitely could have passed for a goddess," I snorted, "You're gorgeous enough to put most of them to shame."

Amid's eyes widened and a flush spread across her cheeks, "Oh…oh really?" she coughed, looking away, "That's nice of you to say."

"Just the truth," I grinned, "Maybe I should tack on a little add on to the business deal that you need to let me take you out to dinner?"

"Wow, you're really quite bold aren't you?" Amid shook her head, a light breathy giggle escaping her for a moment, before shaking her head, "That would be highly improper though, and I don't know you very much beyond your name, familia and this bold attitude of yours."

"Well, there's also my roguishly good looks to consider too." I winked at her. Actually to be honest, my looks were a bit odd. Different. Beyond the changes to my eyes and musculature, one thing I'd noticed was my hair.

Somehow the black dyed highlights in my hair, had become…natural? My hair grew in now predominantly blonde, but with black highlights through it. I think it has something to do with Typhon to be honest. Probably integrating it in some form with the evolution my body went through.

Either way, between it my now searing crimson red eyes and my build, I stood out quite a bit.

"I…suppose," Amid coughed again, then shook her head, "Anyway! Putting aside that last part, you will not budge on the matter of Miach and Naaza's debt?"

"Nope, not only is Miach, Hestia's friend, and I like the guy, I'm also opening up a store of my own and both Miach and Naaza are going to be working there," I replied with a shrug, actually, they should already be there right now, with both Hestia and Naaza in those snug, sexy maid outfits. I wanna go see them! "Having them worry about a debt like that and dealing what that disappointing buffoon of a god of yours, will get in the way of my plans."

"…You really don't like lord Dian Cecht huh? Did he disappoint your expectations that much?" Amid noted, an unladylike snort escaping her, before sighing and shrugging her shoulders, "Very well then, if this is the only way to secure such a deal, then he can't complain."

She meant whine. He would whine, a lot.

"Well unless you're up for that dinner instead." I offered with a laugh.

"Stop that," Amid shook her head, cheeks flushing once more, before standing up, "Give me a moment and I will draw up a contract and retrieve the vali's needed to purchase what you have on hand."

"Awesome, but before that," I spoke up, "I was hoping to ask your advice on something?"

"On what?" Amid asked.

"Your mystery skill," I replied, "I wanted to ask you how somebody goes about using it."

The silver haired beauty gave him an odd look, "I mean, I can but I don't see why that would be something you need to know," she replied giving him a curious look, "You said just before you that the Hestia familia has only been active for two weeks, so unless you were with a familia previously and already levelled up-"

"I wasn't, the first familia I joined was Hestia's," I cut her off, "But two weeks was well enough time for me to get to level two, I levelled up through the night actually, and I have the mystery skill, I just need to figure out how to use it."

"….Eh?" Amid just stared.

Gobsmacked.

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So, been a while with this one huh? Reasons caused it, just reasons. Anyway, we're back at least. And can I just say I'm seriously not liking the new updates to patreon, the one before was so much simpler to use. And my notifications won't go away. It's been at 99+ for days and no matter how much I check it won't go down. Pain in the ass man.

Anyway, Amid. She popped up in the Sword Oratoria manga again lately, even got her clothes destroyed fighting crazy boy. And we got a pretty sweet ass shot of hers, and her ass, at least for a manga, is massive. She got that cake lads and possible ladies.