Chapter 17: My Gifts

Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios

Gordon simply felt a bitter taste in his mouth. These strong people often had strange personalities. Now that Li Tianxiang was angry, it would not be easy to appease him.

However, the reason why Li Tianxiang was so cold was because the system wanted to collect 5% in tariffs. He was in pain, so no matter what kind of preferential conditions Gordon gave him, he would obviously be dispirited.

After all, even if Gordon gave him these benefits, the system would still skin him alive.

Li Tianxiang was getting impatient. He tapped the bottom of the contract.

“No matter how many benefits you provide, the contract is still a contract. If you don’t sign it, I’ll go to the other families.”

Upon hearing Li Tianxiang’s words, Gordon quickly signed his name at the end of the contract. This name was simply in plain ink.

Li Tianxiang found it strange, but the system also signed Gordon’s name on the photocopied contract.

It seemed that the contract had already taken effect. Li Tianxiang ignored the contract on the table and casually pushed it aside. After all, the contract in the system was more effective than this useless piece of paper.

Gordon was not very shocked to see him casually push aside such a precious magic tool like the devil’s contract as he was already numb.

“Since the contract has been signed, I need 20 earth crystals now. Other than the ones I purified, I will buy the rest at 70% of the market price.”

Gordon didn’t dare to let Li Tianxiang spend money anymore. On the contrary, Gordon wanted to spend money to serve Li Tianxiang well. He quickly bowed and said regretfully.

“My Lord, I know that you’re in a hurry to obtain the crystals. However, we don’t have enough mithril liquid now. Even though we still have magic crystals in store, it’s very hard to separate them.”

Li Tianxiang frowned. It was only then that he noticed that the amount of mithril liquid had also decreased after a few rounds of crystallization. It was probably because mithril had a certain degree of volatility under high temperatures.

“Where can I buy mithril?”

Although there was no time limit, Li Tianxiang still felt uneasy if he left the farm for too long. After all, that was his foundation.

“In the market.”

Upon hearing this answer, Li Tianxiang heaved a sigh of relief. He originally thought that this thing might be harder to obtain.

However, judging from Gordon’s expression, it was probably just a little expensive and would result in large expenditure. However, it wasn’t anything precious.

In fact, Li Tianxiang could research how to make mithril. Furthermore, he had come into contact with mithril several times, intentionally or otherwise.

However, there was no entry on mithril in the Global Farming Guide. It seemed that it was a material that was useless for farming, so Li Tianxiang naturally wasn’t interested in improving its craft.

However, its volatility was indeed a big problem. After all, if the extracted solution was a consumable product, the efficiency of producing crystals would be greatly reduced.

He looked at the alchemical equipment in the workshop just now and noticed a very big flaw. Almost all of the equipment were widely opened containers and reactors. If that was the case, he could not even distill the solution.

Li Tianxiang touched the ink on the table. Then, he drew a flask and a narrow-necked bottle on a piece of ordinary paper.

“With such a piece of alchemical equipment, I should be able to greatly reduce the loss of mithril liquid.”

Although Gordon was not very proficient in alchemy, he knew a thing or two about it. He took one look at Li Tianxiang’s drawing and he understood that a reactor of this shape could greatly reduce consumption of raw materials. His eyes lit up and he spoke hurriedly.

“There are gnomes and dwarf engineers in the market. They can make alchemic equipment as long as we request them to do so.”

Li Tianxiang reexamined the impact of the market in his heart. He had originally thought that it was just an extremely large market, but now it seemed that it was likely the CBD of the alternate worlds. The commercial industries were probably concentrated in the market.

“Coincidentally, I’m going to the market too. Get two people to buy the mythril and alchemical materials before bringing them back.”

Gordon’s eyes darted around and he beckoned to his two daughters.

“My two daughters are the most familiar with the market among the entire family. Sir, if you want to take a good look around the market, you might as well bring them along.”

Gordon did his best to seem as if he was completely devoted to Li Tianxiang.

Although Li Tianxiang wasn’t proficient in the ways of the world, Gordon’s honey trap was too explicit. As a result, he did not know whether to laugh or cry.

When he was on Earth, he was just a typical male science student who was popular among the same sex but had no popularity among the opposite sex.

Thus, he didn’t expect that with his middle school chemistry knowledge, people would see him in a different light.

However, shopping with beautiful women was always a good thing. Li Tianxiang didn’t reject Gordon’s kind intentions.

Furthermore, when Lan heard that they could go shopping, she jumped up excitedly and left before anyone could react.

“She’s preparing to go shopping.”

It was May who whispered an explanation for her.

Gordon clapped his hands as if she had reminded him about something. Then, he summoned a servant and whispered in his ear.

Very quickly, the servant carried a wooden tray with a velvet cushion on it. There was a small, translucent card with intricate carvings on the cushion.

Gordon handed the card to Li Tianxiang.

“This is a gift to celebrate the signing of our contract.”

Li Tianxiang raised his eyebrows. Although he didn’t know what it was, since they had signed a contract, he couldn’t harm him anymore. Thus, it would be a waste if he didn’t want the card.

Gordon watched as Li Tianxiang expressionlessly put the card away. Gordon didn’t even see his movements or feel the fluctuation of magic power. As a result, Gordon smiled bitterly.

“Please don’t mind it, sir. It’s only 5,000 magic crystals, but it’s still a card of the Schariac family. The owners of the markets will give you a discount.”

Li Tianxiang then understood that it was a black card. However, in this world, a transparent card with 5,000 magic crystals was worth 500,000 gold coins. This was equivalent to the price of one earth crystal in the system. He could see that Gordon was really paying a lot to befriend Li Tianxiang.

Thus, Li Tianxiang returned the favor. While the two girls were busy preparing to go out, he drew out all the equipment used for chemical experiments on the table and labeled the requirements and uses for the equipment.

Gordon looked at Li Tianxiang’s strange drawings. He was puzzled at first, but after seeing his markings, his confusion gradually turned into ecstasy.

It would not be an exaggeration to say that these pictures could overthrow the alchemy of this world. If he sold these books to alchemists, they would probably pay tens of thousands of magic crystals for the book without hesitation.

Upon seeing Gordon’s ecstatic expression, Li Tianxiang blew the ink dry and placed the blueprint in front of him.

“Since you gave me a gift to celebrate the signing of the contract, I naturally can’t be rude. These are my gifts..”