Daily Sign-in System: I Dominate the World One Step at a Time!-Chapter 71: Return to Lycranor City

While on his way back, James contacted his father to say that he had made a deal with the Silverleaf Trading Consortium.

Now that he had finished with his business in Valentis City, he planned to go back and discuss some things with Eldric, Edmund, and the head butler as soon as possible before starting to increase his strength, as he intended to enter the secret realm with Lilith and Yvonne.

Subsequently, he returned to Azure Crest Pavilion and directly went to the fourth floor since Elara and the others were having a light breakfast.

For the entire day, all of them were just enjoying themselves exploring the city—more accurately just accompanying Elara do whatever she wanted. Especially when it’s at night, Elara became really active and was so happy that James could only bring her back to Azure Crest Pavilion right before midnight, after she accidentally fell asleep in his arms after running around the entire day.

Because it was already almost midnight, James decided to wait for the reward before going to sleep. However, disappointment washed over him once again as he obtained an item that made him speechless. 𝕗𝐫𝐞𝕖𝕨𝐞𝗯𝚗𝕠𝘃𝐞𝚕.𝐜𝗼𝚖

It was a fucking salt!

Yes, salt!

A kilogram of normal sea salt.

However, he suddenly had a wild guess because of this. He just thought that his current environment might even influence the reward he would receive.

Even though it was still a baseless guess, James just had a hunch that at least a small percentage of his current environment and situation was being taken into account in the system’s reward.

Subsequently, he slept peacefully for a good few hours and woke up with a different situation this time. He woke up with Elara’s small left hand on his face while her left foot was on James’ belly.

James fixed Elara’s sleeping position before leaving the room, as he wanted to tell Lilith and Yvonne that they would leave after Elara woke up.

Yvonne had actually wanted to follow his group but James refused her outright. The main reason why he didn’t want them to follow him was naturally because he was afraid that they would discover the real treasure ground if they were to visit the Steelhearts.

The old man’s strength was so strong that James was afraid of him discovering the real treasure ground. As far as he knew, there were strong people who had searched the Blackfang Mountains but he just didn’t know how strong they were.

Even though he also didn’t know how strong the old man was, just based on what Ignis said, there was a chance of him discovering it if the destroyed faction wasn’t that strong.

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Of course this conversation didn’t happen at the moment when he was currently in talk with Aldric and Caelum.

And he didn’t tell them the whole process just because there was no need to, as he only needed them to gather either raw or precious ambergris.

That’s why James told them that he wanted Ambergris, which was something they might stumble upon in the ocean, or maybe people have found it but never taken interest in it since they haven’t known its preciousness.

Naturally, he also told them that they might be able to get the raw one by hunting the whale beasts directly. By doing so, they could also get the carcasses that could be sold or used to make various things in themselves.

Needless to say, they also could try finding it across the markets in the entire kingdom in case someone found it by chance and wanted to sell it.

Besides ambergris, James also mentioned various materials such as flowers, herbs, etc that could be used in perfumery. He also requested flower seeds since he intended to make his own flower garden in the Blackfang Mountains.

After discussing with the duo for a while, James was quite pleased about the fact that they were actually nice to talk to and even gave various important pieces of information regarding perfumery, such as his future competitor, the materials, etc.

James took out a small bag and threw it on the table. "This is the first payment, just focus on finding the ambergris first."

When Aldric checked the content inside, he was quite surprised because James just casually gave them 100 Legendary Rank Energy Crystals.

Aldric accepted the bag with a smile. "Don’t worry, Young Master James. We will use all of our manpower to search for it on land or in the ocean."

"Alright, that’s it for now. We might need your help in finding other materials in the future, and our head butler will contact you at that time." James said as he stood up.

"Just say the word, and we will do our best to help you with them." Aldric replied with a smile.

James only nodded in response before leaving the room. Aldric and Caelum wanted to see him off, but he refused since it would only attract unnecessary attention.

The moment James left the building, Caelum looked at Aldric curiously. "Do you think what he had claimed is true?"

Aldric glanced at him and chuckled. "Whether it’s true or not, we will know it in three months, as he said anyway. There’s no need to overthink whether it’s true or not since it’s not like we’re at a loss in general since we’re still doing business with them too."

"You’re right." Caelum nodded in agreement.

He then raised an eyebrow, as he looked at the small bag. "Besides, how much did he pay that you seemed to be quite surprised with it?"

"It’s a decent amount, but I was just surprised with the things he used to pay for." Aldric threw the bag at Caelum.

Caelum directly checked the content inside and was also quite surprised when he saw it.

100 Legendary Rank Energy Crystals were actually not worth that much for them in terms of value. However, these crystals held a higher value because of their rarity, and the fact that James casually gave them these crystals was the one that surprised them.