Card Apprentice Daily Log

Chapter 599 Silver Milk Pill

Date- 30 Mar 2321

Time- 22:23

Location- Sky Blossom City, D-rank Uncommon Grade Silver Beach Gate Dungeon

"A dozen platinum grimoires and four dozen golden grimoires." Since Luna was so reasonable and hospitable to my request, I decided to add an extra demand to my request, golden grimoires. I planned to use the golden grimoires to motivate my troops by awarding them to the card apprentices with the most contribution in the upcoming war against the circle.

"What the heck? Are you buying fruits or grimoires?" Commented Anna.

"12 platinum grimoires? Why do you need so many? Are you planning on selling them on the black market? If you do, that won't turn out well for you." Luna was surprised to hear I wanted a dozen platinum grimoires and misunderstood my intention.

"I plan to exchange a few of them for favors, and the rest are for my people," I answered honestly.

"Huh, I will contact you when I get them." Luna nodded in understanding.

"Speaking of my people, I need to use the silver beach gate dungeon to make more silver milk powder." I know Anna did say that I cannot enter the dungeon as the dungeon relocation apparatus is being set up, but I got to ask. Maybe there is another way.

"Nope, nobody can enter the silver beach gate dungeon right now. Otherwise, all the progress we have made to data will be wasted." Luna, too, denied me entry to the gate dungeon.

"Told you." Anna did not miss the chance to sneak in a 'told you so.'

"But, if it is silver milk powder you need, I can share some with you. Check this out," saying that Luna summoned her grimoire and took out numerous bottles filled with silver pills.

"Did you make silver milk powder into pills? Let me guess. You call them Silver milk pills." I said, holding a bottle of silver milk pills.

"Not only did I turn silver milk powder into pills but also divided them into four grades based on the concentration of silver milk powder. You can tell by the shade of the pills. The darker the pill, the higher the silver milk powder concentration level. And named the silver milk grades accordingly, Average, Good, Best, and Excellent." Luna then went on to explain how the grading system worked.

Average Grade - Mortals

Good Grade - Card Students, Card Scholar

Best Grade - Card Soldiers, Card Masters

Excellent Grade - Card Grandmasters, Card Lords

"What about the higher realms?" I asked, seeing that the grading system was only limited to the card lord realm.

"After card lord realm, almost all card apprentices wait to form their ego gem and then break to the higher realm unless they are running out of lifespan. The effect of silver milk powder on ordinary Card Overlord realm is already very little useless the contraction of silver milk powder is increased by massive levels. Despite that, the effect becomes negligible for Card Overlords with Ego gems.

Not to mention that if we increase the concentration of silver milk powder to match the needs of higher realm card apprentices, the profit margin on affordable pricing narrows down to almost nothing. Leaving us with only one choice but to increase the product's price.

But, higher realm card apprentices have many affordable alternatives to help with their active soul control. Therefore, we decided to limit the production to the needs of the card apprentices up to the card lord realm." Luna explained how the effect of silver milk powder decreases with an increase in the realm, to maintain the effect of the silver milk powder, the concentration level has to increase. And this method is only profitable till the card lord realm, limiting the final grade to the Excellent grade silver milk pill.

"Makes sense. After all, our target customers are the mortals and low-level card apprentices. Keeping the product affordable is our best bet." The Southern royal family's marketing strategy to sell silver milk powder products was to sell large quantities at affordable prices instead of selling small quantities at high prices. This strategy was optimal for our product, considering its customer base.

"Okay, so how many do you need?" Luna asked generously.

"A dozen storage cards of each grade except for average grade pills." The average grade is for mortals. I had no use for them.

"I don't have that amount of pills. Here, take this storage card. It contains highly concentrated silver milk powder. It should meet your requirements. You divide the powder according to your use." Saying that, Luna handed me an A-rank storage card.

"This will be enough," I said, having taken a peek into the card after equipping it.

"Anything else," Luna inquired.

"No, that's all. Thank you." Seeing that Luna had work to attend to, I thanked her for her help as she was about to excuse herself.

"Anna, you could help Ann, you know. With your help, we can decrease the time required to set up the dungeon relocation apparatus by one-third of the original estimated time." Before leaving, Luna asked Anna to be of more help than loitering around.

"I could do a lot of things with my time. And right now, I am on watch for any potential enemy attack." Anna seemed to be pro at escaping responsibility.

"Humph, suit yourself. If only you were half as diligent as big sis Ann. This world would be a better place to live in." Luna snorted and hurried to her post.

"Wyatt, the night is still young. So where to?" With Luna gone, Anna prepared to state her intentions.

"For you maybe, but not for me, it is way past my bedtime. I am heading back to the warehouse." I wanted to return to the warehouse, divide the silver milk powder for my calamity daughter gems and then go to bed. I was in no mood for a party like Anna was hinting on.

"Don't be such a killjoy. Let's go to a club, relieve all this stress by getting drunk and dancing silly." Advised Anna as she massaged my shoulders.

"Nope, not happening. If it were someone else, I would have given it a little consideration. But with you, I am not going anywhere. Especially not to the locations with easy access to booze."

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