It's Perfectly Normal for my Slime to beat up a Dragon, Right?

Ch. 141 - Those Damned Rich People

The staff member verified Chen Shu's identity and asked: "Are you turning in the [Gather Ice Leaf Flowers] or [Hunt Roaring Lion] quest?""What low-level quests are those? Never heard of them."

Chen Shu spread both hands and shrugged. "Old Xie, Xiao Xing, have you two heard of these quests?"

Both shook their heads. "No idea—who'd do such low-tier quests?"

Watching the three play off each other in perfect sync, the staff member's expression went dark.

Those are the exact quests you accepted before, damn it...

Chen Shu spoke up: "We're turning in the Frost Giant Wolf Lord quest!"

"A Lord? You actually succeeded?"

The staff member's eyes went wide, completely incredulous.

"Piece of cake—anyone with hands could do it!"

Chen Shu pulled a heart from his urea bag, wrapped in special paper. Even through the wrapping, a bone-chilling cold radiated outward.

In an instant, every Beast Tamer in the hall rose to their feet, staring over.

"Is that an actual Frost Giant Wolf heart?!"

"Holy crap! A group of trainee Beast Tamers actually pulled it off?!"

"What the hell? Are students this ridiculously strong nowadays?"

The staff member swallowed hard. This was a bounty quest worth a full four million.

"Ah..."

At that moment, Chen Shu frowned and let out a sigh.

"Should I turn in this heart... or this one?"

As he spoke, Chen Shu pulled another heart from the urea bag.

He looked torn, holding both hearts, unable to decide which to submit.

Silence! The mission hall fell deathly silent!

The staff member looked equally shocked, finally managing to squeeze out a question.

"Are you... running a wholesale operation?"

"Forget it, not turning them in!"

Chen Shu sighed and put both hearts back into the urea bag, then tied it shut tightly.

Every Beast Tamer's eyes in the hall locked onto that urea bag, vaguely spotting the other materials inside—all of them likely Lord-class.

Their gazes burned with fervor and greed, as if staring at divine artifacts.

"We're declaring the quest failed! Tell the employer that the two hearts I have go for five million each! No haggling!"

"..."

Chen Shu's mouth curved into a smile as he went straight for a shameless markup.

Now that's what you call jacking up the price!

The quest poster was obviously loaded—demanding the Frost Giant Wolf's talent skill at any cost.

Someone had already turned in one heart before, but they were still buying, which meant they'd failed to learn the skill.

This told him two things: the rich guy had money to burn, and he was obsessed.

But now Frost Canyon had an incident and would probably be sealed off for a while.

When anything becomes rare, its value skyrockets. Selling something worth three-plus million for five million? Completely reasonable.

"So many Lord materials—what should we do with them?"

Chen Shu sighed, his eyes full of melancholy.

Xu Xingxing licked his lips and said: "No idea. Let's roast them when we get back. We don't have to feed them to our contract spirits—maybe we can learn skills from eating them ourselves?"

Xie Sunan rejected that outright. "I say bury them instead. Maybe they'll grow new ones next year."

"..."

The three discussed disposal methods while every Beast Tamer in the hall stared in stunned silence, forced to listen to their outrageous suggestions while watching them leave.

If this were an Alternate Dimension, the three would've been robbed down to their underwear.

After a long moment, someone finally snapped out of it.

"What's the situation in Frost Canyon right now? Can you just pick up Lord corpses lying around or what?"

"Pick up jack shit. Someone caused a massive explosion, killed countless common beasts, and all the Lords went berserk! Good thing I sold out my teammates—otherwise I wouldn't have made it back."

Instantly, everyone turned to stare at that person and backed away several steps.

You sound pretty proud of that...

...

"This haul's really something."

Chen Shu calculated the value of the materials in his urea bag. Just the six Lord beasts alone were worth over twenty million.

He wore the expression of a money-obsessed miser, muttering under his breath non-stop:

"Xiao Xing put in serious work—he can take a hundred thousand. Old Xie's scouting was key—a hundred thousand makes total sense!"

"Teacher Shen's assist was solid—he can get two hundred thousand!"

"I'm the main force, so the rest goes to me. Fair and square!"

Xie Sunan and Xu Xingxing both stared at him wide-eyed.

Chen Shu looked confused. "Why are you two staring at me?"

"We're watching to see just how THICK your face really is!!"

So you're taking over twenty million by yourself?

"How thick is what?"

Shen Wushuang pushed open the door, clearly here to "split the loot."

Xie Sunan immediately stood up and filed a complaint: "Teacher Shen, beat this shameless bastard to death! He wants to take twenty million all for himself!"

"Hm?"

Shen Wushuang charged forward and forcibly seized the urea bag.

"Give that here!"

Though Chen Shu tried his best to stop him, he still lost his precious urea bag.

Shen Wushuang sat down beside Chen Shu and said:

"Now that Frost Canyon's temporarily sealed, the Lord materials in our hands will appreciate a bit."

Suddenly he turned to Chen Shu. "Did you bomb Frost Canyon with premeditation? Deliberately inflating the material prices!"

Chen Shu spread both hands and said nothing.

Shen Wushuang continued: "The two Frost Giant Wolf hearts shouldn't be sold directly. Tell that loaded employer five and a half million each!"

The moment the words left his mouth—

Xu Xingxing and Xie Sunan turned to look with strange expressions, examining Chen Shu and Shen Wushuang closely.

You two have mastered price gouging.

Shen Wushuang asked: "What's wrong? Is there a problem? That rich guy clearly doesn't care about money!"

"No, no problem at all."

Shen Wushuang continued appraising: "The other four materials are worth roughly four million, plus Beast Taming Pearls makes it about four and a half million."

"Add in the Frost Giant Wolf Beast Taming Pearls, and the total comes to around thirty million."

At those words, everyone except Xu Xingxing looked shocked.

Even Shen Wushuang had never achieved such a bountiful victory—his old Beast Taming squad never dared hunt seven Lords at once.

After a long moment, Xu Xingxing broke the silence.

"Excluding those two hearts, the remaining materials are nineteen million, right?"

Xu Xingxing sat there calmly and said: "If there's no problem, I can have my family wire the money tomorrow."

"???"

All three turned to stare, instantly standing at attention.

"You motherfucker, that's not fair!"

"Evil rich people!"