"WHAT?!?" Jason exclaimed and he was shocked about the number, as it was more than he had expected.
"But don′t be fooled. 1.000.000 Credits might look like much but after considering the price for most resources, you will notice that it's only a long number."
Still, for Jason this number was double the amount he had previously and if he continued catching beasts with potential, maybe he could be comparable to his future classmates at least in context to their wealth.
But this would take much of his time, Jason could also use in other ways.. as such he could only disregard this thought.
After business was done, all of them talked for a few hours about their trip to Cyro City, until it was night and Jason declined their offer to eat dinner with them and decided to go home.
Arriving at home deep at night, Jason didn't forget to practice his Heaven's Hell technique.
He noticed that the replenishing process was going smoother and smoother and according to its stability and pureness, Jason was already able to meet the requirements of the second level but the amount of his soul energy was still not enough.
Apparently, he had reached a soul energy of three units which was already decent if he considered how much he had in the beginning.
All that was thanks to his unique soul, and both Artemis and Jason fell asleep happily with a big 1.000.000 written on his bank account.
Waking up due to Artemis jumped around on his belly, Jason straightened his back slowly and Artemis flapped happily with her wings.
Jason always wondered if Artemis would just continue to grow stronger or if she should evolve as he noticed her mana core almost reaching the strength between a two-star and a three-star wild beast.
The paper-thin mana flow in her body continued to thicken slowly but she didn't grow anymore. Or that was at least what Jason thought, for the moment.
Jason had many things to do and with his newly acquired fortune, he could begin his shopping.
But before he would do that, Jason canceled his leasing contract for his apartment as it would be useless once he moved into an A-grade city.
After that Jason got half of his already deposited money back which was more than he expected.
With slightly more than one million credits Jason wanted to purchase quite a few things.
Jason liked fighting with his dagger but he found out that once his only dagger was blown away by his opponent or thrown away by himself, he would be completely unarmed.
He looked at quite a few websites and his luck didn't betray him as he found a pair of tempered Jade Iron daggers at the mid-grade-1 from the same User he purchased his first untempered Jade Iron dagger from.
Their price was more than reasonable with 160.000 Credits and Jason could even pierce through a late awakened beast hide with them.
He also remembered the time he threw his dagger and he wanted to learn knife-throwing as it was easier to combine it with his dagger orientated combat style than a bow.
After thinking for a moment Jason bought a hundred low-grade 1 Coranit throwing knives.
Their length was around 15 centimeters and the blade was 6 centimeters long, extremely thin but because of the innate characteristic of coranit it was still quite endurable.
Coranit was one of the most common ores and comparable to iron 300 years ago but it had slightly superior durability and mana conductivity.
With enough mana injected these throwing knives would pierce through the hide of late-awakened beasts, but that wasn′t their purpose.
One would more likely throw these knives in small openings or vital spots rather than good defended spots.
Their price was 1.500 credits per throwing knife so another 150.000 credits were deducted from his decreasing fortune.
In additon to the throwing knives, Jason also got a mechanical knife holder, which looked like a normal black box with two slits on the sides.
On the sides, the knives would stick out and they would be replaced once taken out and around 50 knives in total could be inserted.
Jason wondered how this was possible as 50 knives weren't few and the box was described as 20 centimeters long, 5 centimeters width and 3 centimeters in height…
Jason admired the sorting skills of this mechanized system as he estimated that not a single millimeter space was left behind.
After purchasing the throwing knives, Jason decided to continue purchasing weapons and he looked at a graded bow.
It looked decently and it was a small compact box which would be attached to his lower back without hindering his movements, while a single knife could be taken out from both sides.
But he was quite shocked to notice the large difference for ungraded and graded bows.
Considering his strength now and the fast increase in strength he expected, he decided to purchase a mid-grade-1 bow made out of an low-evolved strengthened elemental deer with fortified horns.
Their tendons and horns were perfect materials to manufacture a bow with it.
The price was 77.000 Credits and he purchased a bunch of reinforced arrows that would not shatter even upon hitting a steel wall for 27.000 Credits.
It was astonishing to see that a bow made out of awakened beasts could be sold for so much as the evolved ranked elemental deer was only worth around 5.000 Credits at most.
Calculating his expenses, Jason was shocked before he was reminded that he wasn't even close to finishing his online shopping tour, but his credits were disappearing without notice.
He needed some defensive garments and some new paralysis potions, a tranquilizer, a few enlarging miniature beast cages, mountains of beast cores for Artemis, and if there was still something left, he would look out for himself.
At least a little bit would definitely be left for him as he had to eat and drive around with the shuttle.
Deducting 1000 Credits for himself would be enough for that so Jason continued his purchase.
After more than an hour, Jason′s whole fortune of 1.000.000 Credits was used up because the garment he bought was a low-grade-2 hide-armor that could adjust itself slightly to its wearer and defend against the physical attack of each kind of awakened beast and even mid-evolved beasts.
Its price was horrifying 400.000 Credits but for Jason his life was worth even more.
Never would Jason imagine that the price was so cheap because it was already worn by someone, fixed a few times and also one of the cheapest grade-2 garments.
Jason was more than a little bit shocked to see the price tags of most garments and weapons as the rare materials were not even close to the prices most wanted for the finished product.
He now understood why blacksmiths, runemasters, alchemists, and these other jobs were called rich powerful, and sometimes even greedy.
But nobody knew that their expenses in their apprenticeship were more than horrifying as most works were failures and it would take a long time until one could call himself a blacksmith for example.
Furthermore, it wasn't easy to not stabilize the mana conductivity in most materials and use them to complete perfect weapons or garments.
Comparing the price from his leather armor to the prices of most grade-2 or 3 weapons, Jason felt dizzy.
While grade-1 weapons were comparable to awakened beasts, grade-2 equipment could already be compared with evolved and even unblemished beasts while grade-3 was something only Magus would be barely able to use and these equipment were manufacturers out of magical beast materials and the following beast ranks.
Jason didn′t know a single person who owned grade-4 equipment on Astrix but he had heard about a Saint-Blacksmith who forged a grade-4 weapon for someone on Canir and Jason wondered, how many grade-4 weapons and armors existed.
While normal graded weapons were already frustratingly expensive in Jason′s opinion, he also saw a few offers for magic and soul weapons, and his face couldn′t be described with words as he saw their price tags.
Jason dreamed about owning a powerful soul weapon as he heard that some extraordinary materials could even enhance the effect of one's soul and help each other symbiotically.
But those were only legends from Canir and Jason wasn't sure if something like that really existed.
While he still had 190.000 Credits left but they were used up after he bought three low-grade-1 paralysis potions, a graded tranquilizer with 10 shots, and one big self-driving enlarging miniature beast cages.
The most expensive was the graded tranquilizer but it was also one of the most important things he needed as it would be quite uncomfortable if a beast woke up while it was thrown over one's shoulder.
Jason had around 10.000 Credits left from his hunting trip and the canceled apartment but he wouldn't buy Artemis beast cores as he had a few left and Jason wanted to test his new toys out once they arrived.
It wouldn't take long for his parcel to arrive and he practiced the Heaven's Hell technique to kill time.
After that Jason made himself some space to practice his modified Azure feisty ape technique before the `long-waited` message came.