In fact, the Vismont Trio were not the only group who had thought about this. The other teams heading to the other two territories had similar schemes brewing in their minds.
While most people were heading to the West and South, some partnered with others to go to a new territory East. Basically, there were a lot of teams that were very interested in this mission.
All of them had one or two people who were sly enough to see the business opportunities in this mission almost as soon as it was sent out.
For instance, Luke and Leo (or more accurately, just Leo), also thought of the same thing as Crow and the others. This was the one variable that could get them a hell of a lot better deals: Ansel!
So… very early that day, Althea had to deal with someone’s cheesy pandering.
"Althea~ Sister ~ Sister Althea~"
This guy had almost always called her by name. When he called her ’sister~’ then he must have a favor to ask.
"I have a favor to ask, I promise it’s win-win~" He said.
"Continue."
"It’s about the supermarket…" He paused, and Althea couldn’t help but look at her own accounting. She looked at the sources of income and saw how the Supermarket was doing.
The turnover of the supermarket had always been very strong, it wasn’t until Ansel came with a sycophant smile on his face that Althea realized the sales were faster than usual.
Althea was actually quite interested. She crossed her arms and looked at him, "What do you want?"
Ansel grinned.
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An hour later, the supermarket posted an announcement through the Village Center.
[Gaea Supermarket: In light of the new Level A mission sent by the territory, Gaea Supermarket will temporarily waive the purchase limits. This will be applicable only to teams registered for the inter-territory connection mission sent by the territory.
There will also be a 20% discount for all temporary and permanent residents!
Let’s help the village together!]
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This announcement made everyone absolutely thrilled.
Those who had been hesitating due to the potential dangers were outright injected with courage.
Why?
Because they also thought what those teams thought: Business! Money!
So many people rushed to the stores and not just the wood factory.
If there were rickshaws available for sale or rent it was estimated all of them would also be swept out by now. Unfortunately, the wood factory refused because the rickshaws, without rubber, would definitely just give way in the current terrain.
Anyway, regardless of whether there were rickshaws, the travel time was only one day and much of the food available easily lasted longer than that.
For a while, all shops in the territory flourished even more. Fortunately, the latest batch of crops were just harvested and, with overtime work, the shops could meet the large demands of the market.
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