"Hahaha!" Berger laughed exaggeratedly at Adam's folly. "We have a deal!"
Seeing Berger, Blackie also began laughing while pointing his tiny paw at Adam. The little puppy would do anything to tease this stupid human.
Adam had a bad feeling well up in his heart as he saw the gnome and the puppy laugh at him. "W-What's wrong?"
The old gnome viciously ridiculed him. "You want to trade a mere rank 1 spell for a new potion recipe? You fool!"
"Woof!" Blackie nodded.
"W-Wait a minute! You mean to say a new recipe is much more precious than a rank 1 spell?" Adam asked nervously.
"Of course it is!" Berger scolded the youth. "The price of a rank 1 spell in the market is almost always 10 platinum pieces. Whereas the price of an unknown recipe is many times more than that."
Adam clenched his fists till his knuckles were white, cursing himself silently. He looked at the old gnome and asked with a fawning smile, "Honorable sir, I seem to have made a mistake. Can we still—"
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