Chapter 1222 - 602: Worth Over Ten Thousand!

The fresh morning breeze blew away the wine fumes that had been brewing in the room all night.

Compared to the liveliest hours in the evening, the Three-legged Sea Dog Tavern was clearly much quieter in the morning.

Those adventurers who not long ago were still raising their cups, sitting by the tables spraying spit as they talked big, some took advantage of not being completely drunk yet and went back to their rooms early to rest, while others simply treated the messy tables, chairs, and even the floor as beds, and fell asleep right there in the hall.

Of course, there were still a few adventurers who had managed to stay sober, gathered in twos and threes, sipping a little wine; there were even one or two diligent types like Xia Nan who got up early to train, just that they were relatively few in number.

Behind the bar, the tavern owner Hera, as always, was leisurely polishing a wine glass.

Sometimes she went in person to the harbor to buy fresh seafood, getting up before dawn; seeing the state she was in now, she had probably already made a round at the Wave-breaking Pier.

"The usual."

Even though he was about to leave Suo Yu Bay, Xia Nan showed nothing out of the ordinary.

He sat down at his usual spot at the bar, took a few silver coins from his pouch, pushed them across the counter, and ordered the classic seafood cream mushroom soup set—something that had never appeared on the menu, yet had become a fixed combo because he kept ordering it.

She already knew the exact time he’d be leaving; knowing this meal was probably the last one Xia Nan would have in Suo Yu Bay.

The expression on Hera’s face looked a bit complicated.

She reached out, pushed the few coins on the counter back to Xia Nan, and smiled:

"This one’s on me. You just sit."

He was a little surprised inside. He didn’t really care about that bit of money, but since she had taken the initiative to show goodwill, and in this way no less, Xia Nan gladly accepted.

He nodded to her with gratitude, then started to chat idly.

By now, it had been more than half a month since Xia Nan returned to Suo Yu Bay from Stodd Island.

Not only had the two commissioned pieces of Equipment been finished, the rest of the spoils had also been handled very efficiently and converted by him into solid Gold Coins.

The income could be divided into three parts.

The first part came from the miscellaneous spoils picked up along the voyage and on Stodd Island that had nothing to do with Fishmen.

These included, but were not limited to, the body materials of the Windkind Octopus aside from its sharp horns, a crate of unprocessed Deep Sea Resonating Stones, and Equipment left behind on the battlefield...

These spoils were too scattered. If he wanted to chase absolute maximum profit by finding buyers one by one and negotiating each piece, he’d probably have to stay in Suo Yu Bay for several months, and the extra income he’d squeeze out wouldn’t be worth the time spent.

So when he returned to Suo Yu Bay, Xia Nan directly entrusted this portion to Lorin—who had been roaming the seas for many years and had a lot of selling channels for spoils—and proactively offered one and a half percent of the final proceeds as payment.

The facts proved that this "Sword of Vengeance," who had made quite a name for herself in the Southern Islands, was indeed reliable.

In less than a week after returning from Stodd Island, she helped Xia Nan dispose of all the spoils.

In total, they sold for 1,075 Gold Coins.

After deducting the one and a half percent commission and rounding off the change, Xia Nan received 913 Gold.

The second part came from the spoils related to Sha Hua Fishmen that were bought up by the Governor Mansion.

His performance on the battlefield had been plain for all to see. In the end he pretty much turned the tide alone, pulling back a situation that was about to collapse.

Including the main Blood Skin Shark Beast and the Fishman Priest Commander, Xia Nan had also killed a large number of Sha Hua Fishman Mages, Commanders, and Elite Guards.

Precisely because of that, the spoils he obtained after the battle were far, far more than anyone else’s.

Even compared to Half-Elf Alton and Captain Lorin, whose contributions were second only to his, the gap was several whole tiers.

A few days ago, once he confirmed that the Forging of his Equipment was almost complete and no more extra materials were needed,

Xia Nan kept to the agreement he had made with the young official Orixi and handed over the corpse of the Blood Skin Shark Beast along with the remaining metal materials from the reforged Blood Stone Anchor to the Governor Mansion for recycling.

Their recycling price really was aligned with the market average; they hadn’t skimmed anything off the top.

That made Xia Nan’s final total from the buyback reach an astonishing figure:

—4,862 Gold, 9 silver, 7 copper!!

To be honest, when he saw that number, Xia Nan himself was somewhat surprised.

Only after carefully reviewing everything afterwards did he start to understand.

He hadn’t felt it during the fighting, but thinking back on it now, the number of Sha Hua Fishmen he personally killed on Stodd Island was downright outrageous.

Just the Fishman Mages alone were close to double digits, and on top of that were many Elite Individuals that were clearly different from ordinary cannon fodder.

Their corpses might not be worth much, but their Equipment was another story.

Especially the casting tools of those Fishman Priests.

Even the most common shell and conch-type Magic Items could fetch a tidy sum, and if they were slightly processed or had Green Good-quality attribute level entries on the attribute panel, they could easily sell for a few hundred Gold Coins.

Then you added the Blood Skin Shark Beast corpse materials and the Blood Stone Anchor—whose core parts had already been used for Forging Equipment, yet whose remaining pieces were still quite valuable.

With all that, this level of income was no longer surprising.