God of Systems: Maker of Heroes and Villains

Timmy thought for a while before nodding, "Fine, but let's make a deal. You sell this fish only to me and I'll give you five kilograms of any of these for one kilogram of fish."

"Not gonna happen. I don't really need so much fruit of yakka, so it's basically a loss for me. We can just proceed with the trade based on my terms or maybe if you have a better deal, I'll consider it."

Seeing Keith reject his offer once again, Timmy couldn't help but frown. He reconsidered the prices and made another offer, this time taking out a small transparent vial that was filled with transparent liquid.

Keith looked at it, but he couldn't really guess what it was as there were multiple liquids that were transparent.

"Here, this vial contains ten millilitres of a very potent aphrodisiac. It's very valuable, so I'll give this to you for at least three whole fishes." Timmy said, smirking as he knew that there was no way Keith would reject something so tempting.

"I'm sure you'd want to get inside Amelia's pants."

"...." Keith silently stared at him and then frowned as he tried to explain the situation to Timmy, "Listen, this could be very valuable if I was back in the city but right now, we're in a partial survival situation. I have no use for an aphrodisiac sir so in my eyes, it's completely worthless.

Look here, what I need right now is basically food, spices, medicines and things like that. I wouldn't mind receiving certain labor intensive work or anything special that your team can provide. Oh and I have no interest in any kind of sexual services."

At this point, Amelia who was chatting with the others while cooking, walked over to the counter and looked at Timmy, "What do you want? Are you trying to scam him with your usual tricks?"

Timmy scoffed, "I wish. This guy is very stubborn, let me tell you that."

He then clicked his tongue and nodded, "Fine, I'll bring you a sack of yakkas and the fruits each. One sack will weigh 30 kilograms, so I hope that I can get a total of 20 kilograms of fish."

"Sure." Keith said, closing the deal, "Feel free to bring your things while I measure some fish for you."

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It took him a while to settle the trade but once he was done, he began to receive quite a few customers. In just two hours, he received 21 customers and among them, 8 of them got took some fish for free.

Originally, the free time was supposed to be one hour, but after a lot of teams requested for an extension, the higher officials agreed to it and increased the one hour free time to two.

Keith just gave it to their teams when they said that they were desperate for food and to confirm if they were lying or not, he hired one of the teams from medicine church to cross check as the entire team consisted of medical professionals.

He simply offered them 1kg of fish each and they readily agreed to work for him.

The reason for his charity was simple, it was to form connections and even though he gave out food for free, there was a condition attached. They would only get the free meat once and after that, unless they were ready to trade something, they wouldn't receive anything.

During the two hours of free time, his team mates weren't sitting idle. Brandon rented a large stone mortar and used his fists covered with stone to pound the Yakkas to a slightly wet but powdery texture.

Yakkas did not have too much water content inside them. Brandon did not pound every single Yakka root and listened to Keith's advice to only do 3 kilograms.

His team then rented a few large copper trays and spread the powdery yakka paste onto them so that the sun could help them dry out. To accommodate these trays, they had to move the wooden boxes to the ground.

By the time the free time ran out, Keith had received various promises and favours while also managing to form multiple alliances with quite a lot of teams.

Satisfied with the outcome, went to look at the things he had managed to hoard thanks to the trades.

First was the 30 kilo of fruits and 30 kilos of yakka root that was given to him by Timmy. Then there was the healer's team whom he had met the previous day. They brought him a decent sized bucket of a dark greenish paste that smelled slightly minty and based on their words, applying it on the surface of the body helped with muscle recovery and also open wounds.

Apart from that, there were things like bows, multiple arrows, eggs, mushrooms, coconuts, fruits, berries and one team traded deer meat too. He also managed to acquire a large clay pot and a small bowl filled with hardened animal fat.

He still had almost 18 fishes left, and since the ice had barely melted, he thought of letting them stay where they were and continue selling them tomorrow, but then he remembered that he needed to rent a grand piano.

With a sigh, he walked over to the church staff who were in charge of the trade market and requested for one.

Luckily, just renting a piano for a week wasn't too pricey and "only" required 210 kilos of fish meat, which was equivalent to almost 7 fishes. Keith traded all of his 18 fishes and in return, he was allowed to keep the grand piano for a week and also received slightly more than 115 kilos of salt.

The staff dragged 6 sacks filled with salt and placed them beside his stall which was technically sold out now. Keith waited until evening before returning all the tables and trays.

All the traded items were neatly packed by the time his team walked back to him.

"Let's go back to the camp for now and then I'll show you guys everything I managed to get."