As everyone knew, running a dungeon was all about the drops, the gear, the materials, and those shiny gold coins that exploded out of the boss. If you came out of it with absolutely no loot, wasn’t that just unpaid community service? Besides, even doing volunteer work usually got you a couple of eggs as compensation, right?0

Now, the run was done, the loot had dropped, and everything had been appraised. Which meant it was time for everyone’s favorite part: splitting the spoils.0

An Ran was a top-tier expert. Even with Ms. Wen’s arrangements and a bit of fan bias, there was no way he’d come to work for free in Ji Jue’s team. What for? Just to get up close and personal with his idol?0

Yeah, right.0

There were plenty of things in this world you could freeload off. You could suck on the sweets that fell into your lap and still spit them, saying they were just average. But there were favors you really shouldn’t owe, the ones that ate at your conscience and ruined your reputation. You might think you could take advantage of a kid who didn’t understand what happened, but did you really think their family and friends wouldn’t see exactly what kind of person you are?0

What Ji Jue brought out was half of the total haul from this hunt.0

In reality, even all of this combined didn’t amount to one-tenth of the total value of the spoils. It was all stuff that could be easily converted into money: materials, precious metals, or simply time-sand crystals.0

In Mercury’s workshop, the only things that could be easily priced, the only things whose value could be clearly calculated, were basically these. Compared to everything else, these were actually the least valuable.0

If you really thought about it, anyone could earn money, but could money buy Fluid Alchemy? Could it buy the blessings treasured by a sage? Could it buy...0