The slave market would be open for two days and elves would only be exhibited on the first day. On the second day, the focus would be on monsters that had already been tamed by the natives or young trainable monsters.

Because they were a rare race that fetched a high price, there was a separate area where the elves could be bought and sold.

Eugene had no shortage of funds. Even at their lowest prices, he could get at least a billion sals from selling the jewels that he had managed to rip off from the Emir of Kajitan, and apart from that, before entering the forest, he had sold a portion of the jewels for about five hundred million sals.

According to Lavera, the basic price of the elves that were sold during this market was about three hundred million sals. Though the price varied depending on gender, appearance, and physical condition, most elves could still be purchased by going up to five hundred million sals.

Usually, there were at most two elves exhibited each time this market was held. This meant that with the money that Eugene had on him, he should be able to snap up all the elves.

‘It’s even cheaper than I thought’ was Eugene’s first thought upon hearing the price of an elf from Lavera.

But in hindsight, it wasn’t really all that good a deal. The elves who returned to Samar usually had a few flaws.

In the case of Narissa, one of her legs had been amputated, while Lavera had lost an eye. If an elf were able to escape slavery and travel to this distant forest, they were bound to have gone through many hardships along the way, and in the process it was also likely for them to have received irrecoverable wounds.

These wounds weren’t necessarily physical wounds either. Even elves were helpless in the face of mental illnesses. PTSD in particular was one of the chronic diseases most common among elves who had experienced slavery.

To sum up, their limbs weren’t always intact, their virginity wasn't guaranteed, they weren’t necessarily young, and even their minds might not be sound. Not only that, the chance of them being afflicted with the Demonic Disease was not zero, so it was actually surprising that elves still went for at least three hundred million sals.

‘That’s about the same price as a pair of giant’s testicles,’ Eugene recalled...