“Do it. What are you waiting for?”
Lin Yun said while smiling, but the magic fluctuations around him told everyone that If Mason dared to do anything, then the young mage wouldn’t be polite to him.
“Merlin, You came.”
After seeing Lin Yun, Mason didn’t dare do anything to the old butler.
“I came with some friends to help boost the golden rose business, but I didn’t expect you to be selling fake goods here. One of my friends suffered some problems after drinking your potion, I demand a compensation for him.”
“I know that the dragon eye is a precious gem, but you don’t need to shove it into my face.”
The first thing Lin Yun did after arriving at the scene, was lowering Mason’s raised wand then asking :
“What potion did you friend consume?”
“It was a vitality potion.”
Mason answered without hesitation, because he asked before coming here. Vitality potion was a highly rated elixir and the alchemists that could prepare it in thousand sails city could be counted on one hand and a small shop like golden rose couldn’t afford to hire any of them.
Besides, this vial of potion was dark red which indicated that it was a failed product.
“See for yourself. After drinking your potion, his injuries which had already begun to heal reopened and began to bleed again.”
Mason said as he pointed towards a stretcher.
Lying on the stretcher, was a young man about 25 or 26 years old. His right arm was injured and from the blood around the wound, it seemed really that it began to heal then the wound was reopened again.
“I know that you don’t have money right now. You couldn’t even pay your uncle's debt. But if you don’t have money, why didn’t you say so? I could have asked my father to help you out for the sake of our friendship. As for the fake potion….”
Mason’s face looked sad and sympathizing, but his heart was cold.
‘You humiliated me in the tower of sages. Now, I’ll destroy your shop and humiliate you in public.’
'This daddy spent a fortune to hire this impostor, and had the old man help me fake his injury and I have already dumped half of the bottle in the toilet. So, what if your potion really works. Now, no one will question this irrefutable evidence. What I am thinking, the alchemists at the twin moons had already assured me that it’s really a fake.’
“So, what do you want?”
“I don’t want anything. But my friend here suffered a lot. In my opinion, Firstly, the golden rose should compensate him with 10,000 GC to show your sincerity. Secondly, you should apologize to him in public and acknowledge that your potion was fake and promise not to do it again.”
Mason felt that these conditions were harsh enough. The whole city knew that the Goldshire chamber of commerce had gone bankrupt and that Rogge’s son couldn’t pay the debt of 8000 GC, so how could he afford to pay 10,000 GC. And the public apology and the acknowledgement that they’re selling fake potions would destroy Mafa’s reputation in thousand sails city, and any attempt of a comeback would be a pipe dream.
Mason expected Lin Yun to haggle, but he didn’t mind. As long he agree to the second condition, then money was no problem. The most important thing was to destroy the kid’s future.
“Yes, our shop is an honest business. If there is a problem with our vitality potion, then we will issue an apology and a compensation to the aggrieved party.”
“Huh?”
Mason was caught of guard.
‘I prepared a long speech, why did this kid agree so easily? Forget it. At least I will save my breath.’
“In that case, you better hurry with the apology and compensation, I have other things to do.”
“It seems that Mage Mason didn’t understand what I just said. What I said was that IF there was a problem with the vitality potion.”
“What do you mean?”
“It seems really you don’t understand”
Lin Yun shook his head with a trace of pity, then tried to explain it to Mason with a simple sentences on the level of elementary school kids.
“Say that the potion was fake then I will compensate your friend, but if there was no problem with the potion, what will Mage Mason do? ”
“No problem?”
Mason looked at the half empty bottle, and its dark red color strengthened his resolve.
“If there is no problem with the potion, I will eat this bottle.”
“In that case...”
Lin Yun nodded and pointed at one of the employees.
“You, come over here please.”
“What?”
The employee was a young man in his twenties with a slight fluctuations of mana around him. He was most likely an apprentice with no background. Learning magic is extremely costly. Mafa and Mason had the support of their families but most apprentices would have to find jobs to support their studies.
“What’s your name?”
“It’s Remy, Boss.”
“Well, Remy, If you want to increase your monthly salary by a 100 GC then roll up your sleeves.”
“Huh?”
Remy’s mind was in a mess. His original salary was 100 GC, now he can double it by just rolling up his sleeves.
While he was thinking about it, he suddenly felt pain on his right arm.
“Ahhhh...”
Remy’s held his breath and looked down to see that the boss had used a knife to cut a deep wound on his arm.
‘Damn it. I knew that this offer was too good to be true.’
“Now, Let’s test the vitality potion”
Lin Yun said as he handed Remy the half empty bottle.
“Don’t stand like that. Hurry up and drink it. I have things to do.”