I Became Able To Earn 100,000 Gold Every Day

After defeating the Gray Ghost, we left the dungeon and headed to the Adventurers’ Guild.

My mood felt detached from reality.

100,000 gold?

For this worthless-looking stone?

Speaking of 100,000 gold, that was the salary one could earn in a month by working part-time as a shop clerk.

That much money, in such a short time?

“……Is it true, Misha?”

“It’s true. Let’s hurry to the Adventurers’ Guild!”

At the Adventurers’ Guild’s buying and selling counter, I placed the Alchemy Stone down in addition to the magic stones I had obtained.

“I’d like you to buy these.”

“Yes, certainly!”

The woman at the counter held the equipment she had on hand over the items. Rhythmic beeping sounds rang out. There was a black cutout on the back of the equipment, and it seemed the appraisal results were displayed there.

“A magic stone, at this size, is 800 gold. This one is also 800 gold, and this one is 1,150 gold…… Oh, this is—huh, eeeh, eeeeeeeeeeeh!?”

The woman at the counter pressed a button on the equipment, then pointed the equipment at the Alchemy Stone again.

And then—

“Eeeeeeeeeeeh!? It really is an Alchemy Stone!?”

The woman at the counter spoke to me.

“Um, this…… where did you get it!?”

“Uh, in the dungeon, after defeating a Gray Ghost—”

“Whoa, mister, you’re lucky!”

After saying that, the woman announced the purchase amount.

“We will purchase this one for 100,000 gold!”

……To think it really became 100,000 gold.

What I earned was 102,750 gold. Including the goblin and orc’s pocket change, it was +12 gold.

As a single earning, it was by far the best result I had ever had.

It did not feel real.

However, the money I had deposited with the Adventurers’ Guild had certainly jumped from 270,000 to 320,000. It was half of 100,000, but the other half was Misha’s share. Purchase amounts were divided equally by the guild and deposited into each party member’s account.

After leaving the Adventurers’ Guild, we headed to a somewhat expensive restaurant to celebrate this brilliant new beginning.

We raised our beers and shouted to each other.

“Cheers!”

Incidentally, drinking alcohol was permitted for those sixteen or older, as long as they were not students.

It would cost about 10,000 gold for the two of us, but—just for today, it should be fine.

“Nice, nice!”

Misha happily gulped down her beer. She drank it down with considerable force and shouted to the server.

“Another!”

While smacking my lips over the food that came out, I asked Misha.

“What exactly is an Alchemy Stone?”

“……That’s an item used in research institutions. There isn’t that much demand, but the supply is extremely, extremely, extremely, extremely low…… so the price has skyrocketed.”

“I see.”

“I happened to know about Alchemy Stones from my academy days. That’s why it clicked today!”

“If this was how it was going to be, I should’ve hunted Gray Ghosts more often before……”

Back in my previous party days, since the income from defeating Gray Ghosts was bad, we ignored them unless they attacked us.

At that time, Schrödinger’s Cat had not awakened, so it would have depended purely on luck, but if it had dropped, it would have become a huge income.

“Misha, you should’ve told me before.”

“……Hmm…… Basically, they don’t drop.”

“They don’t drop that much?”

“Yeah. I mean, if Gray Ghosts dropped them all over the place, considering how easy they are to defeat, it wouldn’t be strange for them to circulate more, right?”

“That’s true.”

“The appearance rate is in-cre-di-bly low. Honestly, expecting it to drop is stupid. It’s like winning the lottery.”

When I heard that, something clicked for me.

“……Hm? Hard to drop? Come to think of it, I think there was an S beside Alchemy Stone……”

“Ah, the thing you mentioned with D and E?”

“Yeah. The Alchemy Stone was S.”

“……Isn’t that the appearance rate?”

“Appearance rate?”

“In other words, the Alchemy Stone is an S-rank rare item.”

“……So that’s what it means……”

“That’s seriously broken.”

“Huh?”

“Schrödinger’s Cat. It’s ridiculous.”

“It just lets me choose dropped items, right?”

“It’s crazy that you can make an S-rank rare item that almost never appears show up daily.”

“Is it?”

At my simple question, Misha nodded.

“Listen, how much annual income do you think it would be if you obtained an Alchemy Stone every day?”

“Huh, annual income?”

“One year is 365 days. 100,000 gold every day. How much?”

365 days times 100,000 gold was?

……

“36.5 million gold!?”

I shouted without thinking.

Misha nodded.

“If you regularly supply them, I think the price will go down, but even then, around 20 million should be solid.”

“Even splitting it with Misha, that’s over 10 million……”

“10 million is about the annual income of a manager at a major trading company, you know?”

……!

At the outrageous amount, I almost felt dizzy.

“……Actually, I don’t need to be here, so you could dissolve the party and take it all for yourself too.”

“No…… I wouldn’t do that. If you weren’t here, Misha, I wouldn’t have realized this way to earn money.”

“Thank you. Well, don’t get too worked up over it.”

Misha laughed softly, then continued.

“So, there’s something I want to ask.”

She set her knife and fork down with a clink and stared at me seriously.

“Ios, do you want to keep being an adventurer?”

“……Huh?”

I was surprised by the unexpected question.

Misha continued.

“I mean, with this ability, if you do it alone, your annual income would be 20 million. Honestly, you could live a pretty rich life. Wouldn’t it be fine not to be an adventurer?”

Misha grinned.

“You made it, huh? A winner!”

A winner, huh……

To think the day would come when I, who had been expelled from a party and left at a loss just a short while ago, would be called that.

You never knew what would happen in life……

An easy job of diving into the first floor of the dungeon and hunting one Gray Ghost every day……

It was not bad.

It was not bad, but—

“I still want to be an adventurer.”

I said that.

There was no doubt that I had established a foundation for my livelihood. I no longer needed to worry about my day-to-day life.

But I did not want to stop there.

Once I no longer needed to worry, I wanted to go even further. One step forward. I wanted to walk for the sake of my dream.

I was still too young to give up on my dream.

“……It was what I admired since childhood. Becoming an adventurer whose name was known throughout the world. I want to think of today as something that brought me closer to that.”

I absolutely refused to be pulled farther away!

After hearing those words, Misha—

“Excellent!”

With her face flushed from alcohol, she acknowledged my choice with just that one word.

“That’s it, that’s it! You know, I came with you because I thought I could dream a fun dream with you! I’m glad! Glad that you’re not the kind of man who’d be satisfied here! Let’s go, let’s go, far ahead! Our lives are still long and full of brilliance!”

As if swept up by a fever, we talked about what was to come until late at night.

Enthusiasm.

Exaltation.

Excitement.

Only those three words colored our emotions and words.

Everything was going to begin from here.