Since the price of a pair of soap and shampoo was 1 gold coin, and the costs of all the ingredients to create those pair of items only cost around 500 bronze coins, the profit he got from selling a pair of them was around 999,500 bronze coins!
It was insane to think about. That was the profit from just a pair of soap and shampoo!
All the crates Castelle delivered each contained about a hundred pairs, this meant that each box gave about 100 gold coins!
In total, Michael was now looking at a thousand gold coins all spread around in his bedroom.
Hey ChatJK1, if you were to convert all these gold coins into the U.S. Dollar, how much would it be?
[The value of the gold coins in your possession varies greatly due to the difference in purity as well as the condition of each coin. Since you have a thousand gold coins, each with a different purity, the money in your possession is roughly worth around 10,000 USD.]
Michael took a deep breath. That kind of money was considered very rich in third-world countries.
And since it took about a week to create all the soap and shampoo they sold yesterday, that would mean that Michael could earn about 40,000 USD worth of gold coins every month. And if he did it for a year, that would net him just shy of half a million dollars!
Back in his previous world, a monthly salary of 10,000 dollars would have been enough to live relatively comfortably. But if he earned 40,000 dollars a month, he would join the elite class of the top 1% of people in first-world countries like America.
Earning this much felt like cheating. All the work was being done by the maids and the butlers, while he just stayed around the mansion without doing anything.
I guess I’ll store this money for now.
Michael wasn’t short on funds for now. If he wanted to buy something he didn’t want his parents to know, then he could be assured that he could buy it for himself.
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A few more days passed and Castella came running into Michael’s door with the biggest smile on her face.
“Young master! Young master!”
Michael opened the door and rubbed his eyes. The morning bell from the clock hadn’t even rung yet, but Castelle looked like she had been up for hours already.
“What is it?”
“The soap and shampoo is becoming very popular, young master! All the gossip I’ve heard from the other maids in town is all about the Reborn soap and shampoo!”
“That’s good,” Michael said as he yawned and stretched his body.
It was probably because he was born into the richest family in the world, but Michael wasn’t really that excited about the prospect of earning more money. Having a thousand gold coins seemed sufficient enough.
After all, the things he wanted to buy hadn’t been invented yet. He was the one who had to create them, so he didn’t want to buy anything from the markets in this world.
Wait…why am I thinking that this world is just a medieval world? I completely forgot. This is a world of magic too!
“I have something I want. Can you buy it for me in secret?” Michael whispered.
Castelle picked up on Michael’s clues and entered his bedroom for a private conversation.
“Is there anything specific you want, young master?”
Michael nodded. “First of all, I can trust you, right?’
Castelle nodded and bumped her first on her chest.
“Of course, young master!” she said, a little bit offended that he didn’t think she was completely loyal to him at this point.
He cleared his throat and summoned the fire from the tip of his finger. This was one of the very first spells he learned the 1-star [Ember].
“I can use magic,” he said.
“Fire?! Young master, you are adept with the fire element as well?”
Castella was not surprised that Michael could use magic. She was surprised that he could cast a spell other than the Earth element.
“Is there something wrong with that?” he asked, completely oblivious.
“Young master, having mastery of dual elements is considered to be very rare!”
Michael looked at Castelle, trying to see if she was serious. He thought it wasn’t anything special. After all, a fire spell wasn’t the only thing he could use.
He raised his hand and summoned fire on the tip of his finger, a small rock on the other, and a blob of water on the next. Then a gust of wind rotated the three elements into constant movement around his hand, with enough mastery to weave them around his fingers.
Castelle nearly tumbled backward once she saw this.
“Four…four elements…that’s supposed to be impossible, young master! I can’t even call you a genius anymore!”
“So, this is not normal?”
“OF COURSE, IT’S NOT!” Castelle screamed.
“Huh..”
Michael learned to be a little more careful with showing his quadruple mastery over the elements.
“I think it’s best if you only show your mastery over the Earth element for now, young master. At least that can be explained by you inheriting your mother’s talent.”
Castelle made a very good suggestion.
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A few minutes later, Castelle finally calmed down after Michael fetched her a cup of water.
“That was a shock, young master.”
“Sorry about that.”
She took a gulp and turned to him. “By the way, what was it that you wanted me to buy?”
Michael gave her the pouch containing one thousand gold coins. “I want you to buy any book that describes magic, mana, and spells. Specifically, I want things that can teach me how to cast other spells.”
Castelle took another big gulp of water. “Books…do you mean magic scrolls, young master?”
“What is that?”
“A magic scroll is something that mages use to learn different spells. Most of them can be bought in the local wizard tower.”