Chapter 83
Author: Tyqun Nla
last update2025-01-11 01:20:48

"Huh? The black opal?!"

"One of the rarest stones in the world?!"

The onlookers continued to comment. This made Austin feel happy and satisfied. The intense shock on the onlookers' faces was everything to him.

In a flash, the news circulated in the market, and the chubby man's shop became crowded. His fellow shopkeepers also left their trades to join him.

The black opal was the rare stone the whole market had been longing to find. Now that they had heard news about it, none of them could afford to miss it.

This time, the chubby shopkeeper felt disappointed in Austin. When he knows he had such a valuable stone for sale and wanted him to make a fortune from it, a low-key transaction would have been better.

Given that the chubby shopkeeper also knew that Austin barely have knowledge about gemstones, it would have been a great opportunity for him to trick Austin and buy the stone at a lower price.

Now that he had disclosed it publicly, it would be more of a bidding war. Austin was known f
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