Lilycove City, Lilycove Department Store

Alex sat calmly inside Ivy's office and placed the items he had received from the mutated Flygon onto the table one after another.

The various gemstones reflected the office lights with faint flashes of color, immediately drawing Ivy's attention.

Although Ivy herself was naturally an expert when it came to valuable materials and gemstones, she still retrieved a small professional scanning device from her bag and began carefully examining the first few stones one by one.

Alex quietly watched her work without interrupting.

The machine emitted faint sounds while streams of data appeared on its small screen.

Most ordinary people would not have been able to understand even half of the displayed information.

Ivy studied the results for several moments before casually saying, "Although most gemstones are not particularly valuable nowadays, there are always a few rare exceptions that can still be worth a great deal."

Alex nodded slightly after hearing that explanation.

Since he had already lived in this world for a long time and had become accustomed to its economic structure, he already knew that gemstones such as diamonds, emeralds, and similar materials were generally worth far less here than they had been in his previous world.

Although such stones still possessed considerable value, they were nowhere near as absurdly expensive as they once had been on Earth.

The main reason was obvious.

Pokémon capable of digging through mountains, shaping the earth, or locating underground resources made gemstone acquisition dramatically easier.

Still, truly flawless stones remained rare enough to retain high value.

Ivy continued checking the gemstones one after another while calmly sorting them into separate piles across the table.

Several minutes later, she finally finished her inspection. There were now four neatly organized piles lying in front of Alex.

Ivy first pointed toward the largest pile, which consisted mostly of ordinary gemstones of various colors and qualities.

She said casually. "These are not particularly valuable, They're common enough that they honestly are not worth my time to process individually. You can take those back."

Alex simply nodded without complaint. He had already expected that most of the collection would turn out to be relatively ordinary.

Ivy then pointed toward a much smaller pile composed of dark green crystal-like gemstones.

She explained calmly "These are emeralds, Only a few among them are genuinely high quality, but the better ones are still valuable enough. I'll offer you 1.5 million Poké Dollars for this entire pile."

Without even waiting for Alex's reaction, she immediately pointed toward another group of gemstones.

This pile consisted mostly of light-blue crystal-like stones.

Ivy continued. "These are aquamarines, Most of them are fairly average quality, but one of them is exceptionally well-preserved. I'll give you 1 million for all of them together."

Finally, she pointed toward the last pile.

Unlike the others, these gemstones possessed an almost glass-like perfection that reflected light brilliantly even under the office lighting.

Ivy said while lightly tapping the table beside them, "These, are diamonds."

Her voice became slightly more serious as she continued. "And not ordinary diamonds either. Nearly every single one here is flawless and possesses an extremely high color grade. I honestly don't know where you managed to find stones of this quality, but diamonds this perfect are genuinely rare."

She paused briefly before calmly concluding, "I'll give you 25 million Poké Dollars for this pile alone."

Alex could not help but show a surprised expression after hearing that number.

He truly had not expected the mutated Flygon's collection to contain so many precious gemstones—especially diamonds of such unusually high quality.

He was even more surprised by the total value Ivy had assigned to them.

25 million Poké Dollars was not a life-changing amount for him anymore, Still, he had honestly expected the diamonds to be worth far less than that.

After thinking for a few seconds, Alex smiled faintly and replied, "Alright, I'll sell them to you for that price."

He then added in a relaxed tone, "Honestly, I wouldn't even mind if you offered me slightly less than market value after helping me secure the Dragon Gem so quickly."

A faint smile appeared on his face as he continued, "But I do hope you're not completely taking advantage of me here. I'd rather not discover later that these gemstones were secretly worth several times more."

The indirect warning hidden within those words was obvious.

However, Ivy simply ignored the implied threat entirely. Instead, she calmly answered in an unusually honest tone, "Even though I'll naturally make a good profit from reselling them, I'm not offering you an unfair price."

She leaned back slightly before adding, "I honestly thought we already had enough trust between us that you wouldn't suspect me of trying to scam you."

Alex gave a small amused smile after hearing that response. "It is precisely because of that trust, that I'm not searching for a second buyer to verify your prices and instead came directly to you."

Ivy said nothing further and instead turned her attention toward the four fossils lying on the table. Unlike the gemstones, she handled these fossils with noticeably greater care.

She retrieved a different machine from the corner of her office—a much larger and more sophisticated device clearly designed specifically for fossil verification—and carefully placed the first fossil inside.

The machine emitted several faint mechanical sounds as it began scanning the ancient remains.

Alex quietly watched while Ivy repeated the process for all four fossils one after another.

Several minutes later, the machine finally finished its analysis.

Ivy glanced at the displayed results before turning toward Alex and saying, "These are two Claw Fossils and two Root Fossils. I'll buy all four from you for 45 million Poké Dollars."

Alex was not particularly surprised by the high price.

He already knew that the machine used to revive fossil Pokémon were not especially expensive to operate, especially for major organizations and wealthy trainers.

More importantly, fossil Pokémon revived with this machine often possessed extremely high potential compared to ordinary Pokémon.

Many revived fossil Pokémon were considered almost comparable in value to S-rank Pokémon below the Elite level.

Because of this, fossils themselves were incredibly valuable commodities.

Alex understood their true market value well enough to immediately recognize that Ivy's offer was very fair.

Without hesitation, he nodded in agreement.

Seeing that Alex accepted the price without bargaining, Ivy moved on to the remaining items and began inspecting the various Evolution Stones.

She slowly sorted through the stones one by one before speaking again. "Unfortunately, most of these are low-grade Evolution Stones, Those aren't worth very much."

However, after a short pause, she continued, "Still, you got fairly lucky overall. Among the collection are two Top-Grade Sun Stones and seven High-Grade Evolution Stones."

She briefly looked at Alex before concluding, "I can offer you 15 million for the entire batch."

Alex immediately recognized this as an extremely good price. In fact, it was generous enough that he had no reason whatsoever to negotiate further.

He simply nodded and replied, "Agreed."

After calculating everything together, the final amount Ivy paid him came to 87.5 million Poké Dollars.

Alex mentally reviewed the numbers for a moment.

Normally, a single Dragon Gem was worth roughly 30 to 35 million Poké Dollars on the market.

However, because he had needed the gems urgently—especially the first one, which he required within only a week—he had ultimately agreed to pay a premium price.

The first Dragon Gem alone had cost him 40 million, while the remaining two would cost 35 million each.

In total, he would end up spending 110 million Poké Dollars for all three Dragon Gems.

That meant that, strictly speaking, this entire deal with the mutated Flygon had actually resulted in a financial loss for Alex.

At least, that was true if one only considered the money aspect.

Alex felt a slight sense of disappointment when he thought about the numbers. After all, losing over twenty million Poké Dollars was never something pleasant.

Still, he quickly calmed himself. The true value of this deal had never been the money or the collection itself.

The real reward was the existence of a mutated Level 69 Flygon with Diamond potential that now owed him three favors.

Compared to that, the financial loss was honestly insignificant.

If used properly, those three favors could one day become worth far more than hundreds of millions of Poké Dollars.

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