Chapter 239: Riven’s Plan To Flood The Market With High Quality, Cheap Products

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Riven walked outside with Natalie, and together they quickly fed her battered friends — who were still covered in wounds, bruises, and swollen faces — with several of Label’s lowest-grade potions. Natalie also took the opportunity to carefully test a few of the potions produced by her own family for direct comparison.

The results were nothing short of incredible. Natalie was left completely speechless as she watched Label’s potions work almost instantly. The effects were nearly elixir-like: the liquid rejuvenated and revitalized the damaged areas the moment it touched skin. When the injured hunters drank the potions outright, it felt like consuming a high-powered energy drink that flooded their bodies with fresh vitality and strength.

"Wooah! What is this?!" Philip exclaimed, flexing his arms as the pain disappeared. "I feel completely fine again!"

"That potion... was that actually an elixir?!" Clair wondered aloud, staring at her now-unblemished arms in disbelief.

"N-No..." Natalie shook her head slowly, the truth settling heavily over her. She realized with growing shock that the potions her own family produced could not even compare to twenty percent of the effectiveness of Label’s lowest-grade formula. "These are just Label’s Lowest Grade Potions."

"HUH?!"

The product was so astonishingly effective that none of them could fully believe what they were seeing as their injuries vanished and their energy returned in full.

"Oh, so they’re healed again already? Nice," Kagehisa said with a sharp grin. "We can do some more combat training then, right up until dinner is ready. How about that?!"

"W-Wait!" Philip called out desperately, looking toward Natalie for rescue. "Natalie, tell them we should take a proper break!"

Natalie was not even paying attention to the complaints. Her eyes sparkled with pure awe as she stared at the remaining potion in her hands, then at Label, and finally at Riven.

This was it.

This was the exact opportunity she had been waiting for — the moment when she could finally prove to her father that she was capable of doing something meaningful for their family.

"Our plan is for you to provide every resource we ask of you," Riven explained calmly. "And with Label we will mass-produce as many potions as required. We’ll sell them on the open market for an even cheaper price than Claymore Labs."

"Cheaper?!" Natalie asked, her voice rising in surprise. "But how much cheaper do you intend these amazing potions to be? Wouldn’t it make more sense to sell them for a higher price and maximize profit?"

"The entire plan is to completely steal the market away from Claymore Labs," Riven answered without hesitation. "To achieve that, we will also create truly affordable medicine and potions that ordinary people can buy. The point is that even the poorest person alive should be able to purchase a couple of bottles when they enter a Dungeon. These potions have to be made for everyone, not just the wealthy."

"For something like that to remain profitable, we would need to use the cheapest ingredients available on the market and perhaps replace some of the more expensive components with artificially produced substitutes..." Natalie sighed, already calculating the difficulties. "But I really don’t want to rely on Mana Crystals if we can avoid it, especially because we often don’t know where they come from. They might originate from a dungeon, or... even from people who crystallized. That could bring along very dangerous side effects. I’m not sure if it’s possible to find a safe compromise and—"

"It’s fine!" Label interrupted with a confident nod. "The lowest-grade materials are more than enough for me. They can even be a little stale and I won’t mind. Mana Crystals would be nice, but if there’s any chance they came from people, it’s better to avoid them purely for ethical reasons. I can produce potions that are only about thirty percent weaker than the ones you just gave your friends while using even fewer ingredients. All I need is one gram of magic core dust and a few pieces of mana grass."

"T-That’s it?!" Natalie asked in disbelief. "There’s no way you can make a proper potion from just that. You’d need to extract the paste from the mana grass first, then carefully add the dust, and—"

"With my Cauldron, Chemy, and my Alchemy Grimoire, I can skip most of those traditional steps," Label said with a bright smile. "I’ll supply the rest of the necessary energy with my own Magic instead."

"?!" Natalie was left completely speechless for several seconds. "R-Really? Is that actually possible?"

Label nodded firmly. "Leave it to me! I also want to work on something honest for once. If we can produce cheap and affordable potions for the entire population, wouldn’t that solve so many problems at once?!"

"Okay, but how fast can you realistically mass-produce them?" Natalie pressed, still struggling to believe what she was hearing. "There’s no way you can make enough to meet the massive demand that such a cheap and effective product will create. We’ll eventually run out of stock, and scalpers will buy everything from us just to resell the bottles at much higher prices...!"

"That doesn’t matter," Riven said with quiet certainty. "Because scalpers will never get the chance to make their resold potions relevant. We’ll sell everything directly through the Hunter Market, and there will always be continuous stock available."

Label nodded in agreement. "With my current abilities, I believe I can produce around ten thousand bottles per hour."

"...PER HOUR?!" Natalie screamed, stumbling backward until she collapsed onto a nearby couch in pure disbelief. Her mouth hung open as if her soul itself had briefly left her body. "T-That’s... how...? How is that even possible?! You have to be lying!"

"Wanna see the magic for yourself?" Riven asked with a small smile. "Come with me."

Without another word he opened a swirling portal that led directly into his private Spirit Dungeon Realm. Natalie stared at the opening in growing confusion.

"H-Huh? W-What’s this place? Eh? Huuuuuh?!"

"Come along. I’ll explain everything on the way," Riven said calmly, gesturing for her to follow.

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