Genshin Impact: Towards Godhood

"Canned knowledge can help you quickly grasp this information. These are fine products from the Akademiya, with quality you can trust."

The small merchant smiled kindly.

Objectively speaking, canned knowledge is indeed a great invention.

With the help of the [Akasha Terminal], people can easily store knowledge and then directly input it into their brains.

"So, what's the cost?" Rama asked.

"There's no real cost, you know. The Akademiya has been using these for years." Dori replied with an earnest answer. "What the Akademiya bans is 'canned knowledge circulating without their permission,' not canned knowledge itself."

The same knowledge, but if approved by the Akademiya, it can be legally traded.

If the Akademiya disapproves, it becomes a banned item.

Dori wasn't lying.

She gave a reasonable but incorrect answer using the fact that the Akademiya itself uses canned knowledge—there's no cost.

After all, if the creators of a technology are willing to use it themselves, others would naturally believe that canned knowledge is harmless.

They use it themselves, don't they?

"I'll pass," Rama shook his head. "Though I'm tempted, canned knowledge is much more expensive than books. I'll just take the books home and study them myself."

No, you never intended to buy canned knowledge in the first place, did you?

Dori blinked, intrigued. "Take them home to study?"

She glanced at the order Rama handed over.

As a merchant, Dori certainly wouldn't carry all her goods with her.

She took pre-orders, and no matter where the customer was, as long as they could pay in Mora, she would deliver the goods to them.

Dori hadn't studied at the Akademiya, but that didn't hinder her understanding of goods.

"Are you a scholar?"

Her gaze briefly paused on Tadhla before turning back to Rama.

In Sumeru, only the Akademiya produced scholars.

But beside Rama was a clear desert dweller who was obviously not one of those subjugated hounds from the "Corps of Thirty."

A desert people scholar?

"Researching some useless things." Rama shook his head.

"No problem, I can get these items, but the price might be a bit high," Dori didn't inquire further.

A customer's secrets are their own business. A merchant only needs the Mora in their pocket, not their secrets.

Of course, if a secret could bring profit, a bit of scheming wasn't out of the question.

But secrets in the desert—besides the Scarlet King's legacy, what other secrets could these desert people have?

Dori was also very interested in the Scarlet King's technology. Because she wanted to uncover the Scarlet King's legacy, she knew more about it.

The Scarlet King's legacy wouldn't protect the Scarlet King's people.

This King of the Scarlet Sands did leave many traces in the vast desert, but He didn't care about His people.

"No problem, just deliver them to the Tanit Tribe. The tribe will pay the bill."

Rama got up and left.

Dori's response made him feel the reality of this world even more.

Clearly, this prominent merchant of Sumeru couldn't be unaware of the cost of canned knowledge.

But she didn't mention it at all because canned knowledge was also her product.

Merchants don't talk about their product's flaws; they just casually cover up some fatal flaws.

When you later want to hold them accountable, they will innocently remind you that they had mentioned it—you just didn't pay attention.

Obviously, Dori was such a merchant.

She would show the merchant's sincerity to someone in the future, but to most people, she was just a businesswoman.

Business people only need to care about the business itself.

After Rama left, Dori stretched.

"Alright, I'll take some time to check out the desert later."

She was a bit curious, though not much. But since there seemed to be a business opportunity, it wouldn't hurt to take a look.

After all, it was on the way.

Dori's caravans traveled to and from the desert; she just needed to join them to see if there was a business opportunity.

On the other side, Rama collected himself.

This was a pleasant surprise.

Objectively, the value of this knowledge was very limited.

Level 3 knowledge and Level 4 elemental power are different.

Fourth-level elemental power is sufficient among mortals, but this world has gods. When gods exist, the levels calculated among mortals are inadequate.

But third-level knowledge actually stands at the upper limit of mortals.

Beyond that, it no longer belongs to human technology but requires blending in some special elements.

The foundation of technology is energy. Rama's cultivated technology tree is Teyvat's most orthodox elemental technology tree.

Because the energy his constructed machinery requires is elemental power.

But elemental power isn't the optimal solution in Teyvat.

This world has shown more peculiar powers, and elemental power is not among the top.

"Is this enough?" Tadhla asked softly.

"It's enough," Rama nodded. "If we really need a breakthrough in a short time, the only way is to enter the Palace of Wisdom."

"Given the current situation, this is sufficient."

Buying books was just a cover.

With his current level of knowledge, gaining inspiration and breakthroughs from books requires either a high volume or masterpieces like Albedo's works.

Just relying on these dozens of smuggled books has limited value.

What Rama valued was another part.

He disassembled the alchemical products sold by Dori with one hand, occasionally frowning.

Dori's rise originated from Alice. One day, she fumbled with a magical lamp in a warehouse and then met Alice.

The specifics are unimportant. It's a typical story of a mother seeing a poor little girl about her daughter's age and feeling pity, then extending a helping hand.

Ordinary people might only offer some food, but Alice wasn't ordinary.

The alchemical products she casually took out were the most popular items on the market.

Then, it just took meeting the right merchant to maximize the product's value.

Dori was that qualified merchant.

It's not that this girl only had luck. If just having items could make one rich, business would be too simple.

She had her own abilities. Encountering an alchemy master like Alice just meant her fortune also arrived, so after years of operation, she became Sumeru's top merchant.

During the disassembly process, Rama's alchemical experience increased.

After a while, he shook his head. "She really was born in the wrong place."

Tadhla was puzzled.

"If it were Liyue, wealth could bring power because Liyue's Qixing are the seven top merchants."

But here in Sumeru.

The power of wealth can only keep silent and stay low-key in the face of the Akademiya.

Because they truly can be unreasonable.

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Chapter End