The blood essence trade was, at its heart, a business of low-cost materials. The real expenses were in logistics: storage, transport, extraction, and salaries. As for the raw goods, anyone with access to the Myriad Realms Battlefield could purchase hundreds of Profound Vigor corpses from the army for a mere hundred thousand Coins. On the battlefield, such bodies were less than nothing. It wasn't as if the soldiers would eat them, and even if
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