NEGOTIATION IN SEARCH

Steven was so shocked that he almost dropped his phone, only recovering when he heard, "Mr. Wright, are you still there?", to which he hastily replied, "Yes, here I am."

"Mr. Wright, we would like to make an appointment with you to discuss the matter, when would be appropriate?" Eliana said with a melodious voice to which Steven replied, "How about tomorrow morning?", "No problem then tomorrow at 9:00 am, are you okay?" Eliana asked again, confirming the information.

After finishing the call, Steven lay back on the sofa, only now noticing the adrenaline that comes with a phone call like this, he felt his heart pounding in his throat and for some reason he was breathing hard.

His reaction was not strange, until a few months ago he was a normal and unknown young man and now he was receiving a call from a multi-million dollar company of great worldwide recognition to discuss one of his creations.

Search is the company that owns the web search engine of the same name. This web search engine is the most used in the world with a wide advantage over its competitors, therefore, this company is an internet giant, not to mention the wide variety of products and services that they have created around its flagship product.

In a few words, it is the Google of this world, for this reason Steven is still stunned by how unreal what was happening seemed, he could only thank the system for giving him this opportunity and when he did this, a screen appeared in front of him, [Notification: You have accomplished a mission].

Steven jumped on the spot when he saw the notification and in a hurry almost shouting said, "System open notification", then a new screen opened, [Congratulations on the hidden mission "Impact the world with a creation" was accomplished, and the reward of 10,000 was received. points]

When the young man saw the message, he could only scream with euphoria and began to jump all over the apartment, because not only did he have a great chance to earn a lot of money selling his app, but he had also earned a large number of points in the system.

Without delay, he opened his status and went directly to the store. Instantly a huge list of skills appeared, too many to count. The abilities also had very strange names, things like Ice Magic-Grey Fullbuster, Tony Stark's Brainpower and Knowledge, and Harry Potter's Magical Ability and Expertise, among many other abilities.

"Who the hell are these guys?" Steven couldn't help but ask, he was just sure that those people didn't exist. Things like magic and superpowers are not strange in this world, there are countless people out there playing heroes and villains.

If it were to be put in simple terms, this world is similar to that of Marvel and DC, only they were neither, there were similarities in the fact of the heroes, villains, powers, and magic, but characters like Superman, Captain America, and the like did not exist, although some people with similar powers are not strangers.

Steven continued reviewing the skills on the list, this screen, apparently a virtual store, filters could be applied and quickly filtered the skills that cost less than 10,000 points, surprisingly there were none, the cheapest skill on the list was "Management of sword" and cost 20,000 points.

Seeing this, he could only frown and smile wryly. He was happy and jumping around the room upon receiving 10,000 points for completing the quest and now he was bitter, because the cheapest skill in the entire system costs twice as many points as he had.

With a resigned sigh, Steven closed the system screen, his depression evident, but he soon shook off all the pessimism and began planning tomorrow's meeting.

He knew that the so-called "Talk" was nothing more than a negotiation for his app, so he had to be prepared. Steven is not a businessman, but after doing a lot of research he figured out that if he managed to sell his app for 3 or 4 million credits, he would have won.

The next morning Steven got up early, took a shower, and got ready for his important appointment. "Damn, I totally forgot I don't have clothes for situations like this", he could only curse to himself seeing that his wardrobe only had jeans and casual t-shirts.

With no other option, he took a pair of black jeans, a white T-shirt, and a black blazer trying to look casual, but elegant. He quickly left his residence and marched downtown to Search's administrative headquarters.

It was an 80-story building full of windows. After several calming breaths, Steven walked inside, approached the front desk, and announced his purpose. Apparently, the receptionists had been warned, because when they heard Steven they quickly picked up the phone and a few minutes later a beautiful lady of about 30 years old in elegant and discreet clothes appeared.

"Nice to meet you Mr. Wright, we spoke on the phone yesterday, remember me?" the beautiful lady expressed with a mesmerizing smile as she extended her hand. Steven took the lady's hand a bit nervously, as she said, "Of course I remember Miss Brown."

The lady smiled at Steven's nervousness, she thought it was cute, but she wasn't distracted for long and invited him up. Upon reaching the top floor, Eliana guided Steven to a meeting room where 3 men were.

"Mr. Castillo, Mr. Wright is here," Eliana said, announcing her arrival. The 3 men stood up, but only the one in the middle approached Steven to greet him, "A pleasure to meet you Mr. Wright, I must say that he is younger than he thought."

"The pleasure is mine," answered Steven a little nervous. Just looking at him, Dabi Castillo, current CEO of Search, put on a sly look. He was a man of experience, the gray hair on his head was not just from old age, but from countless battles, and at this moment his whole being told him that he would win big in this negotiation, since Steven seemed inexperienced. and nervous.

Dabi introduced the other two men who were lawyers for the company and were only witnesses. Dabi started the conversation with some formal praise to break the ice for the negotiation, which he thought would be fairly straightforward, but what he didn't know was that his small talk allowed Steven to calm down and think rationally about how to approach the negotiation.

Dabi had missed his opportunity, but he did not know it, so he went into CEO mode, "Mr. Wright, I think it will be clear that our invitation is with the objective of collaborating with you." Steven instantly understood that the negotiation had started and with a serious expression he said, "Mr. Castillo, I am aware of that, I am a simple person and like to get to the point, so I appreciate being direct."

That was the strategy Steven had thought of, to be direct and concise, which surprised Dabi, but it was only for a moment, after regaining his composure he said again, "Then I will be direct Mr. Wright, Search wants to buy your Traveler app".

Dabi was direct, his low and deep voice conveyed the seriousness of the matter, he also tried to intimidate Steven a bit, but he failed, the latter was already calm and full of confidence, so he replied, "I will also be direct, how much are you offering? ?".

Mr. Castle was caught off guard again, usually trying to increase the price, the owners of these apps show feigned reluctance, but Steven didn't even try, just asked the amount, as if he didn't care about the negotiation.

"Search is willing to pay 2 million credit for 100% of their application," Dabi said, wanting to see Steven's reaction to the low price offered. The pertinent meetings had been held within Search and a maximum of 8 million had been set to buy Steven's app, but it offered little to test the youngster in front of him.

"Mr. Castillo, I'll be honest, I'm not a businessman, so these push and pulls are a waste of time in my opinion, so I'll put it bluntly, give me 5 million after-tax credits and I'll sign the contract for you." Traveler sales right now," Steven replied grimly, surprising Dabi for the third time since the negotiation began.

The room was silent for a moment, although Steven had raised the price to almost triple what was offered, it was still in the optimal range for Dabi, but as a good businessman he wanted to earn more and when he was about to say his counter offer he heard, " I hope you accept, because I will offer that same condition to your competition".

The comment stopped Dabi quickly, he looked at Steven who had a carefree look, and understood, Steven was not interested in earning more, he decided on a price that he knew he could get and waited for the first one to offer it to him and since he did not want this app to fall into hands of his competition, he stood up and offered his hand to Steven as a token of acceptance of the deal.

The procedure was fast, the lawyers present made the contract that was signed immediately and within 5 minutes the money was in Steven's account. He then handed Dabi a hard drive where all of his application program was.

Everything was checked by the Search technicians and when everything was verified Steven left the building. After walking a few blocks, he began to jump for joy, drawing the attention of people who considered him crazy, but he didn't care, he was happy.

When he was on the ninth cloud of joy, the system surprised him again, as a screen appeared in front of him, [Notification: You have completed a mission]. Steven's eyes widened in surprise and when he was about to check how many points he had gotten, a loud noise was heard and the flames of an explosion could be seen in the distance.

In a short time, the figures of 5 subjects in medieval armor could be seen dodging several spheres thrown by a man in a glider. The contact spheres exploded, chaos appeared and everyone ran for their lives.

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