CH.164 Putting in an Order
“I think we should use this in the future as well.” Agatha comnted as we were getting out of Gradius. We were about a kiloter away from the city walls and the flight here took only six minutes. And I could have gotten us here faster, if Agatha wasn’t looking at the scenery so much. I felt like I shouldn’t accelerate any more, so as to not steal that from her.
“Sure. It is a sha that we don’t have a spot to land next to your house, but we can just take Overdrive from here.” I said as I traded Gradius for Overdrive. I might not use them much in battle, but for transport, machine type monsters are amazing. And I might even use them in battle when I open the sets The Lost Millennium and Cybernetic Revolution. They should be coming up next. They were the first sets of the GX era. Even if Flaming Eternity was released after Yugioh GX began airing. Yugioh GX began airing (in japan) on October 6, 2004 and Flaming Eternity (OCG) ca out on November 25, 2004.
We got inside the city with zero problems, thanks to a certain mithril dal. They only checked who were inside Overdrive and checked our citizen cards. Well, in both of our cases, it was our adventurer’s guild cards. No checking the luggage or anything.
I drove us back to Agatha’s place and we both got out. I then unsummoned Overdrive, as I don’t need it at the mont. And I do have a second one, ready to go.
But I actually have a shop I want to visit before going back to the earl’s mansion.
“Agatha, do you need to do anything in these two days?” I asked before leaving.
“No. Just et in the morning, around the sa ti as you did yesterday. I’ll prepare everything for the process by then.” Agatha said. “Actually, there is one thing. You might want to get in contact with a slave trader. You will need a professional to mark Ria as a slave.”
“Oh. Yeah. I’ll make sure to do that. Anything else? I can go get more blood if you need that.” I offered.
“No. I have it covered. I have two different adventuring parties getting blood and while one of them is currently taking a break to recover, the other is just fine.” Agatha explained. “But I would appreciate it if you could take the position of the recovering party until they are ready to go.”
“Sure. I can do that. Just tell when you need the blood and give the barrels.”
“Well, I’ll tell you about it when we next et in two days.” Agatha said. “I’ll need the ones we brought back for the other party.”
“I see. Well, I’ll see you in two days then.” I said as I left the house.
“Yes. See you. And thank you.” Agatha said as she waved with her left hand.
(Laura. We need to do an experint on regrowing a limb. Or replacing one with an Exodia part. Can we perform an experint like that in the DDF?)
(We should be able to. I can test a few options at night.)
(Thanks. Let’s hope we can do sothing. I don’t think missing an arm slows Agatha down, but I do feel bad for her. And she could be a good test subject.)
(I thought you didn’t want to do human experintation.)
(I don’t. That is why we experint in the factory first and only then test it out here. And I’ll accept a human test subject if they gain sothing great from it, like getting their limb back.)
(I see. Then perhaps I can try so more extre asures.) Laura said, sounding a bit like an evil doctor. Or a mad scientist. (I’m not mad. You are the one that wanted to place a human inside the Cocoon of Evolution.) Laura reminded . And of course I forgot that she can read my thoughts while we are not in the factory.
(Well, I guess we can both be mad scientists. There are enough cards that we can both have our own experints. And turning soone into a butterfly girl does sound sowhat intriguing.)
The walk from Agatha’s residence to the armor shop wasn’t too long. That is why I decided I didn’t need Overdrive for it. And Overdrive does get plenty of looks, so walking is more natural. Sure so people turn to look at my clothing, but that is normal enough. Most wear cloth or leather pants, so the denim jeans weren’t the most normal thing. And even my hoodie probably screams high quality. At least as long as I stay off of the side streets, I shouldn’t be robbed. And as I had reset a Threatening Roar onto myself, if soone tried to attack , they would get a manticore scream to the face.
I walked into the store and got greeted by the sa dwarf lady that was here last ti.
“Hello Mister. Have you made a decision on what you would like?” She asked.
“Yes. Well, kind of. I got sothing interesting as a gift and I was wondering if it can be used to make the type of armor you showed last ti.”
“That depends on what you have. Would you show it?”
“Sure. Just a mont.” I said as I dug around in my magic backpack. I would have put the snake skin into my fanny pack, but it was, well, not too large, but large enough to be in the way. Like really in the way. “Here it is.”
“Aah. A snake hide. Yes. We can definitely use this. What monster is this from?”
“Crimson boa, or so I was told.”
“I see. That is sothing. You don’t often see albino snakes and I’ve never seen an albino crimson boa. So, you would like us to make sothing from this?”
“Yes. Sothing similar to that armor you showed last ti.”
“Yes. We can do that. Please co with to the back. We need to take so asurents and go over all of the details.”
“And with the mithril plates and the enchantnts, it will be around 400 gold coins.” The dwarf lady said after we went over all of the details.
“Around? You can’t tell the exact price?” I asked.
“The exact price will depend on a lot of things. I can promise it to you for 400 gold coins, but the actual price might be a little lower. Especially if you are willing to sell the rest of that snake hide to us.”
“No. I want to keep it. As I said, it was a gift and the person that hunted it will be joining in a few days. And as I don’t know what kind of equipnt she has, I might use the rest of this to make her sothing.” I explained.
“Well, if that is what you want. We will need half of the cost beforehand, so I hope that isn’t a problem.”
“I think I have that much.” I said before confirming it with Laura. (I do have that much, right?)
(Yes. Your current reserve is 238 gold coinsand 24 large silver, 42 small silver, 4 copper and you haven’t even activated your Upstart Goblins today.) Laura answered.
(Oh yeah. I was about to but then Lua called . How many Upstarts do I even have now? You were opening Magic Ruler, right?)
(Yes. You have a total of 173 copies of Upstart Goblin, but only 40 of them have toploaders.)
(173? And that tis 5 for how many coins I can get? And then that divided by 3 for the total gold coins I should get? … Laura, can you do the math, please?) I could probably do it in my head, but I do have access to a supercomputer, so why not use it?
(That is a total of 865 individual coins and an estimated 288 gold coins. But as I said, I ran out of sleeves and toploaders, so only 40 of the Upstarts Goblins have a toploader. So that ans 200 individual coins and around 67 gold coins.)
(You ran out of sleeves? Don’t we have infinite pack tokens?)
(Yes, but no. You limited the ti I can keep the Guardians working, so I only get 2400 pack tokens per night. And you should probably focus on what is going on. The dwarf lady is looking at you. And you are just standing there silent.)
(Oh yeah. Real world exists.)
“Sorry about that. I was in thought.” I said to the dwarf.
“Was the price perhaps too great? As I said, we would gladly buy the rest of the snake hide. We could probably pay 50 gold coins for it. It is rare to see albino snakes after all.” She said.
“No. I’m fine. I have the money and I’d rather have the rest of the skin myself.” I said. Money is the least of my problems now. Just need to get the rest of those toploaders. I might need to overwork the Guardians after all. Perhaps just four hours isn’t enough.
(Or we could only get one of each card in a toploader instead.) Laura said.
(No. I like having a playset of everything. But I guess you could prioritize useful spells first, while just keeping the cards in the collection, waiting for their sleeves and toploaders.)
Spoiler
So for the math, if soone wants to see it.
Brian’s production power is 10 pack tokens per minute. 1 activation of Butterfly Dagger - Elma every 20 seconds because of the ti lag it takes to return to the collection, to take it out again, activate it and hand it to Guardian Kay'est.
So ten packs every minute, 600 packs per hour, 2400 packs in four hours. With 9 cards per pack, that is 21 600 cards. If all of them were to be used for the sleeve and toploader combo, that would be 864 cards that can get a sleeve and toploader. But as Laura (and Brian) are holding onto so of the cards, not nearly that many sleeves get made. And as Laura is putting tons of toploaders onto “useless” cards for Brian’s collection, she ran out.
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I took out the 200 gold coins and we made a contract. The contract was made with a special magic pen that couldn’t be erased. It also had a special magic stone that made ink in the color of the writer's magic, so the contracts would be more difficult to fake. Or at least signatures would be. You would have to match both the magic and the penmanship. Not impossible, but a lot more difficult than just penmanship.
By the way, the color of my magic was a grayish white. It would have been difficult to make out, except that it wasn’t uniform. It was more like a sparkling mix of gray and white.
The dwarf on the other hand had a deep brown magic, probably earth attribute.
Spoiler
Brian’s looks sothing like this.
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