Aetherios System [Slow Build OP MC, Isekai LitRPG/Cultivation] Chapter 16: Chapter 12: Apothecary

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Chapter 12: Apothecary Chapter 12: Apothecary "We made out pretty well, but I don't know how much further our coin will stretch once we start buying actual magical items, like more of these rings," Alex spoke with Garret while the two of them walked along the road toward the north side of the village. They were now wearing their newly purchased clothes. Basic trousers and tunics, new belts, as well as newly purchased backpacks. All of it was meagerly made and the quality was pretty average. Though they weren't all patchwork repairs and blood stains, which was what Alex's uniform looked like before, so he thought of these as an upgrade in nearly every respect. "I regret the boots now, you were right," Garret said to him as he wiggled his foot underneath him, making him hobble a couple of steps to keep up. "You always gotta break in a pair of boots man, especially these handmade ones. I told you that." Alex admonished the scout while keeping his eyes forward, looking for the shop the general store manager, whose name Alex finally learned was Tarvin, had given them. "Our military boots are perfectly fine, who cares if they don't exactly match? The cloaks are pretty sweet though huh?" Alex flapped the hem of the cloak he wore at this comment. They both splurged a bit to buy them. The things were a notch above in the quality department, made from a material that was smooth and cool to the touch, not the itchy cotton and wool mixture the other clothes seemed to be crafted of. "Whatever, I just don't want to twist my ankle in these things. Stop a second to let me change back okay." Garret asked. The two stepped off the road a minute to let Garret get back into his old military boots. Alex took the time to re-count their remaining coin, and go over the items they had purchased at the general store. After some haggling and barter, Alex managed to get essentially fifteen silver for each of their rifles. Alex wanted more after hearing they were such great quality steel, but then Tarvin said he would have to have it melted back down and reforged to something useful before he could sell it. Alex understood that much. The Ion-Gear was a bit of a tougher negotiation. The material in the gear was even better than the rifles. Tarvin simply didn't know what he could do with it, so he was reluctant to risk paying too much. In the end, Alex got one hundred silver -or one gold- for each of them. That led Alex to learn the currency system. A hundred silver is one gold piece, he thought to himself looking at the various coins. As he began making purchases, he learned through context what each coin was valued. A hundred copper pieces are worth a single silver. There are also these "Iron-bits", which are worth even less than copper. Ten bits to a copper it seemed. The Iron-bits broke the current pattern of the system, as a copper piece was only ten iron bits, not a hundred which was the ratio of all the other coins. Alex wasn't positive, but as he had continued his shopping spree and gauged prices he came to the conclusion that copper was basically this world's dollar. So an iron-bit was a dime, a silver was actually a hundred. That made each sword he purchased cost him two hundred dollars, approximately. He didn't have a full grasp one how much these coins were really worth yet. Buying power fluctuated, and the shop-keep might have been taking advantage of his ignorance. Nothing he could do about that. Regardless, they got quite a bit of gear and supplies. Alex bought ten swords, and ten spears, getting extra just in case. The weapons cost them thirty silver altogether. He also got ten sets of tunics and trousers, all of which were the same size, no small to extra large selection there. Those were only five silver. He only got six sets of leather armor, one for each of them. Sure enough, they had to be adjusted to fit Alex and Garret, but the ties and fasteners were easy enough to figure out so they could do the same for everyone else back at camp. T