While one team had already zoned in on a large purchase, Sammy and Luis' team were still perusing around the southern part of the fair.
Most of the items here weren't very cost-effective, but they did find unfamiliar plants and seeds—which sister-in-law would definitely love. She gave them the budget for them anyway.
"This is a seed from the far eastern side of the continent!" The seller said, pointing at the various seeds onhand.
"This is a rare specimen from the south!"
"This is a mystery seed from the orc region!"
He showed the party various other seeds of various shapes, sizes, and colors, presenting them as if they were treasures from another world.
"So you don't know what they are," Luis said, a statement.
Seller: "..."
It was true. These were basically 'trash' he collected from other people who brought these out for sale. He knew there were a lot of rich people in annual market festivals like this, so he had hoped to make a killing.
But he looked at the men looking very unimpressed. "Well, but they are indeed from far away."
"Hm, sure, if you say so," Luis said with a shrug, "I wonder who would buy seeds they don't even know how to grow…"
"..."
Sammy, knowing that it was time to bargain, finally spoke up. "We'll consider taking them off your hands!" he said, "We like to collect weird stuff. But you can't charge too much!"
When sister-in-law found out they were joining a market festival in a town, she gave all five of them a whooping 110 gold each.
That was to say, even if their group didn't hold much of the profit from the sale—which was mostly in Gill and Eagle's hands—they would still have some money on hand. After all, the Ferrol Market Fair was done once a year; It would be such a pity not to maximize it.
As for what was given to boss Gill and Eagle, they didn't know, but it was definitely a lot. In their case, 110 gold each was already more than enough.
100 gold was to buy some goods for her and the territory, and the remaining 10 was their commission, provided they used it strictly to strengthen themselves.
Their hearts almost fell and they went to heaven.
Ten gold coins was a month's salary for a well-off aborigine in a town—and it was more than enough to buy a very good level D weapon!
Although the captain bought them weapons, their durability had been quickly deteriorating due to all the fights. In fact, ten gold coins could even buy an inferior second-hand level C equipment, let alone a D equipment or two!
While they had level C armor and weapons makers aborgines in the territory there was still plenty of equipment they couldn't make, primarily due to how the World Knowledge distributed techniques.
A weapon or armor maker usually specialized in a few types of equipment at most, and this was why the aether buildings were so special—as they could automatically mass produce these weapons, and even improve class as they leveled up.
Anyway, the way knowledge was distributed really wasn't very good in terms of looking at the development of civilization. It was understandable how most aborgines treated each inheritance like treasure, oftentimes even more important than lives. They heard some villages even sacrificed people in an attempt to be awarded knowledge.
This wasn't effective to Terrans, as they tended to innovate on their own.
The aborgines that ended up in Altera could be said to be very lucky to be able to meet innovative people, otherwise, they'd definitely still be stuck making one or two types of equipment for the rest of their lives.
In any case, they bought several bags of each of the seeds they encountered (for very good prices!). They put that didn't fit in their space into their water-resistant backpacks (available for purchase at Gaea Supermarket). They also made sure they were packed well and protected from the elements.
And then they ran to the western side, where most of the equipment was being sold. In terms of arrangements, it was much like their side, but the customer type was very different. This place was heavily occupied by men of all sizes—mostly large ones.
This market demographic made sense because, after all, not everyone could be a fighter, and they had only ever seen one woman warrior before—the fire shield woman with Silas.
Each store was also guarded by big men with sharp eyes. Although theft was automatically detected and punishable by the territory, there had been cases where rivals just tried stealing their enemies' items, just to make trouble.
Anyway, they could see various displays of different sorts of weapons. Men being men, just the sight of shimmering chunks of metal made their blood boil—in a good way, of course.
There were longswords, broadswords, arming swords, rapiers, lances, pikes, long bows, etc. There were also various shields like rounded shields, kite shields, and even the buckler (which was awesome for mobility).
There were also various armor and helmets. There were rare ones made of metal like chain mail—but those were understandably quite expensive.
There were a lot more and they were itching to finally buy their equipment.
So without further ado, the gang immediately went to do some shopping for themselves.
Sammy was a wind archer and he bought a Class C quiver that added a 2% chance of adding burn to arrows that it cased for longer than 6 hours.
Meanwhile, Luis was a fire swordsman, so he chose to buy defensive equipment. He bought a superior class D Gauntlet with reinforced knuckles and fingers which not only provided protection to his hands, it also provided better grip.
It was purely made of metal. So when he used his ability, the gauntlet got a burn factor as well.
Plaridel took a buckler which he could use on-the-go, adding more defensive properties to him even with its smaller size. He also bought a helmet.
Hours later, while they were admiring their new equipment (for the nth time), they couldn't help but exclaim:
Sister-in-law is almighty!!