Chapter 119: Mysterious Egg
Time passed in steady shop activity.
Customer after customer entered his shop, each displaying identical reactions when they spotted the legendary protein bars displayed in abundance.
Noah had established pricing tiers based on magical rank rather than uniform costs. The system he created encouraged broader access while acknowledging different economic capabilities.
Novices paid one hundred golden coins.
Apprentices faced three hundred coin prices.
Adept-level practitioners and above were charged six hundred coins.
Of course, they were all required to have in-store consumption to prevent resale across all ranks.
Rank-based pricing plus consumption requirements. Covers security concerns while maximising accessibility.
Additional restrictions limited novice and apprentice purchases to one per day each, preserving inventory for higher-paying adept customers.
This meant that once a novice dropped by and bought it, another novice would have to wait for the next day before they could buy it. Of course, this rule would be implemented by him when he wanted. If the end of his shift arrived and he still had stock left, he would sell it to a novice despite the previous rule.
Rules were sometimes meant to be broken.