Chapter 20: Regular Exchange System (2)
Leon, after changing into a different robe, also took out a few herbs of different types and placed them in his subspace pouch.
He didn't intend to sell them immediately.
This was his first time engaging in transactions between mages, and being unfamiliar with the market prices, he planned to observe and perhaps attempt a trade if he found something interesting. If the transaction was satisfactory, he could avoid the hassle of exchanging for mana stones.
Upon leaving the orb, Leon adjusted his rank to 1st rank while wearing his robe. Although he couldn't completely conceal his face, it was enough to hide his status as a general disciple.
The marketplace for magical items wasn't much different from a typical market.
There were guild buildings that occupied their usual spots, tents and stalls scattered around. The tents were set up by different merchant groups taking advantage of the exchange event, while the stalls were mostly laid out by individual mages for bartering.
Leon wandered through the marketplace, comparing the shouted prices and the listed prices at the stalls, gradually getting a feel for the market.
Most items ranged from F to D grade. He did spot a few C-grade artifacts, but anything higher was hard to find. It seemed there were separate means of trading for the upper grades.
As for F-grade elixirs, they could be purchased for 50 mana stones each. The mana stones Leon would receive from the magic tower as a general disciple, once he started working and training simultaneously after a year, would amount to one per month. This meant it would take a general disciple 50 months of work to afford just one elixir.
Back when Leon was a triple-attribute mage, he had consumed over 50 F-grade elixirs to advance from 1st to 2nd rank. Although most of them were F- grade due to the initially low reward probabilities, the total cost would still have been around 2,500 mana stones. This was an expense that no ordinary apprentice mage could afford.
Moreover, the effectiveness of F-grade elixirs diminished rapidly once he reached the late 3rd rank, even with his enhanced efficiency as an all-attribute mage.
"I have... 32 F-grade elixirs."