Information on Geo Crystals
"To begin with, there’s hardly any information about the discovery of Geo Crystals. Why did you choose that?"
Marquis Vardmoi asked me, but the answer is obvious.
Because they can be made into weapons you can keep using even after reaching Silver rank.
Of course, armor has to be replaced at least once, but with Geo Crystals, you can forge weapons worthy of a Silver-ranked adventurer.
And if I add the recently mastered Self-Repair enchantment, the result would be a weapon practically immune to damage.
Such a masterpiece is something ordinary Silver-ranked adventurers could never hope to obtain.
Honestly, I’d like to update their armor too, but there’s just no good leather available, so I had to give up.
Money I have plenty of, but if the materials don’t exist, they can’t be bought.
That’s just the common sense of this world.
"I see. But Geo Crystals, hm? To make four people’s worth of weapons out of them, where could we even procure such a thing?"
"That’s exactly the problem. They don’t come out of the dungeons in Marquis Vardmoi’s domain, right?"
"I’ve never heard of them being produced here. And even if they were, adventurers would likely keep it secret and take them home… Speaking of dungeons, what about the equipment you obtained back when you went in one long ago?"
"Oh, that. Honestly, it’s way too powerful to use casually."
When Amira came to our place, we dove into a dungeon, and the reward was a piece of special equipment.
That thing was truly exceptional—far too powerful for everyday use.
We even discussed whether to formally hand it over, but in the end, the risk of it being stolen and misused was too great, so we decided against it.
So, that option is off the table.
"Our compromise is Geo Crystals. Alizée told me that if I wanted equipment surpassing what they currently use, it would take years to gather enough monster materials."
"Your current gear was gathered back when you traveled halfway around the Old Kingdom, wasn’t it? Now that the country has been split apart, you can’t take the same approach again. Within the McFarlane Dukedom alone, you can’t gather sufficient materials?"
"Seems we can’t. No matter how rich I am, if something doesn’t exist, I can’t get it."
"I agree. Since the formation of the McFarlane Dukedom, good-quality equipment materials have become harder to come by. With the nation split, the supply sources are divided too, and transport has been disrupted."
Well, when you think about it, equipment materials are practically military supplies.
Even materials adventurers use could easily be needed by the army.
And since I’m closely tied to Marquis Vardmoi, people might assume I’m buying them on his behalf.
Meaning, even if it’s under my own name, obtaining materials across national borders is incredibly difficult.
I really didn’t expect it would be this troublesome.
What should I do now…
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