High School DxD: The Game Master

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Rias glowered at Azeez but could find no fault in his words. As much as she wished to blame Azeez, he was, essentially, just an NPC made by the person making the dungeons.

That didn't mean she had to like it though! Still upset and letting it show, Rias slammed the five small golden coins they'd been paid onto the counter, "What can I get with this?"

Azeez looked at the coins, "Ah! Azeez will help. One gold earned here is worth ten thousand yen. For five gold you could purchase five of Azeez's Least potions, or two Lesser potions.

Azeez also has some potions with minor effects for sale around five gold." Azeez's dark eyes practically shone as he said the next part, "Azeez also has some jewelry that has been enchanted by the Master as well, though it will cost the lovely lady more than five gold."

Everyone's eyes widened at the mention of enchanted items. Enchanted items were not so easily found or bought. Most were weapons, leftovers from the great war. There were some minor enchanted items around, but not so many as to make them common and readily available.

To be able to simply purchase such an item... Just how powerful was the person using Innovate Clear? There's no way the Sacred Gear she'd recently studied should be capable of so many different things! It had to be a magician who owned it, and not just any magician but a strong and well-educated one who discovered a method of enchanting.

Azeez could see the wheels turning in his customer's head and knew he was about to make another excellent sale. Ah, repeat customers with deep pockets truly were the best!

Rias knew she had lost. She didn't know what she had lost, only that she had somehow lost. With a sigh of resignation, she made a 'get on with it' motion and said, "Alright, show me these enchanted items."

Azeez wasted no time in pulling out a regular ring tray laden with several different rings. There was a nice variety of them in various metals but what caught her eye were the ones made of wood.

Mostly due to how unusual it was to see something like that. Even so, the wooden rings were buttery smooth looking and carved with what looked to be great care.

Azeez waved his hands over the rings, "Allow Azeez to describe what you see. The rings made of wood are carved from the Steelwood tree and grant the wearer protection from harm by making their skin as resilient as the wood the ring is made from.

The silver bands with various gems enhance the power of specific elemental spells, red for fire, brown for earth, blue for water, and so on.

Next, the golden bands with gems are the same as their silver brethren, only more powerful. Lastly, the two platinum bands enhance the rate at which the wearer recovers their spent magic."

If it were to be put into game terms, the silver bands would enhance a spell of the specific element by about ten percent or so while the gold would go as high as fifteen.

Not much else could be expected of a mundane metal paired with mundane semi-precious stones.

Rias and Akeno, the two most prolific magic users, instantly honed in on the golden and platinum rings. Meanwhile, Yuuto and Koneko both took a look at the wooden ones. Koneko's defensive strength was already pretty great, but it wouldn't hurt to have more.

As for Yuuto, he didn't really have anything going on defense wise since he relied heavily on his speed to protect himself. Something like the protection rings were just the kind of thing he would benefit from greatly.

Rias pointed to the Platinum recovery rings, "How much for those?"

Azeez smiled the smile of a man about to make bank, "Azeez must sell those for no less than fifteen gold or one hundred and fifty thousand yen. Each."

Rias grimaced. Her finances weren't looking so hot after the debacle with the fake Boosted Gear.

She had some income, but blowing three hundred thousand yen on a pair of rings was pushing it. On the other hand, if, as it seemed the maker wanted, more dungeons opened with this particular setting, she should be able to earn the thirty gold within three days.

Of course, that was assuming they would earn five gold on every quest and perform two quests per day. Not impossible with how often the dungeons opened.

Of course, there was one small problem with that math. Share splitting. She couldn't just claim the entirety of the reward for herself. Well, she could, she was the King of her peerage, after all.

It was more accurate to say she wouldn't as that just wasn't how she did things. So, with no other recourse, she let out a sigh and stepped back from the counter, "We'll have to come back another time."

Azeez didn't quite pout, but he didn't look very happy to not be making a sale. Somehow, that really brightened Rias's mood. Feeling better, she turned to her peerage and announced, "We're leaving."

Once out of the shop, Rias took out the gold coins and handed one to each of the others, keeping only two in her hand, "I believe we should split the proceeds from the quests we perform so we can all buy our own items.

I also believe we should start to bring a not too small sum of yen into these dungeons with us so we can be ready to make future purchases."

With everyone in agreement, they left the dungeon. As soon as they exited, the portal to it closed. Another adventure down and more clearly to come.

Ryuji sighed as he watched Rias leave the scenario without making a purchase. That... sucked. He was running low on funds and was hoping to make a few quick sales to her to help bolster them back up.

It was shocking how fast he blew through his funding. The prices for silver, gold, and platinum were unforgiving and had brutally beaten his wallet into submission.

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