Chapter 1686

Moreover, with bloodlines costing several thousand gold coins more than usual, Zhao Chi bought them without the slightest hesitation, so these racial gene expansion stones were a trivial matter.

Altogether, it was still less than 16,000 gold coins.

Buy them all!

He hadn't actually bought them yet.

But Zhao Chi was already thrilled.

Buy another batch of deodorizing pills.

When the time comes and Gu Qing arrives in the Greater World, they can eliminate her body fragrance.

The rest wasn't really worth buying...

How much do all these cost in total?

Just over 100,000 gold coins?

That's far too little spent; there are still 80,000 gold coins to spend.

Rummaging through rare materials...

Quite few.

Whether sewing-related or forging-related rare materials were scarce, especially sewing-related ones.

Could it be that Su Qin bought them all out?

After all, Horn Cliff Town is only a town.

For a while now, he'd had Su Qin buying these two types of rare materials, which had already cost nearly 10,000 gold coins.

Indeed, they couldn't be replenished in the short term.

Then buy a batch of steel ingots.

Zhao Chi's 110 master blacksmiths could craft steel equipment.

Skip refined iron entirely and go straight to steel!

Normally, a full set of metal armor consumes 26 metal ingots, and a shield takes 5, totaling 31.

And ultra-heavy armor weighs three times that of ordinary armor, with material consumption also three times.

So that's 93 metal ingots.

And the price of steel ingots...

Around 20 silver coins.

Based on this price estimate, the cost of one ultra-heavy steel armor set is... 18.6 gold coins?

Huh?

Is that right?

Why is it so expensive?

Not counting ultra-heavy, just calculating the steel material cost for ordinary-weight steel armor... it's about 6.2 gold coins.

That's about right.

After all, the price of an ordinary iron armor set is 1.5 gold coins, and with a shield it's close to 2 gold coins, already approaching 30% of those 6.2 gold coins.

And steel armor's durability and stats are both double that of iron armor.

Selling it for 6.2 gold coins overall isn't wrong.

Let's look at the actual situation.

Zhao Chi opened the equipment page and filtered for the steel armor option.

Most were second-hand steel armor with incomplete durability, priced around 5 gold coins.

And full-durability steel armor plus steel shield was indeed around 7 gold coins.

So Zhao Chi's estimated price was correct.

Although Zhao Chi really wanted to buy finished products.

But finished steel women's armor wasn't common, ultra-heavy steel women's armor didn't exist at all, let alone the ultra-heavy Mystic Maiden armor he wanted.

He could only make it himself.

Buy steel ingots!

A full set of armor requires 93 steel ingots; buying according to the quota of 1,000 female soldiers means 93,000 ingots.

The price would be 18,600.

Not bad!

Buy!

Besides armor, there are also weapons.

A two-handed Moon-Chasing Spear needs 3 metal ingots, a two-handed Phoenix-Cry Blade needs 4, a two-handed Whirling Axe needs 5, and a two-handed Jade Hammer needs the most at 6.

Then calculating it as 5 should work.

Making them ultra-heavy requires 15 ingots; according to the quota of 1,000 female soldiers, that's another 15,000 ingots to buy, which is only 3,000 gold coins.

Buy buy buy!

However, only the first 5,000-plus steel ingots were 20 silver coins; the later ones got more and more expensive...

That's normal.

Zhao Chi directly selected up to the 108,000 mark.

The first 80,000 were all within 40 silver coins, while the latter 20,000 skyrocketed to 70 silver coins.

All things considered, it would cost roughly 48,000 gold coins.

That's a bit pricey.

Double the normal price.

Damn it, I'll buy it.

Even after buying all this, there's still over 36,000 gold coins left.

Add in the 125,000 Li Ruanyu owes, that's another 160,000 gold coins.

How does this money never run out…

Let's just hold onto the rest for now.

Really spent a lot today.

Is this how those demolition households feel?

Good thing Zhao Chi didn't get rich overnight, but sustainably.

Spending money feels damn good.

The group drew closer and closer.

Zhao Chi was a bit torn over whether to spend so much.

Not afraid of spending money, but felt it was a bit of a loss.

Every bloodline costs much more than usual, and the steel ingots behind are clearly several times pricier too.

Should he cancel some?

Especially those 20,000-plus steel ingots at the back, all priced at 70 silver coins each — isn't this robbery?

After much deliberation, Zhao Chi still decided this money had to be spent.

Spend it, then earn more!

Raising strength comes first.

Then no more dithering.

Settled, then!

Finally Zhao Chi's turn came.

"What business?"

The staff member listlessly spat out three words, barely intelligible.

Zhao Chi said, "I need to purchase these, here's the list."

【Zhao Chi's Purchase List】:

"Nine-Headed Serpent Bloodline" ×1

"Harp Demon Bloodline" ×1

"Vampiric Marquise Bloodline" ×1

"Giant Race Bloodline" ×1

"Vampiric Earl Bloodline" ×1