Isekai Nonbiri Sozai Saishu Seikatsu - Ch. 25

[Bibliothecarius]

Thanks for the chapter!!!!

 

[Miserys_End]

Oh it's been a while. Nice.


It's definitely an odd thing to do, especially since he shouldn't have much context regarding the proper prices for the potions. He does have some context for the prices of the ingredients by now though and he should be aware that the skill to make these potions isn't widespread since this is literally the only alchemist around (well there's another one in the periphery of the town with a shop that's usually invisible and is know for driving out customers so that's not much of an alternative.) I guess it's possible he appraised the potion and then also considered their prices compared to what he's been making in the adventurer's guild and since he's fairly successful, finding the potions to be difficult to afford does lead to some questions. Everyone else is complaining about the prices too.

After rereading, he does have a loose grasp of what prices should be. He has already talked with both the general store chap back in the village who had a catalog of goods that could be purchased and the local herbalist in town who he just completed a gathering request for. So he does have ballpark values for both the ingredients and products made from them. He also knows the quality of the materials he is selling.

I think it can also make sense to ask why a product is more expensive to learn of the circumstances that lead to that, as there may be a bottleneck in the supply chain and this guy is literally a material collector.

As for the bad quality, I'm not sure that's what he meant. The other adventurers were mentioning that they were buying low grade potions so it might be that the alchemist is only putting those on display.

But yeah, it's probably just a case of "this fat alchemist is greedy, let's make it extra obvious".

It doesn't show him using it, but his appraisal skill should have given him a rather detailed overview of any potions quality and effects they might have. It's also possible that the description contained a critique of the alchemist that created it and motovations of the seller depending on how malicious the system was feeling when the MC made his information request.

 

[EchoGirl]

..Strange. I've read this chapter before?

another website did have it but they were banned off MD before like some other group sites and the previous uploads they had of the earlier chapters were ripped off from LH so no guarantee they didn't steal the chapters versus an ai translation