"Forget it, three coins is about the same price as a head of pickled cabbage, I'd rather not sell it."

Tong Su held the broken sword in her hand, and smiled gently despite the Crown Prince's murderous gaze.

"That's too stingy."

Xuan Ting's spirit was confined within a few meters of the black sword, and no one else in the shop could see him. He was furious, but there was nothing he could do.

"You woman—I'll get back at you sooner or later—sooner or later—"

Having pleasantly shattered the Crown Prince's confidence, Tong Su felt much better and pulled out the dagger.

The shady shop owner's eyes lit up.

"This dagger is very sharp; it's not easy to find such a treasure in a junkyard. It looks like it was cast, but it's really beautiful. I'm not quite sure what kind of ore it's made of, but the patterns drawn on it are beautiful, and the blade is sharp and tough..."

With a casual flick of his wrist, the dagger easily sliced ​​a rock in two. Overjoyed, he exclaimed, "Alright, I'll take this dagger. I'll give you a thousand coins."

"A thousand?" Yang's mother excitedly grasped Tongsu's hand. "An'an, so much money—I haven't seen it for so many years, so many years... With that money, we can live on it for many years!"

Tong Su remained calm, patting Yang's mother reassuringly while her gaze coldly fixed on the black-spotted shop owner.

“I saw Mara and the others showing off their weapons at school. That dagger wasn’t even as good as mine, but she said she bought it from you for 30,000 coins.”

Mara was one of the group of delinquent girls who clung to the original owner's leg.

In this era of war, strength is more important than anything else; weapons are far more valuable than food.

She crafted this dagger using techniques from the world of fantasy, guaranteeing its quality. Not to mention, what the shopkeeper considers decorative patterns are actually formations that stabilize the dagger's sharpness and toughness.

Tong Su dared to boast that, given the level of weapon forging in this world, her dagger was absolutely comparable to a designer item worth tens of thousands of star coins.

A thousand coins sounds like a lot, but it's far from enough for her to buy a boat ticket.

The only way to leave planet E976-INE86 is by the merchant ships that come once a year.

For 10,000 coins, you can board a merchant ship and travel to planet E976-INE1, the largest transit station in the E976 star system.

Spend another 800,000 coins to purchase a transportation hub to Perseus Arm;

Spend another few million coins to buy a ticket to the Imperial Capital Star System...

From an astronomical perspective, the Milky Way is a spiral galaxy composed of several spiral arms, including the Sagittarius Arm, the Orion Arm, the Perseus Arm, and the 3000-parsec Arm.

Each arm contains countless stars and nebulae. Earth, where Tong Su previously lived, is located in the solar system, within the Orion Arm, and is the closest to the Perseus Arm where E976-INE1 is located.

The ticket alone costs at least several million dollars!

Tong Su hissed in pain.

I simply can't afford it.

By selling simple weapon crafting tools, he could ensure that he and his mother would not go hungry or cold, but now he also had to support a pitiful crown prince. Wouldn't that make him very strapped for cash?

Simply put, she is now dirt poor.

Xuan Ting was somewhat stunned.

A few million coins? Back on the Imperial Star, he wouldn't have cared about that at all.

Forget about indulging in a bit of extravagance occasionally, buying a hovercar or raising a purebred horse; one of his outfits alone costs more than this!

They can throw hundreds of millions away without batting an eye. On a whim, they might spend a fortune to buy several star systems, just for fun.

Money was never something he considered.

But now, it has become a life-or-death problem that leaves him helpless.

besides.

...cough, it feels like being kept by a young girl.

It's very fresh.