Chapter 34 So Many Zeroes (1/2)

”Good Goblins! What did you do? Roll in a pie?”

Sedna grimaced and Freya chuckled nervously. Grem was certainly not pleased with the state of the borrowed shirt. Isis looked apologetic and Gaia apologised profusely. That did nothing to appease the furious half-gnome.

Zero looked on in amazement at how Grem's bushy orange eyebrow twitched. Even if the master tailor appeared calm outwardly, his restless eyebrow gave it away.

Feeling bad, Sedna offered to pay for the shirt and its cleaning fees. Grem jumped straight into merchant mode after hearing about payment. His eyes sparkled strangely as he worked on something that Freya explained was a calculator. It made strange chime sounds as Grem typed. The device was a mix of magic and technology and was one of the many common devices used throughout the multiverse.

Zero blinked as Grem told Sedna the cost of the shirt. The other goddesses paled similarly.

”What does 5 cinnites mean?”

Freya took Zero to a side to answer the child's questions as Isis haggled away to lower the price. After all 5 cinnites was a considerable amount to the goddesses who did nothing to accumulate material wealth.

After five minutes of explaining the concept of math and money to Zero, the young boy summarised that money worked this way:

100 innite = 1 binnite (lowest payout amount possible is 5 innite)

1,000 binnite = 1 cinnite

10,000 cinnite = 1 dinnite (dinnite is often only used by legendary merchants and royalty)

To allow Zero a better understanding of how money works, Freya used the food as an example. The cheapest was Jen's dew tea which cost about 25 innites. The brownies were about 1 binnite and 50 innites each. Of course, there were less expensive food like a regular pork sandwich on Earth. The regular pork sandwich was a common food ration amongst adventurers as it gave +1 energy, +0.5 healing and cost only 10 innites per sandwich.