The moment the words left his mouth, Barn realized he had accidentally said a few too many things again and immediately clamped his mouth shut.
Faced with Xia Nan's question about the price, a hint of hesitation first appeared on his thickly bearded face, a result of his Dwarf bloodline.
Then, politely and with perfect propriety, he quite subtly shifted his gaze from the black-haired youth before him to the Full-body Heavy Plate Armor at the very back of the shelf beside them, marked with a price tag of "1,500 gold."
He slowly said, "My actual suggestion would be to process this scale simply for now, and while preserving its integrity as the main material, make it into a temporary arm shield."
"That way, not only can you use it for emergencies right now, but when you have the means later and want more advanced equipment with higher strength, it will also be very easy to separate the scale from the arm shield."
"What do you think?"
Barn put it very tactfully.
Xia Nan understood what he meant too.
Summed up, it was just four words—
No money, don't touch.
He was a normal person, so naturally he would not feel that the other man was looking down on him because of these few words, already as tactful as possible, and go up to fight him to the death.
Objectively speaking, his current savings might perhaps be a huge sum enough for many years of expenses for ordinary people in this world.
But in the adventuring trade, where supernatural power existed, it was only enough to buy a few bottles of potions.
It was not as if he had gained nothing.
At the very least, from Barn's reaction, he learned that a piece of magic equipment like the [Dead Line]