After leaving Wizard Carter his business card, Locke sent the product information for the Great Bloodwave Pineapple Wizard Shoes to Witch Scarlett for review. He also listed them in the product descriptions section of the Augustus Wizard Shoe Store Alliance on the water gourd system, as his first second-ring wizard shoes officially available for preorder.
Witch Scarlett immediately sent Locke a question.
"Lord Locke, shouldn't a second-ring magic plant cost several million magic stones to produce?"
"You're pricing your new second-ring pure Magic Plant Wizard Shoes at one million magic stones?"
Of course, Locke knew why she was asking.
Second-ring wizard shoes from Solas Barefoot and Meraki started at five million magic stones—five million per pair. Second-rate or even third-rate wizard shoe brands like Blue Ribbon, meanwhile, started at two to three million.
The most ordinary second-ring magic artifact cost around one million magic stones.
In Cloud Marsh Wetland, that was roughly the price of a first-ring artifact in the million series.
However, Cloud Marsh Wetland's million series artifacts were luxury goods in their own right. First-ring wizards generally avoided buying second-ring magic artifacts for two reasons: first, they were too expensive; second, they could not use them, and might even suffer a backlash if they tried.
It was like a child swinging a large saber and injuring themselves instead.
Generally speaking, an ordinary crystallization-level magic artifact cost an average of one hundred thousand magic stones, while an ordinary second-ring artifact cost around a million.
The second-ring prices charged by Cloud Marsh Wetland's Wizard Shoes Shop Alliance were unquestionably excessive, especially those of Solas Barefoot and Meraki Magicstep.
The reason Locke had previously been unable to mass-produce pure Magic Plant Wizard Shoes was that even selling them at three million a pair, like Blue Ribbon, or five million a pair,