"Hmm... This gold coin looks very valuable. I think you'd better take it to Autumnwind City for appraisal. Using it directly might be a bit of a loss." After examining it carefully for a while, Lucia reluctantly handed the coin back.
She actually had no idea how to assess the quality of the coin. However, she had heard that the official gold coins circulating within the Southern Alliance were basically gold-plated, and their loss in value could be judged by their degree of wear. But this coin seemed to be pure gold, so that method did not apply.
Besides, the patterns on the Southern Alliance's standard currency were all the same: many stars carved into a circle to represent each member state of the alliance. This gold coin looked nothing like that.
"Where is Autumnwind City?" Ivette took the coin and casually slipped it back into her pocket.
"It's a little far from here. It takes a day to walk there." Lucia tilted her head and thought for a moment. "Come back to the village with me first. The village organizes a market trip every half month, and for an outsider like you, whose situation is unclear, it'll be safer too."
"Alright." Ivette also hoped to learn where exactly she was as soon as possible.
More than ten minutes later, when the soles of her pale feet were covered in mud, Sanglun Village finally came into view.
It was a medium-sized village with dozens of households. From blacksmiths and herb shops to inns and taverns, it had everything. However, Lucia did not take Ivette to the inn. She knew the innkeeper definitely would not have enough change for that coin, and there was a high chance he would swindle it away under some pretext.
So she took Ivette directly to