Klein swiftly ran the numbers with his astonishing intellect.
Take the Blazing Sun Talisman, for example. Probably because it lacked any utility functions, this immensely powerful one-use offensive talisman was relatively cheap among talismans.
Even a Level 3 Blazing Sun Talisman, the highest grade on the list, only cost fifty Gold Pounds. With just a bit of spirituality to activate it, it could unleash a badass attack with high heat, explosions, and purification effects.
Looking only at the price, its cost-effectiveness might not have seemed particularly high. The money spent using it ten or twenty times would have been enough to buy an Extraordinary item with slightly weaker offensive power from the list.
But that was not how the math worked.
Indeed, after buying an Extraordinary item, he would not have needed to spend more money, not just for ten or twenty uses, but even for a hundred or two hundred uses.
But that was a one-time expense, one that would place an enormous financial burden on someone without much money. Besides, was buying an Extraordinary item really more cost-effective than talismans?
An Extraordinary item of his own would indeed cost nothing extra even if he used it once every day, but there was no need for that.
Considering their purpose and the side effects of possessing or using them, high-burst Extraordinary items were actually used far less frequently than Extraordinary items like Cow Cat's Bell, which could practically be called divine artifacts.
If he held one for a long time without ever encountering a battle that required it, its cost-effectiveness would be even lower. It might even become a liability.
Klein was indeed living as an outlaw at sea, and he fought fairly often, but that was only temporary. Once he finished this score, he intended to wash his