"Sorry, everyone, but you'll need to prove your net worth to enter the third level."
Seeing Garen and the others approach, a staff member in purple robes held up a hand to stop them.
Garen blinked. He hadn't expected to have to prove his wealth just to shop. This was the first time he'd encountered anything like it.
Then he casually waved his hand, and hundreds of Azure Stones floated into the air.
"That should be enough, right?"
"Please, go in."
The staff member in purple robes nodded and gestured for them to enter.
As they stepped into the third-floor hall of Bauhinia Castle, they found it noticeably smaller, though still hundreds of meters wide and long. There were also far fewer people inside.
Signs bearing various inscriptions hung across the walls behind the counters throughout the hall, much like the billboards of his previous life.
Garen glanced over them.
"High-level God weapons, armor, all kinds of medicines, materials, cultivation aids, High-level Godsparks, Metal Lifeforms..."
Clearly, the many counters along the sides of the third-floor hall offered a wide range of goods and services.
Garen strolled around with the women.
"Hm? Soul Golden Beads."
"Shopkeeper, I'll take a hundred."
He'd already run low on the Soul Golden Beads he'd gotten from killing monsters, and he needed more, so he bought a hundred at once.
"Hm? Divine Soul Pills?"
Garen picked one up and examined it closely.
"These Divine Soul Pills seem a little different from the ones in the system. The ones the system gave me were clearly better in color, and they had patterns swirling inside. Still, I'll definitely be able to use these later."
With that in mind, Garen spoke up.
"Shopkeeper, I'll take a hundred Divine Soul Pills."
Next, Garen passed a weapons stall and bought each