Since the book started, quite a few readers left comments saying that a devil fruit price of one million was too cheap, and that it could easily be bought out by a certain faction. I will explain it all uniformly here.
First point, devil fruit prices range from several millions, tens of millions, hundreds of millions, to tens or hundreds of billions. It doesn't mean that because the first fruit I sold was one million, all devil fruits are one million.
I also clearly wrote in the book that the Dark-Dark Fruit was a billion. It's just that the ones sold in the early stage were ordinary fruits, and the expensive ones haven't come out yet. It's a step-by-step process.
Of course, some people might feel that even for those trashy fruits, one million is still too cheap. That is indeed true.
However, what I am writing is an ensemble book, focusing on the changes devil fruits bring to the Marvel Universe. Therefore, the lower limit of the pricing cannot be too high, or else it would become an exclusive supply for the elite class, and how boring would that be.
Besides, how many characters in Marvel are as familiar to everyone as Tony Stark?
Characters like Deadpool, Spider-Man, Punisher, War Machine, Happy, Jane Foster, Captain America, Black Widow, and even elites like Doctor Strange—wouldn't these people be stretched to their absolute limits just to afford a million-tier one?
So the upper limit of the threshold can be very high, but the lower limit definitely cannot be high. Otherwise, the familiar characters wouldn't be able to afford them, and the ones who could would all be my original upper-class characters, which would truly ruin this book.
Second point is the issue everyone worries about, like the Federal Reserve or S.H.I.E.L.D. clearing out the fruits. I have also considered this. Any form of purchase farming is prohibited by the system, so everyone doesn't need to worry about this; such a problem does not exist.
I will also explain what purchase farming is. The purchase farming here is not the kind done by online stores; I couldn't think of a better word, so I used this to describe it.
For example, if a S.H.I.E.L.D. agent discovers a devil fruit on their own and voluntarily goes to buy it themselves, there's nothing wrong with that and it counts as a normal transaction.
However, if Nick Fury wants to build a few more super soldiers for S.H.I.E.L.D., and hands out money to agents for them to buy the fruits, that is purchase farming.
This is just a simple example. In short, any means adopted by a single person or an organization for the purpose of acquiring a large number of devil fruits constitutes purchase farming behavior.
Moreover, this veteran hack writer also plans to adopt the readers' suggestions. After the system upgrades, it will no longer use US dollars for settlement, but will switch to gold instead.
These should be the main things people criticized. If I think of any others, I'll add them later. Readers can also leave comments with any thoughts, and everyone is welcome to discuss.
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