"How is gold Useless? It's an amazing conductor." Spoke Jeanne.
She clicked her tongue and looked away, they certainly wouldn't need use for a conductor. Hell, even if palm did have basic electricity. Jeanne herself only knew about Morray Arrays from books and the few odd trinkets on her home island she repaired. "Nevermind."
"Well. Whats the point in using it for money, if we have no use for it, and our only currency is the one that has a risk behind getting? This Gold, it comes to the Sky Islands all the time."
He continued to explain that Ships caught by smaller knock up streams destroyed vessels. Scattering their Contents all throughout the White Sea. Oftentimes Skyderians would fish out Gold to make into Jewelry due to its luster, not value.
At this, Kirks eyes seemed to Light up in joy! Berry signs practically popping from his eyes with a mischievous Grin. "Say Aponiv…"
Kirks face seemed to darken with a look that the crew only saw on Leroys when he was getting into trouble "How much would a San- a Librae like this fetch us?"
He pulled from his Satchel, A Large small dinner plate sized Sea berry, easily 6 inches across. Before displaying it in front of Aponiv. He was lucky he had it in his Satchel, not having taken the time to clear it before getting launched.
"By the Gods…" Gonzales said with a shaky breath
"May I?" Aponiv asked reaching his hand out. Kirk giving a nod.
After a few moments of looking it over, it was pristine. To the eyes of Aponiv, it was like looking at a perfectly cut Emerald or Ruby. "This has gotta be worth…Heh, at least a couple Thousand Libraes…"
Leroys eyes lit up with the same grin to, as did Jeannes before all three began leaning on one another, Jeanne pulling a sponge from her satchel and holding it out
"A Sponge? Those are Expensive too…"
"Say, What if we Exchanged all out Sea Berry to you guys as thanks for Housing, and in turn we take off all that Gold and Loot that comes from the Ships?" Spoke Leroy.
Leroy slowly nodded his head as he watched some of the Labor workers of Skyderia Load up boxes and boxes of gold onto the palm. Kále and Noir were the main ones to do a lot of the heavy lifting, but where they could Dezzi and Raven helped.
Dezzi was able to lift an Impressive amount of weight, even if it was Fractions of what Kále and Noir could. A solid few tons of cold in the large crates. As for Raven, she was able to use 4 arms on one crate to move them along a conveyor of arms.
As for Jeanne, well. She struggled to haul any of the gold. Beads of sweat rolling down her brow as she took the lightest of the loads. Even at only a few hundred pounds she struggled to shove them up the ramp.
Sure, Kirk could've done it, being able to lift 10 tons. But there was no one more trusting on accurate takings of money than him. And then there was Leroy, who was just- Lazy.
"Each crate has an assortment of Jewels, Silver, Gold, and I spotted a few Platinum oz's in there. At about 648 kgs…And theres" He looked down from his note pad and counted with the pen "30 crates?"
"Though some of those are purely bars, some are Berry" He scratched one of the strands from his chin as he thought it over
"Thats-" He pushed the rim of his glasses up "At least, and I'm talking at the Barest of minimums, Over 10 billion Berry Cap."
A grin came over both their faces, signs of Berry yet again almost breaking from the whites of their eyes as they suddenly embraced each other, bouncing up and down repeating over and over
"We're rich! We're Rich! We're Rich!"
*
Jeanne flopped onto the full wool bed of the Suite "Ugh-" Her voice was muffled as she let out an exasperated sigh of exhaustion
Turning her head to the side she spoke "You sure we did the right thing by the way? I know they use Sea Berry but I kinda feel bad."
"Why? We just basically minted them Huge amounts of money into their Economy." Kirk said slipping his sandals off "And it wasn't enough that it would Crash it or anything, we basically just gave them what they gave us. All of that would've eventually gone into it from what Aponiv said."
Raven sat down as one of the Tables, crossing her legs. "Kirk has a point. It'd be different if we were something like the World Government, Minting Billions of Notes. But even with such a small country, 486,000 Libraes isn't much. On top of that it was still done in an Exchange. So the Value is still up held"
Noir finally slipped off his loafers, loosening his tie and lighting up. "Jeez, this place is nice."
The room was painted with Yellows and Browns accenting the corners in the shapes of squares of interchanging hues. He had an almost childish glee, eyes shifting around the room "Look at that paint!"
"And the Decor is nice too!" He said pointing to a thread weaved net or web that hung on the wall, similar to a dreamcatcher. A few decorative bottle lined the shelves, flowers. When suddenly he had to cut his adoration short
"Oh shit is there an ashtray anywhere?!" He frantically looked around as a bit of ash formed at the hot end of his tobacco. "Shit!"
He pulled his Handkerchief out and caught the ash, pulling the lit piece of paper out of his mouth and slowly tapping it out, giving a sigh. "Guess that'll have to wait…"
But the momentary dissatisfaction washed away as he continued to smile, further admiring the well put together presentation of the room, looking to the gas lanterns fueled by what Dezzi thought aloud were Reels