the prophesied academy arc... even here...

typically, people with wealth value stability over slight marginal gains from chance. Most people on the street, when offered $20 or a 50% shot for 50$ would choose the 20 despite it having a lower expected value. As the gamble here had a LOWER expected value than the garuntee, going with it truly made no sense at all... it's just not how people who plan for the long term think. this whole ordeal would be so much more acceptable if the potion was sold at, at minimum, 15 or so billion. (I'm assuming that the total gp value was 1 billion) if he was a person coming from an impoverished background, such frugality would be understandable and offer a chance for character development, but with his wealthy, educated, background, going for a gamble with lower expected value is nigh inexcusable. gods this whole thing bothers me so much

literal idiot for not buying the 9b one. I will keep on commenting this. it was such a forced plot contrivance that I think it annoys me even more than all the time he spends being all disgusting and lusty.

again, not buying the 9b one was such a weird, unthought out, course of action.

like seriously, do you actually think all orbits are circular? just take an example everyone knows of, like halley's comet. that thing gets 70x further than its closest point every single time it orbits. The orbit is completely stable, no one is moving it in or out.

my dude, elliptical orbits are literally the norm

... if the success rate is almost less than 50% and a single batch of ingredients, excluding what he previously bought in earlier places, is already 4b(plus the commission price of like 600m? I don't remember), isn't that 9b a good deal?

good good good, it makes sense that these exist in the story

some? empirically, better than all the ones in this game.

oh, I see, it's only to stay inside the alliance. that works, could be rephrased to be less clickbait

remember, their goal here is to win, not just to defeat landlord.

it just doesn't make sense when their actual life is on the line. they're playing like spiteful rpg players with respawn capabilities and no care for the death penalty

here's what I don't get: there can be only one winner. if they hunt and do not fish, they will fall behind in fp. their ONLY win condition is when everyone else is dead because they're so far behind. thus, for any hunter in this agreement to profit, they must kill all those higher than them. knowing this, why would they accept the deal? they're putting themselves in a potentially worse situation. the fishers immediately become the targets of all the hunters and the hunters get far behind anyone not participating.

consumables be like

wait... is this on his island from the beginning?

90%sure he means impeccable

uhhh author... math pls... you don't gotta do it, especially if it's wrong. like there's literally no need for us to know the exact density, just make comparisons.

yea, it's tragically common on this site. It's always so uncomfortable to read. like many tropes, I wonder what drives authors to include it.

draught-undesirable draft or large amount of beverage consumed at once drought-a lack of

a thought: I would think that the nanoarmour gifting would have been significant enough for him to have remembered it. I can't recall any signs of him doing so, though. did he change something that allowed earth to cut that deal or was he just under a rock before?