799 Modern Market
As the morning wore on, more of the crystals were traded to the stations in exchange for coins and charges on the cards, while a few larger merchants who had come from the other towns had decided to get their cubes charged with their earnings.
Even if there was some movement to reject the cubes and cards as money, they still contained mana, and that had a value of its own, the same as the crystals that they were exchanging. There really was no way that they would lose out in the process, and simply possessing the new currency was enough to show that you supported Forest Grove and its efforts to unify the Frozen Wastes.
That was a fact that wasn't lost on the Fae and Demons who were serving as guardians of the villages. Since they arrived, they had essentially been operating autonomously, but now it was clear that there would be an overseer of the whole territory, with a unified currency, rules and regulations.