Monster Material Price List

Fresh water ghost gill membrane: 2 silver coins/pair (union purchase price. Collection requirements: peel off alive, avoid dying bites, and maintain good quality. Risk: 60% probability of finger rupture. Ice scar complete poison gland: 10 silver coins (invalid if the heartbeat stops for more than 3 minutes. Collection requirements: freeze the head immediately after killing and professionally peel it off. Risk: poison gland leakage causing general paralysis. Snow Demon Ice Crystal Core: 50 silver coins (half a month's tuition for a mage). Collection requirements: crush the chest accurately and pick it up before it explodes. Risk: Ice pick scattering, no bones left. This is not a catalog, this is the hard-earned bills of low-level adventurers. On the edge of frozen soil, swamps, and dense forests, they waved their knives silently, exchanging lives and skills for bronze stars. Skinning, deboning, removing glands, digging cores... Every step is permeated with the smell of monsters and its own risks. Exquisite craftsmanship is only to preserve the quality of the materials and avoid fines from the labor union's harsh regulations. Most of the harvest brought back by the desperate efforts and the meager money gained flowed into the treasury of the Adventurer's Guild - high deposits, harsh failure penalties, "reasonable losses" learning commissions... The cold rules are like a noose, tightened around the neck of every mercenary struggling to survive. The empire's dignitaries are changing, the church's scriptures are being rewritten, and the distant dragon shadow is whispering? It's all too far away. Their daily routine involves calculating the costs and benefits of the next commission, worrying about tomorrow's food and rent, and standing in front of the trade union counter, watching the materials they exchanged for their lives be marked with a cold purchase price.