Painquelling lozenge? The first thing he puts up for sale is a painquelling lozenge? And that price....0

The burly man started breathing heavily, as if he didn’t dare to believe what he was seeing. He checked again, just to make sure he wasn’t hallucinating.2

Only one hundred drops of godservant blood?10

The burly man was almost struck senseless. Although painquelling lozenges were rare, having been in the Moonrebel Congregation for years, he had seen them for sale many times. Thus, he knew how outrageously expensive they could be. In his memory, he had never seen any painquelling lozenge offered for such a low price. At first, he suspected that it might be some sort of scam.4

However, in the Moonrebel Congregation, the way transactions worked was that the seller had to put the sales item on display so that potential buyers could inspect it. For one thing, that forestalled inadvertent mistakes. Beyond that, it made it possible to inflict severe penalties in the case of fraud. In minor cases of fraud, the result might be trade sanctions on that temple. But in severe cases, the owner could be expelled from the Moonrebel Congregation, and never allowed to return. Because of that, most people never tried to run scams. It just wasn’t worth it.2

The burly man looked closer at the pill. After examining it, he started breathing even more heavily, and his heart started pounding. Turning, he rushed out of the temple.2

A mistake! From the time I joined the Moonrebel Congregation...4