@Amariithynar @InfiniteParadox I get what you guys are sayin but masks themselves aren't a new art - maybe the hyper realistic like the one Adis uses are like you said - so the princess could've just offered a reward to any skilled sculptor out there to make a decent mask with actual facial...
im surprised that even though the princess is royalty all she has is some cheap mask to cover up her scar while mc is able to source a way better mask for his own face.
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Oh right good catch I forgot the cost of the mercenaries factors into profit, I was thinking of the goods only. Maybe I implicitly thought the cost difference between 10 and 30 mercenaries is nothing compared to the profit difference from 1x and 3x goods but I wouldn't really know.
The more profit because hired blue wolf mercs logic is weak. I think it's more like
more profit because sold more goods
sold more goods because transported more goods
transported more goods because hired more people (30 instead of 10, anyways whats the exact relationship here?)
And then the...
my guess is he makes the apples "special" somehow and sells them. maybe he just somehow makes the bitterness of the apples the selling point. or applesauce
kind of related: in Spice and Wolf they did a thing where they had furs/apples stored together so the furs were infused with apple smell...