No surprise Will was able to handle Meneldor with ease. He just recently defeated a god after all.

Isn’t it nice when you’re rich enough to throw money at a problem and make it go away just like that?

Also, bug repellant spell FTW! Wish I had a spell like that to ward off the annoying mosquitoes so common here. :p

As a broke man, this hurts T^T lol

I blame gacha for me T^T lol

Gacha is the true Antagonist. xD

I thought that elf was a she and the subtitle keeps saying he and I noticed the elf is flat

In much folklore elves are portrayed as people with, fine delicate features even in the menfolk.

Children can essily count the amount in my wallet lol

You guys have wallets??

What is money can I eat it?🤔

What is does "eat" mean?

I thought we only ate Air.

Money?

I've heard of this myth. It's the thing that goes «poof»

Problem solve thanks to the money of Gus that he gave to will

Can you guys give me some cash??

Gus will be proud. Will use money to solve problem.

Money talks and does the walk lol

Modern problems requires Money
xD

if that was the case then they could of bought their freedom but that evil god wasnt having any of it. cant buy everything with it.

Broke people problems require Rich people solutions😂

If I remember there's more money in Gus place and yeah money solve it with a prayer

Doesn't work lik that I prayed and prayed and became a devout Paladin of the Church of Zakarum.. and I found out I have to slay monster and loot them... but then again, after the drugs wear off, I found myself behind bars and sentenced for life for slaughter, ransom n gruesome acts against civillians!!!

the prob;em there is... how to get back? He was already lost when he met Legolas' look a like.

not sure if he will be too thrilled he's just spending it without an ROI. Guss did task him with making the fortune grow.

Well he did up his reputation there so can probably get a gd hassle out of it later on and once he cleared the other infested village then he pretty much owns that place sounds like a gd start to me xD

Sometimes you gotta just solve things with money.

Money is always the cheat code

Will putting the money in use that Gus gave him....Well world works with money. xD

it is a little surprising it works in these parts though. I mean there's no law enforcement. Stands to reason there's no established market either. Trading (of goods) may overtake currency especially if villages are effectively isolated. In this environment money may become worthless (kinda like diamonds when you're starving in the desert).

Not really. They don't need to be particularly isolated not to have law enforcement in a pre-modern setting, they just need to be insignificant enough for the established central authority to not care whether their laws are enforced over there (or to lack the manpower to enforce it, etc.) For example, much of the rural Middle East spent pretty big chunks of the medieval era without central authorities with the resources to appoint judges all over it, and most villages in those times and places just put off resolving their less-urgent disputes until the next time a traveling legal scholar showed up to mediate; there was a whole profession of knowing Islamic law well and traveling the countryside, charging court/consulting fees to get by.

Fair enough. Puts the environment into perspective.

lel Caliphate

What's pre-modern in you opinion. https://en.wikipedia.org/wi... is modern you think... going for thousands of years?

Yes, I was specifically referring to the period following fracturing of the Abbasid Caliphate into autonomous territories in the 10th century, which left the countryside of the area without authorities strong and stable enough to maintain a central legal hierarchy, leading to fakis turning up to pick up the slack. And it's a pretty common piece of categorization that modernity begins somewhere around the late-15th to early-16th century CE, which was what I was going for.

Indeed but people would still value it considering they came from the more urbanised centrally controlled areas as suggested

Modern law enforcement pretty much was organized in 19 (large cities) -20 (rural areas) centuries.

Until then small villages had to either rely on appealing for aid for their higher authority (like suzerain) and wait if he graces his attention, or fend off for themselves. Larger villages could have judge figure appointed (to avoid bothering big-shot nobles with petty disputes) and some sort of militia organized (usually with main task as fire watch, not law enforcement)

And death punishment was the main type of punishment in Middle Ages for most crimes because prisons was mostly for nobles, common criminals was nowhere to isolate.

It not barred them having "established markets", because nobles (who owned land and most of assets) could afford to have protection and some sort of pre-agreed rules for themselves.

Nice trivia. How is this relevant?
Barter was very common in real life aswell. It's not at all obvious why inividuals of a marginalised village that pretty much focuses all it's resources on survival would care about something like money. The way the villages are portrait at this point there's no way to make 'use' of that money to buy anything that cannot be more easiely negotiated with direct exchange of goods and services. There's literally nothing shown, that'd make someone need money in the environment shown so far.

They not exactly marginalized village - people there live in houses and pretty large, instead of simple dugouts or very basic wooden huts, like most medieval small settlements IRL. This require certain logistics and knowledge.

And it is is hard to accumulate goods, money is better as saving measure - it takes less space.

How do you know how marginalised the villages are?
They seem pretty isolated to me it's not been explicitly stated though.

Again I'll point out the fact, that barter was common in most medieval small settlements IRL aswell. This gives room for the question how much precieved value money and gems will have in that environment. Additionally Wills resources will not be of modern currency. None of what you're saying chanes the question of interest.

Your point was that they don't have money because the lack of law enforcement.
IRL money was still used by common folk even before modern policing systems came into existence just because they are really are continent invention. Often in medieval times local powers (like feudals or bishops) produced their own money, which had value in precious metals content, and valued by weight and material.

No, my point was that precious metals or pretty stones lose might not be precieved as valuable and barter may become dominant as the living conditions approach bare survival.
I never said they wouldn't have money 'because they lack law enforcement' (which they don't as you pointed out they can govern themselves as shown). I pointed out that money may (and didn't IRL) the role of importance it would be associated with. It's not unreasonable at all to note if a large part of those villagers are gonna go 'and what use are does stones and metals gonna be to us?'.

You also completely ingored my question. I'll exit this conversation since it has degressed into you 'correcting' what my point was in direct contradiction to my additional explanations.

Precious metals don't degrade over time, and relatively easy to work with - so earliest precious jewelry appeared around as soon as metal smelting. Yep, in situation of "bare survival", like active warzone, they might lose value - but this not the situation we see here. They just frontier village, unimportant to protect by nearest state (or deliberately set up that way - implied by the story). If they gain more wealth or there will be war, and their location gain strategic value, some sort of tax-collector and judge might appear, but otherwise they described unimportant to bother authorities.

They described in a situation which is hardly an situation of "bare survival" - once again: muli-store stone houses, stage in the center of settlement; which means they have time and resources to do some public projects, in addition just for personal survival.

Fair enough, my impression was rather distorted.

Peasants wives like shiny baubles too. There is no currency like a happy spouse.

I literally laughed out loud :D

I thought the humanity in this world are extinct and money is useless here lol

Some of this is wrong assumptions. They know where the central city is and there is a road to get there. A map was shown last ep. Also they could travel there (long journey true) and get provisions not able to make locally with money, if they had any. So, money does hold a value, it's just difficult to come by, has a delayed gratification attached to it, and is earlier to transport than goods to be bartered. Since many there are adventurers seeking riches in the ruins we can assume they know just how valuable money is to be risking their lives out in the sticks looking for old versions of it.

The reason why I never camp is bugs

I would also love to learn such a spell and mosquitoes + ect are bad where I live as well