Fake Money?

While Violet bathed, she pulled up her building screen and built a 5 meters hallway and 15 meters x 16 meters square room. This one was parallel to the garden meadow room, but it would be much less kind to adventurers. Now that a good chunk of the first floor had been filled with rooms, it seemed like a good idea to slightly increase the difficulty. Of course, that didn't mean that Violet intended for them to be too dangerous, though. This floor was still meant for children and beginner adventurers, after all.

David was kind and didn't return for far longer than Violet actually needed to bathe. While his consideration was very much appreciated, it had caused Violet to worry that he wasn't going to return that day. So, she was very relieved when he finally came back into the dungeon.

"I brought you some cheese today."

Violet raised an eyebrow at that, wondering what kind of cheese it was exactly. However, David didn't offer up any details. Violet didn't bother insisting he clarify either. Knowing her system, it was unlikely to differentiate the cheeses either. It hadn't exactly specified other things like types of grass either, so it must not matter that much. Still, Violet hoped her system would, at least, use the right types of cheese for the right situation. She didn't want a soft cheese to show up if she tried to make a storage room or something. A hard cheese was less likely to mold and go bad when being left out, but a soft cheese was most certainly temperature-sensitive.

"I set up a new room. It's meant as a room for resting and has a garden meadow theme. It should also have a good number of new resources to harvest. I am trying to charge people tribute to use it, but it should be fine if you want to check it out this once."

David shook his head as he replied

"No, I'll pay the tribute if we are to use the room. I don't have much, but I can spare some copper coins. I don't really tend to carry around random extra [Items] with me that I can use as tributes, but I can't exactly leave my coin purse lying around unattended either."

Violet shrugged, not really caring to argue about it. She didn't exactly need copper coins since she couldn't get them as a summonable [Item] and she already had copper as a [Base Resource]. Still, even a single dungeon point was something and they were bound to add up over time. Plus, there was something fitting about coins being tossed into a wishing well. Although, that did bring up a different concern.

"How are coins managed? If dungeons can't produce the coins, but people are always leaving them as tribute in dungeons, it doesn't seem very sustainable."

David looked thoughtful as he replied

"From my understanding, the metals needed to produce coins can be harvested from dungeons. However, only the royal family and their trusted subordinates know the official techniques to make the coins. Copper isn't just melted down and poured into molds, special magic has to be used to certify the coins as official currency of the kingdom."

That actually sounded pretty smart to Violet. It would be harder to create counterfeit coins with such a specific method. Although, that certainly raised some other questions.

"How do you know if a coin is a fake or not? Does everyone know some sort of magic to test for it? Is it just an honor system where you trust the coins not to be fake?"

David shook his head as he replied

"No, it's nothing like that. The magic used on the coins are a special type of enchantment with magic to hide the spell's exact design from all but those trained to recognize it. All official banks have to have someone who can check the coins employed there and it can only be open when someone is there to check the incoming coins.

Merchants and banks also keep extensive logs, from what I've heard. So an investigation can be launched right away if anyone is caught with counterfeit coins. Without the logs, the merchants would even seem suspicious, so they tend to keep close track of who they do business with."

With the additional knowledge of it being enchantment magic, Violet had to wonder if simply hiding the design was enough. Surely it wouldn't be that difficult for an enchanter to figure out how to do the same thing? Of course, Violet didn't really know how enchanting worked either. So she could be entirely wrong about that.

Still, it had to be better than just adding tiny serial numbers and special materials into the mix while changing tiny details here and there year after year. That was how Violet's country had done things with its paper money. Yet there were tons of shows and everything else about how people would make counterfeit money and then launder the money as part of a crime syndicate. Violet didn't actually know that much about money and such, so she dropped the conversation there. Her curiosity had been sated, for now, so that was good enough for her.

David almost made it all the way to the other side of the slime parkour challenge before failing once more. Watching him struggle with the puzzles so much day after day made Violet wonder if they were too difficult. It was entirely possible that they were just too different from the sorts of puzzles normally used in this world or that David had poor coordination. However, it still made Violet question whether her first floor was actually suitable for beginner adventurers if even David was struggling this much.

Still, only the slime parkour challenge was actually that dangerous and it was likely it would become significantly easier if she changed the time of day and weather to something safer. However, this was one of the only safety precautions Violet really had in her dungeon. So, she was hesitant to change it before she could unlock a new floor and add in some proper defenses.

After David left the first time, Violet spent the 50MP on a new spawner for her newest room. She planned to turn it into a challenge room, but figured there was no harm in including some basic slimes in it as well. The five slimes were, of course, bought after swordsmanship training was over and David left once more. While it was only a dead end room right now, Violet figured it didn't hurt to set the [Monsters] up first thing.