Ok...let me level with you here SE...

[Prothscar]

Empyreans would cost, with 60 dross/cinder for basic and 3,000 for afterglow, assuming 1.5m dross/cinder which is in the middle of the high/low, and 100k per plate:

240,000,000 for the basic 99 trial (+5 stat and +10~25 base damage depending on the weapon)

4,650,000,000 for the afterglow


How is that reasonable Atoreis.

Hint: it isn't.

Btw, if curious, if each cinder/dross cost 3m, it'd cost 9,150,000,000. Nine billion gil. The difference between, using Ukonvasara as an example, a lv90 weapon and 99 weapon is 7% DoT.