Chapter 29: Auction
The old Village Chief looked at Li Xiang, his eyes filled with respect and reverence, praising Li Xiang effusively.
Finally, the old Village Chief spoke, "Respected adventurer, could you give me the proof of defeating Bear Ba?"
Proof of defeat?
Li Xiang took out all the miscellaneous items that dropped after killing Bear Ba.
Seeing Bear Ba's head, the old Village Chief was very excited, "Thank you, brave adventurer! All the villagers will thank you! I have decided to grant you the title of 'Honorary Village Chief'!!!"
As the Village Chief finished speaking, a string of system prompts popped up.
【Ding! '0069 Novice Village Village Chief' favorability +50, current value: 50】
【Ding! Relationship with 0069 Novice Village Village Chief has reached: Respect】
【Ding! 'All villagers of 0069 Novice Village' favorability +80, current value: 80】
【Ding! Relationship with all villagers of 0069 Novice Village has reached: Respect】
【Ding! The Village Chief of 0069 Novice Village has granted you the title 'Honorary Village Chief'!】
【Ding! By protecting the safety of the entire Novice Village single-handedly, you have obtained the title 'Village Hero'!】
【Ding! You have single-handedly defeated the 0069 Novice Village Guardian BOSS, received the Village Chief's gratitude, reward: Experience Points x 100,000, Gold +50】
【Ding! You have single-handedly defeated the 0069 Novice Village Guardian BOSS, received the gratitude of all villagers, reward: Experience Points x 800,000, Gold +100】
【Ding! Congratulations on leveling up, current level: 15.】
【Ding! Level up reward, Free Attribute Points +5】
Listening to the string of system prompts, Li Xiang was a little stunned.
It turns out the rewards for defeating the Guardian BOSS hadn't been fully distributed yet!!!
A reward of 150 gold coins was undoubtedly a huge sum!
"I even got a title and a designation!!"
Honorary Village Chief title! Although it wouldn't give Li Xiang any power in the Novice Village, to a certain extent, the villagers would be very willing to cooperate with Li Xiang's activities.
As for the designation, it was extraordinary. Li Xiang remembered from the official introduction that designations came with attributes and were difficult to obtain. After obtaining one, a designation could be worn and would display before the ID, which was very cool and showy!!!
"Village Hero: You are the hero of the entire Village. When active in any Village, basic villager favorability +10."
Favorability determines how enthusiastic an NPC is towards you, whether you can smoothly receive quests, and it is said... that if favorability with an opposite-sex NPC reaches a certain level, you can even develop a romantic relationship, which is also a point that attracts a large number of players to the game, emphasizing realism!
After the old Village Chief chattered for a while longer, he let Li Xiang leave.
Pushing open the Village Chief's door, Li Xiang saw a large number of players still crowding outside like crazy.
Seeing Li Xiang, they went crazy again.
However, unlike the previous frenzy, the players standing at the front of the line now had neat equipment and were not as agitated as ordinary players.
"Lord Qu Ming, our Floating Sky Guild President asked me to make a deal with you on behalf of the Guild."
"I am the Vice President of Xingqiong Guild! Lord Qu Ming, our Guild wants to buy the bronze equipment chests you have!"
"Lord Qu Ming, I am..."
A large group of people announced their names, all from various Guilds.
Among them, some Guilds Li Xiang was familiar with and felt he had heard of, while others were quite unfamiliar.
However, this was exactly an opportunity to sell off the items he had.
Those bronze-grade equipment chests, and the equipment dropped from killing monsters, were basically useless to him. His inventory was about to be full, it was time to clear some out.
His gaze flickered, and Li Xiang saw Liu Yunfeng being squeezed and struggling in the queue, so he beckoned to him.
Instantly, under the gaze of all the players, Liu Yunfeng walked to the front.
But he was still blocked by the guard NPC.
Li Xiang looked at the guard, "He is my friend."
The guard NPC immediately nodded, "Yes! Honorary Village Chief!"
Liu Yunfeng was let in.
Then, all the players were shocked.
Honorary Village Chief?!
"Holy cow!!! Lord Qu Ming has become the Village Chief!!!"
"My god!!! You can even be an official in the game?!"
"This is too realistic!!!"
"Little Cui from the north of the Village is pretty and lovely, I was planning to brush up her intimacy and start a relationship! Lord Qu Ming wouldn't use his power to snatch her from me, would he?!"
"Damn it, that Little Cui weighs two hundred pounds, and you can still stomach that?! Damn! Don't doubt Lord Qu Ming's taste, okay?!"
"..."
Liu Yunfeng walked up to Li Xiang, trembling with excitement.
He didn't expect that even after the quest ended, Lord Qu Ming would still be willing to take him along!!
Li Xiang looked at the players in front, "You are all from various Guild forces... Since you want to cooperate, let's all come together."
After speaking, Li Xiang walked in front, heading straight for the Village's tavern.
Normally, no players came to this tavern; even the worst wine cost 5 copper coins, which was not something ordinary players could afford.
Soon, the representatives of the various forces in this Village were all seated, looking at Li Xiang excitedly.
Li Xiang scanned the area and took out the bronze-grade equipment chests, "Many of you should want this, right?"
Immediately, all the force representatives nodded.
That was 100 bronze-grade equipment chests!!!
No matter which force obtained them, they could greatly enhance the strength of the Elite within their force!!!
At this stage, on the first day of the server's opening, let alone bronze-grade equipment, many players hadn't even seen black iron-grade equipment!!
"Then we'll adopt an auction format, the highest bidder wins. One hundred will be bundled and sold together, no installments accepted."
Li Xiang's words immediately extinguished the heated hearts of some forces.
Auction was the most reasonable solution.
But selling one hundred bundled together, they were just small forces and simply couldn't afford so many equipment chests!
The few major forces present, however, were excited.
They were just afraid that Li Xiang would sell them in batches, after all, although small forces were small, it wasn't a big problem for them to take a batch by pooling all their resources.
"Lord Qu Ming, I am Xing Qiong Dadi, Vice President of Xingqiong Guild. The number of bronze chests is large, and as for game currency... we can't produce much.
We haven't reached the main city yet, and we can't raise game currency from players in other Guilds. Is transfer in real currency acceptable?"
His words were also the sentiment of some forces.
How precious was game currency now! Let alone using it to buy equipment, the Guild itself didn't have enough.
Li Xiang was overjoyed in his heart, real currency was exactly what he wanted. He already had a large sum of game currency on him, what else did he need.
On the surface, Li Xiang remained calm, "Yes, make your bids."
As Li Xiang's words fell, Xing Qiong Dadi immediately spoke, "My Xingqiong Guild bids 2 million!"
2 million!! One hundred chests, that's 20,000 per chest!
Li Xiang was excited in his heart!!
His original intention for playing this game was for money! Now money was so close to him.
But Li Xiang knew that he couldn't show excitement at this time. Suppressing his emotions, Li Xiang continued to observe.
"My Floating Sky Guild bids 2.2 million!"
"Luan Shi Guild, bids 2.4 million!"
"...2.8 million!"
"...3 million!"
"...3.4 million!"
"..."
The price kept getting higher, and Li Xiang's heart also pounded as the price climbed!