Chapter 309: New Divine-grade ability!
Climbing out of the game pod, it was already high noon. After grabbing a quick bite, Li Xiang headed to the company.
Wang Zhiyan and the others had already arrived.
Lu Qingshui was interviewing the applicants.
Wang Zhiyan was discussing the current situation of the game in the conference room.
Li Xiang's arrival interrupted the meeting. Waving his hand to signal them to continue, Li Xiang found a chair and sat down.
The main speaker of the meeting was Liu Yunfeng, who was currently discussing the Guild's income and expenses.
"Currently, the exchange rate between gold coins and real currency in the game has stabilized, at roughly 1 gold coin to 100 yuan, which means 1 copper coin is equivalent to 1 yuan."
"Our Gods Guild has continuous income projects such as the Savage Mine and shops. The continuous mining of the mine every day, after deducting all expenses, yields a net profit of 10,000 gold coins. However, the internal structure of the mine has been quite complex recently, and hiring professional NPCs for surveying and breaking through costs a considerable amount."
This was the income from the Savage Mine, a daily inflow of 10,000 gold coins, which translates to a net profit of one million yuan per day in real currency.
It seemed like a lot, but the Gods Guild alone consumed a lot of gold coins just for daily operations.
The Gods Guild currently had over a thousand members, and as a top Guild with excellent benefits, many basic needs of the Guild members were covered by the Guild.
For example, equipment maintenance and basic potion supply.
This was just a small portion.
Maintaining the Guild warehouse was the major expense.
Aside from members voluntarily putting items into the warehouse daily in exchange for points, a portion of items were procured by a dedicated purchasing team established by the Guild in various Cities. To ensure the Guild warehouse had a large quantity, wide variety, and high value of items, significant expenditure was required.
In short, the net profit of 10,000 gold coins could only barely maintain the Guild's daily expenses.
The real income came from the shops.
However, the ownership of the shops was in Li Xiang's hands, and in a strict sense, they belonged to Li Xiang personally and not the Guild.
Li Xiang only opened up a portion of the shop's profits to the Guild. Even so, the Guild had a daily income of 100,000 gold coins.
"Currently, our Guild's funds amount to 13 million gold coins. After upgrading to a town-level Guild, the consumption has increased significantly. Fortunately, there's the shop income brought by the Guild Leader."
"The Guild's financial operations are currently without any issues."
Li Xiang nodded.
After the Guild upgraded to town-level, there were many operations that could be performed.
Currently within the Guild Residence, the infrastructure was complete, and it was not an exaggeration to consider it a miniature City.
While large, the daily consumption was also enormous.
Fortunately, there was the income from the shops in Wu Shuang City.
After listening to the entire meeting, Li Xiang told them to go back and rest well, and prepare for the new recruitment in the game tonight.
...
At night, after dinner, Li Xiang climbed into the game pod.
Online.
He appeared in the Guild Residence again.
Outside the Residence, there were still crowds of players, eagerly anticipating today's recruitment.
"Did you hear? Overnight yesterday, thirteen more Guilds appeared in our Wu Shuang City."
"Do you even need to hear about such a big matter... Thirteen life profession Guilds, all prefixed with 'Gods', clearly subsidiary Guilds of the Gods Guild."
"It seems the Gods Guild is preparing to develop specialized Guilds."
"Those life professions are really lucky; they can join."
"Is it still possible to switch to a life profession now...?"
"Don't even think about it... I've given up hope."
"..."
Li Xiang did not participate in the second day's recruitment. He sat in the Town Hall, checking the information of the thirteen life Guilds.
Gods Potion Guild, Gods Forging Guild, Gods Formation Guild...
A total of thirteen common or slightly less common life profession Guilds, covering almost all aspects of life professions in the game.
"Okay, open up recruitment. Fill them all."
Upon receiving Li Xiang's instructions, Liu Yunfeng immediately went to issue the announcement.
Li Xiang took out a roulette from his backpack.
god-tier ability roulette.
Several days had passed since he obtained it.
Click to activate.
A golden roulette appeared.
The large pointer began to spin as Li Xiang flicked his finger.
The pointer spun very fast at first, then gradually slowed down.
Finally, it came to a complete stop, landing on a Divine-grade ability marked with a skull.
"Ding! Congratulations on obtaining the Divine-grade ability 'Blessing of the god of the undead'."
"Blessing of the god of the undead"
Effect 1: After killing a target, you can turn it into an Undead (Undead possess 100% of the original body's attributes, ineffective against players, daily limit 100, today 0/100).
Effect 2: Resurrect Undead. Can resurrect subordinate Undead. After resurrection, attributes revert to their original state.
Effect 3: Subordinate Undead gain attribute boosts as their existence time increases (attributes reset after resurrection).
Effect 4: Unknown
...
Laughter erupted from the Town Hall.
Players in the Residence looked curiously at the Town Hall.
They all knew that the only person who could sit in the Town Hall and laugh loudly during the day was the President.
"It sounds like the President is very happy."
"Maybe he's happy because our Gods Guild is getting bigger."
"Then we must work hard. The President is always at the forefront, Charging and fighting, bearing so much pressure for us."
"Let's encourage each other, everyone!"
"..."
Outside the Guild Residence, Li Xiang, mounted on his Crimson Flame Steed, appeared beyond the Tianhuang Mountains, heading towards the extreme south.
As a City,
the maximum level of Monster areas within Wu Shuang City's range was Level 80.
This was the limit of Monster levels that a City could accommodate.
Higher-level Monsters would cause trouble for the City.
Monsters above Level 80 could only be found in super first-level Cities, which were the Imperial Capitals of the Dragon Flame Empire.
However, those were places that only opened up at Level 80.
"One hundred per day... Without being able to find BOSSes, the higher the level of the Monster, the greater the help it provides for the current situation."
...
Half an hour later, while recruitment at the Gods Guild Residence was in full swing, Li Xiang arrived at the Level 80 Monster area, Shadow Swamp.
He chose this place because the Monsters here all had one skill: Stealth!
In other words, the Monsters here were Assassin-type Monsters, and they were humanoid Monsters.
This was discovered by a Guild player who was accidentally teleported here while doing a quest.
The surroundings were dim. Although it was daytime, the swamp was very dark. Tall, twisted trees completely blocked out the sunlight, leaving only a few dappled tree shadows mixed with weak light falling onto the swamp.
It was known from the Guild player's account that
the Monsters here were humanoid, capable of moving on the swamp without being affected in the slightest, and could unleash high-damage combos.
If he could command a group of such subordinates, it would be very suitable for causing trouble for the Demon Guild in the Beautiful Country.
Standing casually on a slightly drier patch of land, Li Xiang deliberately made noise, waiting for the Monsters to attack.
A few seconds later, a faint whooshing sound appeared. Li Xiang knew the Monsters were coming!
Magic War Shield!
Shield up.
The attack arrived.
Check attributes.
【LV???．Shadow Assassin】
Quality: Elite
HP: ???
Physical Attack: ???
Physical Defense: ???
Magic Defense: ???
Skills: ???
【Commentary: An Assassin hidden in the shadows. Once their figure is exposed, there will be bleeding.】
All question marks.
This indicated a very high level, and it was an Elite Monster.
"Very good!"
A halberd strike swept out.
Magic Dao Slash!