Chapter 225: Chapter 225: Not Bad, Young Man (An Addition for 150 Monthly Tickets)
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Only after Li Yao returned to the main city did he learn that players had stopped leveling up even during the daylight hours in the game, and were constantly raiding the master level.
Originally, only Li Yao’s success in the raid had caused some urgency for them, as he was seen as an exception. But that changed when Cronovin successfully obtained a special spider pet and then ignited the corpse.
The enormous guilds, now crazed, searched everywhere for the rarely seen spider pet. Players are powerful, after all, and spiders are one of the most common monsters in the kingdom of ancient gods. So, several guilds managed to find special spider pets.
As a result, all guilds began to seek skilled hunters and after several attempts, many of them successfully ignited the corpse.
Seeing their rivals benefit, all the guilds went mad with jealousy and couldn’t give up their advantage, so they began to challenge the second boss. This consequently led to the popularity of the Shining Fruit.
Seizing the opportunity, Li Yao raised the price of Shining Fruit to 4 gold per bundle.
Previously, the larger guilds would never have agreed to such an outrageous price even when they weren’t raiding, but the guilds that were already tempted didn’t seem to care about the high prices now.
The number of Shining Fruits in Li Yao’s hands once again dwindled, with less than half of his stock remaining.
In this frenzy of wealth accumulation, Li Yao himself pocketed at least ninety percent of the profits. The rest went to speculators who had accidentally hoarded Shining Fruit and players who had trained in botany. The popularity of the Shining Fruit allowed all of them to benefit.
However, as the number of botany players was too vast and scattered, compared to the profits made by Li Yao, their gains were negligible.
Because of the price increase, Li Yao’s wallet had expanded considerably. Including the gold coins mailed by Zhao Lei, his collection had balloosed to a massive 20,000.
20,000 is such an impressive figure that Li Yao can confidently claim that, among all the players in the game, he would be second to none.
Li Yao continued to shop in the auction house, and this time his sister Li and Feng Yi also joined in. The three of them divided the work and swept their respective categories in the auction.
The gold was flowing like water, and the guild’s warehouse was continuously expanding, which made the guild members eager to earn points.
Li Yao’s guild warehouse had expanded five to six times more than before. Screenshots were posted online, and they immediately caused an uproar on the forum.
A lot of guilds soberly realized that they were actually assisting Starfire Guild’s growth with their own resources, but it was too late to reverse the trend.
You think Shining Fruit is too expensive? Well, don’t buy it. There are scores of guilds waiting to buy it. There are countless guilds, especially those from other administrative districts, who are looking for ways to get in touch with Li Yao.
“I think we have almost enough equipment, we should stop now. The guild upgrade, and increase of members should be enough.” Sister Li put the last batch of items into the guild warehouse and said.
“Hmm, I’ve noticed some serious price fluctuations in the auction house. Traders have already started to make plans for us.” Feng Yi also noted.
“Well then, let’s stop the harvest and let the auction calm down for a while.” Li Yao suggested.
“I guess those traders are going to cry.” Feng Yi covered her mouth and laughed.
The three of them looked at each other and smiled. Sister Li then asked, “How is everything on your end? If the task can be completed tomorrow, the guild will be able to upgrade. There are too many players in our resident district who want to join the guild now.”
“It will definitely be completed tomorrow, you just get ready to recruit people, especially more secondary professional players.” Li Yao replied.
“I was thinking the same,” Sister Li agreed and nodded.
“How many more Shining Fruits do you have?” Feng Yi asked.
“Adding up all three factions, probably more than 5000 bundles.”
“That’s worth 20,000 gold coins, plus the 10,000+ you have, it’s just too much.” Sister Li frowned, gold coins will always be gold coins, in her opinion, it was necessary to convert them into firm guild strength as soon as possible.
“Not too much. You can feel free to make our guild’s resident place more luxurious. Also, running the shop would require a lot of operating funds. If we’re going to do it, we need to do it big. Plus, don’t forget, once the guild reaches level three, we can apply for an outdoor resident place, which is a money trap. Other guilds have already made a start, we will catch up with them by throwing money.” Li Yao clenched his fist.
Feng Yi gave me a lot of data, I converted it over, the funds are too much, simply can’t be used up, gold coins will depreciate if they’re not used.” Sister Li frowned.
“How much gold do you think is left over?” asked Li Yao, understanding that the depreciation of gold coins was an inevitable occurrence.
“At least over 10,000 will be left.” Sister Li replied.
Li Yao suggested, “In that case, Feng Yi, I’ll give you 10,000 gold coins, try to sell them. We need to set up a base anyways, so selling gold coins will give you credit points in reality for some time in future. Try to translate it into strength as much as possible.”
“That’s savage, making them spend gold coins to buy your Shining Fruits and then selling them the gold coins. You’re sucking the blood out of them!” Feng Yi laughed.
“We’re too far behind. We can’t catch up with those large guilds by going the usual way. Moreover, this competition has worldwide implications.”
Li Yao discussed more details with them for a while, and then grabbed some supplies before hopping on a bat to fly to Kael’Dan.
In God’s old world, the most painful thing was the journey. Players wanted to teleport so desperately, but mages could only transport them to the main city.
Once he arrived at Kael’Dan, he rushed to Drywood Fortress. This time Li Yao didn’t take the main entrance as he did the day before. Instead, he went around to the back of the mountains, according to the coordinates below the terrace.
From the bottom of the terrace, looking up, it seemed to be hundreds of meters high. Li Yao quickly shrank himself and let the fire hawk fly him up to the terrace.
Then, he transformed himself into a troll patrol officer.
“Greetings, sir.” Seeing Li Yao coming out, the three trolls quickly bowed, one player with the name Bloody leaf, glared resentfully.
He was watched by three trolls and couldn’t leave. Standing guard all night, especially under the speculation of the black and white television, he was about to explode from knowing Li Yao had become the patrol officer.
Li Yao, however, happily walked forward towards them, patted him on the shoulder, and said, “Not bad, lad, you’re really dedicated. I’ll find a good reward for you when I have the opportunity.”
Bloody leaf was about to breathe fire. He glared at Li Yao as if he wanted to say something, but then swallowed it down.
“You got a problem, kid? The sir appreciates you and you don’t even show any respect.”
A troll full of envy and jealousy behind Bloody leaf kicked him.
“Thank you for the reward, sir.” Bloody leaf forced out a grateful expression.
“Hmm, a good lad. Take me to the armory, I need to take an inventory. Otherwise, I won’t be able to explain to the high priest.” Li Yao said grandly in the troll language.
Ah Poo…
You’re kidding, right? Bloody leaf almost coughed up blood. God, without the arrangement of the black and white television, he would have exploded a long time ago…
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