Almond, Lily, and Natalia soon met up with Julian and Roken, who were outside.
They were still with Ryker, Sam, and a few other seniors of their age, talking about Almond and other things.
Seeing Lily coming with Almond, Ryker’s brows jumped. ‘So he was telling the truth when he said he knew Lily and came to meet her…’
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But his gaze went to the handholding part, and his heart skipped a beat, feeling shocked. ‘Don’t tell me…’
“Seniors, we’ll be going now. Let’s have a good fight later,” Almond cheekily smiled.
“Smell ya later, chaps,” Roken said with a smug expression and waved his hand, while Julian simply nodded at Ryker and others before joining Almond’s group.
“Damn, don’t tell me he is our beautiful super rookie’s boyfriend?” one of the seniors muttered as he watched Almond and Lily leave while handholding.
“He indeed is,” Sam said as he clasped his hand like a Buddha. “Amitabha, may the other boys get peace with that because they are not going to stand a chance against Almond.”
“Well, the Silver bracket of the Rising Star Tournament is going to be more interesting,” Ryker smiled. “Once Xavier finds this, he is going to train like hell to get back at Almond. He lost twice in one day.”
“Let’s go tell him that right now! We’ll start by asking if he knew Lily already had a boyfriend.” Another senior snickered.
…
After the trio got in the backseat of Julian’s car, Almond said, “I want to sell the first floor’s rare drops, so let’s deal with that to increase my budget.”
“Then I’ll drive to the Skypath Treasure House. We’ll get better prices there.”
“Almond, how many gold coins have you got in total after your first floor’s 2nd cycle run?” Natalia curiously asked.
Roken and Julian were surprised upon hearing that.
“Something over two million gold coins. And I got a total of six rare drops on top of the other rare drops we had. That’s easily above 15 million gold coins,” Almond grinned.
Roken and Julian were dumbfounded.
“Holy shit!” Roken smacked his lips. “How did you get so many rare drops?”
Julian focused on the road lest he lose his shit again, but his ears were attentive.
“Just a bit of luck paired with an adequate challenge to increase drop chance. Killing bosses while being lower level or soloing them increases drop chances. And in the second cycle, I killed all bosses alone, so six of them dropped rare-grade items.”
“Did you kill the floor boss?” Lily asked, her eyes glinting.
“I did,” Almond smirked. “Quiet easily.”
“Yeah, yeah, we can imagine,” Natalia sighed. “Your specialized class’s skill is too op.”
Julian and Roken were intensely curious, so much so that it was eating them as they really wanted to know Almond’s classes and skills. But they didn’t ask as it would be rude.
“Let’s finish shopping and stuff first before heading to my house. We’ll open a surprise box there. Even I don’t know what it contains,” Almond said as the image of the Complete Floor Boss Subjugation Reward Chest flashed in his mind.
Lily immediately followed up with a grin, “Floor Boss drop? What did you get? People get treasure chests based on contribution, but you killed it alone…I imagine you must have gotten something crazy.”
“Bingo. It looked crazy in design, so I bet it contains some really good stuff.”
…
After arriving at the Skypath Treasure House, Julian made a hard bargain for Almond, selling all but one rare drop that Natalia wanted, and got a whooping 18 million gold coins.
One of the rare drops, a shield he got from defeating a Wonder Tree-Topia area’s boss, had max perk values and three effects, so it alone sold for 3 million gold coins, the same price as Earth Shattering Gloves. The gloves were considered one of the most, if not the most, valuable drops because of the effect of burrowing and traveling via ground, making it a highly sought-after life-saving item.
The rare drops that Almond, Lily, and Natalia got via team efforts were Preying Hunter’s Sword, Earth Shattering Gloves, and the guaranteed rare drop they got from defeating the hidden boss—White King Manticore.
Lily didn’t want any money, and Natalia only took one million Gold coins because she wanted Stardriver Shard Staff. As such, aside from this one item, Almond sold off everything, including the Pearl of Light Flower and the rare drop he got from Jacob given by his father—the Ring of Aegis Elysian.
All in all, Almond pocketed 17 million gold coins from the sale, and adding another 2 million he got from purely killing monsters and bosses, he was officially a temporary rich adventurer.
“What’s up with the flying vehicles here? I am seeing more and more of them,” Almond said as he got out of the car and saw two ‘strange’ vehicles flying past them as they exited the Skypath Treasure Pavilion.
One looked like a boat-shaped with wings, and another was like a sedan sports car with a jet-wing design.
“Yeah, they’ve started selling custom flying vehicles. It takes several days to make one, but only top manufacturers are selling them for now,” Julian said. “And each one’s starting cost is over one million gold coins.”
“Almond, you should buy one,” Natalia grinned. “You’re loaded anyway.”
“Do you have any place where they already have some flying vehicles in the showcase?” Almond asked.
“We can buy a car, but just save fifteen million gold coins,” Lily said with a smile as she shared a piece of good news. “I’ve asked teacher Aria about the trash-tier rare-grade items, and she inquired about it in the guild’s forge. You can buy the bulk of one hundred with the price of 15k per item.”
Almond was pleasantly surprised, “You’ve already arranged for that? Awesome! What about Super-grade ones?”
“They have a stock of trash-tier Super-grade items, but only around twenty, and it will cost you around 30 million gold coins to buy these twenty.”
Almond looked at the requirement window and sighed, ‘Yeah, I am going to stay broke as long as I want to unlock these stages as soon as possible. But it’ll be worth it.’
[Requirement to unlock the skill and finish the upgrade.]
-1. Sacrifice 100 Rare-grade items (7/100).
—> Skill Unlock & Rare-grade Guaranteed item forge option.
-2. Sacrifice 50 Super-grade items (0/50).
—> Super-grade Guaranteed item forge option.
-3. Sacrifice 10 Epic-grade Items (0/10).
—> Epic-grade Guaranteed Item Forge option.
-4. Sacrifice 5 Legendary-grade Items (0/5).
—> Legendary-grade Guaranteed Item Forge option.
-5. [Sealed]: Requires the class to reach (L) rank.