Even the strongest player can hardly rival a guild. Feng Ming is a good example.
The reason Tang Yan chose to establish a guild instead of going solo initially was exactly for this reason.
Nang Yan sacrificed a lot of time to lead Mithril Tribe onto the right track. Mithril Tribe is his backing force against Century Financial Group. At least now, he is not fighting alone.
People like Feng Ming, even if they cannot be recruited, can be well utilized to counter Angel Tyranny. He is an extraordinary genius, definitely among the top five most impressive players in the entire Faith.
Start collecting Feng Ming’s information now so that we will be mentally prepared when we interact with him in the future.
Nang Yan returned to Carol City. While remotely directing Mithril Tribe, he also prepared some consumables and continued leveling up. He casually browsed the homepage of Assassin Alliance. The tasks he posted for collecting magic crystals and radiant crystals had already been completed by players to a large extent. Currently, sixteen magic crystals and twenty radiant crystals had been obtained.
He needed twenty magic crystals, thirty radiant crystals, two life crystals, and one strength crystal to hatch the Dark Winged Dragon.
Currently, he still couldn’t find a life crystal, so he would wait a while longer.
Assassin Alliance was growing increasingly organized. There were already more than 50,000 professional players participating, generating huge profits every day. Nang Yan’s daily income from Assassin Alliance was about 6,000 gold coins. This powerful money-making machine was already running rapidly.
With the increase in professional players, the customer base was also gradually expanding. Some heavyweight figures emerged within the customer base, making Nang Yan feel surprised. Among the customers, seven marquises had already appeared, each spending over 500,000 gold coins in Assassin Alliance.
Many people spent so much gold just to have top-tier professional players guide them through levels or dungeons. These people were definitely influential in real life.
An idea suddenly came to Nang Yan. He should find a time to hold a gathering and let his father interact more with them. It would be significant for Sky Group.
Looking at the ranking list of professional players in Assassin Alliance, there were numerous top-tier players. Familiar names appeared one by one. The top dozens of people were well-known figures from his past life. They were professional players who wouldn’t get involved in the guild conflicts between financial groups. Although they couldn’t be recruited into the guild, if there was anything needing their help, setting a task with enough rewards in Assassin Alliance would suffice. They could still work for Mithril Tribe.
Nang Yan took a bunch of Death Ripple scrolls and area-damage magic bombs to level up in the wilderness. After staying in the Thorny Lizard map for about two days, he finally reached level 80. Returning to the city, he threw all the equipment he obtained into the guild warehouse. Then, together with Tang Yao, he continued to go treasure hunting. This time’s harvest was significantly less than the last time, but still quite substantial.
After sorting out all the items obtained, Nang Yan took all the enchanted javelins into his backpack and picked up the javelin launcher, preparing to set off.
Walking along the street towards the teleportation array, a red stone wall by the roadside caught his attention. He slightly paused his steps, recalling. This stone wall had some history behind it; it was the famous Echo Wall. Whatever sentence a player said to the wall would be reflected back.
Standing by the Echo Wall was an NPC named Kleimi, a wise man. He would give players five riddles. As long as players could name the legendary items in those riddles, they would have guessed one correctly. If they guessed any three correctly, they could unlock Kleimi’s task to collect magic rune stones.
Magic rune stones were relatively common items, available in various maps. When embedded into weapons, they could add some additional properties, similar to gems, but magic rune stones only worked on weapons. There were seven types of magic rune stones, each carrying one of the seven attributes: fire, ice, lightning, water, earth, light, and darkness, enhancing the weapon’s damage of that attribute.
Collecting seven different magic rune stones as a set could be brought to Kleimi to receive a certain amount of experience reward and possibly randomly obtain an item. The experience gained would approximately allow an 80th-level player to level up by about 1%.
Before players triggered this task in the previous life, magic rune stones were very cheap. After the task became widely known, more and more players started collecting magic rune stones, causing them to become highly sought after and quickly depleted.
At that time, whenever Nang Yan obtained a rune stone, he would sell it at the trading hall where many players collected these items. Completing a set could exchange for considerable experience. Collecting magic rune stones was a game only the rich could afford, and Nang Yan couldn’t participate. However, in the previous life, the Faith opening the magic rune stone collection task provided a significant source of income for players like Nang Yan.
This task had already been announced, but no player had guessed the answers to the five riddles, so players hadn’t started mass acquisition of magic rune stones yet.
In his past life, Nang Yan couldn’t afford to play this game, but in this life, he would definitely take the lead, even if it meant spending some money.
Nang Yan walked towards the stone wall and found Kleimi, wearing a dark red robe, by the wall, seemingly lost in thought. He was a short old man.
Nang Yan approached and triggered the task. This task could only be triggered once. If he answered incorrectly, he would not be able to trigger it again.
“Gray sanction, bloody knight, blazing sun judgment, fate’s pull, eternal law. Young man, do you know what each represents?” Kleimi raised his triangular eyes and looked at Nang Yan, asking.
This was a famous riddle. After a couple of weeks, a player guessed that the last eternal law might be the Codex of Order. After some time, some people guessed some of the answers. Many players who guessed the answers didn’t spread them but instead quickly collected magic rune stones. However, there is no such thing as a secret that cannot be discovered. About three months later, the answers to this riddle were made public. Magic rune stones began to be absurdly expensive, with some rare varieties, including fire and light, being sold for over a thousand gold coins.
Now, buying magic rune stones would cost about fifty to sixty gold coins each.
“Respected Mr. Kleimi, gray sanction refers to the Codex of Chaos, bloody knight refers to Modia Ge’s sword, blazing sun judgment refers to Er Wei Ke’s flame staff, fate’s pull refers to Pandora’s box, and eternal law refers to the Codex of Order.” Nang Yan explained. He already knew all the answers. Previously, it surprised him a bit that among these five items, Pandora’s box was in his possession, and the Codex of Order, he had synthesized one of its scrolls. He had some connection with this task.
“Mr. Nieyan, you are the first person who could guess all five items correctly. I need some magic rune stones. Could you help me find them?” Kleimi said.
“Mr. Kleimi, I would be delighted to serve you.” Nang Yan nodded. Kleimi finally issued the task. Soon, he received a system prompt.
Task Progress: Find magic rune stones for Mr. Kleimi. A set of seven different types of magic rune stones is required to complete the task. There is no time limit.
“Your journey will begin from this moment. Go and seek your destiny, Mr. Nieyan. You are a wise man.” Kleimi smiled.
Nang Yan checked the task progress. It was indeed the same task as before. He had previously thought that guessing all five correctly might bring extra rewards. Kleimi’s calm reaction disappointed him a bit. However, obtaining the task was already satisfactory. He sent a message to Guo Huai, preparing to purchase magic rune stones on a large scale with minimal cost.
For the acquisition of magic rune stones, Nang Yan used a small trick. Currently, the price of a magic rune stone was about fifty to sixty gold coins, and high-quality ones could reach over a hundred gold coins. However, few people used them, making them less valuable than gems. The market still had a considerable amount of magic rune stones. Nang Yan instructed Guo Huai to send people to advertise in all the street markets, selling magic rune stones in bulk at thirty gold coins each, with a minimum of twenty pieces.
Ordinary players wouldn’t buy magic rune stones in large quantities. Seeing the significant price drop, they would be very puzzled. Did magic rune stones become common goods? If someone actually contacted them to purchase magic rune stones, they would reply that they had just sold out.
Guo Huai had his subordinates announce thirty gold coins on the first day, twenty-five on the second, and twenty on the third, creating the illusion that magic rune stones were about to become common goods and were rapidly decreasing in price. Players would then take out their magic rune stones from their warehouses and sell them at low prices. Mithril Tribe would secretly buy a large amount of magic rune stones. Using this method, they could save money and acquire more magic rune stones, achieving two goals with one action.
“This method is pretty good. Not only can we do this with magic rune stones, but we can also try it with other things, like gems,” Guo Huai said. First, create the illusion that the market for gems is rapidly declining in price, buy a large amount, then when the supply of gems in the market decreases and demand increases, sell a large amount to profit from the price difference.
“It’s possible, but doing it more than once or twice might make players lose trust,” Nang Yan replied. Players weren’t stupid. If the same thing happened more than twice, people would definitely figure it out.
“Even if they find out, it doesn’t matter. We’ve already made money and won’t lose anything,” Guo Huai smiled.
“You handle this matter.”
Guo Huai went off to work, first raising funds and then assigning tasks. This matter had to be done very carefully and secretly.
Tai Sui Yellow Amulet Paper FuLu Taoist Love Talisman Traditional Chinese Spiritual Charm Attracting Love Protecting Marriage