Chapter 495: The Bold Plan

Nie Yan walked out of the cathedral holding a javelin launcher, selecting the Dark Gem and a silver-gray gem from among numerous other gems. Although the silver-gray gem did not possess attributes as strong as those of the Dark Gem, it did carry a “requirement reduction” attribute, which lowered the equipment’s level requirement by 10 after being socketed.

After looting the treasure chests, Nie Yan had accumulated a wide variety of gems. While gems with “requirement reduction” attributes were rare, they were by no means unheard of.

Nie Yan took these two gems to Pegit, a master-level gem artisan, and had them socketed into the javelin launcher. The previously plain-looking launcher was now enhanced with distinctive embellishments, the two gems gleaming with dazzling brilliance, making it look quite unique.

Nie Yan took out a javelin. It was about one yard long, with a wooden cylindrical rear section and a sharp, silver-white metallic front section forged from metal. Its tip was extremely sharp, surrounded by sharp ridges, each with a blood groove beside it, making the design both clever and practical.

He reviewed the javelin’s usage and how the javelin launcher functioned—launching a javelin upward so it accelerated downward, its sharp tip piercing into enemies and causing piercing damage.

The level 100 javelin launcher currently had a ranged attack power of 3200. After socketing the Dark Gem and the silver-gray gem, 10% of its attack was converted into piercing damage, with a 1% chance to ignore defense and land a critical strike. It could be used as early as level 80, making it quite impressive.

Nie Yan placed the javelin launcher into his backpack and headed toward the guild hall.

“Guo Huai, I need some high-level enchanters. How many high-level enchanters can we mobilize from our Bull Tribe right now?” Nie Yan messaged Guo Huai.

“How many high-level enchanters do you need?” Guo Huai hesitated for a moment. “We can temporarily mobilize five. If you have an urgent need, I can have them interrupt their current work.”

“That won’t be necessary. Just bring those five enchanters to the third-floor laboratory of the Starlight Pharmacy,” Nie Yan replied.

“Alright, I’ll arrange it immediately,” Guo Huai nodded.

“President Nie Yan, what do you need us to do?” asked a senior enchanter in his forties. His tone was respectful—he knew that the person before him was his direct superior.

Nie Yan took out 3,000 javelins from his backpack and said to them, “Please apply a continuous damage enchantment to all of these javelins. I appreciate your help.”

“So many?” The senior enchanter furrowed his brow—this was a full 3,000 javelins!

“I need them in five days,” Nie Yan said.

“That might be a bit difficult,” the senior enchanter replied hesitantly. “It’s not that we’re unwilling to try, but the quantity is just too large.”

The other senior enchanters nodded in agreement.

“Then stop whatever you’re currently working on and focus solely on enchanting these javelins. I’ll have people gather all the materials you need. For every javelin you enchant, you’ll receive an additional bonus of one gold coin,” Nie Yan said. After delegating the task, he left the laboratory.

With such a generous bonus, although the task was difficult, the senior enchanters still threw themselves into it enthusiastically.

Nie Yan then headed toward his personal warehouse. As the leader of the Bull Tribe, his personal warehouse was truly impressive.

Ordinary players only had one page in their personal warehouse, usually expanded to about 500 slots. To obtain a second page, one had to pay extra. For average players, having a quarter of their warehouse filled was already quite good, with much of the contents being useless junk they were too reluctant to discard. For high-level players, a 500-slot warehouse was usually sufficient.

Looking at Nie Yan’s personal warehouse, it had a full ten pages, each with 500 slots.

The first and second pages were filled with various gems he had either collected himself or had Guo Huai purchase. The gems were neatly arranged, grouped together for easy identification. Some had dozens of pieces, others only one or two, all relatively rare. Anything of lower quality he had already disposed of and wouldn’t keep in his personal warehouse.

Opening the first and second pages revealed a dazzling array of gems, glittering with a multitude of colors, overwhelming to the eyes.

The third, fourth, and fifth pages were filled with a large number of scrolls of various kinds. From time to time, Nie Yan had Guo Huai send people to purchase rare scrolls from the Suoyu Style Town, all of which were stored in his personal warehouse. So far, there were already over 200 of them. Some were rare limited-edition scrolls purchased from various NPC scroll shops, each extremely rare and expensive. There were also about two to three hundred Mist Dispelling Scrolls, the value of which went without saying. The upper half of the fifth page was filled with rows of Death Ripple Scrolls he had brought back from the underworld—about 250 or so. Below them were various area-of-effect magic scrolls.

The sixth page was filled with mid-tier and high-tier area-damage magic bombs crafted by the alchemist Ziyan. The low-tier ones Nie Yan didn’t need and had been given to the Bull Tribe players for consumption. As for the mid-tier and high-tier bombs, he kept them all for leveling up. Currently, there were about 250 stacks of mid-tier bombs and over 100 stacks of high-tier bombs. These unassuming, dark iron pieces were actually extremely valuable. A stack of mid-tier bombs was worth about 200-300 gold, while a stack of high-tier bombs was even more expensive, costing 700-800 gold.

The seventh, eighth, and ninth pages were filled with numerous potions and rare ingredients, all of which were very rare on the market. Any single item could be sold for hundreds or even thousands of gold. Some had special uses and had been collected by Nie Yan’s subordinates, while others had been obtained by Nie Yan himself from monsters and stored in his personal warehouse.

The tenth page was filled with various pieces of equipment, either dropped by monsters or purchased from auctions, covering all classes and attributes. There were at least two to three hundred pieces. The usual gear had already been moved to the guild warehouse. The ones Nie Yan kept were either specially useful or had particularly good attributes. Occasionally, elite members of the guild would borrow one or two pieces from him, returning them after use.

A full ten pages, all neatly arranged rows of items, overwhelming to the eyes. If all these items were sold, they would easily be worth over a million gold. Moreover, their value might increase in the future. Except for daily-use scrolls and the like, Nie Yan had already disposed of any depreciating items. Keeping depreciating items in the warehouse was a huge mistake.

From the perspective of a reborn person, waste was unforgivable.

This was actually the result of constant pruning—Nie Yan had removed many items from his personal warehouse. Otherwise, even twenty or thirty pages wouldn’t be enough. From time to time, Guo Huai would send people specifically to organize Nie Yan’s personal warehouse, arranging all the items neatly and disposing of anything that could be discarded. Otherwise, simply tidying up all these items would be enough to give Nie Yan a headache.

Nie Yan remembered that in his previous life, players often posted images online showing off their warehouses filled with dazzling gems and expensive items, which he had always envied. But now, if he were to post images of his own warehouse, those players would probably die of envy. Their items were simply not on the same level or in the same quantity as Nie Yan’s.

If a ranking were made for the most valuable personal warehouse in the game Faith, Nie Yan’s would definitely be number one.

Every item in Nie Yan’s warehouse, if taken outside, would be enough to drive many players crazy, and his warehouse pages were still continuously expanding.

Every time Nie Yan looked at his personal warehouse, a sense of pride always rose in his heart. Thinking back to his previous life, when his warehouse had only a few pitiful pieces of junk, he could still remember exactly what he had stored back then. Comparing that with the current state, the difference was immediately apparent.

There was once a saying circulating within the Bull Tribe: “If you can just take a single glance at Leader Nie Yan’s personal warehouse, you’ll have no regrets for the rest of your life.”

This saying was not exaggerated at all. Except for auction houses, they had never seen such rows of rare gems and items anywhere else. Nie Yan’s collection was absolutely unique.

Nie Yan stored some gems and items from his inventory into his personal warehouse, selecting all the gems that reduced level requirements, about twenty or thirty in total. He also retrieved over fifty pieces of dark gold equipment rated at level 100 or higher.

Additionally, Nie Yan had Guo Huai send people to various cities to purchase requirement-reducing gems. He planned to use these items to craft a set of equipment that would make every player envious.