Chapter 414 - 386 Dragon Slayer Guild’s Big Stone Purchase
——World Channel [Dragon Scale]: Hello, fellow players! To celebrate the official formation of the "Dragon Slayer" Guild in the game, the "Dragon Slayer" Guild is buying stone at a rate of 1 Gold Coin per unit or 110 Gold Coins per unit across the entire server. Players willing to sell can find our guild’s purchasing agents at major city banks and warehouses to trade. Players from the Bright Alliance with large orders of 10 units can come to the neutral city, the goblin casino Las Vites, to trade with our buyer and get transit fees reimbursed. If anyone wants to trade stone directly for RMB, we warmly welcome it...
The entire China Region was taken aback! Then sprung into action!
When players battle wild monsters in the field or enter instances, the most common resource rewards are timber and stone. In the early stages of the game, these resources are not much use for ordinary players who don’t build cities. They usually store them in the warehouse to sell to Lord Players later or sell them to NPCs at less than half price. But now that the Dragon Slayer Guild is buying at the NPC’s selling price, how can players not be tempted? Any player who reaches around level 30 could easily have dozens or even hundreds of units of stone stored up in the warehouse, which translates to thousands or tens of thousands of Gold Coins! As for those players who have specialized in quarrying, there’s even more to say—they directly pull wagons to the warehouse to haul them away.
Meanwhile, Blood Sea Wave, who was working on a mission to develop an island at the Imperial Maritime Bureau, was shocked to see the World Channel. He was ready to build Pirate City and needed a large amount of stone. He was also planning to quietly purchase at a low price, and now the Dragon Slayer Guild was coming on strong with this move. What was the meaning of this? Raising the purchase price so high all of a sudden, how is he supposed to manage after this? The money wasn’t really the problem; the issue was that after they cleared out all the stone from the server, he wouldn’t be able to buy any even if he had the money!
At that moment, Blood Sea Wave received a message from Ma Yinglong.
Ma Yinglong laughingly said, "Boss Tao, I have a favor to ask of you. You’ve seen the World Channel, right? I want to ask you to help us collect stone over at the Bright Alliance, and we’ll cover the expenses."
Blood Sea Wave frowned and got straight to the point, "Boss Ma, to be honest, I’m planning to build a super-sized dock these days, and I particularly need stone. Boss Ma, with all your financial might, took all the stone; how am I going to survive?"
Regarding this guild alliance that was less of an ally and more of a burden, Blood Sea Wave decided to lay it all out. After all, whether it was his pirate identity or his identity within the Bright Alliance, they were both naturally at odds with the Dragon Slayer’s Dark Alliance. If being too awkward in cooperation with them, he might as well directly fall out and just rob him hard at sea!
Sure enough, Ma Yinglong was taken aback, "Boss Tao, what a coincidence, huh?"
Blood Sea Wave seriously replied, "Just the way things are going."
Ma Yinglong chuckled, "Ah, I see. Simple, let’s just collect it together, settle accounts mutually, and distribute as needed. What do you think, Boss Tao?"
Blood Sea Wave nodded, "Alright, then this favor I’m definitely helping with!"
If the construction of Pirate City could be kept secret, it should be, and if a cover could be made by helping the Dragon Slayer, it would be even better. Taking advantage of Dragon Slayer’s influence among players, why not?
Ma Yinglong asked with a smile, "By the way, may I ask how much stone does Boss Tao’s dock require?"
Blood Sea Wave replied seriously, "The initial phase, at least 500,000 units!"
—Ah, pfft! Ma Yinglong nearly spat out a mouthful of old blood! Damn, what a huge appetite—that scale is no less than that of the Pool of Radiance! And it’s only the initial phase? Are you sure you’re building a dock and not a cosmic battleship harbor?
Ma Yinglong chuckled awkwardly, "As expected of the world’s top God-level Sea Battle Hero, Boss Tao’s move might just empty the warehouses of the entire China Region players!"
Blood Sea Wave laughed, "It won’t. With millions of players online in the China Region, even just one unit from each person is enough. Money isn’t an issue for me!"
Ma Yinglong chuckled awkwardly, "Boss Tao is truly a person who gets big things done. I like working with people who achieve great things the most, so let’s act immediately, the faster the better!"
Blood Sea Wave laughed heartily, "I also particularly enjoy working with efficient people like Boss Ma!"
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At that time, Ma Yinglong, after having personally contacted various mid-small guilds and group studios, leaned back deeply into his chair, letting out a long sigh.
For Ma Yinglong, this action was undoubtedly swift and decisive! It didn’t even convene a guild’s high-level think tank meeting; the purpose of not meeting was confidentiality! Not letting the Bright side have time to react.
Although there are no secrets on the Internet, for the encirclement of the Pool of Radiance, keeping it secret for one day was sufficient. The newly arrived spider Execution Officer gave Lei Huolong 10 days of game time, which equated to 1 day of real time. Within that one day, if they could gather enough stone from the entire server to construct a circle of level 1 city walls around the Pool of Radiance, they would firmly seize the initiative. The Bright Alliance headed by Star virtually had no way to retaliate.
Of course, another significant reason Ma Yinglong could make this decision was the ingenious thinking behind this operation. Who could have thought the Dragon Slayer would undertake such a crazy move of encircling the lake?
Confidentiality, coupled with the unexpected, along with the fact that the Hell team on Lei Huolong’s side wasn’t well-known in the China Region, made this operation almost halfway to success.
If they successfully captured the Pool of Radiance, as Lei Huolong’s report stated, the Dragon Slayer would own a massive outer city. Even if strategic prospects were vague, chopping down the roots of the World Tree for timber would be enough to recoup the costs of building the city. Ma Yinglong held high hopes for this action.
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Neutral Goblin City, Las Vites.
A large island located between the Bright Alliance and Dark Alliance’s maritime borders, a city full of steampunk mechanical style. This so-called punk style was that artistic style that combined magical, mechanical, classical, and other elements.
Goblins and beastmen, those pitiful and ragged level 1 goblin soldiers, were essentially the same race. Due to their weak strength, they had to become slaves and vassals of the strong. However, many years ago, a goblin tribe leader, Razmorton, accidentally obtained a Divine Artifact, led the tribe to escape the orcs’ enslavement, and purified the demon blood within them, thus giving birth to the new goblin race, with Razmorton becoming the Goblin God. Goblins adhered to neutrality, valued technology and commerce, and traded with both the Bright Alliance, Dark Alliance, and some indigenous tribes. Therefore, this city, located between the Bright and Dark Alliances, became the best trading spot for both sides. Under the power of the goblins’ strange technology, no one dared to start a fight in the city easily.
And today, the usually quiet Gambling City turned bustling and lively because of the bold move by the Dragon Slayer Guild, gathering thousands of players here.
At this time, Moon God Night, who was busy working in the dock workshop, couldn’t help but look out the door to see what was happening. Although these players were just a synonym for low-end mobs in her eyes, Moon God Night couldn’t help but feel a sense of loneliness.
Since receiving Makar’s mission to infiltrate Fire Dragon Island, Moon God Night had been busy as an apprentice here for days and nights. Indeed, to reach Fire Dragon Island during the Ice Sealing Period, there was only one way—the goblin airship! That was to install hot air balloons on normal sailboats. Furthermore, to destroy the massive ship Flame Lord on Fire Dragon Island, goblin Mine Bombs would also be needed. But these were the highest technologies of the goblin forces and were not readily accessible to players.
However, for Moon God Night, equipped with dual-race dual-profession, along with the Netherworld Ring and Netherworld Wand set of Divine Artifacts, nothing was beyond her capabilities—it was just a matter of time.
And time equaled money; with a large amount of money, time could be significantly reduced. Watching the splurging gestures of those so-called large guild leaders in the World Channel, Moon God Night finally felt a bit moved. Anyway, she was out of money again and needed to place a bet.
A new NPC who called himself the Dwarven Gambling God Buffett had appeared in the gambling city. This NPC wasn’t in the game’s data, and his appearance was very strange, too. Moon God Night was very interested in him. It was time to continue meeting him—she had to make him her cash machine!
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