Chapter 600 - 565: Chamber of Commerce Reputation Turns Positive
At 4 a.m., Da Fei was awakened by the noise of port dock workers moving cargo.
Da Fei suddenly realized that the fleet had already returned to Elorin Port. Damn it, I was just drowsy and wanted to close my eyes for a bit during the voyage back, and before I knew it, I’d slept for several tens of minutes!
But thankfully, everything was okay as the deputy officer took care of it all, and everything was safe. At this moment, the entire Elorin channel was in an uproar, filled with curses. Needless to say, it was cursing at him again, so he automatically filtered it out.
Da Fei rubbed his tired eyes, shook his groggy head, but the sleepiness still wouldn’t go away. Da Fei couldn’t help but sigh that he was getting old, no longer able to stay up playing games for consecutive days and nights like in the past. Anyway, the current Da Fei didn’t want to deal with anything, didn’t want to ask about anything, just wanted to sleep soundly.
But no, in the game, who doesn’t want to sleep soundly? Now was the time to deal with the Eight-Headed Snake. Who knows what’s happened in the game with a day passing, hopefully nothing unexpected has gone wrong with the Eight-Headed Snake, betting that it wouldn’t so that I could sneak out to sea and hunt sea monsters.
Da Fei, with his family in tow, stepped down the dock and headed straight for the Teleportation Array.
At this moment, the city channel erupted again: "Trash Da Fei has disembarked!"
Suddenly, players around the dock who appeared to be victims of death-returning to the city surrounded Da Fei, cursing him all the way.
This cursing woke Da Fei up a bit more; oh no, he had forgotten to handle the reward for completing the sea monster commission and the applications for fishermen to join the guild! Hurry up, after getting the rewards, his strength would increase a bit more, and it’d give him a better shot at dealing with the Eight-Headed Snake.
Da Fei immediately turned and headed straight for the Fishing Guild, with players along the street cursing at him all the way.
Just then, a player with a golden name suddenly blocked Da Fei: "Hello Da Fei, I’m Little Frog, a frontline reporter from Hero News. I’d like to interview you about tonight’s incident in the Andria Sea—"
Before he could finish, the nearby players yelled: "Reporter buddy, please expose this trash in front of the whole country, let the gaming company ban his account!"
"Yes, it’s not the first or second time he has done this! Us ordinary players, one loss is half a month of hard work all gone to waste!"
Triggered by the crowd’s yelling, Da Fei was fully awake now! A reporter, huh? Alright, I’m a busy person, every time others tarnish me on the forums, and I haven’t had the time or energy to retort, resulting in me being demonized! Back then when I started a guild in the game and summoned all the trash players from the entire server, it wasn’t as huge a deal as it is now. Ultimately, times have evolved, and the media’s role is important.
Da Fei took the microphone from the reporter: "Reporter buddy, look, am I red-named? No! But is someone else red-named?! Whose fault is that precisely?"
Angry players cursed loudly: "You trash luring mobs and harming us uninvolved people, it’s your fault!"
The reporter also asked: "This is your conflict with the Royal Guild, why didn’t you warn the uninvolved players nearby to avoid it?"
Avoid? Damn it! Forget it, I don’t have time to argue with you, this is your karma for crowding around me!
Da Fei pointed to the electric eel corpses being unloaded at the dock and chuckled: "Reporter buddy, see? My task was to kill this harmful electric eel, but others insist I’m salvaging Divine Artifacts, and some tried to backstab me while I was fighting the boss, what could I do? Here, I only have one thing to say, thanks to all the regular players present, thanks to the Royal Guild, without your selfless contributions, I wouldn’t have been able to kill this sea monster so easily. Alright, thank you, everyone, I’ve said my piece! Goodbye!"
After finishing, without waiting for the reporter to ask any questions, he laughed loudly amidst the players’ curses and strode away, intending to anger you jesters in front of a national audience!
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Fishing Guild office.
An energetic Savaran greeted Da Fei with a smile as he entered: "Guild President, I’ve been waiting for you for a long time! Our operation was swift and efficient without alerting the navy or establishing a no-sail zone, the senior commissioning us is very satisfied, so there’s an additional reward for this commission!"
— System Prompt: You have completed the Urgent Sea Monster Hunter commission "Kill the Giant Electric Eel". You receive an award of 3 million Experience, 500,000 Gold Coins, 3,000 World Reputation, 200,000 Chamber of Commerce Funds, and 100,000 Chamber of Commerce Reputation. You have become an official Third-Level Sea Monster Hunter!
— System Prompt: You efficiently completed the sea monster commission task, receiving an additional reward of 1 million Experience, +3 Skill Book, +3 Life Book, and 100,000 Chamber of Commerce Reputation.
— System Prompt: Notice! You hold the Elorin Fishing Guild’s temporary "Ultimate Sea Monster Hunter Title". You are a rising and controversial figure in the Elf Kingdom, you will receive commissions from elite officials; you must continue to complete commissions, otherwise, you will be demoted by 1 or 2 celebrity levels, and significantly lower your reputation.
Then Alina’s head flashed golden!
— System Prompt: Congratulations! Your Vice Hero Alina has leveled up to 30!...
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Every time Da Fei saw a long list of system prompts flash across the screen, he couldn’t help but feel invigorated. Finally, from a temporary Ultimate Sea Monster Hunter to an official Third-Level, it still means I have to continue killing sea monsters to fulfill my early board ticket, huh? But recently I’ve been busy with life, I hope no more annoying sea monster commissions come up! And really, these extra Life Books are just what I need, just perfect for Deirdre! Ultimately, it’s all thanks to those clowns outside, otherwise even talking about extra rewards, whether I could successfully kill it would still be an unknown, hahaha!
Just as he was reflecting, there was a ding-dong!
— System Prompt: Congratulations! With your relentless efforts, your Dragon Cavalry Chamber of Commerce has eliminated negative reputation, you completed the Epic Quest "Revitalization of the Dragon Cavalry Chamber of Commerce" Phase Two "Recovering Reputation", earning an Experience award of 4 million, Dragon Cavalry Chamber of Commerce Reputation +100,000. The Chamber’s recruitment quota for members +100.
— System Prompt: Your Dragon Cavalry Chamber of Commerce President title Command Power +200, tactical position +2.
— Task Hint: Now that you have saved the Dragon Cavalry Chamber of Commerce from the brink of bankruptcy due to a credit crisis, your next step will be to upgrade the Chamber’s level through continuous trade and accepting Chamber of Commerce commission tasks, and you can research skills for the Chamber. The Chamber’s skills involve sea transportation, land transportation, adventure, and war, you can choose the necessary directions to develop and research.
Then Da Fei and all the Vice Heroes had golden light flash above their heads again!
——System Prompt: Congratulations! Your level has risen to 44...
——System Prompt: Congratulations! Your Vice Hero Serbia has risen to level 42...
——System Prompt: Congratulations! Your Vice Hero Catherine has risen to level 42...
——System Prompt: Congratulations! Your Vice Hero Deirdre has risen to level 44...
——System Prompt: Congratulations! Your Vice Hero Alicia has risen to level 38...
——System Prompt: Congratulations! Your Vice Hero Alina has risen to level 31...
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Da Fei’s eyebrows jumped in shock, holy moly! Another level up, tonight my whole family’s leveling up like riding a rocket! So wiping the negative reputation is completing the second phase? I’ve completed the fourth phase overnight, and now the second too, can you not be so jumpy?
In his excitement, Da Fei quickly checked the attributes of the Commerce:
Dragon Cavalry Sea Commerce: Afflicted by Sea God’s Curse.
Overall Level: 1 (Level 1 Sea Commerce, Level 0 Adventure Guild, Level 0 War Guild, Level 0 Trade Guild.)
Level 1 Sea Commerce: Earn an additional 1% Commerce Experience and reputation.
Chamber’s Reputation: 110,000.
Current Chamber’s Feature: Trading Discounts.
Current Contribution Ratio of the Chamber: 75%.
Guild Master: Da Fei (Appointed by Task, Non-transferable.)
Guild Location: Elorin Sea Commerce Office 003.
Guild Funds: 641,150 Gold Coins.
Guild Ships: Flying, Radiant Wings, Whale Hunter, Octopus, Narwhal.
Guild Officers: Vice President Coltner. Fishery Group Leader Spielberg.
Guild Members: 18 players, 5 NPCs.
Currently, the Guild can accept up to 210 members.
——Chamber’s Status: From now on, the Commerce can level up by accumulating reputation and spend funds to research Commerce skills.
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Not bad, the Chamber’s reputation finally turned positive from the initial minus one million! I thought it would be a tremendously long process, but just tonight, the negotiation with Sea God in the fourth phase added 500,000 and the Sea Monster task added another 200,000, it’s hard not to skyrocket! This is just the perk of handling frustrating big tasks, Wahahaha!
At this moment, Savaran smiled and said: "Congratulations, Mr. President, after this battle, your Guild has also made phased progress, now let’s arrange for those thirty fishermen to join the president’s Guild for greater achievements."
NPCs truly never fail to impress, he knew immediately once my guild leveled up! Truly, good things keep rolling in tonight! Alright, let the luck continue till we obliterate the Eight-Headed Snake, yes, the Mermaid Saint gave me a continuing one-month luck +5!
Da Fei said with a laugh: "President, to avoid the impact of the Sea God’s Curse, how about I have everyone start with land transport for a while?"
Savaran laughed: "You’re the president, you arrange as you see fit, everyone doesn’t even care about the 75% contribution, why would they mind land transport?"
Da Fei burst out laughing, this is why NPCs are so adorable! Truly, the more you stay with people, the more you love NPCs!
Da Fei then said: "Here’s what we’ll do, I’m quite busy at the moment, still need to head to Pool of Radiance, everyone should just go to the commerce office and report to Vice President Coltner, he will handle all the logistics and channels needed for the land transport."
Savaran laughed: "No problem, I’ll go talk to him personally!"
Da Fei breathed a sigh of relief, good, the Commerce issues are all settled, it’s time for me to fully focus on tackling the Eight-Headed Snake!
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