Chapter 448 - The Man Who Changed the Rules is Back (2/2)

And the more he rammed it, the more the door cracked open, thought it was still opening at a very slow pace.

The time and knowledge behind the door was slowly flowing out of the cracks.

Roland’s spirit could see it and attempted to touch and fuse it.

Roland’s current biological level was much like a mutant ant that had grown many slender tentacles, which could replace the ant’s original poor vision and poor range of perception.

Roland the mutant ant had been able to see a large chunk of the elephant’s fur, and also penetrate a bit beneath the fur, seeing some fat, some platelets.

Roland had a piece of new knowledge about elephants, but it was still a very shallow kind of understanding.

Another month pa.s.sed, and Roland finished helping Charles with his equipment, then announced that he was going to spend ten days in the lab thinking and organizing the insights in his head.

During this time, if there wasn’t anything too important, he wasn’t to be bothered.

In reality, Roland not only thought inside the game but also thought about the problem of time and magic in reality.

He didn’t even go to the saber arts club, and just stayed in his room every day, sitting cross-legged on his bed and thinking about the connection between the two.

But in reality, his body was too weak, and his mental power fell short, and even a full day of thinking was not as good as what he got from an hour of thinking in the game.

Roland had sensed that in terms of mental power, himself in the game and in reality represented the intellectual difference between a sentient man and a modern man.

After ten days of thinking, he emerged from the lab.

He seemed to have benefited but didn’t feel a significant improvement.

There was this depressing feeling of “the brain says I can do it, but the hands say I can’t” kind of substantial separation.

Then seeing that he was upset, Andonara dragged Vivian with her to relieve him of his stress.

This was why women were said to be a hero’s harbor.

After a day of being lovey-dovey with the two women, Roland was in a significantly better mood.

Then he also had the mood to go on the forum.

As a result, once he went on the forum, he found that something seemed wrong.

Many people were scolding him.

Puzzled, Roland clicked through a few posts and understood why, and then looked on, speechless.

This was a realistic world, so… the economic system was also very real.

Magic materials were scarce items in themselves, and Roland’s enchantments consumed a lot of magic materials, especially auto-repair, which involved fourteen common materials, and also a very large amount of them.

Everyone wanted to get the best equipment, and a large number of magnates were sweeping up materials in Hollevin, directly flipping up the prices of magic-related supplies throughout Hollevin.

This affected the interests of many Mages.

Then these Mages also began to stock up, fearing that they would be out of stock in a short time.

Then it caused a market panic and everyone started stockpiling all magic supplies.

As a result… the price of magical goods throughout Hollevin skyrocketed at an exaggerated rate.

All spellcasters were affected.

In fact, in this world, most spells required casting materials, even Inferior Fireball required a little bit of flint as a medium. Roland didn’t need it because he had Magic Material Exemption.

Not everyone had the Magic Material Exemption specialty, especially Priests and Warlocks, who rarely chose Magic Material Exemption specialty.

Because very few of the divine spells and bloodline magic required magic materials.

However, few didn’t mean there were none, and there were still a few practical spells that required casting materials.

For example, the Church of Life’s Life Enhancement required a special gra.s.s that was pretty common, a gra.s.s that was usually cheap, but now, even this gra.s.s was being stockpiled and the price had more than tripled.

There are many similar cases.

In short, the price of magic materials had gone up like crazy throughout Hollevin.

Moreover, this situation was spreading to countries around Hollevin.

It would have been fine if only the spellcasting community had been affected.

The actual situation was that even physical professions were feeling the pain.

Magic scrolls were useful and were sold in the a.s.sociation of Mages and Guild of Mercenaries.

For example, magic scrolls of Illumination and Lesser Healing were the favorites of physical professions.

But the magic materials appreciated in value, and now there weren’t even magic scrolls for sale, and when they were occasionally available, they were at ten times the price.

Now the entire player community, the entire forum, was cursing Roland except for the magnates.

“F*ck, I knew this guy was a scourge. After more than two months of peace, he’s still out to cause trouble.”

“Can you believe it? No one in our entire guild can actually afford to use the Illumination scrolls now. They’re all exploring the dungeons with torches.”

“Can Roland get the h.e.l.l out of the game, he’s so d.a.m.n harmful.”

“Gee, that’s a real man. I’d love to be this kind of big shot who can change the game.”

Roland slapped himself on the head.

d.a.m.n! What’s this about?

I crashed the entire magic materials market in Hollevin all by myself?

Is this world’s economic system so fragile?

Roland found it hard to believe.

And in the game’s guild system, a few of the F6 members were even beside themselves with laughter.

They were all laughing about Roland being a market destroying machine.

Guess I’ll have to stop doing the enchantment business for now?

Roland was slightly b.u.mmed.