Chapter 449 - For Your Sake“ is the Most Cunning Trick (1/2)

The collapse of the magic material market in Hollevin didn’t affect ordinary people’s lives.

After all, most people were already satisfied if they could have enough food. Besides, the crop production in this world was very high. A tiny piece of land would be enough to keep a big family full even without a Druid. But the problem was that the lords and the n.o.bles took too much advantage of ordinary people.

The n.o.bles would be considered kindhearted if they asked for sixty percent of the yields, and they generally asked for eighty percent.

The price of the magic materials in Hollevin was so high that even Roland was affected by the inflation.

Although he could ask the magnates to deliver several types of magic materials to him for practice, the problem was that the Magic Tower needed more magic materials than those required in enchantment.

Many students at the magic school also needed magic materials to learn basic spells.

For example, the Illumination spell required the tails of fireflies, which were worthless and could be found everywhere in summer.

However, the students would need a lot of such tails when they practiced the Illumination spell.

The tails of fireflies that they paid one gold coin for were usually enough for them to use in three months, but the price had been increased by three times, and there wasn’t much stock. They couldn’t buy a lot even if they wanted to.

All the merchants were h.o.a.rding.

He had been burnt by the fire he lit up.

Reading the reports that Vivian submitted, Roland heaved a helpless sigh.

Considering for a long time, Roland posted a thread in the forum.

“I’ve learned something during my magic practices recently. I’ll study in seclusion in the next half year. My enchantment business is paused.”

The forum was full of mockery after he posted the thread.

“Tsk. Roland chickened out. How much money have you made by purposefully inflating the market?”

“Almost a thousand gold coins, probably.”

There were lots of similar sarcastic replies.

Of course, there were people who supported him.

“A good kid is a kid who corrects his mistakes. Consider the consequences before you do anything big next time. You’re the most powerful Mage among the players. Everything you do might influence all the other players.”

It was O’Neal, Roland’s friend on the forum, who posted the reply.

“It doesn’t matter. I haven’t gathered my materials yet anyway. I probably can’t in the next half year either.”

“I’ll come to you again half a year from now.”

Several days after the thread was posted, the magic material market in Hollevin finally stabilized, and the overall prices slowly declined.

However, there were still several materials whose prices were still rising.

They were the materials required in auto-repair.

The players were no fools. They knew perfectly well what the real valuable enchantment was.

The other enchantments, including sharpening and weapon fortification, only added attributes, and auto-repair was the only special groundbreaking one.

They could let go of other enchantment materials, but auto-repair was too useful for them to give up.

The players with ultimate equipment, in particular, were still busy collecting materials for auto-repair without stop.

Charles was the player with the greatest earnings of all.

Under his command, the Cornucopia had been collecting the materials for auto-repair.

Now, one-third of the materials in all of Hollevin had been purchased by this guild.

They were also trying to acquire materials for auto-repair from other countries.

When Roland was making the fourteen pieces of equipment for Charles, Douglas came to him during the day of his rest and informed him of Charles’s crazy spending.

He then continued, “Roland, after he monopolized the materials, I’m afraid that Charles will threaten you to work for him with the materials. He’s a man who places his own interests above all.”

Roland waved his hand indifferently.

“I estimate that there are no more than ten people in this world who know auto-repair.” Roland continued after a pause, “And that’s an optimistic estimation. Based on my speculation, there might only be three people who are capable of auto-repair, myself included. So… it won’t matter however many materials Charles h.o.a.rds. The more materials he has, the more he will have to sell later, and the more losses he will suffer.”

Douglas nodded.

He actually quite admired Roland, as did most of the Mage players.

After all, Roland was a pioneer among the players.

“As long as you know what you’re doing.”

After saying that, Douglas returned to his manor.

It was only a minor incident. In the following half-month, Roland helped Charles enchant his equipment.

His success rate was higher and higher as he got the hang of auto-repair. It only took him 1.3 tries on average before he succeeded.