Chapter 423 (1/2)
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”Yup~” He Yi giggled. ”You can't play games forever, and you gotta find something to do after you retire, right? It's better to have a skill than to have no skills at all, right?”
”But GGS is a software company, and I've long since sacrificed all my C++ and Java programming skills to the almighty calculator. What could I possibly do in GGS?”
”It's fine, I won't ask you to work on software.” He Yi giggled again. ”All I ask of you is to conduct yourself and fulfill your responsibilities, and in this regard, I have full confidence in you. Also, did you forget that Xu Yang is a GGS employee himself? If an oaf like him can work for GGS, then why can't you?”
I rubbed my palms together. ”Okay then. I feel much more confident now that I know that someone will always perform worse than me!”
He Yi: ”...”
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Well, it looked like I would be working for GGS starting tomorrow. I had no idea what kind of job He Yi had planned for me, but it didn't matter either way. He Yi was the boss of the Asia Region of GGS, and there was nothing she couldn't do in the company. Even if she made me a security guard, I would be a security guard captain at the very least.
I teleported back to the city after that. It was time to make some Rank 9 Magic Consumables!
Swhoos.h.!.+
Sky City was bustling as usual, and the moment I arrived at the square I immediately shouted for Green Pepper, Garlic and Salt. They were incredibly cheap, of course. Anyone who was still gathering low-level food ingredients like these at this stage was just trying to make enough money to survive the day. Seriously, it took a whole day for the average player to gather around 40 stacks of Garlic or so, and even if they sold everything at the market, it only amounted to less than 50 gold, or 50 RMB. There were plenty of people who would like to make money through gaming instead of working, but the actual percentage of those who made it was less than 1%. If you didn't possess any natural talent or advantage that would put you above your compet.i.tors, you just wouldn't make it to the top of the food chain. Survival of the fittest was just the natural law of our world.
I began cooking after buying a bunch of Green Pepper, Garlic, and Salt. First, I opened the cooking window, tapped the Rank 9 Magic Consumable and selected 20 Dragonfish Meat, 25 Green Pepper, 25 Garlic and 25 Salt. Then, I started cooking in earnest!
Light filled the s.p.a.ce between my palms, and the next moment a purple pot with what looked like mini sus.h.i.+ in it appeared. It was both easy to carry and tasty!
Ding~!
System Notice: Congratulations, you have made Dragonfish Soup x5!
5 Dragonfish Soup in one go? Not bad at all!
As a Rank 9 Magic Consumable, the Dragonfish Soup could restore 1500 MP to its user instantly. It was better than most Magic Consumables to say the least. However, considering that you could consume only 1 Magic Consumable per 60 seconds, it was nowhere enough to satisfy the needs of many high-level priests and mages at all.
For example, Murong Mingyue had over 7000 MP right now. Greater Heal X would cost her 200 MP, whereas Restoration X would cost her 120 MP. A 1500 MP Magic Consumable wasn't even close to making up for the MP consumption, especially during boss fights and PvP. A priest or mage without MP was useless, so they really wanted to get their hands on Rank 10 Magic Consumables as quickly as possible. This was my chance, of course. While most chefs were still cooking Rank 7 or Rank 8 Magic Consumables, I was going to make as many Rank 10 Magic Consumables as quickly as I could, make a s.h.i.+t ton of cash while I was still the sole seller, and make my Air Force One utterly famous all in one go!
After grinding Crystal Dragonfish for the entire day, I had over 300 stacks of Dragonfish Meat sitting in my bag. I had more than enough main ingredients to level up my skill to Rank 10, and the sub ingredients were not a problem whatsoever since I could just buy them cheap from other sellers. It was honestly quite fun to create Magic Consumables without pause as if I had unlimited surprise of ingredients. Also, cooking a Rank 9 Magic Consumable cost 90 MP, and I had a total MP of 2000 or so. So every time I ran out of MP, I just ate a Dragonfish Soup and enjoyed first dibs on my own products.
An entire half an hour later, 334 stacks—each containing 20 Dragonfish Soup— sat snugly in my bag. I set their retail price to 5 RMB per Dragonfish Soup, so 1 stack was worth around 100 RMB, for a grand total of over 33k RMB per cooking session. Once again, I proved that making money was easy if you were ahead of all your compet.i.tors.
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Making Dragonfish Soup was dirt cheap to say the least. I didn't need to pay a hunter for my ingredients since I was my own hunter, and all the Green Pepper, Garlic and Salt I bought just now didn't even total up to 50 silver. What this meant was that a single Dragonfish Soup cost less than 1 gold, and yet I was going to sell it for 5 gold each. I could hardly stop myself from grinning at the ma.s.sive profit I was about to make.
It was at this moment I received a system notice: Congratulations, your Cooking has reached Rank 10. You have gained the t.i.tle ”Cooking Master”!
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f.u.c.k, my Cooking is finally at Rank 10, and it looks like I got a t.i.tle out of it. Not bad! In the future, I could wear this t.i.tle whenever I went out to grind levels or PK and mislead people into thinking I was a production player. I could almost imagine the flabbergasted expressions of my enemies, and the looks of admirations from all the girls I'm going to impress!
Very pleased with myself, I walked to the center of the square and shouted, ”Selling Rank 9 Magic Consumable, Dragonfish Soup, in stacks. It's the kind of good s.h.i.+t that restores 1500 MP in one go! 5 gold each, 20 per stack, so 100 gold per stack! Players who would like to establish long-term business relations, please message me your contact info!”
All nearby players immediately shot me astonished looks. There were even a couple of players with the ”Chef” t.i.tle staring at me in shock. ”Holy s.h.i.+t, that guy's a Cooking Master? That's incredible! How did he even get the Dragonfish Meat? Did he have a super expert grinding the food ingredients for him?”
Very soon, a young mage walked up to me and pa.s.sed me 500 gold with a smile. ”I would like 5 stacks of Dragonfish Soup, brother. Thank you!”
I nodded and traded him 5 sets of Dragonfish Soup. Just like that, 500 RMB entered my pockets. For the n-th time, I was overwhelmed by the pleasure of making and spending my own cash.
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A short while later, a beautiful Level 106 female warrior walked up to me and asked, ”Hey there, chef. I would like to establish a long-term purchase agreement with you. Is that okay?”
”Sure!”
I smiled at her and shot her an extra look. Purple Wind Chime? Hmm, where have I heard this ID before? I looked at her again, and this time I saw that she had The Monarch Descends' insignia on her shoulder! f.u.c.k, no wonder she looked so familiar. She was one of the partic.i.p.ants of the Who Will Rise tournament!
Are you buying for your guild?” I asked.