548 Chapter 548 - Equipment with Command (2/2)

After Silver Moon and No Smile registered their accounts to the spawn point over in Linyin CIty, both men anxiously awaited Ye Xiaowu's reply together. Soon, Silver Moon was a little excited after receiving the message and told No Smile. ”That guy said he'll deal with it.”

”What a capable guy!” No Smile was impressed as well.

”I wonder where he'll get it?” Silver Moon mused.

No Smile naturally wanted to know about this as well. The two men shared the same sentiment that acquiring equipment was nothing significant, but if they were able to get a grasp of the process, they would find themselves a path to riches!

Silver Moon gingerly probed Ye Xiaowu about this. Of course, he did not express it explicitly but tactfully mention how he wanted to help. Since the man was helping him acquire Command, he felt responsible to lend a hand at least, hoping that the man would not treat him like an outsider and call him about it.

In the end, Silver Moon had no idea how he should react when he heard Ye Xiaowu's answer. ”D*mn. So much for him being capable, it turns out that he intends to buy it back…”

No Smile was disappointed as well but still consoled himself. ”At least, that shows that the man has substantial funds to his name.”

Silver Moon, however, shook his head. ”Actually. what use is there to something like the Command stat right now? Only a dozen or so players are needed when organizing parties to grind; 2 points is more than enough. As for organizing a group to PvP, Parallel World's system doesn't exempt friendly fire, so there's no need to even group up for that; recognizing one another is far more important. Honestly, the only use of having a large party is when participating in a large-scale battle! Still, even then, all a guild or mercenary group needed was a handful of players with high enough Command. Thus, the equipment with the Command stat can be deemed as a niche demand, so unless it's very difficult for players to acquire equipment that adds Command, it's utterly worthless otherwise.”

”So, is it difficult to acquire such equipment?” No Smile gazed at Silver Moon.

Silver Moon's tragic expression was more than enough to answer that question.

”Where did you get it from, anyway?” No Smile asked.

”A chain quest that I've yet to finish till now. It is the initial reward I was given; all that quest required me to do was run some errands. I didn't even have to fight a single battle; that alone speaks volumes of how difficult it is,” Silver Moon replied.

”A chain quest! Just getting that alone is hard enough!” No Smile exclaimed.

Silver Moon shrugged. ”In any case, I don't think I can progress any further from the current stage of the quest, so if that guy is willing to purchase the item for an exorbitant sum, I do believe he'll be able to quickly get a hold of it.”

No Smile nodded and casually patted Silver Moon. ”Then, let him do that for you. Shall we head to grind or quest?”

”Let's take a look around the city first. Have you been here before?” Silver Moon asked back.

”Nope. Take a look around it is.” These two left the spawn point together and began to stroll down the main street, getting along well like two peas in a pod.

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Ye Xiaowu and Broken Water Arrow were currently rather busy themselves.

Ye Xiaowu logged off and went to the trade forums in an attempt to purchase equipment that boosted the Command stat. Blankly putting up his post and refreshing, in the end, no one replied after the longest time, with even some old timers feigning knowledge mocked him by commenting that it was unlikely for anyone to have kept such equipment. Ye Xiaowu was originally composed, but he watched as his topic digressed into a discussion about the Command stat, and people started to express their opinions about it. The only thing they all had in agreement was that players who would care to buy such equipment were probably be off their rockers…

Ye Xiaowu was pissed! He watched as his topic got derailed for five pages, with not a single seller in sight. In accordance to the trade forum rules here, players could only talk about buying and selling, so it should not have gone off-topic like this. Ye Xiaowu complained to the moderators in his annoyance, and these moderators were truly well qualified for their jobs as one of them quickly replied to his complaint: 'just chat and go with the flow.'

Ye Xiaowu did not know if he should be laughing or crying; this moderator was even someone he knew from the company, and he reckoned that he had probably spent a long period of moderating the dull trade forum and was likely bored being all alone there. It was rare for a thread to digress like this that it became something worth cherishing. Soon, Ye Xiaowu even got his thread stickied on top of the trade forum and highlighted for all to view. Ye Xiaowu really wished he could just head over and give his former colleague a good beating.

Ye Xiaowu was drowning in these off-topic discussions the whole night, but the online Broken Water Arrow did not have any better luck on his end, either. He searched through every stall in Baishi City's marketplace, asked around, and even headed to check the Trade Exchange and the Auction House along the way. He was not like Ye Xiaowu, sitting down behind the monitor and refreshing the page with a click of a button; Broken Water Arrow had to run back and forth checking for updates, which was far more exhausting than what Ye Xiaowu did in any sense.

Unfortunately, neither of them had any results to show for after a night of work. That person who picked up Silver Moon's Torq of Leadership looked to have kept the equipment, thinking it was a rare item.

After a whole night of searching, the two men messaged each other in the morning, reporting the miserable night they had spent respectively. This conclusion was more or less what the two had already expected. If any of them acquired what they needed, would they wait up to this moment to inform each other about it? Meanwhile, Silver Moon was truly shameless. Having a fun time playing around in Linyin City the whole night, he unabashedly messaged Ye Xiaowu first thing in the morning when he saw that man was online. ”How is it, bro? Did you get the equipment with the Command stat yet?”

”F*ck*ng hell! You're really quite the b*st*rd!” Ye Xiaowu almost replied with this.