662 Chapter 662 - The Worried Brother Assis (2/2)
Brother Assist was wondering about this, when he suddenly recalled that he had only been bothered with being flamboyant, when his original plan had been to sell a piece of equipment that he no longer wanted for himself, testing to see if the system would still give him coins in exchange for it, but he ended up forgetting about doing just that.
After Brother Assist had just acted so pretentiously in the weapon store, he was a little embarrassed to turn back. But thankfully, this was not the only weapon store in Yunduan City. Brother Assist crossed a few streets and soon arrived in front of another store. In the time that had passed, the weapon store here had gotten even more crowded than the one he visited before, as there were even players that spilled out onto the street. It was unknown who was the impatient soul that must have been concerned with whether this sort of quests that earned currency still existed, so he or she must have went straight to give matters a try after getting online today. As a result, after the news was spread, players who were afraid that they would not be able to make any currency from this any longer all came running. People were all afraid of being poor.
Brother Assist was very tenacious when it came to research, and would never back down just because there were too many people. Barreling into the crowd, he squeezed with everyone, and he finally made his way into the middle. This time, he did not say anything more. As everyone went toward the blacksmith to exchange their ores for coins, Brother Assist went to the merchant in charge of the weapon store and took out the blue tier weapon that he had randomly gotten off monsters that he fought a few days ago.
When he handed it to the NPC, it actually accepted the transaction, and the price Brother Assist got in return was still the system treating quality weapons as trash, completely ignoring the actual item's value to players.
To think it would still handle purchases of these items… So if players were to continue dumping all the crap they got in their grind to the stores, by the words the system used, the amount of currency an NPC had was limited, so if they were to keep accept equipment here, and are still collecting mineral ores on the other side, just how long will this last? Will the system keep sending money to them? No matter how much currency the system can hold, there will come a day when it runs out, right? Would it generate new coins when they are all out? But won't that just return everything to square one, making it no different from having no update? Brother Assist mulled over this. The value of the blue tier weapon he sold was nothing much, and considering the current situation, it was completely not worth selling, so he had no issues parting ways with the weapon since the NPC was willing to accept the sale.
In the end, when he next looked back at the NPC, he saw it had turned around and hung the weapon on a nearby weapon rack.Find authorized novels in Webnovel，faster updates, better experience，Please click visiting.
”F*ck!” Brother Assist was surprised, as he quickly asked how much the sword was sold for.
Brother Assist shuddered the moment he heard the price from the merchant. Now that the system was selling it, the sword was no longer considered to be trash, and it was now priced very 'fairly'. It was apparently selling the blue tier sword at the expected market price for said weapon, adjusted lower after calculating the currency changes from the latest update.
To think the system would do something like this… Brother Assist had managed to test another aspect of the design this time and very quickly realizing just what the result would be through the information he had just gleaned. He tossed a sentence in the mercenary channel with a heavy somberness, ”it's really hard to say just what sort of impact this update would make…”
”What happened?” Everyone hurriedly asked. Everyone was very concerned about this update.
Brother Assist did not say a word, and merely linked the Black Sawblade he just purchased onto the channel.
”D*mn, where did that come from!?” Everyone exclaimed. All of them were very close to each other after having spent so much time together, so they were all clear as to what sort of equipment each and everyone had. Purple tier equipment like the Black Sawblade was far and few in between, and it was not something that everybody had a chance of acquiring. Sometimes, it was not available even if someone had the money for it.
”I bought it from a system-operated store,” Brother Assist proceeded to tell them about everything that happened.
”D*mn, there are still several stores in the city! We should go take a look!” Royal God Call was up on his feet.
”I went over to the west end of the city and took a look at the weapon store there as well; there wasn't any purple tier equipment. But aside from the purple tier weapons, the weapon stores were even selling blue tier items, but it seems like there just aren't many of them. When I tried to buy a blue tier item from the store in the west end of the city, there wasn't any new stock that replaced it after I bought it off. Also, when I sold him a blue tier equipment of my own, guess what happened? After the NPC took it from me, it turned around to put it up for sale, and the price matched those that it had before. I took note of all these prices, and I feel like those prices were a lot more attuned to the player market pricing. It's not very fair! The system's selling items at about the same price as the players, and what it sold were top tier equipment, this… I just can't make sense of things,” Brother Assist said.
”I say, Brother Assist, you're really a player through and through, living the life of a humble GM! What does any of the stuff you're worried about matter to you? If a single Parallel World were to fall, hundreds and thousands of 'Parallel Worlds' would rise in its stead, would a gamer like you ever fear that you would run out of games to play? The way I see it, this update is great. Each of us are decked out in top tier equipment now, with plenty of gold coins in our possession. These are the advantages we now have, so let us all enjoy them while we can!” Young Master Han once more expressed his contempt toward Brother Assist.
”I'll go check out some of the other system operated stores and have a look…” Brother Assist sighed, not at all seeing the light of Young Master Han's words. It was in his nature to continue to worry about everything.
The others were originally in their respective meetings, but now that a conversation had started on the mercenary channel, the discussion once more went back to the prospect of this update. Even Gu Fei spoke a few times at the start, only to realize later that the things he interjected were no more than impromptu comic remarks that had nothing to do with what was being discussed, so he slowly went silent as well.
The pre-battle discussion here in Amethyst Rebirth was as outrageous as always, speaking a few lines about the matter before it digressed over to the currency update that just happened. The ladies each began counting just how much coins they had in their hands, and Svelte Dancer began to act like a generous benefactor, taking out the sack of gold coins that Gu Fei had tossed to her from before and began shoving the coins into the hands of the ladies. These ladies knew her personality well, and did their best to avoid her, but how would any of them be any faster than her Thief? In the end, even those who had no intention of taking the coins had no choice but to symbolically take a few, as Svelte Dancer yelled, ”Don't be shy everyone. Take it. Just ask Miles if there's not enough.”
None of the ladies were that shameless, but Gu Fei did feel he was put in an awkward spot. Now that Svelte Dancer had made such an announcement, how could he not respond accordingly? All he could do was pull out a coin pouch and proceed to give out its content like he was giving out relief food, giving away a handful of coins here, and another sprinkle of coins there. July had no idea if she should laugh or cry when she saw that this meeting that she had initially convened had essentially been changed into a relief mission for the misfortunate.
There was not much information regarding the City Wars at the moment anyway, so there was only so much they could discuss. These ladies could only decide to prioritize the search and completion of quests, though Gu Fei and Svelte Dancer were given free rein to kill enemies. July asked the two if they needed a Priest, but when Gu Fei recalled how Luoluo would Heal and Heal him for fun, it took him but the briefest moment of pause before he shook his head vigorously.
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All the players spent these two days absentmindedly, and the market after this currency update was like a cemetery; everyone was focused on earning as many coins as they could, and nobody dared to spend even a single copper coin unnecessarily. However, the tavern was still a place that drew crowds. Now that the price of liquor had dropped to 10% of its original price, the cheapest red wine that the establishment offered only cost 2 copper coins a glass. It would have been a little too much if players had issues even spending such an amount.
Gu Fei did not spend these two days in peace either. Now that the City Wars was upon them, every major guild had designs for Thousand Miles Drunk, and they tried all sorts of ways to try and recruit him to their side. Aside from those in Yunduan City, even guilds from other cities that he had no contact with wrote letters to initiate negotiations. Even the Mage Drifting lobbied on someone else's behalf. It was unknown where or which guild the man had managed to get himself into, but he asked if Gu Fei was interested to head over and do the event with them. Gu Fei was surprised, the two of them seemed to have been adversaries before, and they had parted on less than amicable terms. Why was he acting as if nothing had happened, and was now even offering to work together with him? What did it mean? Is he trying to get himself another underling?
Deep Waters had profited greatly this time. After asking Gu Fei and getting rejected by him, he tried to recruit Eternal Dominion. Since he had no guild to begin with, and how everyone in the guild already knew him, Deep Waters was the only guild leader that attempted to recruit him, and adding to the fact that Eternal Dominion had an understanding of Deep Water's personality after spending these few days with him and his guild, how could Eternal Dominion reject the offer when he directly told him about the impending City Wars and called for him to temporarily halt the training to lend him a hand? Of course, Eternal Dominion readily agreed.
The first reaction that Gu Fei had when he heard this news was: How devious! People borne from workshops are all devious. It was a good thing that Eternal Dominion did not end up working for a workshop, otherwise, he would surely have been exploited without even realizing it!
This was not the only advantage that Deep Waters had gained; Sword Demon was without a guild as well, so Deep Waters had also approached him to come and lend a hand since he had nothing else to do. Would Sword Demon reject this offer? Of course not! In just a short time, Deep Waters had managed to secure two expert combatants before the battle, and according to people in the guild, he was recently found walking right into trees and would have a foolish smile on his face, laughing to himself non-stop.
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Two days passed really quickly, and out of annoyance, Gu Fei blocked off all incoming messages after enduring it for a better half of a day, and now everything was quiet. But he had nothing else to do during these few days either! In a startling turn of events, there was not even a single bounty mission available either; it was as if the entire Parallel World had become very lonely! Everyone was either focused on earning more coins or thinking about the City Wars coming in two days. No one is PK-ing, and that left Gu Fei feeling woeful.
Saturday, at six pm, the game stopped service for an hour and started the final update for the event. An hour later, the servers were open promptly, and players surged into the game. In a flash of light, all the players were surprised to find that they were no longer in the familiar designated log-off points, and they had all been spawned outside the city. The familiar city was a kilometer away, the closed gates were faintly visible, and there were flags on the wall. A horn sounded, and the City Wars officially began.