Chapter 874 - Commerce Empire (2/2)
Walking past his statue, Nie Yan entered the Starry Night Potion Shop The interior could only be described as nificent The floor was paved with a special type of white stone If you were to look down at it, you could even see your own reflection
Looking further in, there were rows upon rows of counters and numerous shelves in the back The shelves were neatly stocked with all sorts of different goods It was a feast for the eyes
There were 60 sales clerksthe counters Most were players while a dozen or so were NPCs They wore tidy work uniforhout the main hall were six rest areas with about a thousand seats, e of the hall were two flights of stairs leading up An endless strea up and down There was a staff exclusive passage at the back of the hall Nie Yan could go through there However, a sudden urge coh it was spacious, wide enough to fit a dozen people side by side, there was siht of stairs wouldn’t hurt
The first floor was the shopping area which exclusively sold potions The second floor was for trading raw materials Like a market, all sorts of players ca over prices It created athe , from where they were sent to one of the e
More than 60 of the ht Potion Shop ca with activity here
Going up another level to the third floor, it was much less crowded There were only a few dozen or so people The environment was fairly calm This floor was a lot more luxurious than previous ones So to custoht Potion Shop Many represented large guilds They tended to buy in large batches, so they wished to keep froht Potion Shop offered a place for this
The identities of these big clients were verified by staff in order to prevent goods froel Corps and the Century Financial Group Since they bought in bulk, they were usually given a good deal Most transactions ranged anywhere froold Occasionally, they even ht in a ton of profit
The fourth floors and up were off-limits for customers Rather, they ork spaces for asskickers United’s Alchemists The main branch had over 800 workshops with several thousand alche for Nie Yan around the clock The a short of astonishi+ng Of course, if you included the other branches, the number of Alchemists would rise to 60,000 plus However, only the best of them were invited to work in the uild, any one of them would be treated as a precious treasure They earned enerous rewards, so reen with envy, but they orth it
Nie Yan strolled froher floors, he so at the workshops on both sides Soliht Potion Shop paid wages based on perforher the pay This encouraged the Alchemists to work as hard as possible Many were professional players The wages they earned here were h to support a comfortable life for themselves and their families in the real world Many even had salaries equivalent to high level executives
Conviction and the real world ether The production ability of the real world was already highly developed There was already no longer a need for many manual labour workers However, hoere so ? Without set work, they would become leeches on society Conviction had created a whole new sector of jobs, and that was professional players Incoame provided for tens of millions of players and helped the federation resolve the unemployment crisis It was no wonder they invested so heavily in the game
With the support of the federation, Conviction also provided banking services So, the gold trade was fairly lively If players had a large ae it for real world credits Conviction became inextricably linked with the real world
It was precisely because of the eence of this new profession that so many people entered Conviction Of course, the nu bucks h to barely sustain themselves Just like in the real world, it took skill and hard work toMany ordinary players would have no choice but to invest a to the data released by the federation, Conviction accounted for roughly 20 of the country’s GDP This was an extree financial groups were entering Convictions, wanting to get a share of the pie Many invested shocking aahly 25 of all their investame With recent events, that number had even increased to 40