Chapter 162 - Trader profession (2/2)
”Because, it is quite a weird one. It is actually provided by the city hall instead of a trader NPC. I haven't seen a profession like this before. It awards experience for a good sale. The system generates a pair of values for every item that I sell. A min value to be sold based on its cost and the difficulty of creating it. This is close to the minimum that we have. The other is better estimate a bit higher than the previous one. If I sell it for more than that amount, I get experience from just selling stuff. So, all rare commodities, etc., I can just sell and get experience from the shop,” she explained.
”Haha, this is made for you then,” said Shadow.
”Don't get too happy. I actually lose proficiency and experience if I sell it for a rate lower than the minimum. The profession isn't permanent, yet and I need to complete some trader quests before the city hall makes it permanent. I don't even know if the license can be used in other cities or not,” said Lizzie.
”I doubt you would have much issue with that. The rate at which the shop is operating would make things a lot more easy for you,” said Hammer. ”And holding an occasional auction would make it much easier. Doesn't it?”
”Ya. It is a rare profession. I doubt one would be very successful without having the support of a guild. It will surely be valid in other cities too. I doubt that they would limit a profession to a city or kingdom. So, just try it out. It is not like it isn't useful, right?” asked Shadow. He already knew that the trader profession is linked through auction houses and it is common throughout the game. The profession would actually teach the players various bargaining techniques, sales of assets and so on. This would be very useful when a guild own multiple properties or rents to NPCs or wants to rent from NPCs.
”It would allow me to get decent bargains from other NPC merchants too. It already has its uses,” said Lizzie nodding her head. ”Why are you here?”
”Yes. Give me a couple of seconds,” said Shadow as he pulled out the design of vambraces from his bag and gave it to Hammer along with some gold. ”There is a silver weapon design going to be auctioned by Merlin Grimlock,” he said. ”Make a buy out as soon as you see it and learn it.”
”He is selling it auction house. I hoped that they would sell it at our shop. I just had a chat with Quiet Fire about it a few minutes ago. She told that she has a few items to auction for me,” said Lizzie.
”Ok. You guys talk it out among yourselves,” said Shadow. ”First, tell the guild members to hold off on the dungeon, if they are enthusiastic. I will provide the dungeon guide in a few minutes need to sort it out.”
”Rudra already did that. He sent a notification as soon as the announcement of you clearing it came out. Haven't you been checking the guild chat?” asked Lizzie.
”Too much of talk going on in it now. I have muted it and not really a fan of scrolling upwards to check the messages. You must regulate that chat to important things only,” said Balthazar. That was one of the most important things required in a guild. When, a guild is growing, it usually gets hard to maintain this kind of regulations, but if one fails to do so, the chat becomes useless later on in the game and useful information tends to get submerged by a lot of friendly chatter.
”Ya. Slaine was also complaining of the same. People are bit more enthusiastic than we have expected,” said Lizzie in agreement. ”It is hard to curb down their excitement.”
”Did you guys set up the guild warehouse, yet?” asked Balthazar.
”Oh! Isn't that a bit too hard?” asked Lizzie as she realized what Balthazar's suggestion is going to be. Slaine had already suggested that they restrict the members who are using guild chat for trivialities to not be able to use the warehouse.
”You need to have some hard and strong rules. Else, the members wouldn't calm down. Especially under these circ.u.mstances. It is necessary,” said Balthazar. This rule is used by a number of first-rate guilds.
”Second, how is it going in the Blackrock Town?” he asked.
”It is quite peaceful actually. The town actually upgraded to an intermediate town. We have a decent amount of control over the tow. The Sirius Imperials have joined their forces with us and we are presenting a united front to any player from Foedus Rex,” said Lizzie.
”What about the exploration of the Blackrock mountains,” asked Balthazar.
”Brick is leading that. We went quite far into the mountains, behind the portal for the Cave of Wargs. They reached a level 15 area with a bunch of new monsters, but we didn't find any mine as you had suggested,” said Lizzie.
”Keep looking. It is actually best, if we calm down till the mass quest ends,” suggested Balthazar. ”What about the path to Jarko Town?”
”We are exploring along the map you gave. Found that Welog town as shown in the map, but it will take some time to get uptil Jarko. We are actually pushing it a bit. It is a level 15 area already and we are just trying to improve our reputation at Welog town.”
”That is good. It is good to have a decent reputation in the places along the way. Any other big guilds in the vicinity?” asked Balthazar.
”No. Most other guilds tend to interfere with us. Foedus Rex is concerned with the mass quest. Perennial Light is leading this, and he says that it is going quite peacefully as most player are currently overly concerned with the mass quest. It does give a chance of giving quite a few good equipment,” said Lizzie. ”It is much more interesting to guilds and independent players than exploration currently. We best use this option for these two days.”
”Ok. That mass quest actually ended up providing us an advantage,” said Shadow. ”How about the trade route and caravan designs. Talking about designs, did you meet with Earthly Researcher.”
”We checked with most of our sources for the caravan design. Found nothing, yet. Earthly, he is a bit full of himself, but a worth addition,” said Lizzie a bit annoyed. It looked like she didn't really like the engineer.
”Ok. He is not important. I got another engineer in mind. I got a friend who is using the nickname Lizzie Bizzie. I actually contacted her to meet Rudra for the creating a training environment. He might mostly introduce her to you to help him with management of the training environment and similar things. She is a good engineer and it would be good if you can get her to join the guild,” said Shadow. As Lizzie was mostly handling the business aspects of the guild more than Rudra, he decided it is best to also let her be aware and examine Ellie's efforts.
”Ya. He told me of her. I will see if I can talk to her about this too,” said Lizzie. ”Is training really that important?” she asked.
”Ya. It is. You will soon realize it. Stick to the trader profession. I think that you would have the best chance to get a hold of caravans from the trader profession,” said Shadow. ”Last thing, do you have any copper ore mined?”
”Copper ore? I think Hammer has some. He actually took charge of all resources and materials that might be required for forging,” said Lizzie.
”I did find a copper ore in the auction house, but it was a rare find. Didn't find any designs to use it and didn't want to experiment without more of them,” said Hammer.
”You know who put it on sale?”
”Some guy called Hunter 1. They seem to be a group called Hunter squad. I have already asked, if they could find more of them, but they asked for double the price. So, I befriended them and didn't continue with the conversation,” said Hammer.