Chapter 55: Small Capital, Huge Profi (1/2)

Once I was back in Floating Ice City, I immediately set out to make my Rank 4 Consumables. To be honest, I should be the first player in Floating Ice City who could make consumables of such high rank. Their obvious usefulness aside, just being able to make them was enough to shock the masses.

I interacted with the NPC at the warehouse to take out a huge number of Salt and Chicken Meat. Since I already had enough Fresh Ginger in my bag, there was no way I wouldn’t make some money out of this.

I opened the cooking window and put in the ingredients: Chicken Meat x20, Salt x10, Fresh Ginger x15. I confirmed the synthesis and a mystical ball of magic light flew from my palm—

Ding~!

System Notice: You have made White Cut Chicken x4, Cooking Proficiency +5!

Huh? Four in one go?

Overjoyed, I quickly began to make my second batch. As expected, I still obtained 3 White Cut Chicken. This was fragrant cooked chicken meat wrapped in lotus leaves. Each could restore 400 MP, a staple for high-level mages.

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Around half an hour later, I had made a total of 120 Rank 4 Consumables. Each slot contained a stack of 10, so I had 12 stacks. All these were cold hard cash!

Standing in the center of the plaza with my game ID concealed, I yelled, “Selling Rank 4 Magic Consumables in bulk. This is some good stuff that can instantly restore 400 MP! Don’t miss this chance! Cheap goods, 80 silver each. Come quick if you need it!”

It was reasonable to say that this was a crazy era. 80 silver was equivalent to 80 RMB, so who would actually throw away 80 RMB for an mana recovery item?

However, a ton of rich people just happened to live in this time. There were those who would spend money for a beauty’s smile, and there were those who would also spend a ton of gold to buy high-rank consumables!

Many high-level players came over and surrounded me. Some would only carefully buy one or two, and some would buy five, at the most. It seemed like they were preparing to fight some boss with their friends. Or rather, that much was an obvious fact. High-level magic-based classes, especially priests, would consume about 30 MP with every use of a Rank 3 skill like Holy Light. If they weren’t using high-rank Magic Consumables, their MP wouldn’t last more than 2 minutes, making the chances of a party wipe much greater.

In the middle of all the noise, a voice suddenly came from the side. “Brother selling Magic Consumables, can we buy all your goods? How many more do you have left?”

Stunned, I turned around and saw two high-level players clad in shining metal armor!

Iron Pardon and Inconstant. The duo weren’t just popular guys on Floating Ice City’s Heavenly Ranking, they were also the “Gemini Stars”, experts recruited by Mad Dragon. I never expected to meet them here.

Iron Pardon raised a brow. “It’s you!”

I smirked. “It’s me. What, you still want to buy them?”

“Yes, of course!” Inconstant said with gritted teeth. “How many Rank 4 Consumables do you have? Hmph, don’t tell me that you don’t want to sell it to us because we fought you in the past.”

I couldn’t stop smiling. “Revenge is revenge and business is business. Of course I’m not that small-minded!”

As I said that, I counted the goods in my bag. “I still have 95 left. Since you guys want to buy everything, I’ll give you a special price. One Rank 4 Consumable for 1 gold each!”

“What?!” Iron Pardon got angry. “Weren’t you selling it to those people for 80 silver each?”

“You guys are special!” I said indifferently.

Inconstant reached out a hand to block Iron Pardon, who was about to burst. He said in a deep voice, “Here’s 95 gold. Give me 95 of those Rank 4 Consumables!”

“Okay!”

I happily opened the trade window and placed 95 White Cut Chicken inside while the other party put in 95 gold. With a ding, the trade was complete!

Iron Pardon looked dissatisfied. Lin Yixin and I did, after all, steal the boss they had worked hard to kill and now they had to give me money.

“Bro, w-what’s this?” Iron Pardon said angrily.

Inconstant smiled. “Young master has decreed that we must gather 100 Rank 4 Consumables. Don’t bother saying anything else, the gold belongs to the young master anyway.”

“Hmph!”

Iron Pardon walked away, fuming. Inconstant gave me a warning look as he coldly smiled. “Business is business. You’d better watch yourself once you’re out in the wild!”

I ignored him and sent Du Thirteen a message: “Hurry to Floating Ice City and get ready to sell gold!”

Several minutes later, Du Thirteen arrived and traded me 40 gold, smiling. “We should have a total of 100 gold, right?”

“Is 100 worth selling?” I held out my hand and opened it, causing a huge pile of gold to appear within my palm. 258, a distinct number that showed how much gold I possessed was also visible.

“Ha?” Du Thirteen was scared silly and then burst into laughter. He patted my shoulder, still laughing like a madman. “You actually have this much gold! Isn’t this around twenty thousand yuan? Hahaha, Lu Chen, Little Gui and I were actually having a headache about how to pay for next month’s rent just a moment ago, you know~”

“Don’t be too happy. At the current stage, gold’s value will be depreciating by the minute. Hurry up and find a buyer!

“Find what buyer, just sell it on the forum’s trade platform!”

“Oh? It has such function too?”

“Go go!”

And so, I went on the official forums and did indeed spot the trade platform. PBC was the intermediary, and it collected a 1% transaction fee.

Sweeping my gaze over, I saw many players selling gold there. Just gold coins alone had several thousand pages there. Those more wealthy that posted 50 gold while those who had less sold around 3–5 gold to make a bit of money. 1 gold was currently fluctuating between 95 RMB–120 RMB. This exchange rate would definitely fall soon after the majority of the player base grew in level, though I had no way of predicting just how low it would dip.

I immediately placed 250 gold on sale, priced at 100 RMB for each. This was relatively cheap, unlike those unscrupulous sellers who put theirs up at 145 RMB each. Too overpriced!

A ding and a message came not even five minutes after I put my gold on sale—

System Notice: Valued user, the 250 gold you put on sale has been sold. After deducting the transaction fee, a total of 24750 yuan has been deposited into your China Construction Bank account: 662700200873*!

Nice, the money’s here. I made close to twenty-five thousand in an instant!

The Bloody Mercenaries workshop was smoothly developing, the near economic crisis could be considered solved. We could now go out everyday for food and drink and check out the legs of the pretty girls on the street. Bliss!

However, I still wasn’t satisfied with my current achievement. I wanted more.

I gave the metal helmet Dominating Warrior God had dropped to Du Thirteen. This was a Level 25 Iron-grade item, it was a bit better than Gui Guzi’s helmet.