Chapter 25

Ming Hu, who had long since gotten a rough idea of the market by pacing the boards, let out a short sigh and stared blankly at the screen, muttering to himself.
“Figuring it out. Impossible.”
It was impossible to get a complete picture of the market, and even for the same item, the price could vary by tens to hundreds of thousands of dollars due to different options. But does the same option mean the same price? Not exactly. Even with the same options, the price was strangely different by tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands of won.
“At least I figured one out.”
Of course, it wasn’t a waste of time. He didn’t have it all figured out, but he had a rough idea, and he found out the value of one of his items.
“I never thought an Earth of Patience bracelet… would be so expensive.”
I thought the option for the rare Earth of Patience bracelet was a good one, but my jaw dropped when I saw it was going for $150-180.
“Two… so at least 300!”
He had two Earth of Patience bracelets. Even if he sold them for the lowest price of 1.5 million won, Ming Hu smiled slightly at the thought of earning 3 million won.
“Plus, the options are good.”
The option for the Earth of Patience Bracelet at $1.8 million was not as good as Ming Hu’s current Earth of Patience Bracelet. This meant that Ming Hu’s Earth of Patience Bracelet was worth $1.8 million, or even more.
“200 million… Hold on.”
Ming Hu muttered something to himself and posted that he was selling the Earth of Patience bracelet.
Subject: Rare Earth of Patience Bracelet for sale.
Method: Auction
Starting Price: 1,500,000
Item: Earth of Patience Bracelet
Rating: Rare
Limit: Level 25
Options: 40-50 Magic Defense, +30 Potency, +40 Health
Received for breaking a quest.
The options are, as you can see, some of the best we’ve come up with so far, and we look forward to seeing your interest and pricing.
“Let’s put everything else up!”
After posting the item for sale, Ming Hu began listing his items one by one. Since he didn’t know the price, he set the starting price to a default of 5,000 won for the auction. When he was done with the rares and was about to post the uniques, he had an idea and stopped himself from posting.
“Wouldn’t it be better to take a shot or something and post it?”
I realized that taking pictures of the items seemed to get more attention and prices than just writing about them. After realizing this, Myung-hoo wondered what to do with all the sales posts he had posted.
“Let’s leave it alone while we get a price.”
After some deliberation, Ming Hu decided not to cancel the sale. If he didn’t get a price he liked by the end of the auction, he could cancel at that point.
“Shall we connect?”
After registering all the rare items for sale except for the uniques, Ming Hu turned off his computer, stood up, and walked over to the capsule.
“200 million… Hold on.”
Ming Hu muttered to himself and walked inside, unaware of the consequences. He didn’t know what would happen to his rarity.
* * * * *
Park Hyun-woong, chairman of Hyunwoong E&C, one of the construction industry’s two giants, has been hooked on the virtual reality game “Legend,” which is currently enjoying one of the highest stock prices.
“Heh, heh, okay, I’ll be right in.”
Park smiled and hung up the phone. Then he turned his head to look at the capsule that was taking up one of his seats and smiled even wider.
There have been a lot of virtual reality games, but there hasn’t been a perfect one that matches the reality we imagined as children in fiction.
“It’s not going to come out while I’m alive.”
It didn’t seem like it would come out while he was alive. But it did. Park Hyunwoong immediately started playing the game. After connecting to ‘Legend’ and playing, Park Hyunwoong closed the game and couldn’t say anything to me. It was the same as he had seen in the novel.
“…Can I be like the hero of a novel?
He wanted to create an overwhelmingly strong character like the ones he’d seen in novels, but he was worried about his age. He was a little too old to play the game, and he lacked the sense, stamina, and time of younger people. After thinking about it, he decided to use his own money to buy a lot of items.
“Anything special up today?”
Sitting down at his computer, Park quickly clicked his mouse to enter the item trading site and frowned slightly as he scanned the board.
“There’s nothing to buy.”
All of the gear on the board was inferior to what he was currently wearing.
“Huh… can we just connect?”
He let out a short breath and hit refresh, but he never got to finish his sentence. The moment he refreshed, he saw a post about selling a rare item, one he thought he needed more of.
Subject: Rare Earth of Patience Bracelet for sale.
Method: Auction
Starting Price: 1,500,000
Item: Earth of Patience Bracelet
Rating: Rare
Limit: Level 25
Options: 40-50 Magic Defense, +30 Potency, +40 Health
Received for breaking a quest.
The options are, as you can see, some of the best we’ve come up with so far, and we look forward to seeing your interest and pricing.
“…”
When he saw the options for the items listed in the article, he was speechless. He was embarrassed because he had just purchased an Earth of Patience bracelet for $1.8 million.
“There was a better option.”
The options for the Earth of Patience bracelets he had were woefully inadequate compared to the Earth of Patience bracelets described in this article.
“…auction.”
After deciding to purchase the Earth of Patience bracelet, Park frowned slightly when he saw that the purchase method was an auction. He wanted to buy it and use it right away, but he had no choice, so he placed a bid of 3 million won.
“…Huh?”
After depositing 300 million won, Park was surprised to find himself back on the message board.
“What… what’s the deal, why are there so many rares all of a sudden?”
He started to see a series of posts about selling rare items. Park quickly scrolled through the posts and checked out the items.
Subject: Selling rare shoes.
Method: Auction
Starting price: 5,000
Item: Shoes of the Arrogant
Rating: Rare
Limit: 300 Strength, 300 Dexterity, 150 Stamina
Options: 200 Physical Armor, +10% Attack Speed, +10% Movement Speed
Special Options: 1. 5% chance to gain 5% Health when attacking
I’ve been hunting, and I’m out. Hope for lots of interest and prices.
Subject: selling rare shoes. [2].
Method: Auction
Starting price: 5,000
Item: Shoes of the Arrogant
Rating: Rare
Limit: 300 Strength, 300 Dexterity, 150 Stamina
Options: 200 Physical Armor, +10% Attack Speed, +10% Movement Speed
Special Options: 1. 5% chance to gain 5% Health when attacking
I’ve been hunting, and I’m out. Hope for lots of interest and prices.
Subject: Rare Helm for sale.
Method: Auction
Starting price: 5,000
Item: Helm of the Arrogant
Rating: Rare
Limit: 300 Strength, 200 Dexterity, 200 Constitution, 100 Endurance
Options: 200 Physical Armor, +15% Attack Speed, +15% Movement Speed
I’ve been hunting, and I’m out. Hope for lots of interest and prices.
Title: Selling a rare dagger.
Method: Auction
Starting price: 5,000
Item: Dagger of Limitlessness
Rating: Rare
Limits: 200 Strength, 500 Dexterity, Archer Family
Optional: 300-320 Physical Attack Damage, +10% Attack Speed
Special Options: 1. 50% chance to crit when attacking
I’ve been hunting, and I’m out. Hope for lots of interest and prices.
Subject: Selling a rare cane.
Method: Auction
Starting price: 5,000
Item: Malea’s Staff
Rating: Rare
Limitations: 500 Constitution, 500 Wisdom, Priestly Family
Options: 200-210 Physical Attack Damage, 500 Magic Attack Damage
Special Options: 1. +50% Healing Magic Effect
I’ve been hunting, and I’m out. Hope for lots of interest and prices.
Subject: Selling a rare crossbow.
Method: Auction
Starting price: 5,000
Item: Venomous Crossbow
Rating: Rare
Limits: 300 Strength, 700 Dexterity, Hunter Family
Options: 300-310 Physical Attack Damage, -10% Attack Speed, +10% Movement Speed
Special Options: 1. Poison enemies for 10 seconds when attacking (Poisoned enemies have -300 Life per second)
2. 50% chance to attack poisoned enemies with -20% movement speed for 10 sec.
I’ve been hunting, and I’m out. Hope for lots of interest and prices.
“…”
Nothing was said. I couldn’t imagine that an item with this many options would already be available.
“…What kind of a prank is this?”
Based on the content of the post, it was clear that the six rares were posted by one person. That was the problem. Park couldn’t believe that one person could have so many rares.
“…Still.”
Park thought it was someone playing a prank, but he was raising a warrior and didn’t need a dagger of infinity, a staff of Malea, or a crossbow of venom, so he bid $1 million each. He returned to the board afterward and shook his head at the notification that he had a message.
“Did the transaction get canceled?”
It was the only message he had. Feeling a little disappointed that the sales post was a fishing expedition, Park hit the notification and went to the message window to check the message.
Subject: The highest bidder has changed.
The high bidder for “Sell Rare Item Patience Earth Bracelet” has changed.
“…”
Park’s face hardened as he read the message. Three million won wasn’t a lot of money, but it wasn’t small either.
Ding
Park moved his mouse to the listing and checked the amount of bids. There was a bid of 4 million won.
“..”
Park thought for a moment, then placed a bid of 5 million won. He went back to the message board and saw a notification that he had another message.
“You can’t be…”
He tapped the notification to open the message window and frowned when he saw six messages.
Subject: The highest bidder has changed.
Subject: The highest bidder has changed.
Subject: The highest bidder has changed.
Subject: The highest bidder has changed.
Subject: The highest bidder has changed.
Subject: The highest bidder has changed.
All of them were messages that the high bidder had changed. And since there were six of them, it was clear that it was a rare item that had been bid at $1 million.
“…after.”
Park took a deep breath as he read the message. Then he silently entered the sale thread and bid 5 million won each, muttering quietly to himself.
“I’m going to spend some money for the first time in a long time.”