Chapter 72

The First Square of the Imperial Capital Nexus.
The Kaiser was buying equipment to fulfill a quest from the Marquis. Of course, he didn’t buy it himself; he had a few other users do it for him, and once he had a certain amount of equipment, he paid them a small amount of money.
“Good luck.”
“Yes, we’ll be in touch!”
With the equipment purchased, Kaiser began to walk the walk.
Jumbled
“How far did it fall?”
Kaiser’s destination was the auction house. Recently, the value of the items had been dropping a bit. He was going to the auction house now to see how much the value of the equipment had dropped.
-Demetos: Hey! Awesome info!
That was the moment.
-Demetos: This will be very helpful for your quest!
-Demethes: To my quest?
The Kaiser cocked his head at Demetos’ whisper. His quest is to get the equipment. What information do you need to get equipment?
-Demetos: I think it will be released in bulk for items if we wait a bit.
But Demetrius’ next words stopped the Kaiser in his tracks.
-To Demetrius: What do you mean, tell me more.
-Demetos: There’s a guild called Goldbar, and the leader of the guild has been manipulating the market by buying up all the items on the auction to keep up with the general population, but somehow the market has gotten out of their control, and now they’re going to have to deal with all the items they’ve been buying.
The Kaiser could only shake his head at Demetrius’ words. No matter how much he thought about it, it didn’t make sense. It didn’t make sense that a single guild would be able to control the items that came to the auction house. Even if they had a lot of money, how could they control what so many people put up?
-Demetos: Are you sure? There’s no way a single guild can control what goes up for auction, especially equipment items.
-Demetos: Uh, yeah, but… There’s a condition on the control item, and she’s in the Leviathan Alliance.
The Kaiser frowned at Demetos’ words. The Rebel Alliance, that was enough of an answer. They were more than capable of controlling it.
-Demetus to Demetrius: So you think it’s going to work out somewhat?
-Demetos: At least 10,000?
-Demetos to Demetos: Got it. Thank you.
-Demetrius: No! I’ve got a gift from you, and I’ll do the least I can. Hmph. Good luck!
-To Demetrius: Good job.
“Ha.”
Kaiser let out a short sigh. Equipment that used to sell for 30 or 40 gold had suddenly skyrocketed to 100 gold. At the time, I hadn’t paid much attention to it, thinking it was due to high demand, but now I just laughed.
“Anyway. The price is going to plummet.”
Of course, what matters to you now is not that Goldbar manipulated the price. It was the price of a piece of equipment that was about to explode and drop.
“How far is it going to fall?”
At least 10,000. It’s not a gradual release, and if that much is released in a short period of time, the price will definitely crash and plummet.
“We’ll just have to aim for that and sweep it up.”
That would be the day I would complete the quest.
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On the set, Sera and Minjoon, two celebrities who are currently making a name for themselves as MCs of “Legendary Plump Information,” were reading a script.
“Wow, is this real?”
“That’s huge.”
They were reading the script, looking a little surprised. Just then, one of the staff members called out.
“We’ll be recording in three minutes!”
At the sound of the recording going in, Sera and Minjoon made their way to their seats, followed by a lone figure hobbling onto the set.
“Hello!”
“Ah! Hello. Mr. Nebula.”
“It’s Carl again today, Carl!”
Sera and Minjoon looked at Sungwoon, who had moved to his seat, and Sungwoon scratched his head and sat down.
“Did you read the script?”
Sungwoon smiled wryly at Minjoon’s question and held up the script.
“As usual, of course.”
“…You didn’t read it.”
Sungwoon nodded wordlessly. Minjoon shook his head and looked at Sungwoon.
“You’re officially ranked seventh, so you know more about Legends than anyone else here, but I’m sure you’ll be surprised by the information I have for you today. Especially your second piece of information.”
“Okeoke.”
At Minjoon’s words, Sungwoon smiled sheepishly and opened the script to read.
“Hmmm… the Void Cave raid that my guild failed at… it’s different where the Knight of Light is. Hmph… Hmm…”
Sungwoon quickly closed the script. Minjoon looked at Sungwoon’s calm expression and scratched his head, asking, “What’s wrong?
“Aren’t you surprised?”
“What?”
“About that number 2.”
“I told you about this?”
“What? Dude.”
“I’m going to record!”
Minjoon opened his mouth to say something at Sungwoon’s words, but the echoing voice of the staff shut him up and he just smiled and looked at the camera.
Voila!
The staffer who came out to hit the slide hit the slide, and Sarah’s mouth opened as she prepared.
“Hello, I’m Sera here with the Legendary Chubby Information, and I’ve got a little bit of chubby information for you today, and first up is Mr. Minjoon?”
“Hello. I’m Minjoon Kim. The first news we have for you today is that the Void Cave, also known as the Impregnable, has finally been captured! But who captured the Void Cave? Let’s watch the video!”
As he said that, a video began to play on the screen behind him. The video that started showed the Void Cave boss, Hydra. It was obviously edited because it was impossible to show it from the beginning of the raid. Soon the battle began and after a spectacular battle, Hydra was defeated and the video ended.
“That’s amazing!”
“Yeah, that’s a sore spot where we failed too… The Light Guild! I think it’s great, can we watch this video from the beginning, we want to see it and try to capture it.”
“You know what, if you go to the archives on the legendary plump information homepage, there’s a video of the Void Caverns raid that you can watch!”
“I’ll have to go watch it after the show!”
“Well then, Mr. Nebula, give us the second installment!”
“Yes, viewers, it’s the official #7 ranked nebula, and the second piece of information I’m going to share with you… and it’s a big one!”
The nebula emphasized the end. And then he opened his mouth.
“Those level 70-120 gear that used to cost over 100 gold, and you wanted to use them but couldn’t because they were too expensive, but now the price has dropped to 40 gold!”
“Really!?”
Sera exclaimed in surprise. Nebula smiled at Sera’s response and continued.
“Gear that hadn’t dropped below 100 gold before! The sudden release of supply has driven the price down to 40 gold, and my personal opinion is that it will drop a few more gold due to the overwhelming demand, but once that demand is digested, I think the price will go back up to around 50-60 gold, so you might as well stock up now!”
“I’ve been using gear that’s too expensive for my level… This is really helpful, I need to change my gear!”
“Me too! I’ll have to change that quickly, and then the third piece of news is from that Serra! A warrior with more knowledge than most wizards has appeared!”
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<Strong – Armor Crafting
Level: 9
Proficiencia : 0
Create a mugu.
Brings up the Armor Crafting window when used.
"…"
Ming Hu was speechless at the skill with which Wu Guoqi had crafted the weapon. He couldn't understand what was going on.
"I made 700 of these… and they didn't even go up 1%…?"
You're at level 9 and have crafted 700 pieces of equipment. When I finished crafting, I checked my skill level and it was 0%. That's not even a 1% increase.
"Why…"
I couldn't understand it. Even if the level didn't go up, it should have gone up at least 1%, but it didn't change at all.
"You can't be…"
Ming Hu frowned at a sudden thought.
"Magic doesn't work anymore?"
Everything I've made so far has been magic level items. I could understand the unchanged skill level if magic level items didn't affect level 9 skill.
"I'm sure it doesn't affect me."
It was a guess, but I was soon convinced. I crafted 700 of them and didn't see a 1% increase in skill. Apparently, magic level items don't affect your skill at level 9.
"…What should I do."
If I was planning to make a Master, but I couldn't increase my mastery any further with magic, I had to change my goal.
"It's not like we're selling all the rare ingredients…"
He says that if magic tiers don't affect skill, then you should make rare tiers, but the materials for rare items are hard to come by. The auction house doesn't have everything, which means you'll have to hunt for what you don't have.
"Let's start with the easier rares."
Ming Hu opened the crafting window and began browsing through the rare items, checking the crafting materials. As he did so, his gaze fell on one item.
"Fang Claw?"
It was definitely a rare item, but its ingredients were simple. Unlike other rare items that usually require six or seven ingredients, it only required two ingredients to craft.
"Seven kilograms of iron, ten fangs of a giant wolf."
The two materials needed were iron and the fangs of a giant wolf.
"You can buy the old iron…"
Wrought iron was everywhere in the auction houses. It was always available.
"The fangs of the great wolf are…"
The problem was the giant wolf's fangs, which, frankly, weren't even a problem.
"This time I'm going to kill it for real and save the fangs."
Sigh
Ming Hu muttered something to himself and pressed the blue button.
Poof!
The smithy disappeared in a puff of smoke, and Ming Hu picked up the blue orb, put it in his inventory, and walked to the chief's house.