Online Game: Super Beast Tamer

Chapter 314 Whetstone (Subscribe~)

Modea City is a port city located in the south of the Destiny Continent. It commands many small islands around it. There are constant ships coming and going around the city, and trade is prosperous.

Venus started this city activity a month ago. She wanted to build a big ship and go out to sea to find land that was not occupied by NPCs.

Now, Venus Pharmacy is no longer limited to opening its own store. Venus will authorize other stores to sell, which is considered as the general agent. There is basically no transportation and storage cost in the game, and the potion has no shelf life, so the profit is very high.

After several months of operation, Venus has recently recovered its initial costs and started to make money.

Among the costs, the item of obtaining land from NPCs accounts for a relatively large proportion. Fate sets a relatively high threshold in this regard. Generally speaking, a single player cannot play it.

Venus was indeed a little tired of doing tasks and dealing with NPCs every day - because it was a game, so even if it was a very small matter, the NPC would find various reasons to test you...

Running errands is not as fun as fighting. Most players can accept killing monsters for four or five hours, but cannot accept running around the map for two hours.

Things like face and reputation are not as useful in games as in real life...

So Venus wanted to find another way. She went out to sea to find an island that had not been occupied by NPCs, build a factory on it, and expand production capacity.

However, just finding the island is not enough. Although you can do whatever you want on it, if the occupied land is not "recognized" by the NPC, you will not be able to hire NPCs even if you build a factory.

There are three ways to get the occupied land recognized by NPC.

The first is to use the land as the guild's headquarters. This method is the simplest, but the limitations are also obvious. A low-level guild can only have one headquarters. If the level is high, there are only two. In addition, the investment in upgrading the guild is not small.

The second is to gain recognition from the governor of a big city and seek a "title". In this way, any new land discovered can be counted as territory under his title and become a subsidiary territory of the governor of the main city.

The third is to be in a "hostile" state with a governor of a big city, and use your "bad reputation" to tell the NPC that you are the king of the mountain; if the hostility with the NPC is not sufficient, you can just say "this land is mine", then no NPC will pay attention to you.

Venus originally wanted to take the second path, but she had a falling out with the NPC halfway through, so she naturally took the third path.

The reason for the breakup is simple. Venus was tricked by the NPCs...

The nobles of Modia City asked her to finance the transportation of a batch of goods, but they were actually using her as bait.

After Venus' cargo ship set sail, the nobles secretly spread the word to attract nearby pirates to hijack the ship. Then they ambushed nearby and captured the pirates in one fell swoop.

Not only did they not compensate Venus afterwards, they also blamed the loss of the fleet on Venus - they turned around and accused Venus of colluding with the pirates, which led to casualties in their perfect plan.

In fact, it was only because they were too weak and the pirates were too strong that their ambush resulted in massive casualties.

The captured pirates may have received some benefits and admitted that Venus was in cahoots with them. As a result, Venus' other investments in the city were investigated and she was arrested and imprisoned.

But Venus is a player, and if she is captured without being a red-named person, it is easy for her to escape. She can just kick the door open when the NPC is sleeping.

Venus was very angry, but of course she couldn't just leave in disgrace, so she spent money to recruit a bunch of bounty hunters, made a big fuss in the city of Modea, and released most of the prisoners.

The entire city of Modea fell into chaos as a result, and even now, bounties for capturing fugitives are still posted in unions of various professions.

As a result, Venus was blacklisted by the city of Modia... She became notorious.

Because these things are purely for venting and will have a bad influence on the character, Venus did not call Su Ming.

Now that the ship is built, Venus is ready to go out to sea to explore. She needs to find a long-term companion. After much thought, she still thinks that Su Ming, a strong and obedient brother, is the best. Moreover, Su Ming can stay online all the time and help him look after the ship...

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Su Ming traveled through various cities and was teleported to the city of Modia.

He first went to the blacksmith shop to replenish his durability, and then moved forward according to the coordinates given by Venus.

The ratio of players to NPCs in Modea City is about 1:5, which is considered a very popular city. Players' stalls on the streets are also very common. Su Ming found an item called "grindstone" in these stalls.

Whetstone: After using it on a piece of equipment, it will restore 15 points of durability to the equipment.

Whetstones are very expensive, with one point of durability corresponding to 4 to 6 gold coins, which is almost the price of a bronze equipment.

Whetstones should be a specialty of the area near the city of Modea. Because the players who come here are more or less active overseas and often cannot find NPCs to repair equipment, whetstones play a big role.

Su Ming knew that he might have to accompany Venus to the sea for a long time this time, so he started to sweep the stalls and buy any whetstone that was reasonably priced.

The drop rate of whetstones may not be very high, and each stall basically sells about seven or eight.

However, Su Ming saw a stall called "Wholesale Whetstones". The stall interface with 27 grids and three rows was filled with whetstones, with only a few grids empty. The price he sold was one or two gold coins more expensive than others.

"You are really rich! So many whetstones must cost at least 20 gold."

Su Ming sighed as he spent 9108 gold and bought a whole grid (99 pieces) of whetstones.

"99 grindstones can repair all the equipment five or six times. That should be enough."

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Mailang is a stealth player. He came to the city of Modea in the early stage and discovered an item called whetstone. With his unique vision, he recognized the business opportunity in the whetstone - when repairing equipment in the NPC store, the price will be adjusted according to the grade and level of the equipment. When a whetstone is used, no matter what equipment you have, it will restore 15 points of durability.

That’s the value of a whetstone.

Therefore, Mailang started investing money in the early stage and acquired at low prices.

As players' equipment became better and the cost of repairing it at NPC shops became more and more expensive, the price of whetstones continued to rise, just as Mailang had expected.

But it has stabilized recently, so Mailang has started to be sold.

In recent days, he has been setting up a stall and watching movies every day in a semi-offline state.

In the message window next to the movie, after a while the words "An anonymous player purchased X whetstones and XXX gold coins were received" will pop up.

“How come my vision is so good? After I sell all these whetstones, I can rest easy this year. Fate is such a good game, wow.” Mailang thought proudly. Suddenly, he saw a big order.

9108 gold coins.

Mailang was very sensitive to this number. He thought:

"Who is it? You bought 99 at once. That's amazing."

He immediately paused the movie, logged into the game, and saw Su Ming who had just turned away, and shouted:

"Dude, wait a minute."

(End of this chapter)