Game Merchants Starting from the Ninja World.

Chapter 40 Merit Points

[Repair the starting village walls], [Store materials], [Explore the Dead Soul Mountains]...

"These are all quests specifically issued for hunting ghost mages."

"The task of repairing the city wall requires collecting various rocks and wood from the contaminated area, as well as materials dropped by monsters."

"The mission to explore the Dead Soul Mountains requires players to go to the territory of the Ghost Mage, gather information, and dispel the fog of war."

"No reward points will be awarded upon completion of the task; the task reward is various levels of Reincarnation Pottery Jars."

Fang Yi smiled slightly and explained, "Upgrading the city wall myself would require 500,000 reward points, but if I outsource the task to those gambling players, the rewards from the pottery jars would only cost 50,000 points, enough to make them work themselves to death collecting materials to upgrade the city wall for me."

The white-haired loli said worriedly, "The ghost mages are about to attack. If we continue to exploit the players like this, won't it provoke their resistance?"

This has happened before in the tech world.

Besieged by the Fallen Angel, a fourth-order source of pollution, and a group of accompanying pollutants, the world chose to exploit and exploit, directly causing the technological world to collapse and descend into a chaotic apocalypse. Even the strongest group of mech warriors betrayed them.

The consequences are very serious.

Hearing her concerns, Fang Yi laughed and said, "I didn't hold a knife to the player's neck, so how can it be considered exploitation?"

"It was all done voluntarily by the players; they should be thanking us!"

Behind the screen,

Tsunade stood at the edge of the city wall, at the station where she submitted the [City Wall Repair Mission].

Opening the backpack reveals a densely packed collection of various materials.

These materials were all picked up and put into my inventory while I was hunting ghosts recently, so it didn't take much time.

Of course, there are also very rare materials, such as the soul power crystal dropped by the Ghost Captain, leather containing a strong ghost aura, iron ingots, and so on.

They all come from elite ghost monsters, and the drop rate is very low.

If you sell them all to the mall, you can earn 800 in rewards.

"Selling to the marketplace would guarantee a minimum profit, this is a huge loss!"

This is Tsunade's idea.

She was unwilling to sell the materials to the in-game store, as everyone knows that selling materials directly to the game's official website yields the lowest prices.

Selling it to some merchant players in the newbie village can fetch roughly 1,500 reward points.

These merchant players are very weak in combat. Even if they are of a high level and have full white gear, they still find it difficult to hunt monsters of the same level.

Therefore, merchant players gave up hunting.

They roam around all day, buying materials and equipment from players at a guaranteed price, and then selling them to another group of players who urgently need them, making a profit from the price difference.

Even if you sell it to a merchant, you won't make much money.

After careful consideration, Tsunade

Empty your inventory and put all the materials into the wall repair station.

A burst of golden light.

All the materials disappeared, and a panel suddenly appeared.

[Materials submitted: Ghost Leather (Inferior)*15, Ghost Iron Ingot (Inferior)*20, Soul Power Crystal (Medium)*8, Ghost Rock (Inferior)*99...]

Merit Points: 5654

Tsunade muttered to herself as she calculated, "The level one equipment pottery jar costs 100 merit points, but I want the skill pottery jar the most, which costs 1,000 merit points. I can only buy five pottery jars."

After much deliberation, I finally decided to exchange for the skill pottery jar.

I am a level 13 priest, wearing a level 10 blue set, the Ghost Rider Set, obtained from the [Ruins Castle] dungeon. This set greatly enhances my defense and adds strength attributes.

She has no shortage of equipment; what she lacks now is skills and experience.

Take the level 10 awakened class skill [Holy Light Cross] as an example. Upgrading it to Lv.2 requires 500 skill experience points, not to mention the reward points.

This means that the skill needs to be used 500 times.

Putting time aside, the massive consumption of blue potions is a considerable expense.

The game store sells experience capsules, but they're ridiculously expensive, and no one's willing to be foolish enough to buy them.

Tsunade clenched her fists, staring nervously at the ceramic jar in front of her, and said, "Skill Jar, there's a 20% chance of it dropping a skill experience capsule, I refuse to believe I can't get one!"

At first, she was actually unwilling to spend a huge amount of reward points to upgrade her skills.

This is a thought that many players have had, simply because upgrading skills is too expensive, and the higher the quality of the skill, the more expensive the upgrade.

But in the end, they all abandoned this idea and were willing to go bankrupt to upgrade.

no way,

The allure of upgrading skills is simply too great for players to resist.

The same skill,

【Holy Light Cross Lv.1】The healing effect is slightly stronger than that of ordinary medical ninjutsu. When it reaches Lv.2, the healing effect is three times that of Palm Healing Technique!

Just like Wood Release.

With the support of the Third Tsuchikage, Onoki, a player from Iwagakure (Hidden Stone Village) redeemed the expensive Wood Release skill from the game's shop.

The result, however, was less than satisfactory.

The effect of Level 1 Wood Release was far from ending the chaos; it lacked the powerful strength that the legendary God of Shinobi possessed.

At best, they can only build wooden houses; their strength is only that of an ordinary Jonin.

Having witnessed Hashirama Senju's power, the Tsuchikage was unwilling to give up and reluctantly upgraded that player's Wood Release to Lv.5, and then...

The originally weak Wood Release technique has become many times more powerful after the upgrade. Although it cannot reach the level of Hashirama Senju, it can easily create a small forest.

Behind the screen,

The white-haired loli asked curiously, "Master, merit points and reward points are both currencies used to buy items, so why go through all this trouble?"

"Of course they're different!"

Fang Yi's lips curled up slightly as he explained, "Reward points are assets without any constraints; they can be exchanged for any item."

"Merit points cannot be traded; they can only be exchanged for pottery jars at mission points, and they are automatically reset every thirty days, so they cannot be stored for a long time."

The white-haired loli was even more puzzled, her eyes widening as she exclaimed, "The types of items are restricted, we can't buy them freely, and there's even a time limit! Have the players lost their minds? They're actually using precious materials that can be directly sold for reward points to exchange for merit points?"

"Because it's cheap!"

Fang Yi said matter-of-factly, "After the game update, the drop rate of equipment and skill scrolls has increased, so the Reincarnation Pottery Jar sold in the store is naturally not selling well."

"Most players would rather grind than buy expensive random pottery jars."

"However, the merit pottery jars sold at mission points are very affordable, especially compared to the pottery jars in the store. They're like bargain items with a huge discount."

"The only downside is that you can't use reward points to buy it; you need merit points from completing the tasks of repairing the city walls and exploring the Dead Soul Mountains."

The issue of the expiration date of merit points is also easy to solve; just spend them all before they expire, right?

What if I don't spend it?

Then you can't blame the game merchants for being unscrupulous; you can only blame the players for not managing their redemption time properly.

Just like the informed consent form you choose before logging into a game, if players complain that there's too much content and don't want to read it, they can't blame us game developers afterwards.

(End of this chapter)