Translator: Nyoi-Bo Studio Editor: Nyoi-Bo Studio
“An exceptional magic skill book has appeared at the auction house?” All the players noticed this.
“Buy it! Get the money, quick!” Of all the survivors, only the top players could come up with a large amount of magic crystal coins. Everyone knew how important the skill points were.
Members of the three largest factions of area 2222 started the bidding. Everyone wanted to get their hands on the skill book.
However, just as they were about to raise their bids, the asking price that the auction house was displaying changed from 300 magic crystal coins to 500.
Most of the players only had a number of magic crystal coins in the single digits. The price of 500 magic crystal coins instantly dashed their hopes of participating in the auction.
“Who is it? Who has that much money?”
“500? My God, is he a millionaire?”
“Bringing the opening bid up to 500 instantaneously…? How are we going to participate?” The individual contestants had now all been driven away by the price. Only the three leaders of the large factions continued to participate.
“Offering 530.” The Sector 2222 Mutual Assistance Association made an offer.
“We offer 600.” Wu Rui also made an offer. He wouldn’t be able to use the skill book. However, he could nurture a subordinate to use the skill books. Every faction had superb individuals who were on the magic path.
“650.” Yang Yong was also raising his bid. He had obtained these magic crystal coins as the spoils of war after his exploration of various caves.
“700 magic crystal coins.” Xia Chengfeng raised the bid once again. However, the factions were following closely behind him.
“This won’t do. Their supply of magic crystal coins has increased over the last few days. They must have explored a significant number of caves. The factions definitely have more money than I do,” Xia Chengfeng thought to himself. Ultimately, he was but one person. It was going to be hard for him to go up against a faction with several hundred people in terms of money.
“Since someone is selling a skill book of the magic path, it is most likely because the element of the skill book does not match his abilities or he is on another path and doesn’t need this skill book. I’m going to try chatting with him.”
Xia Chengfeng immediately contacted Zhang Shiqi by sending him a message: @Zhang Shiqi, friend, are you interested in trading your skill book? I possess a great technique for a superb individual on the martial arts path.”
Zhang Shiqi had received many private messages after he’d posted his skill book for auction. He had not replied to many of them.
However, he was familiar with Breeze’s ID. Breeze was a famous person in area 2222. He was the earliest player to sell food and the Profession Enlightenment.
“A technique for a superb individual on the martial arts path?” Zhang Shiqi’s curiosity was piqued when he read Breeze’s message.
He was a superb individual on the martial arts path. This was not a coincidence. Many of the players were superb individuals on the martial arts path.
Most of the Profession Enlightenments that could be found in the monster caves were those of Blade Wielders, Swordsmen, Brawlers, Battle Aura Users, etc.
“Let me have a look!” Zhang Shiqi replied.
Breeze: “[Charge Skill Book (Exceptional)]: Envelops your body with power and charges at your enemies to inflict significant damage. When using this technique, you can strengthen your resistance against status effects and damage immunity.”
“To think that it’s [Charge]!” Zhang Shiqi cried in excitement when he saw the message.
His profession was Knight and [Charge] was a necessary skill for a knight. This technique would be even more powerful when used with a ride.
At this stage of the game, every player lacked techniques. Most players were not even superb individuals yet. It was very difficult to find a suitable skill.
At the same time, Yu Pengfei, Wu Rui, Yang Yong, and the rest of the players were still raising their prices.
“Great, Breeze no longer has any money to add. We’ll push it to 750.” Yu Pengfei made an offer.
“You want to get the technique for only 750 magic crystal coins?” Wu Rui laughed to himself. “We can’t beat you in terms of strength, but we don’t lack money. I’ll offer 800.”
Tianxun Internet Technology Ltd. had many members. Some of them had hoarded and resold resources for a hefty profit.
“We’ll offer 1,000 immediately.” Yang Yong boasted. “Take out your money, my brothers. Earning money will be easy once we get stronger.”
“Let’s see if they can still outbid us.”
Their offer of 1,000 magic crystal coins was a large sum of money. Yu Pengfei had no choice but to give up. His faction was the weakest monetarily.
Wu Rui was still hesitating, and Yang Yong was confident that he would win.
Other than raising the price, Yang Yong had also sent Zhang Shiqi a private message offering items for trade.
Zhang Shiqi compared all the offers that he had received and still felt that Xia Chengfeng’s [Charge Skill Book] was the most practical.
“Money can be used to improve my strength. As long as I am powerful enough, I don’t have to fear not being able to earn money. Moreover, they are both exceptional-grade skill books.” Thinking about this, Zhang Shiqi immediately replied to Xia Chengfeng, “I’ll trade with you. I’ll take it down from the auction site immediately.”
A player had to pay a fine in order to take an item down from the auction site. However, Zhang Shiqi didn’t mind spending those few magic crystal coins. He chose to trade his skill book with Xia Chengfeng.
“It got taken down? Who purchased it?” While all the factions were thinking about how they could snatch the skill book for themselves, they suddenly noticed that the item had been taken down from the auction site. They immediately questioned Zhang Shiqi.
Zhang Shiqi replied, “I can’t reveal who the buyer is, but I was very satisfied with his offer.”
“Just who is it?” Yu Pengfei was pondering. It was extremely difficult to determine who the buyer was.
“Someone has earned a great sum of money these last few days.” Xia Chengfeng became super-excited when he saw how high the bid had gone up to.
He still had the Profession Enlightenment. So he put it up for auction.
He couldn’t use the Profession Enlightenment. Trading it for resources was the most suitable course of action he could take now. Xia Chengfeng was not worried that he would create a berserker. He would be able to take on a berserker head-on after the level of his Life Alchemy Array increased. Furthermore, berserkers required even more resources than the other superb individuals on the martial arts path. They frequently required items that tempered their body.
He could even seize this opportunity to sell the [Bone-Tempering Elixirs] when that time came. It was great.
“I’ll set the starting bid at 1,000 magic crystal coins.”
System Notification: “Auction Information: Breeze has put [Profession Enlightenment — Berserker] up for auction. Starting bid: 1,000 magic crystal coins.”
“Another Profession Enlightenment has been put up for auction.” The attention of the players was still on the auction house. They were reading the information when they suddenly received a system notification.
“To think that it is a Profession Enlightenment. Berserker, that should be much stronger than an ordinary martial arts path profession, right?”
“It sounds impressive!”
“My God, a starting bid of 1,000 magic crystal coins. I only have three magic crystal coins on me.”
“This Breeze only asked for 100 coins for the last Profession Enlightenment he put up for auction. But now he is asking for 1,000! He’s too scheming.” Yu Pengfei saw the auction and immediately decided not to take part in it. He couldn’t fork out that much money.
“Special profession? But he set the starting bid at 1,000. This guy is too crafty. He intentionally set that as a starting bid because he saw our offer just now.” Wu Rui cursed.
“1,000?” Yang Yong saw the description of Berserker and thought, “This profession is very suited for our team.”
There were many martial arts path superb individuals on his team. He needed a profession that could both attack and defend on his team.
“1,200 magic crystal coins.” Yang Yong ultimately made an offer.
“Xingyuan Company is already very powerful. It would be very unfavorable to us if we allowed some other company to possess a special profession,” Wang Dahai suggested. “Chairman Wu, we should purchase it.”
“1,300!” Wu Rui clenched his teeth and raised the bid.
“1,500!” Yang Yong quickly raised the bid again. He raised it by 200 at one go, much to Wu Rui’s fury.
“This Yang Yong… Is he being asked to do this by Breeze? If they keep raising the bid like this, we will have to spend the entire reserves of the team.”
“1,600!” Wu Rui made an offer. That amount of money was equivalent to his entire team of several hundred people working for Xia Chengfeng for ten days.
“1,700!” Yang Yong’s raise had exceeded Wu Rui’s limits. He had seen the bottom of his savings and he still didn’t know how much the other party had left.
“I’ll make it bad for you even if I can’t purchase it.” Wu Rui was filled with anger toward Yang Yong. Then he raised his bid to 1,800.
Yang Yong hesitated for a moment, and then raised the bid to 2,000 magic crystal coins. Wu Rui stopped there.
“Breeze profited immensely from this transaction.” Yang Yong’s nephew, who was also his adviser, Yang Kai, said, “This item will definitely not be worth 2,000 magic crystal coins in the future.”
“However, if you look at the larger picture, we have stopped the development of the other factions. We can accept that. As for Breeze, he managed to develop better than the core members of the factions in area 2222 despite working alone. How does he do it?”