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Chapter 531 Gossip
How much money is too much?

Lee Sung rubbed his hands together frantically, his lips curving upwards as if he had just heard that Cha Lik-san had become prime minister.

The twenty items have varying discounts, ranging from 8.5% off to 50% off, meaning you can get them for half price.

The perfect quality items are all pretty much the same; at Li Sheng's current level, they're either beneath him or unsuitable for him. The remaining four epic items, however, each have their own story.

[Weather Child ID Card] consumes lifespan to control the surrounding weather, and can generate weather phenomena such as rain, hurricanes, thunderstorms, sunny days, and hail.

This is quite useful for large guilds with a national background, as it can directly change a typhoon that would cause billions or hundreds of billions of damage in the real world into a sunny day.

Or it could be used in the desert for a long time, turning the desert into a vast inland sea.

Some extraordinary individuals who require a specific location advantage may also find it useful.

【Purgatory Torch Rock Band Guitar】, a guitar that burns with flames and can cause soul burns to its user.

Playing the complete song can summon a specific demon. Considering the rock band prefix, there might also be drums, bass, and keyboards.

【Eternal Pursuit Snail】Literally, it is a common variety of gray snail. Once released, it will not be affected by any external factors (including the summoner) and will continue to crawl towards its target.

Snails possess quantum tunneling properties, allowing them to pass through any enclosed space and live forever. Targets can remotely locate snails; contact between the two causes massive damage, even instant death.

The cost is that the summoner's maximum spiritual power of 100 points will be locked until it takes effect.

Classic, rule-based, and frustrating items with huge limitations might be very useful for certain extraordinary individuals in large guilds with extremely unique power structures. Probably.

The last item is the skill scroll, [Holy Body Transformation], which can temporarily transform your race into a water sprite, and during the duration, redistribute the six attributes of strength, agility, intelligence, constitution, perception, and charm.

At first glance, this skill seems quite humorous: 16 Strength and 12 Agility. There's no real difference between 16 Agility and 12 Strength.

But upon closer inspection, this is incredibly powerful for players who specialize in deck building, especially those who prefer the charm build.

Because when ordinary people become chosen ones, they are given an average of 5 points in strength, agility, intelligence, physique, perception, and charisma, and those with better talent can get 6 or 7.

If you master the [Holy Body Transformation] and reallocate your attributes, you can temporarily create a super succubus ProPlusUltra with 1 point each in Strength, Agility, Constitution, and Sensitivity, 4 points in Intelligence (to ensure you don't become mentally challenged), and a Charm value as high as 30 or even 40 points.

Every gesture and movement of hers could bewitch hearts; even a living Daji couldn't have been more captivating.

"This is really Guangzhou people's first time trying Chongqing hot pot - it's a bit insanely spicy."

Li Sheng couldn't help but marvel. Players who rely on charm are at a significant disadvantage in pure puzzle-solving or pure combat missions, but if they can develop over a long period and manage to recruit two, three, or even seven or eight scenario bosses, then it's a different story.

Unfortunately, although the [Sacred Body Transformation] skill is very special, it is not compatible with Li Sheng's power system.

The Water Sprite race and the Insect form cannot coexist, and he does not possess any items or skills that require pushing a certain attribute to its limit to unleash its maximum power.

"Four epics aren't suitable. Although it makes sense from a probability standpoint, it still feels like a loss."

He muttered to himself as he looked at the last legendary item.

【Item Name: Eight Trigrams Alchemy Magic Cannon】

[Type: Weapon]

Attack power: Unknown

[Quality: Legend]

[Special Effect: A Decisive Strike. Can be filled with any extraordinary materials, items, or skill scrolls, launching projectiles of different attributes based on their mystical nature. The projectiles are presented as a skill.] [Cost: Depends on the mystical nature of the filling material, minimum 20 points]

[Cooling time: 3 seconds]

[Usage Requirements: Level 25 or higher, Intelligence Attribute 20 or higher]

[Note: All fillers must belong to the user. Only one item can be filled at a time. The bullet's attributes are visible after filling. Fillers can be completely removed, but this is limited to 8 times per day.]

[Note: This is an ancient and worn bronze incense burner. The front is engraved with a line of poetry: "Having cultivated a form like a crane, beneath a thousand pines, two volumes of scriptures remain. I come to inquire about the Way, but there is nothing more to say; clouds are in the blue sky, water is in the bottle."]

"puff."

Li Sheng almost spat out his soda. Putting everything else aside, he couldn't hold back his laughter when he saw the last line of poetry in the notes.

It's probably something the system snatched from the Jiajing Emperor, a Taoist priest who truly cultivated immortality in some scenario world.

As a legendary item, the price of the [Eight Trigrams Alchemy Magic Cannon] is commensurate with its quality, still costing as much as 20.7 game coins even with a 6.5% discount.

"So the original price was 310,000 game coins? Oh my god."

Li Sheng stared in disbelief, unable to resist glancing at the [Compassionate Soul-Sentence Melody] gloves, gaining a new understanding of the legendary item's value.

310,000 game coins cannot be equivalent to 31 billion in the real world, not to mention that black market exchange rates are generally higher.

31 is an enormous number; even medium-sized guilds would find it extremely difficult to come up with that much cash. Large guilds would need to hold a meeting at the highest level.

Furthermore, the game currency stored in the slums circulates within the player community. However, if handed over to the system, it's truly going to be recycled by the killing field. It might even alarm the slum neighborhood committee.

"The personal shop slot refreshed by the VIP trial card will remain unless the player manually refreshes it again. I'm determined to get the [Eight Trigrams Alchemy Magic Cannon], as for the money..."

Li Sheng glanced at the currency section; thanks to its long-term contract with the Special Affairs Bureau, Casting Anvil's revenue increased by 7.5% quarter-on-quarter.

The shop has 6 game coins in its account, he has 2.5 on him, plus the 8000 reward he received, which brings his total to 9.1.

He made a quick decision, told Gray Rain, logged into the lowly street, and listed the [Weather Child ID Card] and [Sacred Body Transformation] skill scrolls on the auction house.

The 6 game coins on the Casting Star Anvil Shop's books were mostly customer prepayments and payments for artifacts to be purchased from outside. Using them without authorization would be considered embezzlement and punishable. However, with only Chairman Li Sheng and General Manager Hui Yu in the shop, no one reported it.

Even if reported by outsiders, there are still those who uphold the truth in the slums of the Securities and Futures Commission.

Young man, you have connections above you, but I don't.jpg
In short, unsurprisingly, as soon as all the epic items were listed, they attracted speculators who were always monitoring market dynamics, as well as the quantitative trading AI of large guilds, just like the smell of blood attracts sharks.

The auction price skyrocketed within 60 seconds.

The "Reset and Restart" mission lasted for two days, and many players have returned to the real world. The news of the four consecutive epics immediately became a trending topic and ignited the forums.

Looking around, all the posts were titled "Which reclusive logistics master suddenly released goods?"

"Snail Chase? This event feels less appealing than asking me to choose between an IQ of 200 and 300 billion US dollars."

Don't believe any claims of four consecutive epic items; it's definitely a large guild deliberately releasing items to boost market confidence. The economy is bad lately, and employment is difficult, so similar incidents will become more frequent. I hope everyone learns some alien language. I'm off to collect my Martian green card now.

Uh... Li Sheng glanced at the forum during a break and her expression was rather tense. Advanced users of the forum can recharge their memberships to hide their past posts, so they often see a lot of outrageous troll comments.

(End of this chapter)