How Level Zero Devil Destroys Player Experience

"I don't mind. What these older brothers say makes sense."

Although I found it funny, I still acted like a simple little girl. After all, I felt a little proud when I heard others talking about me behind my back. "Goodbye, brothers and sisters."

Seeing the petite figure following the tall woman in front who looked like her sister, and walking towards the inner box under the guidance of the NPC receptionist, Xingsha Manxing showed a thoughtful look.

Normally, only some big shots in the Orwin Empire would be invited to the VIP area, but the guild called **Celestia that was displayed above the other party's head was something he had never heard of.

"Could it be that this guild has a very deep hidden background? Perhaps we can make some friends with it."

Xingsha Manxing pondered and thought to himself. He glanced at his subordinates who seemed a little smug and couldn't help but laugh. "Well, you are so happy just because a little kid praised you. We should go in."

Chapter 98: A grand opening

After handing the VIP card to the waiter next to her, the girl with outstanding appearance led everyone from Xingsha to a luxurious box on the second floor.

There are three armchairs and a matching coffee table in the private room. Xingsha Manxing sits on the sofa and can clearly see the entire theater below through the transparent guardrail in front.

Most of the seats downstairs were already occupied, and looking from inside the box gave one a sense of overlooking the entire situation. Such a magnificent scene made the younger Xingsha members exclaim in excitement.

"Dear guests, this box is equipped with the latest mechanical alchemy equipment. You can summon the magic screen to bid at any time."

The girl who led them into the private room did not leave immediately. Instead, she introduced them carefully, "As a VIP invited by the auction, you have an overdraft limit of 1000 gold coins in the private room. If you win the equipment you like, another waiter will deliver it to you. It is guaranteed to be safe and confidential."

Xingsha Manxing, who had summoned the magic screen and was a little dazed by the dazzling array of auction items on it, could not help but sigh at the organizer's attentiveness after hearing the words of the reception girl.

The overdraft limit of 1000 gold coins is already the income of a small guild for two or three days. It not only raises the level of VIPs, but also facilitates the capital flow of some guilds, and also takes into account confidentiality. Although it is just a detail, one can see the intention behind it.

However, the girl's next words surprised him again.

“Guests can also choose public mode, where each quote can display your name, or the guild name as an alternative.”

Xingsha Manxing thought about it carefully before he realized that this auction now has tens of millions of traffic, and every move may cause considerable heat.

This practice is nothing more than using publicity as a price to exchange for fame, showing the financial strength or the strength of the guild to other players, but it is estimated that only larger guilds or famous studios will do this.

After all, just like money cannot be exposed, ordinary players who do this are likely to be targeted by some people with ulterior motives.

After figuring this out, Xingsha Manxing couldn't help but smile bitterly. Although he also wanted to show off at the auction, for a guild as weak as Xingsha, it would be better to avoid trouble as much as possible. At most, he could just show off to attract a certain amount of fame.

I don’t know if it was a coincidence, but next to the box where Xingsha Slow Walking was, someone who had met them before had entered early under the guidance of the reception girl, waiting for the auction to begin.

"It really is most reassuring to let Hill take care of it."

"Your Highness, thank you for your praise. I am just doing my best."

Hill brewed the black tea, poured a cup, and placed it lightly in front of a little guy who was curled up on the sofa and stretching leisurely.

Although I was planning to organize an auction from the beginning, I had no related experience and naturally had no idea what to do. I just wanted to learn about the process from Hill, but in the end, the other party took care of everything for me.

It even includes Alice's arrangement of the relevant functions and details of the auction.

All you need to do is provide the necessary funds.

This is the perfect Party B. Maid is indeed the ultimate profession.

Just as I was silently complaining in my heart, there was already new movement in the conference hall below.

As the time approached 9 o'clock, accompanied by exciting music, all the lights on the dome of the theater were turned on, and the brilliant lights illuminated every detail of the auditorium that could accommodate tens of thousands of players.

The many players who had already filled their seats stopped whispering to each other and sat up straight, waiting for the show to begin.

A tall and beautiful auctioneer in an evening gown walked onto the huge stage and stood in front of the auction table in the center of the stage. A small golden hammer was placed on the auction table made of pure mahogany and inlaid with gold edges.

At this moment, the stage background of several hundred square meters behind her opened at the same time to show her close-up, and the same image was displayed on the magic screen in front of all the players.

"Dear ladies and gentlemen, hello, welcome to this auction!" The beautiful lady in front of the auction table said with a smile, "I am Shirley, the senior auctioneer specially invited for this auction. I hope you will support me."

Although they knew that the beauty in front of them was just an NPC invited to the auction, the players below still gave her warm applause, which livened up the atmosphere a bit.

Some of the guild management in the boxes saw clearly that among the tens of thousands of players below, there were probably many agents pre-arranged by the organizers, and their job was to clap and cheer at just the right time to create a great atmosphere.

Because of the restrictions of the rules, they don't have to worry about these agents maliciously raising the prices of their favorite items at inappropriate times. They can't help but admire the organizers' methods.

After the applause, the auctioneer continued, "This auction is jointly held by Haichao, Blue Crystal, Shangri-La and other auction houses, as well as Xingyue Workshop."

Everyone knew about the previous auction houses in advance, but they were a little surprised after hearing the name of Xingyue Workshop. Of course, they were surprised that Xingyue Workshop was also on the list of partners.

Does this mean that the Star-Moon Workshop and those auction houses actually belong to the same consortium? Guilds in the boxes, such as Storm and Empire Epic, couldn't help but doubt after hearing this name.

They seemed to foresee that there was a huge consortium quietly hiding, stirring up the entire Orwin Empire behind the scenes.

The huge size does not make them nervous, but the key is that with so much virtual property involved, their guilds are unable to find out any information about the financial group behind the scenes. This is what really worries them.

The other players below did not think as much as the guild members. After the initial surprise, they just discussed how the influence of the Star-Moon Workshop was so great.

After announcing the cooperating forces, the auctioneer on the stage continued to add, "We would also like to thank the following guilds for providing important items for this auction. They are Storm, Empire Epic..."

"Oh, this organizer is quite resourceful. I like it."

Black King Caesar in the box couldn't help but reveal an admiring look when the auctioneer made the announcement.

Or rather, it's not just him.

Although the other guilds that were called out did not consider that the organizer had such an intention, they did not mind this approach at all and even had a great favorable impression of it.

After all, this is an auction with tens of millions of visitors, and this approach is equivalent to giving these guilds great face.

Not only the guild management in the box, but also the guild members watching this scene in other auction houses, could not help but reveal proud expressions after hearing the names of their guilds.

When the players in the venue heard these familiar guild names, they couldn't help but look forward to the subsequent equipment auction. After all, items that were submitted by these big guilds and called heavyweight items must be extraordinary.

It not only won the favor of those guilds, but also attracted the curiosity of players, which can be said to kill two birds with one stone.

However, what puzzled some people was that, in addition to those guilds that could be named, there were also some that had never been heard of, and there were even small guilds with only dozens of people.

In a private room on the second floor.

"I didn't expect Tongtong to actually give us a surprise~" Ning Youyou, Mu Shui and others couldn't help but feel a little excited after hearing the name of their own guild.

However, Nightwish beside him was thinking, "But this way, I guess they will just be treated as a small guild that stumbled upon an opportunity, just like the guilds mentioned before."

"It's just the opening scene anyway, we just need to do what the little guy says." Luoxue Fengye said lightly.

"Well, Ah Feng is right. By laying the groundwork like this in the beginning, our subsequent appearance won't seem abrupt, and it can also leave a deeper impression on people." An Rou smiled slightly, looking quite confident.

Chapter 99: The audition is over

"Now, on behalf of this auction, I would like to welcome everyone and declare the auction officially open!"

As the beautiful auctioneer dropped the golden hammer, amidst the huge applause that rang out again like a tidal wave, countless colorful streamers and balloons fluttered down from the sky, and the atmosphere of the entire scene immediately reached a small climax (you can tell it would be blocked without even thinking about it).

At the same time, almost all players' attention was focused on the first stage of auditions after the auction officially began.

The so-called open auction is to put tens of thousands of silver to gold-level equipment into the auction menu at one time, and classify them in detail according to different types, grades, and attributes.

The starting price for all equipment is 1 gold coin. If a player takes a fancy to a piece of equipment, he or she can raise the price freely until the auction lasts for half an hour. Whoever bids the highest by the time the time is up wins the item.

Moreover, there are strict system rules, which are even linked to the real-life credit system. Serious offenders will be included in the list of dishonest persons, thus completely eliminating malicious bidding.

“This auction is really not simple.”

The night view in the box is beautiful. Looking at the dazzling array of auction items, I couldn't help but sigh.

He just took a quick look and found that not only the knight's equipment, but also the equipment of other professions had very good attributes, and most of them were suitable for their own professions.

He has seen many situations. For example, a staff may increase physical damage, and some shields may even increase intelligence. Although the reason is due to the random attributes of the equipment, it still makes people wonder: does it mean that when you use a staff to fight monsters, the intelligence bonus actually means using the shield to give others an intelligence BUFF?

However, this kind of situation is rarely seen at this auction. At most, there will be one attribute that deviates from the original profession, so the bidding among the player community is also extremely hot.

Take the staff he just saw as an example, it adds 20% Holy Light damage, +10% mana recovery, and at the same time, the passive attack has a certain chance of being accompanied by Holy Light Judgment.

Although it was gold-level equipment, these three attributes were extremely useful to the Holy Word Mage, and its value was even higher than some ordinary dark gold equipment. And the price naturally climbed to 82 gold coins under the promotion of players.

There are still more than ten minutes until the auction ends.

It just so happened that the sister of the beautiful night scene was a holy mage, so he bid 85 gold coins, hoping to find a good transitional item for her. However, within a few seconds, someone else bid 90 gold coins, which made him give up immediately.

After all, the basic attributes of this equipment are still not as good as those of dark gold equipment.

"Holding an auction is indeed a way to gain both fame and fortune. I don't know how long the consortium behind the scenes has been planning this."

The night was so beautiful that he couldn't help but sigh in his heart, but he didn't particularly care about this kind of thing. His main purpose of coming here was to use this auction to set a trap.

Thinking of this, he looked up at the Mosha who was waiting beside him and smiled, "Amo, why don't you take a look? Maybe there are some equipment with good value for money."

"No, the things behind are better, and we must save some money to prepare for that prop."

"Very careful."

"It's better to be safe than sorry, Brother Ye." Mosha laughed.

The night is beautiful and he chuckled in agreement, but he was laughing secretly in his heart. He would definitely let you buy it when the time comes, but you would have to pay a small price for it.

Half an hour passed quickly, and when the magic screen showed that the auction was over, the beautiful auctioneer walked to the auction table again.

"All the equipment from the first round of auditions has been taken. Congratulations to everyone for getting the equipment they wanted, and thank you for your support!" The beautiful auctioneer announced with a smile, "Then the second round of auctions for dark gold equipment will officially begin!"

She picked up the golden auction gavel and slammed it heavily on the auction table. Passionate music and warm applause rang out again, and many girls holding exquisitely packaged boxes of different sizes appeared from the aisles on both sides of the theater.

They smiled and handed the items to the winners one by one. The whole venue was filled with a joyful and festive atmosphere. In particular, some players who won several or even more than a dozen pieces of equipment attracted a lot of attention. You can imagine how happy they were.

This is a feeling that can never be obtained by trading on the player trading platform.

"To express our gratitude to you, all the adventurers who win the auction will receive a VIP card with a 9.8% discount. With this card, you can enjoy a reduction in handling fees at the three auction houses, and you can also enjoy a reduction when purchasing most items at the Xingyue Workshop!"

The auctioneer struck while the iron was hot and said, "Don't worry if you haven't bid yet. The winner of the second round of dark gold equipment bidding will get a VIP card with a 9.5% discount. Don't miss this rare opportunity."

I don’t know if it’s because of the fanatical atmosphere at the scene, or because of the high value of the 9.5% off VIP card.

In the second round, there were auctions of as many as 3,000 pieces of dark gold equipment. The prices of some items even surpassed their general market prices in just a few minutes, leaving Night Is Beautiful dumbfounded.

However, he still spent more than 600 gold coins and bought a robe with good attributes, which he planned to give to his sister as a gift.

Even though Mosha next to him was very fond of several pieces of equipment, he still resisted the urge to make any move. The night was beautiful and he couldn't help but admire his forbearance.

No wonder this guy could transfer most of the funds out without anyone noticing.

But no matter how deeply you hide, there will always be a day when you fall into the trap.

The night is beautiful. I smiled slightly and leaned back on the sofa to continue watching the dinner drama.

To be precise, it was indeed the main event. After the two rounds of auditions, it was already close to noon. The auction also took this into consideration and officially started the final important segment at 1 p.m.

Although temporary suspension has certain disadvantages on the atmosphere of large-scale activities, the enthusiasm of players has not diminished in the slightest even after going offline and taking a lunch break, and even aroused great curiosity.

This can be seen from the discussion posts that have emerged on the forum.

Some were discussing the first and second rounds of auditions for the auction, but more were looking forward to the important segment that was about to take place.

After all, the attributes of the equipment that appeared in the previous audition stage were so excellent, and the auction items in the heavyweight segment must be extraordinary. In fact, the attributes of a small number of items were leaked in advance before the auction started.

The attributes of the known equipment alone are enough to make people salivate, and make people look forward to the rest of the equipment, just waiting for today to unveil the mysterious veil and get a glimpse of its true face.

Therefore, not only the players in the auction venue, but also other uninvited players went online immediately after lunch, looking forward to the upcoming 1 p.m.

The night was naturally beautiful. After hurriedly finishing his lunch box, he went back online to the box. Mosha seemed to be even more anxious than him and had been waiting there a few minutes earlier than him.

It seems that he is just like ordinary players, looking forward to the heavy-duty equipment that will be released later.

In fact, Ye Se was very beautiful and clear that the other party was just looking forward to a certain item inside. Although he also had expectations for those equipments, he was more looking forward to how to let the other party "get" that item.

"I don't know how Brother Zhuo is preparing."

The night is beautiful, he thought secretly. When he went offline just now, Zhuo Duo asked about the progress of the matter. Because he would have to break up with Mo Sha later, he was very busy during this period and had been making relevant preparations in secret, so he did not disturb the other party.

While he was thinking about the beautiful night, there was new movement at the auction venue below.

Chapter 100: Undercurrent

So, with many players in the Orwin Empire eagerly waiting, one o'clock in the afternoon finally arrived.

“Dear ladies and gentlemen, welcome back to the auction venue. Thank you for your recognition and support of the auction in the first two rounds of bidding.”

The auctioneer returned to the stage in a dress that made her look more beautiful. She smiled and used her opening remarks to liven up the atmosphere, but then suddenly changed the subject.

"But I think what everyone is really looking forward to are the next 100 items. It is no exaggeration to say that each of these items is of great value. Owning one of them is definitely a symbol of status and strength!"

The auctioneer who returned to the stage seemed to be aware of the expectations of the players below and smiled slightly, "I think everyone has been looking forward to it for a long time, so I won't waste any more words, and the third round of the auction will officially begin."

The players in the venue were very impressed by the other party's "sensible" move of not deliberately keeping people in suspense, and they all gave thunderous applause to the appearance of the third round.

At the same time, passionate music sounded at the right time, and accompanied by ribbons and bouquets falling around the venue, the atmosphere of the entire venue was immediately raised to the most uplifting moment before, and even more intense.