Volume 1 Chapter 20: The First Auction (1)
When I returned to Shenghua City from Qinglang Gorge, all the potions in my backpack had been used up, but I had more than a dozen pieces of equipment. During the 20 hours of leveling, I killed three silver wolves. Haha, now in Qinglang Gorge, I am the only one leveling up, so I fight every boss that comes out. It's so cool! I earned more than 50 gold coins, minus the money for potions. If I keep this up, it seems that even if I don't sell equipment, the money I earn will be enough for my living expenses!
It is now 8:00 pm in real time. They have to work or go to school because they are lonely during the day. Except for Ah Wei who practiced for a few hours after finishing his website editing work and reached level 20, the levels of the rest of them are all below level 19 and have been squeezed out of the rankings. My colleague, Knight Fels, did a good job in the later stage and ranked third with a high position of level 21. Haha, I wonder what his expression was like when he faced the "Knight's Code" exam when he was promoted? As for the orc brother... When I looked at the rankings an hour ago, I found that he had also reached level 22, tied with me for the third time! Of course, the current tie does not mean that there is no gap between him and me. The experience required for level 22-23 is 1.9 million, and I have exceeded 1.7 million. Even if he can never sleep, he will have to wait until tomorrow noon to upgrade, right? But... This feeling of being chased by someone is really annoying!
Before returning to the city, I called Bu Si once. The three of them were lonely during the day. After they logged off, they stayed in the city and practiced their skills. In the afternoon, everyone logged on and I took them out to practice leveling. Now they have all reached level 15. I asked Bu Si to go back to the city, saying that I had something for him to identify, and by the way, I asked the profiteer to come back to help me buy medicine and repair equipment.
Speaking of which, the business route in Fantasy is not easy to follow, and the cultivation of professional skills is extremely troublesome. The professional skills of the appraiser profession include identification, appraisal and divine appraisal. Among them, identification can only identify materials and is a garbage skill. However, if this skill is not practiced, the subsequent identification skills and divine appraisal skills cannot be upgraded. The identification technique can identify equipment, but it can only identify equipment below a certain level of dark gold according to the skill level and its own level. The divine appraisal can identify holy spirit equipment and some special items. The painful thing is that these skills can only be upgraded by identifying items one by one, except for upgrading after upgrading to obtain skill allocation points. The initial practice is the most difficult. Due to the low skill level, the success rate of identification is not high. Although proficiency can be obtained by failing the identification, it is only 1/3 of the proficiency obtained by successful identification. A player can only identify an item once. Now that the game has not been open for a long time, there are not many equipments that players have played. You are not a famous appraisal master. Where can you get so many equipments for you to identify? It can be seen how difficult it is to become a senior appraiser. The lowest level of the foundry profession is the miner, and the skill is advanced mining. Unlike the mining skills in life skills, the high-level mining skills have a higher chance of digging out special ores that can be used to synthesize and repair equipment. After resisting enough shovels, you will be promoted to a metallurgical worker, and the skill of metallurgy can smelt ore raw materials into materials. After that, the blacksmith can finally get close to his job. Although the blacksmith skill cannot cast equipment yet, it can repair some low-end equipment; the more advanced foundry can learn casting skills, and can only repair high-level equipment and cast white equipment; it is really meaningful to be promoted to the creator, and finally you can create attribute equipment and inlay gems on some equipment to improve the attributes of the equipment; the casting master can forge gold equipment and synthesize dark gold equipment; the highest-level god craftsman may synthesize holy spirit equipment. To cultivate a high-level foundry master, it is a headache to think about it. The merchant profession is not much better, and it requires a certain scale and number of capital operations...
The business route is so difficult that most players are discouraged. Even if they choose the business route, they mostly choose to practice professions such as pharmacists, which can produce immediate results. But the profiteers who are also professional players like me have a different view: it is precisely because skill professions are so difficult to practice that there must be few players who choose this path, so we can make a profit, right? If there are a lot of appraisal experts and casting masters on the streets, who will patronize our business? We have you, a group of combat profession friends, to help us level up, so the upgrade will not be too slow. By then, won’t we be crowded with people?
To be honest, I am not as good as the profiteers in terms of mental training. The three of them are professional players with several years of experience, and I have only been a professional player for half a year, so before I was just a small business of leveling up and getting equipment. According to the profiteers, he can make more than 100,000 yuan a year by reselling equipment in various games! This time in Zero Fantasy, I still chose the combat profession, but if I hadn't obtained a special account and could always beat the boss before others, how far could I have achieved? I am afraid that at present, like most players, I need to exchange real money for game coins to support leveling!
After meeting Bu Si, I threw all the unidentified equipment to him. He has not yet learned the identification skill, but he will be able to do it after a few more levels. There are also some materials that exploded from the silver wolf, which can help him practice identification skills. The profiteer helped me run errands to buy medicine. He had a low load and had to fill my backpack several times. I was tired and sweating, but he said happily : "Blood, if you all practice knight, my financial management skills will probably be able to reach level 10 soon..."
With full supplies, I came to Qinglang Gorge again. Today is an important day, the third day of the opening of Fantasy, and the second batch of 20 million accounts have been issued. If I don't work harder, there will be more and more competitors!
June 4, 5:55 p.m.
After two days of leveling in Qinglang Gorge, my level has reached 24, and Awei is 22, barely retaining a place on the leaderboard. Jimo and Hanjiang are only 21, completely out of the competition for the top 100. I estimate that those who can make the list are either professional veterans or hardcore players. In the past four days, they have not logged off except for necessary rest like me, and there are even perverted madmen like the orc brother at level 23. At the beginning, relying on the equipment I got, Jimo and others still had a little advantage. After two or three days, others gradually got equipment (but only a very small number of people with higher levels), and the weakness of non-super players who don’t spend enough time online was exposed.
Now is the golden time of the day, especially for Lonely and others, it is a rare time after dinner when they have both free time and abundant energy, but we did not go to level up, but gathered together at Taibai Restaurant. The reason is... Hehe, something very important to most players in Fantasy is about to happen...
Today is Sunday. In Fantasy, every Sunday evening at 6:00, there are official auctions held in major cities on various continents. Since the explosion rate of equipment in Fantasy is extremely low, it is difficult for ordinary players to get a set of equipment suitable for their profession, and the system store does not swipe equipment for sale - unless someone discards their unused junk equipment and sells it to the system store - now that the game has just been opened, the store does not even have junk equipment to sell! And there are no high-level forgers who can forge equipment, so exchanges between players are very important. However, the scale of direct transactions between players is very small. After all, as a buyer, you want to have more choices and the seller wants to sell it at the highest possible price. In Fantasy, there is no full-frequency call function that can be heard by players all over the world when you shout "I have XXX equipment for sale" (once this function is turned on, everyone will be overwhelmed by the information screen, and it is impossible to communicate normally. Think about how terrible it is for hundreds of millions of players to say one word each), unless you go to the city to find a special NPC to broadcast the system, but the amount of money it costs is amazing, and if the equipment you want to sell is not above the dark gold level, you will definitely lose money! An auction is a channel for exchanging items. By participating in an auction, you may find the equipment you like, and you can also sell the equipment you don’t need at a good price.
The rules of the auction are that the auction is divided into multiple areas and by grade. For items with a reserve price of less than 50 gold coins, the system charges a 10% handling fee in the low-end item auction area, regardless of whether it fails to be sold (of course, this level of items is the most, and it is carried out simultaneously in multiple venues according to the number of registrations); for items with a reserve price of 50 to 500 gold coins, the system charges a 15% handling fee in the mid-range item auction area (generally, it also needs to be auctioned in separate venues); for items with a reserve price of more than 500 gold coins, the system charges a 20% handling fee in the high-end item auction area (the quantity is scarce, usually not divided into different areas). In fact, if the equipment you want to sell is really rubbish, you don't have to participate in the auction. The system store has a consignment function, that is, you put the item in the system store, set a reserve price, and if someone bids within 24 hours, the highest bidder wins. If no one is interested, the store will return the equipment, and the consignment only charges a 5% handling fee. It is more convenient and more cost-effective to put rubbish equipment in the system store for consignment, and you don't have to wait for the weekly auction. However, if a player who takes the business route establishes his own auction house, it may not be auctioned only once a week.
The equipment I got in these 4 days were all for level 10 to 30. Since I killed many bosses, attribute equipment accounted for nearly half of them. In addition to the "Hand Axe of Strength" that I have sold, I also got two gold equipment, but they are for Lonely and Fatty, so I am not going to sell them for the time being. Excluding the equipment that everyone is using and the equipment that is reserved for upgrading, a total of 18 white equipment of level 10 to 20, 7 attribute equipment of level 10 to 20, 5 white equipment of level 20 to 30 and 2 attribute equipment of level 20 to 30 can be auctioned. Although none of them are particularly outstanding and the equipment level is not high, I am not worried about not being able to sell them at a good price. You know, even among the first batch of 5 million players, few people can equip them with complete equipment. Most of them only have one weapon and one piece of armor. After 24 hours, the second batch of 20 million players have basically changed their jobs. They are more miserable than the first batch of players. They have no chance to fight low-level bosses. Basically, they are still using the novice short swords, cloth clothes and cloth shoes given by the system!
Since Chinese players were all born in the eastern Cang Continent, New Era Group also increased the proportion of Chinese players when selling accounts. Among the 25 million players, Cang Continent accounts for 8 million. Although there are 10 major cities in Cang Continent with auction venues, Shenghua City, as the largest central city, is more popular than other cities. Even if only half of the players are online at this moment (in fact, the number of online players during prime time is definitely more than half, not to mention the attraction of the auction itself), the number of players who come here to participate in the auction should exceed one million. Haha, among these one million people, even if only one in ten thousand is the kind of fool who is willing to spend a lot of money in the game, I can still make a lot of money!
To be on the safe side, I discussed with the profiteer and transferred all the auctioned equipment to his name (he could gain skill experience by participating in this kind of business activity). Among them, 18 low-level white equipment were placed in the low-end auction area, targeting the 20 million new players, and the reserve price was only set at the lowest price of 1 gold coin stipulated by the system. Anyway, it was certain that there would be many competitors, so there was no fear that the price would not be driven up, not to mention that I had already invited Lonely and Awei to act as a shill. The rest of the equipment was placed in the mid-range area, and the reserve price was only the lowest 50 gold coins.
