Chapter 1 Red Leaf Town

Red Leaf Town was shrouded in gray clouds, the bright moon hanging high in the sky, while the magic lamps illuminated the streets.

Shi Feng had just logged in.

It was night in God's Domain, and most players were in the trade district, making it very crowded. Only a few experts would venture into the wilderness to level up and kill monsters.

On the wide stone-paved streets, players were setting up stalls everywhere. White cloths displayed materials needed by auxiliary classes and some ordinary equipment. Sellers and buyers bargained fiercely, arguing over a copper or two, their faces flushed. The once desolate streets had transformed into a bustling market.

System: The Armor of Defense you listed in the auction house has been sold. After deducting the fees, 5 silver and 31 copper have been transferred to your backpack.

System: The Armor of Defense you listed in the auction house has been sold. After deducting the fees, 5 silver and 67 copper have been transferred to your backpack.

System: The Armor of Defense you listed in the auction house has been sold. After deducting the fees, 5 silver and 98 copper have been transferred to your backpack.

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Shi Feng hadn't walked two steps when he heard a series of system auction house notifications. He casually brought up the system messages and was immediately shocked.

The value of the Armor of Defense completely exceeded Shi Feng's expectations. He originally thought 5 silver would be about right, but he didn't expect the subsequent bidding to be so high. The highest price reached 6 silver and 42 copper. Eleven pieces of the Armor of Defense sold for a total of more than 67 silver, making him an instant wealthy player.

At this stage, the purchasing power of one silver was amazing. The total liquid funds of a second-rate guild were only sixty or seventy silver coins. In order to allow ordinary members to develop well in the early stages, they couldn't collect too many copper coins, as it would affect future development. Perhaps only the liquid funds of a first-rate guild could reach more than one gold coin, but these funds had to be used on dozens to hundreds of people, which seemed very little.

Now Shi Feng was practically a tycoon.

At this time, the players who had been fighting outside during the day had mostly returned to the town, and they had a lot of materials on them. Shi Feng naturally wouldn't miss this opportunity. He found a less crowded spot, spread out a white cloth, and started setting up a stall to collect materials.

The highest level players should be level 4 now, ordinary players were still at level 2, and high-level players might have reached level 3, so the materials being sold were varied, with both high-level and ordinary ones.

High-level materials were currently outrageously expensive, so Shi Feng naturally wouldn't buy them. After all, the money he earned from forging equipment alone was limited. Selling these equipment was just to accumulate some capital; with capital, he could earn big money.

"Buying a stack of magic essence for 6 copper, a stack of stone for 10 copper, and sturdy stones for 23 copper a stack," Shi Feng shouted.

The players on the street who heard him all gathered around.

"Boss, I have 10 stacks of stone, how many stacks do you want?"

"I have 6 stacks of magic essence, do you want all of them?"

"I have a stack of sturdy stones."

After a day of fighting monsters, magic essence and stone were common materials that were usually sold to NPCs, or kept for practicing auxiliary professions. However, sturdy stones were very rare and were generally only dropped by kobolds or small stone monsters in the level 3 area.

A stack of 20 sturdy stones was worth 20 copper when sold to an NPC. Using sturdy stones for forging was currently a bit of a luxury. Guilds rarely collected them, so their value was not high. However, they would be very useful after level 7, because many special monsters would appear in the level 7 monster area, and fighting these monsters would consume a lot of weapon durability. Weapons without durability could break, and there was only about a 20% chance of repairing them successfully. If they couldn't be repaired, they would be scrapped.

Sturdy stones could be used to make whetstones, which not only increased additional damage but also repaired 5 to 10 points of weapon durability, allowing many monster-grinding players to avoid having to return to the city to repair their weapons, saving a lot of time and increasing their grinding efficiency.

In his previous life, sturdy stones were extremely popular, and whetstones rapidly appreciated in value, allowing many forging players to make a fortune. The Underworld Guild was therefore not fleeced by those merchants. In order to level up quickly and compete for advantages, they had to grit their teeth and buy them.

In this life, it was Shi Feng's turn to make a big profit by hoarding these sturdy stones in advance.

After collecting materials for more than an hour, Shi Feng had collected more than eighty stacks of magic essence and more than one hundred and twenty stacks of stone. However, sturdy stones were too scarce, and he only managed to collect twelve stacks.

Seeing that his backpack was almost full, Shi Feng had to go to the bank warehouse to store these things first.

The bank warehouse had 500 slots of space. Opening 500 slots for the first time cost 20 copper, opening 1000 slots for the second time cost 50 copper, and subsequently, opening 1000 slots cost 1 silver coin, plus a management fee of 10 copper per week for every thousand slots.

This amount of money was nothing to Shi Feng now, so he directly opened up to three thousand slots and would have to pay a management fee of 30 copper per week.

After putting all the materials away, Shi Feng went to the auction house.

The auction house was connected to all the towns in White River City. Ordinary materials might not be sold by many people, but there should be some sturdy stones, even if the price was a bit expensive.

However, compared to the players reaching level 7 and gritting their teeth to buy whetstones for their weapons, it was nothing.

After arriving at the auction house, Shi Feng noticed something strange. There were many guild logistics personnel in the auction house, all waiting for something.

Shi Feng casually found a place to sit down and brought up the auction house's operation panel.

Just as Shi Feng was searching for sturdy stones, he heard the guild logistics personnel next to him complaining to each other.

"How much longer do we have to wait? Why hasn't that Armor of Defense appeared yet? I need to buy it and report back!"

"You've only been here for three hours. I've been waiting for more than ten hours. You didn't see how intense the competition for the Armor of Defense was back then. I heard that because of this Armor of Defense, many guilds killed many special elites in the wild and reaped amazing rewards. Some guilds even obtained a lot of equipment and skill books in the Silent Forest because of this Armor of Defense, so they all came to snatch it up. Unfortunately, the remaining pieces of the Armor of Defense were snatched up in an instant."

"That's right, our guild is now regretting it immensely. If only we had spent 7 silver coins to take down one piece, we wouldn't have fallen so far behind those guilds. Now the higher-ups have issued a death order: as soon as it appears, we must take it down."

While the guild logistics personnel were discussing, Shi Feng didn't expect the Armor of Defense to have such an effect so quickly.

So Shi Feng took out the remaining seven pieces of the Armor of Defense with defensive power and quietly put them up for sale, each with a starting price of 8 silver coins, 2 silver coins higher than he had originally expected. However, these guilds should accept it. As for the best heavy Armor of Defense, he would sell it after a while, letting these guilds digest the current ones first.

After putting up the equipment, Shi Feng began to search for sturdy stones, wondering if there were many people selling them in the auction house.