Chapter 1 Lights of Star-Moon City

Outside the royal palace of Star-Moon City, the lights shone brilliantly. The entire adjacent street was like a grand festival, bustling with activity, and on both sides of the street were players hawking their wares.

Star-Moon City was different from ordinary cities. Its transportation was highly developed, with people from other kingdoms and empires constantly coming and going. So, players didn't have to wait three or four days for a chance to set up stalls in designated areas, as in other cities. In Star-Moon City, they could set up stalls every night, but it wasn't free; they had to pay a certain fee.

Still, many players were willing to set up stalls here rather than go to the auction house and pay high handling fees. Even if they offered lower prices, they could still earn more.

Players usually sell items at auction to get money quickly or to get a good price for rare treasures.

Because the items at the stalls were cheaper, many free players, and even large guilds, would come here to buy materials.

Shi Feng had come here to buy supplies.

Exchanging gold coins for reputation was a special task in Star-Moon City. Players who were always running dungeons and leveling up might not even discover it, but for those who leveled up slowly and focused on the fun of the game, it wasn't hard to find. They just had to inquire around the city and would eventually find some clues.

The clue was that the daughter of Grand Duke Hartfield was ill and in urgent need of a large amount of herbs.

Just one set of ordinary herbs could complete the task and earn some money and experience. This task could be repeated indefinitely, but the herbs given weren't worth the money and experience gained. However, some wealthy players who wanted to level up quickly would spend some money to increase their experience points, but not much, because gold coins were very valuable in the early stages, and no one would be foolish enough to waste them.

Just as everyone thought it was just a special task to exchange money for experience, several crazy players who didn't want to level up in the wild frantically bought herbs to exchange for a small amount of money and decent experience.

After exchanging 1,500 sets of herbs in a row, they finally unlocked the key to the task.

When the exchanged herbs reached 1,500 sets, Grand Duke Hartfield would no longer give any money or experience, only one thing: a Gratitude Gift Box.

This gift box could contain many things, with nearly a one-tenth chance of containing a Reputation Book, thereby gaining some reputation in Star-Moon City.

That's why Shi Feng came to this market to buy herbs in large quantities, both ordinary and rare.

"Buying ordinary herbs, 40 copper coins a set, rare herbs, 3 silver coins a set, unlimited purchase!" After running around the market, Shi Feng knew the price of herbs and started shouting on the trading channel.

The trading channel was unique to the market. Any player in this market area could receive it, but the player shouting had to pay a certain fee. A sentence of no more than 100 words cost one silver coin, but the advertising effect was excellent.

This saved Shi Feng a lot of trouble.

The players at each stall had different amounts of herbs and different prices. If Shi Feng went to each one, he wouldn't be able to buy much even if he exhausted himself. So, he simply offered a middle price. Those who wanted to come would naturally come to trade, and he didn't have to negotiate prices one by one.

As soon as Shi Feng shouted, a bunch of players selling herbs rushed over.

"Big brother, how many herbs do you want?"

"Swordsman brother, look at the quality of my herbs. Buy more and I can give you a discount."

One by one, the players saw Shi Feng as if he were a wolf seeing meat, all rushing towards Shi Feng, vying to sell herbs. The situation was much more popular than Shi Feng had expected.

"Okay, okay, don't rush, trade one by one." Shi Feng smiled, waved his hand to signal everyone, and said loudly to reassure them.

It had to be said that the royal city was the royal city, and the enthusiasm of the players was unusually high.

Thinking about it, the current players were all busy leveling up and were not enthusiastic about life-type professions. Although some guilds were cultivating alchemists, their own guilds could easily solve the problem of herbs, so they didn't need to buy them specifically.

More importantly, there was less demand for herbs now, because useful potion recipes were very rare, so there was even less demand for herbs. In addition, the Star-Moon Kingdom was not a kingdom with a shortage of herbs, so the price of herbs had never been high.

Clearly a set of herbs had 20 pieces, but ordinary herbs were only 40 copper coins a set, and even rare herbs were only 3 silver coins a set. It was easy to imagine how worthless they were.

But even so, there were very few people buying herbs, so everyone was so excited to see Shi Feng.

Many players encountered herbs during their usual adventures and collected them to sell in bulk.

Now, Shi Feng was getting everything cheap.

In a short while, Shi Feng received two thousand sets of ordinary herbs and two hundred sets of rare herbs, spending a total of 14 gold coins. This was a drop in the bucket for Shi Feng, but a bit high for ordinary people.

"Sorry, my backpack is full. Everyone, wait a moment, and I'll come back to buy more later." After Shi Feng finished speaking, he turned and ran to the Grand Duke's house.

Everyone watched Shi Feng leave, reluctant to part, but when they heard that Shi Feng was coming back, they all stood there quietly waiting.

These days, there were too few players willing to buy herbs. It was rare for one to appear, so how could everyone give up easily? They wouldn't mind waiting a while, even if it was several hours.

The Grand Duke's house wasn't far from the royal palace, only about ten minutes away.

As soon as Shi Feng entered the Grand Duke's house, he was introduced by the level 150 butler and came to Grand Duke Hartfield, who was level 200. After a brief chat, Grand Duke Hartfield told Shi Feng about his daughter's problem.

After that, Shi Feng received the special task of buying herbs and began to take out sets of herbs from his backpack.

For every set of herbs he delivered, Shi Feng received a reward of 20 copper coins and 2,000 experience points, losing 20 copper coins in the process, but Shi Feng didn't care.

The speed of handing in herbs was very fast, much faster than forging. As long as he gave the herbs, he could immediately get an experience reward, which was very convenient and fast.

In a short while, 1,500 sets of ordinary herbs were handed in, earning a total of 3 gold coins and 3 million experience points, which greatly increased Shi Feng's experience bar, and the time spent was less than half an hour.

3 million experience points in half an hour was definitely efficient, but after 1,500 sets, all that was exchanged were Gratitude Gift Boxes. Otherwise, Shi Feng would have really wanted to experience the feeling of quickly leveling up to level 30.

After that, Shi Feng didn't waste any more time, because there were still a lot of players waiting for him to trade with them. So, Shi Feng exchanged all the herbs at once without saying a word. Compared to ordinary herbs, a set of rare herbs could be exchanged for 10 Gratitude Gift Boxes. In terms of money, it was more cost-effective to exchange them for rare herbs, but unfortunately, there were too few rare herbs.