Chapter 1 Nie Yan's Specialties

Nie Yan studied his current specialties: Intermediate Crossbow Mastery, Novice Dual Wield Mastery, Novice Dexterous Hands, and three free skill points. After thinking for a moment, he upgraded Dual Wield Mastery and Dexterous Hands to Intermediate, and then learned a Novice Stealth, which would grant additional stealth points.

Intermediate Dual Wield allowed a player to gain around 13 points of attack power, which was a considerable effect.

Nie Yan's attack was getting higher and higher. If his Agility reached the requirement and he equipped the Scarlet Poison Ring, he could easily chew through even a Blood Shield Warrior of the same level. Most accessories and even Legendary equipment generally only required stat points. Once the stats were met, they could be equipped. The vast majority of ordinary equipment had strict level requirements. It was difficult to obtain defense and attack power beyond one's level, but rings that increased attack and necklaces that increased defense, although rare, weren't nonexistent, and were often very valuable.

Nie Yan was already considering the matter of Agility. After all, 160 Agility wasn't so easily achieved. There were very few Thief Agility skill books on the market. Players generally kept such skill books for their own use, and rarely let them circulate on the market. The moment they did, they would cause a frenzy of buying, because the demand was too great. It was like Warriors needing Strength skill books or Mages needing Intelligence skill books. Thief Agility skill books were very difficult to buy; one would only occasionally stumble upon one or two with good luck.

Asking Banishing Fox for a few Thief Strength skill books, he would gladly agree, but if he were asked to find a few Thief Agility skill books, it would be a bit difficult. So many Thieves in his guild, who didn't need Agility? Why would he give them to an outsider like Nie Yan? Even if he himself agreed, the Thieves in his guild wouldn't be willing.

As for embedding Agility gems, most of the equipment on Nie Yan's body was already inlaid with Strength gems, and there were no empty slots.

The Agility requirement of 160 was too terrifying. If Nie Yan didn't gain more stat points per level than other players, and if the Shadow of Soggoth hadn't given Nie Yan 30 Agility, breaking 100 Agility at this level would be difficult. If he really couldn't find any, he would just have to wait.

"Let's go back first," Nie Yan said. After farming the Elite Scale Frogs, they still had many things to do.

"Yeah." Tang Yao also wanted to go back and see how things were going at the guild.

They readied their Scrolls of Return. Two rays of white light flashed, and Tang Yao and Nie Yan returned to the city.

"Let's go to the guild first, then I'll go set up the guild warehouse," Nie Yan said after thinking for a moment.

"Okay."

Nie Yan and Tang Yao walked towards the guild headquarters. The guild headquarters was located in the southeast of Calore, arranged by the server. Each guild had fixed activity locations. For example, the Holy Roman Empire guild headquarters was in the south of Calore, the Triumphant Empire guild headquarters was in the north of Calore, and so on. The guild headquarters of each guild were often very far apart from each other, and each guild headquarters would send one or two NPC guards to maintain order and avoid friction.

In order to avoid being recognized, Nie Yan and Tang Yao could only hide their profiles.

There was still a distance from the guild headquarters when they saw a bustling crowd, a sea of people, impossible to squeeze through. There were all kinds of classes, heads bobbing everywhere.

"Looks like we can't squeeze in," Tang Yao said with a wry smile. He didn't expect so many people at the guild headquarters. He didn't know when this lively scene would end.

"If we can't squeeze in, forget it. I'll go to the auction house and start building the guild warehouse!"

"Okay, Yu Lan and the others messaged me, saying they're going to farm Level 10 monsters, then head to the Blackflame Forest. I'll go take a look, and add them to the guild while I'm at it," Tang Yao said. Yu Lan's team was quite strong. If they were trained and adjusted, even if they couldn't become an elite team, they would definitely be a first-rate team.

"When I'm done, I'll take them to the Blackflame Forest," Nie Yan said after thinking for a moment. The Blackflame Forest still had some difficulty. If he led the team, Yu Lan and the others would at least wipe five fewer times.

"That would be great. How long will it take you to finish?"

"It shouldn't take too long, about an hour or so."

"Then I'll go farm monsters with them first, preferably get some Level 10 equipment."

Nie Yan and Tang Yao separated. Nie Yan went to the Starry Night Pharmacy to withdraw 30 gold coins, and handed over the dropped recipes to Bird Doesn't Shit to handle. He walked towards the House of Sosomiya, purchased a hundred Flash Powders, fifty Polymorph scrolls, and fifty Web scrolls, then went to the auction house, and every once in a while, he would sell one or two Flash Powders, Polymorph scrolls, and Web scrolls.

Opening the equipment section of the auction house, there were at least hundreds of thousands of pieces of equipment for sale. Nie Yan began a large-scale purchase. If he encountered something with suitable price and good stats, he would buy it. If it was too expensive, he would give up. The equipment in his bag gradually increased. In addition to the equipment needed to build the guild warehouse, Nie Yan also swept all items related to fire resistance into his bag.

Thirty gold coins were spent like water. Nearly ten gold coins turned into fire-resistant equipment, and twenty gold coins turned into more than two hundred pieces of Silver equipment, with an average price of about ten silver coins each. Such valuable equipment still had quite good stats. In the current situation, they were definitely top-quality items pursued by ordinary players.

After buying the equipment, Nie Yan established a guild warehouse at the warehouse manager, and set the rules for the guild warehouse. Players could deposit herbs, replaced equipment, and money into the guild warehouse, and obtain 1-2 guild contribution points based on the item level and the amount of money. When the guild contribution points reached the requirement, they could withdraw equipment that met the conditions from the warehouse. For example, a Silver-grade +7 Strength +8 Agility Thief equipment would require about 200 contribution points. After using it, putting it back would get back 120 guild contribution points, which was somewhat similar to a bank, but the guild warehouse would often accumulate more and more, and the guild would prosper as a result.

Of course, the methods of obtaining guild contribution points were not limited to depositing equipment and money. Every time a player participated in a dungeon run, they could obtain a certain amount of contribution points. During dungeon runs, if other guild members obtained a piece of equipment, and you didn't, you could also be allocated a certain amount of contribution points. Completing guild missions for the guild could also allocate a certain amount of contribution points.

And so on. The more guild contribution points one had, the better the equipment they could get from the guild warehouse.

Nie Yan set every detailed rule, drawing on the settings of the guild warehouses of various major guilds in his past life, checking them one by one, and confirming that there were no rule loopholes that could be exploited before opening the guild warehouse.

Nie Yan had ownership of the guild warehouse. Hao Cheng and others could allocate a total of 1,000-2,000 guild contribution points. Tang Yao had slightly more, with 3,000 guild contribution points that could be allocated. If the guild contribution points they could allocate were not enough, they could ask Nie Yan.

The guild warehouse could be opened in the personal warehouse or at the guild headquarters.

Nie Yan sent a message to Hao Cheng and others: "The guild warehouse is open, take a look."

The guild headquarters was extremely busy. Hao Cheng, Guo Huai, and others were constantly busy adding people. More and more players were entering the guild, and the congested situation still hadn't eased.

Hao Cheng and others received the message from Nie Yan, and excitedly opened the guild warehouse at the guild headquarters. More than two hundred pieces of Silver equipment were neatly placed there, a magnificent sight. There were even some Level 10 Gold equipment. At the very end, there were twenty-three pieces of Silver-grade and Gold-grade equipment that could only be worn at Level 30, which required very high guild contribution points, at least three thousand or more to take them.

Nie Yan considered carefully. Although putting Level 30 equipment up there was a bit too ostentatious, since Tang Yao's cross-level monster farming was no longer a secret, putting Level 30 equipment up there would definitely shock the nerves of ordinary players and make them believe in the strength of the guild even more.

Hao Cheng was stunned. So much good equipment neatly arranged there was still quite shocking, especially the Level 30 equipment at the back, which was a symbol of strength. Being able to get Level 30 Silver and Gold equipment now undoubtedly gave players a signal that if they increased their personal guild contribution points, then they could wear Silver and Gold equipment at Level 30, when others were still worrying about equipment!

"Everyone, quiet down!" Guo Huai shouted to the players behind who were preparing to join the guild.

The players behind, who were preparing to join the guild and挤熙熙攘攘地往里挤 (jǐ xīxīrǎngrǎng de wǎng lǐ jǐ,擠 is repeated here in the original text) to squeeze in, immediately quieted down when they heard Guo Huai's voice, listening to what the guild leader was going to say.

"Our guild's leader is Soaring Eagle, who is currently at the top of the level rankings, as you've all seen. We are very honored that the guild is so popular. It is normal for guilds to prosper and decline. What I want to say is that our guild is definitely a guild with long-term vitality, and various welfare measures will keep up. We hope that more players will join our guild and build our guild into a large guild that can rival Triumphant Empire, Holy Light, and Holy Roman Empire. Currently, the welfare that has been opened is that all guild players can enjoy a certain amount of 5% discount when purchasing potions at Starry Night Pharmacy with the status of a Mad Rogue Tribe guild member. In addition, the guild warehouse has been established, and everyone can open it. In the future, we hope that more powerful players will join our guild," Guo Huai said these words with great confidence.

"The guild warehouse is open, that's so fast."

"So much Silver equipment! There's even Level 30 equipment!"

Many players who had just joined the guild couldn't help but exclaim. The hundreds of listed Silver and Gold equipment, shimmering white, dazzled their eyes.

"Wandering Snail, can you reveal what relationship our guild has with the Starry Night Pharmacy?"

"Yeah, tell us about it."

"That's confidential for now," Guo Huai said calmly. He was becoming more and more like a guild leader.