Chapter 1 The Spoils of Treasure Hunting

After about five days, Nie Yan emptied the chests on the few familiar maps around Calore City. He checked his treasure hunting level, and his Lockpicking Expert skill proficiency had reached 52% of High rank. The skill was leveling up quickly. In a few more days of opening chests, it would reach Master rank.

In these five days, Nie Yan had opened as many as one thousand three hundred and thirty-seven treasure chests. He almost encountered danger several times, but fortunately, while Nie Yan wasn't good at much else, his ability to run was first-class, so he managed to escape unscathed.

He estimated that he and Tang Yao had only explored about 30% of the high-level maps around Calore City. He was worried about flying monsters in many of the towering mountains, so Nie Yan didn't dare let the Underworld Thunder Eagle enter.

However, the gains from these areas alone had already stunned Tang Yao. They transported several batches back to Calore City. The value of this equipment was immeasurable. It turned out that specializing in opening treasure chests was such a lucrative business.

"Let's sort things out and see what we've got," Nie Yan said. To save time, he had been stuffing everything he found into his backpack and continuing to the next chest without taking the time to check each item. He and Tang Yao's backpacks were already full.

The two found a safe place to land. Tang Yao stowed the Underworld Thunder Eagle, and they both activated their city return scrolls. After two flashes of white light, they returned to Calore City.

"Where do we go?" Tang Yao asked, appearing in the teleportation array and looking at Nie Yan beside him.

"To the Starry Night Pharmacy's laboratory. Let's move all the equipment stored in our personal warehouses over there and see what we've got," Nie Yan said, a little excited at the thought of checking the equipment.

The two headed towards the Starry Night Pharmacy. In the distance, a magnificent building came into view.

This building was fifty yards high and occupied a vast area. There wasn't a single building nearby that could surpass it, not even the Credit Point Exchange Hall in the distance.

Tang Yao clicked his tongue in amazement and said, "The Starry Night Pharmacy is already the most iconic building here. It must have cost a lot of money to build a Level 10 pharmacy."

"Upgrading to a Level 10 pharmacy and purchasing various instruments cost at least 200,000 gold coins, but the Starry Night Pharmacy has already earned that money back for me," Nie Yan said with a smile.

"How much can the Starry Night Pharmacy earn in a day?"

"Now, after deducting labor costs and raw material expenses, the net profit is about 50,000 gold coins a day. In addition to the daily operating income, the Starry Night Pharmacy provides the Niu Ren Tribe with at least 60,000 gold coins worth of potions every day," Nie Yan said proudly. In all of Faith, the Starry Night Pharmacy was undoubtedly the number one pharmacy. At the same time, the number of pharmacists the Starry Night Pharmacy had was unparalleled. No other pharmacy could compare. With a full three thousand pharmacists and nearly fifty Advanced Pharmacists, it was a veritable hive of talent.

Tang Yao clicked his tongue. The Starry Night Pharmacy's daily net profit was equivalent to the net worth of some small guilds.

"I heard that Angel Corps has opened a pharmacy called Light of Heaven Pharmacy, and it's already gaining some traction," Tang Yao said. He had heard people in the guild group chat discussing this and had made a mental note.

"How many pharmacists do they have?"

"Three hundred pharmacists, five Advanced Pharmacists," Tang Yao said.

"They're still far behind the Starry Night Pharmacy," Nie Yan said with a smile. But the Angel Corps' actions had caught his attention. He pondered for a moment, his eyes narrowed. He couldn't take down Angel Corps, but he could have the Starry Night Pharmacy mess with the Light of Heaven Pharmacy.

As the two spoke, they had already entered the Starry Night Pharmacy's trading hall. The hall was bustling with people, a scene of great prosperity.

"Let's go in," Nie Yan said, leading Tang Yao up the stairs of the Starry Night Pharmacy to a laboratory on the fifth floor. No pharmacists had been assigned here yet, so it was very spacious.

Nie Yan and Tang Yao moved all the things they had collected in the past few days over, dumping them onto the table. There was a clattering sound as a large number of items piled up on the table, glittering and dazzling.

"Sort out all the equipment and put it in the guild warehouse," Nie Yan said. Sorting these things one by one would take at least an hour or two.

The two got busy, and soon, about five or six hundred pieces of equipment were selected.

Tang Yao casually browsed the attributes of these pieces of equipment and said, "There's a lot of good stuff."

"Because those maps haven't been explored before, there are more Dark Gold and Gold chests. I remember opening more than twenty Dark Gold chests and more than one hundred and twenty Gold chests," Nie Yan said. Normally, Gold and Dark Gold chests were very rare. Some people might not encounter one for more than ten days, and some might never see one in their lives, but he had opened so many in five days.

Tang Yao was responsible for transporting the equipment to the guild warehouse. The newly added equipment in the guild warehouse caused the entire Niu Ren Tribe to boil over. This was equipment for level 100 and above!

"Where did the boss get all this equipment?"

"I don't know. Did the boss hire two or three thousand people to collect this equipment? How could there be so much? Even if you kept grinding monsters, you wouldn't be able to get this much. Look at the attributes of this equipment. Many of them are Gold and Dark Gold. Doesn't the official website say that the drop rate for level 100+ equipment is very low?"

They wouldn't be foolish enough to ask Nie Yan where this equipment came from. Inquiring about such secrets might get them labeled as spies sent by other guilds.

After removing the five or six hundred pieces of equipment, they looked at the remaining items: various gems, scrolls, and skill books, piled up in heaps, making it difficult to pick anything out.

"It's an Advanced Mage skill, Magic Conduction. Let me see the attributes... I can learn it now!" Tang Yao said excitedly. He had picked out a gold-stamped skill book from among the many skill books.

Magic Conduction was a rare skill. At level one, Magic Conduction lasted for ten seconds. Within these ten seconds, the casting time of all spells was reduced by half.

"Learn it," Nie Yan said. He was just about to look through the pile of skill books for some that he could use when he heard Tang Yao exclaim again.

"Damn, it's a Magic Amplification skill book! Good stuff!" Tang Yao exclaimed, a look of ecstasy on his face.

The Magic Amplification skill was very precious and rare below level 100. The drop rate was slightly higher in maps above level 100, but it was still relatively rare. Magic Amplification could increase Tang Yao's spell damage by about 30% for 20 seconds.

Tang Yao put these two skill books aside and continued to frantically search through the skill books for ones he could use. One harvest after another filled him with joy.

"Damn, it's Judgment Sanction! I'm rich!"

"Damn, it's Flame Collision! Awesome!"

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Tang Yao burst out laughing. In the end, he picked out fifteen of his skill books from these skill books, stacked them in a pile, and put them aside. He could learn seven of them right now, and the remaining eight would require him to improve his attributes and equipment before he could learn them.

"I need to forget some skills. I need to get rid of some garbage skills. Nie Yan, can you help me take a look?" Tang Yao said. With these powerful Advanced skills, the garbage skills he had learned before naturally had to be cleared out.

Nie Yan looked at Tang Yao's skill bar and said, "Get rid of Dark Corrosion."

"Why get rid of that skill?" Tang Yao asked, stunned. "Dark Corrosion is quite useful. It can reduce the enemy's defense."

"You just got Death Corrosion. Once you level Death Corrosion to level two, Dark Corrosion will be trash. You basically won't use it," Nie Yan said. Although he didn't play as a Mage in his previous life, he had fought Mages countless times. He knew the Mage's skills like the back of his hand.

Tang Yao looked at the skill effects of Death Corrosion and then at the skill effects of Dark Corrosion. The two effects were roughly the same. Level one Death Corrosion was only slightly worse than level six Dark Corrosion. He decided to listen to Nie Yan and forget Dark Corrosion.

On Nie Yan's advice, Tang Yao forgot three skills and then began to frantically learn skills. A series of white lights flashed on his hand as he learned all the skill books.

"Awesome, I learned seven rare skill books at once for the first time," Tang Yao said with a satisfied expression, like the afterglow after an orgasm.

Nie Yan also began to search through these skill books for skills that he could use.

"These are Holy Word Priest skills, these are Elemental Mage skills." Tang Yao classified some of the skill books. Skill books from maps above level 100 were generally rarer at this level.

"Let's distribute these to the brothers in the guild," Nie Yan said, putting a pile of skill books aside. He took out five Holy Word Priest skill books from that pile, which he intended to give to Xie Yao.

"There's a Thief's Shadowmeld here," Tang Yao said, finding a Thief's skill book.

"Keep it for me," Nie Yan said. The Shadowmeld skill was similar to Gale Steps and Shadow Dance. Activating the skill gave you three seconds of invincibility, but with some differences. After casting Shadowmeld, movement speed decreased by 50% and stealth ability increased by 50%. It was a rare skill.

There were still at least a hundred skill books. Nie Yan still had to look through them one by one and classify them, a time-consuming task.

"Elemental Mage's Elemental Resonance, Priest's Advanced Heal, Heal Wounds, Mana Siphon, Intermediate Resurrection, Paladin's Protection. Nie Yan, our guild's teams are going to be awesome. For a period of time in the future, our guild's elite teams will definitely be far ahead of other guilds' teams," Tang Yao said, unable to suppress his joy. He understood the importance of these skills to a team. They could greatly improve a team's survival rate when running dungeons.

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