Chapter 181 Critical Hit Gem (1/2)
The Bandit holding the post of the quartermaster was renamed as Sixth Blacky. When he saw Lin Jie, he bowed to him respectfully and opened the Exchange Page.
As the main mastermind behind this action, Lin Jie naturally would receive the most rewards. This time round, he would not need to exchange any Reputation points to get the items!
However, the main gains of this robbery were still the 1,000 gold coins. As for the rest, there was still nothing useful… Lin Jie looked glumly at the items such as [Rusted Wooden Rod], [Smelly Foot Binding Cloth] on the Exchange Page and heaved a sigh.
Well, this time round since the Bandits' Boss still treated him fairly well, he would spare his life and see how he performed for the next action.
At this moment, the Bandits' Boss came up to him secretly and commented in a low voice, ”Bro, by your looks, I guess there's nothing inside that you will want to choose? Really sorry about this. However, not to worry—a talent like you shouldn't be robbed of your rewards! Thus, I had snuck these down from the City Leader's wife. I am not sure if you will find this helpful? Here, take these.”
Ding~
——'You received two pieces of [Critical Hit Gem].'
Lin Jie jumped in joy at this. He quickly took a look at the gem's attributes, and nearly kissed the Bandits' Boss!
]Critical Hit Gem]: This can be engraved onto your weapons, and it will increase 7% of Critical strike chance.
Within all the different types of gems, the Critical Hit Gems were the most expensive! This was due to the power of Critical Hits—a single Critical Hit could decide the result of a battle! Normally, a gem which could increase Critical strike chance by 2% would be considered good, one which could increase Critical strike chances by 3% would be extraordinary! Yet now there's a Critical Hit Gem with a Critical strike chance of 7%… Even in the whole of Lin Jie's previous life when he had been playing the game for seven years, he had not seen many of such gems around!
Now he received two at a go—it seemed like he was in a dream!
At this point of time, any kinds of gems were considered as luxury items in the game. This was because players frequently changed their equipment, and the engraved gems on their weapons couldn't be removed. As such, there was a low supply for gems in the market—many players would rather save them up and use them in the future.
However, for Lin Jie, gems were great! As Heritage equipment, he couldn't engrave gems onto Broken Blade—but he could use them as enhancing materials and let Broken Blade absorb certain attributes of the gems!
The importance of gems would gradually be revealed as the leveling up process of players became slower and slower. A player who donned equipment engraved with gems could have around 10% better Stats than a similar player at the same level. However, right now, the market for gems was like a pool of dead water, and their prices fluctuated a lot. Hence, many people felt it was a stupid action to stock up on gems or sell gems they owned.
Lin Jie looked at Broken Blade's progress bar: 2%. Broken Blade would require large amounts of materials to upgrade to the next level, and the attributes of these materials had a direct influence on the attributes of Broken Blade when it was being upgraded. Gems were one of the purest materials available in the game, and hence, these would be a good choice of materials to use for upgrading Broken Blade.
Furthermore, the next batch of Dungeons in the game to be faced by players would be of Level 25 and above. Don't belittle the rise of these levels—even though it was only being raised by 10 levels, the attributes of the monsters within those dungeons were totally different from what he faced before. Even though many players would also have leveled up, they would still find it hard to conquer these dungeons.
Lin Jie kept the Critical Hit Gems into his backpack and summoned the Tiger King to return to City of Light. He practiced using Health Potions and Magic Potions to create massive amounts of the Middle-Grade Natural Recovery Potions. What's worth mentioning was that Seven Ears had tapped on the principles of the Perfect Potion Mastery, and hence, decoded the potions' formulas. Right now the Sky Provisions Shop was selling limited amounts of Middle-Grade Natural Recovery Potions, and it attracted another wave of sales.
”Excuse me Brother, you are stepping on my mission's items,” said a humble-looking Knight to Lin Jie, pointing to a package being stepped on by the Tiger King.
Lin Jie instructed the Tiger King to move away. The Knight nodded to thank him and ran off with the package.
The traffic within the City of Light had not decreased after the city siege, but instead, it became busier! This was because the Construction Missions had attracted numerous players to come to City of Light. Other than that, as the Auction House's influence became greater, many newbie players decided to try their hands on this game. These players naturally chose City of Light to be their first residency location in the game.
Something worth mentioning was that with the increase of auctions in the City of Light, many well-to-do enterprises in the real world started investing in the game. Brotherhood was naturally one of their main attractions, and many businesses hoped to gain naming rights over Brotherhood.
However, tremors ran down Lin Jie's spine as soon as he imagined the names like ”Sophie's Brotherhood”. In any case, Brotherhood was an independent organization that did not need to accept any sponsors by enterprises.
Meanwhile, the past of the Auctioneer Bella who appeared briefly during the first Players' Auction was being revealed. As people had once seen her wearing provocative clothes and showing off her figure when working at the Potioneers Guild, her veiled appearance at the Auction was being jested by shameless fellows who threw names like 'whore' and descriptors like 'pretending to be innocent' at her on the players' forums. This negative news spread and some trouble-makers made personal attacks on Bella by using Photoshop to create lewd photos of her.
Junior Mo led a team of media workers and began refuting those comments. However, the opposite party knew how players were hooked to negative news of pretty ladies in the games. Thus, more controversy occurred.
The An Xiaoran team, which was in competition against Junior Mo, made use of this opportunity and tried to usurp Junior Mo's position in the gaming media world.Find authorized novels in Webnovel，faster updates, better experience，Please clickfor visiting.
Lin Jie hurriedly checked out the forums, and realized the severity of matters!
To resolve this, Lin Jie posted a post on the forum. He did not try to explain anything or make any requests for the media to spare Bella, but just posted one sentence: ”Bella is the Chief Auctioneer from Brotherhood, please stop making rude comments about her!”
When the post was published, many attackers immediately backed off. After all, not many people actually dared to challenge Brotherhood.
However, An Xiaoran was furious about this! Seeing how things settled down again, she made an outcry on the players' forum, ”Brothers and sisters, this isn't the first time Brotherhood has tried to cover up things! We must unite together and resist their forces! Do you all want to be coerced to be part of Brotherhood—even the free forum too?”
Her rants shocked everyone!
Brotherhood was made up by solo players mainly, and of course, there would be all kinds of experts—such as forum supporters, computer hackers within Brotherhood. As such, it was soon that An Xiaoran's game ID, ”Mortal Army” was discovered and posted onto the players' forum. Not only was An Xiaoran not a pretty girl, ”she” was actually a burly, uncouth guy! This person was a member of a guild called ”Red Lotus,” and all the members of this guild were players who liked to disguise themselves as girls!
Following which, Brotherhood's members, who were completing the Arrest Missions, would also kill members of the Red Lotus guild when they saw them along their way. This condition persisted until all the ”ladies” of the Red Lotus guild did not dare to show up in the game again.