Chapter 30: Boss Summoning Tickets |
However, for Jiang Chen, even scattered pieces were acceptable.
“Even if they’re just pieces of a set, the stats won’t be bad.”
“In the later stages, non-set gear might be useless—but this is the early game.”
Jiang Chen had already spent quite some time browsing this trading market.
He had more or less understood the situation here.
First—magic equipment.
Most of the magic equipment here was extremely mediocre.
Some added four or five points of HP or MP. The best equipment he had seen so far only added 1 point of Strength.
As for percentage-based equipment, there was none at all.
After all, this market was essentially equivalent to NPC item shops in other games.
They mostly sold basic, white-tier equipment.
“The most valuable thing in this market is probably the Boss Summoning Tickets.”
But Jiang Chen couldn’t figure out why Boss Summoning Tickets would appear in a place like this.
Logically, such items should appear in late-game high-end markets—or possibly in a Pay-to-Win shop that hadn’t been released yet.
But they absolutely shouldn’t be here.
“Could it be that the developers deliberately placed them here to test the strength of the Boss?”
Jiang Chen was very familiar with this kind of Boss design.
It couldn’t be too easy—otherwise, the entry barrier would be too low, and everyone could beat it. Then who would bother grinding levels or farming equipment?
But it also couldn’t be too difficult—if the barrier was too high, then when it was later added to the item shop, no one would want to buy it.
So there had to be a balance between the two.
After figuring this out, Jiang Chen immediately stepped forward and began bargaining with the vendor.
So… what is Lord God doing?
Vivian was confused.
Weren’t these items supposed to be tools used by the Evil God’s followers to spread faith? Why did it look like the Evil God wanted to buy them?
Vivian couldn’t understand Jiang Chen’s actions at all.
And what exactly was this “Boss” the Evil God mentioned earlier?
Although she hadn’t spent much time with Him, Vivian had already heard many strange terms.
And the Evil God always did incomprehensible things.
With all these questions in mind, Vivian continued to observe His actions.
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Although he hadn’t played for long, Jiang Chen had already grasped the general mechanics of the game.
“So I think this price could be a bit cheaper. I’m buying in bulk—it’s completely different from those who only buy one.”
The black-robed man in front of him remained unmoved by the proposal from this elegant young lady who clearly looked like a noble from some family.
“10 Gold Coins. Not a single coin less. I’ve never seen anyone bargain when buying Sacred Artifacts.”
Having sold Sacred Artifacts here for so long, this was the first time the black-robed man had encountered something so ridiculous.
This was like going to a hospital for treatment and asking the doctor for a discount—see if he’d give you a broken bone instead.
The people who bought these items were all devout believers.
They prayed to their gods.
Since when could this kind of thing be bargained over?
If you’re bargaining, can you still call that devotion?
“So, are you buying or not?” Seeing the girl lingering in front of his stall, the black-robed man’s tone grew impatient.
“Yes!”
Vivian stretched out her hand and began selecting items from the stall.
“This one… this one… and these—wrap them all up!”
Seeing this, the black-robed man slowly took out a wooden box. For every item Vivian pointed at, he placed it into the box.
As Vivian picked more and more items, the black-robed man paused, looking at her with suspicion.
“Why are you buying so many Sacred Artifacts? One is enough for prayer.”
“What does it have to do with you? If I’m devout and want to buy more, what’s the problem?” Vivian said indifferently.
Seeing her attitude, the black-robed man didn’t believe her explanation at all.
But it didn’t matter.
The person behind him had only told him to sell these items—the profit was all his.
Before long…
Clunk—
The black-robed man placed the fully packed box on the ground.
“A total of 27 Sacred Artifacts. 270 Gold Coins.”
Vivian counted them, confirmed everything was correct, paid the money, and stored the box in her inventory.
Jiang Chen wasn’t particularly satisfied with the game’s inventory space.
Too small.
Only 20 slots in total.
Fortunately, the game allowed players to increase storage capacity using magical items like spatial rings.
But Jiang Chen felt that deliberately limiting inventory space just to sell storage upgrades later was a narrow-minded design choice.
This kind of monetization tactic was already outdated.
Using such tricks nowadays would easily get the developers criticized.
But this wasn’t something he needed to worry about.
Having taken on many testing jobs before, Jiang Chen knew that some suggestions were pointless to make.
Game developers often had an inexplicable confidence—
especially when it came to monetization schemes, constantly coming up with all kinds of shady tricks.
No matter what testers or regular players said, they wouldn’t listen.
Only after being criticized into oblivion and seeing player activity cut in half would they realize the problem.
So Jiang Chen never bothered with these taboo suggestions—too much effort for no reward.
While thinking this, Jiang Chen continued wandering through the market.
Along the way, he had noticed several black-robed vendors selling the same kind of items.
Based on his years of gaming experience, these vendors were likely selling summoning items for the same Boss.
So Jiang Chen decided to buy them all.
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Meanwhile, as Jiang Chen remained busy, neither he nor Vivian noticed that they were already being watched.
Aelia, dressed in silver armor with blue hair, had locked onto Vivian the moment she entered the market.
After all, she hadn’t forgotten how Vivian had toyed with her the previous day.
“She bought so many Sacred Artifacts?”
“What exactly is Vivian trying to do?”
Aelia frowned in confusion.
Some time ago, a batch of mysterious Sacred Artifacts had suddenly appeared in the Silvermoon City market.
No one knew their origin.
Moreover, these Sacred Artifacts were unregistered, which naturally drew the attention of the Silvermoon City Enforcement Bureau.
As one of its elite members, Aelia had been assigned to investigate this matter.
But after nearly a month of investigation, she still hadn’t found the source.
And recently, more and more vendors had been appearing in Silvermoon City selling these counterfeit Sacred Artifacts.
Aelia had no intention of arresting these vendors.
They were merely insignificant small fry.
What she needed was to catch the big fish behind them.
Just as she was struggling to find the mastermind, Vivian suddenly appeared here.
This person, who had recently gained notoriety in Silvermoon City yet had a terrible personality, was now purchasing these items in large quantities.
No matter how she looked at it, something was off.
“I’d like to see what you’re planning.”
Thinking this, Aelia continued to quietly follow behind Vivian.
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