Chapter 151 Dark Gold Treasure Chest

With an excited heart, Nie Yan walked towards the place where he had discovered the dark gold treasure chest. Reaching the chest, he tried to use the key to unlock it.

The key fit the lock perfectly. He could feel that the internal mechanism of the lock was extremely complex, so much so that even a master lockpicker might not be able to open it.

System: Treasure chest unlocking in progress, 1%......10%....

After a while, the chest clicked open.

Nie Yan reached inside and fished out quite a few items. This chest was truly a treasure trove. He tallied up the contents.

Essence of Fire: Quantity 3.

Magic Black Vein Gold: Quantity 6.

Magic Rune Stone: Quantity 6.

These were all materials for crafting the Headless Horseman Doro's horse-mounted crossbow. If Nie Yan had to find these items himself, he wouldn't even know where to start. He never expected to obtain these raw materials directly from the dark gold treasure chest. As for the other two materials for the horse-mounted crossbow, Superior Magic Nanmu and Superior Fire Mother Crystal, although they were quite expensive, they occasionally appeared in auctions and weren't particularly rare.

In addition to these materials, Nie Yan also obtained a gem and a skill book.

Dark Gem (9): Can be used for embedding. Additional attributes: Converts 10% of damage inflicted into Dark Penetration damage, 1% chance to ignore defense, equipment requirement -10%.

This gem was actually a Grade 9 gem! Grade 9 gems were considered super-supreme quality. Nie Yan smiled wryly. Although he had such a good gem, he couldn't seem to find a suitable piece of equipment to match it. Embedding this kind of Grade 9 supreme gem into low-level equipment would be like casting pearls before swine, unless he could find an Sub-Legendary piece of equipment, which would be a better match. If he could craft that horse-mounted crossbow, it would be a pretty good match for this gem.

As for the other skill book, Nie Yan took a look and his body trembled. It was actually a Lockpicking skill! And it was the best Lockpicking skill, 'Lockpicking Expert'! It came with two special effects: each time a treasure chest was opened, there was a 10% chance to gain an additional 1 skill proficiency point, and Ignore treasure chest level +1.

He currently only had the Novice Lockpicking skill, but for Nie Yan, training lockpicking skill proficiency wasn't difficult. He knew the locations of many locked treasure chests. At worst, he would spend some time to raise his lockpicking skill level, so he could open high-level treasure chests.

Learning the Lockpicking Expert skill, Nie Yan stood up. He searched the vicinity and, finding no other chests, stood up. His backpack was almost full. If he hadn't gotten a Magic Rune backpack, his backpack space wouldn't have been enough.

It was time to return to the city. In any case, his Respect value in Calore had already exceeded 30 points.

He took out the black robe for concealing his appearance from his backpack and put it on. He couldn't hide his red name status, so he could only let it be.

Nie Yan began to read the Return Scroll. A white light flashed, and he returned to the Calore City teleportation array.

At this time, the area beside the Calore City teleportation array was crowded with players. Some were forming parties, preparing to level up and grind monsters, while others were waiting for someone, and some had just teleported over from various places. When they saw Nie Yan in his black robe, they stared at him with blank expressions.

"Damn, he dares to return to the city in red name status. Does he not want to live? If he doesn't want to live, he can tell me, and I'll send him back to the graveyard."

"How many people did he kill to get his red name like that?"

"Isn't he afraid the guards will kill him?"

The players made way for him, whispering amongst themselves. Nie Yan was wearing a black robe, his face hidden within the hood, and his dazzling red name gave people a mysterious and unpredictable feeling. They couldn't see Nie Yan's face, but the players' first impression was that this guy was dangerous!

Nie Yan glanced at the nearby players, and they felt a chill in their hearts and quickly retreated.

PK was prohibited within the city, but Nie Yan's red name status still put a lot of pressure on the players.

A team of Calore City guards in full silver armor walked over, and the players quickly made way for them.

"This guy is dead for sure."

The players gloated. There was no way Nie Yan could defeat these guards. This team of Calore City guards were at least Level 100 Elite-grade, and their uniform equipment exuded a strong, murderous aura.

But what happened next was like a thunderclap, stunning them all and freezing their minds.

These Calore City guards didn't kill Nie Yan. One of the guard captains even walked up to him and treated him with utmost respect.

"Respected Demon Hunter, greetings," the guard captain said respectfully.

Nie Yan nodded, ignored the guards, and walked straight towards the headquarters of the Niu Ren Tribe guild. These guards could only maintain order and had no real power in Calore City, so he didn't need to pay them any attention.

Nie Yan brushed past the guards in silver armor.

Nothing happened. The guards didn't dare to kill this red-named player. This completely subverted the players' understanding.

"Damn, awesome! The guards don't dare to kill him!"

"He doesn't even acknowledge the guards, what a realm!"

"That amazing guy left!"

"He entered the Niu Ren Tribe guild headquarters. Could he be a member of the Niu Ren Tribe?"

"Amazing! This Niu Ren Tribe has only just risen. It's said that their elite team cleared more than a dozen Master and Expert-level dungeons in two days. The guild leader is the number one player on the level rankings, Niao Ren, even more awesome than Po Tian. Damn, if I had known this, I would have joined the Niu Ren guild."

Soon, videos were released on the official website, 'A Red Name Appears in the City!' 'Invincible Red Name Scares Away Guards!', and so on.

Nie Yan walked into the Niu Ren Tribe guild headquarters. The players entering and exiting the Niu Ren Tribe guild headquarters were startled when they saw Nie Yan and quickly avoided him.

The red name was too intimidating. After they retreated, they remembered that this was Calore City! Red names weren't allowed to enter the city! Logically speaking, a red name entering the city would have been dealt with at the teleportation array. The guards always killed red names with a single strike!

Nie Yan walked into the Niu Ren Tribe guild headquarters.

"Hey, who is he? So awesome, daring to enter the city with a red name!"

"Didn't you see the guild badge? He's from our guild, seems to be one of our guild leaders."

The guild members whispered, watching Nie Yan enter the guild headquarters, and were very surprised.

Nie Yan opened the guild warehouse and stuffed all the equipment he had obtained in the Realm of Illusion into the guild warehouse. As for the recipes and other things, he planned to send them to the Starry Night Pharmacy.

"You're finally back. Damn, you scared me, why hasn't your red name disappeared?" Guo Huai said in surprise.

"As long as your Respect value in Calore City reaches 30 points or more, you can enter the city," Nie Yan said. Right now, players might be surprised to see a red name in the city, but in the future, there would be more people with high Respect values, especially after the fortress battles were opened, and there would be more and more red names in the city, and they would slowly get used to it.

"No wonder you dared to come in," Guo Huai realized.

"How is the guild developing now?"

"It's alright. The number of guild members has already exceeded 30,000. The largest guild in Calore City, Triumph Empire, only has 80,000 members so far. Of course, their requirements for joining the guild are more strict, and the quality of their guild members is much higher than ours."

There was a certain limit to the number of guild members. A Level 2 guild could recruit up to 50,000 members, and a Level 3 guild could recruit up to 100,000 members. The more people recruited, the greater the demand for guild resources. If there were too many low-level players, they would occupy a large amount of guild resources, so that the stronger players would enjoy fewer guild resources, which would not benefit the development of the guild.

"We should appropriately raise the standards for recruitment."

"Yeah, we're discussing the standards for recruitment. It's not enough to only consider levels," Guo Huai nodded. The standards for recruitment definitely had to be raised. As for those players who didn't participate in guild activities for a long time and were perfunctory about guild activities, they definitely had to be kicked out of the guild, so that the cohesiveness of the entire guild could be improved.

"How are things with the land?"

"I've already helped you buy 36 pieces of land in eleven cities, and they've all been transferred to your name. If this were to be said, it would scare a lot of people. It's estimated that the land owned by several large guilds combined isn't as much as you own alone," Guo Huai said. If all of these were to be opened as shops, even if he only collected rent in the future, it would be enough to support several large guilds like Triumph and Holy Roman Empire.

"Yeah," Nie Yan wasn't too surprised. He said to Guo Huai, "The current development momentum is very good. We'll take it one step at a time and proceed steadily. I heard that Triumph hasn't stopped making small moves?"

"More than 300 players have been killed by Triumph's people at least once. Triumph is watching us very closely now. Some players are targeted as soon as they leave the city, even if they aren't wearing guild badges. There are Triumph people lurking in the guild. We just cleared out a few a few days ago," Guo Huai said. He was also having a headache right now. If this matter wasn't handled well, it might lead to the players becoming alienated.

The players were very optimistic about the Niu Ren Tribe right now, so even though so many people had been killed, they were still willing to stay in the guild. But it couldn't go on like this. If it wasn't dealt with all the time, the problem would become serious.

"If they're blocking us, we don't need to swallow our anger! If they kill a hundred of us, then we'll get our revenge. At least we can't weaken our momentum. We also have to do a good job of defense, so that when players are leveling up, they shouldn't tell other players where they're going. The map is so big, they might not be able to find them," Nie Yan said. This was the only way, otherwise, if Triumph's people kept harassing the Niu Ren Tribe's players who were leveling up, then the Niu Ren Tribe would eventually be annoyed to death.

"But the Triumph Empire is powerful, I'm afraid we can't outlast them!"

"I'll think of something," Nie Yan said. He suddenly remembered a famous player organization from his previous life, the Assassin Alliance. The Assassin Alliance probably hadn't been established yet. If there was an organization like the Assassin Alliance, and he could get a title in it, he could probably spend some money to make Triumph's people have a headache.