Chapter 137 Magic Rune Stones

Even the strongest player can't compete with a guild. Feng Ming was a good example.

That was why Nie Yan chose to create a guild and didn't fight alone.

Nie Yan sacrificed a lot of time to get Nirvana Flame on the right track. Nirvana Flame was his backing against the Century Financial Group. At least now, he wasn't fighting alone.

People like Feng Ming, even if they couldn't be brought in, could be used to fight against Angel Corps. He was a top-notch genius, definitely one of the top five most amazing people in the entire game of Conviction.

He needed to start collecting information on Feng Ming now, so he could be psychologically prepared when he contacted him in the future.

Nie Yan returned to Calore City, remotely directing Nirvana Flame while preparing some consumables and continuing to level up. He casually browsed the Assassin Alliance homepage and saw that the tasks he had posted, collecting magic crystals and radiant crystals, had been completed by most of the players. He had already obtained sixteen magic crystals and twenty radiant crystals.

He needed twenty magic crystals, thirty radiant crystals, two life crystals, and one strength crystal to hatch the Darkwing Dragon.

Currently, there was no way to find the life crystals. He would wait a while longer.

The Assassin Alliance was growing in scale, with more than 50,000 professional players participating. It was generating huge profits every day. Nie Yan's income from the Assassin Alliance was about 60,000 gold coins a day. This powerful money-making machine was operating rapidly.

As the number of professional players increased, the customer base was also gradually expanding. Some heavyweight characters appeared, which surprised Nie Yan. There were already seven Marquis in the customer base, who had spent more than 500,000 gold coins in the Assassin Alliance.

Many people spent so much gold just to have top-level professional players level them up or take them through dungeons. These people were definitely very important in reality.

Nie Yan had a flash of inspiration. He should find some time to hold a gathering and let his father get in touch with them more. This would be of great significance to the Tianxia Group.

Looking at the Assassin Alliance professional player list, there were a large number of top-level players. Familiar names caught his eye. The top dozens of people were all well-known characters in his previous life. They were professional players and wouldn't be involved in the guild battles between consortia. There was no way to recruit them into the guild, but if he needed them for anything, he could post a task in the Assassin Alliance and set a high enough reward. They could still do things for Nirvana Flame.

Nie Yan took a large pile of Death Ripple Scrolls and Fragmentary Damage Magic Bombs to the wilderness to level up. After being stuck in the Thorny Lizard map for about two days, he finally reached Level 80. He returned to the city and threw all the equipment he had obtained into the guild warehouse. Then, he and Tang Yao continued to loot treasure chests. This time, the harvest was significantly less than last time, but it was still quite rich.

After sorting out the harvested items, Nie Yan went to get all the enchanted javelins and put them in his backpack. Then he took the javelin launcher and prepared to set off.

Nie Yan walked along the street towards the teleportation array. A red stone wall on the side of the street caught his attention. His steps paused slightly, and he remembered that this stone wall had some history. It was the famous Echo Wall. Any sentence spoken to the stone wall would be reflected back.

Next to the Echo Wall stood an NPC named Kleiming, a wise man. He would give the players five allusions. As long as they named the legendary items in those allusions, they would have guessed one of the riddles. As long as they guessed any three of them, they could start Kleiming's quest to collect magic rune stones.

Magic rune stones were a relatively common item, found in various maps. When inlaid into weapons, they could add some additional attributes to the weapons, similar to gems. However, magic rune stones were only effective on weapons. There were seven types of magic rune stones, carrying fire, ice, lightning, water, earth, light, and darkness attributes, respectively, adding damage of that attribute.

Collecting seven different magic rune stones counted as a set. You could go to Kleiming to receive a certain amount of experience reward and possibly randomly get a piece of equipment. The experience gained could allow an level 80 player to level up about 1%.

Before this quest was triggered by players in his previous life, magic rune stones were very cheap. After this quest spread, more and more people collected magic rune stones, and magic rune stones became rare and expensive, scavenged by players.

At that time, Nie Yan would take any rune stone he found to the trading hall to sell. There were many players collecting these things. Once they gathered a set, they could exchange them for a lot of experience. Collecting magic rune stones was a game that only rich people could afford. Nie Yan had no way to participate. However, in his previous life, the opening of the magic rune stone collection quest in Conviction provided a major source of income for players like Nie Yan.

This quest had already been announced, but no player had guessed the answers to the five riddles, so players hadn't yet started a large-scale purchase of magic rune stones.

In his previous life, Nie Yan couldn't afford to play, but in this life, he wouldn't hesitate. What if he had to spend some money?

Nie Yan walked towards the stone wall and found Kleiming, an old man in a dark red mage robe, standing next to the wall, pondering something.

Nie Yan went up and triggered the quest. This quest could only be attempted once. If he answered incorrectly, he couldn't trigger it again.

"Gloomy Sanction, Bloody Knight, Blazing Judgment, Entanglement of Fate, Eternal Law, young man, do you know what they each represent?" Kleiming raised his triangular eyes, glanced at Nie Yan, and asked.

This was a famous riddle. In about two or three weeks, a player guessed that the last Eternal Law might be the Book of Order. After another period of time, some people guessed several of the answers. After many players guessed the answers, they didn't spread the answers to the riddles, but quickly gathered magic rune stones. However, there were no airtight walls in the world. In about three months, the answer to this riddle was made public. Magic rune stones began to be ridiculously expensive, and one or two scarce varieties, including fire and light, were炒 (chǎo, stir-fried/speculated) to more than a thousand gold coins.

Now, if you buy magic rune stones, fifty or sixty gold coins per piece is enough.

"Respected Mr. Kleiming, Gloomy Sanction refers to the Book of Disorder, Bloody Knight refers to the Sword of Modiagos, Blazing Judgment refers to the Everwake Staff of Flames, Entanglement of Fate refers to Pandora's Box, and Eternal Law refers to the Book of Order," Nie Yan said slowly. He already knew all these answers. What surprised him a little before was that among these five items, Pandora's Box was in his hands, and as for the Book of Order, he had synthesized one of its volumes. He had a bit of缘分 (yuánfèn, predestined affinity) with this quest.

"Mr. Nie Yan, you are the first person to be able to guess these five items at the same time. I need some magic rune stones here. Can you help me find them?" Kleiming said.

"Mr. Kleiming, I am willing to serve you," Nie Yan nodded. Kleiming finally issued the quest. Quickly, he received a system prompt.

Quest progress: Find magic rune stones for Mr. Kleiming. A set of seven different magic rune stones is required to turn in. The quest has no time limit.

"Your journey will begin from this moment. Go find your destiny, Mr. Nie Yan. You are a wise man," Kleiming said with a smile.

Nie Yan looked at the quest progress. It was indeed this quest, exactly the same as in his previous life. He thought that guessing all five at the same time would have an extra reward, but Kleiming's flat reaction made him a little disappointed. However, getting this quest was considered a success. He sent a message to Guo Huai, preparing to use as little cost as possible to massively acquire magic rune stones.

Regarding the acquisition of magic rune stones, Nie Yan used a small trick. Currently, the price of a magic rune stone was about fifty or sixty gold coins, and good ones were over a hundred gold coins, but not many people used this thing. It wasn't as cost-effective as gems. The market was still quite abundant with magic rune stones. Nie Yan asked Guo Huai to send people to continuously advertise in the street markets, selling magic rune stones in large quantities for thirty gold coins each, with a minimum purchase of twenty.

Ordinary players wouldn't buy magic rune stones on a large scale. Seeing the price of magic rune stones drop so much, they would definitely be very strange. Could it be that magic rune stones had become a common commodity? If anyone really contacted them to buy magic rune stones, they would reply that they had just sold out.

Guo Huai let these subordinates shout thirty gold coins on the first day, twenty-five gold coins on the second day, and twenty gold coins on the third day, creating the illusion for the players that magic rune stones were about to become a common commodity and were frantically dropping in price. They would take out the magic rune stones in their warehouses and sell them at low prices. Nirvana Flame secretly bought a large number of magic rune stones. Using this method, they could both save money and acquire more magic rune stones, which could be described as killing two birds with one stone.

"This method is good. Not only magic rune stones, but we can also do it with other things, such as gems," Guo Huai said, first creating the illusion that gems were massively dropping in price on the market, buying them in large quantities. When the gems in the market became scarce and demand was tight, and the price rose, they would then sell them in large quantities, making a profit on the difference.

"It's okay to do it, but doing it once or twice is fine. If you do it too many times, not many players will believe it," Nie Yan said. Players weren't fools. If the same thing happened more than twice, it would definitely be seen through.

"Even if it's seen through, it doesn't matter. Anyway, we've made money, so it's impossible to lose," Guo Huai said with a smile.

"You take care of this matter."

Guo Huai went to work, first raising funds, and then arranging the work. This matter must be done very carefully and secretly.

(coughing, half my life is gone, I need to save my old life first.)
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