Mordia City is a port city located in the south of the Fate Continent. It governs many surrounding small islands. There are constant ships coming and going around the city, and trade is prosperous.
Venus started activities in this city a month ago. She wanted to build a big ship and go to sea to find land not occupied by NPCs.
Now, Venus Pharmacy is no longer limited to opening its own store. Venus will authorize other stores to sell and act as a general agent. There are basically no transportation and storage costs in the game, and the potions have no shelf life, so the profits are very high.
After several months of operation, Venus has recently recovered its initial costs and started to make money.
Among the costs, obtaining land from NPC accounts for a relatively large proportion, and the threshold for destiny is set relatively high. Under normal circumstances, a single player cannot play it.
Venus does tasks every day and deals with NPCs, which is indeed a bit tiring - because it is a game, NPCs will find various reasons to test you even if it is a very small thing...
Running errands is not as interesting as fighting. Most players can accept four or five hours of hunting monsters, but they cannot accept two hours of running around the map.
Things like face and reputation are not as effective in games as in reality...
Therefore, Venus wants to find another way to go to sea to find small islands that have not been occupied by NPCs, build factories on them, and expand production capacity.
However, just finding the island is not enough. Although you can do whatever you want on it, if the occupied land is not "recognized" by the NPC, even if you build a factory, you will not be able to hire NPCs.
There are three methods for the land you want to occupy to be recognized by NPC.
The first is to treat the land as a guild base. This method is the simplest, but the restrictions are also very obvious. A low-level guild can only have one base, and a higher level can only have two pieces, and the investment in upgrading the guild is also small.
Small.
The second is to obtain the approval of the consul of a big city and seek a "title". In this way, the new land discovered can be counted as the territory under his title and is a subsidiary territory of the consul of the main city.
The third is to be in a "hostile" state with a big city consul and use your "notoriety" to tell the NPC that you are the king of the mountain. If the hostile state with the NPC is not sufficient, you can just say "this land is mine."
, then no NPC will care about you.
Venus wanted to take the second path at first, but she had a falling out with the NPC in the middle, so she just went with the flow and took the third path.
The reason for the breakup is very simple. Venus was tricked by NPCs...
The nobles of Mordia City asked her to finance the transportation of a shipment, but they actually used her as bait.
After Venus's cargo ship set sail, the nobles quietly let out the news to attract nearby pirates to rob the ship. Then they ambush nearby and captured the pirates in one fell swoop.
Not only did they not compensate Venus afterwards, they also blamed Venus for the fleet's losses - they bit back at Venus, saying that she colluded with the pirates, causing casualties in their perfect plan.
In fact, it was just that they were too weak and the pirates were too strong, which led to their ambush and massive casualties.
The group of captured pirates may have taken some benefits and admitted that Venus was with them. In this way, Venus's other investments in the city were investigated and she was also arrested and imprisoned.
But Venus is a player, and if he is caught without a red name, it is a simple matter to escape. Just find a time when the NPC is sleeping and just kick the door open.
Venus was very angry and naturally couldn't leave in despair. She spent money to recruit a bunch of bounty hunters, made a big fuss in the city of Mordia, and released most of the prisoners.
As a result, the entire city of Mordia fell into chaos, and even now, various professional unions still have bounty missions for capturing fugitives.
Because of this, Venus was blacklisted by the city of Mordia... which is quite notorious.
Because these things are purely for venting and will have a bad impact on the character, Venus is not called Su Ming.
Now, after the ship is built, Venus is ready to go out to sea to explore. She wants to find a long-term companion. After much thought, she still thinks that the strong and obedient brother Su Ming is the best. Moreover, Su Ming can never go offline and can help.
He looks after the ships…
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Su Ming traveled around various cities and teleported to the city of Mordia.
He first went to the blacksmith's shop to refill his durability, and then moved forward according to the coordinates given by Venus.
The ratio of players to NPCs in Mordia City is about 1:5. It is considered a very popular city. Player stalls are also very common on the streets. Among these stalls, Su Ming discovered a product called "Knife Sharpening".
"Stone" items.
Whetstone: After using it on a piece of equipment, it restores 15 points of durability to the equipment.
Whetstones are very expensive. One point of durability is equivalent to 4 to 6 gold coins, which is almost the price of a piece of bronze equipment.
The whetstone should be a specialty near the city of Mordia, because the players who come here are more or less active overseas and often cannot find NPCs who repair equipment, so the whetstone plays a great role.
Su Ming knew that he might accompany Venus to the sea for a long time this time, so he started sweeping the stalls and bought any whetstone that was reasonably priced.
The explosion rate of whetstones may not be very high. Each stall sells seven or eight of them.
However, Su Ming saw a stall called "Wholesale Whetstones". The stall interface with 27 cells and three rows was filled with whetstones, with only a few empty spaces. The price he sold was one or two more expensive than others.
gold.
"You're so rich. There are so many whetstones, which cost at least more than 200,000 gold."
Su Ming sighed while spending 9108 gold to buy a whole grid (99 pieces) of whetstones.
"99 whetstones can repair the whole body of equipment five or six times. It should be enough."
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Mai Lang is a Rogue player. He came to the city of Mordia in the early stage and discovered the whetstone. With his unique vision, he realized the business opportunities in the whetstone - when repairing equipment in the NPC shop, the equipment will be repaired according to the equipment level.
, the price will be adjusted according to different levels, and if you use the whetstone together, no matter what kind of equipment you have, it will restore 15 points of durability to you.
This is the value of the whetstone.
So Mailang started investing money in the early stage and acquired it at a low price.
As players' equipment became better and the cost of going to the NPC shop for repairs became more and more expensive, the price of the whetstone kept rising as Mai Lang expected.
However, it has stabilized recently, so Mailang has started to sell it.
In recent days, he has been setting up stalls and watching movies semi-offline every day.
In the message window next to the movie, the words "Anonymous player purchased X whetstones and received XXX gold coins" will pop up after a while.
"Why am I so discerning? If I sell out this batch of whetstones, I will be able to settle down this year. Fate is such a good game, wow." Mai Lang thought proudly. Suddenly, he saw a big order.
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9108 gold coins.
Mai Lang was very sensitive to this number and thought to himself:
"Who is it? You bought 99 of them at once. That's awesome."
He immediately paused the movie, logged into the game, saw Su Ming who had just turned around and left, and shouted:
