Chapter 638: Guarding Against the Unexpected
The King's Avatar
Translator: Nomyummi Editor: GravityTales
Wei Chen glanced at Ye Xiu. Wasnât Ye Xiu basically telling him to use the money to finance the team? How shameless, but then again, he would just be making a fool of himself if he attempted to get into things like âinnovationâ or âthe advancement of humanityâ. Helping the team had been his original intention all along. This time, he would be financing his dream, so Wei Chen would happily to do so.
âAhem, we need to hurry and improve the strength of our characters right now.â Wei Chen cleared his throat and spoke. With the money in his pockets, his tone of voice became much brighter. He acted like he was some great sage, completely different from his usual hoodlum self.
âOh, how do you say we improve them?â Ye Xiu asked.
âEquipment. What else?â Wei Chen said.
âDoesnât that require materials? Two million worth of materials isnât enough for you?â Ye Xiu asked. Such a large amount of dungeon materials was more than enough for their team to use. They hadnât received these materials yet though because they were still individual players in the Heavenly Domain. They didnât even have the ability to receive these materials. The materials in Samsara were stored in their guild storage, not carried by individual characters. All of these dungeon materials were more than enough to use for improving their current equipment.
âYou didnât get any wild boss materials. Whatâs the point?â Wei Chen hadnât slept last night. He had carefully looked over the contract. There wasnât anything rare in those two million worth of materials. For self-made equipment, the higher the level, the more stringent the requirement for the materials would be. Even if one could find dungeon materials to replace the rarer materials, the creator wouldnât be happy to do so. Different materials might be able to form a self-made equipment, but how much would it affects its stats?
The shape of the equipment was crucial, but the stats were the most important. Itâs similar to building a PC. The PC will have a CPU, RAM, hard disk, video graphics card, but there were differences in quality. A PC made with higher-end components would certainly perform better than one with lower-end components. Self-made equipment strived for the best stats. If one used low-grade materials to create a piece of equipment with the stats of an Orange equipment, what was the point?
Using these materials to replace higher-end material was just a way to save on costs, but some things just couldnât be replaced. And this was just based on the upgrade process alone. When the equipment needed to be upgraded to Level 70, if the conditions permitted it, it was best to completely use uncommon materials to create the equipment. Only then would the stats be at the peak.
If one didnât use uncommon materials, the equipment created wouldnât be considered truly self-made equipment.
âCan you get uncommon materials even if you have money?â Ye Xiu asked in return.
Wei Chen couldnât answer him. There were very very few uncommon materials amongst the normal player base. Even studios couldnât compete with the Clubs. Uncommon materials were completely monopolized by Clubs, and as a core component of self-made equipment, as long as the Club wasnât about to go bankrupt, no Club would ever sell them. Even if they werenât going to use the material, they could still use it to trade for other uncommon materials.
When a team dissolved, their storage would be thoroughly cleaned out. However, these sort of dissolved guilds wouldnât have many materials to begin with anyways. In addition, the other Clubs would have swarmed over to buy the materials first. Ye Xiu and the others would never even get the chance to buy them.
They had money, but this money couldnât be used to buy uncommon materials. Of course, if you put up a high enough price like ten million for material, no Club would refuse, but who would be so wasteful?
Their need for dungeon materials had been met, but the crucial uncommon material still had to be obtained through the game.
âLittle Tang, Steamed Bun, try and enter the Heavenly Domain as soon as you can. Once you do that, finish the rest of those quests.â Ye Xiu said.
âWhat? Are you afraid Samsara is going to pull some sort of trick?â Wei Chen noticed.
âJust in case!â Ye Xiu said.
âDidnât you say that, with a foundation like Samsaraâs, the game company wonât be able to figure out the reason?â Chen Guo said.
âBut what if they intentionally revealed it to the game company to establish their advantage?â Ye Xiu said.
Everyone was startled.
âFor Samsara, the most important thing is to maintain their advantage over all the other teams. They arenât going to use the guide to make money, so once they use it, theyâll throw it away. That would be the safest way to ensure they maintain their advantage. From then on, no one else will have this guide to improve their skill points and they would keep their advantage in skill points until who knows how long.â Ye Xiu said.
âEven though they have restrictions set in the contract, this sort of thing isnât too easy to control, so just in case, we should hurry and get as many of those skill points as we can.â Ye Xiu said.
âWhy didnât you say so earlier!â Chen Guo panicked and hastily urged Tang Rou and Steamed Bun to step it up.
Tang Rou and Steamed Bun werenât max leveled yet, but with their skill, they shouldnât have any difficulty finishing the Heavenly Domain Challenge. After all, their skill far surpassed normal players. Even if they somehow werenât able to complete it, wasnât Ye Xiu there? He could finish it at Level 50 and he wouldnât have any problems finishing it for them if they were incapable.
When the two heard Ye Xiuâs words, they also began to hurry.
Tang Rou had taken the quest chain at Level 50, but she had trouble completing it at that time, so she decided to put it on hold. Afterwards, as she leveled up, she went back to the quest chain and had finished the majority of it already. Steamed Bun hadnât received the quest originally, but when she saw that Tang Rou was already doing it before she was Level 70, he also learned from her and occasionally completed parts of the quest chain. However, Steamed Bunâs progress wasnât as smooth as Tang Rouâs. In a few places that required precision, it wasnât that Steamed Bun couldnât do it, but rather, he always wanted to try to succeed in some sort of weird way, which always resulted in failure.
As a result, Ye Xiu supervised and urged Steamed Bun to hurry and finish the quest chain.
Tang Rou focused and finished the quest chain that day. Following after Ye Xiuâs Lord Grim and Qiao Yifanâs One Inch Ash, there were now three characters from the tenth server in the Heavenly Domain.
Afterwards, she went to do the skill point quests that she hadnât done yet in the Heavenly Domain. After receiving a quest, she completed it and received a skill book, which meant that Samsara hadnât pulled a dirty trick just yet. It had only been a day or two. No matter how fast Samsara was, they couldnât be that fast.
The game company might not decide to change the quests, even after knowing about this skill point farming method. Let alone Samsara, even the Alliance could only communicate with the game company. They didnât have any way of forcing them to do anything if they didnât want to do it. More often than not, the Alliance had to adapt to whatever changes the game made.
That night, another 5000 skill point character was birthed from Happy Internet Cafe. According to Concealed Lightâs data, of the 1650 skill points possible, a character would get around 965 skill points on average.
From this number, Ye Xiuâs and Tang Rouâs luck were already extremely good. They hadnât even finished all of the quests yet and they already received 1000 skill points.
Wei Chen didnât stay idle. His Windward Formation had finished all of those quests, but didnât he still have a Warlock account on hand?
However, this account had been obtained along with Unrivaled Super Hottie when Ye Xiu won the wager. The skill points were very average, 4210 points. Wei Chen had run quests all night. Quests already completed couldnât be done again. In the end, he ended up with a total of 4480 skill points.....
This was pretty good for normal players, but for them, Wei Chenâs efforts were for nothing.
âWhat do I do? Do I buy a hundred Warlock accounts?â Wei Chen was starting to panic. Windward Formation had 4920 skill points, but it wasnât good enough! Now that he was rich, he started with an estimate of a hundred accounts.
âA hundred? A thousand wouldnât even be enough. These are normal accounts. Do you think all of them have the same base stats as a pro characters?â Ye Xiu said.
âIt looks like Iâll have to specially order a few, but what if the accounts come out and the quests are wasted?â Wei Chen was worried.
â4920 skill points isnât bad. Even Samsara wonât have all of their characters maxed with 5000 skill points.â Ye Xiu said.
âNo, I refuse. Let me think.â Wei Chen hadnât slept the previous night and had been focusing hard the entire day, but he was still full of energy!
Tang Rou was done and it was just a matter of time before Steamed Bun finished as well, but there was also Concealed Light and Little Cold Hands.
Concealed Lightâs issue lay in his mechanics. He wouldnât be able to reach the Heavenly Domain in a short amount of time either. There were also a few places in the guide, which required a certain level of mechanics too. It would be a waste if Concealed Light didnât get the same treatment. With no other choice, Ye Xiu took Concealed Lightâs account card and completed it for him.
As for Little Cold Hands, they had only been in touch with him for a short amount of time. The trust between them was still extremely limited, so he didnât feel confident in giving showing the guide over to Little Cold Hands. Even more so, Little Cold Hands was an old account. If he had finished all of the quests before, he wouldnât be able to get receive any skill points. Would his account be like Wei Chenâs or Chen Guoâs accounts and only be able to get around max out at 4500 skill points? That was far from being good enough to compete with the pros.
Just thinking about it wouldnât get anything done. Ye Xiu contacted Little Cold Hands on QQ.
Little Cold Hands had 4170 skill points. As expected, it was only a normal account. As for which quests he had done before, Little Cold Hands was an account that had been gifted to him, so he didnât know either. With no other choice, Ye Xiu gave the handed over a list of quests to him to and have him check which quests he had done before. If he hadnât, then he shouldnât touch them for now.
âItâs very important. Please hurry and check.â Ye Xiu said.
âWhatâs so special about these quests?â Little Cold Hands wasnât like Steamed Bun, who wouldnât think to ask before doing something.
âIt has to do with improving your characterâs strength, but it requires a special method, so I need to make sure your character hasnât done all of these quests already.â Ye Xiu explained.