Chapter 178: An Interesting Scene
"Appointed Managers?" Both Hundred Shots and Daffodil Daydream gaped with their eyes wide open.
Zhang Yang smiled and explained to them. "That’s right, as appointed managers, you will receive proper salary from the guild. You will have to put all your focus into managing the guild. Take it as a real job!"
Both Hundred Shots and Daffodil Daydream exchanged a confused and ’hard-to-believe this was real’ kind of look. Both of them had jobs in their real life. It would be unwise for them to give up on their current job to be a virtual ga manager. After all, how long could a ga last for? 5 years? 10 years? It will eventually die down!
Zhang Yang laughed. "Hold on to your thoughts and listen to my explanation before you reject my proposal. So far, I will pay you 10,000 dollars as the fixed basic salary! In the future developnt of the guild, you’ll get appropriate bonuses!"
Both of them expressed dubious expressions. Zhang Yang continued to explain. "You see, ’God’s Miracle’ started with around 5,000,000 players. Now, the number has risen to a staggering 170,000,000 players! This took only 2 months! This clearly demonstrates the pulling power of the ga! I can be certain that the number of players would even exceed 1 billion! 2 billion, even! What does this an then? This ga is an endless, unlimited market and well of opportunities! If a guild is raised into a proper one, it could beco a money-making machine!"
Hundred Shots scratched his chin and said, "Zhan Yu. It’s not that I don’t believe you! But this is just a too big decision for to make now! I have to think of the risks and opportunities!"
Daffodil nodded.
Zhang Yang explained further, "As a guild, the perks and advantages would only co after level 50! Look at the current situation of the training grounds. The one closest to the main city is a level 10 training ground. Another area further out is the level 20 training ground, beyond that is the level 30 area and so on! By now, I’m sure that you have experienced it first hand on how troubleso it is just to get to the training grounds. Just taking the "plane" to the training ground would take around 1 to 2 hours!"
Zhang Yang paused a while and continued to speak. "Players would need to restock and resupply, they would need to fix their equipnt, and they would need to visit the auction house, banks and more. All these would require them coming back to the main city. Think of how much ti is being wasted just walking back and forth!? Right now, the furthest training area would take at least 1 to 2 hours, and when the ga matures enough, level 50 fields and up will appear. To save players’ ti, there will be a territory in the map and has a teleportation circle, linked to the city’s teleportation circle! [Teleportation Scroll] can also be used to bind to the map’s territory and be used to teleport there as well!"
Zhang Yang leaned his chin on a hand. "Territory could be claid! Anyone could fight for the authority of the Territory and claim the rights to obtain the fees for the Teleportation Circle! Think of it. If we set the fees to only 1 gold per use, how much gold would we receive when 20,000,000 players use it to travel daily?"
Of course, 20,000,000 might be a little too much to expect. But since a Territory could appear elsewhere, sharing it with at least 1,000,000 players is an easy feat! Right now there are already 170,000,000 players around, and the number will rise to 1 billion or even 2 billion!
Both Daffodil Daydream and Hundred Shot was shocked beyond words!
"To claim a Territory, I would need the strength of the entire guild! I can’t do this alone or with just a few players! The guild would need to be a super guild to achieve such feat! I need more than just numbers. I need the players to be strong in fights and easy to work with!"
Hundred Shot thought for a while. "Zhan Yu, aren’t you the soul of the guild? So far, everyone in the guild has viewed you as their idol! Everyone would be willing to do your bidding if you said so!"
Zhang Yang laughed loudly. "I’m just but a rather skilled fighter. I can bring a team into dungeons and claim the First Clear Achievent. That, I am good at. But to manage a guild, I don’t have the patience and ti for these troubleso matters. I need help. I need soone to help settle the problems in the guild in my stead. I need soone to handle the guild’s account! That is why I hope you guys to accept my proposal. Right now, the guild has nothing to offer to you. I can only issue 10,000 dollars as salary to the both of you for now. But, I do hope that after 2 months, our guild would be in shape to claim the ga’s first Territory! By then, your salary would be at least 100,000 dollars!"
Daffodil sighed and said, "This decision is still too large for to decide now. I would need so ti to think it through!"
Hundred Shots said, "I need to discuss this matter with my wife!"
Even if the popuilarity of the ga was at its peak, but if all future updates of the ga is squashed into this small period, anyone would feel rather anxious. No one could really predict how would ’God’s Miracle’ be like in the next few years! The current situation might just be a pre-festival!
Zhang Yang nodded his head. "You guys take your ti to think about this. This decision might be the one that will affect your entire life!"
In all honesty, there were things that Zhang Yang could not reveal too much about! In his previous life, there were a number of player who had depended on the ga to beco millionaire, and even billionaires! A super VRMMORPG that had over 2 billion players worldwide, greatly exceeded the expectations of the ga! Like football and basketball, soon, this ga would be a culture among everyone. It would eventually be another large money making industry!
After 3 to 4 days of thinking, Hundred Shots and Daffodil Daydream did not let Zhang Yang down; both of them agreed to Zhang Yang proposal, having believed in him! Following Zhang Yang for the past few days, they had been selling equipnt and had collected more than 100,000 gold coins! With the additional bonus of 400,000 gold coins that Zhang Yang had sold the [Guild Upgrade Order], both of them had earned at least 600,000 dollars in a short period of ti!
If they had not quit their job, they might have to work for at least 8 to 10 years to accumulate that amount!
That was why, even if they did not have much hope for the "Territory", they could still follow Zhang Yang into fights and earn enough money to cover the loss of their job! They could even earn a large fortune just by playing the ga! Even if ’God’s Miracle’ only operated for a year, they could earn say...around 1,000,000 dollars! By then, it would never be too late for them to find a new job!
Furthermore, when Zhang Yang had explained the interesting future ahead of them, how could they just let it pass by without grabbing it! Just thinking about it could give them many sleepless nights to co!
The two of them eventually quit their jobs and focused fully on the ga. Zhang Yang had imdiately issued their first month salaries as ans to encourage their decision.
Under Zhang Yang’s arrangent, Daffodil Daydream was to be the financial manager. She had imdiately established the campaign to recycle old equipnt for guild contribution points. The campaign was to encourage players to contribute their discarded equipnt into the guild storage for points instead of selling them in the auction house. That way, high-level players could accumulate wanted equipnt and low-level players would not have to grind the sa dungeon over and over again! They would only need to complete a few guild quests to get the equipnt they want!
Hundred Shots was tasked as the guild human resource manager. He would be in charge of recruitnt and expulsion of the mbers of the guild. Lone Desert Smoke would only recruit players with suitable characteristics. Those who are egoistical, selfish, rude, or fraudulent in manners such as cheating in a dungeon for equipnt, cheating players for gold, would not be recruited into the guild. Since the guild had many join requests every single day, Hundred Shots could not risk adding a rotten apple into the guild in order to prevent the guild from collapsing from the inside.
Under the supervision of those two; Lone Desert smoke had beco lively and happy. Everyone was rather cooperative and had ford strong bonds between players. Slowly, the guild had managed to morph into a strong guild. It was not all because of Zhang Yang and his rry little band contributing to the guild’s fa alone now. Eventually, they had their own way to shine.
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On September 14th, 3pm, Han Ying Xue managed to reach level 50!
’Ding! Congratulation to Player Little Snow for being the first player to achieve Level 50! Obtained Luck 1!’
’Server Announcent: A Level 50 player has erged in the ga! The patch has official started! Players can find any guard in main city for further explanation of the patch! Further description of the patch can also be found in the official website!’
’Server Announcent: New Profession available! Rune Crafting has been added into the ga! Please talk to the main cities’ Rune Crafter for further explanation about Rune Craft!’
After a chain of announcent, players around the globe got excited and headed to the nearest guard to asked about the patch! So of them even logged off the ga to read the detail explanation in the official website. Other players found their way to the Rune Crafter in the city to ask about the profession.
Han Ying Xue and the rest of the gang were a little lazy. They know that Zhang Yang was a "Beta player" and quickly private ssaged him for information.
To save ti and trouble, Zhang Yang partied up with everyone and explained in the party channel.
"I’ll talk about Rune Craft first." Zhang Yang coughed. The patch has been brought forward by as much as half a month earlier due to Zhang Yang presence in the ga.
"Rune Craft consists of two parts. The first part, Break Down. The second, Rune Crafting. A Rune Crafter can disassemble equipnt in the ga and obtain Rune Essence! The better the grade, higher the level, the obtained Essence would be better! The equipnt grade would change at every 30 levels. Let’s say that I disassemble any level 10, 20, or 30 Black-Steel tier equipnt, I would obtain a [Level 1 Black-Steel Essence]. If I disassemble a level 40, 50, or 60 Black-Steel equipnt, I would obtain a [Level 2 Black-Steel Essence]."
"Rune Essences would be used to craft [Rune Stone]s. These [Rune Stone]s could be used to upgrade existing bonus attributes in the weapon! For example, Enhanced Strength 2 effect is obtained when an equipnt is upgraded twice using [Rune Stone]s, increasing the Strength by 20 points. Enhanced Vitality 3 effect is obtained when the equipnt is upgraded 3 tis using the [Rune Stone], increasing HP by 160 points. The maximum upgrade count is 10!"
"High level [Rune Stone] can be used to upgrade low level enhancent. For example, a [Level 5 Rune Stone] could be used to get Enhance 4. It cannot go the other way around. To get a 5 enhancent, you must use a [Level 5 Rune Stone] or higher. When the equipnt reaches Enhancent level 10, there will be an extra effect to it. For example, with Enhanced Vitality 10, every attack would have a effect! Now enhancing with [Rune Stone] has success rates. Once an enhancent fails, not only would the material would be burned, the original Enhance would also drop a level."
Zhang Yang laughed a little. "Why is the profession only being introduced now? If the profession was introduced into the ga since the very beginning, no one would want to disassemble their equipnt! Now, with majority of players reaching level 40 and more, the equipnt that were discarded in to the auction house is just too much, to the point where new players would not need to grind low level dungeons to get their equipnt! New players could just buy the items that they need from the auction house! This was not what the developers intended. Now that Rune Crafting is introduced into the ga, many low-level equipnt would be disassembled! This is one of the thods for them to earn a stable inco as well."
"Huh..." said Wei Yan Er with her mouth wide opened. "In that case, what is this thing?"
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