After thinking for a while, the guild weapon was still designed as a staff-type weapon focused on high-firepower annihilation and disruption.
After all, the destruction of a guild weapon symbolizes the destruction of the guild, so Makoto was unlikely to take it out for battle in normal circumstances.
When the time came that it was needed, rather than considering other things, it would be better to deal the enemy a heavy blow directly; perhaps it could even turn the tide of battle.
As for the enemies in the other world that might invade Novas Aethel, there were only the True Dragon Lords and the Great Tomb of Nazarick.
Ainz Ooal Gown might still be negotiable, but the True Dragon Lords were absolute enemies, so Makoto decided to forge it with a specialization against dragons!
In the game YGGDRASIL, there were super monsters known as Enemies of the World.
Even if a legion composed of six teams, each made up of up to six level-100 players, went to challenge these enemies, the chances of winning were very low; they were hailed as balance-breaking monsters.
There were thirty-two in total.
Among them were eight dragon-type monsters, collectively known as the “Eight Dragons,” and after being defeated, they would all drop a precious item called the “Reverse Scale of the **,” which could be used to craft weapons that exerted a massive restraint against dragon-type monsters.
And as it happened, Makoto had already collected more than a full set.
Using the “Reverse Scale of the Eight Dragons” as the main material, adding a large amount of precious data crystals and various gemstones, he finally obtained a staff that was extremely unfriendly to dragon-type monsters.
“I have a feeling that using this staff, once I reach max level, a single burst combo would be able to shave off at least one-tenth of the Eight Dragons’ health bars!”
Don’t think that one-tenth is a small amount; World-Class Bosses all require 36 max-level players.
With equipment that hasn’t even fully formed, just some randomly matched legendary equipment, and relying on this staff combined with the class build, this output is already somewhat overpowered!
Guild weapons are all named after the guild, so its name was the “Black Cross Staff.”
Having finished another task, he began to continue perfecting the guild base.
Time flew by, and it quickly reached eight o’clock in the evening, with only four hours remaining until the YGGDRASIL game servers shut down.
Makoto got up to replenish the nanomachines in his gaming equipment, confirmed that nearly half of the nutritional solution remained, and that the backup power supply was intact and properly connected to the gaming device, before entering the game once more.
Checking his personal bank account, because he hadn’t made any purchases yesterday, there was still nearly 6 million yen remaining.
At this final hour, countless pieces of equipment, materials, and gold coins that had once cost a huge price were like rotten leaves at a vegetable market; for a negligible amount of money, they all flooded into the “Black Cross” guild’s treasury.
Makoto was like a machine, using the AI assistant to check the list value—pay the money—store the items in the treasury, in an endless loop.
Makoto couldn’t help but exclaim that the AI in this cyberpunk world was truly useful!
It was just a bit expensive; the daily rent cost 30,000 yen, and it was far inferior to the ones he had used at the company before.
There was no help for it; after all, it was a civilian version, but it still handled simple calculations without any issues.
He just didn’t know if this AI could travel with him.
Until ten o’clock in the evening, after acquiring countless gold coins, equipment, and materials, he didn’t hesitate to top up the remaining 2 million yen or so into the game, using it all to hire powerful monsters that could only be obtained through microtransactions (the kind found on the eighth floor of the Great Tomb of Nazarick).
After simply arranging them, Makoto finally had time to check his haul.
First was the most important: World-Class Items.
Today, he had obtained a total of 9, including two from “The Twenty” and seven regular World-Class Items.
Including previous acquisitions, there were a total of 17 World-Class Items, among which 1 was a consumable item, the “Caloric Stone,” 4 were from “The Twenty,” and twelve were regular World-Class Items.
It was a bit of a pity that he didn’t get the “world will” item.
As for the guild base, with a large amount of microtransactions and the specialization of certain NPC classes, the guild maintenance costs had been completely offset, entering a state where the meter was running in reverse.
Not counting the various consumables and equipment produced, the daily profit was only about 100,000 gold; calculating based on the 500 million needed to resurrect one Shalltear, it would require nearly fourteen years of profits.
But at least there was income, so he didn’t have to worry about running out of resources.
After a rough count, the treasury contained nearly 3 trillion gold coins, 700,000 monster summoning scrolls, over 2,000 divine-class items, and equipment below the divine class filled an entire warehouse in the treasury; he had 200,000 troops, with nearly 3,000 monsters above Lv80, and nearly 100 monsters above Lv90.
(The Great Tomb of Nazarick as a guild has 400 billion gold coins; I don’t think this number is excessive, it might even be conservative.
Aside from NPC points, troops, and World-Class Items, the subsequent numbers can be roughly understood as 5-20 times that of the Great Tomb of Nazarick).
After simply tallying his assets, a surge of arrogance welled up in Makoto’s heart— “So you’re the one called Ainz Ooal Gown, huh?
Behave yourself and stay quiet, don’t provoke me!
Otherwise, I’ll knock your teeth out and smash your bones to pieces!”
Looking at the little time left before twelve o’clock, Makoto prepared to scrape together a suitable set of equipment for himself. Visit g.com for the full chapter.
In the game, equipment slots were divided into head, face, torso, inner wear, arms, hands, waist, legs, and feet.
Ring slots were normally one for each hand, but Makoto had naturally maxed out his microtransactions, giving him a total of ten slots.
Among the ten rings, the “Resurrection Ring (Super Rare)” and the “ring of the eternal serpent” occupied two fixed slots.
Also essential were the “Ring of Freedom,” which granted the ability to nullify all hindrance effects such as binding and paralysis, and rings to counter time-based countermeasures and movement impediments, which could prevent movement sluggishness (“Magic Ring for Countering Movement Impediments”).
Along with the “Ring of the Pretender” to hinder information detection, and the guild ring, the “Black Cross Ring.”
For his hand-held equipment, he chose the World-Class Item “brionac,” although it was usually kept in his inventory.
For the remaining slots, he chose divine-class equipment focused on accelerating mana recovery, increasing magic power, lowering enemy holy resistance, and increasing the number of summoned creatures.
“Do things below the divine class even deserve to be used by me?”
He then paired it with over ten various World-Class Items to handle various situations—
“I feel like I’m already invincible!”
Makoto looked at his attribute values, which had increased once again due to his equipment, and issued a declaration of invincibility.
With the little time remaining, Makoto began to outfit the NPCs with equipment.
Without a doubt, they were all primarily equipped with divine-class gear, with the lowest being legendary-class equipment.
With optimized class builds and a full set of endgame gear, ignoring experience, the combat power of any combat-specialized NPCs could at least be considered mid-tier among players!
Time quietly reached eleven o’clock in the evening.
Makoto rubbed the “ring of the eternal serpent” in his hand and checked the “Purse of Sin” in his inventory; a brilliant idea appeared in his mind—
If he could break his own level cap and then use the “Sinful Silver Coin” to level up, it seemed like a very promising prospect!
A request made before the server shutdown wouldn’t affect other players, so it surely wouldn’t be rejected, right?
It didn’t matter if it wasn’t approved.
If it wasn’t approved, the item wouldn’t be consumed anyway.