He lay on the bed, attached one end of the installed nutrient device to his arm, and put on the helmet.
“Respected player, welcome to YGGDRASIL!”
[Detected that this is your first time logging into this game, please enter a game nickname—]
Makoto had already thought of a game nickname.
It was a name that fit perfectly with that hidden class and the World-Class Item for which he had already paid a deposit.
[Amon.Nikolai]
[Please select a race—]
YGGDRASIL had thousands of races, and even the initial races numbered no less than a hundred, but Makoto did not pay attention to the dazzling array of race descriptions appearing before him; he gave his answer directly:
[Human]
[Please select a class—]
Classes in YGGDRASIL could not be changed directly using pay-to-win items; to change them, one had to de-level to reset points, and Makoto did not have that opportunity.
If he chose wrong, it would truly be over.
Recalling the prerequisites for the hidden class, Makoto began searching in the spellcaster section and quickly identified his target.
[Taoist]
As a spiritual magic caster class, the Taoist could change jobs to [Xianren] using the item [Immortal Pill].
The [Xianren] class was not considered strong in the game YGGDRASIL, so not many players chose it.
Its main advantages were various resistances, making it a magic tank class.
However, once reincarnated into another world, the [Immortal] trait might just save him one [Nutrient Ring] passive skill, but the eternal life it brought was more important than the vast majority of skills!
[Please select an initial world—]
There were nine large servers in YGGDRASIL, each with its own characteristics, and each was about the size of two or three Tokyos in the real world.
While traveling between them was not too difficult, it would take time.
Therefore, Makoto’s choice was naturally—
[Midgard]
Midgard, also known as the central courtyard, was the kingdom belonging to humans among the nine worlds, and the dungeon for that easter-egg class was located right there.
Choosing this place directly could save a lot of time.
Time, time…
three days was still too short!
Many items and materials that required grinding were difficult to obtain.
[Do you need to customize your appearance—]
[Yes!]
Makoto had long ago connected the data he brought from the company to the game helmet, so he quickly found a design blueprint of a well-proportioned figure with white hair and golden eyes, standing 1.85 meters tall and looking incredibly handsome, and uploaded it.
The upload was successful.
After the sound of “Game Start!” reached his ears, Makoto’s consciousness entered the game world.
What should one do the moment they start the game?
Let Makoto teach you!
Open the shop—select the top-up page—pay-to-win!
He ignored the flashy [Gratitude Feedback!
90% off for pay-to-win!] on the payment interface.
Without hesitation, Makoto poured a quarter of his wealth into the YGGDRASIL game.
To be honest, the game was in its final stages.
Even with the 90% discount on pay-to-win items, choosing to trade directly with players using cash was still the best option.
Countless materials, equipment, and items that were originally sky-high in price were now dirt cheap; after all, money was still money, and once the game shut down in three days, they would be worthless.
But there was no choice; many items could not be traded, and some of them were very useful.
For example, the function to unlock the ability to wear rings on all fingers, one at a time.
Normally, players could only wear one ring on each hand, and needing to wear them on all fingers required an expensive pay-to-win item.
The additional rings worn had to be bound when using this pay-to-win item and could not be changed for free afterward.
Tied to this was also a pay-to-win item for switching and resetting the bound rings.
[Resurrection Ring · Super Rare], a ring that could perform resurrection with almost no level-down penalty.
Furthermore, upon death, it caused the wearer to drop items of lower value first, and allowed them to revive at the guild base with full HP.
This kind of resurrection item was a must-have, right!
Then there were powerful pay-to-win monsters, like the dragon with a level close to 90Lv mentioned in the original work, which could only be obtained through a lottery with an extremely low probability.
There were also [Pay-to-Win Classes] that were more special than ordinary classes.
Although pay-to-win classes were not necessarily stronger than ordinary classes—for example, the [Mini-Human] class taken by Kyouhukou—they had one advantage that could not be ignored: ease of job acquisition!
You just had to pay!
You have to know, many class transfers required troublesome conditions like PK-ing heteromorphic players, and Makoto didn’t have the time for that.
Furthermore, items for conducting private confidential conversations, sending messages, expanding the level cap of NPCs in the guild base, expanding the data capacity of the guild base, and increasing player attack power were all indispensable.
“Right, I also need to buy two [Power Suits] first.”
Power Suits, also known as Powered Armor.
In the YGGDRASIL game, Powered Armor did not exist in the early stages; it was introduced later to allow newly registered players to quickly improve their level.
The strongest Powered Armor had a combat level of about 80.
Although Powered Armor could be freely modified during the setup phase, half of the data crystals used for modification were obtained through pay-to-win, and the other half were dungeon drops obtained through repeated adventuring.
If he modified it himself, some of the dungeon drop materials would still need to be traded with players, and paying for the pay-to-win portion himself was even less cost-effective.
Plus, modification took time…
But Makoto naturally needed such items that could help him level up quickly in the game.
“As expected, it’s better to buy the finished product directly.
However, I don’t have a guild base yet, and my backpack has limits…
I need to rent an inn room and a warehouse in the main city first.”
He checked the time; it was 8:30 PM.
The trading time he had written on the forum previously was for the final three days, and tonight was between 9:00 PM and 11:00 PM.
There was no way around it; to reach the level cap and get the hidden class within three days, he not only needed to spend a large amount of pay-to-win items but also had to spend a lot of time.
And his time was clearly running out.
He arrived at the inn and, to be safe, paid for five days of money directly, then updated the location of the inn where he was staying and his game nickname on the forum.
The next second, several friend requests appeared in a corner of the game interface.
Without a doubt, with only three days left until the server shutdown, the number of suckers willing to spend big money in the game was pitifully small.
Without hesitation, he accepted all the friend requests.
The next second, a large amount of information flooded Makoto’s vision.
[Boss, here is the list.
According to the price you marked on the forum, the value is 75,800; you can take it all for 75,000.
I’ll throw in the rest of the things you don’t need as a bonus!]
(Everyone, don’t worry too much about the amount of money.
In the original work, the only prices mentioned were 50 (or 10) yen per character for effect text, a lottery draw cost about 500 yen, and a meal (various pills) cost 220 yen per meal.
The rest are not very clear.
Plus, since cyberpunk is different from reality, don’t worry about the prices; just roughly treat 1 RMB as 10 yen.)
[Screenshot, screenshot, screenshot…]
This should be someone who genuinely wanted to trade.
Besides the parts he specifically marked as needed, they also gave away quite a few items with lower game value.
[No problem, which trading method do you choose?]
After giving a reply, he looked at the next message.
[I have a World-Class Item, the price is as you said, but for the trading method, we go through this middleman—a URL.]
Ninety percent chance it was a scammer; they didn’t even have a game screenshot, so he blocked them directly.
After all, he had already marked on the forum that it was either goods first then payment, or they pay the middleman fee and go through the official YGGDRASIL trading route; he did not accept other contact methods.
[Scammer!
I don’t believe there are still suckers nowadays, unless you send me 500 yen right now.]
[A clown seeking attention.]
No need to say anything, blocked.
[Boss, you’re confused!
Some money is better given to me; I guarantee I’ll make you feel like you’re in heaven, okay!]
[Boss, please keep me!
I am fair-skinned, beautiful, and have long legs~]
…Blocked.
[You finally logged in…
no, you are just creating an account now!?
I thought I was scammed.]
[Forget it, I am “Kuaiya” who contacted you on the forum before.
The price you gave was 100,000 to 300,000 yen for an ordinary World-Class Item, and 300,000 to 1,000,000 yen for [The Twenty], right?
This is [Key of Solomon] that I possess.
Although it is not [The Twenty], it is still a relatively useful World-Class Item.
Take a look…]
Seeing this, a smile could not help but appear on Makoto’s lips.
World-Class Item, here I come!