At 11:00 PM, after two hours of buying, Makoto’s resources already surpassed those of low-ranking small guilds.
In terms of World-Class Items specifically, he had acquired three, matching the number held by the second-ranked guild in terms of World-Class Item ownership.
Not to mention, one of them was one of the [Twenty], which was a truly unexpected gain.
After posting the transaction information, starting with ‘Quick Fang’, on the forums, players who had been waiting on the sidelines began flocking to him.
In just two hours, one-fifth of Makoto’s wealth had turned into virtual data.
Countless people online mocked him as a’super sucker,’ but Makoto didn’t care at all.
If the transmigration succeeded, he would have nothing to do with them in three days.
He would go to another world to live a long life and enjoy absolute power, while those internet trolls could only continue to toil like beasts of burden in this trash world.
If the transmigration failed, it mattered even less.
So what if he had no money or job?
If he failed, death was the worst that could happen.
This riddled body tortured him with pain every second.
Makoto couldn’t understand how the original owner had endured it; regardless, he had long since had enough, and death would be a relief.
Speaking of which, he had forgotten to select a pain-relieving effect when buying the nutritional potions earlier.
Luckily, you get what you pay for; the potions undoubtedly possessed some analgesic properties, saving him from having to buy specific pain-relief potions.
[Purchasing time for today has ended.
Will continue at the same time tomorrow.]
[Since the time left to enjoy equipment materials will be reduced by one-third, the next purchase price will be lowered by fifty percent.]
Two hours having passed, Makoto sent out a mass message and unhesitatingly turned on Do Not Disturb mode.
As for whether they would sell, Makoto wasn’t worried in the slightest.
With the server shutdown imminent, this was less of a trade and more like free money for the players.
Especially for those players known as ‘hoarding rats,’ who might still have a hoard of rare materials, data crystals, and items in their bags when the game closed; most of them wouldn’t mind selling them off before the shutdown.
Of course, aside from players like Ainz Ooal Gown and the whales who treated money like dirt, the vast majority of players would be willing to recoup some costs before the game ended.
Makoto placed most of the materials, equipment, and the most important World-Class Items in his storage.
He only equipped a piece of level 80 black power armor from the warehouse, selected a piece of level 80 gold power armor as a spare, and added some consumables to his loadout.
After thinking for a long while, he finally brought along one of the World-Class Items called [Dove of Peace Carrying Olive Branch].
It granted the wearer a [Peacemaker] buff, which ensured that until the wearer initiated an attack, no enemies [including players and monsters] could attack the holder.
The effect would recover twenty-four hours after being broken.
It sounded quite strong, as it practically guaranteed the first move.
However, testing had shown that ‘initiating an attack’ didn’t just include offensive skills; even applying a damage-boosting buff to oneself would actually break the effect!
Aside from movement skills like [Flight] and [Teleportation], using almost any other skill would cause the buff to be lost.
Fortunately, putting it in the inventory wouldn’t trigger the loss.
But even so, at most, one would take it out to save their life when they were near death.
Using it at full health was pointless, and if you only used it at low health, you’d be helpless if the enemy had enough damage to one-shot you.
Therefore, among the World-Class Items with known effects, this piece had always been considered one of the most useless.
But for the current Makoto, it was quite useful.
At least he wouldn’t be maliciously PK’d on the way to the dungeon.
Although there was no experience to lose, wasting time was not ideal.
Makoto flew toward the dungeon location he had already decided on, finding the scenery along the way quite novel.
The land beneath him looked vastly different from the scenery he knew from his previous life.
It was truly a game world; although he lacked taste and smell, simply observing the land and the monsters on the road prevented boredom.
This was his first time playing a consciousness-immersion game, so naturally, everything felt very interesting.
The Flight speed of the power armor was very fast, and since the city he chose was not far from the target dungeon, Makoto arrived at his destination in no time.
[Sinful Cathedral of the Betrayer] was only a level 30 dungeon, but it was one of the most notorious dungeons in the early days of YGGDRASIL—
It combined long run times, low drop rates, disgusting monster mechanics, and low experience points into a package that players loathed.
Some players would even come back specifically to this dungeon after reaching max level to ‘get revenge.’ It was a certified trash dungeon in the eyes of players!
Of course, some players believed it was unlikely the developers would create such a disgusting dungeon for no reason, thinking there might be hidden drops like World-Class Items inside.
But after countless explorations by players yielded nothing more, they could only reach one conclusion—
This dungeon was created by the developers just to spite people!
In fact, that wasn’t the case.
Makoto knew it was designed by the designer sitting next to him.
He forgot the full name, but everyone called him ‘Kobayashi,’ who had joined the company right after graduating middle school.
Perhaps he was well-protected at home, or maybe he had connections; either way, he had a drive that most people in this world lacked.
[Sinful Cathedral of the Betrayer] was the first dungeon he designed.
During breaks, he even had the energy to tell Makoto about the design philosophy and easter eggs of this dungeon—
Judas the Traitor.
Level 30 symbolized the thirty pieces of silver.
The dungeon was divided into nine floors, matching the number of circles in Dante’s Inferno.
The most disgusting mechanic was [Betrayal]; the attacks of elite monsters had a high probability of applying the [Betrayer] buff to players or summons.
The [Betrayer] effect was simple and brutal: it directly turned on friendly fire!
During the period when this dungeon first opened, countless players were wiped out by a mage’s large-scale AOE.
Thus, [Sinful Cathedral of the Betrayer] was also known as the [Friendship-Ending Cathedral of the Betrayer].
Some players even specifically looked for parties just to troll, intentionally triggering [Betrayer] to kill others and pick up their dropped equipment.
Eventually, following player protests, the official settings were changed so that teammates could not pick up a player’s drops, and the dungeon became almost deserted.
However, Makoto knew that when a player below level 30 who only possesses Magic Caster levels collects all thirty Sinful Silver Coins dropped by monsters in one go (which requires killing almost all monsters in the dungeon three times to complete; each coin collected grants a unique damage-increasing buff, but these Sinful Silver Coins lose their special effects and become ordinary silver coins once you leave the dungeon).
By handing the thirty Sinful Silver Coins and the [Rope of Remorse] dropped by the boss to the NPC on the first floor, a hidden room would be opened—[Blood Field of the End].
Only by defeating the level 44 hidden boss [Judas the Traitor] can one obtain the unique special item—[gospel of judas], which can unlock the hidden class known as [Inverted God].