At 8:50 PM on the second day, after a full day of frantic leveling, his level had easily reached Lv53, but Makoto couldn’t quite bring himself to be happy.
It was fine at the beginning, and leveling was extremely fast, but now, he could clearly feel the leveling speed slowing down.
This was only barely achieved with the help of a large number of pay-to-win experience boost items.
It wouldn’t work if he leveled up strictly according to the requirements of [Inverted God].
After the dungeon level reached Lv50, [Reinforced Armor] was already struggling with solo runs, and this damn game didn’t allow using pay-to-win items to respec.
Hmm, it seems it would be faster to just spend money to hire 5 players to power-level him.
Moreover, there was already news about purchasing the [World Calamity] class qualification, and he had already given both of them a deposit; they couldn’t possibly both stand him up, right?
“Right, I should first convert the Sin Silver Coins inside the [Sinful Money Bag] that I specifically saved for tonight into experience points, lest I forget when I get busy later.”
“If that doesn’t work, I’ll just use the wish from the pay-to-win item [Ring of Shooting Star] to forcibly raise my level!
After all, these Rings of Shooting Star were meant to be used at critical moments.”
Makoto made up his mind; it was just spending money, and if he didn’t spend it all, he couldn’t take it with him anyway.
As he pondered, he took the Sin Silver Coins out of his pocket.
As the thirty Sin Silver Coins vanished, Makoto’s character experience bar rose by a significant chunk.
At nine o’clock, he opened the message tab on time.
More than ten times as many messages as the previous day appeared before his eyes, and the mailbox icon had turned bright red.
Looking at the dense transaction information, Makoto didn’t know whether to laugh or cry for a moment, and an idea he hadn’t considered before surfaced in his mind.
“I miscalculated—I should have hired two people specifically to help me with the acquisitions; that would have saved some time for leveling.”
Just kidding…
After all, he already had the answer for what he needed, and others couldn’t possibly guess that he was preparing for a transmigration; what he needed was different from most players.
Besides, it would be better to rent an AI to help with this kind of thing; compared to hiring people, it would almost never make mistakes, and certainly wouldn’t line its own pockets.
Thinking of this, Makoto immediately spent money to rent a highly-rated civilian-grade AI.
He entered “World-Class Item” into the mailbox, and over a dozen options appeared at once.
But upon closer inspection, most of them were scams.
“Wait!
Twenty!
There are actually two Twenty items!”
Without hesitation, he spent a total of 1.5 million to acquire them.
Besides that, he spent 700,000 to acquire three ordinary World-Class items: [Holy Grail], [Huginn and Muninn], and [Brionac].
But this was undoubtedly money well spent.
Looking at the effects of these World-Class items, Makoto even had the thought that he might be able to go toe-to-toe with Nazarick.
Although he quickly calmed down.
A [Twenty] would disappear from one’s possession after being used once, and then randomly appear in some corner of the world.
What if a True Dragon Lord or Ainz Ooal Gown picked it up and used it against him?
That would be troublesome, wouldn’t it?
Therefore, he had to be cautious when using them; it was best not to use them at all.
The three ordinary World-Class items were—
[Holy Grail], the legendary cup said to hold the “Holy Blood,” possessing incredible effects.
Once per day, it fully restores HP and MP, clears all negative status effects, and grants complete immunity to bleeding, instant death, and poison.
It can trigger automatically upon death or be used manually.
[Huginn and Muninn], the two ravens by the side of the God-King Odin in Norse mythology, symbolizing “Thought” and “Memory” respectively.
Legend has it that every morning, they fly off Odin’s shoulders, patrol the human world, and return at dusk to whisper what they have seen and heard to Odin, allowing him to know all things in the world.
In the game, one is responsible for single-target intelligence defense, and the other for wide-area intelligence gathering.
[Brionac], one of the four great treasures of the Tuatha Dé Danann in legend, hailed as a divine spear, a treasure gifted by the King of the Tuatha Dé Danann to Lugh, the God of Light.
It possesses Light and Thunder attributes, is a living weapon, has a special attack against evil, and can transform into five dragon-snakes made of light and thunder to automatically launch attacks against enemies.
Oh right, there was also the World-Class item he obtained at the very beginning, [Key of Solomon], which allows the player to transform into the World Boss [Seven Deadly Sins]; this item is quite famous in YGGDRASIL.
With World-Class items for attack, intelligence defense, healing/resurrection, and “flipping the table,” Makoto thought he could pause the acquisition of World-Class items for a bit?
It certainly wasn’t because he thought there were too many World-Class items; the reason was simple—he was running low on money, and by the last day, he could drive the prices down quite a bit.
Hmm, for a game-breaking Twenty like [World Will], he would definitely have to buy it if he saw it.
“Wait, have I played this game until I’ve gone stupid?
Instead of torturing myself, I should torture others!
If I don’t have money, I’ll just lower the acquisition price; after all, I’m almost the only one still buying in bulk.
As long as they want to sell, the price can go even lower!”
“Materials and gold for building the guild, various pay-to-win items, powerful relic-grade equipment…
Anyway, most of my requirements for acquiring items have been met, so even if they stop selling, it’s no great loss.”
[Acquisitions paused tomorrow. This chapter was taken from g.com without permission.
The final round of procurement will take place from 6 PM to 9 PM on the night before the server shutdown.
Prices will be one-tenth of today’s.]
Many players who hadn’t sold their items let out wails of despair upon seeing the new message posted by Makoto.
“You’ve got to be kidding me!
I was just about to trade!”
“It was clearly my turn!”
“Don’t do this, bro.
Isn’t dropping the price to one-tenth a bit too much?”
“There’s no helping it.
Who else is still buying in bulk right now besides this [sucker]?
If you don’t sell, plenty of others will!”
“Those willing to sell, hurry up and organize the items in your warehouses.
Send the emails tomorrow night around 8:50 PM.
Forget one-tenth; one-twentieth, one-fiftieth, whatever—as long as you can sell them.
If you wait another two days, you won’t even be able to sell them for one-ten-thousandth, and everything will be wiped to zero.”
“By the way, I already sold all my stuff yesterday.
I didn’t expect the game shutting down to earn me three months’ worth of salary!”
“Damn you!!!”
“Wait!
The big shot wants to hire fifteen high-level players to power-level with him!
If we can get him to max level before the server shuts down, that’s just two days, and it’s 20,000 per person per day!!
One day’s pay is enough for half a month of my salary!”
“A monthly salary of 40,000?
That’s a big shot!”
“Oh right, isn’t he still offering a bounty for a guild base?
He said whoever can help him capture a base with over 2000 NPC points gets a bounty of a full million.
Does anyone have any leads?”