Chapter 120: The Game Merchant Really Has Our Best Interests at Heart

Outside Sihun Yingdi,

countless players wanting to clear the dungeon gathered.

Most players would not challenge the Hell difficulty, but rather clear the Adventure and Youshi-kyuu difficulty of Sihun Yingdi to drop some hot-selling materials.

"Everyone, is there anyone more unlucky than me? I was killed by the Youshi-kyuu Sarina four times in a row. Forget about the heart, even the Adhesive didn't drop."

"You can't even clear the Youshi-kyuu? Brother, I just dropped a piece of Blue Potential armor, want to buy it?"

"Woohoo, the Adventure difficulty dropped four bottles of Adhesive."

A civilian player who had just cleared the dungeon, having hit the jackpot with four bottles of Adhesive, was surrounded on the spot.

A Shayin player wearing a rough robe said: "Two hundred Reward Points per bottle, I'll take them all."

The civilian player looked at the Shayin player, hesitated, and prepared to trade with them.

After all, they were a family player, not someone to offend.

Moreover, two hundred Reward Points was indeed the market price; they weren't scamming him.

"Damn, he beat me to it!"

A Wuyin Family player cursed under their breath.

Nearby, there were other family players, all camping and waiting for players who cleared the dungeon to ensure they could acquire as much Adhesive and Heart Material as possible.

They all tacitly agreed not to fight over them.

The lingering effects of the price war between the Wuyin and Dawn families over the Silver Heart had not yet faded; everyone knew that price competition was not a good thing, as it would only leave everyone battered and exhausted.

Therefore, the family leaders had discussed it among themselves, each occupying a section of the Sihun Yingdi teleportation point, strictly forbidding anyone from crossing boundaries.

After the Shayin player bought the Adhesive, they handed it to a runner player and quickly returned to the Family Territory.

"Is the Cailiaogongfang built yet?"

In a corner of the Family Territory, the Shayin Family players gathered together, continuously taking out the collected Ghost Rock, Ghost Iron Ore, and Ghost Wood, carefully stacking them on the ground.

In the center was an unfinished building.

【Cailiaogongfang (Under Construction)】

Type: Family Building

Level: 1

Effect: Material Processing

Note: One of the most basic family buildings, constructed from low-level materials like Ghost Rock and Ghost Ore; can be upgraded.

"Not yet."

Hearing the question, the Shayin player shook their head wearily: "A broken workshop requires a full two thousand pieces of Ghost Rock, eight hundred pieces of Ghost Iron Ore... back in Sunagakure, that would be enough to build the Fengying Dalou."

The most annoying part is,

the family building is judged by the Samsara Game as a rule-based item and cannot be treated like building a workshop in reality at all.

Otherwise, releasing two skills would dig a huge pit, and several players with the strength of a Jonin could finish the construction in half a day.

【You contributed fifty pieces of Ghost Rock to 【Cailiaogongfang (Under Construction)】, Status: Success】

【Stamina consumption 30 points, loss of twenty pieces of Ghost Rock】

"Phew, lucky."

The Shayin player who had just picked up the Ghost Rock and thrown it into the workshop site breathed a sigh of relief.

They took out a bottle of Recovery Potion and sat to the side to recover stamina.

The player who came to deliver the Adhesive watched, dumbfounded.

The person next to them explained with frustration: "When contributing materials, there are four results: failure, small success, success, and great success."

"Failure: all materials are lost, and the construction progress of the Cailiaogongfang remains unmoved."

"Small success: about sixty percent of the materials are lost."

"Success is like what just happened, while great success results in no material loss at all."

When they first started building the Cailiaogongfang, they hadn't discovered this rule and directly contributed five hundred Ghost Rock; after failing, they got nothing, and it almost made the Shayin Family's logistics captain die of anger.

The probability of a great success is very low; most are small successes and successes.

The probability of failure is also relatively low.

This led the Shayin players from initially cursing the Samsara Game for scamming Reward Points to now hoping the Samsara Game would bless the Shayin Family with great successes every time.

Their attitude compromised very smoothly.

Until now, the logistics captain felt an affirmation of the Samsara Game's rules in their heart, nodding repeatedly: "Before, I cursed the Samsara Game as a Vampire, but now I find that I misunderstood the painstaking efforts of the game merchant."

"Is... that so?"

After drinking another bottle of Recovery Potion, the Shayin player moved their tired feet and looked at the logistics captain with a puzzled gaze.

The logistics captain nodded and said: "That's right, think about it."

"Heart Adhesive cannot be used directly; it must be synthesized through the Cailiaogongfang. It looks like a redundant measure made by the game merchant to scam money."

"Isn't it?"

A Shayin player asked, confused.

The logistics captain shook their head repeatedly, revealing a smile that saw through the essence, and said: "Of course not. This approach is to help family factions acquire Adhesive and low-quality hearts more quickly."

If 【Material Synthesis】 had no restrictions,

the materials dropped by ranger players and small squads would never be sold; they would think about trying to synthesize high-level hearts themselves and then selling them at a high price.

Even,

those players without a family would gather together, collect high-level hearts, and use the inferior Family Token—which, although rare, can occasionally be dropped—to found a family.

By then, new families would spring up like bamboo shoots after rain. Wouldn't those factions that invested a large number of Reward Points early on to found and purchase Family Tokens be at a huge loss?

After hearing the logistics captain's explanation,

Most of the Sunagakure players suddenly realized the truth, thinking of the game merchant's methods, and revealed expressions of relief and satisfaction.

A very small number of remaining players still kept a clear head, feeling that something was wrong; perhaps the game merchant just wanted to scam them out of their Reward Points.

However,

even if they felt they were being scammed out of their Reward Points, they had no way to stop it.

Unless they were willing to watch helplessly as the First Family was snatched away by another family, even if they were reluctant, they could only bite the bullet and spend their Reward Points.

"Lord Kankuro."

Kankuro, dressed in a black robe, returned to the Family Territory,

having just cleared the Hell-level Sihun Yingdi; his luck was very good, and he had dropped a Silver quality heart, which he hurriedly sent back to the Family Territory.

The Silver Heart was consumed, and the family stele lit up with a pure white radiance.

After a slight tremor,

the Sunagakure Family Territory expanded slightly outward.

"Truly good."

Kankuro looked around, his gaze filled with emotion.

The way he looked at the Family Territory was no different from how he looked at Sunagakure, or perhaps even more fervent.

After all, when he was born, Sunagakure had already gone through generations of development, but the current Shayin Family territory was something he had founded with his own hands, built bit by bit; this sense of participation was something even Sunagakure could not bring him.

He glanced at the slowly progressing Cailiaogongfang,

and ignoring the resentful gaze of the logistics captain, Kankuro said, "Hurry up, try your best to finish building the Cailiaogongfang by tonight."

"There isn't enough time."

The Sunagakure players said in weak tones.

Their stamina values had been deducted, and they felt they had no strength left in their bodies; even after being replenished by Recovery Potion, the aftereffects had not yet faded.

This was the fatigue mechanism of the Samsara Game, intended to avoid repetitive labor as much as possible.

Of course, if one wanted to dispel the aftereffects, they could go to the Game Mall and buy expensive anti-fatigue tablets, at two hundred Reward Points each, guaranteed to let players work around the clock without feeling tired.

But no players were willing to do so,

as the feeling of fatigue could be dispelled after resting for a while, so why bother wasting Reward Points?

Two hundred Reward Points was almost more than the mission commission fees for an ordinary ninja in Sunagakure for several months.

Kankuro sighed and said, "Go find the craftsmen; I will pay the Reward Points."

Craftsmen,

were also Life Players, specializing in construction and manufacturing skills, which could speed up construction and increase the probability of successful building.

Compared to Life Players like pharmacists, alchemists, and tailors, before the appearance of the Family Territory, craftsman players had suffered immensely.

They were all commoner craftsmen in reality, not good at fighting, had no help leveling up, and would be looked down upon if they wanted to join major factions.

Now, however, they had turned things around and become honored guests fought over by every major family.

(End of chapter)