[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-vrmmo-mage-starting-with-a-10-000x-intelligence-":3,"chapter-vrmmo-mage-starting-with-a-10-000x-intelligence--online-game-mage-starting-with-a-10-000x-boost-f-chapter-173":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"chinese","MMO Mage: Starting with a 10,000x Intelligence Potion Boost",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":20,"prevChapterSlug":21,"totalChapters":22,"novelImage":23},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":16,"volume":17,"translator":18,"content_hash":19},2203478,3818,"Chapter 173","online-game-mage-starting-with-a-10-000x-boost-f-chapter-173",173,"\u003Cp>And as long as you form a team, the more people there are to share the profit, the fewer gold coins you get.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>So although gold coin quests exist, most players can't earn much money.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>But a quest that can earn gold coins long-term is different.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>It's equivalent to having a long-term income.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>What solo players lack is gold coins!\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Without gold coins, can you buy high-level potions at the auction house?\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Without gold coins, can you buy top-tier equipment at the auction house?\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Without gold coins, what will you use to pay back the loans you owe the bank!\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Overdue? Then sorry, the bank's mining site is out the door and turn left; you are welcome.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>No one dares to owe the bank money.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>If you owe money, you have to pay it back. If you are overdue and don't pay, not only will the main city guards look for trouble with you, but the city garrisons everywhere will look for trouble with you, and even Junlin Guild players will look for trouble with you!\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>This Junlin Guild has some powerful players hired by the bank as a debt collection team!\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>You dare not pay and see!\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Try it and you'll die!!!\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>So current solo players don't dare to stop for a moment.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Life-profession players have shop loans, material loans.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Combat-profession players have weapon loans, equipment loans, potion loans.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>It's gotten to the point where players are embarrassed to go out if they don't have a few loans on them.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>They don't even have common topics of conversation!\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Dai Cheng-hua is a typical example; he plays with his girlfriend.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>His girlfriend is a life-profession player who relies on a side job to make money.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>How to cultivate a side job when you have no money at the beginning?\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Very simple, the bank has a special product called side-job loans.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>What if you need materials for side-job cultivation? Don't panic, the bank also has material loans.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>What if you've cultivated enough and can manufacture things to pay back the money, but don't have a shop?\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Old rules, go to the bank to handle a shop loan!\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>And as for Dai Cheng-hua, there are always losses in combat, right? No problem, buy insurance!\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>No money? Insurance loan!\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>What if you don't have good equipment? Don't panic, equipment loan!\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>What if you don't have potions to replenish during every battle? No big problem, potion loan!\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>In short, as long as you need it, the bank has a loan.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>And they really dare to give you money, real gold coin money!\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>But if you don't pay it back...\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Hehe, no one dares to owe the big boss Lord Yongye money and not pay it back.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>If there is, then I'm really sorry, you won't be able to enter any main city, big city, or small city.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>All Junlin Guild players will be your enemies.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>You will also face violent treatment from the debt collection team.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Alright, you finally turned yourself in.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>The bank will arrange for you to work at the mining site until you pay off your debt.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>So the biggest creditor for players now is Qin Feng.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>From the moment they open their eyes until they close them, they have to create profit for Qin Feng.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>And because of this, the savings in players' hands are never much.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>So solo players are generally very thirsty for gold coins.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>That's why there was the grand occasion of players surrounding the quest board three layers deep inside and out.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>\"Holy crap, this quest reward is heaven-defying! 1 [Dark Gem] can actually be sold for 1,000 gold coins!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>\"Yeah, since when was the auction house so generous? Over 10 gems, 10,000 gold coins each; over 100 gems, 100,000 gold coins each! My goodness, if one had 100 [Dark Gems], how much money could they get.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>\"Stupid, 100 x 100,000 is 10 million gold coins!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Hiss!\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Hiss!\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Hiss!\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>The players in the first few rows were shocked when they heard this huge number!\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>10 million gold coins, what a huge amount of wealth!\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Dai Cheng-hua squeezed to the front and gasped when he heard this.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>\"10 million, 10 million, 10 million.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>He kept muttering this number; if he had 10 million, he could buy a house.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Then he could let his girlfriend stop renting a shop from the bank and find a small store to open herself.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Pay off the bank loan.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>From then on, live a plain and simple life with his girlfriend; wouldn't that be sweet?!\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Thinking of this, Dai Cheng-hua's eyes turned red.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>He squeezed forward with all his might, desperate to get this quest.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>\"Ding-dong, you have accepted the S-rank quest [Open the Dark Abyss].\"\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>\"Notification: You can observe the quest details in the quest bar.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>The system's notification sound was like a bucket of cold water poured over Dai Cheng-hua's head.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>It made his restless heart cool down instantly.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>\"Damn it, why is it S-rank!!!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Dai Cheng-hua was between laughter and tears.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>He had experienced an AAA-rank quest before.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>That time, the entire team was wiped out.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>One can imagine how terrifying an AAA-rank quest is, and now he had actually accepted an S-rank quest!\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>\"I'm only level 40!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Dai Cheng-hua opened the quest panel and looked at the content.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>He suddenly breathed a sigh of relief.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>\"Luckily, it's not asking me to go fight some dragon boss, elite boss, or something.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>The quest only wrote about killing creatures of the Dark Abyss.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>That means, if he's level 40, he can just catch the trashiest Dark Abyss creature and kill it.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>As long as he can get a [Dark Gem] to drop, it's fine.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>\"1 gem is 10,000!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>10,000 is also a not-insignificant amount for solo players like Dai Cheng-hua!\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>\"Then how do I get to the Dark Abyss?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Dai Cheng-hua then realized that the quest didn't even introduce where the Dark Abyss was.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Did he accept the quest for nothing?\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>But he understood shortly after, because he wasn't the only one with this question.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>He immediately got the news.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>It turned out the Dark Abyss was right outside the Junlin City base.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>What kind of place is Junlin City? That's the base of the Junlin Guild.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>I heard the players inside are all experts among players.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>The players inside are all filthy rich.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>\"I heard the teleportation array in Junlin City is already open to the public, so we can go too.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Hearing the players say this, the last bit of doubt was gone.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Dai Cheng-hua decisively chose to teleport.\u003C\u002Fp>",1095,"2026-06-17T06:32:30.542Z","2026-06-17T09:01:34.923Z",1,"Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite","35ba23d4e47165b2a2ae3a5211aad48075d2cb6d25f6765511af2a04a432a2d1","online-game-mage-starting-with-a-10-000x-boost-f-chapter-174","online-game-mage-starting-with-a-10-000x-boost-f-chapter-172",496,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fonline-game-mage-starting-with-a-10-000x-boost-f-cover.jpg"]