Roland was not in a hurry to leave. Since many netizens were at different distances from Mori City, everyone agreed on a time on the forum and they could gather in the woods on the eastern outskirts of Mori City within ten days.
There are already over a hundred players who have signed up, but Roland estimates that only about half of them will arrive successfully.
This is not something in modern society, where you can drive hundreds of kilometers on the expressway, or take a high-speed train and fly to get there in a few hours.
This is a different world with extremely backward transportation. More importantly, in addition to the scope of human activities, there are also many dangerous no-man's lands between cities, where wild beasts and monsters roam freely.
Disease, climate, and emergencies can all cause people to disappear during the journey.
Traveling merchants and traveling merchants can make a lot of money because they work hard for it.
Unlike players like Roland who directly joined the 'force' and were paid, most players were extremely poor, and then there were smart original players who took advantage of the convenience of the system backpack.
In comparison, it is much more convenient for players to be traveling merchants. First of all, they are professionals. They are very powerful when they work in groups of three or five, and ordinary bandits do not dare to mess around.
And... even if it is robbed, all the products are placed in the system backpack and will not be lost. It is very safe and there is no need to take a detour.
A backpack with a capacity of 2X2X2 can hold a lot of things. Just look for small but valuable things to transport.
Although it takes more than half a month, you can still earn one or two gold coins.
Then other players who wanted to make money followed the same example, and soon it became a trend of "running business".
Using the forum, they can also communicate about what products are in short supply there and what are the specialties of which city.
Roland stayed in Delbon City to study magic and didn't go out much, so he didn't know much about the current situation of the players' world.
Now, in addition to the two titles of Immortal and Golden Son, players now have the vague title of 'Big Businessman from Another World'.
Those traveling merchant players are still just 'economic coolies' at the bottom level, while some at the higher level have already begun to try to manipulate the prices of certain special items in their cities.
For example, Principal Huang and the group of people around Fan Liuyi.
Of course, these things have little to do with Roland.
After he posted a reply on the forum, he stayed in the Magic Tower for another two days and made sure that Old John was calm when he came back and did not have any excessive movements before he planned to set off.
But before setting off, he went to find Hawke and Link.
Now that the terminal has begun to take shape, the next step is how to 'attract investment' and 'expand channels'.
Hawke sat high up and looked at the dock below with a satisfied look on his face.
For civil engineering dogs, leading and completing a large project is something they can brag about for a lifetime.
Although this is only in the game.
Roland found Hawke, grabbed two handfuls of gold coins from the system backpack and put them in Hawke's big hand: "Here are twenty gold coins, click on them."
"So many this time?" Hawke's eyes lit up.
Again, the Silver Wings Guild is using money to pave the way for the future, so they will accept whatever gold coins Roland has.
Roland also sat down and said: "In the past few days, people have found my statue in the royal city one after another and started to learn skills. Now one or two gold coins are received every day."
"Tsk, it's great to be able to make money while lying down." Hawke sighed.
"The way your Silver Wings Guild has opened up will make you more profitable." Roland looked at the majestic dock below: "I guess your guild leader wants to build a different-world version of a water transportation logistics company."
Hawke smiled and said nothing.
This is what makes the Great Guild so powerful. It has all kinds of talents and sufficient resources, and it is ambitious and forward-looking.
"The city lord is back, what are your plans?" Roland asked again.
Hawke pointed to the distance and said: "Pay more taxes in exchange for our complete autonomy. We are willing to abide by the rules here, but if they are too greedy, for example, they want to put their hands into Silver Wing Water Transport Logistics Company That’s impossible. The elites of our Blade Guild have begun to move to this area. How many players do you think can subvert a city?"
"I guess fifty will be enough." Roland thought for a while and replied.
Players are immortal, and players in large guilds are more disciplined, and their commanders also have enough experience in 'talking on paper'.
Some large-scale team battle games, such as Magic Sword OL and Planetside OL, have already improved the "strategic" vision and on-the-spot command capabilities of large guild commanders to a certain extent.
The mobile warfare of interspersing, dividing, and outflanking has already been played skillfully in the game.
Besides, Zhao Kuo is not bad at armchair warfare on paper, he was just unfortunate enough to meet Bai Qi.
These commanders are all Zhao Kuo on paper and have great room for growth. But what makes them luckier than Zhao Kuo is that they can have countless opportunities to try and make mistakes.
NPCs only live once.
Fifty players was just Roland's most conservative estimate.
At this time Hawke smiled: "We will have eighty-three guild players coming."
Hearing this, Roland laughed.
Eighty-three players, eighty-three professionals, any lord of the city would feel terrified.
"When I come here this time, in addition to giving you money, I also want to ask you to help take care of my magic tower!" Roland said slowly, looking at the river stretching to the horizon.
"I guessed it would be like this." Hawke sighed lightly: "I also read the forum posts and saw your message. I originally wanted to go, but I really can't get away here."
His voice sounded disappointed. He couldn't participate in such a special event that was destined to leave a mark in the history of the game. That heart-wrenching feeling made him extremely unhappy.
Roland smiled and said: "I will help you a little more."
"Thank you very much for that." Hawke's voice sounded very resentful. It's really disgusting for a muscular adamantine to make such an expression.
Roland looked disgusted, slapped the goosebumps on his body and left.
He rented a carriage in the city, hired a coachman, and then took the carriage and slowly left Delbon City.
There are no good roads in this world. The carriage moved slowly on the road, but it still kept swinging.
It made Roland very uncomfortable. Then he turned his attention to the front and saw the driver who was concentrating on driving.
The driver was an old, dark man who didn't look strong.
Roland was a little curious: "Why are you willing to travel alone with me? This journey is very dangerous."
The driver did not turn around, and his tone was a little timid: "It is better to die on the road than to starve to death. My family is almost out of food."
For the sake of your family, are you not even afraid of danger
Because this world is too dangerous and the mortality rate is extremely high, if you hire a guard, driver, etc., you will usually be given a half deposit in advance.
Roland had already paid the coachman ten silver coins before setting off. These ten silver coins should already be in the hands of his family.
The hire price of this coachman is twenty silver coins per trip.
It was very expensive, but Roland felt that in terms of human life, the price was too cheap.
Fortunately, we didn't encounter any big things along the way. Occasionally, a few small hungry beasts would emerge from the woods on both sides of the road, and they would be frozen into ice sculptures by Roland.
Then it becomes 'dry food' in the hands of the coachman.
Four days later, Roland arrived at the outskirts of Mori City. He handed the remaining ten silver coins to the coachman and said at the same time: "If you trust me, you can wait for me in Mori City. I will come back in a few days." Return to Delbon City, and I can take your car again then. I just don’t know how to find you.”
"Mr. Master, you can come to me at the racecourse. I will find a way to stay there."
Roland nodded and asked the coachman to leave. Roland opened the forum and found a map near Mori City that a player had posted on the forum. Then he clicked on the map and found the gathering place he had previously liked in a mountain forest.
There are several wooden huts that have been built in the gathering place, and there are a few players who look like people gathered around the campfire in the middle, roasting the meat of unknown beasts, and there is a lot of laughter.
Roland walked over and was immediately spotted by them.
After a brief moment of confusion, some players shouted in admiration: "Hey, Archmage Roland is here too, come on, come on, you sit here and eat barbecue first, and I'll buy you some oranges..."
Roland suddenly laughed: "Go away, I didn't go to junior high school. After all, I joined Hongxing after graduating from junior high school."
The other players immediately started laughing.
Sand sculpture players are the easiest to get along with. If you follow a joke, you are one of your own.
Then Roland mixed in with them and started eating barbecue.
At the same time, Roland also saw the 'mistress' they were going to help this time, a beautiful girl.
People who have added charm are indeed different. This female player is really pretty, slightly better than Vivian.
But when I think about her mediocre appearance in reality, it seems that she is not so beautiful again.
Seeing Roland looking at her, the female player smiled at Roland.
There is a lot of resentment between his eyebrows.
"Let's wait for another four days. After four days, the other players should be almost there. As soon as there are enough people, we will launch a strong attack on the city lord."
"Should we divide our troops into two or three groups? We can attack the east and the west."
The players gathered around the campfire and discussed each other.
Roland thought for a while, then coughed, and the others immediately stopped discussing.
"The person we want to kill is a city lord." Roland looked around at everyone and continued: "This is not a small noble, but a very important person. If we kill him openly, it will definitely cause chaos. Violent backlash from the aristocracy.”
Everyone frowned. They thought Roland was going to persuade them to give up the operation, but they were afraid that they would guess wrong, so they remained silent for the time being, wanting to wait for Roland to finish.
"This will be very detrimental to the development of our players in this world in the future." Roland continued: "Kill the city lord whenever he wants. The other lords will definitely die in grief, and then we players will definitely become a thorn in the eyes of the nobles, and now we generally have no strength. Get up, if we do this and cause the nobles to collectively denounce us, we will be in big trouble."
Finally someone couldn't help but retorted: "You mean, let us not kill?"
"You have to kill, but you have to pay attention to the means."