Seeing Wu Jie's performance, Wu Ke said thoughtfully to his teammates next to him:
"See... this reaction speed, this adaptability... and most importantly, this way of thinking, it's so human!"
"Sparrow food..."
“So I make a bold guess! Behind this game... there is a huge operation team, and they play a large number of major NPCs in this world!”
"Hiss~ What a bold guess! So who is behind this company? Why do they do this?"
"Then we need to slowly discover it... I will try to get some information out, starting with my cousin... Wu Jie!"
For the next period of time, Wu Ke and Wu Jie will run this small shop together as partners.
Wu Ke is the boss and Wu Jie is the store manager.
One is responsible for negotiating and discussing business with people outside, and the other is responsible for selling goods in the store.
When their store has gained a certain reputation... Cheng Shaofeng and Wu Ke will have more tricks to use.
Looking at the crowded crowd in the store, Wu Ke nodded.
"Not a bad start... better than I expected."
Wu Jie also started to receive customers.
As soon as the words "10 people will be inlaid every day" were said, the place was immediately filled with people!
Wu Jie immediately said: "Don't worry, everyone! We haven't announced the price of our inlay service yet..."
The bearded man interrupted loudly: "I have it! I will have it inlaid no matter how much it costs!"
"Don't be so confident, brother... your hammer might be as expensive as a setting."
"... ..."
"How much?"
The bearded man touched his purse and hesitated a little.
He needs to prepare for that battle, and besides weapons, there are other things he needs, such as... potions!
Powerful potion!
He had just seen two potions that were extremely suitable for him in the display cabinet on the other side. The price was reasonable, so he had to save some money to buy two bottles as backup.
Seeing that many people were concerned about the price, Wu Jie looked back at Cheng Shaofeng and then looked at the crowd.
"As for the price... it depends on the gem you want to set. The Burning Remains I just took are relatively cheap gems. It only costs 5,000 crystals including the materials and labor."
“Hiss~~~”
Everyone in the hall gasped.
"This price... is enough to create an ordinary two-star equipment, just adding two attributes and a small skill to the weapon. Why don't I just go to the arcane shop and buy a staff that can shoot fireballs?"
Arcane Heritage also has its own shop, most of which sells spellcasting equipment. It has been open for so many years, and with the competition among peers, the prices have become very affordable.
A two-star staff with additional skills only requires 5,000 crystals.
However, someone immediately refuted it.
Hu Wei: "It's different... It's different. The price of a three-star weapon is between 50,000 and 100,000 crystals. Compared with a two-star weapon, most of them can only have 2 or 3 more enhanced attributes, which is about the same as the improvement of embedding a gem. Moreover, the gem attributes can be selected according to your needs... It's absolutely worth it!"
"Boss! Our store wants to do business with you... How do you do it?"
Here we come!
Wu Ke raised the corner of his mouth slightly, as he had expected this.
As soon as their inlay business came out, any weapon shop or equipment shop with a little knowledge could realize what a huge business opportunity this was!
"Master Hu, please follow me to the second floor."
"I dare not... In your shop, my skills are not worthy of the title of master."
He held the ring in his hand.
"By the way, this ring suits me very well. I bought it."
He put down 30,000 crystals and followed Wu Ke up to the second floor.
The other people watching the show gasped.
"I spent 30,000 crystals on a ring... Wow, I can now buy a three-star piece of equipment of lower quality."
"Haha~ I think you don't understand at all~ I just looked at the attribute annotation of the ring, and I can only say... For mages and forgers, its value is only higher than ordinary three-star equipment! And don't forget, three-star jewelry is much more expensive than equipment."
"Ah! There are only a few people who can make three-star jewelry..."
"We have several three-star jewelry in our Arcane Shop. You can go buy them if you need them!"
"Get lost! I've been to your store, and all the items are priced over 100,000. Who can afford them? If you keep talking nonsense, I'll sue you for monopoly!"
A job at an arcane jewelry store was sprayed out.
The price is too unfriendly.
Hu Wei went upstairs to discuss business. The clerks in other shops also collected a lot of information, especially the amazing inlay craftsmanship. They had already used equipment to take pictures of the properties of each gemstone and would go back to show them to their bosses.
This group of people left one after another, leaving a lot of space.
The prices of each gemstone were released, ranging from 3,000 to 20,000.
Among them, the three artifacts for players to open up the new land, the Burning Remains, the Broken Magnet and the Cold Stone, are all priced at 5,000, which is neither high nor low.
The cheapest is the elastic armor plate, which is an inlay that only adds some armor and puncture resistance, and sells for 3,000 crystals.
Also available at the same price is Polished Jade, which increases agility, strength, and intelligence by 1 point each. It can only be said that... it’s better than nothing. High-level transcendents won’t feel much difference, and it will most likely only be sold to 1st or 2nd level evolvers.
The better ones are the rough fur skin and the lava skin, one increases the upper limit of health, and the other can greatly increase fire resistance and resist burning damage, and they are sold for 6,000 crystals.
Lava skin is a specialty of the volcano sub-base. It is a good targeted inlay and is very effective against fire enemies.
The more expensive one is the Undead Condensate, an inlay that explodes from the Void Spirits. It can increase the energy limit and greatly improve the energy recovery speed. Any mage needs this attribute!
The price is 10,000 crystals, because...mages are generally wealthy and can afford a higher price.
The most expensive ones are Magic Flint, Amber Crystal, and Arctic Stone, and they all cost 20,000 crystals!
These three inlays are the products of the base's synthesizer of all things, and are also upgraded versions of the three artifacts for pioneering. They have greatly enhanced their attributes, and their inherent skills have also been upgraded. In addition, inlays are limited, and weapons of ordinary quality cannot carry their energy and will explode.
Each synthesis requires about 500 crystals of energy, so it is understandable that it is sold at a higher price.
Only 3 are currently on display.
Wu Jie said: "These three are the treasures of the store, representing the pinnacle of inlay technology. If you buy them, your three-star weapon will be infinitely close to a four-star legendary weapon!"
"Those who pay the deposit first will have priority in enjoying today's inlay service!"
The price of 20,000 crystal stones... is a huge fortune for a third-level evolver. They have to ponder for a moment.
The bearded man, who had been worried about the high price, was relieved.
He took a look at his bag and found exactly 23,000 crystals.
"Then I want this magic flint! It's three times more powerful than the Burning Residue... worth it!"
Wu Jie reminded: "I need to remind you that... the skill that comes with the magic flint is no longer fireball, but an enchantment skill that can increase a large amount of fire damage and burning damage to you and your summons."
"Great! The higher the fire damage, the better! I need this attribute!"
The bearded man is named Zhang Dapao. He has become enemies with a third-level transcendent who majors in ice attributes. The opponent belongs to a small inheritance called Frost Knight. He called on third-level masters from the same sect to help him. They are looking for him, and a fierce battle will soon follow!
If he cannot find the attributes to restrain the two opponents, he will be killed in the wild!
He is a martial artist without any school or sect, who has reached the third level through chance and courage. No one can help him, he can only rely on himself!
There has always been a wish in his heart... that is to create his own legacy!
Add another line of inheritance for martial artists!
This world is so unfair to martial artists. They are not as strong as other cultivators in anything they do. His special talents and skills can hopefully change this situation!
"I must win this one!"
"In addition to this inlay, I also need to buy 3 bottles of potions... Life potion, vitality potion, bloodthirst potion..."
"Here are 23,000 crystals, take them!"
He exchanged his last 3,000 crystals for potions that were useful to him.
The price of a bottle of potion is 1,000 crystals.
Very expensive, but works well.
Especially for martial artists... it's really useful.
Cheng Shaofeng originally planned to sell these potions at a higher price, but Wu Ke said... they needed some affordable products to maintain daily traffic, so as to avoid the situation where the store was deserted due to too high-end products.
If a store is often empty... it's not a good image.
Many people buy things with a trend-following mentality, and they may not realize it themselves, but if there is a store with monthly sales of 10,000+ and a store with monthly sales of 10,000+, people will definitely give priority to the store with 10,000+.
It can be summed up in one sentence: "No one buys their products, there must be something wrong..."
Therefore, maintaining an affordable product is a very necessary business strategy.
Another player, Fatty Zhou, also suggested the same thing.
"Maintaining traffic can play a superimposed role in hunger marketing, making more people want the product but cannot get it, thereby further raising the value of the product."
The inlay service is a form of hunger marketing.
Potions, which are necessary consumables, are the store’s traffic-generating products.
Other equipment categories are regular products.
In fact, the equipment in the Scourge Base, except for jewelry, is not competitive at all compared to other weapon and equipment stores. In fact, their equipment is even stronger!
Hu Wei and Zhang Dapao took the lead here, and soon people started buying potions and equipment one after another.
Among them, life potions and jewelry equipment sell the best.
Wu Jie's guys were counting the crystals frantically.
At this time, Zhang Dapao's hammer was taken to the second floor for inlay.
"You may need to wait a little longer. Advanced inlays require more time... Please wait."
"That's for sure!"
Zhang Dapao felt that the inlaying time should be long. After all, this was a high-end product worth 20,000 crystal stones!
"Hehe~ My top three-star weapon with top-grade gemstones... I wonder if it can compete with a four-star legendary weapon?"
"The Frost Knights don't know the properties of my new weapon, so it's easy for me to catch them by surprise and take them down."
"The flames melt the ice and snow... I will no longer be afraid of their signature freezing skills. If only I could have more ice-resistant equipment..."
At this time, the gems that had just been brought up from the second floor were solemnly sent to a closed room. A player simply pressed it into the weapon, and with a sound of "boom", it was inlaid.
Then he has to wait here for 2 hours before the weapons are delivered.
"How can you appear noble if the time is short?"
"Wu Ke is awesome! You've figured out the added value! I'm starting to wonder if Tony, who cuts my hair, is wasting his time on purpose... He cut my hair in 10 minutes and then played with my hair for another 30 minutes. Otherwise, he shouldn't have charged me 50!"
"I have nothing to do anyway, let me check out the properties of this big hammer..."
Hao Fire Hammer (with Magic Flint)
Quality: Epic
Physical Damage: 102~151
Fire Damage: 50
Physical damage +62%
Fire damage +64%
Traumatic damage +66%
Strength +15
Agility +5
Fire Damage +5
Fire damage +25%
Burning damage +25%
10% of physical attack converted to fire damage
Granted Skill: Burning Blade
Strengthens your attacks and those of your summons with burning flames.
After opening, 150 energy points are reserved and 2 energy points are consumed per second.
Fire Damage +10
Fire damage +75%
Burning damage +75%
Attacks have a chance to set enemies on fire.
Requirements: Strength 35 points
"Fuck your brother! This is too powerful! With this hammer in hand and skills activated, you can instantly become a melee fire mage!"
The attribute is too high!
The players are jealous.
At this moment, I even wanted to keep this weapon in my hands.
But Wu Ke's voice coming from outside made him shake his head.
"Oh, Brother Wu and I are not on the path of combat players, so it's useless to have this. I won't YY anymore."
In fact, he is only level 10 and does not even meet the minimum usage requirement of 35 points of strength.
Outside, Wu Ke was discussing cooperation matters with Hu Wei.
Hu Wei: "With our weapons and yours, we will be able to sweep all the weapon shops on Super Energy Street!"
Wu Ke: "I think... we can achieve the same effect by cooperating with the other two weapon shops. The weapon manufacturing technology is already very mature, but... our inlay technology is the first."
Hu Wei was silent for a moment, then said:
"Name a price. How many crystals can you give me to teach me your inlay technology? You have to know... My master is Mi Yike. As long as I take your inlaid weapons back and study them for a while, I will naturally be able to reverse deduce this technology. It's just a matter of time."
"And if you are willing to teach me now... then you will receive a considerable amount of crystals and will be able to obtain support from the top weapon shop in Super Energy Street."
Wu Ke: "Hehehe~ You can try it, our inlay technology... If it's so easy to crack, then we wouldn't open a store here. Why don't you consider the solution I mentioned before."
"Exchange your three-star or above weapons for our store's inlay service. Since you are honest, I can give you a 20% discount."
"Go back and think about it."
Hu Wei shook his head: "You must not be a local, and you don't know my master Mi Yike's position in the foundry... The so-called new technology will only be studied thoroughly by us."
Wu Ke: "Then you may not understand the uniqueness of the inlay process..."
The two did not reach an agreement.
Hu Wei leaves.
Wu Ke reported to Cheng Shaofeng.
"It doesn't matter. In a few days they will naturally rush to cooperate with us... We have to take the epic weapons of the base from them."
In the Scourge Base, there are very few epic weapons.
Cheng Shaofeng needs to collect some high-level weapons and put them in the Merit Store to enhance the players' combat effectiveness.
At the same time... his main body is almost at level 4, and his shadow guard will also be level 4 in the future, so he needs to prepare a few more good weapons.
'If I unlock another Shadow Guard at the fourth level... I'll make it a Mage BD and play around with an epic staff and codex.'
Zhao Rujiao's legendary codex has a +1 attribute for all skills, which is of great help to Cheng Shaofeng.
Currently, the three types of ammunition made by Cheng Shaofeng himself are all of quality that exceeds the maximum level!
Super ammo!
He discovered that after a skill reached the maximum level, each level beyond that would increase its attributes even more!
This is why the pets with 2 summoning skills +5 given by Hades are still the main output of summoner players.
As time goes by little by little.
A lot of goods were sold at the Apocalypse Store, and the nine people who were sitting and waiting below also received their inlaid equipment one after another and left the store to find a place to experiment.
The last person to get the weapon was Zhang Dapao. He was the only customer today who bought 20,000 crystal inlays.
Others were planning to test whether the bonus was as described by the store and spend a few thousand crystals to test the waters.
There is only Zhang Dapao, and time is urgent, so he must spend all his crystals to improve his combat power.
Otherwise, tomorrow or an accident... I don't know which will come first.
"Sir, your weapon has been inlaid. I wish you a pleasant use of it."
Zhang Dapao felt the power when he touched the weapon. With a light press, hot flames emerged from the weapon and it turned into a flaming hammer!
"Okay! Okay, okay!"
After he got the weapon, he wandered around the store for a while, as if there was something he couldn't say.
After a while, when the sun was setting.
He finally couldn't help it and found Wu Jie and asked, "Boss, can you... sell it on credit? I really need this badge that enhances ice defense... As long as I can come back alive the day after tomorrow, I will definitely pay 10 times the price of this badge!"
What he was pointing at was just a premium quality badge with only 3 attributes.
Ice resistance +35%
Energy regeneration per second +3
You are less likely to freeze
He was attracted by the 35% ice resistance and the property of being difficult to be frozen. This badge will bring him great protection when facing the two Frost Knights!
Due to its low attributes and low applicability, this badge is only sold for 6,000 crystals.
If he can really pay 10 times... that would be 60,000 crystals!
But Wu Jie shook his head firmly: "Sorry sir, we don't support credit here. Maybe you can sell some of your own things in exchange for this badge. We also buy good things."
Zhang Dapao looked at himself and shook his head.
He had sold everything he could sell, exchanged it for crystals, and then purchased everything he needed in Super Power Street.
All spent!
To face two evolvers of the same level, he must use up all his reserves in exchange for strength in order to have a chance of winning.
"Oh... Never mind. I won't need it in a few days."
He shook his head and prepared to leave the store.
"Wait a moment!"
Cheng Shaofeng stood up and called Zhang Dapao.
"If I'm not mistaken, you should be a casual cultivator, right?"
"Yes... We independent cultivators don't have any guarantees, and you don't want to buy on credit... I understand that, I'm used to it."
"No, no, no, I think... there's something about you that interests me."
"Um?"