There is Something Wrong with This Game
ℙ014 – Auction Hall
FlyingPirateCat
After returning to the real world, Ruri washed her face in the bathroom and drank a glass of water. Then she immediately entered the game. The whole process does not take much time.
A few moments later, Hecate reappeared inside the unnamed ruins.
She still had blood and dust on her body. Her MP was full and all of the equipment skills were completely recharged. Normally if this happens, she would resume her grind and exhaust all of the skills. But now, she didn\'t dare to do that.
Because she saw every door that led to the outside of this room let out a red mist.
Hecate knows that this fog is not a real mist, since her Game UI (User Interface) informs her that this was an effect from one of her new Skills.
It was a skill created from fusing two skills, Sense Crisis and Sense Fortune.
Both of these skills are useful to Hecate. Though, each of them has a moderate effect on their own and is quite hard to master. But now that they are fused together, their effects become more perceivable. Now the "warning" was so distinctive that it was hard to miss.
"I see... If I entered any of those doors right now, there is a high chance that this Arachnia will notice me."
She already understood the situation. Because this Safety Area was located deep inside the ruins, she can\'t leave without passing the corridor filled with monsters. Most likely, Arachnia has some detection skills that have been spread inside the ruins. Thus, triggered the warning skill.
"If the Crisis aspect is improved, then maybe the Fortune aspect is also improved."
But this confirmation can wait for later.
Without much thought, Hecate opened her storage and took out two items.
A cheap Holy Water that can be created by any Cleric. It has many uses in the game.
If this water is applied to weapons like swords or arrows, when it hits dark attribute monsters, the damage output will be increased. If players drank it, their dark resistance would increase and at the same time weaken curse type debuffs.
There are 2 stronger version of the item, Mid-Grade and High-Grade Holy Water. They can only be created by Priests and High Priests. Of course, those versions were more expensive, but in exchange, the effects multiplied by folds.
A single bottle of Low-Grade Holy Water only priced at 2, so Hecate stocked a lot of them. She used this water for her daily necessities in the real world, from drinking water to bathwater. It has no taste like plain water does. But at the same time, it was far more reassuring than using the tap water from the water company.
- Since you never know if the water is free from contamination like rust or other nasty things.
Hecate opened the bottle and poured all of the contents over her own head. The dirt and blood sticking to her body was quickly washed away as the water flew down her clothes. Her blue colored robe become wet, although it was not completely clean, it definitely did not look dirty anymore.
She shook her head and the water droplets adhering to her hair splattered everywhere.
"Oh well, it\'s only a little water, this will dry by itself in 5 minutes anyway."
And sure enough, five minutes later the water quickly evaporated, or more precisely, disappeared after its durability was gone.
Then, she used the second item.
The scroll started to glow as she poured her MP in it. Soon after, she disappeared from the ruins and appeared in the center of Rosenweil City.
Instantly, she was greeted by the bustling city life. Standing near the marketplace seeing stalls upon stalls and hearing the loud advertising of merchants all around. Not to forget the adventurers roaming around or guardsmen patrolling with their watchful eyes.
The capital city of Rosenweil Kingdom. It has Mid-European ambiance feelings, like how many fantasy novels depicted. She could see the castle in the north direction.
♠♠♠
There are two types of people in Ascension. One is called Native, or more known as the NPCs. They have various races, such as Human, Elf, Dwarf, Beastkin, etc. They are basically the original residents of the Rodinia continent.
Almost 90% of the population in the continent was from the Natives.
The other one is called Player, the existence that comes from another world. They took the same forms as Natives and have similar race classification. Although their numbers only represent about 10% of the masses, their influence is huge.
In the eyes of the Natives, Players were immortals. If the Natives died, their body will stop moving forever and become corpses. That will be the end of them. The corpses must be incinerated or buried because they will eventually rot and become a source of plagues, or become mindless undead if they\'re exposed to demonic power.
Meanwhile, if a Player died, their body will only turn into particles of light, and respawn the next day.
There are almost no differences in look between Players and Natives. Though, that was from the Natives\' point of view.
Players can recognize other Players. If they concentrate their eyes on a person, a small popup name will be displayed above the person\'s head, along with a symbol that was unique to both of the Players and Natives.
♠♠♠
Hecate went to the Adventurer\'s Guild first.
This was the building that has been taking care of her and most of the players that started in this City.
When Players start out in the game, they can register their name in the Adventurer\'s Guild. And after they registered their name, they can take a series of quests from the Quest Board according to their rank, from F-rank up to S-rank. Then, the Guild will pay the quest taker with rewards for the completed quests.
The Adventurer\'s Guild was maintained by the Natives, so it was a separate system from the Player Guild.
The inside of the building was clean, with many potted decorative plants. It was more like a formal institute, not a pub with noisy drunkards shouting nonsense. There is a separate pub restaurant and it was completely unrelated to the Adventurer\'s Guild.
Hecate entered the building and walked to the female receptionist.
"Welcome to the Adventurer\'s Guild, what can I do for you."
"I\'d like to withdraw my Gold coins."
Other than as a quest giver, the Adventurer\'s Guild also served as a bank for both Natives and the Players. Though, unlike banks in the real world, the bank in this game did not accept loans or credits.
"Please touch this plate."
The receptionist took out an artifact with the shape of the metal plate and placed it onto the table.
Hecate poured her MP into the plate and a system window appeared almost instantly.
Surprisingly, her Gold balance in her bank account was very high. She obtained this abundant wealth after ransacking the Stellar Wing Guild and emptying their treasury clean. This Gold was the wealth of a big-sized guild on par with her Genesis Guild.
Robbing is truly the fastest way to become rich!
With a press of a button, a confirmation sound was beeped, signaling the withdraw was a success. The Gold in her inventory suddenly increased by 30 million.
"Thank you for your patronage."
Her business here was done. Hecate closed the window and left the building.
Then, she entered the Auction Hall that was in front of the Adventurer Guild and talked to its receptionist.
"I want to auction a few items."
"Please wait a moment."
The receptionist took out another plate artifact and Hecate touched it immediately.
Many items that were auctioned from the entire Rodinia continent appeared in these lists.
When someone bid for the items, they would need to deposit their Gold as much as their bid. This Gold will be returned back if the bid failed. When the time limit expired, the highest bidder is the winner of the items. Or they can choose to just pay the buyout price to win the items on the spot.
The items, the returned Gold, as well as the Gold of the successful bid can be obtained after the Auction is over. And for the former owner of the items, the Auction Hall will take 10% of the Gold as payment.
Players and Natives can bid from any of the Auction Hall in the Rodinia continent. Of course, each Kingdom or Country has a different Auction Hall system, so items from another Kingdom won\'t appear in the lists.
She typed a certain item name in the search query and pressed the OK button.
"Let\'s see... Where is the Slot Enchant Core?"
A few seconds later, the list was filtered. Every item on the lists vanished, except 10 entries of Slot Enchant Core.
Hecate smiled as she saw those 10 entries. They have varied bid prices and their buyout was between 2~3 million Gold.
Although the item can only be obtained by trading it with Glory Points, the game didn\'t lack Players who valued Gold and will use anything as their commodity, including their Glory Points.
Perhaps, this was the reason why the existence of the Skill Assimilation Orb wasn\'t well known.
She quickly pressed the buyout button and obtained all 10 of them on the spot.
"Haha... This is the same as me spending 1000 GP. Except, I used Gold instead of GP.
Those fools, they didn\'t realize that each GP is very precious..."
After she finished purchasing all the Slot Enchant Cores, Hecate pressed the [➕] button, and a new window appeared.
She quickly placed the Equipment that she got from betraying her guild on the list.
Of course, she did not add all of the looted Equipment to the Auction Window. Only Equip that worth to sell that was added to the list. As for the trash Equipment, she planned to melt them to her furnace.
It took her about 10 minutes to finish.
"Well, this is about it. Time to do the finishing touch."
Before she clicked the confirmation button, her other hand pressed a hotkey to activate a certain item.
At that moment, her name disappeared once again. If other Players were to examine Hecate right now, the name popup won\'t show up above her head. Though, even if they did, not many Players knew of the effects of the Crime Scroll, as it was rarely used.
They would most likely think it was just a lag.
Nearly at the same time after the notification window showed up, she clicked the confirmation button.
Soon after, the items that she had put on the auction showed up on the list. However, when the items were clicked to view its detailed information, it will show as ??? in the owner\'s column.
These data entries will remain as it is until the end of the time limit, even after the effect of the Crime Scroll ended.
Satisfied with the result, Hecate let out a gratified smile. She closed the window and thanked the receptionist.
"Thank you as usual."
"I\'m glad to be your help, dear customer."
Hecate nodded, responding to the receptionist. She walked to the toilet and stayed inside for 10 minutes, waiting for the effect of the scroll to end.
Then, she left the building and walked to her workshop.
FlyingPirateCat
After returning to the real world, Ruri washed her face in the bathroom and drank a glass of water. Then she immediately entered the game. The whole process does not take much time.
A few moments later, Hecate reappeared inside the unnamed ruins.
She still had blood and dust on her body. Her MP was full and all of the equipment skills were completely recharged. Normally if this happens, she would resume her grind and exhaust all of the skills. But now, she didn\'t dare to do that.
Because she saw every door that led to the outside of this room let out a red mist.
Hecate knows that this fog is not a real mist, since her Game UI (User Interface) informs her that this was an effect from one of her new Skills.
It was a skill created from fusing two skills, Sense Crisis and Sense Fortune.
Both of these skills are useful to Hecate. Though, each of them has a moderate effect on their own and is quite hard to master. But now that they are fused together, their effects become more perceivable. Now the "warning" was so distinctive that it was hard to miss.
"I see... If I entered any of those doors right now, there is a high chance that this Arachnia will notice me."
She already understood the situation. Because this Safety Area was located deep inside the ruins, she can\'t leave without passing the corridor filled with monsters. Most likely, Arachnia has some detection skills that have been spread inside the ruins. Thus, triggered the warning skill.
"If the Crisis aspect is improved, then maybe the Fortune aspect is also improved."
But this confirmation can wait for later.
Without much thought, Hecate opened her storage and took out two items.
A cheap Holy Water that can be created by any Cleric. It has many uses in the game.
If this water is applied to weapons like swords or arrows, when it hits dark attribute monsters, the damage output will be increased. If players drank it, their dark resistance would increase and at the same time weaken curse type debuffs.
There are 2 stronger version of the item, Mid-Grade and High-Grade Holy Water. They can only be created by Priests and High Priests. Of course, those versions were more expensive, but in exchange, the effects multiplied by folds.
A single bottle of Low-Grade Holy Water only priced at 2, so Hecate stocked a lot of them. She used this water for her daily necessities in the real world, from drinking water to bathwater. It has no taste like plain water does. But at the same time, it was far more reassuring than using the tap water from the water company.
- Since you never know if the water is free from contamination like rust or other nasty things.
Hecate opened the bottle and poured all of the contents over her own head. The dirt and blood sticking to her body was quickly washed away as the water flew down her clothes. Her blue colored robe become wet, although it was not completely clean, it definitely did not look dirty anymore.
She shook her head and the water droplets adhering to her hair splattered everywhere.
"Oh well, it\'s only a little water, this will dry by itself in 5 minutes anyway."
And sure enough, five minutes later the water quickly evaporated, or more precisely, disappeared after its durability was gone.
Then, she used the second item.
The scroll started to glow as she poured her MP in it. Soon after, she disappeared from the ruins and appeared in the center of Rosenweil City.
Instantly, she was greeted by the bustling city life. Standing near the marketplace seeing stalls upon stalls and hearing the loud advertising of merchants all around. Not to forget the adventurers roaming around or guardsmen patrolling with their watchful eyes.
The capital city of Rosenweil Kingdom. It has Mid-European ambiance feelings, like how many fantasy novels depicted. She could see the castle in the north direction.
♠♠♠
There are two types of people in Ascension. One is called Native, or more known as the NPCs. They have various races, such as Human, Elf, Dwarf, Beastkin, etc. They are basically the original residents of the Rodinia continent.
Almost 90% of the population in the continent was from the Natives.
The other one is called Player, the existence that comes from another world. They took the same forms as Natives and have similar race classification. Although their numbers only represent about 10% of the masses, their influence is huge.
In the eyes of the Natives, Players were immortals. If the Natives died, their body will stop moving forever and become corpses. That will be the end of them. The corpses must be incinerated or buried because they will eventually rot and become a source of plagues, or become mindless undead if they\'re exposed to demonic power.
Meanwhile, if a Player died, their body will only turn into particles of light, and respawn the next day.
There are almost no differences in look between Players and Natives. Though, that was from the Natives\' point of view.
Players can recognize other Players. If they concentrate their eyes on a person, a small popup name will be displayed above the person\'s head, along with a symbol that was unique to both of the Players and Natives.
♠♠♠
Hecate went to the Adventurer\'s Guild first.
This was the building that has been taking care of her and most of the players that started in this City.
When Players start out in the game, they can register their name in the Adventurer\'s Guild. And after they registered their name, they can take a series of quests from the Quest Board according to their rank, from F-rank up to S-rank. Then, the Guild will pay the quest taker with rewards for the completed quests.
The Adventurer\'s Guild was maintained by the Natives, so it was a separate system from the Player Guild.
The inside of the building was clean, with many potted decorative plants. It was more like a formal institute, not a pub with noisy drunkards shouting nonsense. There is a separate pub restaurant and it was completely unrelated to the Adventurer\'s Guild.
Hecate entered the building and walked to the female receptionist.
"Welcome to the Adventurer\'s Guild, what can I do for you."
"I\'d like to withdraw my Gold coins."
Other than as a quest giver, the Adventurer\'s Guild also served as a bank for both Natives and the Players. Though, unlike banks in the real world, the bank in this game did not accept loans or credits.
"Please touch this plate."
The receptionist took out an artifact with the shape of the metal plate and placed it onto the table.
Hecate poured her MP into the plate and a system window appeared almost instantly.
Surprisingly, her Gold balance in her bank account was very high. She obtained this abundant wealth after ransacking the Stellar Wing Guild and emptying their treasury clean. This Gold was the wealth of a big-sized guild on par with her Genesis Guild.
Robbing is truly the fastest way to become rich!
With a press of a button, a confirmation sound was beeped, signaling the withdraw was a success. The Gold in her inventory suddenly increased by 30 million.
"Thank you for your patronage."
Her business here was done. Hecate closed the window and left the building.
Then, she entered the Auction Hall that was in front of the Adventurer Guild and talked to its receptionist.
"I want to auction a few items."
"Please wait a moment."
The receptionist took out another plate artifact and Hecate touched it immediately.
Many items that were auctioned from the entire Rodinia continent appeared in these lists.
When someone bid for the items, they would need to deposit their Gold as much as their bid. This Gold will be returned back if the bid failed. When the time limit expired, the highest bidder is the winner of the items. Or they can choose to just pay the buyout price to win the items on the spot.
The items, the returned Gold, as well as the Gold of the successful bid can be obtained after the Auction is over. And for the former owner of the items, the Auction Hall will take 10% of the Gold as payment.
Players and Natives can bid from any of the Auction Hall in the Rodinia continent. Of course, each Kingdom or Country has a different Auction Hall system, so items from another Kingdom won\'t appear in the lists.
She typed a certain item name in the search query and pressed the OK button.
"Let\'s see... Where is the Slot Enchant Core?"
A few seconds later, the list was filtered. Every item on the lists vanished, except 10 entries of Slot Enchant Core.
Hecate smiled as she saw those 10 entries. They have varied bid prices and their buyout was between 2~3 million Gold.
Although the item can only be obtained by trading it with Glory Points, the game didn\'t lack Players who valued Gold and will use anything as their commodity, including their Glory Points.
Perhaps, this was the reason why the existence of the Skill Assimilation Orb wasn\'t well known.
She quickly pressed the buyout button and obtained all 10 of them on the spot.
"Haha... This is the same as me spending 1000 GP. Except, I used Gold instead of GP.
Those fools, they didn\'t realize that each GP is very precious..."
After she finished purchasing all the Slot Enchant Cores, Hecate pressed the [➕] button, and a new window appeared.
She quickly placed the Equipment that she got from betraying her guild on the list.
Of course, she did not add all of the looted Equipment to the Auction Window. Only Equip that worth to sell that was added to the list. As for the trash Equipment, she planned to melt them to her furnace.
It took her about 10 minutes to finish.
"Well, this is about it. Time to do the finishing touch."
Before she clicked the confirmation button, her other hand pressed a hotkey to activate a certain item.
At that moment, her name disappeared once again. If other Players were to examine Hecate right now, the name popup won\'t show up above her head. Though, even if they did, not many Players knew of the effects of the Crime Scroll, as it was rarely used.
They would most likely think it was just a lag.
Nearly at the same time after the notification window showed up, she clicked the confirmation button.
Soon after, the items that she had put on the auction showed up on the list. However, when the items were clicked to view its detailed information, it will show as ??? in the owner\'s column.
These data entries will remain as it is until the end of the time limit, even after the effect of the Crime Scroll ended.
Satisfied with the result, Hecate let out a gratified smile. She closed the window and thanked the receptionist.
"Thank you as usual."
"I\'m glad to be your help, dear customer."
Hecate nodded, responding to the receptionist. She walked to the toilet and stayed inside for 10 minutes, waiting for the effect of the scroll to end.
Then, she left the building and walked to her workshop.
FlyingPirateCat