In Su Yu's past life, gold Health Potions that could be brought into reality were extremely rare.
The main reason was that field bosses and dungeon bosses did not drop consumables such as Health Potions or Mana Potions.
Gold Health Potions only dropped from event bosses like the Howling Moon Wolf King, while Hidden Quests occasionally rewarded them. Their production was especially low.
Moreover, Health Potions had ridiculously powerful effects in reality. The Intermediate Recovery Potion (Gold) in Su Yu's possession could even restore him to peak condition when he was grievously wounded and on the verge of death. It could truly be called a life-saving treasure!
"Just this gold Health Potion alone makes killing the Wolf King completely worthwhile!"
Su Yu nodded in satisfaction and stored the gold Health Potion in his system backpack, letting it occupy a slot by itself.
Then he continued collecting the Wolf King's drops.
After ten minutes of collecting and sorting, Su Yu organized all the loot from killing the Wolf King.
The most valuable item was that gold Intermediate Recovery Potion;
Second were three Howling Moon Wolf Eggs (Excellent);
Third were three Excellent-grade Skill Scrolls: Chain Shot, Bear Form, and Stealth;
Fourth were ten Common-grade Skill Scrolls, two of which Su Yu could use—Earth Spike and Lightning Shield;
Fifth were fifty pieces of equipment: ten blue Rare pieces and forty green Excellent pieces;
Besides that, there were 10,000 Psionic Coins and several dozen low-grade potions.
These rewards had originally been meant to be split evenly among all the players who participated in the kill. Almost every player would have received decent rewards.
But now, Su Yu had taken them all for himself.
Carrying an oversized backpack stuffed to bursting as he headed toward Nolan Village, Su Yu felt both delighted and troubled.
Of course, he was delighted because he had "soloed a boss and farmed a ton of gear." The rewards this time were exceptionally generous!
What troubled him was how he should deal with all this equipment and these items.
Set up a stall and sell them?
It was possible, but doing so would not improve him in any way.
Selling these items would only earn him a few Psionic Coins, but Psionic Coins were what he lacked least right now.
At most, selling them would change a few of the trailing digits in his Psionic Coin total. It was not particularly meaningful.
Rather than sell them, he might as well give the equipment away and use it to win people over.
"Give them away? Wait!"
An idea suddenly surfaced in Su Yu's mind—why not create a guild for fun?
After creating a guild, he could use these valuable Skill Scrolls and Pet Eggs to recruit some people, have them handle trivial errands for him, and cultivate a core team at the same time.
After all, high-level dungeons generally could not be soloed. At minimum, he needed to bring four useful bodies into the dungeon to help him share damage, draw monster aggro, and so on.
Besides, as a mage, he would have to build his own Mage Tower after reaching higher levels. While he could pay people to construct it, that would never be as reassuring as having his own people do it.
The Mage Tower was an extremely important structure. Whether Su Yu could become a god in the game would depend entirely on it in the later stages!
"Then I'll create a casual guild after reaching level ten. Distributing these things to guild members is better than turning them into Psionic Coins."
Thinking as he went, Su Yu returned to Nolan Village.
There was no warehouse or bank in Nolan Village. Only the main city had those.
With no other choice, Su Yu could only temporarily leave the equipment and items with the old mage at the Magic Hut. In exchange, he bought another batch of supplies from the old mage.
After leaving the Magic Hut, he prepared to continue leveling in Wolf King Valley.
The Howling Moon Wolf King had dropped plenty of equipment and items, but very little experience—only 1,000 points.
Su Yu's experience bar was only at level 8, 13%. He estimated that he would not reach level 10 until seven in the evening.
As he walked toward Wolf King Valley, Su Yu opened his private chat with Snowflake.
Su Yu: "You there?"
Snowflake: "Yes."
Su Yu: "I plan to create a guild after reaching level 10. Are you interested in joining?"
Snowflake was worth recruiting. In his past life, she had completed the Tears of Goddess Savi quest, which was enough to prove her strength. After all, the last few stages of that quest had been truly difficult.
Snowflake: "Senior, you're creating a guild too? Is the Yellow Turban Army making a comeback?"
Su Yu: "...Something like that."
Snowflake: "All right, count me in. Should I bring my dad along too? My dad really loves Zhao Yun from your era!"
Su Yu: "Sure. I plan to recruit two or three hundred ordinary members first. Are you interested in helping me manage the guild? Managers get extra rewards!"
Su Yu sent over the attributes of the Stealth Skill Scroll and the Howling Moon Wolf Egg.
He certainly would not waste time managing the guild himself. He could outsource that task to Snowflake. If she was unwilling, he could always find someone else.
But after seeing the Howling Moon Wolf Egg's attributes, Snowflake was utterly shocked.
She knew about the "Monster Siege boss" incident that had caused an uproar on the forums. Players were condemning the player who had poached the boss. Now, it seemed highly likely that the poacher was Kexing!
She hurriedly asked, "Senior, were you the one who killed the Monster Siege boss?"
"Yeah. What about it?"
"Then hurry and check the forums! Everyone on the forums is cursing you!"
"That happened?"
Su Yu opened the game's built-in Official Forum.
Among the dozens of posts on the Official Forum homepage, most were filled with profanity, cursing the player who had killed the Siege Boss early as "shameless," "a thief," and "someone who harmed the interests of all players."
Seeing those players' comments, Su Yu was so irritated that he laughed.
The Howling Moon Wolf King was not some pushover. They talked as if they could have killed it themselves.
However, after reading the clarification post from the official Operations Staff and seeing the line that said, "Other Novice Villages in the game will also trigger Monster Sieges," Su Yu quickly found a solution.
So he replied, "I'll handle this."
Snowflake: "Do you need my help? If you run into any trouble, you can contact my brother. He'll come whenever you call."
Su Yu: "No need. Just patiently wait for my good news."
Ten minutes later, Su Yu appeared in Wolf King Valley of Novice Village 1—Clear Wind Village.
In this Wolf King Valley, Su Yu began leveling in an extremely wild fashion.
Relying on his high movement speed, he pulled thirty or forty Howling Moon Wolves at a time, gathered them together, and froze them with Ice Nova. Then he hurled Rain of Fire Scrolls, Chain Lightning Scrolls, Ice Spike Scrolls, and his own Chain Lightning skill at them as though they cost nothing. Pack after pack of Howling Moon Wolves howled and collapsed.
Another hour passed, and all players in Novice Village 1 received a System Announcement:
"Ding! Howling Moon Wolf King lv10 (Rare) has appeared in Wolf King Valley! All monsters in Clear Wind Village gain +20% to all attributes, experience, and drops for 1 hour." "After 1 hour, the Howling Moon Wolf King will lead the wolf pack to attack the Novice Village! Players who participate in killing the Howling Moon Wolf King can split massive rewards!"
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