The combat players had joined forces for the Blood Festival, vowing to complete the "Murphy Challenge." Even if they lost, they'd do it with style—they couldn't let the NPCs and the spiteful developers look down on them. They treated it as "the Blood Festival's main quest."
But the administrative and crafting players didn't have so many thoughts.
These players weren't keen on combat and preferred enjoying other kinds of fun in the game. They were extremely enthusiastic about the Blood Festival, a holiday for players. Anyone who wasn't on duty had already headed to Scarlet Keep to "celebrate with the people."
The crafting players were especially enthusiastic. Perhaps inspired by "Dongshan Residence's" booming business, they had seized the opportunity to hold sales at their own shops.
For instance, the "Warhammer" smithy, run by the brothers Broken Blade Master and Hundred-Forged Big Horse, had put up a sign offering a thirty percent discount for the past few days.
But their stall wasn't selling weapons. Instead, it was stocked with all kinds of farm tools and household goods, catering to Transia's urgent need to rebuild everything. Their farm tools, improved with knowledge from another world, had also earned the farmers' enthusiastic praise.
The sales from just the first four days of the Blood Festival had left the two blacksmiths grinning from ear to ear. But aside from giving their apprentices holiday red envelopes, neither of them had splurged.
Instead, they pooled their savings with the profits from the sale and, on the evening of the festival's fourth day, went to visit Professor Malcolm.
"This is the shopping list we put together, Professor."
In the small courtyard where Professor Malcolm and his family lived, Broken Blade Master rubbed his hands together and smiled at the historian, who had been about to take his