Standing Out

White River City, Smile Topples a City's Guild Residence.

"Vice Guild Leader Orchid, I've finished investigating the Candlelight Trading Firm," a level 23 male Assassin reported as he entered Smile Topples a City's meeting room.

"Who opened it?" Orchid asked anxiously.

Smile Topples a City had already been at a disadvantage in the wilderness battlefield, and the Gold Coins it spent every day were no small sum.

Although Netherworld had increased its investment, especially its financial investment, converting Credit Points into Gold Coins was extremely difficult. Even after spending enormous sums to purchase Gold Coins, the guild's Gold Coins could only barely stay balanced.

At first, she had not realized that repairing equipment would cost so many Gold Coins.

However, as the number of guild members dying continued to rise, dying once was nothing much, but after dying two or three times, the spare money of those guild members would be nearly exhausted. After that, they could only choose to compensate with Gold Coins in order to repair their equipment.

This immediately gave the previously confident Orchid a massive headache. She wished she could strangle Black Flame.

The combined Gold Coin expenditure alone had already exceeded a thousand Gold, not even counting the compensated Credit Points.

If this went on for long, they would practically have to compensate entirely with Gold Coins later on. After all, without repairing equipment, players could not go out and level up. If their equipment became unusable, they could only obtain new high-quality equipment. Yet good equipment was not so easy to acquire. Which piece had not cost players an immense amount of effort? Losing even one was like cutting flesh from their bodies. If an entire set was gone, they would probably feel like dying...

Therefore, before their equipment durability reached its critical point,