Accepting a Commission

Lu Chenfeng trembled with rage, his fingers shaking nonstop.

This place did not recognize young heirs of wealthy conglomerates; everyone was equal.

In the end, he accepted his fate, his expression ugly.

The two showed part of the information on their Card Master certificates, allowing them to directly receive Card Enhancement Master certification.

"Card enhancement commissions here focus on enhancement success rate and average enhancement level," Lu Chenfeng said weakly.

The two arrived before the giant screen, and Su Li began reading through the commissions.

As Lu Chenfeng had said, most commissions required a certain Card Master rank, enhancement success rate, average enhancement level, or the completion of a certain number of commission tasks before they could be accepted.

For example, the task before them required an enhancement success rate of over 90%, as well as an average enhancement level of 1.5 ranks.

Enhancement success rate was exactly what it sounded like.

Average enhancement level was calculated by dividing the total ranks gained from each card enhancement by the number of successful enhancements.

If Su Li raised a card by two ranks this time and three ranks the next, then his average enhancement level would be 2.5 ranks.

These figures were further broken down across each rank.

The more requirements there were, the more important the card was to that Card Master, and naturally, the greater the reward.

There were also quite a few commissions with zero requirements, but their rewards were relatively low—practically exploitative.

"Even if you're a Card Enhancement Grandmaster, you can only start from zero here." Lu Chenfeng spread his hands helplessly.

Su Li fell silent. His black market Card Master certificate was spotless, so he could only begin by taking such tasks.

"Some people specifically post zero-requirement commissions. Since the rewards are extremely low, they can still profit even with a chance of failure.

"However, the profit margin isn't high, and there's also a risk of losses. Usually, it's low-rank novice Card Masters doing this, since the investment is relatively small," Lu Chenfeng explained.

Su Li nodded. Fortunately, he had cheats and could selectively enhance some character cards.

He had already learned that he could take cards back to enhance them, as long as he put down collateral.

However, if he took a card away on collateral and the enhancement failed, he would have to compensate for the lost card. Generally, only enhancement masters with an extremely high success rate would choose to provide collateral.

Naturally, this was not a suitable place to open a Card World, so Su Li could only choose collateral. Failure was not something he considered at all.

"Fate Knower, my destination isn't here. You can find me in the card-buying area." Lu Chenfeng parted ways with Su Li. Here, they had to address each other by their black market names.

Su Li began selecting tasks. In the black market, he was considered a Bronze Rank 1 Enhancement Master and could only accept Bronze Rank 1 card enhancement commissions.

After completing ten Bronze Rank 1 enhancement commissions, he could advance to a Bronze Rank 2 Enhancement Master.

The cards he could currently use as collateral were [Blood Wolf], [Ice Rain], [Holy Light], [Ice Blue Shield], and [Earth Wall].

One was Bronze Rank 5, three were Bronze Rank 2, and one was Bronze Rank 3. Among them, [Holy Light] was a rare card with an actual value of over one hundred thousand.

Su Li could not possibly use his other cards as collateral, especially Su Miaohan, Grantis, and Su Xiaobai.

Su Li accepted ten zero-requirement Bronze Rank 1 enhancement commissions in one go, receiving ten cards that needed enhancement and ten enhancement resource cards.

Once the commissions were completed, as long as the enhancements succeeded, each commission would earn a reward of 2,000 yuan.

"This is way too ruthless." Su Li's face twitched. For ordinary enhancement masters, taking such commissions was all effort for little gain; they were entirely for improving one's statistics.

Fortunately, he had cheats. These ten character cards could enter the Card World directly, and the enhancement choices for such low-rank cards were easy to complete.

During this time, he also canceled some commissions, because after receiving some of the cards, he discovered that their enhancement choices required consuming resources.

Fortunately, commissions could be canceled within five minutes of acceptance. Otherwise, he would lose some resources and be forced to invest them into enhancing the cards.

After accepting the commissions, Su Li directly put up [Holy Light] as collateral.

These low-rank cards did not require the approval of the Card Master who posted the commission. Once the system assessed their value, they could be used as collateral directly.

If they were rare high-rank cards, then the other Card Master's approval would be needed before they could be put up as collateral, preventing the other party from stubbornly forcing a one-for-one exchange.

With everything settled, it was time to leave.

He found Lu Chenfeng. The man was quite wealthy and was purchasing cards in the card-selling area.

"Then I'll call you Wind Whisper. I'm heading back," Su Li said in farewell.

Lu Chenfeng's face darkened. "Just call me Wind Whisper."

The two parted ways.

Following Lu Chenfeng's instructions, he left through another black-hole tunnel.

When he returned to Cool City, he appeared in another corner of the city.

Without stopping, Su Li immediately drew [Mechanical Motorcycle] and activated its skill, Steam Jet.

Before long, Su Li returned to his apartment.

He rested briefly before beginning the enhancements.

The Bronze Rank 1 enhancements went very smoothly, aside from some enhancement choices that took time to search for.

Su Li spent a total of seven days on the ten cards, successfully enhancing every single one!

Among them were four Bronze Rank 3 cards and six Bronze Rank 2 cards.

The commissioned Card Masters had paid a total of twenty cards and received Su Li's enhanced results.

At the lowest market prices, they had spent one hundred thousand and gained one hundred eighty thousand. However, the actual value of those ten cards should have exceeded two hundred thousand.

Meanwhile, Su Li had earned twenty thousand, along with ten Bronze Tier 1 cards.

Since they were all Bronze Tier 1 cards, the mysterious energy Su Li gained from enhancing those ten cards only raised his Silver coverage by one percentage point, bringing it to 44%.

After completing this commission, Su Li's pockets were bulging, giving him another option.

He could directly purchase cards, enhance them, and then sell them.

His chances of enhancement failure were very low, and he often achieved tier jumps.

But he quickly dismissed the idea.

Enhancing high-tier cards would most likely require enhancement resources of the same tier or even higher, while enhancing low-tier cards brought low profits and wasted time.

All things considered, taking enhancement commissions was still the most worthwhile. More importantly, high-level commissions offered substantial rewards and often included rare cards.

He immediately headed to the black market. Having done it once already, he was now familiar with the route, and the importance of mount cards became clear as he quickly reached his destination.

It was said that Black Market Card Masters secretly guarded the entrance.

On one hand, this was because those entering were clients about to trade in the black market.

On the other hand, the black market's entrance and exit were different. Changing them would cause difficulties in all respects; without such control, who would dare come to the black market?

Wearing the Black Mask, he entered the black market.

Su Li arrived at the handover point and turned in all the cards, immediately completing the commission.

The enhancer information on his Black Market Card Master ID changed.

Total enhancement success rate: 100%. Bronze Tier 1 enhancement success rate: 100%.

Overall average enhancement level: 2.4 tiers. Bronze Tier 1 average enhancement level: 2.4 tiers.

Completed commissions: 10 Bronze Tier 1 commissions.

At the same time, payments were transferred one after another to Su Li's Black Market Card Master ID, totaling twenty thousand yuan.

After [Holy Light] was reclaimed, those ten Bronze Tier 1 cards also completely became Su Li's property.