Some people could already mine diamonds, but once they discovered how rare they were, diamonds in the game began to acquire real-world value.
People had actually started trading them offline. A single diamond could sell for tens of thousands of dollars, or even more. They had briefly become a new kind of online currency, and "Diamond Prospector" had even become a profession.
It was fair to say that diamonds were now the most valuable things in the game.
Giving away two complete sets of diamond armor at once had sent the entire game into an uproar.
Only three people on the entire server owned full sets of diamond armor. Everyone else was lucky if they could scrape together enough diamonds for a tool.
Mercer watched the world channel from his private room, surprised by the status diamonds now held.
As for the Transmutation Tablet, nobody besides him had managed to craft one yet.
After all, with a nine-by-nine grid and so many items available, choosing three of them and arranging them on that grid to craft something was practically impossible without good luck. Otherwise, someone could spend their whole life trying and never succeed.
This time, Mercer had remembered to claim the land around his room. The Infinite Realm had a land-claiming feature, and all those server functions, such as teleportation, worked here too.
Claiming land also required transmutation value. Mercer had claimed a private territory of ten thousand blocks, becoming the largest landholder in the game.
The exterior design was simple: six faces of obsidian enclosed the space. From outside, it looked like a giant die.
The players had taken it as this world's main city. With Mercer's permission, they had built their houses around his "obsidian die."
Many people were curious about what was inside the "obsidian die."