Lin Mo kept rushing back and forth between the potion shop and the auction house.
He bought at ten percent of the original price and sold at half price.
Although Lin Mo was already moving so fast he practically flew, wishing he could evolve into a Tiger King and run on four legs, he still couldn't keep up with demand!
The main problem was the limit of forty inventory slots and ten auction house listing slots.
That meant Lin Mo could only buy thirty-eight batches of stock at a time.
And he could only list ten batches each time!
Lin Mo couldn't help saying, "I remember there's a hidden opportunity in the tier-three main city that expands both inventory space and auction listing slots. Once I get there, I have to get my hands on it, no matter what!"
Fortunately, the potion shop and auction house were close, directly across from each other.
Otherwise, all this running back and forth would have wasted plenty of time on the road alone!
And so, he spent a full half hour running between them, making at least dozens of trips.
At last, the system's voice sounded in his ears again-
[Ding~ Please note: The Magic Scroll Limited-Time Discount Coupon has expired. Potions purchased at the potion shop will no longer receive a ninety-percent discount!]
The moment the system notification sounded,
Lin Mo collapsed onto the street, ignoring the strange looks from those around him. He was utterly exhausted!
But the instant he saw the funds displayed on his panel, all his fatigue vanished-
Money: 13 gold, 12 silver, 25 copper!
Yes, that was right.
From his initial capital of one gold coin, his funds had increased by a full twelve gold coins!!
In just half an hour, Lin Mo had made over eighty trips!
The profit was worth it!
And with all these gold coins,
A full set of gold equipment shouldn't be a problem for Lin Mo!
After a short rest, Lin Mo immediately got up and ran toward the south side of town.
Relying on his memory, Lin Mo found Card Master Carl in Cloudside Town!
Carl wore a magician's outfit and toyed with a deck of playing cards, occasionally performing a trick for passersby.
He called out, "Want to draw a card? I've got every piece of equipment you need! Provided you've got enough silver coins-and luck!"
Quite a few passing players were drawn over.
But they all balked at the level-five requirement and the steep price of five silver coins per draw.
Only Lin Mo treated him like a treasure.
"Want a draw, darling?"
"Yes."
"How many?"
"One first, to test the waters."
As he spoke, Lin Mo took five silver coins from his inventory and handed them to Carl.
"No problem, darling!" Card Master Carl accepted the coins and gave Lin Mo a wicked grin. "Guaranteed satisfaction!"
With that, Carl shuffled the cards with a magical flourish.
He swept both hands outward, and dozens of cards floated into the air before Lin Mo!
Lin Mo picked one at random.
[Ding~ Congratulations! You drew level 5, tier 1 white equipment-Magic Boots!]
At the sight, some nearby players watching the show burst out laughing.
"Five silver coins for a piece of white equipment? What a sucker!"
"The developers couldn't make it more obvious that they're using trash equipment to drain players' silver. Only an idiot would fall for that, right?"
Lin Mo ignored their mockery.
For other players, card draws were only useful if they got lucky and pulled high-quality equipment. Drawing low-quality trash was a total loss.
But for Lin Mo, who possessed Soulfire, the server's only SSS-rank talent, even the worst white equipment had tremendous value as fuel for incineration!
And Lin Mo had already tested it with his SSS-rank talent, Soulfire.
Incinerating one piece of level-five white equipment gives five evolution points.
But if I spend five hundred yuan buying five pieces of starter equipment, incinerating those only gives five evolution points too.
In other words, even drawing white equipment isn't a loss. And if I draw green or blue equipment, it's pure profit!
So Lin Mo happily continued what everyone else considered idiotic behavior.
He splashed out five gold coins at once. "One hundred draws!"
Everyone around him was dumbstruck.
This time, they no longer mocked Lin Mo for spending so much to draw trash equipment.
Instead, they were stunned that he could actually produce five gold coins this early in the game!!!
"Oracle only launched two hours ago. How did he get so much gold?"
"Holy shit! Five gold coins... at the official one-to-one cash-out rate, that's fifty thousand yuan!!"
"I thought he was a sucker, but he's actually a top-tier whale... Okay, I was being shallow!"
The crowd's ridicule turned into admiration.
Under everyone's gaze, Lin Mo drew cards one hundred times in succession!
[Ding~ Congratulations! You drew level 5, tier 1 white equipment-Magic Bow!] [Ding~ Congratulations! You drew level 5, tier 1 white equipment-Magic Robe!] [Ding~ Congratulations! You drew level 5, tier 1 green equipment-Magic Ring!] [Ding...]
All equipment players could draw from Card Master Carl belonged to the level-five, tier-one "Magic" series, with a random quality ranging from white to purple.
After drawing one hundred pieces of equipment, Lin Mo found that eighty-seven were white, with only nine green and three blue.
There was also one purple piece!
To save space, Lin Mo used Soulfire to incinerate all eighty-seven white pieces, gaining 435 Equipment Evolution Points!
Lin Mo had already figured out how equipment evolution worked.
He had discovered that each quality upgrade required twice as many evolution points as the previous one!
If upgrading a level-five, tier-one white piece to green costs five evolution points, then upgrading it to blue costs ten, and purple costs twenty... All told, fully evolving one piece into level-five gold equipment requires 315 evolution points!
In other words, the 435 evolution points he had just gained from incinerating equipment were only enough for Lin Mo to evolve one gold piece!
"Not enough."
"Another hundred draws!" Lin Mo took out another five gold coins and handed them to Card Master Carl.
The sight made the onlookers' jaws drop...
Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh, whoosh!
Another hundred draws. This time, Lin Mo flipped the cards to reveal eighty-nine white pieces, seven green, and four blue.
There were no purple pieces.
Repeating the process, he incinerated all eighty-nine white pieces and gained 445 Equipment Evolution Points!
He had three gold, seven silver, and twenty-five copper coins left.
He kept only the spare seven silver coins as a reserve.
Lin Mo spent the remaining three gold coins on another sixty card draws!
Once again, he incinerated the white equipment and kept the green and blue pieces.
Looking at the total of 1,150 Equipment Evolution Points on his stats panel, Lin Mo nodded.
"That's enough to evolve three pieces of level-five gold equipment!"
"Enough!"
Satisfied, Lin Mo said goodbye to Card Master Carl.
He left behind a crowd frozen in place after witnessing him draw cards 261 times and spend dozens of gold coins...
A hefty fellow weighing ninety kilos stared in disbelief. "Holy crap! Does this guy's family own a mine? That's an obscene amount of money!"
A bespectacled scholar pushed up his glasses. "Looks like he drew quite a few green and blue pieces. Seems our pilot's ready for takeoff!"
A little girl with twin ponytails covered her mouth with both hands. "Ooh... I forgot to add that cute guy as a friend. Does anyone know him? Could you send me his profile?"
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