VRMMO Botanist - Chapter 24

Translator: Larbre Studio

Editor: Larbre Studio

Movement speed was an essential attribute in the game. An adventurer’s equipment consisted of weapons, armour, bracers, leggings, shoes, necklaces, rings, and earrings. Out of a total of ten standard equipment, only the shoes helped to increase movement speed. A pair of shoes with good attributes and help to increase movement speed was akin to a good car. It would always garner everyone’s attention, and the price to get one’s hands on one was naturally high.

Hence, it was not easy to find a pair of shoes with high movement speed. Especially if one were to want to get them immediately, one must be prepared to have others carve out a pound of flesh.

However, Ye Chen had just received a reward of 1000 gold coins. Even if he were to spend more money, he would not mind too much. The question was where on earth he could go to immediately purchase a pair of shoes that adds a movement speed of 5.

Acquisition in the game forum was a possible method. Still, this method would garner feedback far too slowly, unless one was willing to pay a sensational sky-high price and cause others to discuss it. Otherwise, only Heaven knew when he would actually acquire a pair.

Thinking for a while, Ye Chen felt that he could only head to the Trade Lobby in the city to get the pair of shoes he wanted in the shortest time.

Heading back directly to the Titan Megacity, Ye Chen entered a huge trading hall not long after walking on the spacious gray marble street.

“The newly-launched Level 60 Summoner’s pinnacle Gold-grade equipment, Wild Wolf summoning skill level +1!”

“Selling various grades of low-resistance potions!”

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He had entered the door of the Trading Lobby before he was assaulted by a cacophony of lively buying and selling sounds. As he swerved his gaze to see the commotion, he saw that there were rows after rows of countless adventurer-owned stalls set up in the Trade Lobby.

Ye Chen didn’t pay attention to these adventurers, nor did he have the thought of finding an excellent pair of shoes that could be worn by the Level 14 adventurers from these adventurer-owned stalls. Instead, he headed for a less-populated area in the Trade Lobby and called out the item auction system.

In the Trade Lobby, many adventurers that seemed like they were standing still were in actuality browsing the items in the item auction system.

Of course, this item auction system could only allow one to view the items being auctioned in the Titan Megacity as well as the surrounding auction systems in the various large and small towns within its scope. The item auction system within the entire Oriental Region would only be opened on Saturday and Sunday. At that time, the Trading Area would become quite lively, like a festival taking place.

For those with the money but no place to spend it, in those two days, as long as the items they were looking for were not too abnormal and rare, they should be possible to acquire them from the item auction system, which would boast a terrifyingly large amount of transactions.

Although it was only an item auction system centred around the Titan Megacity, the moment Ye Chen entered the auction system, he found that there was a fierce bidding war for a Venomous Flying Dragon mount’s egg. The price of which had already reached more than 800,000 gold coins.

“Venomous Flying Dragon’s egg? Shouldn’t such a rare drop start auctioning on the weekend?”

Even if it was Ye Chen who saw it, he couldn’t help but be surprised.

Venomous Flying Dragon, as an aerial-type mount, has an extremely eye-catching body-shape. Its attributes were even more perverted, and it was definitely a symbol of identity and strength!

Under normal circumstances, it should have appeared in the weekend’s All-Oriental auction. However, when Ye Chen looked at the auction deadline, it immediately became clear to him why the egg would show up now. The bidding of this Venomous Flying Dragon had actually already lasted for a week without any upper limit. The current price was only the prelude, and when the weekend comes, the price will shoot through the ceiling in one fell swoop.

Within the game, no matter whether it was items or money, the drop rate was extremely scarce, but many places required the vast consumption of gold coins. Although the game had been running for several years, the gold coins still showed no signs of depreciation and still have considerable purchasing power. Despite this, the Venomous Flying Dragon had already auctioned for a price of over 800,000, which was a frightening amount. If these gold coins were sold on the trading platform, it would cause one to strike the jackpot overnight.

Ye Chen knew that the Venom Flying Dragon held an immense attraction to those “whales”, and the final transaction price will definitely be more than doubled the current price.

“Fuck me, if I can get on my hands on such loot, the matter concerning Xiao Jing and Xiao Lan can be solved in one go.” Watching the price of the Venomous Flying Dragon suddenly shooting up by another 20,000 gold coins, Ye Chen couldn’t help but feel despondent.

Twenty thousand gold coins could allow one to do many things in the game, but in this item auction of this priceless drop, this increase seemed to amount to only two copper coins.

But Ye Chen was only rambling to himself. Waiting for the pie to fall was not in his character. He turned his attention away from the Venomous Flying Dragon, instead searching for shoes with high movement speed that was below Level 14.

As for finding the right pair of shoes, Ye Chen did not hold too much confidence. To place items on the auction system, one must pay at least ten gold coins, but for many items below Level 10, most couldn’t even earn back the initial cost of the ten gold coins. Hence, in the auction system, Level 10 equipment would rarely be seen.

But the moment Ye Chen entered the search bar, he felt that he was blessed by good fortune. There was a pair of Level 13 Gold-grade shoes being auctioned.

[Oil Lizard Leather Boots(Gold-grade): A pair of shoes made from rare Oil Lizard leather. With a slick and shiny surface, one could hardly feel any resistance wearing this shoe.

Attributes: Defense +7, magic Defense +8, Movement Speed +5, Can be equipped at Level 13.

Profession Limitations: None.

Additional skills: Low-level Explosive Run-away.

Low-level Explosive Run-away: Exhausting all your body strength to increase the movement speed by 1 additional point within 30 seconds. However, within 1 minute after the end of the state, you will enter a fatigued state, and the movement speed will be reduced by an additional 2 points. Skill cooldown: 3 minutes.]

Glancing at the remaining time of the shoe auction, Ye Chen couldn’t help but rejoice for coming in time. If he had arrived even a few minutes later, the shoe auction would be over.

There were more than seven minutes of auction time left for the pair of shoes. Upon discovering this pair of shoes, just solely looking at the attributes, Ye Chen found that the bidding price had changed twice. Who knew how many people were eyeing this pair of Gold-grade shoes and engaged in a fierce bidding war?

The starting price was at 100 gold coins. Although it seems that several people were bidding for the auction, the current bidding price of the auction was not very high, only at 135 gold coins and 66 silver coins. Every time someone bade, only a few silver coins would be added.

“Other than increasing Movement Speed by 5, this pair of shoes has a low level and even lower attributes. The low-level Explosive Run-away skill is even more of a troll skill for most adventurers, and at most, it is only worth up to three hundred gold coins. However, the adventurer who is selling quoted an asking price of 500 gold coins. No wonder that these people only came to bid slowly at this time.” Ye Chen had an abundance of experience in this field and immediately saw through to the root of the problem.

For shoes of this level, it was actually quite a troll. The adventurers who could afford them will instead choose to spend the money directly on hiring someone to power level them, and instantly advance so that they could wear higher-level equipment. As for adventurers who have no money, although they want to buy them, they could only lament their poverty. For low-level adventurers, where would they find hundreds of gold coins to buy a pair of shoes? If they had so much money, they would directly buy a decent set of silver-grade equipment, which would strengthen their damage output and Defense.

While Movement Speed ​​was good, for most adventurers, damage output and Defense were far more essential.

So now, the bidders were either the merchants who intended to resell the item, or mediocre adventurers who didn’t have enough money, yet wanted to buy the shoes to show off. But no matter who they were, neither would pay the asking price of 500 gold coins. But this did not include Ye Chen.

After observing for a while more, he found that there were indeed at least five people eyeing at the pair of shoes. Hence, Ye Che didn’t think too much, directly buying it at the asking price.

After all, to Ye Chen, Defense was as transient as clouds. The Movement Speed of these shoes could still last him until Level 30, and he can sell the shoes anytime after they are replaced with a better pair then.

Although this did not negate the fact that he still lost over two hundred gold coins, however with so many bidders, only the system would know who the item would ultimately fall to. Ye Chen did not want to potentially regret and waste his time just because of the two or three hundred gold coins. It was not an uncommon sight to Ye Chen to see adventurers who wanted to spend less on the auction, but ultimately losing the bid and falling into a sea of despair.

Ye Chen bought the shoes at the asking price. In the Trade Lobby, several adventurers were still anxiously counting down how much auction time was left. In their hearts, they were scheming on how to strike at the last possible moment. However, these nefariously-plotting adventurers all couldn’t help their hearts almost going still with shock.

“Fuck! Which prodigal son is this?!” After remaining silent for a while, a fat businessman couldn’t help viciously cussing out.

Five hundred gold coins to buy a pair of Level 13 shoes. This was really too fucking prodigal, the extreme heights of extravagance!