Chapter 1 Nurturing

Nie Yan studied his current specializations: Intermediate Crossbow Mastery, Novice Dual Weapon Mastery, Novice Dexterous Hands, and three free skill points. After thinking for a moment, he upgraded Dual Weapon Mastery and Dexterous Hands to Intermediate level, and then learned a Novice Stealth, which could grant him additional stealth point bonuses.

Intermediate Dual Weapon Mastery allowed players to gain around 13 points of attack power, which was quite a significant effect.

Nie Yan's attack power was getting higher and higher. If his agility met the requirements and he wore the Crimson Poison Ring, he could easily kill even a tank-like Shield Warrior of the same level. Most accessories and even legendary equipment generally only required attribute points. Once the attributes were met, they could be equipped. Most ordinary equipment, on the other hand, had strict level requirements. It was difficult to obtain higher-level defense and attack, but rings that increased attack power and necklaces that increased defense, although rare, did exist and were often very valuable.

Nie Yan was already considering the issue of agility. After all, 160 agility points weren't so easy to achieve. There were very few agility-enhancing skill books for Thieves on the market. Players usually kept such skill books for themselves and rarely put them on the market. As soon as they appeared, they would be snapped up in a frenzy because the demand was too great. It was like Warriors needing strength-enhancing skills or Mages needing intelligence-enhancing skills. Agility-enhancing skill books for Thieves were hard to come by, only occasionally encountered by those with good luck.

Asking Half-Asleep Fox for a few strength-enhancing skill books for Thieves would be readily agreed to, but if he were asked for a few agility-enhancing skill books, it might be a bit difficult. He had so many Thieves in his guild, who wouldn't need agility? Why would he give them to Nie Yan, an outsider? Even if he himself agreed, the Thieves in his guild wouldn't be willing.

As for embedding agility gems, most of the equipment on Nie Yan was embedded with strength gems, leaving no space.

The 160 agility requirement was too terrifying. If it weren't for Nie Yan gaining more attribute points per level than other players, and the Sogort Shadow giving him 30 agility points, breaking 100 agility at this level would be difficult. If he really couldn't find any, he would have to wait.

"Let's go back first," Nie Yan said. After farming Elite Scale Frogs, they still had a lot of things to do.

"Okay." Tang Yao also wanted to go back and see how things were going with the guild.

After reading the Return City scroll, two white lights flashed, and Tang Yao and Nie Yan returned to the city.

"Let's go to the guild first, and then I'll go and establish the guild warehouse," Nie Yan thought for a moment and said.

"Alright."

Nie Yan and Tang Yao walked towards the guild headquarters. The guild headquarters was located in the southeast of Calore City. It was arranged by the server. Each guild had a fixed location for activities. For example, the Holy Roman Empire guild headquarters was in the south of Calore City, the Triumph Empire guild headquarters was in the north of Calore City, and so on. The guild headquarters of each guild were often far away from each other, and each guild headquarters would have one or two NPC guards to maintain order and avoid friction.

To avoid being recognized, Nie Yan and Tang Yao could only hide their information.

There was still some distance to the guild headquarters, and it was already bustling with noise, a sea of people, impossible to squeeze through. There were all kinds of professions, and heads were jostling everywhere.

"It seems we can't squeeze in," Tang Yao said with a wry smile. He didn't expect so many people at the guild headquarters entrance. He didn't know when this lively scene would end.

"If we can't squeeze in, forget it. I'll go to the auction house and start building the guild warehouse!"

"Okay, Yu Lan and the others messaged me, saying they're going to farm level 10 monsters and then do the Black Flame dungeon. I'll go take a look and add them to the guild," Tang Yao said. Yu Lan's team was pretty good. If they were nurtured and adjusted, even if they couldn't become an elite team, they would definitely be a first-class team.

"After I'm done, I'll take them through the Black Flame dungeon," Nie Yan thought for a moment and said. The Black Flame Forest was still quite difficult. If he led the team, Yu Lan and the others could at least wipe five fewer times.

"That would be great. How long will you be busy?"

"It shouldn't take too long, about an hour or so."

"Then I'll go farm monsters with them first. Hopefully, we can get some level 10 equipment."

Nie Yan separated from Tang Yao, went to the Starry Night Pharmacy to withdraw thirty gold coins, and handed over the dropped recipe to Niao Bu Sheng Dan for processing. He walked towards the House of Sosomya, bought one hundred Flash Powders, fifty Polymorph scrolls, and fifty Web scrolls. Then he went to the auction house, selling one or two Flash Powders, Polymorph scrolls, and Web scrolls every once in a while.

He opened the equipment section of the auction house. There were at least hundreds of thousands of pieces of equipment on sale. Nie Yan started a big purchase. He bought anything with decent attributes at a reasonable price. If it was too expensive, he directly gave up. The equipment in his backpack gradually increased. In addition to the equipment needed to build the guild warehouse, Nie Yan also swept all the fire resistance-related items into his backpack.

Thirty gold coins were spent like water. Nearly ten gold coins were turned into fire resistance equipment, and twenty gold coins were turned into more than two hundred pieces of silver equipment, with an average price of about ten silver coins each. The attributes of such valuable equipment were quite good. Currently, it was definitely the ultimate equipment that ordinary players were pursuing.

After buying the equipment, Nie Yan established a guild warehouse with the warehouse manager, and set the rules for the guild warehouse. Players could earn 1-2 guild contribution points by depositing herbs, replaced equipment, and gold coins into the guild warehouse, based on the item level and the amount of money. With enough guild contribution points, they could retrieve equipment that met the requirements from the warehouse. For example, a silver-grade +7 Strength +8 Agility Thief equipment required about 200 contribution points. After using it and putting it back, they could get back 120 guild contribution points. It was similar to a bank, but the guild warehouse often had more and more deposits, and the guild therefore prospered.

Of course, there were other ways to obtain guild contribution points besides depositing equipment and money. Each dungeon run with the team could earn a certain amount of contribution points. When running dungeons with the team, if other guild members took a piece of equipment, and you didn't, you could also be allocated a certain amount of contribution points. Completing guild tasks for the guild could also earn a certain amount of contribution points.

And so on, the more guild contribution points, the better the equipment that could be obtained from the guild warehouse.

Nie Yan set every detailed rule, drawing on the settings of the guild warehouses of major guilds in his previous life, checking them one by one to make sure there were no exploitable loopholes in the rules, and then opened the guild warehouse.

Nie Yan owned the guild warehouse. Hao Cheng and others could allocate a total of 1000-2000 guild contribution points. Tang Yao had a little more, with 3000 guild contribution points to allocate. If they felt that the guild contribution points they could allocate were not enough, they could ask Nie Yan.

The guild warehouse could be opened in the personal warehouse or at the guild headquarters.

Nie Yan sent a message to Hao Cheng and others: "The guild warehouse is open, take a look."

The guild headquarters was extremely busy. Hao Cheng, Guo Huai, and others were constantly busy adding people. More and more players were joining the guild, and the congested situation had not eased.

Hao Cheng and others received the message from Nie Yan and excitedly opened the guild warehouse at the guild headquarters. More than two hundred pieces of silver equipment were neatly placed there, which was quite a spectacular sight. There were even some level 10 gold equipment. At the very back were twenty-three pieces of silver and gold equipment that could only be worn at level 30, which required a very high guild contribution value, at least three thousand or more to take away.

Nie Yan considered it carefully. Although putting level 30 equipment on display was a bit too ostentatious, since Tang Yao's level-skipping monster farming was no longer a secret, putting level 30 equipment on display would definitely shock the nerves of ordinary players and make them more confident in the guild's strength.

Hao Cheng was stunned. So many good pieces of equipment were densely packed there, which was still very shocking, especially the level 30 equipment at the back, which was a symbol of strength. Being able to get level 30 silver and gold equipment now undoubtedly gave the players a signal that if they increased their personal guild contribution value, then they would be able to wear silver and gold equipment at level 30, while others were still worrying about equipment!

"Everyone, be quiet!" Guo Huai shouted to the players who were preparing to join the guild behind him.

The players behind who were preparing to join the guild and squeezing in immediately quieted down when they heard Guo Huai's voice, listening to what the guild leader was going to say.

"Our guild leader is Ya Que, who is currently at the top of the level rankings, as you have seen. We are very honored that the guild is so popular. It is normal for a guild to rise and fall. What I want to say is that our guild is definitely a guild with long-term vitality, and various welfare measures will be followed up. I hope more players will join our guild and build our guild into a large guild that can rival Triumph, Holy Light Flame, and the Holy Roman Empire. Currently, the welfare that is open is that all guild players can enjoy a certain amount of 5% discount when purchasing potions from Starry Night Pharmacy with the status of a Mad Rogue Tribe guild member. In addition, the guild warehouse has been established, and everyone can open it. In the future, we hope that more powerful players will join our guild." When Guo Huai said these words, he was full of confidence.

"The guild warehouse is open, that's so fast."

"So much silver equipment! There's even level 30 equipment!"

Many players who had just joined the guild couldn't help but exclaim. The hundreds of silver and gold equipment listed were dazzling, dazzling them.

"Master Looking Up At The Snail, can you reveal what relationship our guild has with Starry Night Pharmacy?"

"Yeah, tell us about it."

"This is temporarily confidential," Guo Huai said calmly. He was now becoming more and more like a guild leader.