Chapter 145 The Price of Gems Soars

Nie Yan was still fairly calm. In recent days, Guo Huai had been restless, seeing the market changes and understanding everything. It was as if he could already see the glittering gold coins in his hands in a few days.

The Mage Alliance's investment of over two million gold coins in a large-scale acquisition of gems became the last straw that broke the camel's back. Players could see that something was not right with the gem market. The Mage Alliance dared to invest so much money in gem acquisitions, which meant there must be something fishy going on. More and more people bought gems, and the price quickly began to rise, soaring all the way up.

The more it soared, the more people bought. That's just how the market is.

"Nie Yan, the price of gems has started to skyrocket!" Guo Huai said to Nie Yan in the voice chat. There was a trace of excited trembling in his voice. After waiting for five days, he was incredibly anxious. The price of gems had finally started to soar. How could he not be excited?

"Stay calm, wait a few more days," Nie Yan said with a smile. The price of gems would only rise and not fall in the next period of time. They could just sit back and wait to collect the money.

Only by waiting for the price of gems to reach its peak before selling could they get the maximum profit. Nie Yan and the others were now like hunters patiently waiting for their prey.

"I understand, the price of gems will definitely continue to rise, but I can't help but be excited." Guo Huai chuckled. He also had a good business sense, but that was twenty million gold coins! Few people could remain calm in the face of such a huge sum of money.

Nie Yan was indifferent. Money was just a means to achieve a goal, not the ultimate goal. Having experienced both life and death, what was there to be unsettled about? These twenty million gold coins were just the beginning.

Players in the major cities of the Satreen Empire and the Greenroam Empire were all staring at the gem market. This chaotic and volatile market was like being shrouded in a fog. Many people couldn't understand what was going on. Some still firmly believed that the secret shops existed, and that all of this was just a trick by those gem dealers to lure them into buying gems. They wanted to continue waiting, waiting for the price of gems to drop to their expected range before buying. Some insightful players began to buy gems, and their frantic purchases pushed up the price of gems. The vast majority of players chose to watch from the sidelines, and they could only watch the price of gems rise steadily.

In the current situation, no one dared to say that their judgment was correct.

"The price of poison resistance gems dropped from 1,200 gold coins to 300 gold coins. How long has it been? It's back up to 1,000 gold coins and still soaring. How can anyone survive this?" a warrior said in frustration.

"That's right, the prices of other types of gems have also risen back up. Like fire resistance gems, they are already twice the price of ordinary gems."

"Luckily, I bought five or six gems when the price was at its lowest. It cost me more than 600 gold coins at the time. If I sell them now, they're probably worth 3,000 gold coins."

This world is really a mix of joy and sorrow.

Nie Yan casually glanced at the auction house. The quantity of various gems in the auction house was much less than before. It was estimated that the gems on the market would be sold out soon. When passing through the central square of Calore, Nie Yan found that there were many teams going to hunt for gems. Many people didn't dare to buy gems. The current gem market was too unpredictable, so many people could only rely on themselves to farm gems. However, the effect was obviously very limited. A team farming monsters in a specific map for five or six days would only produce three or four gems at most, and the attributes could not be determined. Divided among everyone, it was not worth much at all.

"How many sets of magic rune stones have you collected?" Nie Yan remembered and asked Guo Huai.

"During this time, I bought a total of more than 10,000 magic rune stones. About 500 sets were made up of seven different magic rune stones." Guo Huai said that the players' attention was focused on the gems, there were relatively few people buying magic rune stones, and the price of magic rune stones was relatively low, so he bought so many.

"More than 500 sets?" Nie Yan was startled. He didn't expect Guo Huai to buy so many. In his previous life, a set of magic rune stones was炒 chao (stir-fried; speculated) to a sky-high price, and he actually had more than 500 sets! How much experience could these sets of magic rune stones be exchanged for?

Nie Yan couldn't estimate it for the time being. He planned to take advantage of his low level to kill the troll Dylance across levels and level up a few more times. When he couldn't level up by killing the troll Dylance anymore, he would turn in the magic rune stones and level up a few more times.

Nie Yan went to get the javelin and continued to farm monsters, rushing to level up as quickly as possible.

During this period, the Mad Rogue Tribe was relatively calm. Brilliant Knife Edge, Water Color Smoker, and others took the lead and began to organize large teams of thousands of people to clear some of the more famous high-level monsters on the map, such as the Level 80 Lord Flame Giant Lizard and the Level 85 Lord Manny Giant Python. The players below organized small teams to refresh some elites and lords.

In the Level 60-70 and Level 80-90 maps of Calore, the figures of Mad Rogue Tribe players were active everywhere. When exploring the map, there were occasionally some extra rewards, such as jars of gunpowder, sulfur, etc. These materials were transported to the headquarters of the Mad Rogue Tribe.

Guo Huai was in charge of the overall situation in Calore. After Calore stabilized, Nie Yan and the others began to expand slowly. The Mad Rogue Tribe opened a branch in the City of Elements. The Galam Divine Temple, the Holy Roman Empire, and the Radiant Sacred Flame also opened branches in other cities. They generally chose cities that had not been unified by guild forces. They opened branches there to recruit people, preparing to seize control of the city after they grew stronger.

Just when Nie Yan was frantically leveling up, Guo Huai sent some bad news.

"Recently, some thieves have been assassinating our people everywhere." Guo Huai said, looking at the news coming from various places, his brows furrowed.

"Has anyone been hit?" Nie Yan asked. The trick of thieves ambushing was not new. Nie Yan had also hired thieves to assassinate people from the Mage Alliance, the Holy Guardians, and the Angel Corps. The players of the Mad Rogue Tribe should have been prepared.

"There are about fifty or sixty of them, usually in teams of seven or eight. They rarely miss when they attack. Their target is the elite members of our Mad Rogue Tribe. These guys have very accurate information. Someone on our side must be leaking information to them. Undying Bad Egg, Summer Bug Talks of Ice, Black and White, and others have been hit, suffering heavy losses. Brilliant Knife Edge was also attacked, killing two thieves. He was almost taken down, but reinforcements arrived in time." Guo Huai said. The reported data showed that about twenty important members had been assassinated, which was shocking.

Hearing the names reported by Guo Huai, Nie Yan raised his eyebrows and asked in a deep voice, "Do you know who did it?" These members were the backbone of the Mad Rogue Tribe in the future. Their deaths were a huge loss to the Mad Rogue Tribe.

"The people below said it seems to be Blood Fiend. We can't confirm the identity of that group of people yet." Guo Huai said, "I think it should be the people from the Mage Alliance, the Holy Guardians, and the Angel Corps. Only they are willing to spend so much effort to deal with us."

Blood Fiend? Nie Yan remembered such an organization. In his previous life, this organization was quite famous in the Satreen Empire and the Greenroam Empire. They were a group of thieves, with a total of more than one hundred people. This was a group of professional players with no moral standards. They did any business that made money, assassination, murder and robbery, and theft. There were many experts among them. Five people successfully advanced to Shadow Dancers in their previous life, and the others were also surprisingly strong. Players generally did not dare to provoke them. Blood Fiend was very mysterious. Each of their members had their own unique code name and password, and each member's whereabouts were kept secret from the outside world. The organization was very strict, and they never recruited new members. They only had a fixed number of more than one hundred members, so other players could not infiltrate them at all.

It was such an organization of more than one hundred people that had slaughtered three ten-thousand-member guilds in its previous life. The number of people who died at their hands was countless, but because their people were secretive and their assassination operations were as swift as the wind, players could not catch them at all and could do nothing about them.

Such an organization was terrifying!

"It's actually Blood Fiend. This is a bit troublesome." Nie Yan frowned. He estimated that his old rivals had hired people from Blood Fiend.

"The Mage Alliance, the Holy Guardians, and the Angel Corps are really determined to destroy us. It's not a pleasant thing to be targeted by Blood Fiend like this." Guo Huai said that if seven or eight top thieves attacked a player together, few players could dodge it unless their awareness and skills were particularly good.

"The top priority is to find out those traitors first. Check them one by one. I don't believe they can hide. Also, tell the players below to be careful when traveling. It's best to go in groups and not be alone, giving them a chance." Nie Yan said that the news of Blood Fiend assassinating players from the Mad Rogue Tribe had not been leaked at all, and no guild had admitted to doing it. Since that was the case, let the news be completely blocked.

Since it was not determined who did it, Nie Yan would not take any revenge for the time being, but that did not mean he would not do it in the future.

"I'm looking for the traitors. There should be more than one." Guo Huai said, sighing. No guild could avoid the existence of traitors, including the Mad Rogue Tribe. However, the Mage Alliance, the Holy Guardians, and the Angel Alliance also had traitors in the Mad Rogue Tribe. The salary of a traitor was dozens of times higher than the salary of an ordinary guild member. Under heavy reward, there would always be people who would take the risk.

"If you find the traitors, don't expose them, and don't let them notice. I'll have a use for them next time." Nie Yan specifically instructed Guo Huai. He already had some plans in mind.

Guo Huai was stunned for a moment, then he understood and smiled slightly, "Understood, don't worry, I will definitely not let them find out."

If the traitors were successfully found out, these traitors would become free mouthpieces for the Mad Rogue Tribe. With such guys around, they could definitely receive miraculous effects at critical moments.

~~Thanks to Jiangnan for becoming the 35th leader of Thief Reborn! The Snail is ashamed, I have been resting recently and the updates are not good.