Chapter 93: Version 11’s New Gameplay Is Live
Luo Qi felt that Lin Qi was joking when he talked about teaching martial arts.
A Wilderness Gang opening a shop in the suburbs to teach others martial skills looked like some kind of dark joke no matter how you saw it.
Even if Lin Qi was telling the truth, who would dare come to the headquarters of a Wilderness Gang to learn? Were they tired of having too many organs and looking for a reduction?
“What are you thinking? Of course it’s real, we are a proper martial arts hall.” Lin Qi understood what Luo Qi meant and spoke very seriously.
“A Wilderness Gang in the suburbs has always been synonymous with danger. Even if I believe it, Lin, do you think the people in the suburbs will? Obsidian Martial Arts Hall is already on the Martial Artist Association’s Wilderness Gang list. Now in the whole suburbs there are probably few who don’t know about it.” Luo Qi suggested, “And opening a shop to teach martial skills like this is really too much of a waste of the current shop. I think I should go back to my old trade, recruit some mechanics, purchase a batch of machine tool equipment. As long as there is a stable mineral source, we won’t have to worry about not making money.”
“Open a weapon shop? That’s a good idea.” After hearing this, Lin Qi also felt it was good. At present Obsidian Martial Arts Hall was not short of weapons, but in the future, as the players increased, the existing weapons would certainly not be enough. And with their own weapon shop, they could confidently use the martial hall’s ancient bronze ore to manufacture B2-level weapons. He then said, “Then let’s do both. You prepare the weapon shop, and at the same time help promote the martial arts hall, so neither side is delayed.”
“When the shop opens, you will promote that our Obsidian Martial Arts Hall mainly teaches apprentice-level martial skills Crushing Stone Fist and Leopard Shadow Steps.”
And the moment Lin Qi finished speaking, a system notification sounded in his ears.
System: Congratulations to the host for triggering the Advanced Hidden Task “Martial Arts Not Lightly Passed.” Have players teach the people of this world an entry-level apprentice-level martial skill. The teaching price must be at least twice the market rate. The reward is one Forced Martial Skill Fusion. You may select one player-created martial skill to forcibly fuse with one martial skill mastered by the host, with a certain chance of fusing into a higher-level martial skill. The host can directly reach proficient level.
“Forced Martial Skill Fusion! A certain chance to fuse into a higher-level martial skill?” Looking at the reward of the Advanced Hidden Task, Lin Qi’s heart sped up. He had not expected that such an idea formed unintentionally could trigger such a task.
Leaving aside that martial skill fusion had always made him drool, just being able to directly master player-created martial skills made this task a must.
The martial skills of the High Martial Arts World were indeed powerful, but not very flashy, and their side effects were not small. Player-created martial skills, on the other hand, were dazzling.
If it were not for the fact that he could not die and resurrect, he would have started practicing those player-created martial skills long ago.
Now there was a chance to fuse an even more powerful martial skill. No matter what, this Advanced Task had to be completed.
“Okay, I will promote it when the time comes, but I can’t guarantee there will definitely be people willing to come and learn.” Hearing Lin Qi agree, Luo Qi could not help but breathe a sigh of relief, then said, “The machine tool equipment for the weapon shop will require a lot of investment. Equipment for producing A6-level standard weapon and equipment, a second-hand unit costs about one million bit. B2-level standard equipment, second-hand, is about five million bit. How many units is the martial arts hall planning to get?”
“…” Lin Qi instantly fell silent. All he could scrape together now was not even two hundred thousand. “We can take our time with this weapon shop. After all, I can’t immediately find much ore. Of course the weapon shop has to open, but we can first convert part of the shop into some studios, and when we have a mineral source, it won’t be too late to purchase machine tool equipment.”
“Okay, then I will contact someone to do some simple modifications to the shop right away and open in two days.” Luo Qi did not have any doubts and felt that what Lin Qi said made a lot of sense. A weapon shop was not so easy to run. Without stable ore, the production equipment would just be decoration.
After hanging up the call, Lin Qi immediately began organizing the future development direction of Obsidian Martial Arts Hall.
Half an hour later, Lin Qi pasted a new A4 sheet on the announcement board at the training ground, drawing the training players to rush over and check.
“Damn! Guys, come quickly, the martial arts hall has a new gameplay!”
“They’re actually letting us teach NPCs martial skills. Is this a joke? Shouldn’t it be NPCs teaching us?”
“Didn’t you see this is the martial arts hall’s long-term task? It requires Crushing Stone Fist first level or Leopard Shadow Steps first level, at least at proficient level. But this task is really brutal; it’s not for ordinary people. Previous tasks didn’t have punishment, but if you fail this one, the punishment is the same amount of points and contribution as the task reward.”
“But the reward for this task is really generous. Teach an NPC for two hours, and as long as the NPC gives a qualified review, you get two thousand points and one hundred contribution. At this rate of earning points, even those experts in the new map probably aren’t this fast.”
“This should be a welfare task for those newcomer experts. High risk, high profit. This is much better than digging holes and farming every day, way more promising, real technical work. Unfortunately my Crushing Stone Fist is only at 44% entry level so far; I don’t even qualify to sign up.”
“Great! My Leopard Shadow Steps is at 68% entry level. This task starts in two days. If I push hard, maybe I’ll have a chance!”
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Everyone stared at the latest announcement in shock. They had not expected that while these newcomers were complaining about not having tasks to take, the game manufacturer would actually launch new gameplay. The rewards of this new gameplay were even higher than the points and contribution earned in the new map, and for a while they all felt eager to try.
The veteran players of the previous batches were making huge profits in the new map. These newcomers could only watch every day, envying those veteran players who already had their own weapons, and even their own resting places under construction, making them drool with jealousy.
Now this teaching task was definitely the best choice for these newcomers to catch up with the veteran players.
“A teaching task, huh?”
“This is worth a try. I can just use it to pay back the points I spent to that Saiwai kid and become an inner disciple along the way.”
Among the newcomers, a tall girl who drew attention wherever she went, Chen Ya, looked at the latest announcement, a beautiful curve lifting at the corner of her lips, breathtaking.
Chen Ya had previously squeezed into the top hundred in the physical fitness test by luck. At first she had thought the game manufacturer of High Martial Arts Descend was a lunatic for designing such a perverse assessment. If it had not been for her never slacking off on daily exercise and constantly improving her digging skills, she would not have made the top hundred.
But after being selected to enter High Martial Arts Descend, Chen Ya felt that this physical test did have its reasons. And after playing High Martial Arts Descend for two days, she indeed felt this game was not simple.
Especially after learning the Stellar Explosion Meditation Technique, in reality Chen Ya could clearly feel her thinking becoming much sharper. After dying dozens of times, once the Stellar Explosion Meditation Technique reached 10%, it allowed Chen Ya to easily chain Divine Skill Eight Leaves One Blade while piloting mecha, astonishing even herself.
To improve this much in just two days, Chen Ya could hardly imagine how far that kid Li Ranxing had progressed after playing High Martial Arts Descend for so many days, especially since he had also learned the mental secret technique that only inner disciples could study. According to Saiwai Qiangke, that mental secret technique was even more formidable.
Chen Ya had originally been quite troubled, but now she saw hope of catching up with Li Ranxing’s progress.
Now her Crushing Stone Fist and Leopard Shadow Steps were both above 50% entry level, because she had spent most of her time cultivating the Stellar Explosion Meditation Technique. But with two days, she could fully reach the proficient stage, as long as she did not sleep or go to the club for special training.
And less than an hour after Lin Qi’s notice was posted, a large number of newcomer players began frantically improving Crushing Stone Fist and Leopard Shadow Steps in the training ground. Arms were broken one moment, legs the next. The scene was as lively as a marketplace, leaving the vagrants hired by the martial arts hall to make furniture horrified. They hurriedly hid on the second floor of the hall, afraid these martial arts hall disciples would drag them in to play along.
Time passed, and two days quickly went by.
City of Light Chasing, suburbs, Obsidian Shop.
The three-story building was very run-down, but in the suburbs it counted as a rather luxurious shop. Luo Qi only had the staff open the doors to welcome customers, and a large number of passersby could not help but enter out of curiosity.
“Gang Leader, the shop on Obsidian’s side has opened.” A White Feather Gang man watching from a corner of the busy street spoke quietly into the smart watch on his wrist, using the Winged Tribe’s language that few understood.
“So they opened this fast?” On the other end of the call, Isaac was quite surprised. He had already had people notify many companies and enterprises in the suburbs. Normally, Obsidian Martial Arts Hall should no longer be able to receive commissions. Without those commission tasks, running alone to other cities or towns for procurement would obviously be a losing trade. “What are they selling in their shop?”
“They are not selling anything,” the White Feather Gang man said awkwardly.
“Not selling anything? Then what are they doing opening a shop?” Isaac asked in confusion.
“They are promoting apprentice martial skills and plan to get people in the suburbs to go to Obsidian Martial Arts Hall to study.” The White Feather Gang man explained, “And the learning price at that Obsidian Martial Arts Hall is absurdly high. Everyone who comes into the shop gets scared away.”
“Subordinate went to check Obsidian Martial Arts Hall’s pricing. For regular apprentice-level martial skill learning, in the suburbs an experienced quasi-martial artist instructor charges 1000 bit per hour, two hours per class, around fifty classes to reach proficient level.
“A normal quasi-martial artist instructor charges 500 bit per hour, and it takes about seventy to eighty classes to reach proficient level. But Obsidian Martial Arts Hall charges from 2000 to 4000 bit per hour to teach apprentice-level martial skills, and they do not say how many classes it takes to reach proficiency at all. The prices are clearly a rip-off. Subordinate fully understands what this Obsidian Martial Arts Hall is trying to do.”
“Gang Leader, should I continue monitoring?”
“Teaching apprentice martial skills?” Isaac was full of disdain and felt Obsidian Martial Arts Hall was just putting on a show because they had no goods to sell. “No need. Come back. What comes next is Yaklo and the wilderness side’s business.”
“Yes!”
Less than an hour after the White Feather Gang man left, two human race girl high school students over two meters tall arrived at the entrance of Obsidian Shop.
“Shuangyan, this is your sister’s shop? It looks really good.” A lively big-eyed girl with a ponytail wearing the City of Light Chasing key high school uniform looked at the short-haired girl beside her in a different school uniform, who was nodding, and said with a smile, “Let’s go in and see what they sell. Since it’s your sister’s shop, as your friend I have to support it.”
As she spoke, the lively girl pulled Luo Shuangyan, who had been about to refuse, straight into Obsidian Shop.
