Chapter 1040: Finding A Spendthrift

Translator: Atlas Studios  Editor: Atlas Studios

All along, the gaming operators and the professional gamers rarely had any kind of relationship.

Theoretically speaking, professional players are like parasites of the game as they constantly absorb the nutrition of the game.

From another angle, professional players are also players and the gaming operators have no rights to take away their rights to play. Therefore, the gaming company would never intervene as long as these professional players did not make use of the gaming resources to accumulate large amounts of wealth without any restraints and affect the gaming experience of the other players.

The Quan Zhen Sect made use of the system event and authority of the City Lord to earn a whopping 100 million gold in just three days. Such a large amount of money was definitely not something an ordinary workshop could earn.

One must know that one of the games Soaring Dragon Game Studios created in the past changed ownership because of an overly rampant workshop which resulted in the loss of profits. Therefore, it seemed logical that they were starting to watch over Quan Zhen Sect even more closely than before.

However, everyone realised something, “Wait, they should be targeting Evil Rampage and not us… Why us?”

Evil Rampage’s Peerless Heaven is the largest resource monopoly in the game. When the Quan Zhen Sect compared themselves with Evil Rampage, they believed that they should be paling into insignificance.

“What do you guys know!” Fearless argued, “How can our actions compare to Evil Rampage?”

“Hey, this…” Hearing what Fearless said, everyone was speechless.

Peerless Heaven was an organisation following the rules and regulations of the game. Even though they monopolized the mining site, they had never used any kind of special techniques to prevent other players from mining. Moreover, other players involved in mining were also able to sell for a good price at Peerless Heaven. At most, they would be collecting some protection fee.

They cleared the monsters in the mining area so it was reasonable for them to collect protection fee.

Moreover, mining was never an easy job, especially in a virtual reality game. Players couldn’t simply leave their headsets idle and then go and watch a movie or something. Nobody is willing to do such a boring job and while Peerless Heaven seemed to be monopolising the industry, they were merely doing jobs that other players were not willing to do.

If they weren’t so many miners serving everyone else, players would have to waste up to one whole day just to mine some resources.

Furthermore, Peerless Heaven had over hundred thousand members. The company was not so ignorant to just take away the rice bowls of these hundred thousand players.

On the contrary, it was fine even if the Quan Zhen Sect had no contributions to the game. However, they even went around surrounding BOSS, resort to dirty techniques to accumulate wealth. This was especially true for this cape event where there was a turnover of over 100 million gold. The system didn’t even earn a single cent from these transactions so how can they be pleased with the Quan Zhen Sect?

“What should I do? F*ck… Hurry up and sell the gold, make a profit and run away…”

Even though these players were shameless and despicable, they knew what they were doing. At the thought of this, they couldn’t help but think of self-protection.

When Wang Yu saw the reaction of his words, Wang Yu frowned and said, “What are you guys talking about? The system is only targeting me.”

“Nonsense! If you’ve been targeted, do you think we’re far from it?” everyone replied.

Wang Yu replied helplessly, “But you guys are not even the City Lord of the Sky Dragon City.”

“???”

Everyone asked in shock, “What? You’re Sky Dragon City’s City Lord?”

Because of the guilt Wang Yu felt towards Heavenly Dragon, he never mentioned anything about Sky Dragon City. Therefore, everyone merely thought that Wang Yu was only targeted after being registered there.

When everyone heard this news, they were so shocked that they almost fell to the ground.

“City… City Lord?”

The City Lord’s title for players in this current state was still a far-fetched term. Even a mega organisation cannot hope of becoming a City Lord.

It was already an exceptional feat for Wang Yu to be the City Lord of Twilight City. Who would have thought that this fella went for a stroll and became another City Lord?!

Damn! Is this what you call a vicious man?

He went out for a quest and casually became a City Lord. Wang Yu simply couldn’t stop making people gasp in amazement.

Of course, when this happened on someone else and the Quan Zhen Sect realised there was someone better at taking advantage of a crisis for personal gain than them, they were definitely not going to feel good about it. However, when they realised that this happened with Wang Yu, everyone was merely a little taken aback but soon felt that everything was logical… This was the most illogical reasoning.

Very soon, Fearless reminded Wang Yu, “If you’re the City Lord, it isn’t as problematic as you think. Go visit the state treasury because it shouldn’t make sense for you to tank such a huge loss all by yourself.”

Indeed, the system should not be so despicable to the extent of making someone pay one million gold shortly after taking over the office.

“Makes sense!” Wang Yu hurriedly opened up Sky Dragon City’s reserve cash.

Items like building materials and food have been completely destroyed by Heavenly Dragon… As for the gold collected from taxation, there were still five hundred thousand left.

Who knows if this Heavenly Dragon was corrupted and abused his power? After all, Sky Dragon City was one of the four great cities and there were over sixty to seventy thousand players. If everyone were to pay just one gold coin for tax, he should have more than this amount in the reserve…

If it was a hundred thousand or eighty thousand, Wang Yu could still consider but he was not going to bother about five hundred thousand. To an ordinary person, a large amount like this was not much different from one million dollars. Since they were both astronomical figures, Wang Yu didn’t want to take it even if it meant halving the amount he needed to pay.

“There is only five hundred thousand gold left in the main city’s reserves…” Wang Yu sent the screenshot of the cash reserve to the guild chat.

“Five hundred thousand, ah… That’s quite a lot already!” Looking at the screenshot, Ming Du’s saliva was spilling out of his mouth.

Wang Yu was infuriated, “A lot your head! This isn’t even our Twilight City. I am not even willing to fork out even a cobble.”

“What are you saying?” Ming Du argued, “What I meant is for you to escape after clearing the city’s reserve… Don’t you want to earn five hundred thousand gold just like that?”

The rest of the players, “…”

Everyone really wondered what kind of education Ming Du received when he was young. Being a b*stard was already an intrinsic characteristic of this fella because he didn’t even need to think to come up with such a rotten idea. This was simply too frightening.

Wang Yu shook his head, “I cannot escape because the system is only giving me three days to raise the money… I predict that if I cannot raise the amount in time, the system might clear my account forcefully.”

“Hmm…” Fearless thought for a while before replying, “Then you have to find a spendthrift willing to spend this money.”

“Oh?” Wang Yu’s eyes lit up, “How do I find such a person?”

Fearless replied faintly, “Very simple, you just have to hand over your title to someone else… You might not want to be a City Lord here but there are plenty of people who want to be. When they have a force in terms of numbers, they wouldn’t be bothered by small qualms like this.

“Hmm…” Wang Yu was speechless again.

Ming Du did stupid things to benefit himself while Fearless was always out to harm others… What a bunch of friends.

However, Fearless was logical and Wang Yu was not someone who enjoyed building his own personal fiefdom. Since this was the case, he might as well hand over the responsibility of managing the city. Instead of suffering the consequences by himself, he might as well transfer it to someone else for each shall take what he needs.

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