The Strongest Wizard

Wealth, EXP, Reputation Points - The Works...!

27th December 1018 / 2018 1235hrs

"Alright, guys, this should be more than enough for The Wintry Hills. The Bronze Sabre Tooth Tiger seemed to detect us but failed to attract its aggro."

"It looked like a big p***y cat on top of the mountain top there. Its a Level 50 Beast and a single hit would deal a lot of damage and might even respawn you back."

"Besides, all your equipment, EXP and resources might be dropped and unable to be recovered by your teammates. Only you would be able to Blazing 3 Armed Monkey and its also a Level 50 Beast. It patrols the mountaintops, and this is how we would be mining......"

I explained the rest to the party members to make them understand the strategy. It is simple enough not to attract the aggro of any of the Beasts, as long as they followed the simple instructions. Once they had acknowledged of what to do, we went to the City of Votrieburg and had the guys deposit all the masonry they had collected in the first part.

Right after they had done so, I also got a few pieces of chipped gemstones which was better than nothing since the members were still in Level 10 and below in their mining level. Once they had hit Level 10, their mining would also improve, and they would be getting more semi-precious stones and other gemstones.

Right now, they had traded all their semi-precious stones with the NPC in the marketplace, and they were very delighted to find more funds being collected inside their in-game virtual bank account.

Whatever they could harvest are theirs to keep. Other Guild Leaders imposed a 25% tax that would be used to build their Guild. However, I do not have plans to gather such funds in that manner since I would do it in another form - Lifestyle Workshops and Retail Stores...!

With these 2 workings together, I am sure that this time, the income for the Guild that would be planned in the future would fall through easily.

After we had done our business in the City of Votrieburg, we headed over to The Bellowing Slopes where the fire crystals were waiting for us to harvest.

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27th December 1018 / 2018 2022hrs

"That's about all we've got folk. It is already night time, and if you would like, we can go catacombs diving after this. But first, let us all go back to the City, store the things and sell off all the semi-precious stones, then log off for a while to stretch our legs before I bring you to another hidden quest. How about that?"

The moment I mentioned about catacombs diving, the members asked if there was any choice between normal mode or hellish mode there. "Hahaha...! There's no mode at all. There are a few hidden quests, and all we need to do is to get all of the hidden quests for ourselves. These catacombs are not discovered by anyone yet and are not available on the minimaps as well."

"Then how are we going there, if the location of the catacombs is not available on the minimap?" one of the members inquired since we would be out of bounds if discovered by the GM or Game Master.

"Don't worry, I am a Baroness, so it should not be a problem for us to enter the greyed out zones, don't you think so?" I replied as the members were piqued when they heard the title, Baroness.

"Would we be able to gain peerage title like you, Captain? What are the benefits of gaining a peerage title?" one of the members scooted close by and was interested in how to gain peerage title since I am the first player to do so.

"Peerage title gives you the benefit to purchase lands for residential and commercial as well as to build a Guild. Like me, I have a plan to build a Guild, that would take at least a few months. Once a member of the Guild gains a peerage title, he or she will increase the reputation of a Guild from the third tier to second depending on the number of peerages the Guild has."

"Once a Guild upgrade from the third tier to the second, the Guild can recruit more members, upgrade the facilities and amenities of the Guild and on top of that hire NPC Silverlight Knights to guard the premises. A top tier Guild would be able to hire Silverlight Knights not only to protect the premise but also to fight alongside us. By that time, we should be Level 75 and above to do so."

"WOW...!!! Hire Silverlight Knights to fight alongside us? That would be terrific...! How many reputation points do we need, Captain, to be a Baron?" one of the members asked as he was delighted to know about having Silverlight Knights fighting alongside us.

"At least 10,000 reputation points. Then it would be 100,000, and the next would be 500,000, 1,000,000 and 10,000,000 reputation points for Baron, Viscount, Earl, Marquis and Dukes. For the ladies, it would be Baroness, Viscountess, Countess, Marchioness and Duchess respectively. Once a Guild is established, use the masonry to contribute to the building of the Guild's construction, and you could earn reputation points. Right now, the catacombs that we would be heading also has reputation points and EXP plus spoils of war...!"

"WOW...! We had made the first clear of a Hellish Mode of a Dungeon, and now we are going to have peerage titles...!!! A leader would always be a true leader after all..!!!" Snowball was delighted that he held his hands under his chin and fluttered his eyelids like an anime character...!

Everyone laughed at their former leader's reaction, and after they had settled their matters, we all logged off in the town square instead.

We synchronised our watches and decided to login by 2200hrs.

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27th December 1018 / 2018 2201hrs

Everyone came online and had assembled at the town square as one by one materialised. With renewed strength and vigour after taking a short break from MMORPG gaming, we were able to plan our way since we would be heading to the unopened parts of the map.

"Alright, guys. Gather around. We are now at the outskirts of town. What we would be doing right now is to head out according to our marker location. Once we had it the border, we would be guided only by me so stick close to me, and we would be entering the catacombs just before midnight."

"You all have enough mana and health potions, right? If you do have adequate health and mana potions, we should be heading out, just about NOW. Remember, the mobs that we would be facing there would be Level 18-25. It is almost 3x of your current levels. But the drops would be most bountiful."

"We should be expecting to complete the quests and grinding there for at least 6 to 8 hours. Are you all up for it then?" I asked, and the members all answered in unison as they were willing to go and grind there till the sun comes up across the lands.

"Alright, in that's the case, let us MOVE OUT," I instructed the rest of the group, and we all locked in our coordinates and began to trek towards the catacombs.