93 Rainbow Effect

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93. Rainbow Effect

Designs are certainly important items.

'It's better time-wise to buy designs with combination recipes written on them than to try various combinations by inserting different items.'

It also reduces the grind.

But is it worth 1 billion won?

'Well, not really.'

A design is simply an item containing information.

The materials to make the item in the design need to be obtained separately.

'In other words, they spent 1 billion just to buy information.'

The buyer must have judged it to be worth that much to invest.

'Well, it is the first design item to appear, and it can make unique armor, so it must have seemed attractive.'

They might even profit by sharing the information with others after obtaining it from the design.

There were actually people who made money that way.

'If I wanted to, I could make a lot of money selling the combination recipes in my head...'

But the reason he doesn't is simple.

'The profit from monopolizing information is greater than selling it.'

Rather than sharing with others and consuming limited materials, he monopolizes the materials first.

'It's much more profitable to combine items and sell them that way.'

But he has no intention of going through the trouble of making and selling items.

He only plans to combine and make items he needs for himself.

He has more than enough money anyway.

'Not to mention if the stock price rises.'

Anyway, as he was satisfied with the unexpected 1 billion windfall, he got a phone call.

The caller ID showed it was Ma Gyeong-rok.

"Yes, CEO."

-Prophet-nim! Did you see the auction winning bid?

"Yes, I saw it."

-My goodness, 1 billion in just one day. I didn't expect it to go that high.

"Can you check who the buyer is? Someone with that much wealth probably has connections with you, CEO Ma."

-That's right. I looked into it and the buyer's name matches the eldest son of the Han Cheol Group. Well, we're not close, I just know his name.

"Is that so?"

-And I looked into some other things. About 10,000 people bid during the 24 hours. It seems to have attracted attention as you said. The traffic dropped sharply as soon as the auction item was removed.

"Really? Then should we put up another item?"

-Do you have something else worth putting up?

"There's a possession item called Bull Hide. I think it would sell if we add that it's a material needed for the design from earlier."

-How did you know it's needed for the design?

It was a sharp question, but Ryumin had an answer that was close to all-purpose.

"I saw it in a prophecy."

-Ah...

"Anyway, I'll stop by the company later to deliver the item."

-Alright. If you give it to Director Kim, he'll take care of it.

It's convenient being the top executive in this way.

You can pass off annoying tasks to employees.

-By the way, where did you get items like designs and materials? I've never seen them before.

"It's not like items appear as I want. I just got lucky while killing monsters, that's all."

It's good to make excuses by attributing it to luck.

"I see a lot of items have been listed even though only a day has passed."

-That's right. Currently over 3,000 items are registered.

"Hmm, it's not good if there are only sellers."

-There are many buyers too. Over 50 transactions are happening per hour.

"Have you prepared measures for transactions as a brokerage site?"

-Of course. As we discussed before, we've created various transaction methods like direct deals, delivery, and consignment for user convenience. We're providing identity verification and various authentication methods so buyers and sellers can trade safely on our PlPl.

"That's good."

Ma Gyeong-rok clearly had business acumen as expected of a chaebol heir.

"You made it so foreigners can register too as I said before, right?"

-Yes. Though opening overseas is a week later, we've already built the system so players worldwide can use it. We've resolved all legal and customs issues too.

"Well done."

There are only 40,000 players in Korea currently.

Of course it can't succeed if limited to Korean customers only.

It needs to expand globally.

That way he can scrape up materials from all over the world.

-I'll have the auction proceeds sent directly to your account for now.

"Alright."

-If there are any other items you want, you should buy them too, Prophet-nim.

"Yes. Well then."

Ryumin grinned after ending the call.

'I was planning to do that anyway.'

He browsed through the app to see if there were any useful items.

'People must be short on cash, they've listed all sorts of things.'

Equipment that became unnecessary as levels increased, magic stones and material items they don't know the use for, etc.

Many types were listed.

'First, should I sweep up the unique materials?'

He has the combination recipes for unique items needed for Death memorized hundreds of times over.

'Deer tree root, black diamond, orc tusk, knoll spine...'

The types of items dropped by a single monster are quite numerous.

Even those insignificant goblins drop items like rusty goblin dagger, beginner grade equipment, goblin blood, worn leather bag, etc.

They drop over 5-6 types of items.

How does he know this?

'I've experienced it directly through dozens of regressions.'

Even killing the same monster, different items would drop based on probability.

He was surprised many times thinking "This monster dropped this?"

'There are just so many types of items, though the probabilities are low.'

That's why it's not easy to figure out combination recipes through grinding without designs.

There are limits to obtaining materials alone too.

The trading function probably exists for this reason.

'The reason it unlocks at level 40 is probably because that's when you've secured enough diverse items to trade.'

But most players won't reach level 40 until Round 9.

'I can't wait until then.'

So he came up with the idea of a social market players can use.

He made it thinking if others won't make it, he'll make it himself.

'Of course, Ma Gyeong-rok is the one who actually made it.'

Ryumin added unique material items to his cart.

'Looking at what I've gathered, I can make 3 unique items.'

He purchased all materials through delivery.

The payment was deducted from the cyber money he had charged to the site in advance.

'Now the sellers will ship the packages to my address.'

Once he safely receives the items, the site will give the sellers their payment minus a fee.

Even if the wrong package arrives, there's no need to worry as the site will refund.

'This way the site acts as a broker so trades can be done safely without getting ripped off.'

Perhaps because market prices aren't set, the material costs weren't very expensive.

Most were under 500,000 won.

Adding everything to the cart, the total material cost was less than 5 million won.

'It's extremely cheap for the cost of making 3 unique items.'

Ryumin smiled with satisfaction and searched for magic stones next.

These were priced over 2 million won each even for lowest grade, perhaps because the combination method is somewhat known.

'Well, the magic stone combination method is easy to figure out.'

They probably figured it out by trying to combine same colors.

It seems they've already realized its value after discovering it can be embedded in equipment.

'The price doesn't matter.'

He had more than enough real world money.

Ryumin purchased all the listed magic stones.

They were all lowest grade magic stones, totaling about 90.

'Spending about 18 million won is no problem.'

Ryumin grinned and pressed the payment button without hesitation.

* * *

Two days later.

His brother's scream was heard from the entrance.

"Gasp! Hyung! Wh-what is all this!?"

"What's the matter?"

Ryumin who went out with an indifferent face grinned seeing the delivery boxes piled up at the entrance.

"They're here."

"D-did you order all this, hyung?"

"Yeah."

"Just what did you buy so much..."

"It's nothing. They're items players use."

"Ah, you bought them from that player-exclusive market PlPl or whatever?"

"Yeah. Anyway, can you help me move these?"

"O-okay, hyung."

They stacked the delivery boxes neatly in the room together.

Click-

After closing the door, he opened the boxes one by one.

The contents were all there and matched the 105 boxes he ordered.

'Good. Shall I try some combinations? I'll start with the magic stones since there are many.'

He combined magic stones of the same color over and over again.

He also took out and combined the magic stones he already had.

'16 lowest grade magic stones can make one top grade magic stone.'

The number that was over 100 gradually decreased until finally.

[Combination successful!]

[You have created a 'Top Grade Red Magic Stone'.]

[You have created a 'Top Grade Orange Magic Stone'.]

[You have created a 'Top Grade Yellow Magic Stone'.]

...

...

[You have created a 'Top Grade Purple Magic Stone'.]

He was able to make 7 top grade magic stones of each color.

'Good. If I embed these in each equipment...'

Weapon, helmet, armor, gloves, shoes, necklace, ring.

He embedded magic stones in seven places.

[Combination successful!]

['Damage +16%' option is added to Death Scythe.]

['Strength +32' option is added to Hermes' Feather Cap.]

['Luck +32' option is added to Wanderer's Rags.]

...

...

['All Stats +16' option is added to Ring of Resistance.]

All equipment was plastered with top grade magic stones.

His stats increased enormously when he equipped them.

-Strength: 206, Intelligence: 284

-Agility: 244, Luck: 202

'All stats are over 200 now. Even without Rune of Slaughter and Bless buff.'

With buffs, they would rise to 600-900.

The corners of Ryumin's mouth rose pleasantly.

But that wasn't the only good thing.

[You have equipped top grade magic stones of seven colors.]

[Buff 'Rainbow Effect' is applied.]

A faint rainbow glow enveloped the equipped items.

It was visible or not depending on the angle, so it wasn't distracting.

Above all, Rainbow Effect didn't just have the effect of adding a glow.

[Resistance to status effects is increased by 50% due to Rainbow Effect buff.]

The biggest threat to Ryumin is status effects.

Rainbow Effect can increase resistance to them by 50%.

It was natural that the corners of Ryumin's mouth wouldn't come down.

'50% resistance is a huge help.'

Add to that 35% from Java's Necklace, 35% from Ring of Resistance, and 15% from the common skill Basic Resistance:

'0.5x0.65x0.65x0.85=0.179. I can block status effects with about 82.1% probability.'

If it was additive, it would have exceeded 100% long ago, but unfortunately the system's percentages are applied multiplicatively.

Though wearing magic stones of each color gives an amazing effect like this:

'Most people won't be able to receive the buff. It's not a buff that can be received with ordinary magic stones.'

The activation condition for Rainbow Effect is wearing top grade magic stones of each color.

The buff can't be activated with lower grade magic stones.

'Most people would struggle to make even one mid grade magic stone. There's a limit to the magic stones an individual can obtain.'

So at this point, there's probably no one else besides Ryumin who has filled their equipment with top grade magic stones.

He monopolized all the magic stones there were.

'Of course, more will be listed as time passes.'

People who want to monopolize magic stones like Ryumin by using the trading site will appear.

'But by then, the value of magic stones will rise and they'll become scarce.'

Now lowest grade is 2 million won, but later it will exceed 20 million won.

And that's just for lowest grade magic stones.

Later, they'll be listed as rarely as hen's teeth.

People will think they're too precious to give to others.

'This is why it's so good to preempt early.'

Now that he's made top grade, he doesn't need magic stones for a while.

It's time to make unique items.

'The method to make uniques is simple. Put the equipment to enhance in the main material slot and put the specified materials in the sub-material slots.'

Just doing that can transform even normal equipment into unique.

It's more like enhancing existing items than creating new ones.

But Ryumin had no intention of combining right away.

'I've already obtained the materials, but I'll hold off for now. It's advantageous if the equipment's usage grade is higher.'

Ryumin's current level is 54.

He'll soon reach level 60.

'Then my grade will rise to Master and the level of equipment I can buy from shops will rise too. I should combine unique items then.'

It would be a waste to enhance the current Expert equipment.

It's much more profitable to buy Master equipment from shops after raising his grade and combine those.

'For now, I should focus on the significance of securing unique materials in advance. It's not long until level 60 anyway.'

In the meantime, he should check the app whenever he has time and buy unique materials in advance if they're listed.

So he can enhance all items to unique when he reaches level 60.

'I wonder if any materials have been listed now?'

He opened the app to check if any new materials were listed.

But.

'Huh?'

Ryumin blinked in disbelief seeing a recently listed material.

'Wait, this is...'

The reason for Ryumin's surprise was none other than:

'This is a material needed to combine legendary items?'

An item that can't be commonly seen was listed.

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