Starting With A Space Battleship - Chapter 256
Chapter 256: The harvest season
Translator: 549690339
It wasn’t easy to open a store, so Shang sanniang suppressed her excitement and explained calmly, ” a deposit of 20000 domain coins. Come and collect it in three days.
It was not complicated to carve runes for low-level molds. With her ability, she could finish it in a few hours. If she did it too fast, the buyer would be uncomfortable.
Li xiaonian’s body tensed up as he said, ” “I’ll pay you 5000 Yuan as a deposit for now. I’ll pay you the rest later. I need to gather the money.”
“Alright, give me the money.”
It wasn’t easy to open a store, so he had to get the money first.
As for the price, she didn’t try to scam li xiaonian. In big cities, a large saber mold would cost at least 100000 domain credits. Since the material cost of the large saber mold was high, the price was naturally high.
Li xiaonian took out 5000 domain coins and handed them to Shang sanniang.
Shang sanniang took the money and smiled, mutant, there are several types of broadswords. Which one do you want? what’s the name of the broadsword? ”
Shang sanniang took out a book and showed li xiaonian the pictures.
Li xiaonian took a few glances and immediately chose the simplest picture. this one. Carve the name ‘snow dance’ and add an icon next to it.
When a weapon was used to kill monsters, the simpler and more practical it was, the more fancy it would only increase the cost.
“Draw the icon.” Shang sanniang handed li xiaonian a piece of white paper.
Li xiaonian drew a simple visual image of the map, with the name ‘snow dance’ and the earth icon. As soon as snow dance saw the knife he had forged, she would know that he had entered ‘star field’.
After the design was selected, Shang sanniang wrote a receipt for li xiaonian.
At this point, the transaction had come to an end.
Out of his 8200 domain coins, he only had 2956 domain coins left.
Immediately, li xiaonian hurriedly exited the game and looked for someone to borrow money.
Right now, he only had red fiend, Mei Chu, and Grina as his friends.
Ding dong …
Ding dong …
Li xiaonian pressed the door to Hong mo and Mei Chu’s cultivation room.
A moment later, the two women walked out of the cultivation room one after another.
“What is it now?” Hong mo pulled a long face and looked unhappy. I’ll say this first. I don’t have money, but I only have one life.
“I don’t have any money either.” Mei Chu said softly.
“You really didn’t?” li xiaonian’s face stiffened.
Red devil’s eyes widened. kid, I think you’re getting more and more shameless. Every time you look for us, it’s just to borrow money. Do you think that we’re more familiar with each other, so you’re treating us like ATM machines?”
Li xiaonian took out two soul crystals from the crape myrtle Star Ring, one for each of them.
After getting the soul crystals, the two women’s eyes lit up. They had not eaten for a long time, and their stomachs were already hungry.
Ba da ~
Ba da ~
The two girls swallowed it on the spot.
Li xiaonian said awkwardly, ” sisters, I’m really short on money right now. I don’t need much. I just need to borrow 60000 domain coins. I promise that I’ll return the money within half a year, with interest added.
“Eighty … Eighty thousand?”
Hong Mo’s mouth was half-open in shock as he swallowed the soul crystal. kid, do you know what 80000 domain coins means? you’re asking for 80000 right away. I think you’re out of your mind. Without waiting for li xiaonian to speak, Hong mo continued, ” even at our peak, we only had 20000 to 30000 domain coins at most. Not to mention, we’re suffering from the soul poison now. In order to speed up our cultivation, we have to spend domain coins.
let’s put it this way. We’ve spent all our domain coins on increasing our cultivation speed. We still have a few dozen domain coins left. If you need them, we can give them to you.
Li xiaonian’s expression froze. sisters, aren’t you from a rich family? with your status, don’t tell me you can’t even afford tens of thousands of domain coins.
The corners of Hong Mo’s mouth twitched. He suppressed his anger and explained, ” we’re rich, but our monthly allowance is fixed. In the family, other than me, there are hundreds of siblings. Do you think we can get special treatment? ”
“I’m ranked 39th in the family,” Mei Chu replied indifferently.
“You really don’t?” Li xiaonian asked again, unwilling to give up.
No. Hong mo shook his head with certainty. definitely not. Then, he changed his tone. you’re a newbie. Why do you need so much money? if you want to buy expensive equipment, don’t do it. With your strength, you’ll die easily. After a few deaths, you’ll drop the most expensive items.
After making sure that Hong mo and Mei Chu had no money to borrow, li xiaonian made up an excuse.
The two of them returned to the game.
Li xiaonian knocked on grinna’s door. This time, grinna appeared. However, the answer was obvious. She didn’t have any money, only her life.
Ding …
The system said, [ you have entered star field. Have a good time. ]
Li xiaonian appeared in the rented blacksmith shop. He looked up at the sky and couldn’t help but sigh.”Sigh … I still have to rely on myself.”
Rich people could easily make money, but it was extremely difficult for poor people to accumulate initial funds.
60,000 domain coins. If he were to accumulate it by killing monsters and completing quests normally, even if he were to be extremely frugal, it would take him at least three to five years.
He couldn’t afford to waste such a long time. He had to earn enough capital in a short time so that he could spend money to extend his life.
Only with enough territory coins could they attract the star Lord and Exchange for his help in removing the soul poison.
Ding …
Ding …
While li xiaonian was tempering the iron ore, he was deep in thought, thinking about how to get through this situation.
On credit with Shang sanniang?
Unless he was willing to expose the existence of a divine weapon or a Brahma star level technique, the probability of success was infinitely close to zero. It was impossible for others to owe him money for no reason just because of a few words from him.
Li xiaonian was at his wits ‘end.
Xiaoya seemed to see through li xiaonian’s thoughts and said, ” “Captain, actually, we have another way to quickly gather a large amount of domain currency.”
“What is it?”
mortgage? since many players know about [ blacksmith’s heart ], why don’t you mortgage it? with the grade of [ blacksmith’s heart ], it’s not difficult to mortgage tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of it.
“Hahaha …”
Li xiaonian couldn’t help but laugh out loud,”Xiaoya, it’s great to have you around.” You’re always able to solve my problems for me. Without you, I don’t know what to do.”
He did as he said.
After closing the door of the rented blacksmith shop, li xiaonian headed straight for master Huo’s blacksmith shop.
Since he wanted to pawn it, he might as well pawn it to someone he knew. Fire Master was the best candidate. First, master fire understood the blacksmith’s heart the best. He knew that he had it, but he did not show any greed. Firstly, as an advanced blacksmith in netherworld village, master fire’s net worth was definitely high.
They entered the blacksmith shop.
Li xiaonian immediately saw his senior brothers, Zhu Tian Fu and Meng Lu Yu, who were busy refining iron ingots.
When he appeared, Zhu Tian Fu could not help but ask curiously, ” “Junior Brother, what are you doing?”
He hadn’t seen li xiaonian for a few days, so he thought that li xiaonian had given up on being a blacksmith. Having been here for eight years, he had seen too many newcomers who were ambitious at the beginning but chose to give up not long after.
He didn’t find it strange at all that li xiaonian had given up just like that.
Li xiaonian smiled. senior brother, I have something to discuss with master. You guys go ahead.
Zhu Tian Fu and the others looked at each other.
“I’m willing to bet that it won’t be long before Junior Brother an Ying gives up on being a blacksmith,” the Iron Man laughed.
The bald man shrugged,”maybe. Being a blacksmith is too difficult.” “Star Domain has been open for 200 years. Even if we, the latecomers, have some academic achievements, we don’t have much of an advantage.”
tsk, tsk. If we had entered the star field and started learning blacksmithing, with our current experience, although our level isn’t that great, we might already be big shots or rich people.
Two hundred years had passed.
Among the players, there were already a few who had reached the intermediate blacksmith title. It was even said that some had already reached the advanced level.
There were already players who were one step ahead of them, so the low-level blacksmiths behind them naturally received much lower treatment.
Inside the blacksmith shop, beside the furnace.
Li xiaonian found master Huo and said in embarrassment,”Teacher, can we have a word?”
Grandmaster Huo’s face darkened, but he still nodded in the end.
Li xiaonian hadn’t shown up for a few days, which made him very disappointed.
In a room in the backyard.
“Speak, what’s the matter?” Grandmaster flame said coldly.
“Teacher, I’m short of money right now. I want to use blacksmith’s heart as collateral to borrow some money,” li xiaonian said awkwardly.
“You!”
Master Huo was furious. He wanted to explode, but in the end, he suppressed his anger.”Do you know what you’re saying? Although [ blacksmith’s heart ] is only a gold equipment, it is a top-tier treasure that every blacksmith is passionate about. You actually put it up as collateral?”
“Teacher, I don’t have a choice. I’m a newbie, and I can’t do anything without money. Moreover, I’m only using it as a mortgage, not selling it. I’m in urgent need of money right now, and I’ll naturally redeem it once I earn enough.”
“Tell me, how much money do you want?”
“Sixty thousand.”
“What are you going to do with it?”
“This …”
Li xiaonian didn’t know how to answer. Even if he were to tell the truth, master Huo wouldn’t believe him.
He had only been learning for half a month and he had already become a blacksmith apprentice. It was simply a fantasy that he could forge weapons.
“Forget it. I won’t ask if you don’t want to tell me. Write an IOU and I’ll give you 60000 domain coins. As for the mortgage, I don’t need it. I only have one request. Since the [ blacksmith’s heart ] is in your hands, I don’t want to hear anything like this again.” Master Huo stared at li xiaonian coldly.
If his Junior Brother knew that his [ blacksmith’s heart ] had been pawned by a bastard, he would probably jump out of his coffin in anger.
Although he also wanted to live on with the [ blacksmith’s heart ], the person in front of him was his Junior Apprentice brother’s successor, after all. He couldn’t just snatch it away like that.
“Thank you, thank you, teacher.” Li xiaonian’s face was filled with joy.
He could finally tell that master Huo was a good person who was cold on the outside but warm on the inside. He was a super good person. He had just lent him 60000 domain coins without any collateral.
……
With the money, li xiaonian was immediately revived.
For three days in a row, he was immersed in refining iron ore in the rented blacksmith shop.
After three days, he went straight to Shang sanniang’s rune shop and got the bronze saber mold.
[ snow dance saber mold ]
[ grade: bronze ]
[ effect: inject refined and purified molten iron into the [ snow dance saber ]. ]
[ attributes: 1% chance of forging a snow dance saber, attack power +2 ]
[ durability: 100/100 ]
“Third aunt, thank you.”
Li xiaonian thanked him and impatiently returned to the house.
He turned on the furnace and calcined the refined iron ingot, melting it into molten iron and slowly pouring it into the [ snow dance saber mold ]. Then, at Xiao Ya’s reminder, li xiaonian activated the [ nine revolution Heavenly Fire Eyes ] and injected his soul power into the mold that was about to take shape.
Half an hour later.
Ding …
The system replied,’you’ve successfully forged [ snow dance saber ], experience +20;”
The system replied,’you have leveled up to Level 1;”
The system replied, [ you have successfully become a blacksmith apprentice. ]
The series of notifications made li xiaonian burst with joy.
[ snow dance saber ]
[ rarity: LV5 Excellent ]
Attack: 6;
Additional attribute:
Attack power +2
[ durability: 90/90 ]
……
hahaha … I can finally make some money. The first snow dance saber has already triggered the attributes of the mold. I’m so lucky.
“This saber, its price …”
Li xiaonian hesitated for a moment before asking curiously, ” “Little ya, how much was the total cost of this snow dance saber?”
the snow dance saber requires five pieces of iron ore, each piece costing 1 domain dollar. The cost of refining the iron ore is about 20 domain dollars according to a normal blacksmith’s stamina. Adding the cost of the mold, the total cost is about 30 domain dollars.
“30 domain coins? that much?”
Li xiaonian stroked his chin. since that’s the case, I’ll set the price at 150 domain coins for now. If we really can’t sell it, we’ll consider lowering the price.
Four times the profit might seem like a lot, but it paled in comparison to the fire master’s. Furthermore, it was a small top-grade weapon.
After successfully forging the first weapon, li xiaonian continued to madly refine the iron ore.
Half a month passed.
Li xiaonian had been cooped up in his room for half a month, but he still managed to forge 12 snow dance sabers. According to the average price, he could earn at least 500 domain coins from this batch of weapons.
This amount of money might not seem like much compared to the investment, but it still represented progress.
As long as the blacksmith’s level increased, he would be able to forge higher grade weapons. In the future, his profits would only increase.
……
In the market.
Li xiaonian didn’t plan to ask anyone to help him with the first sale. Instead, he would personally take charge and taste the harvest season.
After finding a remote corner, li xiaonian took out the three snow dance daggers and shouted, ” selling snow dance sabers. Don’t miss it when you’re passing by. Come and take a look.
The broadsword was currently the most powerful and practical weapon.
As soon as he shouted, a few people came over to watch.
“Boss, how much is this snow dance saber?”
“100 domain coins.”
The eyes of the young man who asked for the price lit up. He hurriedly took out the money, as if he was afraid that li xiaonian would go back on his words.”I’m taking it,”
“……”
Li xiaonian was shocked, and his heart was bleeding.
F * ck, the bid was still too low.
Another player saw that the price was so low and quickly snatched another one. “Boss, I’ll take this knife.”
“120 domain coins, thank you.”
didn’t you say it was 100 domain coins? how did it become 120 domain coins? also, the attributes of my sword are slightly worse than his. The buyer’s face was filled with displeasure.
Li xiaonian lied through his teeth. that was the first customer, so there’s a discount. You’re the second one, so there’s no discount. Do you want it? if not, you can leave it for someone else.
As more and more players gathered to watch, li xiaonian was not worried that he would not be able to sell them.