It was a normal day, Arthur was making items and grinding his blacksmithing skills and farming stat points as usual. But suddenly a call inturupted him and he logged out to take the call.
"Yes, who is it?"
"Arthur, it's Jinho. Buddy did you started Satisfy?"
"Oh, Jinho! Long time no see. Yes, I've started a few months ago and currently at Eternal kingdom's winston village. I'm currently at level 172. Why do you ask?"
"Well do you want to have go on an exp bus ride? Me, Beomsuk, Taeshik and others of our old dorm group have gotten a good quest it gives 5 levels per person, upto 6 person. So if you want, we can take you with us. We are all level 200+ so it's no danger."
Arthur thought for a moment then said "Sounds good. Where should we meet?"
"A little away from the border of Saharan and Eternal Kingdom, Gravelmark Mountains in 6 days. We are also departing from Titan to Gravelmark"
"All right. Thank you for the ride. Besides I've got to see some Saharan landscape so it's a plus." Arthur was greatful to his old buddies, it seems let them copy assignmets for nothing were paying off.
Arthur ended the call. Although some of his plans might need some adjustment but he was very excited.
His friends started Satisfy as soon as it's official version launched. They moved out of the dorms and rent a nearby apartment and bought several gaming pods of beta users when it was on promotional sale at the half of the price which was at now. Then grinding for a year they all have gaind high level of 200+ probably some are rankers.
Arthur calculated a ride from Winston to Reinhardt would take a day and Reinhardt to Patrain would be another day then to Gravelmark mountains two days. He calculated the time needed to reach his destination and figured out it will be best to depart tomorrow.
With that Arthur logged in again and focused on hammering, making as much items he could and grinding some stats before his journey.
The next day, Arthur looked at the items he have made so far, and selected some to put in auction of Reinhart and Patrain as Winston is still under currupted noble and mero company, his skill exposure might cause some butterfly effect what he wants to avoid at all costs.
Because of this reason, Arthur didn't even sell a single item at Khan's Smithy and stored every single item. He will sell them when Winston was free form Mero company's dominence.
After careful selection, he choose 500 Special Jaffa arrows, 20 sets of armour boots and gauntlets set, 20 longswords, and 20 shields. Among them, 2 of each were Unique rank, 10 of each were epic rank, 8 of them are Rare rank.
Arthur actually have more than that but he didn't take them as too much exposure may cause much harm than good.
Arthur was convinced that this much equipment can bring him 1,500,000 gold easily as he was dealing with players not NPCs.
"Goodbye Khan, and don't drink too much because I'm not arround. I'll be back in 10 days Or two weeks at most." Arthur said his goodbyes before departing.
"Haha don't worry I'll only drink a sip or two as it helps me relax when sleeping. Be careful out there and come back safely." Khan wished Arthur's well being on his journey.
"How could I not? This place... I feel it's a place I could return to. For a wandering traveller like me... That's enough." Arthur have stayed at Khan's smithy for two weeks, but they have made some kind of bond that the both of them didn't know.
"...Arthur. Be safe."
After a while Arthur looked for a bookstore, well it's a store owned by Mero company but who cares, as he bought some books for 10 gold and departed to carrige stand beside the entrance of Winston.
"How much will it be for Reinhart?" Arthur asked the coachman.
"It will be 10 gold for reserved carrige and 6 gold for shared carrige." The coachman said.
"Alright, let's go." Arthur said and handed 10 gold to the coachman and gotten up on his ride.
At the time of ride Arthur didn't waste on looking at the scenery. He took out a book and started reading silently.
After few hours he finished the book and then the expected notification popped up.
[Your intelligence was risen by 2]
Arthur put that book away and bring out another one and started reading again.
By evening he reached Reinhart and selected a cheap inn. Which says 1 gold for a night. He paid the money and went towards his room.
Then Arthur drifted to sleep as it's already night.
Next day after eating breakfast, Arthur went towards Reinhart Auction House. He took out one Unique rated, six Epic rated and four Rare rated items of armour set, longswords and shields. He also took 300 special Jaffa arrows and put them in auction.
He listed the items one by one on auction.
[Ideal Armour]
Rating: Unique
Durability: 421/421
Defense: 589
Speed: -8%
Weight: 1480
* Reduced damage received by 40% when Health is above 60%
* Increase defence against cutting attacks by 15%
* There is a low chance of invalidating cutting attacks.
* Skill- Presistence will be generated.
Item made by a craftsmsn with great skills and potential but lacking in experience and reputation.
User restrictions: level 180 or higher. 1200 strength. Intermidiate Heavy armour Mastery.
[Ideal Gauntlets]
Rating: Unique
Durability: 200/200
Defence: 68
Attack speed: +8%
Accuracy: +10%
* There is a medium chance of 2 joint attacks to be triggered.
Item made by a craftsmsn with great skills and potential but lacking in experience and reputation.
User restrictions: level 180 or higher. 800 agility.
[Ideal heavy Boots]
Rating: Unique
Durability: 331/331
Defense: 348
Movement speed: -10%
Evasion rate: -7%
* Defense increased by 12% against the attacks which landed on lower body.
* When using a movement skill there is 25% chance of failure.
Item made by a craftsmsn with great skills and potential but lacking in experience and reputation.
Weight: 960
User restrictions: level 180 or higher. 1200 strength.
This unique rated armour set that Arthur put on auction. He set the lowest price at total 400,000 gold as it was a level 180 Unique rated item set.
Arthur belives this set will price hiked arround 550,000 gold as players can still use these items even they were at level 250.
Then Arthur listed the Longsword and Shield.
[Ideal Longsword]
Rating: Unique
Durability: 320/320
Attack Power: 326
Attack Speed: +5%
Accuracy: +8%
* Will do an additional +150 damage during each successful attack.
* The skill 'Bisect' will be generated.
A sword made by a craftsman with great skill and potential but lacking in experience and reputation.
User Restriction: Level 160 or higher. More than 950 strength. Advanced Sword Mastery level 2 or higher.
Weight: 400
[Ideal Shield]
Rating: Unique
Durability: 365/365
Defence: 346
Movement speed: -8%
* 30% damage will be nullified.
* There is a low chance of nullifying the damage.
* The skill- 'Shield bash' will be generated.
An Item made by a craftsmsn with great skills and potential but lacking in experience and reputation.
User restrictions: level 160 or higher, 1000 strength, Intermidiate Shield mastery
Weight: 1,000
Arthur put on a base price of 250,000 for the sword and 200,000 for the shield and he was confident that these prices will be increased more than 100,000 after bidding.
As the Sword and the Shield's power and defense was very high and additionally there were skills attached to each item which is a plus as it won't consume any mana so it can be used like Trump cards during battle.
"Alright. The aces were all up let's put the remaining ones too." Arthur said and put the other Epic and rare rated items on auction.
[Special Jaffa Arrow] x300 @20 silver
Rating: Epic
Attack Power: 35~42
An arrow made by a craftsman with great skill and potential but lacking in experience and reputation.
Due to the effect of combining jaffa with steel, it has extremely high penetration and ignores some of the enemy's defense.
* Has a certain chance of ignoring the enemy's defense.
Weight: 0.1
[Mythical Jaffa-Silver Arrow] × 50 @5 gold
Rating: Unique
Attack Power: 350~420
An arrow made by a craftsman with great skill and potential but lacking in experience and reputation.
Due to the effect of combining jaffa-steel with Eternal Silver sap, it has extremely high penetration and ignores the enemy's defense.
* Has a 100% chance of ignoring the enemy's defense.
Weight: 0.1
[Good looking plate Armour] x6 @12,000 gold each.
Rating: Epic
[Good looking Gauntlets] x6 @7,500 gold each.
Rating: Epic
[Good looking heavy boots] x6 @9,000 gold each.
Rating: Epic
[Good looking Longsword] x6 @18,000 gold each.
Rating: Epic
[Good looking Shield] x6 @15,000 gold each.
Rating: Epic
[Reliable plate Armour] x4 @3500 gold each.
Rating: Rare
[Reliable Gauntlets] x4 @900 gold each.
Rating: Rare
[Reliable heavy boots] x4 @1200 gold each
Rating: Rare
[Reliable Longsword] x4 @2200 gold each.
Rating: Rare
[Reliable Shield] x4 @1800 gold each.
Rating: Rare
An auction was a matter of long time so Arthur choose a spot to sit down and took a book out of his inventory and started his daily intelligence stat grinding.
Though Arthur is also a blacksmith he choose to appear in public witth commoner clothes, unlike Greed who'd wear rags and alawys mistaken as a beggar.
His white hair tied behind his head and his sapphire blue eyes were steadily looking at the book, his sitting posture was straight and his legs were crossed.
Behind him at some distance square fountain was throwing water up. As his steady stream of stats boosted his dignity high enough for NPCs to become caucus and respectful despite his clothes.
From distance some female players and NPCs were looking back at Arthur's as his appearance was high enough to enchant them.
As Arthur was basking in the attention but what he didn't realize that the players were going crazy and guilds were going on bid wars just to obtain the items he put on auction.
Behind the scenes, the auction house was screaming.
"Unique Level 180 Plate? With [Persistence] attached?!" a representative of the Giant Guild barked into his communication crystal. "Bid whatever it takes! If our tank gets that set, we can clear the Thengel Raid tonight!"
"Look at these arrows!" a ranger from the Seven Guilds whispered. "100% defense penetration? This 'Anonymous' smith is a god!"