My Apocalypse Territory-Chapter 433 - 403: Opening the Situation

Over two hundred adventurers, freshly disembarked from the Floating Airship, had legs that were still shaky, some felt nauseous, but most were excited.

Coming all the way from Green Shadow to Pingliang, they considered themselves pioneers.

To kickstart the situation, the adventurer guild released a fair number of missions, some of which were picked up by local Pingliang adventurers lured in by the arrival of the Floating Airship. The rest, higher-tier missions with star-level restrictions, were without exception taken up by adventurers from Green Shadow.

He Yuanhang and other adventurers didn’t immediately leave the city to complete their missions, but rather started wandering around the Pingliang Sanctuary.

Having finally arrived at a new place, they definitely wanted to experience the local customs... such as visiting places like Cuihong Building, a so-called paradise on earth... referring to teahouses and restaurants.

People from Tiannan always prioritize food.

But their excitement soon turned to disappointment—they couldn’t compare it to Green Shadow at all!

The food, split in half, didn’t even look appetizing.

Negative review!

Meanwhile, using the ubiquitous intelligence network within the Pingliang Sanctuary, the Pingliang Minister, in charge of overseeing the whole situation, smirked after getting wind of the actions of these Green Shadow adventurers.

Inside a clubhouse.

A woman in her early thirties, extraordinarily charming, was conversing with several adventurers from Green Shadow.

The room was filled with a fragrant aroma, and the woman, hailing from the Intelligence Department, possessed an immense allure with her every move causing glances from the robust adventurers across her to occasionally drift towards a peek of snowy white.

The woman timely threw out what they could offer.

"... As long as you can kill those cult remnants, we can give out three thousand Source Crystals as a reward."

"If you gentlemen decide to stay in Pingliang, we can offer a permanent residence in a villa for free."

Although Pingliang was far from Green Shadow, their Intelligence network was part of a large Sanctuary. They found out that the cost of living in Green Shadow was extremely high; reportedly, a regular hotel room there cost 10 units of Source Crystal each night—equivalent to a month’s rent for a mid-to-upper tier residence in Pingliang.

And in Green Shadow, whether renting or buying property was enormously expensive.

Comparatively speaking, this highlighted the sincerity of Pingliang.

However, the adventure group leader rejected the proposal without hesitation and the other group members showed no signs of being tempted either.

Did I just waste my attractiveness for nothing?!

The Pingliang female intelligence officer frowned, "Four thousand Source Crystals, that’s the highest I can offer! If you are interested in rune equipment, we could also exchange for equivalent... like this ’Dragon Roar Blade’ on my left side, valued at a thousand Source Crystals... of course, there is a limit to how many can be exchanged."

The terms were exceptionally generous.

Apart from inviting adventurers from Green Shadow, the Pingliang officials also published related missions at the local ’Mission Center’, cutting the rewards by at least thirty percent compared to what she had just offered.

However,

The adventure group leader rejected it again.

The Pingliang female intelligence agent was dumbfounded and heard the other party say:

"Four thousand Source Crystals is indeed a lot, but without commendations, even if given more Source Crystals, it can’t exchange for weapons and equipment within the ’adventurer guild’. What use do we have for so many Source Crystals?"

Previously, the ’adventurer guild’ allowed Source Crystals to be exchanged for points, and although the more you exchanged, the higher the cost ratio, it was still a way. However, after the reforms, points were only good for "experience points," and exchanging for equipment needed both "commendations + Source Crystals."

Source Crystals, most of these adventurers were not short of.

Completing missions from the adventurer guild meant a standard reward of Source Crystals, and hunting demonized beasts in the wilderness also paid well in Source Crystals.

But commendations were more like a rationing method.

’Adventurer guild’s commendations could not be traded, only awarded for completing difficult missions.

Even if other forces published missions at the guild, the rewards were provided by the publishers themselves, but the guild’s staff, part of their job was to evaluate the mission difficulty and add extra commendations on top of the original rewards.

If you, Pingliang, publish the task at the ’adventurer guild’, even if it’s only three thousand Source Crystals, I would accept it. Otherwise, even five thousand Source Crystals are useless!

The adventure group leader didn’t make his inner thoughts too explicit but paused before continuing, "The Dragon Roar Blade and housing policy you offered, frankly speaking, aren’t very attractive to us.

The Dragon Roar Blade is forged from Star Pattern Steel, right? The material is fine, but unfortunately, your forging methods are too rough. I can only give this weapon an E3 grade, no more... Don’t look at me like that, I’ve seen all sorts of weapons in Green Shadow, I can still recognize a piece of Star Pattern Steel weapon.

As for housing, although Green Shadow is costly, we can afford it."

Outsiders only saw the high cost in Green Shadow but didn’t realize that it was precisely because of Green Shadow’s weapons and training facilities that they could maintain combat power far above their peers and their income level far above that of mercenaries from other places.

They felt it was worth it!

Great value!

What seemed like an easy persuasion ended in disaffection.

Pingliang Intelligence Department refused to believe it and time after time... continued to reach out to different adventure groups, only to receive almost identical results.

Only a Source Crystal reward? No deal!

Dragon Roar Blade? A lousy weapon costing a thousand Source Crystals?

Stay in Pingliang? Hahahaha...

It was rumored that the office of the Intelligence Minister echoed with the sound of a smashed desk that night.

Green Shadow, castle, study.

"Currently in Pingliang, Kun City, and other five major Sanctuaries, the ’adventurer guild’ has successfully opened up the situation. Besides starting to have other forces publish missions within the guild, we also intentionally released some lower-difficulty tasks which were completed by local adventurers, and when they exchanged for D-level or higher rune equipment, we took the opportunity to do some publicity."

Chen Haiping stated, "In those remote Sanctuaries, the fame of the Green Shadow rune equipment has gradually shifted from hearsay to reality, and more and more Awakeners are registering as adventurers."

Tang Yu nodded.

Everything was moving in a positive direction, his Crystal Storage was filling up again.

The only problem was that the equipment stock never seemed to increase; he had previously planned to save up rune equipment worth one to two million market price before blasting into the Beiting market, looks like it’s going to be delayed again.

The new commendation system effectively promoted "using others’ resources to cultivate one’s own field."

The guild itself would not lose out, after all, commendations are a virtual good, its value entirely dictated by the ’adventurer guild’.

And the commissions published by other forces in the ’adventurer guild’ still had a portion of handling fees taken by the guild. If the rewards provided by the publishers were minerals or plants, these would be negotiated by the staff to be converted into Source Crystals more suited for adventurers.

Most of the Source Crystals obtained by the adventurer guild were already spent in exchanging for weapons and equipment.

The small portion that remained circulated within the Sanctuary, boosting the development of various industries in Green Shadow.