[Insect Nest Underground Palace, Tenth Floor]
Lin Mo and the others were killing poisonous insects and collecting venom bottles in the outer areas, staying away from the Insect Royal Palace.
Because the boss inside the Insect Royal Palace, the Insect Shaman, had already respawned.
Lin Mo didn't dare provoke it again.
He absolutely did not want to spend another seven hours grinding that boss all over again.
After all, a boss is only truly valuable on its first kill. On the second and third runs, its value drops lower and lower, to the point where it might not even be worth as much as a same-level elite monster.
As for whether Ling Xiao and the others needed to kill the Insect Shaman to complete the tenth floor mission, that was no longer important.
Their main goal was leveling up.
Only Lin Mo's objective was to collect venom bottles in exchange for the Poisonous set.
Ling Xiao was waiting for a reply from Wang Junjie.
However, before any message came from him, Lin Mo instead received a private message.
[Dynasty · Overlord (Level 21 Warrior, Heaven Ranking No. 9): "Brother, I've seen you going in and out of the Insect Nest Underground Palace a lot these past couple of days. I'm guessing you're farming Poisonous set equipment, right?"]
[Dynasty · Overlord: "Interested in making a deal? Sell me any Poisonous gear you don't need. No matter the class, slot, or quality, I'll buy it all at double the market price."]
"Who is this Dynasty Overlord? What does he want Poisonous gear for?", Fat Dahai asked from the side when he saw the conversation Lin Mo displayed, completely confused.
Lin Mo just smiled without saying anything.
He immediately replied to Dynasty Overlord, ["Sure. I average two Poisonous pieces per minute. I can supply as much as you want. But the price. I want ten times the market rate."]
The moment these words were sent, even Skinny Monkey and the others were stunned.
"Ten times… holy shit! Not even an idiot would agree to that, right?"
The words had barely fallen, Dynasty Overlord's reply shattered their understanding of money, ["No problem. Instant mail, instant buy!"]
"Holy fuck?", Skinny Monkey said in disbelief, "Are rich people really this insane?"
Lin Mo didn't waste any words.
It had been another two hours since Ling Xiao and the others joined in, and he already had around two thousand venom bottles on hand.
He immediately went outside the dungeon, found William, and turned in 2050 venom bottles, exchanging them for a full 205 pieces of Poisonous equipment.
This batch's drop rate was pretty decent. A total of seven Tier 2 pieces dropped, even more than last time when over three hundred pieces only yielded a few Tier 2s.
Of course, it wasn't because Lin Mo was lucky.
It was because after exchanging over three hundred times last round and gaining more than 300 favorability points, William's favorability toward Lin Mo had already risen to level 3.
At level 3 favorability, the chance to exchange Tier 2 Poisonous equipment increased to 3%.
With Skinny Monkey, Fat Dahai, and the others helping out, the mountain of equipment on the ground was quickly sorted.
From it, Lin Mo picked out three complete sets of Tier 1 Poisonous gear and mailed them to Dragon Soul Aoshi.
Added to the previous five sets, that meant Lin Mo had already given Dragon Soul Aoshi eight Tier 1 Poisonous sets. He was only two sets away from the ten he had promised.
There were also three Tier 2 sets still missing.
Tier 2 was a bit harder, but there was no rush. Take it slow.
As for the rest, there were still 172 pieces of Tier 1 Poisonous equipment left on the ground. This time, Lin Mo did not burn them with Soul Flame.
Nor did he hand over the green-quality and above items to Qin Feng for storage.
Instead, he directly mailed everything to the one who had just messaged him about buying Poisonous gear. [Dynasty · Overlord].
On the market, a level 20 Tier 1 white piece was worth around 500 yuan.
Lin Mo directly priced them at 5,000 each, bundling and sending a total of 152 Tier 1 white-quality Poisonous items of various classes and slots for 760,000 yuan.
There were also 13 green-quality pieces. Lin Mo priced those at ten times market as well, bundling them for a total of 260,000 yuan and sending them over.
Six blue-quality pieces, bundled for 300,000.
One purple-quality piece, 100,000.
This scene left Fat Dahai, Skinny Monkey, and the others so dry-mouthed, hearts pounding, blood boiling.
Until the very next second, Dynasty Overlord accepted all the mails without the slightest hesitation.
The two of them couldn't help screaming out loud.
"Holy shit!"
"This money is way too easy to make!"
Thinking back to how they had sold Poisonous gear from quest runs to Lin Mo for only 500 yuan each, the two of them felt a sharp pain in their hearts.
On Lin Mo's side, he sold a total of 1.16 million. After deducting the system's 3% fee, he took home 1.1252 million yuan.
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At the same time, elsewhere.
Shadow City.
Wang Junjie, who was grinding Shadow Guards, received a message from Dynasty Overlord, ["Boss Wang, as you instructed, I've bought 172 pieces of Poisonous equipment from Rulebound. Total cost was 1.16 million."]
Without a word, Wang Junjie directly transferred 1.5 million to Dynasty Overlord's bank account.
["The extra is your tip. Keep buying for me. As much as there is, buy it all."]
Dynasty Overlord was overjoyed, ["Thank you, Boss Wang! Looking forward to a great collaboration."]
["Oh right. Rulebound didn't realize I was the one who sent you to buy, did he?"], Wang Junjie asked again.
Dynasty Overlord replied, ["Don't worry, Boss Wang. I just said it was for my guild's needs. I didn't involve you at all."]
["Good!"]
Wang Junjie was smug, "Rulebound, so what if you're number one on the Heaven Ranking? As long as I've got money, you're nothing more than a dog working for me."
"Once my entire guild is fully equipped with Poisonous sets, the whole of Blazing Ember City will be my Chaotic World Guild's world! And you Dragon Soul dogs. Just wait to eat shit behind me!"
As soon as he said this, the surrounding Chaotic World lackeys immediately fell in line.
"Boss V5! Boss is awesome!"
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In the Insect Nest Underground Palace, Lin Mo immediately contacted Qin Feng and told him to take out all Poisonous equipment of green quality and above from the warehouse and send them to him.
Originally, Lin Mo had planned to store them and sell them later at a high price once players in Blazing Ember City discovered the true value of the Poisonous set.
But no matter how high the price got later, it would absolutely never exceed ten times the market price right now.
So Lin Mo sold all the accumulated Tier 1 Poisonous equipment to Dynasty Overlord.
In a blink, he pocketed another 800,000 plus.
Watching the balance in his bank account steadily break past the eight-million mark, Lin Mo couldn't help but say happily, "As expected, Wang Junjie's money is the easiest to make."
In fact, the moment Dynasty Overlord sent the purchase message, Lin Mo immediately saw through it. This was Wang someone's handiwork.
Because this was exactly the trap Lin Mo had personally designed for him, luring him in step by step.
He deliberately had Ling Xiao leak the value of the Poisonous set to Wang Junjie for the sole purpose of enticing him to buy Poisonous equipment.
Afraid of exposing himself by showing up personally, Wang Junjie found someone else to buy it for him.
Lin Mo had already guessed it was Wang Junjie, which was why he directly named ten times the market price.
He was certain that given Wang Junjie's habit of throwing money around, as long as something benefited him, he would never care about such a small sum.
And for Lin Mo, he only needed one full Tier 2 Archer Poisonous set for himself.
Aside from the ten Tier 1 sets and three Tier 2 sets he needed to give Dragon Soul Aoshi, all remaining surplus Poisonous equipment would eventually be sold off anyway.
Since that was the case, why not take this opportunity to sell it to Wang Junjie at ten times the price and take a huge bite out of him?
Moreover, everything Lin Mo sold to Wang Junjie was Tier 1.
As for Tier 2 gear, Lin Mo didn't let him get even a single piece.
Because even a full Tier 1 Poisonous set only provided 50% poison immunity.
It was still difficult to withstand the poison-type dungeons within Blazing Ember City.
What Lin Mo wanted wasn't just to suck Wang Junjie's blood.
He wanted to make it so that even if Wang Junjie tried to stand, he still wouldn't be able to.
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