Retrograde Gaming - Chapter 31
Chapter 31: Huge Profit
Translator: Henyee Translations
Editor: Henyee Translations
“Huailin, we’re here.”
As soon as Li Huailin arrived at the entrance of the dungeon, he heard someone call his name. After turning around, he saw Red Moon and her party members. It seemed that there was also a new person he hadn’t met before.
“This is Red Pennant, she’s the main Hunter in our guild,” Red Moon introduced to Li Huailin as she knew that Li Huailin had never met Red Pennant before.
Li Huailin took a quick glance at the young lady whose name was Red Pennant. She was about the same age as Red Face Drinks Water and was also quite good-looking—between eighty and ninety points—she appeared to be very shy.
“I’m Open-Minded Like A Forest. They call me Huailin.” Li Huailin took the initiative and introduced himself.
“I understand…” Red Pennant nodded and lowered her head.
“Uh…” Li Huailin didn’t know what to say.
“Huailin, don’t mind it. Pennant isn’t good at talking with boys,” Red Moon forced a smile and explained the situation.
“Oh, I see.” Li Huailin nodded. “I’ll try not to tease her.”
“That’s right, isn’t it nice to tease just Little Misty?” Since Red Bloodstain was already acquainted with Li Huailin, she quickly joined in the conversation.
“Second Sister, you…” Red Dust Misty Rain got nervous as soon as Li Huailin showed up. Even when she tried to stay away from the topic, she still got involved. “Stop talking nonsense or I’ll go offline!”
“Don’t, Little Misty.” Red Dust Misty Rain hurriedly hugged Red Dust Misty Rain and said, “He’s on call at all times for you. Are you touched?”
“I… I didn’t call him.” Red Dust Misty Rain’s voice went low enough that it sounded like a whisper.
“Brother-in-law!” Red Face Drinks Water hurriedly joined the conversation, “It’s so good that you’re here. Fighting in the dungeon with you feels so much better! Both Red Pennant and my old cousin are very clumsy! They stood in the poisonous mist and I didn’t know who to take care of first!”
“You’re such a little girl. You’re not supposed to make such a comment regarding your cousin and friend.” Red Moon knocked on Red Face Drinks Water’s head.
“Okay…” Red Face Drinks Water rubbed her head, the expression in her eyes told Li Huailin that her words were all true.
“Huailin, Little Water said you were looking for me?” Red Moon asked.
“Yes, I was. I want you to do me a favor. Do you have any alchemists in your guild?” Li Huailin nodded.
“Sure we do. Why?” Red Moon nodded. It was basic knowledge that every guild must have a least one alchemist. Although the Red Detachment of Women guild was small, they still had the basic framework down.
“Go and take a look at these.” Li Huailin handed her two bottles of potion, an Advanced Fountain of Life Potion and a Super Fountain of Life Potion.
“Oh my! This potion is unbelievable!” Red Moon’s eyes suddenly lit up, she immediately turned to Red Dust Misty Rain, “Come and take a look, Misty Rain.”
“What are they?” Red Dust Misty Rain was also curious. When she saw the description, she was also surprised by its healing capabilities. A second later, she frowned.
“These are very good potions, but they’re too advanced for us. We can’t make the most use of them.” Red Dust Misty Rain then started her analysis, “This kind of potion restores Health Points based on percentage. In other words, the more Health Points a player has, the more they can recover. If a player has 10,000 Health Points, then 1,000 Health Points would be restored every second. Even though the effect could be interrupted 2 seconds later, that would still amount to the recovery of 2,000 Health Points. Since most players in the game right now have less than 1,000 Health Points, this means that they can only regenerate around 70 to 80 Health Points per second with these. It’s such a waste.”
“You’re right.” Li Huailin and Red Moon both nodded.
“Despite this, the potion can still be very useful under special conditions. For example, if we’re against a boss whose normal attacks target the main tank, in every 30 seconds, it releases an AoE skill that attacks all players, then priests would be placed under heavy pressure. That would mean that in every 30 seconds, the priests would need to take care of the entire party’s Health Points. If such a potion is available to every member of the party, then as soon as they get hurt, they can take the potion to fully recover with no problems.” Red Face Drinks Water continued talking, “So this potion is of huge help to pioneer raiders when they run into challenging bosses. If we put the potion on auction, I think a single bottle would be worth about 1 Gold Coin now. However, in a month, the price would probably go up by 20 times, and in three months, 50 times.”
“Why are you so kick-ass?” Li Huailin stared at Red Dust Misty Rain with surprise, as if it was his first time knowing her. She derived so many ideas just from these two bottles of potion!
“Don’t underestimate me!” Red Dust Misty Rain frowned.
Red Moon smiled and explained, “Red Moon is also in charge of the guild’s finance. In the real world, she’s an executive manager of a company. She’s an expert when it comes to the economy.”
“Holy sh*t…” Li Huailin took an astonished glance at Red Dust Misty Rain and blurted out, “You’re really worthy of my touch…”
“Get lost!” Red Dust Misty Rain instantly flew into a rage.
“You two are…” Red Moon really didn’t know what to say, “Huailin, why did you want to show me the potion?”
“The thing is… I have a dozen Advanced Fountain of Life Potions and 3 Super Fountain of Life Potions…”
Li Huailin already had a plan in mind. Since this potion was so expensive, he could sell them to buy more lower-level Health Potions, because his Health Points were still relatively low, there weren’t any problems if he used them for now. After all, he still had the recipes for future use.
“You have so many?” Red Dust Misty Rain’s eyes lit up. “Then the price can go even higher! A set of smaller Health Potions can be sold to a big guild at the price of 10 Gold Coins. However, if you sell those three super bottles together, I think they’re worth about 5 or 6 Gold Coins.”
“In addition to that, I also have the recipes for these…” Li Huailin continued.
“What?” Red Dust Misty Rain and Red Moon couldn’t believe their ears.
“Well, I have the recipes for these potions, alchemy recipes to be exact.” Li Huailin repeated.
“Are they exclusive recipes?” Red Dust Misty Rain hurriedly asked him.
“Well…” Li Huailin recalled the old man’s words and remembered that Old Ed was the only one who knew how to make them.
So he nodded and said, “I suppose so. I got them from a hidden quest.”
“Leader, we’re going to make a fortune!” Red Dust Misty Rain said with great excitement, “These potions will become incredibly useful in the later-stage of the game. Since right now, people are still having a hard time earning Gold Coins, the price can’t really go any higher. In the near future, the big guilds would get super rich! A single bottle of this potion can be worth about over 50 Gold Coins! This is a monopoly! A monopoly! This also means that the other guilds would start respecting us since we’re the only owners of the recipe, or we won’t sell the potions to them. When they raid a new dungeon, the situation will be so disadvantageous to them. Also…”
Red Dust Misty Rain couldn’t stop herself from talking as she was super excited.
“You’re definitely right. I can’t agree with you more that this is going to benefit our guild immensely.” Red Moon tried to calm down Red Dust Misty Rain, the latter was still filled with enthusiasm. “You do have to be aware that we don’t own the recipes, your little lover has them, not our guild.”
“Ah… I see.” Red Dust Misty Rain realized this fact and immediately shut up.
“Huailin, are you trying to cooperate with our guild?” Red Moon turned around and asked him.
“Yes. In fact, I’m thinking of giving the recipes to your guild,” Li Huailin responded.
“Really?” Red Dust Misty Rain got excited again. In an instant, her face had a suspicious look as she asked, “You have conditions, don’t you?”
“Of course.” Li Huailin nodded.
“Impossible!” Red Dust Misty Rain went furious.
“What?” Li Huailin didn’t expect this coming.
“I mean— Huailin… Although I do want your recipes very much, love can’t be traded,” Red Moon said in all seriousness.
“Why does this have something to do with love?” Li Huailin didn’t understand what she was saying. After a few seconds of thinking to himself, he then realized that he was misunderstood by the two women. They thought that his requirement was to make Red Dust Misty Rain be his girlfriend.
“Don’t take me wrong…” Li Huailin felt a headache. “My requirement is—after learning the recipes, your guild has to provide me with a certain amount of potions every month.”
“That’s it?” Red Dust Misty Rain asked.
“What else do you want? Please don’t always be so confident,” Li Huailin couldn’t help but say this.
“You!” Red Dust Misty Rain frowned and was just about to retort what Li Huailin said, however, Red Moon stopped them from arguing any further.
“Huailin, if that’s truly the case, then the profit that goes to the guild is huge. We want it to be a fair trade without any personal feelings involved. If you give us the recipes, then our guild can make a fortune out of them and we can use the money to buy more ingredients. We’ll still become the biggest beneficiary through this even though we’ll need to give you some potions every month,” Red Moon said sincerely.
“To be honest, I don’t really have any plans in learning alchemy and I don’t have the time to do so either. The fact remains that I need a great number of these potions. I don’t know a better solution. What do you think, leader?” Li Huailin also responded with honesty.
“My suggestion is—” Red Face Drinks Water suddenly joined the conversation. “Brother-in-law, you should join our guild so that we can share the profit together!”
That was actually a really good suggestion… Li Huailin’s heart skipped a beat.
“That’s right! How did I completely forget something like this! I’ve been forgetting too many things recently…”
