Retrograde Gaming - Chapter 32
Chapter 32: Join The Guild
Translator: Henyee Translations
Editor: Henyee Translations
Red Moon’s eyes also lit up. She had given Red Face Drinks Water the task of making Li Huailin join the guild and had completely forgotten about it earlier. They had a perfect chance to do it right now. After casting an approving glance at Red Face Drinks Water, Red Moon spoke, “That’s right! Huailin, you should join our guild. It’s good for everyone.”
“Well, Red Moon, I don’t really mind joining your guild. Honestly speaking… I think the name of the guild is a bit inappropriate for me,” Li Huailin said with a bit of hesitation.
All the women around, including Red Moon, couldn’t help but laugh. Li Huailin was right — the guild name, if put in front of his name, was quite funny. “It’s okay, Huailin! Hahaha… Even though we’re ladies, we don’t really mind it. Come on, be a man!”
“I know you really want to laugh hard, I can tell.” Li Huailin rubbed his forehead.
“That’s correct! Come on ladies, let’s welcome our newest member, and also the first male member in our guild.”
Before Li Huailin could think of a decision, Red Moon had already started celebrating, trying to turn it into a fact.
“Yeah! Brother-in-law! Welcome!” Red Face Drinks Water was the first one who happily exclaimed.
“Welcome! Haha!” Second Sister Red Bloodstain tried her best not to laugh too hard.
“Fine. Fine… I’ll join. The guild’s name shouldn’t bother me too much.” Li Huailin knew that the decision had been made. “In order to be in conformity with the guild’s tradition, I’ll give myself a stage name — Red Scarf1.”
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“You don’t like it?” Li Huailin looked at the ladies who suddenly turned silent.
“Well… You, umm… You should join the guild first.” Red Moon immediately sent an invitation to Li Huailin.
System Notice: Red Moon invites you to join the guild, the Red Detachment of Women. Do you accept, Yes or No?
“Yes.”
System Notice: You have successfully joined the guild.
There was a page for the guild information above Li Huailin’s character bar, however, the page had always been inactive. It was now finally activated. After Li Huailin opened the page to take a look at it, he saw the guild introduction and the name list.
There were 45 members in the guild, including Li Huailin himself. Based on the names, Li Huailin was extremely certain that they were all ladies. He noticed that half of the names started with the word “red”, and that they were the main forces in the guild. The rest of the members were simply idle players who randomly joined the guild.
The rest of the members’ levels were incredibly low. With the exception of Red Moon, who was level 15, and the main forces, who too had recently reached level 15. The rest of the members were all below level 15. There were even ten people who were still in the newbie village.
“Please welcome our newest member!”
Someone instantly sent a greeting on the guild’s channel.
“Wow! We really have a new member! I’m no longer the newest member in the guild! Remember to call me your senior,” said another player.
“The name — Open-Minded Like A Forest — seems to show your great confidence in the size of your chest.”
“Oh? Where can I find you, newbie? Let me see whose boobs are bigger — yours or mine.”
Li Huailin’s forehead had formed big beads of sweat.
[Guild Leader] Red Moon: Ladies, do behave yourselves. Our newest member, Open-Minded Like A Forest, is a male. Stop talking about these things on the guild’s channel.
[Guild Member] Little Purple Flower: Oh? Oh? Why did a guy join our guild?
[Guild Leader] Red Moon: His target is our financial administrator, Misty Rain. He bribed me with some good money.
[Administrator] Red Dust Misty Rain: Big Sister! That’s nonsense!
[Guild Member] Little Sister Moon: Oh… I see! Don’t worry, Sister Misty. We won’t be your rivals.
[Administrator] Red Dust Misty Rain: I’ll reduce this month’s welfare by half as punishment for those who keep on talking about nonsense.
[Guild Leader] Red Moon: Fine… Just stop threatening them, Little Misty.
Red Moon then cast an apologetic look at Li Huailin and spoke, “Sorry, Huailin. Although our guild is small, they’re all our good sisters. Don’t be mad at these strange remarks.”
“Hehe.” Li Huailin could only laugh helplessly.
“Yeah, since brother-in-law finally joined our guild. My secret mission has been completed!” Red Face Drinks Water celebrated. “Brother-in-law! Hurry up and take us to the dungeon! This can be considered a guild event now!”
“Wait. Who’s the alchemist in the guild? These recipes have to be learned first so that we’ll know which ingredients are required. We should start preparing as early as possible,” as Li Huailin said this, he handed Red Moon three recipes.
“You have three recipes?” Red Moon initially thought that there was only one. Although, having three was even better. When she realized that the lowest requirement for learning one of the recipes was medium-grade alchemy, she immediately had a headache.
“Misty Rain, it seems that you can’t learn it yet,” Red Moon said.
“Oh? Let me take a look.” Red Dust Misty Rain checked the recipes before nodding at her words. “Since the lowest requirement is medium-grade alchemy. The potion must also be around the same level. It’s quite tough.”
“You’re the alchemist in the guild?” Li Huailin asked Red Dust Misty Rain.
“Of course. While I’m in charge of the guild’s finance, I’m also the person who knows the best on how much money should be put into alchemy in the guild. This is one of the reasons why I’m placed in these two positions,” Red Dust Misty Rain responded. “I’m still a novice alchemist though… I can’t learn this for now.”
“Is alchemy really that hard?” Seeing as Li Huailin had never learned alchemy before, he didn’t really know how much costs and effort it takes. He asked her, “Do you lack money or ingredients?”
“It’s not about money. Because we received 20 Gold Coins from you yesterday, money isn’t a problem for now,” Red Dust Misty Rain replied. “What I currently need is a recipe that helps me gain experience in my alchemy. Novice alchemists need to do basic recipes first.”
“Are they available in the auction house?” Li Huailin asked yet another question.
“Yes, it is. Currently speaking, a recipe is unreasonably pricey in the auction house. The main reason is because the sellers know that the leading guilds are sparing no effort in cultivating their alchemists. The price of a useless recipe that helps an alchemist gain experience is over 5 Gold Coins. The prices of those relatively useful recipes such as Health Potions are over 20 Gold Coins. It’s absolutely ridiculous! I’ve talked to Red Moon about it and we agreed that I’ll start focusing on practicing alchemy when the recipes become cheaper in the future. After all, our guild isn’t big. We don’t need to fight for the recipes against the big guilds.”
“I understand…” Li Huailin nodded. Suddenly, he had a light-bulb moment. “Where can we find the biggest chances of discovering recipes for novice-level alchemists?”
“I would say… you can probably find them in treasure chests,” Red Moon responded for Red Dust Misty Rain. “All maps randomly spawn treasure chests. Even though the chances of those treasure chests producing recipes is 100%, we can’t really know what kind of recipes are in them. Maybe they’re for forging or maybe leatherworking.”
“All maps?” Li Huailin asked.
“Yeah, although dungeons also spawn treasure chests, the chances of them appearing are quite relatively small in Normal Mode dungeons,” Red Dust Misty Rain continued. “It’s said that the chances of them popping up is big in Hell Mode. However, Hell Mode is too difficult for players right now. So far, no guild has passed a Hell Mode dungeon.”
“That’s right. After all, the game just opened up less than ten days ago. Even those big guilds are still preparing their equipment and are leveling up, so that they could properly challenge a Hell Mode dungeon.” Red Moon nodded.
“We can actually choose modes?” Li Huailin asked them. It was his first time knowing about this.
“You didn’t know about this?” Red Moon was a bit surprised.
“I didn’t.” Li Huailin scratched his head. “I thought completing a dungeon was just that.”
“A dungeon has three modes, Normal, Hell, and Abyss.” Red Moon took the initiative and started explaining to Li Huailin. “Normal Mode usually helps players get familiar with a dungeon. The equipment dropped has a relatively poor quality, remember that we got a piece of blue equipment last time? We could be considered really lucky that day. Basically, we usually only pick up Bronze equipment in a Normal Mode dungeon. However, A Hell Mode dungeon is much more dangerous, which means the equipment dropped there is expected to be much better than the Normal Mode one. The Abyss Mode dungeon is primarily for challengers. When an Abyss Mode dungeon is completed for the first time, a global announcement would appear. Of course, the players’ levels can’t be more than 5 levels higher than what’s suggested by the system. Take the Viper Cave for example, in order to complete Hell Mode, the highest level limit for players to partake would be level 20. When the Abyss Mode is completed, the Speed Mode would be available. The top three teams will have their names on the Dungeon Leaderboard beside the entrance of the dungeon. This mode is usually done for those players and guilds who want to become well-known. By the way, the highest rating, S, can only be achieved in an Abyss Mode dungeon. The highest rating in Hell Mode is A while the highest rating in the Normal Mode is B. We got B last time.”
It took a moment for Li Huailin to digest all the information given to him. Fortunately, it wasn’t too difficult.
“Leader, I feel that our guild can really try one of the harder modes and win us a bit of prestige,” Li Huailin exclaimed. “We can also see if any treasure chests are going to spawn there.”
“Are you saying…” Red Moon already knew what Li Huailin was talking about. “We’ll become the first guild that completes a Hell Mode dungeon?”
“No, completing a Hell Mode isn’t gonna give us a global announcement. Let’s make it big! Let’s go and challenge an Abyss Mode,” Li Huailin waved his hand and casually said this.
