Building a Gaming Empire From Scratch

That can be verified by our “Gold Miner” Yi who couldn’t bring himself to provide Yelang with full diamond armor.

Acquiring enchantment books is not easy either; it’s filled with randomness.

Especially useful combat-oriented enchantment books, it’s very much down to luck.

That’s why Camille Victoria was so surprised to see Shuihua casually pull out a bunch of different enchantment books.

But here with Chasing Wind, not only does he have top-level equipment fully enchanted with combat enchantments, he can equip his teammates with them as well!

If Warehouse Bird hadn’t invited him, these would probably be his…backup equipment?

Anyway, Warehouse Bird absolutely refused to believe that Chasing Wind had dug up and found all these materials and enchantments himself – even someone as lucky as him had limits!

Taking into account Chasing Wind’s usual style, Warehouse Bird is more willing to believe: This is another manifestation of Chasing Wind’s “money ability”, buying from other players.

“These cost you a lot of money, didn’t they?”

“No no.” Chasing Wind waved his hand to assure him, “The total is not even 100,000.”

“This expensive?!” Warehouse Bird knew Chasing Wind was wealthy, but he still thought Chasing Wind was ripped off.

This is too expensive!

“Where is it expensive!” To this, Chasing Wind had a completely different view, not that he didn’t care about money, but-

“Yesterday, for less than 100,000, I bought 10 sets of equipment, which is less than 10,000 per set, but-” Chasing Wind paused, and then said: “Do you know the current price of such a set?”

“Uh?” A very bad feeling vaguely arose in Warehouse Bird: “How much?”

“5 minutes ago it was 50,000 a set, now it is…” Chasing Wind opened the private chat and looked, “62,000 and still rising.”

Warehouse Bird and the other three teammates, mouths agape, were stunned after hearing this.

“So, you actually made a profit? And made… 500%?!”

“A profit margin of 5 times?!”

“Fuck!”

“You’re at it again?!” The last teammate unconsciously exclaimed.

In the live stream room of Warehouse Bird and Chasing Wind, the audience’s reactions were similar.

Back in the “Assassins’ Alliance”, Chasing Wind had spent almost 4 million to get the first golden key of the metropolis, and as a result, due to the reward that came with the golden key, he received an invitation worth 5 million.

If he hadn’t given all the prizes away in a raffle, he could have made a profit of 1 million!

Many audiences went off the edge at that time.

Now he casually spent 100,000 to buy equipment, and it turned 6 times in one day! Looking at the current inflation rate, there is even a chance that it may continue to rise to 10 times!

Quite a few viewers in the live stream room fell apart again:

“What a financial master!”

“Is this the feeling of spending more and more money?”

“Teacher! When will you start the class?”

“Teacher, do you buy stocks? Can we see your holdings? Please!!”

…

Chasing Wind humbly waved his hand: “No no, I’m not planning to sell, these are unrealized gains, unrealized gains are not the same as actual profit.”

One teammate suddenly felt enlightened: “So if I buy two sets now and sell them when the price rises to 100,000, wouldn’t I double my investment?!”

“Ah, that.” Chasing wind hesitated, then advised, “Honestly, I would not recommend it… Unless you wouldn’t mind losing all the money, then you can gamble, otherwise forget it.”

“There’s too much uncertainty in the price that explodes in less than an hour, it could crash at any moment.”

After saying this, Chasing Wind suddenly remembered something, he became unusually serious, and said to the viewers in the live broadcast room: “I strongly discourage you from buying now, waiting for the price to rise and then selling, the risk is too high, it’s basically like gambling!”

“Rather than trying to resell for a profit, why not make the most of the current busy market, explore more mines in the game to find diamonds, or gather useful enchantment books, you can sell them for a small profit, if you can’t sell them you can use them yourself, at least you won’t lose anything.”

After this advice, Chasing Wind stopped discussing it, and began discussing the BOSS battle with his teammates.

Either way, he had already given a warning, if there were still those who wouldn’t heed it, he couldn’t be blamed.

*

It’s not just Warehouse Bird and Chasing Wind, grouping behavior is spreading widely.

A large number of familiar heavy-duty players have spontaneously organized themselves, preparing to venture in together, not to mention that.

Within Daxia Region alone, there are as many as eight esports clubs, like Lance’s [Burned Boat Club], urgently summoning team members to join this sudden competition.

Baekje also has six clubs following closely behind.

Izumo doesn’t have clubs pushing this, but the core players and well-known streamers from Izumo aren’t willing to fall behind, and are also quickly forming teams.

In Southeast Asia, there are fewer established teams, with many more individuals fighting on their own. The most that can be seen are small teams of five people, beyond that are many ad hoc groups.

In high difficulty battles, whether these random groups can increase combat power or just add to the chaos and lower combat power, is a difficult question to answer…

In Russia and Australia, ordinary players seem to be more engrossed in “Hunter: Call of the Wilderness”. The proportion of “My World” players is not high, so most of them are just watching the excitement.

While there are groups of friends trying it out, most of them are just in it for the participation.

Finally, in Europe, where the player base is even smaller, the personal heroism of the streamers seems to be quite strong, and they all plan to challenge the limit and defeat the Ender Dragon solo.

Of course, while the combat is solitary, the preparation of combat supplies cannot be.

You must know that at this moment, only three days after the game’s release, it’s difficult to say that the players’ supplies are plentiful.

Especially the preparation for the final BOSS battle, which not only requires powerful armor and weapons – which itself is already challenging enough – explains why enchanting diamond sets are so expensive.

They also need supplementary strengthening potions, damage potions, blood restoration potions, and Ender Pearls, which improve mobility by providing transportation.

Winning a solo fight certainly proves one’s invincibility, but the extremely low tolerance for mistakes, the extreme difficulty, and the massive consumption are all inevitable.

It’s a dilemma:

Fighting alone, the battle is harder, and a single mistake could lead to a monster kill, resulting in heavy losses.

In group battles, there is mutual cover, cooperation, and the ability to maintain a combat state, allowing deceased players to return and pick up their dropped equipment to rejoin the battle. However, the cost is facing a stronger Ender Dragon.

By the way, trying to wear down the Ender Dragon by constantly resurrecting and dragging your corpse is not feasible either.

Lincoln even cruelly added the mechanics of “Victorious Chaser” and “Rage Explosion” to the Ender Dragon.

The former increases the damage the more players it kills in a short period of time – whether they are different players or the same player repeatedly.

The latter is when the battle lasts over 30 minutes, the Ender Dragon will directly rage, greatly increasing defense and damage, and overpowering the players.

All of this further restricts the tactic of using massive amounts of manpower.

Even worse, these states are only removed 5 minutes after the BOSS completely disengages- which is exactly when the dropped equipment of players is despawned.

For this, Lincoln is prepared to stay at home for the next few days and not show up online casually.

This plan is very wise.

—No need to wait for the next few days, many people can’t help but curse loudly at it now.

*

Yi and Yelang, having understood the winning conditions in creative mode, immediately switched back to survival mode with full confidence to challenge it.

Of course, starting with Iron Armor.

The two thought really well: First clear the Enderman, then destroy the End Crystal that could heal the BOSS, afterwards attack the Ender Dragon from a distance. Once the dragon lands, they would rush in and kill it!

First, they dug a pit, then carefully locked eyes with an Enderman to lure it to kill.

Then the second, third, and fourth, all went smoothly.

They then built two ladders to climb up the Obsidian Pillars and attempted to destroy the cage-protected End Crystal. Suddenly, the situation immediately diverged from creative mode——

The Ender Dragon started to dive straight at them to attack.

Yelang blocked it with a shield without being killed on the spot, but he fell off the Obsidian Pillars, barely alive. He quickly took out a restoration potion to drink.

Yi above persevered and managed to destroy the End Crystal.

While receiving damage, he had already prepared to drink a potent healing potion.

But before he could breathe a sigh of relief, he heard the roar of the Ender Dragon, and then a purple dragon breath descended from the sky, engulfing the entire Obsidian Pillar.

The dragon breath of the Ender Dragon was also greatly strengthened by Lincoln—

Not only does it possess the “flowing” effect like a liquid, it can even ignite ladders which were normally untouchable—but this situation completely follows common sense, to the point that Yi and Yelang didn’t realize what this meant.

“!!!” Yelang, who was originally planning to climb up and help, immediately stopped. The purple fire turned into a column of flame, burning almost directly beside his face.

The next moment, Yi, who was turned into a man on fire, fell from the pillar, rolled and crawled out of the dragon breath’s range—the flames were still burning on the pillar, showing no signs of extinguishing, and the flames on Yi were the same.

Seeing the burning damage continuing to pop up, Yi quickly took out a healing potion enhanced with redstone dust. But just as he was about to drink it, he heard Yelang’s voice—

“You didn’t die from that?” Yelang was very surprised.

“Say something useful!” Yi roared in anger.

But because he took an extra moment to say that, his potion-drinking was delayed, and he was directly killed by the burning damage, emptying his last bit of health.

“F*ck!” Yi left his last words, fell dead on the spot, and his full gear and supplies scattered around.