Reign of the Hunters

Chapter 129: This Day

Frosty Wasteland Inner Sanctum.

A fifty man dungeon.

Till this day, there were only two guilds who had managed to clear the instance.

Those guilds were Tang Dynasty and Upwards Ho!.

However, there were rumors said that Steel Blooded Battle Spear and Wolf Pack were already knocking on the doors of third place. It wouldn't take long for them to clear the dungeon too.

Just as each guild was trying their hardest to clear this dungeon, Upwards Ho! had actually managed to take two of the First Five consecutively in the past two days. This undoubtedly caused a certain amount of pressure on the rest of the guilds. Especially today, where the queue for Frosty Wasteland Inner Sanctum had just started to form in the early morning and then the guilds saw an announcement flash past on the world channel.

Remote Depths: Earnestly looking for people to sponsor "Frosty Wasteland Inner Sanctum." Thirty thousand gold coins per run, all items that drop will belong to you. Contact me if you're interested. First come, first serve. Only one request per day.

Players of Fate could be said to be lacking in everything but money. Ever since the game started its real-world currency conversion, there were a lot more enterprises that began to join the game. Needless to say, the wealthy heirs of the rich were also aplenty in the game.

For the wealthy second generation heirs, if they weren't in a guild that invested their effort in setting up a dungeon clearing team, they would actually prefer this method of sponsoring a team. One only needed to spend a relatively small amount of money for a full set of equipment from the dungeon, which was way faster than slowly clearing a dungeon with a team.

Of course, it was impossible for the dungeon to drop an entire set of equipment. However, even if it took the team 10 runs to get an entire set of equipment to drop, it was merely three million gold coins over a 10 day period. It was pretty affordable if you thought about it.

That was why the moment Remote Depths made his announcement, his private channel was immediately flooded with messages. Furthermore, the request fee of thirty thousand gold coins quickly rose to fifty thousand gold coins. When the request fee reached sixty thousand gold coins, Remote Depths finally accepted a player's request.

Following the usual rules of the contract: before entering the dungeon, the requestor had to pay half of the amount upfront for the raid party to prepare for the dungeon clearance. Once the dungeon had been cleared, the requestor would then pay the remaining sum of money to Remote Depths.

This day, was really strange.

This was Upwards Ho!'s first sponsored dungeon clearing attempt, so all of the members were pumped up. According to Remote Depths' understanding of these players, a number of them were not doing well in real life; They would be satisfied if they could earn a bit of money from the game. Thus, when Remote Depths announced to everyone that the price for this sponsored clear had risen to sixty thousand coins, and that everyone would be able to receive about five thousand gold coins after deducting the guild maintenance fees and preparation costs for clearing the dungeon, everyone was over the moon with joy.

According to the current exchange rate which was roughly 1:5, this meant that five thousand gold coins could be treated as 1000 yuan in real world currency. Although there were people earning a monthly average of 10,000 yuan, they were able to earn 1000 yuan just by clearing a dungeon in a few hours. This was much easier and more profitable compared to going to work. This made everyone hold their breaths in anticipation of displaying their skills.

It was also a strange day for Tang Dynasty.

Aside from clearing the dungeon that one time, their team had been stuck at the third BOSS either due to their bad luck or their poor coordination, failing over and over again, which of course gave them immense pressure. Coupled with the fact that Upwards Ho! had been clearing multiple dungeons in succession and their recent bagging of two of the First Five, this made them even more gloomy. The other day while they were fighting with Wolf Pack over the territory of Blue Light Coast, they were ambushed by Gongzi You which led to a massive defeat. So their resentment of Upwards Ho! Grew even more.