Max opened the status screen and began veiwing his stats and has found each stat has increased by 5 points.
The present stats of max shown as
Name: Max Upstart
Sex: Male
Age: 23
Body Attribute
Strength:15
Agility:15
Defense: 15
Spirit: 20(Extraordinary)
Talent skill(advanced)
Survivor: Has a knack for finding treasure chests effortlessly, guided by intuition.
Scavenger: Can pull treasure chests from nearby locations to the talent holder, increasing the chance of obtaining them.
Max was stunned to see his spirit stats quietly surpass 20, while the rest trailed just 5 points behind.
Reaching 20 in spirit felt incredible—he could now see farther and hear distant sounds with clarity. Meanwhile, the extra 5 points in strength had visibly built up his muscles, making him feel like he could easily defeat his previous self without breaking a sweat.
Soon he scrolled down the stats page and saw his talent has upgraded while adding him another suffix as a scavenger and granted him with another good ability.
After reading the talent skill description, Max felt incredible knowing that he only needed to move in the direction where treasure chests would appear. Using his talent, the treasure chests would be pulled toward him, allowing him to collect them effortlessly.
Max felt restless due to excessive energy after eating the shark meat, which had completely cured his fatigue. Curious, he opened the chat channel to see what others were up to and discovered that everyone was discussing the effects of monster meat. Some had shared their stat increases in the regional chat, sparking jealousy among others.
Max then remembered tomorrow will the last day where everyone's supplies will be completed and true survival will begin from then, so he decided to help other by posting trade of resource required to produce the water purifier.
This might help other to exchange precious resources for not so urgent resources.
Soon Max took the picture of the water purifier and sent the picture to the regional channel which made others quickly find him as his messages were now highlighted.
Immediately the topic diverted to him as soon the regional participants noticed his message.
"No how did he get the water purifier, I was thinking of making a crude homemade water purifier as my water reserves are running low."
"No upstairs how did your water complete so quickly, didn't we have 3 days of water, did you drink them in two days." another person questioned
"Well not everyone drinks the same water quantity, so maybe his body is the type that requires water heavily." some guessed.
"Now's the question is not whether you have water or not, but why has the bigshot shared his water purifier picture, does he want to show that he has abundant of water and want to publicize himself as a seller of water."
'Well, that's great, if he is going to sell water, we don't have to worry of water supply in the region as he might produce more water purifiers and sell them to us."
"Why would he bother making more water purifiers? He could just produce one extra, sell the water based on the hunger market, and use the profits to gather resources faster and upgrade his raft more quickly."
"No, just see who he is, didn't you know he always makes the regional participants benefit by selling cheaply, maybe he will sell the completed water purifier in the trade channel." another person chimed.
"No, are you crazy? What does he gain by selling the water purifiers directly? That will only increase competition in selling the water, causing him to lose the opportunity to gather resources." someone argued.
Soon the chat channel grew noisy, and outrageous theories started to surface. Max felt overwhelmed by reading the messages and decided to respond to the queries by typing the messages in the chat channel.
"Hello everyone, good evening. I assume everyone has seen the water purifier. As expected, I have obtained the design blueprint for the water purifier, which allowed me to produce it. However, producing the water purifier is not as simple as gathering a few ordinary resources, as it requires a water beast core."
"Water beast core is the essential item, and I know many might doubt so i will share the blueprint diagram screenshot in the chat,"
"I have decided to sell the water purifiers to others to whoever can send me the material to produce for a small fee of 100 wood or a 1 blueprint of any grade which I don't have with me."
Max checked for any mistakes and sent the message to the chat channel which made the chat quite for a second and became noisy again soon with flurry of messages, where some are thanking max for his decision to help others, some are skeptical about the deal, while some are brazenly issued threats to handover the blueprint so they will not harm him when they find him.
Max sneered at the threats, thinking they had no idea if they could escape him when they faced him in a fight.
Max then assured that if he accidentally took the material and escaped, he would lose the opportunity to prove his honesty and harm his future prospects. He emphasized that he hadn't lost his sense to cheat for such minor gains.
He also assures them that he will post the transaction details of each water purifier with the owner's permission, once they confirm there are no issues with it.
This will confirm the authenticity of the deal, allowing others to view the shop's transaction history in the trade channel and compare to verify its credibility.
Soon many responded positively, and many asked him to wait as they will try to kill the water Monters to collect the cores required to produce the water purifiers.
Max responded positively to them, confident they would successfully kill the water monster since most of them had eaten the monster meat, which boosted their attributes. This greatly improved their chances of defeating the monster, as long as they followed his instructions as he had outlined.
Max realized it was already midnight by the time he had replied to everyone, prepared the raft, cleared some space at the center, added wood to the fireplace, and finally slept beside it.