Normally, walking back from Herb Valley to Yunbian Town would take at least ten-plus minutes.
Although he had lost 320 EXP, it did save Lin Mo quite a bit of time.
"Mm, not bad, still worth it."
"It's just a pity about that ring."
A chill flashed in Lin Mo's eyes, "Mainly, I just don't have time to play with you guys right now. Once I'm done with everything in the newbie village, I'll come play with you slowly."
Thankfully, the golden Flowing Light Sword and the orange leggings that had evolved were both in a bound state.
If those two pieces of equipment had been dropped, that really would have been a massive loss.
As he spoke, Lin Mo arrived at the potion shop.
He found the lady boss, Jasmine, and handed in the quest.
[Ding～Congratulations, you have completed the quest · Collect Herbs, rewards: EXP +200, Copper Coins +12, Reputation +1, Jasmine Favorability +1, obtained equipment · Hero's Coat!]
Lin Mo had a full 100 portions of herb flower cores in his bag.
Yet each quest only required ten portions per hand-in.
So Lin Mo repeatedly accepted and turned in the quest ten times.
He received the reward ten times.
Aside from ten times the base quest rewards, each time you turned in the quest, the probability of receiving equipment as a reward would be halved compared to the previous turn-in.
In other words: the first time was guaranteed equipment.
Second time 50% chance, third time 25%, fourth time 12.5%, and so on.
After turning in the quest ten times, looking at the single [Hero's Coat] in his backpack, Lin Mo had black lines all over his face and was silent for a good three seconds.
Only then did he finally speak up, "Damn it! I only hit the guaranteed first-time drop?"
"Insane!"
However, for Lin Mo, these rewards were actually only secondary.
What he was most looking forward to was the system message ringing in his ears
[Ding～Because your favorability with Jasmine has reached 10 points, Jasmine's favorability level toward you has reached Level 1!]
Closing the favorability level-up prompt in front of him.
Lin Mo said to Jasmine, "Boss lady, I collected so many herbs for you. Isn't there any extra reward at all?"
"There is, handsome, there is," Jasmine looked at Lin Mo with a face full of appreciation, then reached into that patch of fair skin on her chest and pulled out a scroll with a faint fragrance, holding it out in front of him.
With eyes as sultry as silk, she said to Lin Mo, "Here, this is your reward. There's only one, and it's one of a kind."
Lin Mo excitedly took the scroll, "Thank you, boss lady!"
That's right.
The way to trigger Yunbian Town's only hidden quest on Auntie Li earlier was about the same as this.
In Divine Oracle World, most opportunities were closely tied to the favorability between players and NPCs.
The opportunity buried on Jasmine, which let you earn a large amount of gold quickly, also required the player to raise their favorability level with her to Level 1 before it would trigger.
And this opportunity was the magic scroll currently in Lin Mo's hand
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[Limited-time Discount Coupon] (E-rank Magic Scroll)
— Description: After use, for half an hour, the player will enjoy a 90% discount when buying potions at Yunbian Town's potion shop
— Note: This magic scroll is only valid at Yunbian Town's potion shop in Newbie Village No.116.
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"Only the first player in Yunbian Town whose favorability level with Jasmine reaches Level 1 can obtain this magic scroll."
"In my previous life, this opportunity was discovered by some idiot, who even posted on the forum flexing that he'd bought a whole backpack of cheap potions, using them for several days and saving quite a bit of money."
"But, if you use the 90% discount to buy potions in bulk, then resell them at a markup, earning the difference, you can make a huge amount of copper coins in a short time."
As he spoke, Lin Mo crushed the magic scroll on the spot.
[Ding · E-rank Magic Scroll Limited-time Discount Coupon has taken effect. For the next half hour, you will receive a 90% discount when buying potions at the potion shop.]
Time was limited.
Without another word, Lin Mo immediately ran to the potion shop counter to buy potions.
At this moment, he saw that potions which originally cost 10 copper coins per bottle for Level 1 HP Potions and Mana Potions were all showing as only 1 copper coin in his eyes.
Lin Mo spent 3.8 silver coins in one go to purchase 38 stacks of HP Potions.
Ten bottles per stack, for a total of 380 bottles.
It wasn't that Lin Mo didn't want to buy more, it was just that his backpack space was limited.
Players started with only 40 backpack slots.
Aside from the E-rank Magic Scroll Poison Throw and the Hero's Coat that he'd just received from the quest, Lin Mo had only 38 slots left, and all of them were now filled with potions.
With his backpack full of potions, Lin Mo immediately left the potion shop and rushed straight to the auction house directly across from it.
He listed each stack of potions for 50 copper coins.
Then he opened the area chat channel and anonymously sent out the message he had already prepared beforehand.
[Anonymous Player: "There are half-price potions in the auction house, everyone hurry over and buy."]
This was not the time to chase high unit prices.
As the saying goes, small profits but quick turnover.
"The limited-time discount only lasts half an hour, and every player only has ten auction slots at the start. I have to make sure every stack of potions sells as fast as possible to increase the number of orders."
It was currently ten at night, the most energetic time of the day.
According to the system's real-time stats, there were 97,658 players online in Yunbian Town.
So, with Lin Mo's shou, all kinds of players in the chat channel started getting lively.
[Dream Is To Be Xiaomi's Wife (Level 3, Male): "Half-price potions? For real? There's something this good? I'm heading back to the village to check right now. If you're lying, your whole family dies!"]
[Blooming Wealth (Level 1, Male): "It's real, everyone, it's real! Ten potions for only 50 copper! But I don't have enough copper on me, can't afford them. Rich friends hurry and buy, there are only ten stacks in total!"]
[Zihan's Mom (Level 2, Female): "It's fake, everyone don't believe it! I'm at the auction house right now, there aren't any cheap potions here! Don't come over, or you'll be wasting your trip!"]
[Zihan's Mom (Level 2, Female): "Also I'm buying copper coins, paying 1% higher than the system's cash-out rate, 1.1:1! If you have extra copper coins, sell me some, just mail them to me!"]
At the same time, not long after Lin Mo had listed the potions, he received consignment notifications:
[Ding～Your consigned item at the auction house · HP Potion has been bought by player Zihan's Mom. After a 3% handling fee, you receive 48.5 copper coins.]
[Ding～Your consigned item at the auction house · HP Potion has been bought by player Zihan's Mom. After a 3% handling fee, you receive 48.5 copper coins.]
[Ding…]
Lin Mo had seriously underestimated the purchasing power of the players in the newbie village.
The ten stacks of potions he had just listed were sold out in under half a minute.
Once his auction slots were cleared, Lin Mo immediately listed another ten stacks, still at 50 copper coins per stack.
As more and more players actually bought the half-price potions, the rumor was verified.
Zihan's Mom was also cursed in private messages by countless players until she logged off crying.
And the number of players coming to the auction house to buy potions just kept increasing.
To the point that the second batch of potions sold out within ten seconds of being listed.
After all, in the potion shop, one bottle of potion cost 10 copper coins.
At the system's 1:1 exchange rate, that was basically ten yuan.
But here it was only 5 yuan a bottle.
Even those poor players who couldn't afford five yuan a bottle for themselves could still take advantage of the low price to stock up a bunch, then resell them for 7–8 yuan a bottle to those pay-to-win players, earning 2–3 yuan per bottle in the process.
You'd have to be an idiot to pass on easy money.
So, Lin Mo's potions sold faster and faster.
All 38 stacks of potions in his backpack were emptied in no time.
He received a total of 1,843 copper coins.
After subtracting the 380 copper cost.
He netted 1,463.
In about a minute, he'd made more than 1,400 yuan.
Lin Mo couldn't help saying, "So satisfying!"
Feeling pumped, Lin Mo ran back across to the potion shop again, using the 90% discount to buy potions in bulk.
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