Global Game: Developing a Knight Clan-Chapter 71: Pet Myna, Sky-high Priced Potion

At 7:00 PM, a fierce storm raged on, accompanied by the crashing of thunder.

Many areas even experienced widespread power outages.

The True Game’s version update had already caused a massive uproar across the internet platforms of Blue Star.

But none of this had anything to do with Lince anymore.

Lince wasn’t concerned with the various opinions popping up online.

He had finally bought his bird, braving the rain to do so.

A mynah bird that seemed quite lively.

Watching the mynah hop and flutter around its cage, Lince simply fed it some specialized bird feed and a few mealworms before setting it aside.

After all, Lince wouldn’t dare use the Tier Five Giant Eagle Card on the mynah right now.

Was he kidding? 15% of its Power... who knew how big the mynah would become after using it?

If it flew out, it would definitely be detected by air defense radar.

So, with five hours still to go before Inference Day, Lince took out a stack of Mid-Efficacy Healing Potions from his item inventory.

Previously, a Player’s inventory couldn’t hold items produced within the game, but it had always been able to hold system rewards.

As a result, people on the game forums had already started selling system-generated Extraordinary Artifacts. Naturally, Lince was now assessing the value of his own Healing Potions.

Lince had previously owned a total of ten stacks of these Mid-Efficacy Healing Potions—a hundred bottles in all.

But he had given half of them away to York and his wife as rewards during the last two games. Now, Lince had five stacks of potions left.

In the game, this potion could bring the dead back to life and regrow flesh on bones. It could even make the Blood Exchange process easier for a Transcendent. The potion was undoubtedly of extremely high value.

With a thought, a small Healing Potion, one that fit perfectly in his hand, appeared.

But it looked different from how it appeared in the game.

The originally deep-red Healing Potion had turned light red after being brought into the real world.

At the same time, a piece of information appeared in Lince’s mind.

[Medium-Effect Healing Potion]

(Suppressed by worldly laws. Efficacy reduced by 85%. Extremely effective against common external injuries, internal injuries, and cellular pathologies.)

’That’s it???’

Lince was a little disappointed.

’Just as I thought. Like the Character Cards, due to the suppression of real-world laws, all Magic Items from the game are likely to have their effects weakened the moment they’re brought out.’

However, there was one silver lining.

Looking at the Healing Potion’s description, Lince suspected it might be able to cure diseases like cancer.

Thus, Lince thought.

’Maybe I should try selling one to see what happens?’

Lince wasn’t short on money, but he was considering building up some funds in his forum account.

After all, even if he didn’t sell anything in the future, he could still buy things he needed from other Players!

’I don’t have to spend the money, but I need to have a reserve for emergencies.’

After all, while the game’s trading function specified that the item inventory couldn’t hold non-monetary real-world items, game-generated items traded between Players could definitely be brought into the game.

And that, without a doubt, was extremely valuable.

But Lince would never sell it as a simple cancer cure.

To avoid selling it too cheaply, though, Lince decided to put it out there and test the waters in the group chat, to see what kind of price the officials and even the brokers would offer.

He’d dangle it in front of them first and let the two sides compete.

It was just one potion; Lince was willing to part with it.

He still had forty-nine bottles left, after all.

In fact, until he obtained a better potion, Lince didn’t plan on easily gifting any more to York.

At the very least, it wasn’t necessary for creating a Low Tier Transcendent. After seeing how many Healing Potions York needed for his Middle Tier Blood Exchange, Lince might save the rest to create Middle Tier subjects for his Swamp Territory.

Thinking of this, Lince immediately opened the group chat.

And as expected, the chat was buzzing with activity.

The process doesn’t need to be described in detail.

In short, as soon as Lince appeared in the group, he immediately posted the Healing Potion’s description.

Then, the user ID ’Insomniac Rain’ and the broker ’Can’t See the Bright Moon’ both reacted instantly.

They asked Lince to wait. Insomniac Rain needed specialists to evaluate the potion’s value, and the broker ’Can’t See the Bright Moon’ needed to do the same, while also checking with his financial backers to see what kind of price they could offer.

In short, both of them told Lince to wait.

In the end, less than three hours later, Lince successfully sold the potion.

Their initial bidding war started at fifty million, climbed to one billion, and the final price reached a terrifying one and a half billion.

It was a truly astronomical price.

After all, the most expensive Low Tier Artifact that had appeared on the forums so far had only sold for a little over thirty million.

In the game, while Low Tier Artifacts were expensive, their price among the Nobility fluctuated between one hundred and one thousand Gold Coins. An exceptional artifact might fetch more, but it would never exceed two thousand Gold Coins.

And in the Game World, a Gold Coin weighed about five grams.

By calculating the price of gold, one could get a clear idea of the different price points, so the current trading prices on the forums were significantly higher.

After all, trading had just been introduced to the game, production was still extremely low, and most of the items were system rewards.

Although Lince’s Healing Potion was also a system reward, its mid-efficacy was comparable to Middle Tier items, and it could even save a life!

That was why the broker ultimately snapped up the potion for one and a half billion.

Afterward, the broker told Lince that the bid came from a magnate from the Western Continent who had terminal cancer. His condition was critical. It was highly unlikely a single potion would ever sell for such a high price again.

After all, there were few Players and little production right now, but things would be very different after the second wave of qualifications was released.

Even if the effects of all items from the game were weakened by 85 percent, that couldn’t hold up against the sheer number of Players and items. In the future, the price of all game-generated items would inevitably plummet until it reached a reasonable level, similar to in the Game World.

Therefore, Lince was incredibly lucky to have sold it for such a sky-high price right now.

After all, Lince had said he only had one bottle. Whether they believed him or not, scarcity created value.

Furthermore, because Lince was the Chief Player, it seemed Insomniac Rain and the people behind him intentionally tried to curry favor by cooperatively driving up the bid.

This ultimately forced the broker to offer his absolute maximum price.

And that was how Lince managed to sell it for a fortune.

It was a life-or-death emergency. Even though the magnate knew he was being fleeced, he had no choice but to accept it. He even used the opportunity to show goodwill to Lince, the Chief Player, in hopes of future cooperation.

Through this matter, Lince truly came to understand the importance of ’fist’ Power.

Insomnia and Rain was backed by the Human Alliance.

The broker was backed by Financial Groups.

Both parties intended to show goodwill to Lince, just in different ways, which was what allowed him to ’profit’ a little.

One and a half billion for a single potion?

Lince would never have dared to imagine such a thing before.

At this moment, Lince felt clearly and viscerally that the world had truly changed!

And he was no longer an ordinary person.

With less than thirty minutes to go before the inference, Lince was already starting to look forward to his new journey.