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The annual Entertainment Grand Prix has begun again. This time, there are 16,000 participants, 3,000 in the individual competition and 3,000 in the team competition. The number of applicants far exceeds that of previous years.
[Let me see who's participating in the competition, and their respective talents and skills, so I can vote and place my bets later.]
[I firmly support Princess Cadolin of the Mermaid Tribe! Let's be frank, I'm all about looks, I'll choose whoever is pretty.]
[Thanks for your support. This time, our merman clan's Princess Cadolin leads a very strong team. Our warriors and supports are all A-level talents above level 50. The princess herself even possesses S-level talents. With the addition of an S-level equipment master, we are sure to win this battle!]
[Don't be so overconfident. I've seen over a dozen teams with the same setup as yours, some even consisting of three or four S-level players. If you, the mermaids, want to win, you're just dreaming.]
[Yes, I also think the mermaids have no chance of winning. You've always been runners-up. Oh, right, I just saw that the princess's team doesn't have any so-called S-rank blacksmiths, just a level 28 A-rank rookie. Are you deliberately using false information to cheat people out of it?]
[You're talking nonsense... Oh my god, how could this be a new person I've never seen before? Where is our clan leader Tepes?]
[Don't look for him anymore. I just came back from the Great Prince's place. Boss Tepes has switched his allegiance to the Great Prince.]
What's going on with Princess Cadoline and the eldest prince? Without the help of Tepes's S-rank talent, Princess Cadoline has absolutely no hope of winning. Ugh! I just bet a full 500 gold coins on the princess, and now it's all over!
[Hahaha, don't be discouraged. Doesn't your princess have an A-rank blacksmith? What if he has some special skills? Hahaha.]
[Get lost up there, gloating over my misfortune is a fart. You know there's a huge gap between an A-level gearsmith and an S-level gearsmith, and the difference in forged equipment is ridiculously huge, with no chance of winning, yet you're still mocking me! Wow, wow, my 500 gold coins!]
[I also invested 500 gold coins in the Princess team. How the hell did this damn A-rank blacksmith get on the team? Is the Princess crazy? She's not using the Tepes boss anymore, but instead has this thing!?]
[Yan Yu, get out of Princess Cadoline's team!]
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When Yan Yu and the others were thrown into the dungeon, the live broadcast channel instantly became lively, with constant barrages of comments, and all kinds of support and arguments mixed into a mess.
The votes and bets for the team competition are basically concentrated on those teams with three or four S-level talents. The support rate of other teams is pitifully low, of course, including the Mermaid Princess's Most Beautiful Team where Yan Yu is.
At this moment, Yan Yu was unaware of other people's pessimism and boycott.
After the five of them briefly introduced themselves to each other, Yan Yu suggested, "Let's go into the city first and learn about the cultural information of this instance. Maybe we can get some clues about the monster."
Cadorin nodded in agreement, and the other three naturally followed.
The town in front of her was similar to medieval Western architecture, and the clothing of the residents she met along the way confirmed Yan Yu's guess. She also found several house-elves hiding in the corners, as well as prison carts that sold slaves and orc girls.
Everything proves that this is a Western fantasy copy, so we can roughly guess the types of monsters.
The monsters in Western fantasy works are nothing more than goblins, gargoyles, ghouls, skeleton soldiers, minotaurs, trolls, goblins, demons, vampires and the like.
Yan Yu briefly mentioned his guess to Cadoline and the others.
Wilfred twirled the dagger in his hand, his tone nonchalant: "It doesn't matter what kind of monster it is. If there are two, I'll kill them both."
"D-tier dungeons are just level 20-40 monsters," Hill interjected, finding the perfect moment. "Our levels are high enough, so we'll completely crush them if we encounter them. In my opinion, there's no need to waste time going into the city. It would be much better to just head into the forest and find the monsters."
Beulah, looking dejected, added, "The other teams have already killed monsters and earned points. Our overall strength is already inferior to theirs. If we delay any further, we might not even qualify for the next stage by the time the competition ends in three days."
To participate in the second stage of the competition, their scores must be in the top 30%. There are 3,000 teams in the team competition, and they must be at least in the top 900.
The requirements for the third stage are more stringent, and only the top 100 in the individual and team competitions will be selected.
Cardolin sensed the anxiety of the three people and hesitated for a moment. Finally, she looked up and said to Yan Yu, "How about this? The four of us will go into the forest to kill monsters and earn points. Your level is relatively low, so you can stay in the city to gather intelligence. If there is anything, contact us using the bracelet."
As he was speaking, Yan Yu saw several teams that were deployed into the city or entered the city to gather intelligence, all of them running out of the city in a hurry.
It was clearly written in their eyes that killing monsters to earn points was urgent!
Who has the time or mood to wander around the city? Didn't you see that in just ten or twenty minutes, some teams have already reached over 100 points?
The players' wristbands show the points of the top 100 individuals and teams. The highest-scoring team has reached 120 points, and the top five are all above 100 points.
No wonder those people were in a hurry to run out of the city.
Yan Yu: "Okay, be careful and come back before dark to gather. I'll find a way to get some rooms for you to stay."
"Okay, then let's split up and meet at the city gate at six in the evening."
The five people were divided into two groups. One group quickly turned around and rushed towards the forest, while Yan Yu continued to stroll leisurely, looking around as if he was on a trip. He had no sense of urgency in the competition at all, which was in sharp contrast to the others.
[Why on earth would the princess choose such a useless guy as her teammate? ]
[Is she an undercover agent sent by a hostile force? She really thinks this dungeon is a tourist attraction, and she's still in the mood to wander around there. If it were me, I'd definitely give her a slap in the face to wake her up!]
[It's over, it's over! My 500 gold coins are completely wasted!]
Yan Yu spent more than an hour getting to know this small town, including the mixed ethnic groups living in the town and the various functional buildings.
While chatting with the natives, she found that the "all NPC favorability +50" BUFF she had obtained before also worked in this dungeon. Most of the natives were very friendly to her, and she could get more detailed answers when asking questions, which saved her a lot of trouble.
Because he had no money on hand, Yan Yu did not rush to find a hotel. Instead, he built a good relationship with the lady in the most friendly task hall. With her permission, he was given a task to collect 100 D-grade iron ores for free, and the payment was 10 D-grade weapons.
Of course, this was also due to Yan Yu's promise to give the old lady's son a D-level eyebrow knife as a reward.
Yan Yu already had a general understanding of the prices here. The equipment was relatively expensive, so the price she set for the task was reasonable.
In the novice copy and her shop, the purchase price of D-level materials is 100 copper coins, and the selling price of D-level equipment is only 500 copper coins, which means that 100 D-level iron ores can be exchanged for 20 pieces of D-level equipment.
Adventurers, gold diggers, slave traders, merchants, etc. gather in this small town, and the demand for equipment exceeds the supply, so the price is twice as high as other places.
Perhaps due to the desire for equipment, the task issued by Yan Yu was quickly taken up. Within ten minutes, 100 pieces of D-grade iron ores were piled in front of Yan Yu.
Yan Yu came to the room provided free of charge by the old lady and forged these materials directly into 50 eyebrow-tipped knives.
In order to avoid revealing her true talent, she stuffed them all into the bracelet space the moment the forging was completed, ensuring that the audience watching in the live broadcast room could not see anything.
My luck was average today. Among the 50 eyebrow tip knives, 45 were D-grade and the remaining 5 were C-grade. There were no B-grade high-quality eyebrow tip knives.
However, these are enough for now.
He traded 10 D-level eyebrow knives and gave one to the old lady. Then Yan Yu found an equipment store and sold the remaining 34 D-level eyebrow knives. He did not touch the C-level ones for the time being.
After all this, Yan Yu made a fortune out of nothing and directly earned 34*1000 copper coins = 3 gold coins and 40 silver coins, which gave him the starting capital.
Yan Yu found the old lady and issued 10 tasks in succession to collect D-grade iron ore, also using equipment as reward. He forged a total of 400 D-grade eyebrow-tipped knives, 92 C-grade knives and 8 B-grade eyebrow-tipped knives.
The C-grade and B-grade knives were also not sold. These 105 knives were piled together in the bracelet space. Of the remaining 400 D-grade eyebrow-tipped knives, 100 were paid to others as compensation, and the other 300 were sold to the equipment store, earning 30 gold coins. Together with the initial money, the total was 33 gold coins and 40 silver coins.
Yan Yu tried to exchange a gold coin for points to see the exchange rate. After the gold coin disappeared, the points behind her name turned into "1".
"It seems the exchange rate is 1:1. No wonder other players prefer to go out of town and kill monsters rather than earn money in the city. Killing monsters gives more points, so it's more cost-effective."
However, instead of blindly killing monsters, Yan Yu had some guesses in his mind waiting to be verified.
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