Regicide by Dakota Krout

Author:Dakota Krout [Krout, Dakota]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Mountaindale Press
Published: 2018-07-15T22:00:00+00:00

~ Chapter Twenty-six ~

Ten hours with not much to do. Joe amused himself by prank calling a few people since there was no way to trace calls and harassment back to him. It was fun for all of five minutes, then he decided to do some searching into the game. He really wanted to understand how crafters like Alexis were allowed to level up so quickly. He felt that the game was putting them into a bad position, and it was a trap he would have fallen into without Tiona pushing him to join in combat.

What he found out was surprising, but it shouldn’t have been. Crafters can level extremely fast and make incredible money but only for a short while. At a certain point, they began needing more… specialized goods. Then they had to go out into the world and get those resources themselves, buy them from people that already had them, or steal them if things got really bad.

This would either turn them into an adventurer who was behind everyone else with their terrible combat skills or would cost them a majority of the cash that they had made selling low-level items to other adventurers. Meanwhile, all the other crafters that had been following a similar playstyle would reach that point at the same time. Because of this, long-term gamers were rubbing their hands together, hoarding goods for the day that the market would begin correcting in their favor.

“Game economy is nuts.” Joe shook his head at the implications that were rearing their ugly head. Pretty soon, around the time they specialize, crafters were going to start needing a ton of material to continue leveling. Rare or unique components were going to skyrocket in price just like mana potions had. Joe decided that it might be time to start dipping into his savings when he got back into the game. He was almost… glad that he hadn’t survived the dungeon. If he had learned about this much later…

He thought about calling his mom, but from her perspective he had only called… what, five hours ago? Ugh. He felt like a failure. Joe sat through some more online classes, determined to get better at his skills one way or another. This time he focused on paper making, chuckling about the fact that just about anything could be found online. Most of the information the class contained was fairly useless to him, as he didn’t have industrial equipment. Some was quite useful, though, such as ways to make primitive binding agents work as well–or better–than mass-produced paper. Only on a small scale, of course; it was far too expensive to use some of these methods on a large scale, but for Joe… this might be exactly what he needed to get an edge on his skills.

Taking as many notes as possible, Joe worked right up to the deadline of the portal allowing him access to the game again. He would need to sleep in-game, but that would be a more effective use of his time anyway.

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