My Chaotic City

Chapter 5: The Mysterious Shop

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation

Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

Li Hanqiang laughed and told Fanning Knight, “Haha! If you are heroic enough during monster attacks, I will surely reward you with free tickets.”

“It is conditional?” Fanning Knight frowned. “Fine, I’ll think about it.”

After a short moment, Dark Redemption, Fanning Knight, and First-Class Star faded into the light and disappeared after communicating with the system, returning to their respective regional towns.

After all, the current Chaotic City was just a small patch of ruin and could be covered with a glance. It was nothing worthy of their presence.

With this, the Chaotic City returned to its normal peaceful state. Li Hanqiang waved his sleeves, activating the Float Walking skill as he walked towards the direction of the Chaos’ Core.

Float Walking was an interesting skill as it made walking on emptiness feel just like walking on land. Li Hanqiang could even control his ascend or descend with his thoughts, making it similar to climbing stairs.

With this skill, he would be able to carry out better observations on the war zone and command the defense tower more efficiently.

After a short while, Li Hanqiang was soon near to the Chaos’ Core. A golden treasure chest was already there waiting for him.

There was no doubt that this treasure chest was the reward for successfully defending against the first wave of monster attacks.

There was news from the official site that stated the rewards from the system after successfully defending the city were completely randomized. There was no way to predict what the reward would be as it all came down to luck. This was also where part of the fun and excitement came from.

To be frank, everything he did was up to luck 1at that moment.

Li Hanqiang had the minimal experience when it came to the items of the game but he could not help but imagine for a short moment how happy he would be if he could get the construction blueprint for another defensive tower.

After all, defensive towers were extremely powerful and incomparable to actual players. It did not matter if the player belonged to a hidden profession as they would all be weaklings in front of a defensive tower.

At the same time, it was possible that he would get another Chaotic Stone Slab, gold coins, or other random items.

Holding his expectations in his heart, Li Hanqiang opened the treasure chest and the system notification immediately sounded.

[Congratulations! You have successfully received the guardianship reward. Your guardianship reward is the Mysterious Shop Construction Blueprint. This is a rare item and has been automatically deposited into your storage space. Congratulations to the player.]

‘Well, I got a rare item? Does this mean that my luck isn’t that bad?’

Li Hanqiang quickly opened his storage space and saw a golden scroll.

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Mysterious Shop Construction Blueprint: A mysterious shop will be built on a 4M x 4M Chaotic Stone Slab after use.

The Mysterious Shop has a projection effect. Once built, the shop’s window can be activated on any Chaotic Stone Slab in the Chaotic City. The Mysterious Shop built using the construction blueprint is considered to be a low-level Mysterious Shop. The low-level Mysterious Shop sells three items: low-level Life Potions, low-level Magic Potions, low-level Inspiration Potions, and also has unlimited storage. The selling price is 120% of the standard price. Apart from that, the shop also provides the service of equipment restoration for a fee of 150% above the standard price.

When adventurer players spend at the secret shop, the Lord of the Chaotic City can receive 30% revenue.

Using Magic Stones to upgrade the Mysterious Shop will unlock more goods and shop functions. The player can explore the specifics on their own.

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‘A secret shop, nice!’

Li Hanqiang immediately realized the value of the Mysterious Shop as an impressive tool for the Chaotic City Lord to make money.

Although the price of items in the secret shop was higher than the market value, players would be able to purchase them directly from the Chaotic Stone Slabs. There would be players that were willing to consume from the shop due to the great convenience it brought.

Li Hanqiang remembered Dark Redemption as he had finished his MP and Blue Potions when the monsters were attacking the city, making him unable to use his Dark Arrows. If the secret shop was available, he would be able to replenish his supplies in time. This would increase his efficiency in killing enemies and allow him to level up at a faster rate. As long as he had gold coins, he would definitely be willing to spend them.

Even if the adventurer players could bring their own potions, equipment repairs would still surely be required as it was doubtful that they would be bringing their own spare equipment! It was understood by players that most equipment had durability settings. Killing and attacking monsters would damage the equipment, thus reducing its durability. It was inevitable that players would need to find NPCs1 to repair their equipment and these repairs costed money!

As long as adventurer players became consumers in the Mysterious Shop, 30% of the gold coins would fall into his hands. This was a profitable business with zero-cost for him.

Li Hanqiang could not help but exclaim at his good luck.

At that moment, time was gold. He did not waste any time as he quickly started the second wave of monster attacks on the city.

[System notification: You have successfully opened a new wave of monster attacks on the city. Starting from now, you have an hour to prepare for the war. Kindly publish the city defense mission as soon as possible to recruit adventurer players as support or build more defensive facilities. If you have completed your defense preparation, you may communicate with the system to end the preparation time in advance and immediately start the monster attack on the city.]

Li Hanqiang immediately released the city defense mission. One hour of preparation time was ample enough. He walked, floating in the air as he placed down two pieces of Chaotic Stone Slab.

The first Chaotic Stone Slab was placed near the Space-Time Wormhole and the second one near the Chaos’ Core.

Naturally, Li Hanqiang built the Mysterious Shop was built on the second Chaotic Stone Slab.

This Mysterious Shop was really mysterious. After it was built, it became a blurry shadow and morphed into a small grass hut that was covered by gray flames with the characters ‘Mysterious Shop’ written on the top…

Outside the Chaotic City itself, the gaming world was vast and boundless. There were many regional cities and inside of each of them was one or multiple Chaos Temples.

The Chaos Temple was a key building that connected the adventurer players with the Chaotic Cities. All city defense missions that were released by Chaotic City Lords would be displayed here for adventurer players to pick up.

At that moment, in one of the Chaos Temples, one of the players was surrounded in the middle by a large group of players, much like how the stars revolved around the moon1.

“My god, young master, you are level 9! How did you do it? I am only at level 3!”

“My brother, you are great! Please carry me!”

“You are leveling up at god’s speed. You must have had a special encounter…”

Sounds of flattery could be heard everywhere.

The player enjoying these flatteries was Dark Redemption. His face was red from blushing and he was very anxious. “Come, come, come, hand out all the gold coins. Little Liuzi, hurry up and buy medicine for me. Blue Potions, lots of them. By the way, find another spare longbow for me. The one in my hands is going to be written off.”

Everyone did not understand what was going on. Dark Redemption had no time to explain to them as he said in a hurry, “There’s no time for me to lose. Quickly, give me all the gold coins. I need to carry out the task of defending the city. If I am late, my position will be grabbed by someone else and that would be a great loss.”

One of the players said, “City defense missions? There’s no need to hurry. There are so many idiotic Chaotic City Lords that the publication of their missions have been flying around everywhere. There are so many city defense missions just waiting to be picked up by players.”

Dark Redemption said, “I need to go to the Chaotic City I was in just now. After I was done testing it out, I got 2 Contribution Points. The second wave is happening soon and I think that it will help me gain more experience. Oh right, the Chaotic City Lord was also super lucky. I helped him kill a BOSS and a treasure chest filled with gold appeared!”

“A chest of gold? How much would that have been?”

“What is the name of the City Lord? Which City was it?”

Dark Redemption said, “Chaotic City No. 68. The Lord’s name is Li Hanqiang. Remember this name as we might be in touch with him frequently in the future.”

Dark Redemption was speaking when his eyes suddenly widened. A new city defense mission appeared on the mission board.

[The Lord of Chaotic City No. 68, Li Hanqiang has issued a city defense mission. The second wave of monsters are gathering. More experience, easier ways to kill monsters. Level up even while lying down, come defend the city…]