Chapter 770 - Basic Fire Resistance Armor Kit
Star-Moon Kingdom, White River City, Candlelight Trading Firm:
Upon arriving at the trading firm with Fire Dance, Shi Feng noticed a significant decrease in the Shop’s customers.
We’ve reached our limit already? Shi Feng glanced at the players on the streets before taking another look at the situation inside the Shop.
Despite the Candlelight Trading Firm’s location in the Trade Area, a high-traffic area, and the fact that this area enjoyed a growing player population, the trading firm was losing customers. This situation illustrated a lot of problems.
Glancing at the street again, Shi Feng noticed that several large Guilds and Merchant players had set up Shop near the street corners.
With more shops, the competition grew more intense. Although the Candlelight Trading Firm’s position in White River City was still unshakable, the trading firm was losing profits.
Initially, the firm could bring in over 1,000 Gold every day from each shop. Now, including the Shops in major cities throughout Star-Moon Kingdom and other countries, the Trading Firm was just barely making a total profit of 1,000 Gold per day.
Currently, fewer and fewer hot-selling items such as Whetstones and Advanced Whetstones, as well as various other necessities such as Recovery Potions and Mana Regeneration Potions, sold each day. This was all due to the new competition.
Most of these new Shops had powerful backers. Furthermore, the designs for hot-selling items were becoming more common. One could easily farm them or purchase them from the Auction House. As long as these Shops hired some Lifestyle players to produce these items and sold them at a lower price than the Candlelight Trading Firm, with a profitable location, they could easily steal plenty of the Candlelight Trading Firm’s customers.
Fortunately, Light Stones and Basic Strengthened Armor Kits still sold like hotcakes.
However, Shi Feng knew that this situation would not last. Neither the Light Stones nor the Basic Strengthening Armor Kits were unique items like the Mana Armor Kit. As more time passed and players reached higher levels, it would become easier to obtain these items’ designs.
As a matter of fact, after just being away from the city for three days, other Shops had already begun selling Basic Strengthened Armor Kits. Only, they demanded slightly higher prices than the Candlelight Trading Firm. It wouldn’t be long before Light Stones would appear in other Shops as well. At that time, the Candlelight Trading Firm would lose some of its advantages.
“Guild Leader, why have you called for me?” Melancholic Smile asked with a tired expression as she entered the firm’s reception room.
Melancholic Smile was feeling the pressure of the lost profits. Although she had thought of many solutions, none were effective enough to save them from this predicament.
“How is the production of the Strengthening Devices coming along?” Shi Feng asked.
With the Candlelight Trading Firm’s current income, they could never earn 150,000 Gold in the next twenty-some days. They needed to increase their profits.
The Strengthening Devices were their only hope.
More players flocked to White River City. Among them, there was no lack of elite and expert players. These players often ventured to high-level maps to grind. The burden on their equipment was much higher than ordinary players. Hence, they also had a much greater need for an item like the Strengthening Device, so that they could grind and adventure for longer periods.
