Aethelgard: The Survival Game (Chloe) novel Chapter 29

Chapter 29

Chapter 29

With that in mind, Chloe reped: [We can do a system trade.]

Notification: [Player Chloe Bennett offers 10 ounces of Arcane Dew, one Wooden Buckler, one Wooden Spear, lit firewood. and one umbrella in exchange for one Wooden Log.

Chloe: [3 ounces of the dew restores 30 Energy. The umbrella can reduce your Dampness to some degree.]

Notification: [Do you agree to a trade with Player Chloe Bennett? Player Chloe Bennett grants Player AllNightGamer supplies. In return, the other party will provide 55% of all future talent-produced items.

[Deposit: Half of all Attribute Points, Health, and Energy cap.]

A System Contract couldn’t guarantee a player would follow through, but it could enforce a Deposit.

Chloe had learned from the Trading Post that players could put up their Attribute Points, Health, and Energy cap as collateral. If they breached the contract, the system would permanently deduct those values.

Zoe Parker, playing under the name AllNightGamer, was certain this time she was going to die. This game had been a nightmare famine edition for her, and mere survival had already pushed her to her absolute limit.

Back in the modern world, she’d been a college student from a comfortable family who’d barely stepped out into society. Her entire life had revolved around gaming.

At home, she’d rarely even washed a dish, let alone fished or done the kind of brutal manual labor this world demanded.

As a result, her Energy and Endurance had been pathetically low from the moment she arrived. She had no Magic stat to speak of, and her Strength was just as abysmal.

Her only slightly above-average attribute was Agility. She had an A-Rank talent, but it required an Alchemical Forge, and the blueprint for that had been impossibly out of reach.

She could barely secure food or kill monsters, let alone anything else. She’d barely scraped through the first three days, and by the fourth day of rain, she felt a deep certainty that she might not make it.

Every previous monster encounter had been survived by hiding. Her only spoils had been a few chests and a basic quir blueprint.

C She’d only just managed to build a Crafting Table. She had almost no food left, and even light had become a problem. Then the rain came. Zoe had begged other players for help, but every offer had been predatory, demanding years of her future output or all her current possessions.

And now, in the pouring rain, a monstrous Mutant Hound, far more vicious than any creature she’d faced before, was bearing down on her. She was going to die.

She never imagined a player would actually be willing to back her. Survival was all that mattered: Zoe accepted the trade instantly.

When the items landed in her hands, her eyes went wide. She got a Premium umbrella, a Wooden Buckler, and a potion that restored Energy. Any one of these could sell for a fortune among players.

She clutched the dew, downed it in one gulp, and gripped her Starter Fishing Rod. The rod was already stained red with blood. She had no weapon. This rod was all she had.

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Only after drinking the dew did she understand how miraculous it was. It restored Energy instantly.

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And the umbrella was of incredible quality. The moment she opened it, her Dampness, which had long since surged past 200%, began to drop by slow degrees.

A shiver ran through her. She turned to face the Mutant Timberwolf in front of her and tightened her grip on the wooden shield.

After transferring the supplies, Chloe didn’t give the matter any more thought. She returned to her Crafting Table and made another umbrella

Her mind turned to a special item she’d acquired: the Special Resource Domain Card.

Notification: [Special Resource Domain Card: Transports your territory to a specially protected Resource Zone where abundant resources can be gathered.

[Acquirable resource qualities within this Domain Card: Common 72%, Premium 18%, Rare 7%, Epic 3.999%, Legendary 0.0001%

[Duration: 24 hours. A special single-use item. Cannot be traded.

[Bound environment for this Domain Card: Outskirts of a Primeval Forest.]

It was clearly an incredible item. But Chloe knew the better the item, the more carefully it had to be used.

The description alone, transporting her entire territory into a specially protected Resource Zone, sounded terrifyingly

potent

That only made Chloe more cautious. Her illness had healed considerably, and she’d just acquired a full Hiking Sunt set. It her physical condition improved by tomorrow, she decided she’d try activating the card.

While browsing the Elite Trading Syndicate, a particular listing made her pause.

Eureka: [Selling high-level information. Value determined by content. DM me for details.

[Current topics include but are not limited to high-level crafting table, upgrade stations, development and advancement special talents, and future game predictions.]

Chloe remembered this player. Eureka was the one who’d predicted on the shannel that once Novice Protection ended, a massive portion of the player base would die. She possessed a special prophecy talent.

Seeing Eureka’s message jolted a thought into Chloe’s head. She could simply try buying information. She opened a pre chat with Eureka.

Chloe: [Hello. How do you price your information?}

Eureka: [For blueprint and schematic information, I charge a binder’s fee. The price varies by grade. Theuns are etc. Minimum payment is Premium materials

[Basic information costs only basic materials. Predictions about the future require ary talent, so was MINI PEDRINK materials or items. What do you want to know?]

It seemed even the information trade had already become a well oded with a test question

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hloe: Why do different players have different territory upgrade requirements? Is there any way to upgrade territory Easter?!

Eureka: [20 Premium Wooden Logs. Trust me, this is worth the price.)

Chloe agreed.

Eureka: [This game isn’t completely fair, and it doesn’t wear its unfairness on its sleeve. Player talents come in different levels, but the higher the talent, the slower the territory upgrade.

[High-level players usually need two building facilities before they can upgrade.

[There’s a special way to upgrade fast. You can buy common building schematics and construes two of the same thing. Once your territory upgrades, you’ll unlock the dismantle function and can tear down the extra building.

[But I don’t recommend it. From what I’ve observed, buildings can level up along with your territory and actually gain upgrade opportunities because of it.

[For example, a building I constructed at Territory Level 0, once hit Level 1, the system gave me a prompt showing what materials I could use to upgrade it.

[But if I built that same building after my territory was already Level 1, there was no upgrade opportunity. My guess is that building upgrades only trigger at the moment of territory advancement.]

Chloe: [I see. So within my current limits, can I construct extra building facilities?]

Right now, her Level O territory could only support two buildings.

Eureka: [Possibly, but it would probably require a special item. I don’t have any information on that kind of item.

Chloe spent more materials asking a slew of other questions. She’d been diligently fishing and checking the Trading Post, but compared to a professional information broker who actively gathered intelligence, her knowledge was still riddled with

gaps.

She worked hard to fill in the blanks about player trading and the flow of information.

She asked about basic resources and supplies, but eventually, she steered toward the question she truly wanted answer [Do you have any information about Resource Domain Cards?]

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