Mana Stones was one of many implies that Gamers used to revenue much more whereas doing missions. The monsters that Gamers encountered throughout quests have been labeled as frequent monsters and Elite monsters.

Whereas unusual monsters have been only a waste of effort and ammo, Elite monsters had a small Mana Stone of their heads which was answerable for making these monsters extra highly effective than unusual monsters. When Gamers killed Elite monsters, these Gamers may take the Mana Stone that was within the head of the monster and promote it within the metropolis to get extra money.

One other use for the Mana Stone was that Gamers may soak up the additional Mana that was in these stones with the intention to spend extra time coaching. Whereas a Rank F Participant had a median of 1 Mana Items, which may go as much as 2 Mana Items in whole, a Rank F Mana Stone had 10 Mana Items, which was equal to letting a Rank F Participant practice for five to 10x longer than he may together with his physique’s Mana.

The Gamers’ concept of ​​utilizing a Mana Stone to get a Residual Satan weapon in actual life was not unfounded. This was one thing that has come to be recognized to humanity in current a long time. So long as a Participant supposed to extract an merchandise from the sport into actual life, they may achieve this so long as they offered sufficient Mana inside 10 minutes.

However the worth for that was merely far too excessive. A easy sword extracted from a Rank F recreation wanted 50 Items of Mana. This was a excessive quantity of Mana that most likely at Rank F solely Builders may do with their physique’s Mana, and amongst Gamers solely Rank D Gamers may pull off one thing like that. And since for Rank D Gamers this sort of Rank F weapon was fully ineffective, contemplating the amount of cash they acquired per mission, it was only a waste of time and waste of Mana to extract most weapons from Rank F video games.

Contemplating {that a} Rank F Mana Stone value $2,000 and a Rank F mission yielded $200, for Rank F Gamers it was extra worthwhile to promote these things than to make use of them to coach extra, since with a variety of coaching time the earnings from it might lower, and contemplating that there weren’t adequate weapons in Rank F video games anyhow, it made the Rank F Mana Stone much more ineffective.

However seeing now that in Residual Satan they may extract weapons that may be stronger than unusual weapons, perhaps even weapons that would harm Rank E monsters, so long as the worth they spent on Rank F Mana Stones was not increased than the worth of a magic weapon they may pull from the sport, they’d be making a revenue! As soon as this sort of information started to unfold in Sandstone Bay, the worth of Rank F Mana Stones, which have been solely $2,000 at that second, would undoubtedly rise previous $3,000 in a short while, probably even going increased within the close to future!

Among the many Gamers who thought of this risk, Amoura was the one who felt probably the most urgency, as she was itching to attempt it out. So, with out pondering twice, nonetheless reside, she paused the sport, took out her cellphone, and ordered 10 F Rank Mana Stones. She did not have that cash obtainable in her account at that second, however she had a bank card. So long as she continued to do Rank E quests, she would have the ability to repay these stones rapidly. However she knew that if she took just a few days to do that, as a substitute of spending $20,000 on these 10 F-Rank Mana Stones, it was very probably that she would spend greater than $30,000 on them, vastly decreasing how a lot she would save by not shopping for a Magic Weapon.

As somebody who had been residing on her personal for over a 12 months now, the earlier Amoura would have been unlikely to do one thing as dangerous as taking up $20,000 in debt with out a second thought, however seeing how a lot Residual Satan was altering her life, she understood that she wanted to benefit from this chance as quickly as potential. Whereas different gamers would nonetheless have a little bit of doubt within the early days, she had greater than a little bit of confidence in EA, the genius Developer who was making this miracle recreation, and he or she felt that she wouldn’t remorse this alternative.

Not solely was Amoura fast to do that, however another Gamers and Streamers have been fairly decisive after they noticed the weapons in Duke’s store and determined to do the identical factor.

Residual Satan had vastly elevated many Gamers’ firearm taking pictures talent. It might be a disgrace to waste such a talent as soon as they reached Rank E, so the most secure alternative could be to take a position now and benefit from the revenue increase they’d have with a greater weapon.

Gabe, who was watching Amoura purchase the Mana Stones so decisively, simply smiled at her angle. Truthfully this was one thing he already anticipated to occur. Regardless of being a Developer, he understood the struggling of Gamers when it got here to utilizing firearms in Rank E, a lot in order that this was the largest issue for Gamers to keep away from utilizing firearms to develop previous Rank F, since in Rank F they may take little or no benefit of this potential.

And as a Rank F Sport Developer the place the main target was firearms coaching, Gabe knew he needed to do one thing to assist these Gamers, since they have been the viewers that consumed his recreation. If these individuals received stronger, the higher it might be for him, permitting these individuals to play his recreation much more.

So Gabe had hatched this concept.

Duke within the recreation he performed in his earlier life already had the flexibility to reinforce the Gamers’ weapons, however this potential was by no means exploited, as it might not be as attention-grabbing for the type of play that it had in his different life. However right here it was completely different. Having the ability to have a extra highly effective weapon was very tempting, because it meant that your likelihood of dying in an actual mission was a lot decrease!

So Gabe spent round 400 Mana Items to develop Duke, which was a lot increased than the quantity he spent to make a Lycan however nonetheless less expensive than it value him to make the strongest monsters within the recreation. And this was sufficient for Duke to have the flexibility to really improve the participant’s weapon in a logical approach. If he was going to do one thing like this usually, Gabe would first must have the data of the way to do it, after which add that to the character he developed for the sport, however Gabe did not need to do issues right here usually. He had the System that allowed him to simulate a personality the best way he imagined it, that’s, so long as he imagined a personality with a talent, the system would do all of the calculations for that character to be the best way Gabe imagined. So he did not want to find this information on his personal, and he may nonetheless be taught something himself from the characters he made!

In Residual Satan, the participant may watch Duke enhancing the weapon in entrance of them, and identical to the coaching data the Gamers absorbed with Mana, Duke’s weapon enhancement data may be discovered. However after all, this was not a straightforward factor to amass for many anybody. By Gabe’s calculations, a median Participant with low expertise would wish dozens of hours of commentary to discover ways to do what Duke did. So seeing gamers like Amoura buy Mana Stones so decisively made Gabe nod his head in settlement.

“It is simpler to purchase the completed product and make more cash than attempting to be taught one thing you do not have the expertise to waste time on,” Gabe stated with a smile as he checked out Amoura, who was very within the recreation.

Sadly, she did not manage to pay for to pay Duke to improve one among her weapons for her but, however she was decided to do her finest to build up in-game cash and check out his skills. If she received a rifle within the recreation, she had little question that it might be this weapon that she would use to extract from the sport with Mana Stones after the weapon was absolutely upgraded. This new risk which Gabe had added to the sport not solely shocked the Residual Satan Gamers, but in addition Wilson, who was nonetheless watching Amoura’s livestream whereas watching this recreation.

As a C Rank Developer, Wilson’s ideas ran even deeper than many of the Gamers’ ideas. He may see that with this Rank F recreation, Gabe Howard was able to influencing not solely the event of Sandstone Bay’s Rank F Gamers, but in addition the event of Rank E Gamers within the metropolis as effectively!

For a metropolis like Sandstone Bay that had at the very least 8,000 Rank E Gamers, a single Developer having the ability to affect such a lot of Gamers was nearly unparalleled! Even Wilson wasn’t very assured of creating an E Rank recreation that would affect Gamers a lot in such a easy approach, however a younger F Rank Developer boy was managing to do exactly that!

“That is solely his first recreation and he is already wreaking a lot havoc… I am scared to even think about this child’s future,” Wilson sighed with a smile as he watched Amoura’s livestream.

Considering of one thing, Wilson pressed a button to name Ashley.

When she arrived on the workplace, he spoke. “Ashley, cancel all gross sales of F-Rank Mana Stones. For the following few weeks we is not going to be supplying F-Rank Mana Stones to another cities. If potential, even take note of the worth at which different cities are promoting their stones and if the worth is low, place a purchase order on as a lot as you may get with out hopefully inflicting a stir.”

Ashley was shocked by this information. Till just a few weeks in the past, Wilson was desperately eager to promote the town’s F-Rank Mana Stones, however no different metropolis was keen to purchase them as they have been virtually ineffective, however now rapidly Wilson needed to cease promoting these stones and even purchase from different cities? Trying on the tv display, Wilson was watching, Ashley tried to think about what had occurred with this recreation for her boss to have such an enormous change of coronary heart, however she did not ask any extra questions and began to carry out the duty he had given to her.

When the opposite cities heard that Sandstone Bay was instantly shopping for Rank F Mana Stones, many managers of those cities ridiculed Wilson for being an fool and losing cash on one thing ineffective. Some even started to mock Wilson, even taunting him with a reduction if he would supply to purchase in massive portions, which to their shock, Wilson accepted with out a second thought.

‘Let’s examine for those who guys will preserve laughing when this recreation arrives in your cities… haha,’ Wilson chuckled as he appeared on the messages from the opposite metropolis managers on his desk.

As a C Rank Developer, Wilson was happy with what was occurring now in his metropolis. Due to the issue the place the town had misplaced the proficient Developer up to now, even when it did not occur in his tenure, he was nonetheless fairly ridiculed by these managers from different cities. However Wilson did not care about their insults; the time when he may take revenge was very shut, particularly when he noticed the opposite income alternatives that Residual Satan may generate for the town. With how attention-grabbing this recreation was, he turned increasingly more within the response these different managers would have sooner or later.

[Bonus Chapter from Power Stones: 2/3]