Chapter 180: The First Player Owned Shop!
Then, Lorne left the Alchemist Association with Doge. About the shop, Doge decided to help him complete it as soon as possible.
When the two of them walked out of the Alchemist Association, there was still a sea of people in front of them. Many players from organizations hoped to buy the antidote as soon as possible, especially the players from the World Destruction Guild.
The World Destruction Guild had colluded with the guilds of the Dark Faction. There was even a guild they supported with a lot of money in Blood Shadow City. Therefore, they wanted to develop in the ruins of the war and let the guild players of the two factions level up together to occupy the area where the high-level monsters were active.
“Boss, our people have been waiting at the entrance of the Alchemist Association for a long time. How can we be unable to buy the potions?”
At the headquarters of the World Destruction Guild, Cross Fire looked at Speck. Most of the potions in the guild had been used up. If there were no more potions, the guild players would have to temporarily leave the war ruins. This was too wasteful of everyone’s time.
“It shouldn’t be. The Church of Light just issued a new mission. There should be enough antidotes. Let’s wait a while.”
Looking at the huge guild on the screen, Speck thought of that detestable guy, Tyrant. That guy had relied on the antidote to earn hundreds of millions in ten days!
The potion was only one silver coin, but in the ruins of the war, the price had increased by four to five times. The profits were also terrifyingly high, much higher than the income of such a black industry. It was simply a huge profit!
Just as the two of them were chatting, two people walked out of the Alchemist Association’s entrance on the screen. One of them was Tyrant, and behind him was actually the Alchemist Association’s Guild Leader, Doge!
“Damn! No wonder this scoundrel can monopolize the antidote. It turns out that he has some shady business with that old thing, Doge!”
Cross Fire looked shocked.
Speck also suppressed his envy and said with a dark expression, “Keep an eye on Tyrant. I reckon the next batch of antidotes will still be in his hands!”
“Yes, I’ll arrange it now!”
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“We’re here.”
Doge led Lorne to a busy street and pointed at a shop filled with players, “That’s the shop I prepared for you.”
“Thank you.”
Lorne quickly opened the main city map and checked the terrain.
Soon, he realized that this shop was located in the golden spot in the city. There was a huge resurrection array on the left, and the city gate on the right. Whether it was the players who returned from the city after death or those who were preparing to leave the city, they could easily pass by this shop.
When the flow of people in front of a shop was high, its sales would increase.
This was an iron rule.
Of course, this shop was located in the center of the two key “areas”, and it was easy to lose many customers. After all, everyone liked to buy in the first shop they encountered. This location would indeed be affected.
However, it was already incredible that he could obtain his own shop in such a prosperous area.
To be honest, Lorne had not expected Doge to hand such a shop to him.
“Friend, let’s sign the contract now.”
Doge did not waste any time. He directly drafted a contract for the transfer of the shop. There were no additional conditions on it, and he simply wanted to hand this shop over to Lorne for management.
When Lorne signed his name, he became the boss of the shop.
The system regarding shops was immediately activated.
Seeing the unlocked option, Lorne was basically certain that he was the first player to have a personal shop in “Divine Realm”.
Ding!
“Would you like to continue renting this shop? (Rent: 10,000 gold coins per month)”
(Note: Due to the transfer of the shop to an adventurer, this shop will refresh the rental fees. Please submit the corresponding rental fees within three days.)
A game notification appeared in front of Lorne. It stated very clearly that if he wanted to operate this shop, he had to pay the monthly rent.
10,000 gold coins was not a small amount.
The gold coins that Lorne got from selling potions had been sold to Twinkle Rose again, so he had to prepare some.
Of course, this was not difficult.
If he wanted money, he could borrow it from Super Rich. He definitely had enough gold coins on him.
Indeed, when he heard that Lorne was here to borrow gold coins, Super Rich immediately transferred 20,000 gold coins over. There was no agreement between the two of them.
Perhaps this was a true tycoon. This joy was not something Lorne could experience for the time being.
“I’ll make the payment.”
With the money, Lorne immediately paid the monthly rent.
The monthly rental of the shop was 10,000 gold coins, but the shop still needed someone to manage it, so Lorne still had to spend a lot of money to hire a manager.
The higher the quality of the manager, the more control they had over the market, and the greater their management ability. Therefore, Lorne was not stingy. He directly spent 5,000 gold coins to hire an Epic-grade shop manager and a few employees with good ‘economy’ skills.
As for the remaining 5,000 gold coins, in addition to being used for wholesale items and cash flow, Lorne had another use.
He wanted to change the layout of the shop!
This shop was a two-story building. The area was not very large, about 200 square meters.
Lorne felt that its previous renovation had wasted a lot of space, so he planned to modify it.
At this moment, Doge had already gone back to edit the book on herbs, so the rest was left to Lorne to deal with alone.
He directly found an NPC who knew how to decorate and chose a simple way to refurbish the shop. That was to tear down all the dividers in the shop.
Then, he designed a few counters on both sides. This way, the shop appeared much larger, and the items sold could be seen more clearly by the customers.
As for the second floor?
Lorne turned it into an auction house.
As the number one player in the world, the equipment he had were all “divine equipment” in the eyes of ordinary players. In the future, they would inevitably compete with each other. This way, not only could he make a name for himself, but he could also earn enough benefits.
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The work of the NPCs was very fast. Coupled with the simple layout set by Lorne, everything was completed in about ten hours.
Lorne brought the hired NPCs into the shop and began distributing work to them.
First of all, the left counters specialized in selling potions. All kinds of potions occupied four counters.
Then, the right counters specialized in selling equipment and items. It also had four counters.
Finally, there was a huge counter in front that specialized in selling high-grade items, equipment, and other precious items. It was managed by the Epic-grade NPC in the shop. She was also the manager of this shop. In the future, the basic operations of the shop would be handled by her.