Jack's contribution point after donating this rare equipment ended up even more than what he had previously. When he withdrew the common equipment and ores, the contribution points required were very little, because the goods didn't worth much. But due to the sheer amount, he still spent more than half of his contribution points. But for each of the rare equipment he deposited into the warehouse, he received contribution points ranging from 60 to 80.
Combined with the contribution points he received when he used his merit points to request the Imperial Rescue, he currently had 3260 contribution points.
"You still have this many?" Jeanny said with amazement after seeing the equipment inside the warehouse.
"They are all only level 25 to 30 though. I don't have enough ores to level them too much," Jack informed. "You can use these to reward those veteran members who had contributed the most during the battle yesterday. I will leave them for you to sort out."
Due to all that blacksmithing work last night, his Blacksmith level had increased to Basic Expert.. This increase gave him less failure chance which reduce his material consumption. He also continuously used Runestone of Probability during the blacksmithing process. Though his Runecrafting skill did not increase, it was close to upgrading to the Basic Expert.
"I see there is no medium armor inside?" John commented about the warehouse stock.
Jack didn't reply. He had kept all the medium armor for himself, he needed them to be fused into super rare grade after all. His target was getting a chest and pant armors which were already reaching their level limits. From the work last night, he had fused one super rare chest armor. For the pant, he still needed two rare pants medium armor before he was able to fuse them.
This super rare chest armor was on his person already.
Sin Devouring Breastplate, level 40/60 (super rare medium armor)
Physical Defense: 143
Magical Defense: 122
Durability: 60
Endurance +10
All elemental resistances +5
Each kill increase defense by 10% for 3 minutes, stacks to a maximum of 50%
John pulled Jack and Jeanny to one side, with Peniel tagging along, away from the rests before he asked Jack, "do you have something that can change common equipment and ores to higher grade ones?"
"Uh…"
"John, everyone has a secret. There is no need to pry," Jeanny reprimanded.
"I will say, from what had happened. It was pretty obvious, you don't need to answer," John said. "But we might need to have a different setting on the warehouse because of this. Otherwise, if other members saw the warehouse which was filled up with common equipment was suddenly emptied and replaced by a large number of higher-grade equipment, people will start to suspect. The warehouse function had a public and private part. Next time you donate the higher-level equipment, put them inside this private part. I will set it so that only us three can see the content in this private part. We will then control the number and timing for this higher-grade equipment to be exposed to the other members."
"I see. Okay," Jack said.
"Any chance for you to leave that Godly item here? That way, we don't need to wait for you to come back before making more high-grade equipment," John asked.
"John!" Jeanny scolded.
John just shrugged.
"Hehe, sorry. Just make sure to continue amassing unused equipment and ores. I will convert them whenever I come back here," Jack said.
"Now that we know you can make use of them. We won't hold anything back anymore," John said.
"So, you are still holding back before?"
"John insisted to give minimal contribution points for those unused goods," Jeanny informed.
"His fault for not telling us what he planned to do with those junks," John defended himself. "Now that we see the benefit, we will increase the awarded points to motivate everyone to donate."
Jack nodded.
"So, are you going to deal with the coalition now? Are you still not sharing your plan with us?" John asked.
"You don't need our help? The coalition is also our enemy," Jeanny added.
Jack didn't answer them. He instead showed them something.
"That is…" The eyes of the two went wide.
"I need no help. You two just focus on developing this guild," Jack said. "One thing I still worry about, though. Even if I cause them to cancel any attack on us, I have no solution if they decide to harass our members from monster grinding. Don't ask me to run around searching for their members to kill just to let them have a taste of their own medicine. I don't have the time for that and also the number of their members I can kill in this way is minuscule to them."
"There is no need to worry about that," John said. "We already have two major cities we can teleport to. Thereath has three exit points, Themetus has four. While our guild territory had a large circumference. If they want to block all these points, they will need a massive force. If they only post scout or small squad, we can easily route them while heading out. I will arrange that everyone will always go out in a team of twenty. Once out there, they will need large forces as well if they want to intentionally look for us. I don't think they will waste that much time or manpower just so they can hinder our development."
"Apart from that, if it is only for leveling, we do not even need to go out," Jeanny said.
"We don't?" Jack asked.
"We are currently building Training Cave structure. It should be completed by later today."
Training Cave? He remembered reading about it somewhere.
"It's a guild structure that allows members to go in and kill monsters for exp," Peniel explained. "Remember the one used by Lindsey and you when you are staying in Commander Quintus' house? It is similar to that. The difference is you won't get any loots inside this training cave. It is primarily for exp only. You don't need to worry about dying in this cave though. If you die, you will simply be teleported out from the cave without losing any exp or level."
"The training cave is separated by 10 levels. Level 1 training cave allows members to train in a dungeon ranging from level 1 to 10, 10 to 20, and 20 to 30. We can level up the structure to level 2 to allow members to train up to level 40. Any member can use their contribution points to use this facility, and there is no limit to how many can enter at a time. Each group will be sent to a separate dimension from the others."
"Our members who had died in yesterday's battle, we can power-level them using this facility. That way, we don't need to risk doing it out there in the wilderness."
"Of course, we still need to go out at one point. To collect coins, loots, and do guild quests. But this will be performed by members who were already at the best level for venturing out. This way, they will still be able to contend against enemy groups if they somehow stumble into one."
"Another point to note," Jeanny added, "now that we have Scrollmaking Workshop up and running, even if our teams met with enemy, they can just try their best to disengage, before using this to escape."
Jack looked at Jeanny's hand, it was a magic scroll. Jack inspected it and found it was called Guild Return Scroll. It functioned the same as Town Return Scroll, with the exception that the user was teleported to Guild Headquarters instead of the city.
"You can buy this with contribution point in the Scrollmaking Workshop. Here, take one." Jeanny offered.
Jack accepted the scroll. He felt much better after their explanation. This Guild Headquarters did indeed provide much help. Without it, he doubted that they could contend against the coalition. But then again, without the Guild Headquarters, he doubted if the coalition would have bothered to fight with them. With him perhaps, but the guild itself had no enmity with the coalition prior to getting the headquarters. Fortune drew envy, they needed to continue getting stronger if they want to keep this fortune.
"Are you leaving now?" Jeanny asked.
"One more thing," Jack said. "I will leave my grandfather here. I want you to arrange a routine morning training session for everyone from our core members, including the two of you. You already saw from his and my display during the battle yesterday, how effective it is incorporating martial arts into our combat. He is a very good martial art instructor, you better make full use of his presence here."
Jack then walked back before the Guild core and motioned for Domon to approach. He also called for the others to pay attention.
"This is Domon, a martial art grandmaster," Jack announced once he had everyone's attention.
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