City of Sin: Forty-three sunk costs

Moreover, the materials obtained from the Giant Dragon body are not available to anyone. Even the powerful players who have just entered the legend must be cautious when faced with Giant Dragon, and beware of revenge from the Dragon clan. There are actually quite a few Dragon-slaying powerhouses on the mainland, but there are Dragon-slaying and wealthy fanatic powerhouses, but there are really few.

The dark blue midsummer revelry gradually became popular. Although its scale is not as good as the auction conferences of the three major empires, the supply of Top Level materials, both in terms of quantity and quality, are better than others.

Blackgold got busy early.

This year ’s Midsummer Carnival is at least three times the size of the previous edition. This number of estimates is only based on the invitations directly sent by Deep Blue, so the difficulty and complexity of the preparation work have increased by more than ten times.

Both Deepblue's Main Tower and the fringe area should clear a lot of areas for the nobles who are already scheduled to attend. A large number of caravans, entourage, Warrior and mercenaries can live in villages and towns outside of the dark blue. Blackgold has arranged nearly 10,000 slaves and thousands of craftsmen, and asked to build three brand new towns in the shortest time, and then rent them to guests. After the Midsummer revelry, the three small towns can also be used to arrange new immigrants.

Dark blue is becoming more and more prosperous, the role of the port is gradually highlighted, the properties and abundance of the northern continent are increasingly known to the south, and a huge fleet begins to come to Floating Ice Bay. Before the peak season, the port is already saturated, so the long-term Blackgold has begun to prepare for the expansion of the port, and with the help of this carnival, the Great Nobles who came to the deep blue clearly understand the value of the North Continental property. Top Level material is a brand, the huge basic material is profit, this is the torrent of gold coins!

Once Dark Blue ’s strength exceeds a certain threshold, the ambitious Grey Dwarf will consider expanding into the North Continent. That's right, the North Continent is a world of strong and aggressive polar gray dwarves and Orc, but the polar gray dwarves are also famous for being buyable. Blackgold intends to use his special identity to gradually erode the gray dwarf's tribe, and the ultimate purchase target is Stormhammer!

However, the blueprint is magnificent, and the most important task at present is to count the things that Legendary Mage threw out for the auction. Blackgold should sort them out as soon as possible, identify the value, verify the auction floor price, and then hand it to the artist to make the auction catalog. time is limited.

In a room of hundreds of square meters, all kinds of strange and inexplicable things piled up nearly ten meters high! Under all kinds of debris, there is actually a complete giant Dragon Bones bone! Any Necromancer will be crazy if they see it. But the gray dwarf's mood was slightly different. In front of this pile of treasures that had to be looked up, he appeared so small. To sort them out is not an easy task.

The number of Blackgold assistants has always been the smallest in Archmage, so that this time when he arranged all aspects of work, he found that there was not even one man left for himself. Blackgold put a label on a star meteorite, and for the first time began to consider adding manpower, but as soon as he thought of the gold coins that would be paid for these people from his account, the gray dwarf immediately shook his head firmly, with greater enthusiasm Put into work.

Legendary Mage ’s principle for selecting auction items is actually very simple. She will throw out those things that are about to expire, cannot understand the purpose, are not pleasing to the eye, and ca n’t really put down. Over time, the collection of Legendary Mage has also changed. The first is the increase in absolute quantity, and then the proportion of various rare materials and materials derived from rare creatures is also rapidly increasing. Another improvement project is various rare metal minerals that Norland does not produce. The common currency among the strong, and various magic crystals, are also steadily increasing. Many original rare collections become more and more difficult to get into the eyes of Legendary Mage over time, so that they will eventually be cleared. The Legendary Mage storage warehouses are all personal Demi-plane, there is not much there, there will always be times when it is full.

For example, that pair of keels was the core collection of Sharon twenty years ago, and it became a waste of precious space twenty years later.

From the production of the mid-summer auction every four years, interested people can also roughly judge the strength and wealth of Legendary Mage through reverse speculation. As the products produced at the Midsummer Carnival auction are becoming more and more rare, Deep Blue has also sent a clear signal to the mainland powerhouses, that is, the power of Legendary Mage is still in the channel of rapid rise. Therefore, after each Midsummer Carnival, Deep Blue will usher in a fast and prosperous four years.

The Midsummer Carnival is a real event for Deep Blue. This is a grand meeting to realize your dreams, an opportunity to soar overnight, and the possibility of a sudden outbreak. Most nobles who come to Deep Blue can take the opportunity to expand their network of contacts. Ordinary people also have several times more opportunities to reach powerful people than usual, and they may have opportunities beyond their dreams. Midsummer revelry is still the season of alcohol flooding, and when many girls are dragged into bed between reluctance and reluctance.

In fact, three months ago, Deep Blue began to prepare for the Midsummer revelry. It's just that this kind of festival was originally meaningless for Richard and Stevenson. The Richard is advancing at the suffocating rhythm as always, while the Stevenson was painfully balancing itself between strengthening itself and fighting opponents. And now, due to the strategy of opening the gold coins, Stevenson has paid more attention to the Midsummer carnival than ever before. If you can find several pieces of Top Level enchantment material from Legendary Mage's private lot, it will have a decisive impact on the game's victory.

There are several solutions provided by Saint Klaus. Although the current technical capabilities of Stevenson cannot be used, the design ideas are valuable. If you can find specific rare materials and replace the technical effects with their natural effects, they can be effectively implemented.

For example, if you get the Ice Dragon Dragon Tooth, then Snow Rabbit can greatly increase the resistance to ice, and there are two new abilities: Frost Gun and Frost Stinger. Fire Dragon Skin can make Snow Rabbit get cold immunity, Winter Wolf's talent magic will be invalid. The magic crystal of the abyss scavenger monster will make Snow Rabbit spray strong corrosive acid liquid, not to mention Winter Wolf, that is, the polar mammoth is sprayed, and there will be more deep pits on the body.

Another characteristic of rare materials is that it can greatly reduce the difficulty of drawing Magic Rune. For example, if the increased cold resistance of Fire Dragon Skin can reach 100, then it only needs 10 to be used in Snow Rabbit to be immune to the cold attack of Winter Wolf. The remaining 90 resistance can be ignored. In other words, because of the strength of the material itself, as long as a small part of the ability is exerted, it is enough to meet the requirements of Saint Klaus, and it can also reduce the difficulty to the extent that it can be made by Stevenson. Stevenson has heard from Blackgold that there is a considerable part of Dragon-related material in the private inventory sold by Legendary Mage this year.

This is actually a tricky and extremely wasteful approach, but since Solam Family has invested 10 million/whatever happens coins in order to cultivate a Runemaster, then it does not care to increase the investment of two or three million more. Otherwise, the cost already invested becomes meaningless. The Gray Dwarf was aware of this, and then instigated Legendary Mage to make a decision to re-select Runemaster disciples in the game six months later. In order to get this quota, Solam Family will definitely put gold coins into the dark blue endlessly.

Since then, the situation has developed as expected by the Grey Dwarf.

So at an internal meeting, the gray dwarf proudly introduced the results achieved so far, and specially invented a term for the 10 million/whatever happens gold coin invested in the early stage of Solam Family, called sunk cost. Because in the view of the gray dwarf, this money is like the heavy giant ship sunk in Floating Ice Bay. Although its sinking will make all the investment vanish, if you want to rescue it, it will drag more ships into it. seabed. The sunk cost is what causes many people to go further and further on the wrong path.

The Archmages were speechless and shocked. They did n’t expect Blackgold to be able to realize such truth from the gold coins and conspiracies of the secular city. They could not help but change their attitude towards Blackgold. Although they have worked together for ten years, the deep-rooted prejudice against the polar gray dwarves cannot be diluted in ten years. Although Sharon appointed Blackgold as the financial officer, Deep Blue has been prospering in an accelerated manner, but everyone would rather think that it is a witness to the growth of Legendary Mage's strength, and has nothing to do with the gray dwarf.

In the past ten years, the gray dwarf has also been committed to transforming a point of view in people's minds, that is, the financial officer is not just a bookkeeper.

The upper level has upper level politics, the middle level has middle level pressure, and the lower level people actually only need to finish what they are asked to do, and they do n’t even need to do well. If this requirement is not met, then there are only two ways out, one is to fall to the bottom of the social structure, and the other is to simply break the rules, subvert the class, violently overthrow the original upper layer, and then on the new upper layer After gaining the right, it will fall back to the lowest level of society.

This is the rule, the same with dark blue, Sacred Alliance, and Norland Continent.

To a certain extent, although they have obtained the admission qualification, the Richard, which relies on the joy of Legendary Mage to obtain learning resources in the early stage, is more like a lower level, while the Stevenson with continuous family support is in the middle. So when the two classes meet on the eve of the Midsummer Carnival, of course they will not feel happy.