NOVEL WEB Chapter 8
Eighth Reward Pool and Marketplace (Requesting flowers, requesting reviews)
“So what about red quality?”
Flipping open the reward pool, Bai Luo found only one red item inside: ‘Demon God Power’.
[Power of Demon Gods]
Quality: Deep Red
Source: The world where Ace resides
Description: Can dominate any rule, arbitrarily alter reality, even restart universes.
“The Demon Gods from Ace’s world?”
“Judging by this, it seems purple, orange, and red qualities are somehow related to destructive power.”
The destructive power of purple quality lies roughly between breaking cities to annihilating nations.
Orange can sink continents or even explode stars.
Red quality has reached the level of involving the universe, from destroying galaxies to restarting the universe.
And such an existence, in Bai Luo’s understanding, has a specific term —— Single Universe Level.
“As for points…”
Bai Luo shifted his attention to the lottery function: “One draw costs 300 points, tsk, reeks of pig farm vibes.”
Although he hasn’t used it yet, Bai Luo could sense the malice emanating from this reward pool.
He had a feeling that drawing was definitely just throwing points down the drain.
“The drop rate is something you just look at.”
Believing in so-called drop rates makes you a pure sucker.
Thus, after reviewing the prizes in the lottery pool and associating them with the identities of the group members, Bai Luo began testing the marketplace.
“First, this.”
Bai Luo picked up a stone on the ground, silently chanting ‘exchange’ in his mind.
[This item lacks value and cannot be exchanged.]
“Lacks value?”
Bai Luo was somewhat surprised; he had clearly seen stones being sold in the marketplace earlier: “1 unit of stone material requires 1 point.”
“Isn’t this supposed to be exchangeable?”
Like stone materials, 1 unit of wood and 1 unit of flour each cost 1 point.
As for what exactly constitutes 1 unit here,
According to the marketplace, it varies based on the world the group member is from.
Taking Bai Luo’s world as an example, 1 unit of flour could feed about 100 people for a day.
But if converted to some resource-scarce worlds, 1 point might only buy enough food for one person for a day.
Yes, the range is that wide.
In addition, the marketplace also explained why stones lacked value.
“Because there are stones everywhere in this world?”
Bai Luo looked at the feedback given by the marketplace and felt utterly defeated: “Shit, scam merchant, scam merchant!”
You can sell 1 unit of stones, but I can’t!
Not accepting stones because they’re everywhere?
Then why does your marketplace sell those omnipresent stones for 1 point?!
Black shop, definitely a black shop!
“Screw this, this marketplace will eventually get hung on a streetlamp by the group members!”
While complaining, Bai Luo continued trying.
Soon, Bai Luo discovered that this marketplace’s mouth was quite picky. He tried various things, but the marketplace’s response was always ‘no value.’
Food, clothes, even some rare plants, all were deemed worthless.
Until Bai Luo killed a passing slime and sold its corpse to the marketplace, which gave a different response.
[Upload ‘Slime Mucus’ successful, obtained 0.01 points]
“What the hell…”
Bai Luo now wanted to beat the crap out of this doggy marketplace: “If you won’t give points, fine, 0.01?! Shit!”
After cursing the marketplace’s ancestors for eighteen generations in his mind, Bai Luo remained outwardly calm and continued exchanging.
[Upload ‘Starlight Mithril’ successful, obtained 5 points]
“Hmm?”
The sudden notification slightly improved Bai Luo’s mood.
He looked at what he had just exchanged, which was a batch of resources stockpiled by the Demon Fox Village, seemingly a relatively rare metal.
Next, Bai Luo exchanged some more items.
He didn’t go wild but wisely took a small piece of each type of item and sold it to the marketplace.
“I see.”
Bai Luo gradually understood the mechanism of the marketplace: “Items that can be sold to the marketplace need to possess special powers, and the higher the mystery, the more points gained.”
Moreover, the system marketplace was very cunning, pricing according to the rarity of the item in Bai Luo’s world.
For instance, stones, water, food.
The Shadow World doesn’t lack these resources, they’re everywhere.
The system marketplace refuses to acquire these, and if it does, it offers a price so low it’s laughable.
Conversely, ancient relics, rare magical creature materials, precious minerals, the marketplace accepts all without hesitation and gives quite generous points.
“There’s… ”
Bai Luo wasn’t stupid; he had a hunch: “There’s something fishy here.”
Bai Luo had a feeling that the chat group’s marketplace seemed to be analyzing the world of the group members in some way.
What it truly needed wasn’t physical objects but items containing unique rules and concepts.
“Ah.”
Bai Luo didn’t continue investigating: “With my current strength, I don’t have the qualifications to investigate the affairs of the chat group.”
Do what your capabilities allow.
Bai Luo was a cautious person.
Even if there was really something wrong with the chat group, it wasn’t something he could deal with at the moment.
“Whatever, not thinking about it anymore.”
Cautious as he was, Bai Luo also had a good attitude; worrying unnecessarily wasn’t his style.
So, Bai Luo opened the chat group, ready to continue the previous conversation.
Illuminating Shadows: “Little White, I think I know your situation. Your name is Adolf K. Wiesmann. I’ll tell you more details later.”
Amnesiac Little White: “Alright, thank you, Mr. Shadow.”
Illuminating Shadows: “No problem.”
“Ironhead, what’s your current situation?”
Bai Luo asked Tanjiro about his current status to estimate his timeline.
The answer was that Tanjiro was still training under the former Water Pillar, Rengoku Shingetsu.
Currently undergoing rock-cutting training, he hadn’t yet encountered the ghosts of Haganezuka and Shinobu.
“This time period, huh.”
According to the manga setting, Tanjiro learned breathing techniques for about two years under Rengoku Shingetsu before descending the mountain to participate in the Fujise Mountain selection.
“I understand.”
Bai Luo said: “You don’t need to rush; soon your senior sister and brother will come to help you.”
“Eh?”
Ironhead: “Senior sister and brother? Is it Brother Giyu?”
Tanjiro was grateful to Giyu Tomioka, who held back during their fight and introduced him to his master.
He didn’t expect Giyu would come to help him train.
But who was this senior sister?
Did he even have a senior sister?
“Well…”
Bai Luo knew the background of the Demon Slayer World wasn’t simple; there was also an afterlife and reincarnation system.
“You’ll find out, I’m not going to spoil anything right now.”
“To Tanjiro, rest assured, as long as you keep fighting, your sister Tzudoki will surely return to human form.”
Bai Luo didn’t plan to reveal too much about Tanjiro’s future; revealing too much could drastically change Tanjiro’s fate.
Bai Luo liked the kind-hearted young man Tanjiro and was willing to offer whatever help he could.
As for whether the Demon Slayer World was dangerous,
The demons in “Demon Slayer” were nothing to Bai Luo.
Facing the power that could shatter mountains with a single strike, let alone the Twelve Demon Moons, even Mushan meeting Bai Luo would end up being punched into oblivion.
The only issue was that Mushan was extremely evasive.
Recalling how he almost got killed by Yen Ichikoku due to fear, the grand thousand-year-old demon king actually buried himself in a pit, which was utterly absurd.
In terms of class, Mushan was a disgrace to villains.
Dance kings of the ninja world, hair gel hands, and certain mama’s boy onmyoji wouldn’t associate themselves with him.
Bai Luo had the strength but couldn’t find the wretched Mushan.
He couldn’t enter the Infinite Castle.
In the early stages, aside from knowing that Mushan hides among humans and would accidentally encounter Tanjiro, there were no more clues.
In a vast sea of humanity, finding someone skilled at hiding was like looking for a needle in a haystack.
“Really?”
“Thank you so much, Mr. Shadow.”
Tanjiro wasn’t particularly curious about his future.
Since Mushan would die in the end and Tzudoki would recover, knowing these facts was enough.
“Just call me Bai Luo.”
“Alright, Big Brother Bai Luo.”
Ironhead: “Suddenly, I feel motivated. For Tzudoki, for everyone not to be harmed by demons, I will continue my training!”
“Keep it up!”
Encouraging Tanjiro briefly, Bai Luo turned his attention to Little White.
Time Fairy: “Ah, Mr. Shadow, no, Mr. Bai Luo, easily gained Younger Brother Tanjiro’s favor.”
Ace: “Hey, knowing other people’s plots is too unfair, isn’t it?”
By the way, if Bai Luo knows everything about Tanjiro,
Doesn’t that mean he knows everything about her too?
At the thought, Ace instinctively shivered.
“Are you planning to tell us the plot?”
Ace believed Bai Luo was deliberately being mysterious, which annoyed her greatly.
“Oh, you guys.”
“Who’s calling me Ace! (Furious.jpg)”
Ace instinctively shouted loudly, drawing the attention of passersby, making her blush furiously and run away in embarrassment.
Misaka Mikoto: “Don’t call me Ace, I’m not some Ace!”
“Only just realized, the chat group allows renaming?”
Bai Luo: “Then, Bilibili Discharge Girl?”
“What kind of joke is this?”
Misaka Mikoto was nearly driven to anger. Bai Luo’s way of speaking, filled with intelligence, made her feel incredibly frustrated.
“In the future, you’ll meet someone. That’s the nickname he gave you.”
Bai Luo: “By the way, in the stories I’ve read, you’re a classic tsundere character.”
“I’ll kill him!!”
“Who’s the tsundere? Damn it! What have you been reading?!”
Misaka Mikoto started doubting if she was a comedy character. Why did Bai Luo always criticize her when mentioning her?
“That…”
Little White: “Can we talk about my situation first?”
“Little White, you’ve changed your name too?”
Bai Luo: “But why not use your real name?”
Little White: “Uh, because it’s too long?”
“Alright.”
Bai Luo agreed, though he thought this name was too similar to his own, so he said, “Then let’s call you Izunashiki. It’s also the name you originally should have.”
Izunashiki: “Is that so?”
Kurumi Tokisaki: “That casual?”
Izunashiki: “Ahaha, since it’s Big Brother Bai Luo’s suggestion.”
Misaka Mikoto: “I’ve figured it out. There are two people in this group, one is a naive boy, and the other is a complete idiot!”
“Idiot…”
Izunashiki: “Are you talking about me? (Scratching head.jpg)”
In the Authority Holder World, Izunashiki pulled his foot out of the debris in the gym equipment room. He vigorously slapped the dust off his clothes, causing him to cough uncontrollably.
“Idiot…”
Being called an idiot didn’t bother Izunashiki at all.
The boy had a good temper, perfectly fitting the template of a gentle protagonist.
“Izunashiki, your situation is a bit special.”
Bai Luo sent the information he knew about the plot of “K” and the events Izunashiki might encounter next to the group.