The Game Merchant Who Started from the Ninja World

Chapter 15: The Wraith General

Two days later,

A new announcement from the Reincarnation Game echoed in every player's mind.

[Reincarnation Game Update]

The developer has taken players' feedback into account and made several adjustments to game content.

Some players expressed concerns about the difficulty of acquiring equipment. We have adjusted store prices and increased the drop rates of equipment from corrupted monsters.

In addition, the Life System is now open. Players who are not good at combat can now specialize in life professions.

Players can improve their life skills through repeated practice to craft weapons and gear, build homes, process raw materials, and more.

Life profession paths include: Cooking, Crafting, Animal Husbandry, Agriculture, Logging, Gathering, Mechanical Engineering, Forging, Printing, Masonry, Sewing, Leatherworking, Trade, and others.

The Daily Quest System is now available. Players can accept daily quests at the bulletin board in the Novice Village.

An additional 500 player slots have been unlocked, recruited randomly.

...

Lines upon lines of dense text scrolled across everyone's vision, making their eyes blur.

Life system, quest system, new player recruitment!

Most players immediately opened their system panels to check out the new life profession features.

"Cooking skill? You have to buy the recipe from the shop first, then collect ingredients and keep trying? Just one recipe costs 500 reward points—I can't afford that."

"Look at it differently—one Golden Fried Rice restores 50 mana points. That's almost as good as a high-tier recovery potion!"

"But you can fail, and if you do, the ingredients are gone."

"Just level up your skill. Once your proficiency's high enough, you'll succeed more. That way, you don't have to buy recovery potions from the shop anymore—you'll save tons of points in the long run."

...

Discussion filled the Reincarnation Game.

Tacticians from all major shinobi villages quickly began analyzing the impact of the update and whether they could profit from it.

[Daily Quest: Hunt 10 Wraith Soldiers]

Reward: 1 Reincarnation Jar

Tsunade accepted the quest and, upon seeing the reward, felt her hands itch with anticipation.

For her, Wraith Soldiers might have slightly higher levels, but they were no match for someone fully equipped in green-tier gear.

After completing the task with ease,

a Reincarnation Jar appeared in her inventory.

Pop.

Tsunade reached in, broke the white glowing orb, and retrieved the item inside.

A piece of tattered Wraith Soldier armor.

"Just crafting material?"

She clicked her tongue. The jar hadn't given her anything good.

These broken armor pieces used to only be worth 2 reward points when sold to the shop.

Now they could be used for forging equipment, but first needed to be processed.

All in all—not very valuable.

Just as she was about to leave the Novice Village to continue leveling, a voice rang out nearby in surprise.

"I got a skill drop! Self-Destruct Bot: Chaser!"

A burly man stood there with reverence in his eyes, holding a glowing skill orb in both hands.

Tsunade quickly opened the shop and searched for the skill.

Listed at 1,000 reward points—a definite jackpot!

Envy flooded her expression. She glanced back at her own inventory and the pile of junk materials with growing frustration.

Even in another world, her cursed gambling luck hadn't changed?

No way!

This was a new world—shouldn't everything reset?

Tsunade took a deep breath and shoved through the crowd angrily, returning to the bulletin board.

[Daily quests can only be accepted once for free. Additional quests cost 10 reward points each.]

That was a rule set by Fang Yi.

If the jars were sold outright, players would be too wary. If they kept getting junk, many would stop buying them altogether.

But if Reincarnation Jars were tied to daily quests…

Most players would think, "Well, I'm killing corrupted monsters anyway, might as well do the quest and get a jar for free."

And that's how it started.

If the jar dropped junk, fine. But if even one day it gave something amazing…

Their desire would be hooked.

After that, paying to accept more quests would feel natural.

Without realizing it, they'd be spending their hard-earned reward points, helping Fang Yi hunt corrupted monsters—

and loving every minute of it.

Take Tsunade, for example. She accepted daily quests over and over again, spending 100 reward points in total.

Her best pull? A low-quality healing potion worth 10 points.

On the bright side, her persistence in opening jars promoted her to a classed player:

Cleric.

A special class that honed the body and wielded holy light—boasting excellent physical endurance and the power to suppress evil.

It was considered a powerful profession.

Class scrolls were also available in the shop. If players didn't like their class, they could buy a new scroll, collect materials again, and retake the advancement quest.

Some players did the math—

to change classes would cost at least 500 reward points.

So for those who got a class that suited them from the start, it was a win—saving them a large expense.

But for players who got a weak or incompatible class, all they could do was curse the damn mysterious merchant under their breath.

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Deep within the ruined castle—

On a rusted iron throne sat a towering skeleton clad in pitch-black armor, gripping a massive greatsword.

Ghostly blue flames flickered from the seams of the armor, condensed from the Wraith aura leaking from within.

The aura alone scorched the floor black wherever it drifted.

[Wraith General (Elite) – Level 13]

When Fang Yi had first built the game's framework, he'd been meticulous about level scaling.

Every 10 levels marked a significant threshold—

just like how a chūnin could easily defeat a genin in the shinobi world.

At Level 10 and above, both stat growth and skills received a massive boost.

That's why reaching Level 10 required an immense amount of experience.

Even with the Mist Village's full support, Terumi Mei hadn't broken through yet.

This Wraith General—under the Wraith Sorceress Sarina—was vastly stronger than any ordinary wraith.

Killing him would be like cutting off one of Sarina's strongest arms.

The silver-haired loli fretted, "Master, the players can't possibly defeat the Wraith General. Should we intervene and advise them to back off and level more first?"

"No need."

Fang Yi remained calm. "It's just a Wraith General. I bet he won't last three days before the players strip him clean—down to that fine-looking greatsword."

The loli didn't understand her master's logic at all. She thought he simply didn't grasp the vast power gap between the Wraith General and the players.

She quickly explained, "That greatsword has slain hundreds of knights. It's a Bloodbane Greatsword—classified by your system as a Level 10 purple-tier weapon. The red armor he wears is a full Level 10 blue set."

"That blonde, well-endowed player you recruited? She could fight Level 6 players just with Level 1 green gear."

"But this Wraith General has blue-tier armor and a purple-tier weapon! Can you even comprehend the power difference?"

Fang Yi went silent for a moment.

The loli sighed in relief. She feared he was about to recklessly feed the Wraith General a stream of human sacrifices.

Then—

Fang Yi looked up.

"Announce the Wraith General's details in the server channel—highlight his equipment, especially that Bloodbane Greatsword and the Blood-Red Armor Set. Mark them as guaranteed drops."

Purple-tier greatsword?

Blue-tier armor set?

Fang Yi had been worried the players might back off.

But the Wraith General? Dressed like that? Covered head to toe in high-tier loot?

That was like pumping the players full of adrenaline.

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