Nyxfall 7: The Veilbreakers-Chapter 63: Planetory Guilds & Offers
Kai thought his plan was unique, but soon he found out—by scrolling through the online shop—that he wasn’t the only one who had done it. Kai could not forget, even if he wanted to. The logos of these alien civilizations sent chills down his spine.
Since most alien planets had known about the game even before its launch, many of their civilizations had united under one banner to share all information. They formed powerful forces in the game—many of which were barely understood. Some of these planet-wide organizations worked better than others. There were planets with divided ruling authorities and internal conflicts, but with the limited information they could derive from the game, those never did as well compared to the giant, unified planetary organizations.
The top names among them were: Vel’Kar Ascendancy, Zyran Syndicate, Trask Dominion, Sarnyx Broodnest, Jhul-Tarn Architects, Zenthari Oracles, Vokreth Legion, Elvaari Lattice, Kaorth Directive, Yrrinox Flares, Nythros Foldkin, and of course—the one Kai could never forget—the Dark Domain Empire.
These were some of the most difficult enemies Kai and the united humans had ever faced and defeated in battle, losing many along the way.
Even Deimos seemed to have put some interesting items up for sale. Not everyone had crafted items, though—only a few. The logo wasn’t exclusive to just crafted items; some Spirit Forgers could boost weapons and items with their class’s unique skills. And of course.. The most interesting thing in the shop was the Exodian tech.
Exodians couldn’t perform magical feats like the Stonebinders. They relied solely on their bloodline skills, tough, powerful bodies, and their most prized possession—technology. Exodians had two classes: Voidstriker and Rageborn.
Rageborn was a pure Exodian, relying on its powerful bloodline abilities. It could transform into a rage-filled, bloodthirsty monster form. Voidstrikers, on the other hand, also inherited the bloodline but couldn’t transform—they mostly used Exodian tech to fight. They could wield all kinds of weapons and gain appropriate skills for that. They were also a crafting class, making weapons like a Weapons Engineer or a Gunsmith.
But just like Spirit Forgers, the potential of the crafting class hadn’t been fully realized yet. Even if someone crafted something, with the general level of players, it wouldn’t be mind-blowing or amazing—just simple things. But with more skills, more materials, and more knowledge.. In the future, they could indeed build whole guns, mechanical armors, and other high-quality equipment.
’Hmm.. So that’s how it is’ Kai thought. ’Either it was an incredible coincidence that all these familiar planets had not changed their guild symbols.. Or the thing I had assumed is true.’
Some of the experts listed their items the same way Kai did—in good bundles, priced just low enough to not stand out, but still noticeable. It was clear that each of these civilizations had at least one person like him who remembered the last timeline. And if that person was in a high position on those planets.. Well, the advantage these civilizations could have would be far more terrifying compared to last time.
There weren’t many of these, though. Only a few, even those Kai found after hours of searching.
Why him? And Deimos? And all these people? Was it because they were the last standing players of their civilization?
But then.. It should’ve been Sora—not him. She was still alive when he died.
What other parameters for their selection could there be?
God, he hoped it wasn’t random.
If it was about the last surviving players of each major planet, Kai knew many names that could possibly be players with memories like him and Deimos. If it was random.. It would be really hard to figure out who the returned players truly were.
Kai breathed in and let these distracting thoughts go.
It didn’t matter who was who.
All that mattered was for him to do his very best for this to work.
The only information he needed to seek out was what happened to those returned players who revealed themselves as people with such ’Unique Information’ to their civilization in a way that the Beyonders noticed. If there was one in each civilization, there had to be someone who made a mistake and let it slip out.
Till then, he needed to be as discreet as possible.
If the Beyonders had no memory of the last timeline, then the logos were just one of thousands of symbols to them.
For now, Kai decided to use his past timeline’s influence as naturally as possible.
The clever ones from other planets would do the same.
Only after accumulating huge resources would they be prepared enough to take on other civilizations—both in this game and on the real, offline planet too.
After saving some good, unique listings in which Kai had put up offers, he closed the online shop. His mom and Mimi were also checking out the shop while relaxing. All his teammates had texted him, asking all kinds of questions about how to sell and what price to put.
Kai had set all his listings with a 6-hour time limit. He already had other things ready to sell once those were gone. The offers he received for his listings were already ranging from 200 to 300 gold coins.
It was quite good for such low-level items, but right now everyone needed these to clear dungeons and do major quests at their level to go beyond level 35—which, to this day, no one had succeeded in doing. The forums had also noticed the anomaly, and posts about it were circulating online. It was just guesses, though. Nothing concrete.
1 gold was equal to 0.2 Exelon (The International Earth Currency*1). Even 150 Exelon from just one listing was quite an impressive amount of money. And these were just the starting offers. Players couldn’t reverse engineer prepared crafted items, so the formulas were very valuable and treated as each guild’s prized possession.
Kai could gather a lot of funds—if the market wasn’t flooded with crafted items like his.
Closing it down, Kai said to the two in sign, ’I’m going online. Are you guys coming?’
"Lunch?" his mother asked.
’After a couple of hours..’ Kai replied, and she nodded.
Both Mimi and his mother stood up, closing their holos as if they were just waiting for him to say it.
"I’m already getting offers of hundreds of gold coins.. What can we even do with that much in-game money?" Mimi muttered as they moved out of the living room.
Kai smiled and opened his holo again, pulling up the shop and searching for "Exelon." He showed the result to Mimi and his mother.
Instantly, they froze on the spot, their eyes going wider than a giraffe’s.
"We.. We can get real money in exchange?!" Mimi shouted.
Kai just nodded, moving ahead of them and climbing the stairs to his room.
The forum was already filled with these kinds of money exchange posts, but they were recent and they’d missed them.
This was the biggest thing for humans—actually, for all civilizations.
Soon the game would become much more crowded.
Powerful forces would divert their attention here, and the game would explode in popularity.
Kai remembered last time: before even a month had passed since the game’s initial release, it had made front-page headlines for breaking the all-time record for first-month game sales.
The reason was simple—anyone could earn real money from it.
Needless to say, the official news had just made it even more popular, and even normies who had never played any kind of game had picked up a VR headgear and a copy of the game.
Before Kai could turn on his headgear, he felt a figure press beside him, her head on his outstretched arm.
The headgear was covering his eyes, but it was clearly Mimi.
Kai just sighed and let her be. 𝑓𝘳𝘦𝑒𝑤𝑒𝘣𝘯ℴ𝘷𝘦𝓁.𝑐𝑜𝑚
Back inside Nyxfall, Kai appeared near his inn and quickly managed his inventory, taking all the things he had prepared for the Grimhorn Den. He also emptied most of his inventory of useless items so he could gather more loot from the dungeon.
Soon, Mimi and Prince materialized inside their own rented rooms at the inn. The three grabbed their horses and rode straight toward the Grimhorn Den. Everyone had promised to meet there.
With more players leveling higher and higher, the Grimhorn Den had started to see quite a bit of traffic, and small stalls had already been set up there by both players and NPCs. It wasn’t unusual—NPCs often appeared naturally where large numbers of players gathered.
There was also an NPC there now who, for 2 copper, would look after your horse so it wouldn’t get stolen outside the dungeon. The NPC could take care of hundreds of horses at once—the moment you handed it over, the horse would disappear.
It was one of those systems in the game built for player convenience.
It didn’t make much sense, but it did not have to—as long as it made their lives easier.
Standard Apartment Rent (Urban): 2,000–4,000 Exelon
Basic Utilities & Net Access: 400–800 Exelon
Essential Groceries (Single Person): 600–1,200 Exelon
Public Transit Subscriptions: 150–300 Exelon
