Global Game: Ten Billion Spirit Energy Coins From The Start

Chapter 479: 478, 10 Tons of Gold Dragon_1
 

In the two hours that Su Yu had been away, the Icy Camp on the slopes of Yunlu Mountain had autonomously built itself up. Of course, it was built under the watchful eyes of hundreds of cultivators.

It was early October now, the season with fair autumn weather, but the slopes were covered in a thick layer of snow that showed no signs of melting.

The Icy Camp, identical to the one in the illusory battle, sat atop the snow.

In the main hall of the camp, an old man with a patchy white goatee was calmly smoking his pipe, looking at Su Yu, Zhong Feng, and the hundreds of grandmasters outside the camp as if they didn’t exist.

Out of courtesy, Su Yu didn’t use his psychic power to probe the old man. He exchanged a glance with Zhong Feng and said, “Let’s go in.”

“Alright.” Zhong Feng nodded and followed Su Yu into the Icy Camp.

As for the other hundreds of grandmasters, they didn’t follow but continued to watch from the outside.

…

Upon entering the main hall, Su Yu cast a glance around the familiar surroundings and politely addressed the old man, “Uncle, we have a lot of gold, and we’d like to recruit some soldiers from you with this gold.”

The old man glanced at Su Yu and took a couple of strenuous puffs on his pipe.

“I know you.” He said, puffing out smoke rings, “In our world, are you the one who always sends your pet cat to buy [Frost Dragons] from me? We’re old acquaintances.”

Upon hearing the old man’s words, Su Yu and Zhong Feng exchanged a glance, both seeing deep surprise in the other’s eyes.

It turned out that this old man was the same one from the illusionary battle, and he even retained memories from the game world!

What did this mean? Could he move freely between the two worlds like Tina can?

…

The old man, however, didn’t share in Su Yu’s complicated thoughts.

He turned around, retrieved a dust-covered wooden sign from a shelf behind him, dusted it off, and placed it in front of Su Yu and Zhong Feng.

“This is the cost of recruiting armies. The lowest-level [Frost Troll Warrior] is 100 gold, and the highest-level [Frost Dragon] is 20,000 gold. The prices are the same as in our world, and you won’t be cheated of your due.”

“Then, may I ask…” Su Yu asked, “How heavy is this ‘1 gold’ you mentioned?”

“Well…” the old man scratched his chin, looking troubled, “I’m not sure what your world’s unit of measurement is.”

“How about this?” Su Yu smiled, “I just happen to have a sample here. You can judge how much gold it is worth.”

“Alright then.”

…

In the following time, Su Yu handed over bars of gold for the old man to weigh.

The final conclusion was: the “1 gold” the old man referred to was equivalent to 500 grams of gold in the real world.

After reaching this conclusion, both Zhong Feng and Su Yu were stunned.

500 grams of gold equated to one gold, and a [Frost Troll Warrior] cost 100 gold. That meant the exchange price for a [Frost Troll Warrior] was as high as 50 kilograms of gold!

50 kilograms of gold!

Blue Star was currently in a state of chaos, and the price of one gram of gold had soared to over 900 Flower Coins. So, 50 kilograms of gold would be 900X50000=450 million! Which was equivalent to the cost of manufacturing six or seven main battle tanks!

“Zhong Feng, it’s so expensive, still wanna buy?” Su Yu turned to Zhong Feng, a bitter smile on his face.

“Well… let’s recruit one first and see if they are corporeal or spectral,” Zhong Feng was noncommittal.

“Alright.” Su Yu pulled out 50 kilograms of gold and threw it at the old man, “Give us one [Frost Troll Warrior] first.”

“Alright!” The old man gently collected the three basketball-sized pieces of gold and squinted his eyes in satisfaction.

Clap, clap!

He lightly clapped his hands twice, and a troll with light blue skin, horrifying tusks, and a height of three meters walked out from a side door.

The troll wore a thick brown leather armor and held a long axe that shimmered with a magical aura, looking exceptionally fierce.

But due to the cold weather, the air that the troll breathed out formed a thick white fog around its chest. This fog obscured its face, which Su Yu and Zhong Feng, who were only waist-high in comparison, could not see.

“This is Gandak Winter Axe.” The old man introduced, “Which of you two wants to be his master?”

“You take this one.” Su Yu pushed Zhong Feng forward.

Before Zhong Feng could respond, troll Gandak had already knelt before him, saying, “I, Gandak Winter Axe, pledge to serve my master with my life!”

“Rise.” Zhong Feng stepped forward, placed his right hand on his shoulder, and accepted the troll’s loyalty.

At the same time, he was nodding inwardly. This troll’s sincerity did not seem to be a sham based on his tone.

…

Su Yu appeared next to the troll in a flash and pinched its muscular arm.

The troll was about to resist when it was suppressed by the formidable aura of Su Yu.

“Hmm.” Su Yu nodded and turned back to Zhong Feng, “This troll is a real creature, not a virtual illusion like a summoned pet. He should also be able to age, get sick, and die like the trolls in the game, but whether he can increase his level through cultivation, we’re not sure.”

“A real creature?” Zhong Feng went into deep thought.

Managing a real creature would mean taking care of its day-to-day needs, and possibly building a relationship to maintain loyalty.

But these were minor issues. The biggest problem was – it was too expensive!

50 kilograms of gold for a third-rank soldier was a heavy burden even for a great nation like China, let alone the fact that third-rank soldiers were mere cannon fodder on the battlefield against the Skru people. Fifth-rank soldiers might possibly constitute the core force…

Wait, fifth rank?

Zhong Feng suddenly thought of the Frost Dragons in the camp.

He quickly did the calculations.

The recruitment price of a Troll Warrior was 50 kilograms of gold. A fifth-rank Frost Dragon was 200 times the price of a troll, which amounted to 10 tons of gold or 9 billion Flower Coins.

The price of 9 billion Flower Coins wasn’t high. The cost of a Ford-class aircraft carrier was more than 80 billion Flower Coins. An aircraft carrier could be exchanged for 9 Frost Dragons, and the value of 9 Frost Dragons would definitely be greater than one aircraft carrier on the battlefield, even by 5 to 8 times or more!

If they could recruit Frost Dragons in large numbers…

With this thought, Zhong Feng took out his phone and contacted Xue Wenli, “Wen Li, how much gold reserves does the United Government currently have?”

A minute later, Xue Wenli replied, “Over the past month, the United Government has been mining gold at full capacity. China alone currently has an official gold reserve of about 5100 tons, and worldwide official gold reserves total around 53,000 tons. This does not include private holdings.”

“53,000 tons, huh?” Zhong Feng murmured to himself.

If they used all this gold to recruit Frost Dragons, they could recruit more than 5000 of them!

Of course, they didn’t necessarily have to recruit Frost Dragons. The [Flame Phoenix], [Sacred Angel], and [Mountain Giant] of other camps were also good choices.

Having these many fifth-tier creatures together would undoubtedly form a powerful force on the battlefield!