The matter of the Dark Underground City could be put aside for now.
After all, they had to reach Gold rank before they could enter.
Even if Lin Mo won every match in the Super Arena every day, he could only gain a maximum of 120 arena experience points. There was a limit to daily rank progression, meaning that even at the fastest speed, it would take him three days to reach Gold rank.
In any case, the S-rank hidden quest Heart Knot had a thirty-day time limit.
As for the Divine Tomb dungeon, even players at the top level of Inferno City's ranking board would normally need three or four days to reach Silver rank and enter the dungeon without the help of rank scrolls.
So there was no need for Lin Mo to rush either matter.
The most urgent task was to quickly earn reputation for Ning Xi, complete the requirement for the Tenth Hall of the Yama Hall, and obtain the SSS-rank Hidden Class Advancement Certificate!
So Lin Mo used the same method again.
He posted a citywide boss-buying announcement in Inferno City's chat channel.
The same rates as before.
Elite monsters: 100,000!
Bosses below Tier 3: 500,000!
Tier 4 bosses: 2 million!
Tier 5 bosses: 5 million!
Prices were falling.
Gold coins were losing value.
Even Divine Oracle's official cash-out exchange rate had dropped from 1:1 to 1:0.27 in just one month.
Yet Lin Mo still kept the same purchase prices.
This time, he even added a new one, tier 6 bosses: 30 million.
Anyone who provided a boss location would receive a huge bounty.
Without question, the announcement shook the entire city.
"Holy crap! Boss Rulebound is such a good guy! He didn't lower the prices! He's still buying bosses at the old rates."
"One elite monster for 100,000? That's more than my yearly salary! No wonder my friend told me to play Divine Oracle and said treasures are everywhere. He wasn't lying."
"Wait! Thirty million for a Tier 6 boss? Is that serious? What currency are we talking about? Korean won? Japanese yen?"
"Wow! Brother Rulebound is so rich! Can I be your mistress?"
"Wait! Sis! Can you really just say that out loud?"
"It's either luxury clubs and models or fishing in the sea. It all depends on today. Brothers, let's go find bosses."
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As a result, from eighty-year-old retirees enjoying their pension in Divine Oracle to gaming addict students, all several million online players in Inferno City put down whatever they were doing and joined a citywide boss search operation.
Millions of people working for Lin Mo alone.
At that moment, the power of money was impossible to ignore.
"It's good to be rich."
Lin Mo couldn't help sighing.
After all, he was now a boss with a net worth exceeding one billion.
Of course, having money didn't mean spending it carelessly.
In fact, even paying thirty million for a Tier 6 boss guaranteed profit for Lin Mo.
Because the value created by the Tier 6 Infernal Fire Phoenix from the Tenth Hall of the Yama Hall far exceeded thirty million, even without Ning Xi's tenfold enhancement.
Well, that was the final boss of the Yama Hall map, so its value was boosted by its special status.
But ordinary Tier 6 bosses weren't worth little either.
More importantly, "A Level 70 Tier 6 boss gives 2,000 reputation for a first kill. With Ning Xi's hundredfold reputation bonus, that's 200,000 reputation in one go."
If they were all Tier 6 bosses, they only needed to kill a dozen or so for Ning Xi to easily earn three million reputation.
So during the following period.
Lin Mo took Ning Xi around hunting bosses everywhere.
At the same time, he was also paying attention to what was happening with his clone.
The Golden Age and Ironblood guilds had basically stabilized completely.
Especially this time, using his clone, Lin Mo led Gao Han and Tiexue Wuqing through the Divine Tomb, a rare hidden dungeon of extremely high difficulty. The final system statistics showed that out of thirty-four teams that entered the dungeon, thirty-one were eliminated, and only three teams cleared it.
Not only did Gao Han and Tiexue Wuqing gain rich rewards from it, they also witnessed the overwhelming strength of Lin Mo's clone more deeply and completely accepted him.
And it wasn't just this dungeon.
In fact, ever since Lin Mo had used the clone Mo to join Golden Age as vice guild leader and arranged for Lu Ye to join Ironblood as vice guild leader, over the past several days, Lin Mo had been using his memories from his previous life to guide both guilds through many hidden quests and opportunities within Inferno City through his clone and Lu Ye.
Helping their development.
Bringing many benefits to both guilds.
After all, each of them was a super guild with three thousand members.
Lin Mo's original plan was for his clone to win over both guilds and help him resist Ming Yuexin.
But now, he was beginning to see the situation more clearly.
"It seems Ming Yuexin may not actually be my real enemy."
The real enemy was the "Boss".
This was an enemy who could send people to his doorstep in the real world and truly threaten Lin Mo's life.
Lin Mo even had a feeling.
"Could the opponent Ming Yuexin once mentioned, the one she needed my help dealing with, also be connected to this Boss?"
The former was someone who could trouble even the head of the Ling family, one of the three great families in the capital of Dragon Nation.
The latter could casually pull people out of prison and also control Nether, the second-strongest player on the Dragon Nation server in his previous life and an SSS-rank hidden class user, the Judge!
Clearly, they shared one thing in common: They both possessed enormous power in the real world.
It was difficult not to connect the two.
Because of this, Lin Mo became even more aware that he needed to expand his forces quickly through his clone.
When the Boss finally revealed himself, Lin Mo would need enough strength to fight back.
After all, someone who could command five guilds, someone who could control Nether, the Boss's power was definitely extraordinary. It was even possible that he personally controlled a guild of ten thousand members in Divine Oracle.
So using his clone to secretly build alliances and develop influence was ultimately a wise choice.
Even if it was no longer needed to deal with Ming Yuexin.
It would still be a trump card against the Boss.
Black Night, Zhao Ling'er, and Yu Jin were the three core combat forces of this faction.
Now that Black Night and Zhao Ling'er were basically settled.
Lin Mo planned to remove Zhao Ling'er's talent seal and restore her strength first, then recruit Yu Jin.
After that, he would mobilize Golden Age and Ironblood to continue recruiting allies and expanding their influence.
Right now, Siya, the Seventh Princess of the God Clan royal family and bearer of the supreme divine bloodline of Divine Oracle, was right beside him.
Lin Mo could use a drop of Siya's blood at any time to remove Zhao Ling'er's talent seal and restore her SS-rank talent.
All this time, Lin Mo had never interacted with Zhao Ling'er through his main account. He had always used his clone.
So through the offline account belonging to Mo, he sent Zhao Ling'er a message, ["If you have time, log out for a moment."]
However, after sending the message, there was no reply for a long time.
Lin Mo frowned slightly.
"Could something have happened to Zhao Lingyun?"
It turned out that ever since Zhao Ling'er had been killed by one of Nether's subordinates in the Divine Tomb dungeon that morning and hurriedly logged out after receiving some news, she had never logged back in.
Lin Mo had tried contacting Zhao Ling'er several times, but she never responded.
Thinking about her family situation, her parents had been willing to sell her to a divorced older man she didn't like just for a high bride price.
There was no guarantee they weren't causing trouble for her again.
He would wait a little longer.
If there was still no news from Zhao Ling'er, then Lin Mo would have to take some action.
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