Chapter 1568: 400: Gambling City Storm, In Praise of Emperor Zhao (Part 2)

It’s like a high-speed artery directly grafted onto the body of Gambling City, directly accessing the Gold Coin Chamber of Commerce’s efficient resource circulation network. The player employees working here have three interfaces floating in their minds.

These interfaces connect respectively to the Gold Coin Chamber of Commerce’s trading group, Player Mall, and Trading Market.

The trading group provides the latest resource quotations, which include several plugins created by Ah Lan that can be used to check resource values.

The Player Mall is for converting resources into cash.

For example, if a gambler wins money here and wants to turn it into resources to take away, they can purchase Pure Energy Stones, or even Healing Potions, Spiritual Repair Potions, and other special resources through the Player Mall, allowing the gambler to cash and carry them away.

The Trading Market interface is for assessing the latest quotations in one’s own market, and some resources will be directly listed for sale to fellow villagers.

These three interfaces constitute the channels for resource exchange and circulation.

And since the Gold Coin Chamber of Commerce has set up a pawnshop here, there are naturally points of profit.

For example, if a certain race does not want to directly sell their precious resources, they can mortgage the resources to the pawnshop temporarily in exchange for some emergency tokens.

The pawnshop will give a discount price, with the specific discount depending on the scarcity of the resources.

If they are not redeemed by the due date, the pledged items will become the property of the Gold Coin Chamber of Commerce, becoming an additional source of profit.

Even if they are redeemed within the term, the pawnshop will charge a certain percentage of the custody fee.

This fee, although not high, accumulates into a sizable amount through the massive traffic.

The Gold Coin Chamber of Commerce pursues profit.

Destiny Casino pursues convenience.

Therefore, with the establishment of the pawnshop, both the Gold Coin Chamber of Commerce and the casino can achieve the desired results.

At this moment, in a bustling corner of the gambling hall.

A young member of the Shell Clan, with a slim figure, was tightly clutching a gift coin, his gaze scanning the tables with different types of games, his expression appearing somewhat anxious.

He was called Wo Wen, from a race currently experiencing war: the Shell Clan.

Arriving at Dream Island, he was not here for enjoyment but carried a heavy mission.

The last Coral Forest of the clan land was being eroded by their adversary, the "Bitter Demon Army," and they urgently needed a batch of healing resources to save the injured warriors.

Before this, he had already visited Dream Island multiple times, purchasing war resources in large quantities.

But their nemesis, the "Bitter Demon Clan," was also a trading client of the Gold Coin Chamber of Commerce, and their purchasing power far exceeded that of the Shell Clan.

The Bitter Demon Clan, by virtue of their more fertile land, can extract more high-quality resources from the deep-sea mineral veins, continuously sending them to the Gold Coin Chamber of Commerce lately to exchange for fine weapons, solid armor, and a large number of mysterious potions for rapid recovery.

The emergence of the Gold Coin Chamber of Commerce should have been a neutral force.

Yet, invisibly, it magnified the existing power gap between the two sides.

The Bitter Demon Clan quickly armed themselves to the teeth through trade, causing the situation to deteriorate rapidly.

The stalemate, which was barely maintained, turned into a one-sided crushing after the Bitter Demon Clan received the Chamber’s supplies.

Large parts of the Coral Forest in the clan land fell, and the injured warriors, lacking medicine, could only howl in pain and death.

This time, he brought almost the last resource the clan could bring forth: coral beads.

But he knew in his heart that this little thing was no longer sufficient to exchange for resources to turn the tide in the Trading Market.

But giving up on the war was clearly not an option.

He still came to Dream Island, hoping to luck out to meet a race urgently selling resources, then buy them at a low price.

During the purchases, he was attracted by the casino’s opening advertisement looping on the giant screen of the Trading Market.

It showed that at the opening of Destiny City, guests would be offered an ample amount of free Spirit Meals.

On food, as a race growing behind the fertile sea area, Wo Wen had never experienced food shortages since birth.

Including various spiritual foods, they only needed to fish and hunt in the sea to get them.

But Spirit Meals and spiritual food are not the same concepts.

Their everyday catch of the Shell Clan, was seaweed, shellfish meat, or various types of spirit fish containing Spiritual Energy.

These ingredients could fill the stomach, nourish the body, but the effect was limited to that and could not bring about a qualitative leap at the life level.

However, the "Spirit Meals" mentioned in the casino advertisement is of another kind of existence.

That is carefully prepared by Spirit Chefs using special methods, perfectly blending the essence of multiple ingredients to create a product that surpasses the ingredients themselves.

It’s somewhat similar to what he learned from ancient books about alchemy.

After consuming it, it can bring various unexpected effects, such as restoring Physical Strength, healing hidden injuries, and even enhancing Elemental Perception ability.

This has already surpassed the scope of "food," more like an amplification tool, albeit in the form of a delicious meal.

The power with professional Spirit Chefs, or "Ingredient Alchemists," is generally a Strong Clan.

The race he belongs to also possesses some techniques for making Spirit Meals.

But generally, they are rudimentary means gradually explored from life and fundamentally cannot be presented on stage.

Everything on Dream Island is very expensive. Feeling hungry, he had the idea to join a meal of Spirit Meals.

Unexpectedly, while he was enjoying the delicious Spirit Meals he had never experienced before, he unexpectedly received a "Casino Token" that allows participation in games.

At first, he just wanted to exchange the token for resources, treating it as an unexpected surprise, and then leave.

But the staff explained.

This token could not be directly exchanged for resources; the casino token is an experience credential, its value can only be realized on the gambling table, and it can be used to participate in any game. If successful, the chips won can be freely exchanged.