After receiving Ethan's message, the Mad Engineer stared at the request for a long time, unable to make sense of it. Stockpiling high tier ores and materials was perfectly reasonable. Any serious guild preparing for future upgrades would do the same. But Ethan had not specified only high tier resources. He had asked for everything, from the rarest ores down to the lowest quality scraps.
That was the part that baffled him.
Low tier ores were practically worthless at this stage of the game. An ore's tier directly determined the material produced after smelting, and low tier materials were usually abandoned once players advanced past the early phases. No veteran bothered hoarding them. The Mad Engineer turned the problem over in his mind again and again, searching for logic that simply was not there.
What could Ethan possibly need mountains of low tier materials for?
