When Lin Mo and Ning Xi returned from the first floor of the Divine Might Tower to the main hall, they found the place already packed with people.
"Look! It's the number one player on the Heavenly Ranking! Rulebound and the great Liuli!"
As someone shouted, countless eyes throughout the hall immediately turned toward Lin Mo and Ning Xi.
What is a top-tier celebrity? This was what one looked like.
At the same time, everyone noticed the special golden title above Ning Xi's head: [Divine Might Tower · Lord], leaving them even more shocked.
"A lord? This Divine Might Tower actually belongs to Boss Liuli?"
"Holy crap! She already has her own territory this soon? As expected of a top player."
"Can you really earn reputation by challenging the Divine Might Tower?"
Faced with everyone's eager questions, Ning Xi answered honestly without hiding anything.
"You can earn reputation, but the chance isn't very high."
"However, if you challenge the tower here, you'll still receive full rewards for killing lower-level monsters. Your rewards won't be reduced because of the level difference."
The crowd immediately became excited.
"Holy crap? That's amazing! I'm a level 56 healer. I just got kicked out of my studio. Without teammates, my class can't solo monsters above level 56 at all! This completely makes up for losing rewards when farming lower-level monsters."
"As long as it gives reputation, that's enough! I don't mind if the chance is low. I'll just farm more monsters. I need reputation to make equipment anyway."
"Where do I buy tickets? I want tickets! I want to enter the tower!"
"Over here! You can buy them from that NPC, Wuna!"
"Only 10 copper coins per ticket? That's so cheap! Give me ten first so I can try it out!"
"I want tickets too! Give me twenty!"
The players immediately rushed toward Wuna.
At the same time, notification windows kept appearing in front of Ning Xi.
[Ding! Honorable Lord! Player Peerless Master purchased 10 tickets in your territory's Divine Might Tower. After the system deducted its 50% share, congratulations! You received 50 Copper Coins!]
[Ding! Honorable Lord! Player Only Love Liuli purchased 520 tickets in your territory's Divine Might Tower. After the system deducted its 50% share, congratulations! You received 26 Silver Coins!]
[Ding! Honorable Lord! Player One Night Seven Times purchased 50 tickets in your territory's Divine Might Tower. After the system deducted its 50% share, congratulations! You received 2 Silver Coins and 50 Copper Coins!]
After buying tickets, players could teleport into the tower for free.
Before long, beams of white light lit up throughout the hall.
The players were teleported by the system into the Divine Might Tower's first floor: the Rainforest.
Then they crushed their tickets one after another, summoned monsters, and began the challenge.
On Ning Xi's side, she watched the amount of money in her backpack rise rapidly and couldn't stop smiling.
"Brother Lin Mo, in just this short time, we've already sold fifty gold coins' worth."
If it weren't for the sky-high maintenance cost of 10,000 gold coins, a net profit of 50 gold coins at the current exchange rate of 1:0.27 would equal 135,000 yuan. The profit really wasn't bad.
But now, they first had to earn back the 10,000 gold coin maintenance fee.
Only after that would they start making real money.
Managing a territory well and earning a profit from it wasn't easy.
In fact, most people who invested in territories ended up losing money if they made even a slight mistake in running them.
Just like opening a shop, starting a business, or running a company in the real world, there were always risks.
Lin Mo understood this very well.
Right now was still the early stage, and there weren't many territory features yet.
In his previous life, once territory gameplay gradually became widespread in the later stages, Lin Mo had seen many top players and wealthy players invest hundreds of millions, even billions of gold coins into developing territories.
In the end, poor management left them completely bankrupt.
Some even lost both their guilds and their wives.
So in reality, the Divine Might Tower Ning Xi currently owned was only a small territory with a relatively small investment.
The risk wasn't that high.
Even if they lost money, it would only be a few thousand gold coins a day at most.
Of course, with Lin Mo around, there was no way he'd let Ning Xi lose money.
After all, the main reason for building the Divine Might Tower was to help Ning Xi accumulate reputation.
No matter what, Lin Mo had to make the Divine Might Tower a success.
He had to earn 3.2 million reputation for Ning Xi before noon tomorrow.
As more and more players entered the Divine Might Tower to take on the challenge, Ning Xi also began receiving profit notifications.
[Ding! Honorable Lord, congratulations! Player Only Love Liuli was lucky enough to obtain 1 Reputation while killing a monster in your territory. You automatically received a 10% commission reward: Reputation +10 (100x Reputation Bonus activated)!]
[Ding! Honorable Lord, congratulations! Player Bold and Decisive was lucky enough to obtain 1 Reputation while killing a monster in your territory. You automatically received a 10% commission reward: Reputation +10 (100x Reputation Bonus activated)!]
[Ding... ]
As the saying goes, there's strength in numbers.
For one person killing monsters alone, each kill only had a 1% chance of giving Ning Xi reputation.
But if one hundred or one thousand people were killing one hundred or one thousand monsters at the same time, Ning Xi's chances of gaining reputation increased dramatically.
After all, one person had to kill a hundred monsters before that 1% chance would normally trigger.
But someone else might trigger that same 1% after killing just one monster.
Almost every few seconds, Ning Xi received another reputation reward notification.
Things were gradually getting better.
Just then...
Rustle! Rustle! Rustle! Rustle!
A commotion suddenly broke out.
A huge crowd of players gathered outside the Divine Might Tower.
The massive group completely surrounded the tower.
Seeing this, Zhao Lingyun said worriedly, "Is someone here to cause trouble?"
"Move aside! Everyone, make way!"
"Brother Jie! This way, please!"
The crowd was forcibly pushed apart.
A large group of players from Chaotic World escorted Wang Junjie into the Divine Might Tower.
Lin Mo had also thought someone had come to make trouble, and he had actually been a little concerned.
But the moment he saw that fool Wang Junjie, all his worries disappeared.
Wang Junjie swaggered over to Lin Mo and Ning Xi.
He looked at Lin Mo, then at Ning Xi.
With an arrogant expression, he said, "Who around Inferno City doesn't know this whole area belongs to me, Wang Junjie?"
"You set up a territory on my turf without even letting me know?"
"Do you even take me seriously?"
"Brothers!"
"Go..."
"Buy tickets!"
"Buy as many as you can!"
"One thousand tickets each!"
"I'll pay for everyone!"
Ning Xi let out a sigh of relief.
She said to Wang Junjie, "Young Master Wang, please spend responsibly..."
Wang Junjie grinned, "I am being responsible!"
"Your tower drops reputation from killing monsters, right? And farming lower-level monsters doesn't reduce the rewards!"
"My guild brothers happen to need reputation for making equipment. We can farm reputation and level up quickly at the same time."
"A place this good, and you're only charging 10 copper coins per ticket? That's way too cheap!"
"Brother Mo, I suggest you raise the ticket price."
"Make it 10 silver coins each."
"Or 10 gold coins each would work too."
The moment he said that, everyone around them gasped.