Shi Feng stared at the ancient stone token in his hand, falling silent for a long moment.
"Could this be the reward for being the first to connect to an NPC Auction House?"
Even in his previous life, Silver-grade Auction House Tokens had been rare among first-rate guilds—one could imagine just how difficult it was to upgrade a token from Bronze to Silver Rank.
Aside from the first-to-connect reward for an NPC Auction House, Shi Feng couldn't think of any other possibility.
After mulling it over for a moment, he gave up trying to figure out the exact reason and tapped open the Auction House Token to check its specific attributes.
Auction House Token, Silver Rank—a token that grants management authority over the Auction House. With this token, all resources within the Auction House may be freely mobilized. The fee charged by the NPC Auction House is set at 15%, and NPC Auction House fame increases by 30%.
"Incredible! It's this much stronger than the Bronze token—no wonder Auction Houses with Silver-grade tokens advanced so quickly in my previous life!" After reading the attributes, Shi Feng's heart soared with elation.
A normal Bronze-grade token only let the holder skim 10% of the fees from the NPC Auction House. That 10% referred only to the portion of player-to-player transaction fees collected by the NPC Auction House—it was a far cry from running one's own independent Auction House. However, the sheer volume of players using the NPC Auction House was enormous, dwarfing anything a player-run Auction House could match, so even 10% was still a remarkably lucrative income.
The Silver-grade token added another 5% on top of that—equivalent to gaining the income of half an additional NPC Auction House. The extra revenue it generated was staggering.
Normally, securing a single NPC Auction House was a cutthroat competition; landing two was practically a pipe dream. But with two NPC Auction Houses and a Silver-grade Token, the combined income would rival that of three full Auction Houses.
Moreover, the Silver-grade token accelerated the Auction House's fame growth by 30%—a boost that the Bronze token simply could not provide.
An NPC Auction House would grow larger and more opulent as it advanced, unlocking more rooms and dramatically increasing its revenue. And unlike the Auction House itself—which could change hands—the token was a personal possession that could never be transferred. Even if Shi Feng took control of additional NPC Auction Houses down the road, he would still enjoy Silver-grade benefits on all of them.
"If the major superpowers found out Zero Wing had this kind of item, they'd probably risk everything to seize the White River City Auction House the next time an opportunity arose," Shi Feng said with a faint smile.
One step ahead meant staying ahead.
Currently, every major superpower controlled at least two or more NPC Auction Houses. The Silver-grade token effectively gave Zero Wing the income equivalent of one and a half Auction Houses—and as time went on and the Auction House continued to advance, the revenue from its rooms would account for an ever-larger share of the total. Eventually, the White River City Auction House alone could rival two standard NPC Auction Houses.
The superpowers currently only had two NPC Auction Houses each. If Zero Wing secured yet another one, its total would approach the equivalent of three and a half—placing it in the upper tier even among superpowers. And that wasn't even counting the linked guild Auction House.
When it came to comparing sheer financial muscle, even the superpowers would have to think twice.
With that, Shi Feng left the White River City Auction House and headed straight for the Stone Forest Town.
Although he now possessed the Auction House Token, actually linking the two Auction Houses together still required going through the token's interface to activate the connection. It wasn't as though simply holding the token could instantly bridge the resources of both Auction Houses at a mere thought.