"Oh... Lord Ethan!" A man with golden hair—the leader of the guild the players were planning to found in Goldenveil—called out excitedly, waving toward Ethan with a vibrant gleam in his eyes.
"Here are all the beasts you requested! We managed to gather fifty of them in total!"
Ethan let his eyes sweep over the beasts laid out before him, clearly satisfied with the result.
"You've done well. At the beginning of next month, I'll have your guild's headquarters built, and I'll also grant you an initial budget of two hundred thousand gold coins. That's enough, isn't it?"
"T-two hundred thousand?" The eyes of the golden-haired player, named Mike, sparkled as if he'd just won the lottery.
At that time, a single gold coin was trading for fifty dollars on the black market.
Gold coins weren't easy to come by, and most players were failing in their attempts to advance to the third stage—the point at which acquiring them would become considerably more feasible.
