CHAPTER 8
The Wal-Mart of Eternal Lands
The guild’s membership continued to swell. RICH was everywhere, often gathering in large groups, and its brand was easily recognizable. For low-level players, RICH was highly respected as a very helpful group of people. But to the leadership of other guilds, the ones who felt the pressures of a changing market, RICH was widely considered to be one of the most annoying guilds in the entire game. This attitude might have come from the guild’s rocky start, or its recruiting and market strategies (the reasons were always different depending on the time of day), but it became more intense when RICH began unloading finished products.
The 25,000 metal bars that RICH made, if I had decided to sell them, were worth ...
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