I Can Get 1,000,000x Returns from Selling Anything!-Chapter 12 --World-Wide Announcement — Battle for the Starter Village

Chapter 12: Chapter12-World-Wide Announcement — Battle for the Starter Village

Daniel clicked on the Anti-Holy Grail and selected [Open World Event].

[Please set event parameters:]

Event Name: [Beast Tide Is Coming]

Background Story: (Default) The curse of an ancient Evil God has triggered a monster uprising, laying siege to the Starter Village.

Participation Range: All players of Universe No. 616 (Level 1 and above)

Entry Requirement: None (Ticket price can be set)

Ticket Price: 1 Copper Coin (Customizable)

Monster Settings: Auto-generated (Type, quantity, level, grade, and drops cannot be modified)

Daniel thought for a moment, then entered 1 Copper Coin as the ticket price.

[Warning: All ticket revenue will belong to you. Confirm?]

Confirm!

To be honest, the old Daniel would have spent ages calculating how to squeeze out even one extra Gold Coin.

But right now?

He wanted to properly experience what life as a filthy rich tycoon felt like.

[Opening event...]

[Sending invitations to the entire server...]

The next second, a blood-red server-wide announcement exploded across Stellar.

[Emergency Server-Wide Announcement!!!]

[Player "Faustus" has triggered a World-level Event — Beast Tide Is Coming!]

[Event Description: The sleeping will of an Evil God has awakened, driving countless magical beasts to lay siege to Starter Village No. 616. All players may participate in the defense. Repelling the beast tide will grant generous rewards!]

[Participation Method: Pay an entry fee of 1 Copper Coin to enter the event instance. (Death Penalty: -10% EXP at current level; monster drops are automatically looted)]

[Event Start Time: 30 minutes from now]

[Registration Deadline: Before the event begins]

Almost the instant the announcement went out, the entire World Channel exploded.

"What the hell!? A World-level Event? On day one?!"

"Seriously, I haven’t even left Starter Village yet and there’s already an event? There wasn’t even any preview!"

"Faustus again? He triggered this too? Come on, this guy has to be a GM, right?!"

"1 Copper Coin for entry? That cheap? Can some kind soul donate me 1 Copper Coin...!"

"WTF, I’m still out in the wilderness—running back to town right now!"

"Party up, party up! Anyone grouping?"

"Big bro, carry me..."

Daniel watched the World Channel scroll madly and the corners of his mouth lifted.

Thirty minutes from now, his inventory would be filled with a ridiculous number of Copper Coins—

And then Millionfold Boost would trigger.

He opened the Event Management Interface of the Anti-Holy Grail and began adjusting the details of the instance.

Instance Name: [Battle for the Starter Village]

Background Story: The Anti-Holy Grail left behind by the Evil God has awakened, drawing countless magical beasts into a frenzied assault on the human Starter Village. All players must unite and defend the final line of resistance.

Death Penalty: -10% EXP at current level

Drop Rules: All monster drops are auto-looted directly into each player’s inventory

Point Rules: Points are calculated according to the quantity and quality of monsters killed. After the event ends, extra rewards may be exchanged (automatically distributed by the system, not through "Faustus")

Settings complete!

Soon enough, the thirty minutes passed in a flash.

The plaza of Starter Village was packed with players as dense as ants—at the very least, tens of thousands of them.

Everyone had their heads tilted up, staring toward the distant mountains, where a gigantic blood-red portal was slowly taking shape.

[Ding! World Event Beast Tide Is Coming has opened. Enter?]

One player took the lead and rushed in. The others quickly followed.

Daniel, however, did not hurry.

He stood beneath the old blue locust tree at the village entrance, watching as the players swarmed into the portal.

Meanwhile, the number of Copper Coins in his inventory was skyrocketing.

1... 100... 1000... 10000...

In just a few short minutes, the number of registrants broke 50,000, and it was still climbing.

[Total Ticket Revenue: 87,324 Copper Coins]

[Millionfold Boost triggered... Obtained Gold Coins: 8,732,400,000!]

8.7324 billion Gold Coins deposited instantly.

"How boringly easy~"

Daniel closed the system notification, took a deep breath, and stepped into the portal.

His vision blurred.

The next moment, he found himself standing in the plaza of Starter Village.

But this was no longer the lively little village from before.

The sky was a deep blood-red.

The surrounding houses had all their doors and windows tightly shut.

And on the distant horizon, a black tide of monsters was surging forward like a living flood.

[Event Officially Begins! First Wave: Ordinary Monster Tide]

[Monster Types: Mutated Wild Wolves, Frenzied Boars, Venomous Spiders...]

[Level Range: 10–20]

[Quantity: 50,000]

Before the players could even fully react, the monsters had already reached the village entrance.

"WTF! That many?!"

"You’ve got to be kidding me—the weakest ones are Level 10?!"

Some time had already passed since launch, so most players were now above Level 10, and a very small handful had even reached Level 20 and completed their first class advancement.

But even so, when faced with a monster tide numbering in the tens of thousands for the first time, most of them still couldn’t help but panic.

Though more than panic—

What filled them most was excitement.

After all, they wouldn’t really die.

One by one, players roared excitedly and charged straight into the monster horde with their weapons raised.

"Go go go!"

"Mages and Archers, AoE! Priests keep the heals up! Summoners and Warriors, hold the line!"

In an instant, total chaos erupted.

"Are you all cowards or what?! That blood wolf was one hit from death and none of you dared finish it!"

"You bitch, explain to me why it’s suddenly at full HP then?!"

One player charged in enthusiastically—

Only to be slapped to death by that blood wolf with a single claw strike.

"Uh... the wolf that killed me already got trampled to death..."

"Fuck you..."

"..."

Daniel stood in the middle of the plaza and did not hurry to act.

He swept his eyes across the battlefield and found that most players were only a little above Level 10.

The vast majority were clearly fighting these Level 10+ monster tides for the first time and were getting beaten into complete disorder.

Some had already started being forcibly teleported out of the instance.

But Daniel also noticed that some guild players, thanks to their coordination, had already begun to stabilize their lines.

Especially the larger guilds like Rhine Guild.

Those players had rich gaming experience and strong fundamentals to begin with, and after just one day inside Stellar, they had already built up solid teamwork.

More than twenty core members formed a battle formation, holding an area so tightly that not even water could leak through.

Similar formations gradually began taking shape across the battlefield, slowly stabilizing the front.

Daniel smiled faintly.

Finally, he moved.

He raised the Moon Reaper and aimed at the densest area of monsters.

Arrowstorm!

Whoooosh—

Under the astonished gazes of all the players, the sky suddenly darkened, and a fierce wind swept through the battlefield.

"Huh? It can rain inside an instance?"

"No, wait, there wasn’t even a single cloud just now. That makes no sense, does it?!"

Before anyone could react—

The next instant, countless raindrop-like streaks fell from the sky, pouring into the monster tide.

Boom!

Boom boom boom boom—!

A continuous chain of explosions thundered across the battlefield. Flames shot into the air. Smoke and dust rolled everywhere.

When the smoke finally cleared, everyone focused their eyes and saw it clearly—

Within a 50-meter radius, several hundred monsters had all been blasted into pieces, leaving behind a ground full of crater-like impact pits.

The entire world went silent for one second.

Then the players lost their minds.

"What the hell??!!"

"What was that in the sky?! Arrows?!!"

"You’ve got to be kidding me—one skill just one-shot hundreds of monsters?!"

"Could that be some kind of Starter Village protection mechanism?"

"Fuck, what did I just see?!"

Daniel ignored their cries of shock and drew his bow again.

In the blink of an eye, wind and clouds gathered once more, and several more waves of arrow rain crashed down.

Before the first wave of monsters had even reached the village entrance, most of them were already dead.

The few survivors that slipped through were instantly mobbed and finished off by the other players, letting plenty of them level up on the spot.

But after that display, everyone’s attention turned toward the glowing figure standing atop the blue locust tree.

"WTF?! A Level 50 Archer—Faustus?!"