Lord of All People: My Undead Skeletons Billions

Chapter 213: Traitors of the Resource Merchant Alliance! The downward trend of metal prices!
After processing the second batch of military equipment, Qin Luo once again opened the trading market to see how the goods were selling.

Among the equipment on sale, 4 sets of Black Iron-level equipment and 10 sets of ordinary-level equipment were sold out.

For this, Qin Luo obtained 10 black iron-grade magic crystals and 7000 million energy points.

hiss!
Although he had an estimate of the value of the goods, Qin Luo couldn't help but gasp when he saw so many magic crystals and energy points.

Especially the energy points, a full 70 million points!
Although many people were inquiring about the silver-level equipment for sale, there was no transaction volume at all.

After all, the price is too high and few people can afford it, especially since many lords don't even have bronze-grade magic crystals, let alone silver-grade magic crystals.

Another thing is that Qin Luo was busy with other things just now and did not accept the friend request.

Even some lords who are qualified to trade have not yet negotiated with them.

As for the three hundred sets of bronze-level equipment, there are still two hundred sets left.

Only one hundred sets of bronze equipment were sold, and one thousand bronze magic crystals were obtained!
Qin Luo was already very satisfied with this number!

After all, not every lord is like him, able to kill bronze monsters at will and obtain bronze magic crystals!
These one thousand bronze-grade magic crystals are actually not a small number.

There are only a few customers who have the ability and need!
The bronze-level equipment he sold were all suitable for goblins and were only effective against some lords' troops.

This alone ruled out most of the lords.

In addition, you need to have the capital to purchase these equipment.

At this stage, there are bronze-level magic crystals, most of which are extraordinary lords or rare lords.

If Qin Luo changed the transaction conditions from bronze-level magic crystals to black iron-level magic crystals or energy points, they would be sold out in a matter of minutes!
"A thousand bronze-level magic crystals, I can't even dream of that!"

Qin Luo sighed.

With so many bronze-level magic crystals, he can use them to recruit bronze-level undead bone dragons and upgrade his territory.

There may even be some inventory left over for use elsewhere.

In fact, magic crystals have many uses. For example, the large batch of military equipment just transported back requires magic crystals to serve as the energy core of the weapons.

The level of the magic crystals inside the weapon will also affect the power of the weapon.

Also, among the metal puppet warriors, the energy core of the gold-armored puppet warrior is a bronze-grade magic crystal, while the energy core of the silver-armored puppet warrior is only black iron-grade.

Qin Luo suppressed the urge to upgrade the territory immediately and continued to check the transaction status.

The sales of metal resources, however, are not very optimistic.

So far, 50 units of hematite have been sold, 40 units of bronze have been sold, 30 units of mithril have been sold, and 10 units of adamantium have been sold.

Less than half of the four types of metal resources have been sold, and there are still many left.

After Qin Luo put the items on the shelves, he naturally went to the Resource Merchant Alliance to say hello.

But unlike the previous two days, the purchasing enthusiasm of the lords of the Merchant Alliance has dropped a lot.

After all, almost all the lords have supported Qin Luo, as the saying goes, three times the limit.

What's more, since they are the leaders of the Resource Merchant Alliance, they are merchants selling metal resources and suppliers of metal resources, not customers with real demand for them.

Of course, with Qin Luo's prestige and reputation, if every merchant lord supported him a little more, it would not be a problem to buy up all these metal resources.

What's more, there should be lords who are not from the Merchant Alliance who make the purchase. After all, some lords will not specifically look at the name of the merchant when purchasing goods.

Another thing is that Qin Luo discovered that there had been no transaction records for more than an hour.

In response to this, Qin Luo decided to find out where the problem lies.

He closed his shop interface, opened the trading market, searched for metal resource products on the market, and frowned.

Qin Luo discovered that both the number of merchants selling goods and the amount of metal ore sold on the market were much greater than yesterday!
Moreover, many products have been on the shelves for a long time and have not been sold out.

If it had happened a few days ago, this situation would have been impossible. Once the products were put on the shelves, no matter how many there were, they would be sold out in a short time.

Now, a large amount of metal ore resources have flowed into the market, which seems to have exceeded the market supply, resulting in the situation where many commodities cannot be sold.

Of course, this is not the most important thing.

Qin Luo discovered that although most of the metal prices on the market were still marked with the prices Qin Luo had set before.

However, there are also some metal resources with relatively low prices. Some merchants sell hematite at a price of eight or nine energy points per unit.

Qin Luo was confused by this. What was going on?

In fact, the matter started today. To be precise, it was after the dark offensive ended last night. Many merchant lords put metal resources on sale at the same time.

In particular, Qin Luo himself has invested two to three million units of metal resources into the market, which has a significant impact on the market.

It fully met the demand during that period, causing some merchants' metal resources to be unsalable!
Although most of the buyers are friendly supporters of the resource alliance lords, the metal resources they purchase are not used for their own consumption, but simply flow into the market in another way.

The supply situation of metal resources was soon noticed by some lords with ulterior motives.

Especially those lords who have always wanted to break the monopoly of metal resources, they are always paying attention to the quantity and price changes of metal resources in the market.

There are even more and more such lords. Through exchanges in the forum, they have established an anti-monopoly alliance that is opposed to the resource alliance lords.

In the past few days, their efforts did not cause the price of metal resources to fall, but they have been looking for the right opportunity.

This time, the lords of the Anti-Resource Alliance seized this important opportunity and began to spread the news in chat channels and forums, announcing that the metal resource market was experiencing a slump in sales, the supply and demand relationship had begun to change, and there was a situation of oversupply.

In fact, the supply of metal resources is, at best, stable.

But after such propaganda by the lords of the Anti-Monopoly Alliance, and given that many lords already hated the high-priced metal resources, they quickly united to fight against the Resource Merchant Alliance and suppress the high-priced metals!
Seeing the shift in public opinion and the subtle changes in the market, some lords who originally wanted to purchase metal resources gave up the idea of ​​buying.

Because they found that this was definitely the best time to bring down the Resource Alliance.

As long as the lords resist purchasing metal resources, they will be able to force the merchant lords to lower their prices!
This is a war without gunpowder, and it depends on who can survive to the end.

If that were the case, then the advantage and initiative would actually be on the side of the Resource Alliance!
Because even if the goods cannot be sold for a while, it will not have much impact on them.

The most important thing is that the supply and demand relationship is there. If the lords don't buy for a while, they can't just stop buying forever! As long as the lords of the Resource Alliance can withstand the pressure and don't lower the price, they will definitely win.

Because if other lords do not purchase metal resources, it means that their development will stagnate.

However, the lords of the Resource Alliance are not restricted and can still develop their power.

From another perspective, this is also very beneficial to the resource alliance.

Their hundreds of thousands of merchant lords can take the opportunity to develop, enhance their strength, and be ahead of billions of other lords.

But, there are all kinds of birds in a big forest!

There are always some stupid ones among the hundreds of thousands of lords in the Resource Merchant Alliance. They are influenced by public opinion and are afraid that their products cannot be sold. In addition, the Anti-Monopoly Alliance not only mobilizes public opinion to persuade the lords to suspend the purchase of metal resources, but also intends to disintegrate the Resource Merchant Alliance from within.

The Anti-Monopoly Alliance used some means to contact some lords of the resource alliances, hoping to purchase metal resources at a lower price, and promised to trade secretly and privately rather than publicly on the market.

Although a few merchant lords stuck to their bottom line, some were fooled and thought that they would be fine if they traded in secret. In fact, the price offered by the other party was not low, basically eight or nine energy points for one unit of hematite.

But this price broke the standard line Qin Luo had set before, which was ten points of energy per unit of hematite!

As the saying goes, a thousand-mile long dam can be breached by a single ant hole.

There are definitely many think tanks within antitrust organizations who provide them with advice.

They knew very well that if they fought together against the entire Resource Alliance, their chances of winning would be slim and victory would be extremely difficult.

This will instead lead to the hundreds of thousands of lords of the Resource Merchant Alliance becoming more united and closely connected, always standing on the opposite side of them and engaging in a constant struggle.

Now, they changed their tactics. They attacked the lords of the Resource Merchant Alliance openly, but secretly began to win over and bribe a group of lords of the Resource Merchant Alliance, promising them large sums of money and secretly purchasing all the metal resources of these merchant lords at lower prices.

This secret deal is beneficial to both parties.

One is that antitrust organizations have harvested a large amount of metal resources at prices lower than the market price.

On the other hand, it broke the high market price set by Qin Luo. Once this trend is formed, the price of metal resources will inevitably fall.

In addition, the resource alliance lords who originally had a joint venture with the anti-monopoly organization found it difficult to sell their metal resources. Now, after joining forces with them, they can sell them easily and obtain a large amount of energy points, which can be used for the construction of their territory and the improvement of their strength.

As for whether their behavior would cause prices to plummet, they may have thought about this, but they still chose to do so.

In fact, the reason is very simple. If they support Qin Luo's policy and continue to sell at high prices, they will fall into a vicious circle because they cannot sell the metal resources. But now, they have reaped a lot of benefits.

However, the benefits they gained came at the expense of the entire resource alliance.

It can be said that it is better for me to die than for my fellow Taoist to die.

This cannot be entirely blamed on them. If it were other merchants or Qin Luo, they might have done the same.

After all, in the face of huge interests, few people can stick to their original intentions.

As for the so-called alliance, it is not unbreakable.

The lords of the resource alliance gather together because of interests, but they may also separate and betray each other because of interests.

Such is human nature!
What's more, no matter which side wins this resource price war, they will be the ultimate beneficiaries.

If the price war continues and reaches a stalemate, these low-price merchant lords will become the only beneficiaries.

But are things really as simple as they think?

impossible!
After a series of secret low-price transactions were completed, the Anti-Monopoly Alliance posted many transaction records on chat channels and forums, which immediately caused an uproar.

This also gave billions of lords hope!
Originally, the price of hematite was not the same as in the trading market, where it was always ten energy points per unit.

There are already merchant lords selling at the price of eight or nine points of energy!
Thinking of this, they instantly felt unbalanced.

Since you can sell to others at such a low price, why should you sell to us at ten points of energy?

Some lords who could not resist buying expensive metals once again refrained from doing so, and even spoke out on the forum, saying they would rather die than buy expensive metals again, unless the merchants collectively lowered their prices.

The Anti-Monopoly Alliance's actions received a lot of praise, and many lords scrambled to join. The Anti-Monopoly Alliance also took this opportunity to quickly recruit lords, absorb members, expand its influence, and make the alliance stronger.

The Resource Alliance, on the other hand, was confused by the operations of the Anti-Monopoly Alliance.

When they realized what was happening, they were not panicked or worried about the drop in metal resource prices, but rather furious.

When the resource alliance lords united to resist the "foreign enemy", a group of "traitors" appeared and secretly sold low-priced metals. This was exposed. It was really too hateful.

In the Resource Merchant Alliance’s group chat, the lords were verbally attacking these traitors by name.

The names of the transaction parties were not hidden in the transaction screenshots released by the Anti-Monopoly Alliance, so these traitors had nowhere to hide and were directly exposed, being blamed and insulted by hundreds of thousands of lords.

Facing the attack from the resource alliance lords, those "traitor" lords were powerless to refute and were filled with shame.

They thought they were smart and could become the ultimate beneficiaries, or even achieve a win-win situation (win twice), but in the end they found that they were betrayed by the leader of the anti-monopoly alliance.

Many lords even went to their shops to leave messages, accusing them of treating them differently.

Now, it can be said that both parties have been offended.

Some business lords couldn't stand the pressure and simply quit the group chat.

Some merchant lords also started to sell metals at low prices openly.

The situation is developing in a direction that is unfavorable to the Resource Alliance, but it is exactly in line with the ideas of the Anti-Monopoly Alliance!

"There are thousands of 'traitors' selling cheap metals!"

Qin Luo spent a lot of time to figure out the whole story!
Although the situation changed, only a few hours passed.

Qin Luo discovered it a little too late, and the situation had already reached an irreversible state.

He was helpless and even powerless about this.

After all, he was just a group leader, not the superior of these hundreds of thousands of lords. At most, he could only give them some advice, but could not force them to do anything.

The size of hundreds of thousands of lords is already not small, and it is inevitable that some "traitors" will appear!
(End of this chapter)