"Should we go through the Formal channels? I don't mind," Ethan said with a shrug.
"Then let's find a Master-tier Engineer—or higher—and call for a system arbitration. Whatever price they appraise this schematic for, I'll pay it." A smug grin twisted the man's lips as he spoke.
'This idiot is playing right into my hands, he thought.'
A Master-tier Engineer? They were practically mythical in the current state of the game. In the entire Northern Frontier, he only knew of one player who'd hit Master tier a few days ago: NoPaperOnTheBigOne from the All-You-Need Engineering shop.
The guy was a total lunatic, a legend who called himself the Mad Engineer. He was notoriously unstable and didn't kiss anyone's ass. Rumor was he'd recently closed up shop. A few days back, he'd hired a crew of NPC laborers to remodel the place. Nobody had seen the inside since.
