My God-Level System Can Rebuild Civilization in the Apocalypse!

Chapter 66: A Rare Weapon

After browsing for quite some time, Joo Joowon still failed to find any equipment that suited his needs.

Just as he was about to close the window, he suddenly noticed that a green grade Weapon Card had just been listed in the equipment section.

Joo Joowon immediately opened it to take a closer look.

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[ Weapon Card ]

[ Grade ]: Rare

[ Durability ]: 2/2

[ Equipment Slot]: Weapon

[ Equipment Bonuses ]: ?, Agility +1

[ Equipment Requirements ]: ? Attribute not lower than 10 points

[ Description ]: Allows the user to freely choose a weapon type. After activation, the primary bonus attribute is generated randomly.

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Random was never a pleasant word.

No one knew whether they would pull an SSR or merely an R card.

Joo Joowon stared at the Weapon Card for a long time.

He felt tempted, yet at the same time hesitant.

His weapon slot was already occupied by the Beginner Arm Shield, which provided Strength bonuses.

The moment he unequipped it, his Strength talent would disappear as well.

Did that mean he would have to gamble on the Weapon Card’s primary bonus attribute turning out to be Strength too?

After hesitating for a while, Joo Joowon backed out and used the search filters.

He selected every beginner item that increased Strength and eventually found a player willing to exchange equipment for supplies.

The belt’s bonus attributes appeared to be random.

Strength, Physique, and Agility could all appear as possible bonuses.

Joo Joowon checked the trade requirements and discovered that the player specifically requested one box of Buldak Spicy Ramen along with additional supplies.

The other supplies were probably necessary for survival.

However, the Buldak Spicy Ramen request was clearly intended to satisfy personal cravings rather than practical needs.

Precisely because the player insisted on receiving Buldak Spicy Ramen, the belt had remained unsold until now.

After all, it was one thing for this player to specifically request Buldak Spicy Ramen, but they had even specified the exact brand they wanted.

The request left Joo Joowon momentarily speechless.

Still, he did not hesitate and immediately submitted the items to complete the trade.

Thankfully, Buldak Spicy Ramen had already been popular for many years and plenty of people bought it specifically to eat.

Otherwise, Joo Joowon could only have stared helplessly at the equipment without any way to obtain it.

After completing the purchase, he turned his attention back to the marketplace and noticed that the Weapon Card still had not been sold.

The random bonus attributes and equipment requirements had discouraged a huge number of players who wanted to gamble on their luck.

Only large organizations with plenty of resources dared to buy it and store it away in their warehouses for future use.

Joo Joowon checked the seller’s trade conditions.

Two silver coins, equipment of the same grade, or three Zombie Cores.

The Zombie Cores were required to be at least white or green quality.

Silver coins were something Joo Joowon simply could not afford.

He also did not possess any equipment of equal grade.

As for Zombie Cores, he did have some in his possession.

Although their function was still unclear at the moment, he did not believe that trading them away meant he was getting the better end of the deal.

After all, his green quality Zombie Cores had already been reserved for Byeol.

As for the blue quality core, using it for this trade without receiving additional compensation would simply make him look like someone with more money than sense.

He had not yet reached the stage where he could ignore cost effectiveness when buying things.

Compared to the drop rates of other equipment, weapon drop rates were terrifyingly low.

During the past few days, most of the trades Joo Joowon had seen on the marketplace involved players offering other pieces of equipment in exchange for weapons.

Whenever a weapon did appear, it would be purchased almost instantly.

That alone was enough to demonstrate just how scarce weapons truly were.

There was even less need to mention the green quality Weapon Card currently in front of him.

If he missed this opportunity, he might not even see a second one before the marketplace closed.

Because of that, Joo Joowon did not hesitate for very long.

He quickly took screenshots of the Zombie Core information page and sent them to the seller.

Only then did Joo Joowon realize that the seller who had listed the Weapon Card was none other than HighlyCultured, the same player who had also defeated a Lord Rank Boss.

Most likely, the Boss had dropped a Weapon Card that was useless for HighlyCultured personally, which was why he had decided to exchange it for other resources instead.

Equipment exchanges were perfectly normal during the early stages of the apocalypse.

After all, there were probably very few players who had managed to fill all twelve of their equipment slots.

However, the fact that HighlyCultured had chosen to exchange the Weapon Card specifically for Zombie Cores was something Joo Joowon found difficult to understand.

The other party wanted to stockpile them and gamble on future value, or perhaps they already knew something about the true function of Zombie Cores through certain channels?

Joo Joowon never underestimated anyone and he leaned more toward the latter possibility.

Perhaps the other party had encountered an NPC and learned about the purpose of Zombie Cores from them.

Or maybe they had accepted some kind of quest and inferred certain information through the mission requirements.

After all, no matter what kind of game this was, there had to be NPCs who issued quests, along with main quests, side quests, hidden quests, and even daily quests.

Just because he had never received a quest himself did not mean nobody else had.

The other party had probably set up keyword notifications as well to avoid getting buried beneath endless private messages, because they quickly noticed the screenshot Joo Joowon had sent over.

[ @HighlyCultured: You want to trade this for it? Sure. I’ll change the equipment listing into a designated trade. ]

[ @Ashfall: That would be overpaying on my side. If you can’t make up the difference, then forget it. ]