136: Chapter 136 New Functions of Maple Coins? Server-wide Hard Currency

The hype in Holy Light City had yet to die down.

On the world channel, players were still grinding the Queen's birthday experience buff, and the official backend had only just caught its breath from the previous wave of events.

Right then, on a small earthen slope in Luofeng Village, Lin Chen sat swinging his little legs while holding a piece of Spirit Honey Cake. A pale gold screen of rules hovered before him.

Dense rows of data flickered across the light screen.

Gold coins.

Nature crystal nuclei.

Dragon crystals.

Shadow crystal nuclei.

There was also the transaction flow from major main cities, major races, and major trade routes.

Lin Chen watched for a while, his little brow furrowing.

"It's still so messy."

Lin Yueyao sat beside him holding the high priests scepter and asked in a milky voice, "What's messy?"

Lin Chen pointed at the strings of numbers on the screen. "The Human Empire uses gold coins, many people in the Elf Race like to settle in nature crystal nuclei, the Dragon Domain has recently been fixated on dragon crystals, and Abyss players have to find middlemen first just to exchange shadow crystal nuclei for materials."

"The same item has a different price in three different places."

"So many bad merchants are just profiting from the price difference in the middle."

At this point, his little face darkened.

"The maple coins my dad set should clearly be the most useful ones."

Lin Yueyao blinked her doe-like eyes and nodded immediately. "Then let's make everyone use maple coins."

"Right!"

Lin Chen slapped the stone table with his small hand, and pale gold threads of rules instantly spread out.

"Changing it today!"

Buzz—

A ripple of rules radiated outward from the earthen slope of Luofeng Village.

At the same time, Lin Zhe, who was looking through files in a side hall of Holy Light City, looked up.

He tapped his fingertips lightly on the table, a faint curve tugging at the corner of his mouth.

Su Ninghua glanced at him. "What is Chenchen planning to do now?"

Lin Zhe said indifferently, "Economics."

The next second.

In the vision of every online player across the entire server, a bright red pinned announcement popped up simultaneously!

[Server Announcement: Effective immediately, Lin Chen, the Archon of Luofeng Village, has officially updated the maple coin functions!]

[1: Unified settlement permissions for cross-regional and cross-racial transactions are now open server-wide!]

[2: All mainstream high-value currencies and material units, including Human Empire gold coins, Elven nature crystal nuclei, Dragon Race dragon crystals, and Abyss shadow crystal nuclei, can be exchanged for maple coins according to fixed rules!]

[3: Unified fixed exchange rate: 1 maple coin = 100 basic currency units, forever unchanged!]

[4: Official unconditional two-way exchange guarantee; any player, chamber of commerce, or racial caravan can exchange at any time!]

[5: maple coin real-world withdrawal function is now open. 1 maple coin = 1 Real-World Coin, with zero transaction fees!]

[The final right of interpretation for these rules belongs to Lin Chen, the Archon of Luofeng Village!]

As soon as the announcement came out.

The entire server was dead silent for two seconds.

Then, it absolutely exploded!

"Holy crap?!"

"maple coins can be withdrawn as real money?!"

"1 to 1 with real money? And no transaction fees?!"

"Cross-racial transactions settled directly in maple coins? This is too savage!"

The world channel was instantly flooded.

What was the biggest headache before?

It wasn't a lack of money.

It was that the money wasn't universal!

If you earned ten thousand gold coins in the Human Empire and ran to the Elf Race to buy materials, they might not accept it.

If you farmed a bunch of shadow crystal nuclei in the Abyss and wanted to buy potions in Holy Light City, you'd have to find a black-market merchant to exchange currency, often getting scammed out of twenty or thirty percent.

Some cross-regional merchants relied on eating this price difference to make money while doing nothing.

But now, with one stroke, Lin Chen had cut that path off!

The Luofeng Village public exchange area was the first to blow up.

Countless players rushed toward the exchange panel like crazy.

"Let me try first!"

A Human Empire merchant slapped ten thousand gold coins into the exchange slot.

Flash!

One hundred maple coins were credited immediately.

His eyes lit up, and he immediately clicked the Elven material shop, buying a batch of nature crystal nuclei with maple coins. The whole process took less than three seconds.

"It worked! You really can buy directly!"

An Elf Archer player nearby also rushed up, stuffing thirty nature crystal nuclei from his bag into the exchange panel.

Flash!

Thirty maple coins were credited.

He turned around and bought a bunch of high-level potions in the Human Empire potion area, completely stunned.

"Holy cow, I used to have to find a middleman to swap for gold coins and lose at least ten percent! Now it's just one step?"

The reaction in the Dragon Domain was even more exaggerated.

Several Vanguard Army players who had just finished mining dragon crystals from a cave were originally worrying about how to sell them in the main city. After seeing the announcement, they rushed straight to the exchange interface.

"Ten dragon crystals for ten maple coins?"

"It's solid! The exchange rate is even fixed!"

"Damn, now who's afraid of black-market merchants lowballing us!"

The players in the Abyss faction almost cried.

In the past, when shadow crystal nuclei were sold outside, they passed through many hands, and the middlemen took the lion's share. The people actually farming the materials were the ones who lost out.

Now, they could exchange directly for maple coins and then take those maple coins to any commercial district in the server to buy things. It was ridiculously convenient.

In less than half an hour.

The data on the server-wide auction house began to jump frantically.

The prices that were originally split across different races, cities, and regions began to unify rapidly.

Previously, Human main city merchants hoarded gold, Elven Caravans hoarded nature crystal nuclei, Dragon Domain players hoarded dragon crystals, and Abyss players hoarded shadow crystal nuclei.

But now, none of those were the end goal.

maple coins were the final core of settlement.

Inside the Holy Light City operations backend, Zhou Ming stared at the master transaction panel, his mouth slowly hanging open.

"This is insane..."

"The server-wide transaction volume is skyrocketing!"

"The proportion of copper coin settlements is dropping, and maple coins have already surged to sixty percent!"

The technician beside him had shaking hands. "Manager Zhou, it's not just in-game; the real-world payment interface is also jumping!"

"What?"

"Players are testing the withdrawals!"

Zhou Ming lunged over.

On the screen, a series of data was refreshing frantically.

1 maple coin withdrawal successful.

50 maple coins withdrawal successful.

300 maple coins withdrawal successful.

1000 maple coins withdrawal successful.

All of them were credited in seconds.

And it really was 1 to 1 with real money, without a single penny deducted!

Zhou Ming's scalp went numb.

In the past, when players withdrew game currency into reality, black market cuts, platform cuts, and middleman cuts could strip away twenty or thirty percent.

Now Lin Chen had directly opened an official unconditional guarantee.

With one stroke, he had cut out all the middle steps.

This was no longer just an economic function update.

This was a direct remake of the server-wide financial rules!

The world channel exploded once again.

"It arrived! It really arrived!"

"I just withdrew 20 maple coins, and my real-world account immediately got 20 bucks more!"

"Holy crap! In the future, we farm materials for maple coins, and maple coins go straight to real money? Who can resist this?"

"And no transaction fees! Lord Lin Chen is basically giving money to the whole server!"

"Who's going to save copper coins anymore? Even a dog wouldn't save them!"

The phrase "Even a dog wouldn't save them" instantly flooded the screen.

More and more players began to proactively exchange their gold coins, crystal nuclei, dragon crystals, and shadow crystal nuclei for maple coins.

Because everyone understood.

The maple coin exchange rate was fixed.

The officials guaranteed it.

It worked across servers.

It worked across races.

And it could be directly withdrawn into reality.

This was no longer an ordinary game currency.

This was the most stable hard currency in the entire server!

Even many NPC caravans began to proactively display the new rules on their signs.

"Only maple coins accepted; other currencies can be exchanged first."

"maple coin priority settlement, enjoy a 2% discount."

"Large-scale cross-racial transactions only through maple coin accounts."

By evening, the changes were even greater.

Several real-world partner shops outside Holy Light City actually put up new signs.

[maple coin Payments Supported]

[1 maple coin = 1 Real-World Coin, accepted throughout the store]

Once the news spread, the players completely boiled over.

"Even real-world merchants accept it?"

"Holy crap! Then doesn't that mean maple coins can be spent in reality too?"

"I just bought a real-world milk tea with 10 maple coins, and the clerk actually made it for me!"

"Damn, ridiculous! This thing isn't just a game currency anymore!"

Inside the side hall of Holy Light City.

Su Ninghua looked at the latest transaction reports, her eyes shimmering with slight shock.

"Currently, over seventy percent of large transactions across the Empire's trade routes have begun to unify under maple coin settlement."

"In another two days, the circulation weight of gold coins will likely be completely suppressed."

Lin Zhe glanced indifferently at the report.

It wasn't just the Human Empire.

The Elven material district, the Dragon Domain mineral district, and the Abyss dark trade routes were all switching over simultaneously.

He who controls the maple coin,

Controls the transactions.

He who controls the transactions,

Has his hands on the economic lifeblood of the entire "miracle".

And that lifeblood was now entirely in his hands.

At the same time, system notifications rang out continuously in his mind.

[Ding! maple coin cross-server and cross-racial transaction rules are now in effect!]

[Ding! maple coin real-world withdrawal function is running stably!]

[Ding! maple coin has become the mainstream unified settlement currency for the entire server!]

[Ding! The host has preliminarily gained control over the server-wide economic lifeblood!]

Lin Zhe tapped his fingertips lightly on the table, his gaze calm.

Outside, the night grew deeper.

But the transaction panels across the Aethera Continent were as bright as day.

Countless players, caravans, guilds, and racial merchants were frantically exchanging for maple coins.

From this moment on.

Whether it was the Human Empire or the Elf Secret Realm.

Whether it was the Dragon Domain or the Abyss.

From now on, all transactions had to follow the rules set by Lin Zhe.