The next morning John woke up at 6am as usual and immediately logged in to RuneScape again.
Today he thought about yesterday and determined he had made a mistake by not making enough money to live on first so he decided to level his mining and smithing skills. He started by mining copper and tin and then smithing it into bronze bars and making bronze items to sell until he was able to mine and smith iron items which he did until he could make mine and smith steel until he could mine gold to make gold bars.
The gold bars in game were 1kg each which means that each bar he makes would be worth around $100,000 USD. He could reasonably make a few hundred of these an hour easily but he did not want to do this to often as it would affect the market.
He made a total of 2000 gold bars before he stopped, he would only take 2 bars out of the game for now as he did not want to affect the market to much and he could sell more of them if needed in the future.
After he had the gold bars made he went ahead and decided to withdraw everything he can from the game but the gold bars, he only chose to remove 2 gold bars. Doing this he noticed it gave him the option to withdraw his strength and agility skills from the game as well. It did give him a warning that this would reset his ingame levels to 1 unless he chose to deposit them back in to the game later.
He decided to withdraw them for now and deposit them back later. He also noticed he could withdraw the gold coins from the game which were worth about $200 USD each since they were 2grams each. He had already amassed nearly 70,000 coins in the game. He withdrew those coins as well.
When he withdrew everything he decided he wouldn't sell the gold bars after all. Instead he would sell some of the coins instead. He would sell 4000 coins across the city for now and use the money to buy a house so he can move out of his apartment. The 4000 coins would net him approximately $800,000 USD.
He did a quick search and found a house he liked for $700,000USD and decided he would pay for it outright and use the other $100,000 to buy furniture and a safe for the house. He managed to get it set so he could move in within a week after the purchase.
For now he would be stuck at the apartment but would make the most of this time by making more money selling other things from the game.
He managed to get back home a little before 3 in the afternoon and had lunch before going back to playing the game, when he logged in he decided to deposit his strength and agility skills back into the game.
When he logged back in he thought of a way to make more money by crafting jewelry in the game and bringing it to the real world to resell. He started by leveling his crafting level to level 20 by making glass items such as beer glasses and making leather items like boots. Afterwards he started making sapphire, diamond, ruby, jade and emerald rings, necklaces and amulets. Eventually making a few thousand of them combined utilizing the gold bars he saved in the game. He then took all of these items out and had 1 of each appraised at a local jeweler who appraised all of them as being the best quality of each.
The jeweler valued the sapphire at $15,000 per carat, diamond as $10,000 per carat, ruby at $12,000 per carat, emerald at $3,500 per carat, and jade at $30,000 each per carat. He then asked the jewler to provide a certificate of appraisal.
He then took the jewelry to different stores all over the city and sold them using the certificates of appraisal as a reference prices he offered to sell at 25% below the appraised value so that the stores could still make a profit and only sold 2 of each type of jewelry to each store.
Following these sales he managed to gather over $2million in funds. He called it a day after visiting these stores and went back home to have dinner around 7 in the evening.
After dinner he logged back in to RuneScape and leveled in magic skills in the game so that he could enchant some jewelry and see if he could bring it back to the real world. In doing so he was pleasantly surprised that he could bring some of them to the real world.
The jade ring when enchanted became the ring of returning which allowed the player to teleport back to a set location, in this case in the real world it teleports the user back home if they use it. The sapphire ring became a ring of recoil which both in the game and real world would cause the person attacking the wearer to be injured in return. The diamond ring and necklace became a ring of life that teleports the wearer to their home if they are seriously injured and the necklace became a phoenix necklace which heals the wearer if they are seriously injured.
He also purchased a ring of wealth from the ingame exchange and was able to withdraw it to the real world as well. This ring was made from a stone unheard of in the real world and it allowed the wearer to teleport to all major financial centers in the real world.
He would wear all of this jewelry himself. After doing all of this he decided it was time for bed as it was already almost midnight.