Chapter 157 156 Disobedience and want of face is the original of the skill advancement
Chapter 157 156.Disobedience and wanting face is the driving force for skill progress ah
The first Little Reed Name to complete the Black Iron Trial feat finally logged back in after four hours of being offline, it was already broad daylight, breakfast had been eaten, and the little players hadn’t stayed in Batasin City much longer.
They had already caught up with the wagons, and under Maxim’s leadership, escorted the important prisoners and a group of downtrodden “blood vulture loyalists” back to Scarlet City as fast as possible.
When Reed opened his eyes, he saw his three companions dozing in the rocking carriage.
This is how the players looked after they got off the line. Although Maxim did not give any special treatment to the female players, the other players took the initiative to let the four of them have a carriage.
“Ah..! It’s different ah!”
Vikrama Sword Saint stretched her body in the carriage, after last night’s hook-up with Lord Murphy, it showed that the Black Iron Trial was completed, and she was then forced to go offline, with her gaming helmet prompting her to “reconfigure the tester’s physical projections”, which presumably meant updating her character’s information?
She looked down at the character interface displayed on the Computing Pearl, and it was indeed very different from before:
[Tester ID: Reed Name Female Sword Saint
Character Profession: Level 10 Gunner/None/None
Character Status: Professional→Black Iron Body
Character Attributes:
Strength: 4→6
Dexterity: 8→12
Endurance: 6→7
Thinking: 3→5
Perception: 6→8
Charisma: 3→4
Remaining Free Attribute Points: 6, can be assigned manually.
Character’s new specialties acquired!
Pain Suppression: take all melee damage reduced.
Calm Hunter: upon entering a combat state, the mind is subject to less external interference, and the duration of mental-type negative statuses is reduced.
Melee Ranger: Hit penalties are weakened when using hand cannon type firearms in close combat.
A brief description of the Black Iron Body power stage:
Congratulations, beta testers!
You have finally stepped out of the realm of mortals into the realm of the transcendent, and your potential has been unlocked and will be tapped and unleashed in subsequent adventures and battles.
However, you must be aware that the Black Iron Body is a rather special power stage.
During this stage you must carefully choose and confirm the path of power you will take in the future, and specialize according to the characteristics of your profession and skills in order to develop a fighting style that best suits you.
The advice given by the development team to Black Iron Body testers is:
At this stage, you can slow down the speed of your upgrades and focus more on honing your combat skills. Please think about what kind of person you want to be in this foreign world, and in what way you should leave your own legend.
Of course, these are just suggestions!
In this completely free world, you are free to spend your second life as you see fit! Congratulations, your future is no longer constrained.]
“Wow, making it so formal! What if this makes people like you guys more and more? Why don’t we beg dad to spend some money to buy your company?”
Little Vikrama looked at her brand new character attributes and the message from the development team in the carriage and immediately smiled with joy, the entire 12 points of attribute enhancement plus 6 free attributes that could be assigned made her feel like she could kill a cow with one punch now!
This is not an illusion.
But before Little Reed Name could get over the upgrade and the [Server Number One! ‘s glorious achievement, she was able to shake off the joy and great sense of accomplishment, before she saw the new quest that quietly existed in her quest bar again.
Two new quests from Lord Murphy himself!
[Hidden Quest-‘Murphy’s Warrior’ has been triggered!
Quest Description: Murphy is a rather picky vampire, and underneath the appearance of being kind to others exists a soul that seeks perfection.
He loves and trusts his otherworldly warriors, yet he has been secretly observing them, allowing himself to select only the most promising and unique of the otherworldly spirits to become his warriors.
And now!
You!
Strong soul from the Otherworld, you should feel honored, for Murphy has initially recognized you and granted you the title of ‘Reserve Warrior’, but to truly become Murphy’s warrior, you still have a long way to go.
Mission Goal: Enhance your image and importance in Murphy’s eyes as much as possible, and wait for the next quest to be triggered.
Reward: Special title “Murphy’s Warrior”.
Hints!
There are only twelve such titles in the Real World, and you hold one of them].
“Oye!”
Vikina jumped up and down in the carriage in joy, waving her hands in a one-man frenzy as she shouted:
“Lord Murphy! I declare you ah! Finally, someone has discovered my powerful talent and can use it wisely, even though it was an NPC who discovered my uniqueness, but that’s okay. I knew this game was my destiny.
Ah, mom and dad, I’ve found the true destiny game worthy of my life.”
“What’s the upside-down hair?”
Just as she was yelling and screaming to her heart’s content and performing her behavioral art, Lan Hua Hua, who was sitting in the carriage and napping, suddenly opened her eyes, and she reached out and pressed down on little Vikrama’s head, reaching out to pinch her hard on her chubby face, and scolded loudly again:
“You’re not allowed to do that kind of thing last night! Do you hear me? See you suddenly dropped off the line scared me to death, causing me to have to call your home from the South Pole, asking your parents are you well, do you know how expensive satellite phone calls over there?
You know how expensive a satellite phone call is? It’s charged by the second, you little bastard. I’m not a real rich guy like you.
But I heard your mom say you cried all night last night and couldn’t be coaxed, what happened?
Did you get scared?”
“Hey, hey, no.”
Little Vikrama was attached to Orchid Flower.
After all, it was always great to have a good, world-traveling friend visit her once in a while in her terrible life, and tell her more about the outside world and the great adventures that belonged to other people.
She would allow Orchid to hug her petite body and whisper to her best friend again:
“It’s just that you can think of a light suddenly flashing one day in your bleak life, a chance to live recklessly when you’ve already been judged to have to live the rest of your life on intubation and a ventilator
I’m not the one who’s intimidated.
I was overjoyed.
Even though Mom and Dad can’t understand what I’m doing, they don’t have to worry about me at all.”
“How dare you!”
Orchid chided with a glare in her eyes:
“Who left a suicide note two years ago? You almost scared everyone that time.”
“Aiya, I didn’t know better at that time, that’s what disabled girls who read too much youthful sentimental literature do.”
Little Vikrama playfully rubbed herself against Orchid’s chest before showing off her new panel and hidden quests, and of course the second one given by Murphy.
But this one wasn’t a hidden quest, but more of a “bonus quest”.
[Quest – ‘A Citation for Insane Craftsmanship’ has been triggered!
Quest Description: After witnessing your masterful performance at the Black Iron Trial, Lord Murphy was very impressed, but he thought that it would be difficult for a gunman to truly step into a higher realm without a unique firearm of his own, so he decided to give you a clue to find a hunting artifact that is truly your own.
I have heard that the Scarlet Consul, Baroness Miriam, has recently reaped an extraordinary ‘gift’, perhaps you could pay a visit?
Quest Goal: Visit Baroness Morland and be allowed to view her ‘Hammer Guard’.
Quest Reward: Special Weapon Crafting Chart Acquisition.]
“Special Weapons ugh, sounds dodgy! Didn’t the previous Black Iron Trial quest say that there would be an extra reward if you completed the elite challenge? I think this must be it! This is the bonus mission that the development team gave to all the testers who passed the trial by soloing the elites!
After all, a warrior without a good weapon doesn’t deserve the name of warrior!”
Little Vikrama couldn’t share this quest, but that didn’t stop her and Orchid from discussing the details of the quest, and the Grand Traveler lived up to her expectations, quickly pointing out the “dark pit” that existed in this quest.
“Since it’s a gift that Duchess Miriam received from a friend, this is certainly not something that just anyone can be allowed to view.”
Orchid shook her head to pour cool water on the excited little Vikramana and said:
“This means that if you want to complete this quest, you’ll have to brush Duchess Miriam’s personal reputation to above Friendly, and although the goodwill system has never been officially confirmed, players are convinced that this mechanic exists in this game.
Also, this personal experience of yours seems to have solved a long-standing mystery on the forums. That is, the favorability of other NPCs can be brushed up by special means, but only Lord Murphy’s favorability system has been confusing.
Now it seemed that the mainline NPC was really different! If you wanted to gain his favor, you had to show your uniqueness and bravery in front of him, and this damn favorability system actually had a quota limit.
There are only twelve warrior spots. Tsk, what a sufficiently picky and handsome man!”
The Grand Traveler narrowed her eyes, obviously having a little other little thought in her mind, and after a few seconds, she whispered to Little Vikrama:
“This information is to be kept secret, you know? Lord Murphy is obviously a sensitive character who doesn’t like to be talked about, and you casually revealing his criteria for selecting warriors will definitely cause your favorability with him to decrease.”
“Huh? There’s still this argument?”
Little Vikrama said with wide eyes:
“What about me saying it on the forum?”
“Not even then!”
Orchid whispered, shaking her head:
“You know about those guys from Woo Meow Brother, right? Their luck in the game has gotten so bad that it’s unimaginable, but anything that has to do with luck related quests and rewards, something will definitely happen to them.
I originally thought it was their black hands too.
But a few days ago when I was bored and looking through previous posts on the forums, I suddenly realized that the gossip about Lord Murphy and Lady Trish was initially spread by them.
Emmm, honestly, judging by the intelligence of the NPCs in this game, I don’t think it’s a coincidence.
You mustn’t forget that Murphy has some GM privileges as a mainline NPC, and veteran players say they’ve witnessed the scene where Lord Murphy kicked Brother Woo Meow offline.
So if I must say.
I have a feeling that Lord Murphy, a unique NPC, may have been ‘played in real time’ by the development team at some point in time to fine-tune the plot in a way that doesn’t affect the player’s gameplay experience, and that Woow Meow Brother’s bad luck lies in the fact that the development team was ‘thinking’ about them for talking behind their backs. The game has been a great success.
But I have no proof.”
“Ow, okay.”
Little Reed Name nodded, and she said with some sadness:
“But I haven’t swiped Baroness Miriam’s favor since I entered the game until now… how long will I have to swipe it from the beginning . Oops! Wait a minute! I suddenly have an idea.”
She tilted her head and said to Orchid:
“What if it’s a visit to the Duchess by a player who already has a favor, and then I go along as an attendant or a close friend? A request for an ornamental gift would be made by him”
“Theoretically feasible!”
Orchid nodded and said:
“But you won’t necessarily be able to find a player willing to accompany you on your adventures, and something like taking the initiative to make a request to an NPC will definitely drop favorability, let alone the favorability of an important NPC like Consul Miriam.”
“And what if it’s another NPC?”
Little Vikramana waved her hand and said:
“If it’s an NPC that takes me in, there won’t be this problem, right?”
“Huh?”
Orchid was surprised as she looked at the wise-cracking Little Vikramana, and she said suspiciously:
“So, what’s your plan?”
“To find the handsome and gentle Murphy-sama, of course!”
The dwarf chuckled:
“He basically doesn’t do anything serious besides parading his territory every day, he has a lot of time to squander, as his reserve warrior, this small request shouldn’t be enough for him to remove me, right? You also said that his favorability algorithm is different from all other NPCs.
I’ve already qualified and deserve preferential treatment, right?”
“Well, it does work!”
Orchid nodded, glanced at the smug little Vikramana, and said:
“You’re quite the little wit.”
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The news of Little Reed Name passing the Black Iron Trial was like a thunderbolt last night, and after a few hours of fermentation had spread like crazy in the forums, blowing up almost all of the minor players.
There were constantly people on the forums asking how it was done, and Lumina who was not tired of it simply opened a special thread to talk about the process.
At this time, far away in the Scarlet Castle sewers are lining up troops and a group of ghouls to fight a “group battle” of the Happy Stick yawn, he opened the forums in the game, looking at the text description in the post.
He was obviously thinking about what to do about his own trial.
“Do you have to bring in realistic thinking in a 100% real game?”
Stick squinted his eyes as he felt as if he had felt a little bit of a doorway.
As a result, because he was thinking too deeply, causing him to forget to command the three munchkins who had rushed too fast to back off in time, there was a gap in the front line, and the three ghouls rushed in for a round of chaotic clawing, almost causing severe attrition to the team.
“Fuck! What are you guys afraid of? Take your spears and go on top! Top them off! Musketeers prepare to fire!”
Stick jumped up with a burst of yelling, sending the disorganized line flying back to life.
But his mind was actually long gone from the battlefield at hand, Happy Stick thought to himself as he pulled a pair of sewer maps he had drawn himself from his side, rubbed his chin in thought for several minutes, and said to the fellows beside him:
“Brush for another 30 minutes today will be over, brother a few with me to a place to do traps!”
“Huh? Brother Stick, what’s the point of making traps?”
Tiger Leopard Rider-Doo asked curiously, Happy Stick narrowed his eyes and said:
“Seducing an Elite Ghoul over here, I’m going to pass the Black Iron Trial tonight! I’m also going to develop a set of playing style that everyone can use. We’re manly men, we can’t be looked down upon by others’ little girls, can we?”
At the same time, in the fringe area of the sewers in the outer city, the Soldier Strike Fierce Men who were accompanying Cat Warrior to practice were also discussing what happened last night.
Little Reed Name’s that All-Service Achievement ruffled the fierce men’s hot blood, and they couldn’t wait to catch a ghoul right now to practice.
“One person singled out the Black Iron Elite and this kind of thing was actually really done by a sister, alas, shame on me!”
Lin Bei dog shaving slapped his face and lengthened his voice to laugh at himself, making the other three brothers silent and speechless as well, but Cat, who was sitting next to him and resting, grinned, picked up his water bladder and drank a mouthful of it, and then got up with his greatsword and said:
“What’s the point of always comparing with others? You have to compare with yourself! This game’s blocking and dodging is so real, you’ve practiced your skills up, not to mention soloing elites, and it’s no problem to pass without any injuries.”
“Ah? Cat, I believe you can beat the elites, but no injuries. Tsk, this is too exaggerated.”
“What? Don’t believe me? Hey, give me a few more days to feel my way around this game, then I’ll open your eyes, but it really doesn’t work with the Blood Wyvern Sword Technique, this thing has more than enough attack and less than enough dexterity, it’s a hard injury of the sword technique itself.
I have to find a way to learn a set of skills that combine both offense and defense, you guys first tell me how to brush up on goodwill in this game?
When I sparred with Sir Maxim before, I saw him use a set of sword arts that can be dodged without injury, I’m going to learn it, and then I should be able to single-handedly defeat the elites.”
“Ah-choo!”
Maxim, who was escorting the caravan from Batasin City at this moment, suddenly sneezed without warning, causing one of the scions next to him to look at him with odd eyes.
Said:
“My lord, what’s wrong? Injured?”
“No.”
Maxim, who was fully armed, rode on his warhorse and waved his hand and said:
“It’s just a strange feeling, as if I’m being targeted by something very difficult.”
(End of chapter)