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Chapter 298: Murphy Teaches You the “Treasure Chest Theory” to Become a Qualified NPC

“According to Reverno’s observations these past few days, the number of Jackals in the entire Transylvania territory has dropped to one-fifth or even less of its original number.

This number has already reached the safety threshold, and it is unlikely that they will regroup in a short period of time. Moreover, winter is not the rutting period of the Jackals, so there is no need to worry that their numbers will increase drastically before the outbreak of the Black Plague.

Therefore, I think this Jackalope hunt can be declared over.”

In the shed that the Adventurer’s Guild had already set up, Murphy spoke to President Natalie:

“But this time is also just the beginning, I think a similar eviction should be carried out every year after this, I think it’s obviously a bit more appropriate to leave this to your Adventurer’s Guild, don’t you think so?”

“I have no problem with that.”

Natalie said with a nod of her head:

“With our past experience, it’s hard to completely exterminate the Jackals in a region, these barbarians are frighteningly adaptable to the environment, using this once-a-year quantity control strategy is a rather good way to practice and maintain a certain level of war readiness.

However, I guess, you definitely didn’t come to me under the sun just to talk about this matter, right?
I’m not going to lie to you, Lord, I’m still a bit busy here, Lady Miriam has requested that we open an organization dedicated to managing the ‘Warrior’s Guild’.

I’m discussing it with old Eugene, intending to ask him to come out, but that guy is so focused on building the sanctuary that he doesn’t intend to take care of it, giving me a big headache.

Most of the witch hunters were raised as hunting warriors from a young age, so it’s fine to let them hunt, but to let them manage it
Gee, I can’t even begin to think of how badly they’ll do things.”

“It’s not easy?”

Murphy, who wore the sunlight so he wrapped himself like a mummy, pulled out his chair and sat in front of President Natalie, he spread his hands and said:
“Right now the only problem that prevents you from building the magnificent Avalon Holy Church is the money, you must have made a fortune by selling Treasure Pearl Inserts with a black heart, but that little money is definitely not enough to build a good church.

Just tell old Eugene that the Warrior Guild he is in charge of managing has to pay a tax to the Administrative Office every month.

I can have Miriam split a portion of that to be managed by the Church of Avalon, and the more prosperous the Warriors’ Guild is, the more you will reap in taxes and administrative expenses every month.

I’m sure that Master Eugene, who is bent on the cause of rebuilding the church, won’t refuse.

Of course, you’re right, I didn’t just come to you for these things, there’s a rather important matter I want to discuss with you!”

Murphy paused and addressed Natalie:
“Regarding the reward items given to my warriors for the event settlement, according to the rules I set before, you have to give out at least more than 300 Hunter Keys this time, 327 to be exact, which means that you have to prepare 327 uniquely shaped Hunting Treasure Chests and the reward items to be put into them.

The extra rewards for the top ten this is not something you need to worry about, Tris and I have already prepared it.

But it seems that your side hasn’t moved yet, there are only 4 hours left before the settlement time, don’t you hurry up and get moving, do you have to let my warriors riot because they can’t get their rewards for you to realize the seriousness of the problem?”

“How can you insult people’s innocence like that!”

Natalie was instantly dissatisfied.

Now that she was the current leader of the once White Oak Warband, she certainly couldn’t be sloppy in such matters concerning the reputation of the witch hunters, and she pointed to a large warehouse covered with wood beyond the shed she was in and said:
“I’ve long since finished collecting the equipment, weapons, and consumables with the style of the Church of Avalon as you requested, and I’m just waiting for them to come over and issue them.”

“So you’re just going to finish this reward so plainly? Hoping that you’ve forgotten everything I’ve instructed you before right?”

Murphy was even more dissatisfied.

He banged the table and said:
“Rituals!

How many times do I have to say the word ritualistic to you managers before you can understand it? It’s not as simple as calling for food in the cafeteria and giving one as it comes!
You have to make my warriors feel that you respect their dedication and give them enough pleasure, why do I ask you to prepare treasure chests and keys?

Isn’t it just a matter of adding a little bit of luck to make them feel good when they receive their rewards?

Natalie, it’s amazing that you don’t understand the primal urge that exists in the minds of all beings for the act of ‘gambling’, it seems that you grew up as a good kid and were not exposed to this aspect.

But you have a little time now, go prepare the chest and the key!
I want you to place the rewards you have prepared into those 327 chests in a completely randomized manner, then break them up completely and send the corresponding keys to my warriors.

Afterwards you can watch from the sidelines to see how they react.

I’m sure that with your intelligence you can understand why I’m asking you to do this, and with three and a half hours to go, will 327 chests in the style of the Church of Avalon be difficult to make?”

“This was easy, but I still think you are being redundant.”

The gray-haired Demon Hunter Hime spat.

She fished out a handful of oak seeds from her psychic energy bag, recited a few silent prayers and threw them into the ground, under the catalyzing of natural psychic energy, these seeds took root and intertwined with the rapid growth of vines and branches, in just ten seconds or so, a box made of intertwined vines and wood was formed in front of Murphy’s eyes.

“Is this okay?”

Natalie, who was “forced to open for business”, asked.

But Murphy frowned at the overly rugged chest in front of him, he shook his head and said:
“No, it’s too plain, completely lacking the luxury and allure that a ‘treasure chest’ should have, do the detailing again, and put the God of Avalon’s natural holy emblem on it as well.”

“My god’s holy emblem is not for you to use for such things! It is simply the same as blasphemy.”

Natalie complained.

However, under Murphy’s ghostly gaze coming from the center of the cloth wrapped around her face, she still had to comply with the lord’s tedious request, using her natural spiritual energy to continue manipulating the vines and trees, and after three “post modifications”, Murphy finally nodded with satisfaction.

What appeared in front of him was a square wooden box.

On top of the green box, there were open flowers, and the whole box was wrapped by five vines from below, and on top of the box there was the unique holy emblem of the God of Avalon, which made the whole box full of a natural and holy feeling.

Only the center of the chest retains a classic keyhole, where a special wooden key of the corresponding shape must be inserted to remove the vines and open the chest.

Murphy took the key handed to him by Natalie, inserted it into the shrunken hole and twisted it, watching the vines in front of him loosen and retract back into the body of the chest as if they were alive, and then opened the empty chest as Murphy opened it.

The entire box quickly “withered”, and in a few seconds returned to the previous oak seeds.

He knew that this thing belonged to the Avalon Church unique “spell casting materials”, only these nature believers can play this “seed magic” to play flowers.

“That’s it! Great treasure chest design, you can actually create a more magnificent or holy treasure chest based on this idea.”

Murphy reminded:
“After all, as the president of the Adventurer’s Guild, you won’t be able to do without this kind of workflow of handing out quests and treasure chests in your career in the future, and since quests of different difficulty deserve different rewards, then as the bearer of the reward items, you also deserve to have treasure chests of different specifications.

Let’s talk about how to put the reward items in these chests.

Let’s start with your thought process.”

Natalie really didn’t expect that there were so many requirements for handing out a reward, in the face of Murphy’s inquiry, she was a bit hesitant then said:
“My thought, it’s definitely an even distribution, even if it’s a completely randomized placement it’s important to try to ensure that the items in each chest are of similar value. That might make your warriors happy?”

“Well, the overall idea can’t be said to be wrong, it’s just a bit too mediocre, not too many surprises to speak of, and that would lose the essence of the Blind Box ah.”

Murphy leaned back in his chair and tapped the table to a helpless Natalie:

“Count on me to guide you this time, next time you’ll have to host this kind of job yourself.

Listen to me, divide seventy percent of the treasure box to put in equipment weapons or consumables of similar value in it, these are given out as ‘guaranteed’ rewards.

Then 20% of the next 30% is chosen to reduce the value of the rewards in it to about half the average value, this is used to give my warriors something to spout about ‘bad luck’ and have fun with.

Like the rude mercenaries who always like to sneer at the unlucky ones in the tavern.

My warriors are also beings who have the same bad fun, and it is up to us as rewarders to provide them with that joy.”

“Well, that makes some sense.”

Natalie nodded, taking out her own notebook in passing to make a note, then asked again:
“What about the last ten percent?

If there’s going to be sarcasm offered about unlucky people, then there must be a corresponding appreciation and envy of good fortune, so I’m guessing that the last ten percent of the treasure chest is going to be placed in high-value items?”

“Right! That’s the idea.”

Murphy snapped his fingers and said:
“It could be an excellent and refined weapon, or an awesome skill handbook, or a highly valued consumable, or even a drawing of a manufactured object passed down within you.

But if I were you, I would choose the fewest of these chests to put quest-triggering items into them such as the information on the legendary 150 imitation holy blades.

A mega quest chain system is enough for you to use this as the highest level of kudos to the warriors of the Church of Avalon.

This scale is adjustable.

You can do whatever you feel like, but make sure that my warriors feel that luck level of fun and that they are getting their money’s worth.

That’s the basic requirement.
You have to understand, Natalie, that besides the sense of accomplishment and reward that sustains them as they travel south in Transylvania, fun is a very important part of it.

When they lose that joy of exploration, we must be prepared to say goodbye.

I need you to be on top of this matter because the Adventurer’s Guild will have to deal with my warriors for a long time in the future, and I don’t even need you to take on more duties, I just need you to train them to be excellent adventurers, that’s all.

Can you do that?”

“It’s too difficult, sounds like a lot of pressure and responsibility.”

The gray-haired demon hunter girl rubbed her scarred cheek as she sighed:
“It’s not what I imagined my life would be like rebuilding the Church of Avalon and the White Oak Warband, but if you confirm that this will work, then I will do it.

However, I do have the clues to the Sacred Blade you speak of, however, are you sure your warriors are ready for it? Those clues can be found in the hinterlands of the Goldfinch Kingdom.”

“They may not be ready right now, but it doesn’t matter, you need to give them something to look forward to, a goal.”

Murphy shrugged and said:

“Is it really the goal of the Holy Blade being recovered that we care about? No, no, no, you have to switch your mindset, the efforts they made to retrieve the Sacred Blade, the time they consumed and the energy they put into the process, these are the things that are truly valuable to us.

So what if all 150 imitation holy blades are recovered?
It would only mean that the Church of Avalon had 150 more high-level fighters, but every experience my warriors had in recovering the Sacred Blades was a piece of enlightening lore about the God of Avalon and His Saints.

That means you’ll have 150 true stories that can be told to the faithful, and you won’t even need to add more details about the greatness of the gods to them.

You only need to tell them as they are, and can you imagine the impact that so many stories would have among the believers on the continent?

Natalie, your father wanted you to be an alpha and not a warrior, and I’m glad to see that you’re working hard to learn how to be a good alpha.

But you still have the warrior-like reality doesn’t know how to analyze things on a deeper level.”

Murphy shook his head at a mortified Natalie:

“You have a treasure that is incomparably rich in the eyes of other religious people and you have to make good use of them, the pursuit of the Holy Blade can be classified as the ‘main quest’ of the Adventurer’s Guild and the Church of Avalon, you may not understand it now but that’s okay, you’ll soon understand what I mean.

Now prepare two treasure chests for me!

I’m going to put my rewards in them as a lord and create a big surprise for my warriors tonight and a topic of discussion that will last through the night.”

Natalie, unsure, molded two identical treasure chests out of oak seeds, then saw Murphy remove a sacred oak war hammer and a sacred oak shield from his psychic bag.

The religious meaning of these two items was very strong, and they were covered with hand-painted words of the gods by the saints, and their quality was very outstanding reaching the Fine Work – Commander Grade, which was basically considered to have touched the boundary of the “Divine Weapons”.

But Natalie knew this weapon.

This is her father in the blood vulture corridor in the battle used weapons, did not expect to be in the hands of Murphy collection.

“I’ll have to ask your opinion before I use them entirely as the two best rewards in all of tonight’s hunting chests again.”

Murphy looked at Natalie and said:
“This was your father’s weapon, and if you intend to take it back, then I will give it to you.”

“That won’t be necessary.”

Natalie opened the treasure chest with her own hands and watched as Murphy placed the one-handed hammer and shield into each of them, and let the chest close again, as she whispered:
“That’s ‘Undefeated’ and ‘Unbreakable’, handmade by my mother for my father when she became a Saint, after spending two years on the island of Glamour to make his own protection, it was his most cherished possession.

But that also held my father’s feelings for the old religion, and since the Church of Avalon has been reborn in Transylvania through the ups and downs of the world, it may be time for them to be sent by fate to their next owner.

May my God bless them.

However, Murphy, why did you separate them? This is clearly a pair of weapons that can only be at their most powerful when held by the same Nature Walker.”

Faced with this question, the vampire lord shrugged and said:

“I could certainly put them together to reward the absolutely lucky one, but I don’t want to do that! Having them drawn and held by two people is two pleasures. It’s obviously more in line with the need to maximize profit, and I’m looking forward to the methods the owners of these two items will use to set each other.

Don’t you think that it must be fun?”

(End of chapter)