Chapter 35 35 The game is just a game, making it so hardcore is really necessary

Chapter 35 35.The game is just a game, is being so hardcore really necessary?
Brother Woo Meow was very excited when he learned that he had been rewarded with a physical prize in the game for making a review of the game helmet, and he wanted to know what exactly the officials could reward him with?
A cool ride?
Or an out-of-print collection, or the same fashion as the closed beta reward?

It’s like a shiny treasure chest or a box of chocolates with different flavors placed in front of one’s eyes, but don’t think you’ll know what’s inside unless you actually open it.

It’s that feeling of anticipation that tickles the mind the most.

This imagery lasted until Murphy fished out a sheathed oak hunting sword from his psychic pocket and handed it to him.

“Shit! What an equipment reward! Boring.”

Brother Woo Meow deflated all of a sudden.

It’s not that the special equipment is bad, mainly because he is also a game veteran, and now everyone is a novice stage which has just opened the game interface and not even stepped on the official path of fighting monsters and upgrading it.

The equipment given by the NPCs right now is even better, and when the level goes up, it has to be lost.

In this case, even if you give a village’s best Excalibur, it would be better to give him a permanent fashion dress.

But the disappointment was just that one moment, the NPC had given it, could he still not return the equipment?
“You look a little disappointed?”

Murphy noticed the change in Brother Woo Meow’s expression, and he shook his head, assumed a mysterious stance, and lowered his voice to say to his little player:

“You’d better take a closer look at this sword.”

“Huh?”

Brother Meowth blinked.

At the NPC’s prompting he began to survey the hunting sword in his hand that used oak as a crossguard, then he felt a familiarity, and after a few seconds he exclaimed:

“Isn’t this the weapon of that gray-haired Demon Huntress from before? I remember it can ignite flames?”

“Yes, this is a replica of the Blessed Sacred Blade from the Old Religion, a weapon of faith, only believers of Avalon can use it and activate its special abilities.”

Murphy said, following the advice:

“Perhaps some secrets belonging to the fabled gods can be unearthed from this sword, however as you can see, I am a vampire, born of sinful descent, and will not have the eyes of any gods upon us.

Consequently, I can only choose from my warriors those like you who are both brave and wise with a desire to explore, to seek its mysteries instead.”

Murphy squeezed the Core Arithmetic Pearl in his hand.

As soon as his words fell, the Arithmetic Treasure Pearl that Brother Woo Meow wore around his neck let out a soft sound, causing him to lower his head to activate the player interface, and he saw a prompt:
[Special-Hidden Quest has been triggered!

Mission Name: Shadow of the Old Religion

Quest Description: Vampire Revernor Murphy Le Sombra from Cadman City seized a replica of a holy artifact from the Old Religion during a battle, and this mysterious darkness being with a great mission is very interested in the gods of legend.

He wants you to start with this rare replica of a holy blade and help him investigate the secret stories about the Old Religion of Nature and the god Avalon.

Quest Reward: Unknown

Quest Time Limit: Unlimited.

Yes/No to record this quest?

“Hey, it still has to be the flavor! I like it.”

Brother Woo Meow grinned when he saw the familiar quest triggers and descriptions, before when there was no quest panel he always had to listen to the NPC instructions to act, real was real enough but it always felt like there was less of a feeling of playing the game.

Now that this quest function was online, the familiar feeling returned all of a sudden.

He immediately chose to accept the quest and bent down and bowed to Murphy with the already quite skillful Blood Vulture salute, saying:
“As you wish, my lord, your will is the direction in which I will move forward, I will definitely do my best to unearth this holy blade and that damned deity for you”

“Shhh!”

The gutsy little player’s mouthlessness startled Murphy.

He hastily reached out and pressed his hand against Brother Woo Meow’s forehead, saying:
“Don’t be so rude, my warrior, gods exist in this world, and your disrespect could bring you bad luck! Avalon’s followers are spread all over the continent, and they will not let an insulter of the gods get away with this.”

“Uh, thank you for the reminder, my lord.”

Brother Woo Meow immediately replied back, but in his heart he was actually unimpressed.

Could a god in the game be any more powerful and still send down a bolt of lightning to strike his real-world self to death?
Cursing is cursing, what could that whatever Avalon do to himself?

Born under the red flag, he has been a firm atheist since he was a child, right?
Brother Woo Meow carried the rewarded Holy Blade in his hand, and as he turned to leave, he heard Murphy remind again:

“The arithmetic pearl in your hands has a translation function, by relying on it you’ll be able to talk to my assistants and servants, in your spare time you might as well go and greet them and see if there’s anything they’re bothered about that you need to help with.

It will take two to three days to return to Cadman City on this trip, so perhaps you could learn a bit of swordsmanship from my loyal Maxim?”

“That’s a hint for action.”

Brother Woo Meow’s heart fluttered.

It seemed like the development team was adding the newbie guide in here, so he decided to follow the NPC’s prompts to brush up on the other NPCs, and see if he could activate a few more quests in the meantime?
And while Brother Woo Meow was taking his chances with the caravan and brushing up on his quests, the other small players were gathering to discuss the attributes and character specialties they had just seen from the player interface.

“I just did the math, although our initial attributes are different for all six items, they all total to 30!”

Old Qu, one of the four great warriors under Brother Woo Meow, the Electronic Phantom, gave himself a piece of grass in his mouth and said to the others:
“There’s also a special note at the bottom of this attribute card, saying that these attributes are given based on the game helmet’s scan of our original physical qualities, and that there’s no such thing as a randomized car card.

As far as I can observe, the respective initial character specialties are also listed based on reality as well, my specialty is ‘Quick Shot’, which reduces the hit penalty for long range attacks and increases the fill speed.

This is clearly a shooter talent.

What about you guys?”

“Che Che’s specialty is a particularly long body somewhere!”

Che Che, one of the six elder brothers in the dormitory, the invincible Tyrannosaurus Rex, immediately picked up the conversation and saw fit to make a yellowish remark, which was unanimously laughed at by the other elder brothers.

Just now when he was being Aruba, everyone didn’t see where he was particularly long.

“Ch, no fun, well, Che Che’s character specialty is ‘optimism’, the duration of various negative statuses will be lowered ow, at first glance, it’s a divine skill!

So, Che Che I’m really the Chosen Son with balanced development of morality, intelligence, physicality, and aesthetics, right?”

The college student who liked to be quirky and always liked to refer to himself in the third person gave a thumbs up and waved it with a smug look on his face, and the others then shared their own character specialties and said that the list of specialties was quite accurate.

For example, the name of the hobby of the “more guided three or five buckets” has a [lasting endurance] specialty, and then as a noble house leader of the leading pigeon has a [mystic] specialty.

The strangest of all is “Meow Meow Shark”, one of the six brothers in the dormitory. His specialty is [Pet Expert], which can raise the favorability of all kinds of animals towards him, but only small and medium-sized animals will take effect.

This almost always corresponded to certain habits or preferences of these small players, and since they were all positive specialties, no one complained that this thing was bad, until the sports student Niu Niu, who hadn’t been involved in the discussion, was the last to speak, but shocked the others.

“Shit! Ox how do you have two character specialties?”

Badger’s cry of surprise immediately attracted the attention of the others, and Ox Bull was also a bit confused as he scratched his head while saying:

“I can understand this [Sports Master], after all, it’s normal to exercise all day long and be better at sports than you fat geeks, but I don’t know how the second specialty [Boxing Master] came about. Maybe because I’m good at boxing?”

“Which kind of boxing?”

Che Che bitchily came up and asked:
“The kind of XXN Maze boxing you do online?”

“Go go go, it’s proper boxing, boxing, understand?”

Bull pushed away the car car, a serious pinch fist explained:
“I professionally practiced sparring, mainly family origin, junior high school began to practice, high school on behalf of the school competition, in order to brush the award also practiced some messy routines, taijiquan ah, maga art ah have dabbled in.

Maybe it’s because of this reason for this specialty?”

“Blanch! Brother Scattergood, no wonder he fights so fiercely!”

The others were stunned for a moment, and finally felt relieved about the super high force value Niu Niu showed in the game, people are professionals after all.

“Yo, brothers, what are you chatting about? So happy?”

This chatting work, the meow brother also finally wandered back, a see him very dejected wear in the waist of the oak hunting sword, other players know this dog thing must and NPC secretly PY some.

“Did the official directly give you a reward weapon?”

Sanwu Dou somewhat enviously looked at the weapon in Brother Woo Meow’s arms, the ancient and atmospheric oak crossguard knew at a glance that it was not a mortal object, he spat:
“Aren’t you afraid of affecting the balance?”

“Impact my ass, this is a quest item! Just take a look with your item appraisal function and you’ll know.”

Brother Woo Meow sat his ass down next to him and sighed:
“The quality is high, but without a belief system to support it simply can’t exert its true power, this is a bonus hidden quest given to me by our NPC to investigate the old religion and the Avalon beliefs, and even though this sword looks handsome, it’s not as good to use as the blank slate thing you guys are holding.

I just took it to that white-haired NPC Maxim to learn swordsmanship, only to be reminded by him that novices like me should not use such weapons that require special skills, lest I cut my own fingers.

Blanch!
It’s enough to play a game and still be despised by an NPC, but I’ve asked around!”

He said to the other players:
“Maxim, the white-haired NPC in the caravan, is in charge of teaching Blood Vulture Swordsmanship, and you can spend money at Miriam, the red-haired NPC, to buy some food and daily necessities like tents and torches and needles and thread and stuff.

I went to that merchant woman’s store, and she also sells guns, the ones we scavenged back earlier to resell to us, it’s really shady!
But she said herself that she maintains those guns, so it’s not like she’s ripping us off.

The second wagon held two coffins.

They should be the Missy and her servants that we rescued, they don’t refresh during the day, and according to the vampire’s rules of life they probably won’t be refreshed until the night.

I reckon Missy might teach us some basic psychic skills, that is, magic la.

This game doesn’t have such a strict division of vocational skills, I see that our NPC is a swordsman but can also throw darkness spells, so I guess the official transfer or something might have to be after level 10.”

“Bull! Worthy of being an electronic goblin ooh meow brother, turn a circle of work to these information are organized for us, this does not go to the forums to water a post and then get some rewards and so on.”

Happy Stick said with a smile, not waiting for Brother Woo Meow to reply, there was a bell sound, the players turned around and saw the red-haired NPC Miriam standing on the roof of the carriage vigorously shaking the hand bell, signaling that they were about to depart.

“Quick, keep up.”

Brother Woo Meow patted his butt and got up, saying:

“I just heard the NPC say that it’ll take three days for us to go back to Cadman City, and he said he’ll get us two carts specifically for us to rest in the next village.

Maxim’s time to teach Blood Vulture Swordsmanship is at dinner time, so let’s just come up here at the right time.

Now we only have 6 hours of free game time a day, we need to allocate it properly, I suggest that we split into four groups, always keep players online in the caravan, if you brush the random quests to shout in the group.

I reckon we’ll be able to explore freely when we get back to Cadman City in three days.”

“Ch, it’s not really good for this game to be too real.”

Next to him, Sanwu Dou couldn’t help but spit out:

“In other games this traveling process can be skipped by ESC, here we still have to follow NPCs for three days.”

“That’s not what I’m worried about.”

The Happy Stick who climbed onto the carriage with nimble movements looked around at the real and incomparable scenery, he sighed and said:

“This even the traveling process is simulated so real for you, when you wait to learn skills I guess you will have to suffer, learning a set of sword skills is not as simple as you think.”

Niu Niu nodded vigorously from the side, as a sports student he understands this too well.

“Isn’t it said that the sword art sword moves and whatnot are all look-alikes?”

Spicy Goo Goo Chicken probed and said, Happy Stick Old Man instantly bristled and said:
“You really have seen the group of people playing Bing Strike can’t say this stupid thing, in the future whoever gives you this kind of talk will be greeted with a big windmill swordsmanship to his face vigorously! Listen to my brother a word of advice, don’t waste your breath on the Internet and sand sculptures, you tell the truth and reason, they a ‘I think’ can give you all the negatives.”

“Right, how can this be a lie in ancient and modern times?”

Niu Niu also patted Cuckoo Chicken’s shoulder and said:

“You’ve also seen how our NPCs fight with swords, that’s not something you just swing round and slash, to be honest I’m really kind of interested in these game contents.

I’d like to see how realistic this game can be!
Honestly, I don’t believe that the development team can really hire a bunch of real live sword masters to do action simulations.”

The eager gym student rubbed his fists with a face of anticipation.

A few hours later, by the camp at dinner time, looking at his Swift Sword that had been knocked down for the seventh time as well as Maxim in front of him who had a look of contempt on his face, Niu Niu, who felt that his wrists had lost their senses, cried for a moment without tears.

Blanch!
These NPCs are playing for real ah!

The sword moves he had learned were simply not enough to see in front of his eyes, a game only, it’s not necessary to make it so hardcore, big brother.

Ps:

Thank you “frost teeth claws” brother’s alliance reward, plus more counted into the shelves burst more ah! Thank you, brother.

(End of chapter)