372.Chapter 370 369 Lord Murphy actually gave Hair Cyber a daughter-in-law?

Chapter 370 369.Lord Murphy actually giving out Cyber daughters-in-law?

“Knights of the Riptide! It is with a saddened heart that I announce to you a bleak matter, just an hour ago, the 24th Ranger Squad that we sent out to search for stragglers was attacked by Jackal Bandits on their way back to camp.

The five-man squad led by Paladin Julio put up a resolute and heroic resistance in order to protect the civilians, and in the end, three of them were killed in battle as well as successfully repelling the bandits, and even though the victory came very hard and was full of honor, it was definitely a terrible loss.”

In a large campsite in Sikor, Honorary Knight Tepal stood on a crate, and with a saddened look on his face, declared the terrible news to the twenty well-trained RP party “paladins” in front of him.

Although one of these guys was neither a holy nor a knight, nor well-trained, the fact that they stood here in uniformly dyed recruit chain mail was still quite intimidating.

At the same time when Tepal informed the knights of this “terrible” news, the surrounding stragglers that they had searched also showed some colors of sadness.

They didn’t know that it only took three days for the players to be resurrected after a single death, they were simply paying tribute to the deaths of the brave men who had protected them on their way to the Scarlet Fortress.

But then, Tepal’s voice rose in vain as he shouted in an agitated and resonant tone:
“However, we cannot ignore the fact that the only two remaining members of the heroic 24th Patrol Hunter Squad still accomplished their mission! They safely escorted seventeen homeless stragglers to our camp, giving the innocents the possibility to start a new life.

This is a reflection of the creed of the Knights of the Riptide, and it is the will of the Holy Light that inspires our warriors to never back down from their duty, even in the face of adversity!

Let us congratulate our knights with a round of applause!”

“Pah-pah-pah.”

Sparse applause rang out, two young players who had survived the encounter walked to the front of the crowd with solemn faces, raising their fists to the others and clapping them on their breastplates, while the NPCs around them were even more full of respect as they expressed their respect to the two young knights.

The scene looked decent, yet many in the crowd were whispering.

“I say, if Old Hu and his four brothers would have taken some time to raise their basic sword skills to proficiency, they wouldn’t have been beaten to attrition with only two left when they encountered the same number of Jackals. It’s not like they’re elite jackals, they’re just normal bandits, and they’re also hungry before jumping out to grab something.

After experiencing a large-scale bandit eradication, the local Jackals won’t actively jump out to look for trouble unless they’re starving to death.”

The Riptide Knight in the crowd, “Arcane Master Marlene”, whispered to his companion, “Ranger Captain Patton”, who was applauding perfunctorily beside him:

“It’s too embarrassing just to talk about it, and it’s fortunate that the NPCs didn’t see the scene.”

“What can be done? Old Hu is determined to play the administrative profession, let him practice swordsmanship and said he had back pain, back pain ah, this is not in reality.”

Ranger Captain Patton similarly scoffed at today’s events as he grumbled:

“Also, I obviously agree that this damn game’s technical power is the best in the world, but could the development team please stop setting the NPC’s personalities to be so realistic? I just ran to the river to use the restroom and came across some women freshening up there.

They screamed before I could even react to the fact that I hadn’t put my pants up, making me feel like I’m not a human being inside or out.

Fuck, the women in the NPCs are all looking at me strangely now.

But I really didn’t mean to.”

“What are you two yakking about there? This is a tribute to a comrade in arms, be serious will you!”

Tepal in front of him glared with his eyes and chided, Marlene and Patton who were caught with their bags could only honestly admit their loss, after Tepal’s eyes turned away, Marlene continued to complain to:

“Sacrifice my ass, won’t they be alive in three days? It’s not that I’m saying, this old Tai’s obsessive-compulsive disorder is getting more and more insurmountable, I feel like he’ll be almost as good as Uncle Fudin if he keeps playing around. No, he’s not even as good as Uncle Ferdin.

At least Uncle Fording has a wife who’s willing to put up with his quirks.”

Patton shrugged and didn’t say anything more.

A few minutes later, the RP party’s tribute was over, and the party escorted the nearly 400 stragglers from the search toward the village of Moorland, with four young hillbilly guides at their side.

This search party was able to find so many stragglers in three days thanks to the guidance of the Ancestor Woodland’s mountain guides, and although hiring them cost ten gold coins each, having them and not having them were two completely different quest experiences!
After this method was disclosed on the forums by “Punching the Milky Way”, more than thirty guides were hired in the Ancestral Woodland in the past few days alone.

As individuals blessed by the spirit of the mountains and forests, the mountain people were very sensitive to the happenings on the land of Xike Collar.

Where the stragglers were hiding in this grassland and mountainous terrain was no secret to them at all, and although the mountain folk were happy to help out for free, the various elders were specifically instructed to make sure to collect money for their work before the young Earl of Sheren left!

She said that Lord Murphy’s warriors advocate fair trade, do not give money, they will be uneasy, and the fact that when the mountain people stammered that hiring a guide to pay, the warriors pay or very fast.

The light of these days of searching let the mountain people guides made a fortune, but they get the money will not spend, will be uniformly handed over to the elders there, and then by the elders to organize the caravan to go to the Ice Bay barbarian tribes in accordance with the meaning of the small count of Sheridan to buy some “local goods” to continue to use and the warriors do trade.

In short, relying on the little snow Lun’s operation, successfully brought the mountain people also into the warrior task of a ring, so that all the people involved in it to realize a win-win situation.

The stragglers can have a place to live can be assigned to work under Murphy’s command to start a new life, players do the task to get the construction points can go to the black market store to buy all kinds of good things to grow strength, the mountain people got the money and also by the way clean up their own forest outsiders, the scarlet fortress has a labor force Murphy adults look at the stragglers were sent back to the village of Moorland registration every day is even more happy flowers.

What everyone is happy with is a great thing!
“Lord Murphy’s winged cavalry is here to pick us up!”

Tepal who was riding at the very front and leading the way saw smoke and dust rising from afar, he took out his telescope from his horse’s pocket and looked ahead, then turned back and shouted, causing the players and NPCs to rejoice.

Not long after, a dozen or so tall winged cavalry rushed over with an equal number of recruits.

At the head of the group was a captain under the command of a Valand knight, who lifted his visor on his cloaked warhorse and shouted out to Tepal, who was riding in front of him:
“We have been ordered to receive and escort the stragglers to the village of Moreland, are you soldiers of the Knights of the Riptide?”

“Aye! My lord.”

Hearing his team’s name being spoken so solemnly by the NPC, Tepal couldn’t help but puff out his chest with pride, and then he heard the winged cavalry captain say to him in an odd tone:
“Your leader, Lord Ferdin, broke his leg riding a horse last night, he’ll be recuperating in the Moorland Village this time, as well as your thirty-odd brothers there, he wants you to go forward and join him.”

“Shame on you!”

After hearing that Uncle Ferdin broke his leg, many of the RP players in the crowd covered their faces on the spot, even Tepal couldn’t contain himself, good lord, is this the second leader of their Riptide Knights?
Is there really a need for knights who dish out like this to still exist?

Why don’t we just expel him from the organization in a moment, so as not to be humiliated again in the future?

But there was still face to be dealt with, so Tepal nodded gravely and said:

“Thank you for your help to our companions, we have 427 stragglers in our hands who have made the initial registration, and we are now transferring all of them!”

He took out the roster and handed it to the Winged Cavalry Captain in front of him, who nodded and wrote a receipt to Tepal, relying on this thing to go to the civil servants in the Administration Office to exchange for construction points.

427 people was 43 construction points, divided equally each person would basically get 1.5 points, which sounded pitifully small.

But the Riptide Knights weren’t just this one search team in action, the thousands of people found in the past few days combined were already enough to contribute 20-40 construction points to each member of the current 81-member Riptide Knights.

According to this speed, if the three teams don’t slack off, then at the end of this “Transylvanian Demographics” phase of the mission, each of them will be able to get 120+ construction points, which is already enough to exchange for 1-3 pieces of rare weapons and gauntlets, a magical codex, or a high-level skill manual in the black market of the Blood Rats gang.

For new players who had just entered the game, this harvest was already generous, after all, the equipment in this game was really quite valuable.

What’s more, they could still practice and do quests while searching for stragglers, and basically, one stage of quests down, the overall strength of the entire Order would be greatly improved.

They were, after all, fighting as a group, and they were all RP players who were looking for a sense of experience, and had an inherently less intense need for equipment and strength.

Especially since the Riptide Knights also had specialized quartermasters who would collect and make all kinds of consumables to be distributed free of charge when necessary, this alone was different from other players’ lone wolf and small team play.

“Yo, Mayor Tepal!”

While the Winged Cavalry NPCs were receiving the stragglers, a dozen or so recruit players also rode their warhorses close to the Riptide Knights, and the one at the head was none other than Happy Stick’s adjutant, Tiger Leopard Rider-Pro.

This guy and Tepal had played copies together before, and the two were quite familiar with each other. He greeted Tepal in a weird translation accent and said:
“Look at you all in such a sorry state, seriously, if your guys are going to look like this, I’m going to kick their asses with my boots.”

“Behave yourself! Rider, you represent the Winged Riders in the honorable tradition.”

Tepal replied in a sour tone as he looked with a stern face at the cool, shiny plate armor on Pro’s body as well as the battle armor that was specially draped for the warhorses:
“As for my knights, they’re just too tired from the wind, sooner or later they’ll be able to realize their potential and catch up with you seniors, I firmly believe that.”

“Yes, yes, yes, we old players are the worst, we like to bully you newbies.”

Pro grinned as he whispered to Tepal:

“Don’t say that brothers don’t take care of you, in three days Commander Valande is going to recruit the second batch of new recruits, you guys hurry up and count the brothers among you who have reached the standard of endurance and strength and are willing to learn horse combat to switch to heavy cavalry so that they can come and sign up.

Even if you don’t switch to winged cavalry, the training in horsemanship and charging tactics during the recruiting period is the best experience you can find in Transylvania!
The ones in charge of registration this time are Doo and Kai, I’ll ping them ahead of time to prioritize the hiring of our own men.”

“No problem!”

Tepal’s eyes lit up and he immediately promised:
“We can put out at least 20 people.”

“20 isn’t enough, it’s best to recruit more this time, so it’s best if we can come with 30! There’s also news, it’s rumored that the development team will be coming with a big wave soon.”

Pro shared his tidbit of information as he squeezed his eyebrows:
“Someone got word from Fat that new slots will be given out every week starting next week, so hurry up and get them if you can still find someone! Didn’t Fat give both you and us Stick a private word about the ‘strongholds’ before?

I’m guessing next week’s update has something to do with that.

If the development team gives you the right to manage the strongholds and you can’t manage to get it done, it’ll be a big shame, bro.”

“Uh-huh.”

Tepal nodded without saying anything else, and after seeing Pro leave with the new recruits escorting the stragglers, the RP party leader clenched his fists with an electric gaze.

He returned to his own brothers’ position and brought a few captains over to speak to them:
“Brothers, a close friend I made on my travels told me a secret message that the mysterious portal in Transylvania will fluctuate in the near future. You are to recruit more members for our Order of the Riptide in your respective taverns, this land needs us as much as it needs them!”

“Rest assured, Tepal.”

The large man with the ID name “Locke Brute Hammer” said in a deep voice:

“There are more than enough trustworthy brothers waiting to be summoned, and as soon as the portal opens, the warriors of the Holy Light will rush to Transylvania to share in this great event! And we of the House of Locke, Locke Iron Hammer, Locke Giant Hammer and Locke Earth Hammer and Locke Wooden Hammer, are all ready to go!”

“Well, our Fort Riptide is just about to stand on this great land.”

Tepal looked back in the direction of the Sicorian Collar as he thought for a moment and addressed the others:
“We need to show our abilities and courage to Lord Murphy as soon as possible, I propose that we don’t rest, you go ahead and follow your guides back to Westcott Collar, I’ll go to the village of Moorland and bring Fodin and his soldiers with me, we’ll make a few more trips over the next week.

We will strive to lead a total of over 10,000 stragglers for Lord Murphy before the Mystic Portal opens!

That way, he’ll be able to allocate more soldier slots to us as well, of course it’s not a trade, we’re just spreading the teachings of the Holy Light with our own good deeds”

“More to go.”

Hearing Tepal’s proposal, Arcane Master Marlene instantly said with a bitter face:

“Can I apply to stay at Scarlet Fortress?”

“Hmm?”

Tepal’s chilly look was thrown over, and Marlene instantly shouted with a standing ovation:

“Reporting to the headmaster, what I mean is that I want to better serve the team, so I want to go ahead and work as a slave laborer at Madame Tris’s Alchemy Cottage . Uh, I mean apprentice! I need a little money as start-up capital.

But this way it will make money for the team while also practicing alchemy the hard way, so we won’t need to waste extra money on consumables in the future.”

“Well, that’s more like it.”

Tepal nodded in satisfaction and counted out 5 gold coins from his psychic bag and tossed them to him as start-up capital, while instructing Master of Arcana Marlene to form a liaison office for the Knights of the Riptide at the Scarlet Fortress.

I heard that the work team of the Administration Office would be about to build stores in the city on a large scale after completing the construction of the factory in Andromeda Hills, so make sure to rent one at a low price then.

On the other hand, in the midnight chamber of the Blood Vulture Cloister.

Brother Woo Meow and Happy Stick, who had been trapped and unable to go online for seven whole days, had finally pinched their way back to their beloved Transylvania.

In the instant he opened his eyes, Brother Woo Meow instantly let out a wolfish howl, and his entire body leapt up from the stone platform and fell to his knees, looking at the sky with his hands open and shouting at the top of his broken voice:

“Ah, great Bigfoot of Avalon, your loyal servant has returned to your favored Transylvania once again, I swear! I swear never to be far from your holy land again.

Ah, I’m back at last!
Let me breathe in the damn humidity of this vampire’s den! I’ve missed you guys… fuck, reality is so boring… it’s better here.”

“That’s not what you fucking said when you were looking for a back rub from Missy!”

Next to the happy stick climbed up and kicked the disgraced ooh meow brother, he said:

“It’s still the old man who paid for it, it’s a loss.”

“I’ll pay you back next time, good brother, go go go, hurry up and do the mission, seven days! This must be pulled down by the group of guys how much ah.”

Brother Woo Meow rushed to the Spiritual Energy Storage Locker in a hurry to retrieve his equipment, and followed Happy Stick’s rambling out of the Midnight Chamber.

As a result, just as the two of them came out, Happy Stick froze in place.

In front of him stood two vampire girls in blood vulture robes, one with a double ponytail assisting another long-haired girl with blood-colored cloth over her eyes.

At the sight of her, Happy Stick suddenly felt as if his mind had jumped out of his body and connected with the being in front of him in an indescribable way.

In particular, a portion of the senses on the mental plane merged almost completely.

It was like an invisible chain that locked these two people who belonged to different worlds together.

Happy Stick couldn’t describe this feeling, but the Melia Corando in front of her stepped forward with the support of her sister Winnie, and took the initiative to bend down and say to Happy Stick:
“Welcome back to Transylvania, master.”

“Crap!”

Happy Stick’s hands and feet went cold as he exploded into a foul-mouthed gag.

“Crap?”

Next to him, Brother Woo Meow’s entire body was dumbfounded.

The vampire girl in front of him shouted “master” and his hairs stood on end, and with a face of fear, his eyes darted back and forth between the Happy Stick and this girl.

After holding back for a long time, he viciously grabbed Happy Stick’s collar and screamed:
“Tell me the truth! What did you and Fat do? Why did he send you an electronic wife? And most importantly, why didn’t I have one! It’s not fair! I want one too!”

(End of chapter)