376. Chapter 374 – 373 – “Novice Village Chief” Officially Assuming Duties
Chapter 374: 373: “Novice Village Chief” Officially Takes Up His Role
Speaking of this hidden quest of Brother Meow Meow, we have to mention this guy’s bad luck which is so dark that it makes people sad to hear it and cry at the sight of it.
After beating the Blood Wyvern Cloisters, the players had their first game of opening chests and getting equipment, and everyone had something to show for it, and some people got mounts, but Woo Meow’s gang was the only one that didn’t get any decent stuff.
It’s almost as if they’ve been cursed by something dirty, but of course this is all due to the disastrous consequences of their private gossip, so they’ll have to live with it themselves no matter how bad it gets.
But Brother Woo Meow’s situation was unique.
He was given an unfinished design, which started a long chain of quests to find the “Necessary Evil Replica”, and the first step of the quest almost got him into trouble.
The quest required him to create a replica weapon of Necessary Evil, but the blacksmiths in the camp couldn’t do it, so he had to invite two “sword forging masters” into the game from his own social network before he was able to get this step done.
However, after submitting the embryo to Lord Murphy, the quest got stuck.
No matter how much he tried, he couldn’t get the follow-up of this hidden quest. Meow Meow thought that he was unlucky, but it wasn’t until the third ring of this quest was activated that he realized that it wasn’t his luck that was bad, but that this hidden quest could only be triggered after the major version update to 3.0!
Crap!
Scared the hell out of dad.
Brother Meow Meow let out a long breath, and with a kind of joy of “lost and found”, he reached out and grasped the replica of the magical sword in the weapon box that had been enchanted by Mrs. Tris herself. Holding this already distinctive and very cool looking one-handed sword, he activated item identification.
The item was already very different from the previous words:
Name: Scorpio – Classic Vampire Magic Blade
Quality: Seiko – [Trial Work] Veteran – Master Enchantment
Traits: enhanced sturdiness – enhanced sharpness – weak psionic manipulation – blade of blood – flying spirit blade – follow your heart – unfinished business
Special Effects:
I. Chattering Blade:
The item was crafted using a combination of unknown inscriptions to strengthen it, paired with the ebony stone inlaid in its hilt produces a rather marvelous effect, after killing an enemy with the weapon, it will absorb some of the psychic quality used to strengthen the blade and apply [Spirit Blade] and [Demon Breaker] effects to itself.
This effect can be accumulated to give the weapon an additional magic-breaking phrase, or it can be unleashed at once when the ebony stone is full of spirit energy to deal massive damage to enemies.
Currently accumulating Spirit Quality: None.
Maximum Spirit Accumulation: 100% Ebony capacity.
II. Blade of Casualty:
Master Alchemist Lady Tris was so interested in this magic blade that imitates Necessary Evil that she personally applied a rather advanced enchantment to it, giving it the effects of [Flight] and [Will Manipulation].
After the item is psychically bound to the user, it can automatically kill enemies under the user’s mental manipulation like the miracle creation Necessary Evil.
However, the sensitivity of the weapon’s flight and the accuracy of its attacks depend on the user’s skill in manipulating their psychic abilities.
Tips!
When maneuvering this weapon to kill the enemy, if the weapon is shot down, it will give a shock to the manipulator’s mind, and in serious cases, it will lead to fainting.
III. Unfinished Business:
As a replica of the magical sword Necessary Evil, this weapon can only be called ‘excellent’ at this stage, and you may be able to find ways to further enhance the weapon and bring its power closer to that of the legendary magical blades in certain parts of the continent.
Lady Tris gave the opinion that you might be able to visit the legendary priests of the Moon in the Sacred City of the Moon in the Land of Origin.
These spellcasters, who have studied the power of death in great depth, have a very unique perspective on the subject of ‘how to make dead things gain spiritual intelligence’.
Tip!
Lady Tress is curious about the prospect of this imitation magic blade, so if you accidentally lose it, you can re-bring the Scorpio weapon embryo and come to Lady Tress to spend a certain amount of money to have it reshaped.
Usage Requirements: Due to the extremely advanced enchantments that Lady Tris has applied to this weapon, it has become challenging to use it perfectly.
Requires Thinking ≥ 10, Dexterity ≥ 11.
Crafted by: Master of Broken Knives, Hundred Forge Dama
Item Description:
[Young man’s first compact downgraded version of the light luxury type magic sword, you deserve it!
“F*ck!”
Brother Woo Meow rounded his eyes.
He finally realized why this quest chain had waited until the current version 3.0 to be updated, this sword was not to be trifled with!
He quickly completed the spiritual energy binding with his downgraded magic sword, and then rather unskillfully maneuvered it to levitate from his hand, and followed Lord Murphy’s stance of manipulating Necessary Evil to make it fly in a circle along his own body, and in the end, he almost cut off the “wooden sculpture of Eggman” that was used for “eggs” on Murphy’s table with a single blow. The result almost cut off the “Egg Brother Wooden Sculpture” on Murphy’s table for “coloring eggs” with a sword.
“You’ll have to practice to use this spirit blade perfectly, especially using it to dodge attacks from enemies, but when your mind connects with it, it becomes part of your body as well, so the damage it takes is also transferred to your body.
It’s a risky thing to do.”
Murphy waved his hand, and the whirling Necessary Evil sent the Spirit Blade maneuvered by Brother Meow Meow flying with only one collision, and then the headache-ridden Oak Knight was quick enough to catch the handle of his “precious sword” as it fell through the air.
The collision just now made Brother Meow Meow’s spirit feel as if it had been hit by an iron hammer, and he almost lost his footing.
He realized the risk of using this spirit blade, but Brother Meow Meow still did not intend to give up the “player benefits” he had just received.
He smiled and thanked Lord Murphy, and then proudly left Lord Murphy’s office with his “flying sword” in his arms, while Woo Meow Brother edited a post on the forums to show off his “Big Red Hand” to give himself the “Black Hand Clan Chief”. While editing a post on the forums to show off his “Big Red Hand” to whitewash his identity as the “Black Hand Clan Chief”, Brother Woo Meow was thinking of hurrying to the blacksmith store to discuss the matter of the Scorpio Weapon Embryo with Master Broken Sword.
At present, it seems that Brother Meow’s hidden quest has already made a “family silver benefits” for players, I wonder if other players holding the Scorpio Spirit Blade embryo to find Lord Murphy can get the same “upgrade”?
If so, this is a good way to get rich!
A monopoly!
Monopoly business is always the best business.
Murphy saw off Brother Woo Meow with a sly smile on his face, and he was very satisfied in his heart, through Brother Woo Meow as a “player with goods”, perhaps it only takes this type of “Spirit Sword” to appear on the battlefield once or twice, and there will be a lot of envious little players inquiring about the origin of this thing. The origin of this item.
By that time, his Blood Wyvern Clan will be able to add another unique “specialty gameplay”, hey, the plan is through ah!
–Hey, the plan’s working!
On the road near the five collective farms near the Scarlet Fortress, a large group of administration players were riding on various kinds of vehicles, led by the civil servants of the administration office, heading to their assigned workplaces to prepare for their duties.
The top five administrative players from the administrative examination that had just ended were all assigned to serve as village chiefs in these five strongholds that were quite important to Transylvania, while the other administrative players were assigned to serve in administrative positions in locations such as the quarry in the village of Moorland, the mines in the Baron’s Domain of the Darkness, and so on.
This group of small players who specialized in management were the “precious eggs” in the hands of Consul Miriam, and she did not need Murphy’s reminder to know that she had to use their power appropriately.
And these five collective farms happen to be Murphy’s future administrative stronghold of Transylvania planning “blueprint”, naturally, good steel should be used on the blade.
“Nah, this is our first territory besides ‘Fort Riptide’!”
Honorable Knight Tepal, who was riding on an armored warhorse, said with great anticipation to the two administrative players beside him, “Arcane Master Marlene” and “Goblin Tax Collector Shining Gold”:
“Look! The third farm in the distance, that’s where our ‘dream begins’! I’m going to name that farm ‘Newbie Village’!”
“Strange idea.”
Arcane Master Marlene bristled:
“That name isn’t RP at all, and why did you have to pick me to be your lieutenant? Isn’t it fine for me to be an apprentice to Lady Tris at the Scarlet Fortress? I still have several beginner recipes I haven’t learned yet.”
“Recipes can be learned anytime, and it’s not like we’re asking you to stay in the village permanently, you can totally go back and continue playing afterward, but mainly today is the day of the establishment of the Novice Village, we need to talk about a sense of ceremony.
Besides, I as the village head, you as the village doctor, and your Excellency Shining Gold as the village accountant are the three most important officials in the new village, so we have to attend today no matter what.
As a lord, the first thing you need to do is to let your people understand who is their administrator!
And whose orders they need to obey.”
Riding on his horse, Tepal was full of confidence, and had obviously long ago conceptualized a plan and strategy for the development of his “novice village”.
He said facetiously to Master Orpha and the Gnome Tax Collector:
“I have carefully studied the past production patterns of Transylvania in the library of the Blood Wyvern Corridor, and I found that during the Dark Ages when the vampires ruled, they did not pay any attention to the survival of the locals, and they never thought of reforming the local agriculture and business patterns. I also asked Prof. Chen about this, and he told me that the land in Transylvania is not particularly fertile, but it’s not outrageously bad either.
Here hard farming even if the means of agricultural production is backward, but let the farmers mixed belly round no problem, but want to further development in the agricultural level will need to introduce external forces, however, we Riptide Knights also want to build up the Riptide Fort in the near future it.
We don’t have that much energy to spend on my novice village.
As the current leader of the Knights, I can’t fake my way out of this either.
Therefore I wanted to find a way to not interfere with the construction of Fort Riptide while still effectively boosting my territory’s income, and after much thought, I finally found the most suitable path for the development of the ‘Novice Village’!
That is Alchemy!
To be precise, being a supplier of Alchemy!”
Tepal said kindly to a stunned Arcane Master Marlene:
“Next to my novice village is a woodland, that connects directly to the mountains near the village of Moor, and the witch hunters abound in excellent alchemists, whose alchemical attainments in the natural realm make even Lady Tris tsk tsk.
While Uncle Fording, who had broken his leg, was recovering there, he accidentally discovered that the witch hunters would plant many herbs in the forest and use special methods to make them grow quickly.
We need to take advantage of this!
My idea is for the novice village to give up farming! Only a small portion of the people will be left to farm as long as they can meet the basic needs of food and clothing, and the rest of the villagers will all go to the forest to grow all kinds of alchemy herbs.
This is the direction the village will develop in the future.
We’re going to strive to become the largest producer of alchemy herbs in Transylvania!
Only then will my villagers be able to live a rich and good life faster.”
“Your idea is good, Knight Tepal, however it is not realistic.”
On the other side, the “Goblin Tax Collector Shining Gold” bristled, of course he wasn’t a real goblin, just a shorter middle-aged man with shrewd and mercenary eyes.
He rode on his horse and said to Tepal:
“We do administrative internship you also have contact with the locals, their cultural standard is too low, do farm work can be, but wait for the delicate alchemy herb is a little too difficult for them, they do not even know a few words, but herbalist in the Middle Ages is a proper expert profession.”
“But Marlene can teach them!”
Tepal said seriously:
“That’s why I sent Marlene to learn alchemy before, Marlene is responsible for going to the Moorland village to learn from the witch hunter’s alchemists, and then teach what she learns to our villagers.
We must hurry to plant all the herbs that can survive the winter before the first snow falls!”
“Two questions!”
Arcane Master Marin didn’t refuse, he just frowned and said:
“First, I have no friendship with the witch hunters, so why should they teach me? Second, are you sure the villagers can understand your good intentions? If you don’t let them farm the land they’ll probably raise a ruckus, right?”
“Two answers.”
Tepal said wisely:
“First, you could join the Church of Avalon and become one of them, you’re on the psionic route yourself and aren’t keen on the Holy Light faith.
It’s just a benefit option for you.
Secondly, I don’t need the villagers to understand that I am a medieval lord, all I need to do is give orders and they will follow them.
There’s no law here to protect their human rights!
I’ll expel those who won’t do it from my village, it’s for the benefit of the majority, the small number of stubborn ones can be sacrificed!”
“Crap!”
This answer made Marin and Shining Gold look at each other in disbelief, and he whispered:
“That’s too . No, Tepal, you didn’t used to be like this, did you learn from the NPCs in the game?”
Facing this question, Tepal sighed as he said helplessly:
“No. If I could, I would want my villagers to respect and understand me, but since we don’t have that much time to sensitize them, we can only use coercive measures to make them obey.
There is nothing a king desires more than respect and fear from his subjects, and if the two are not meant to go hand in hand, then fear comes first, and respect comes second.
When the first batch of herbs is returned in silver, they will understand my order.
They’ve had a miserable time.
They are bent over by poverty and humility that prevents them from seeing as far as they should, but as a lord and steward, I must take responsibility for my people.
I must see farther than they do to lead them better!
Nay!
Not I, but ‘we’.”
Tepal stretched out his hands on his horse and spoke to his two lieutenants with affection:
“Let the three of us join forces and make our novice village the best place to live in the Transylvanian land!”
Just as the novice village chief, Tepal, was expounding on his future plans for his village, the village chiefs of the other four farmsteads were also doing the same thing.
Tourist scholar Xiao Zhou was chatting with his dormitory buddies about prospecting around his own village number four, they were high achievers in the geology department and planned to utilize their strengths to bring their own lords to become rich and wealthy.
The mayor of village number two is an administrative player with the ID “Pink Cat Rabbit”.
This guy had kept a very low profile since he entered the game.
So low-profile that he almost never appeared in the highlights of the players, but this silent young man was indeed a guy with a deep secret, which was evident from the second place he won in the administrative examination.
He was not accompanied by any accompanying players.
However, the four NPC assistants that could be exchanged for the official village chief’s appointment were all exchanged by him for a class of administrative trainees, all of whom were natives of Transylvania.
This is the “administrative team” he chose for himself, he will be sitting in the carriage and his four assistants with large stacks of drawings and plans are discussing the construction of a plan to connect to the Batasin City merchant road accommodation, his second village is the closest area to Transylvania’s current “commercial hub”. His village number two was the closest area to Transylvania’s current “hub of commerce”.
It was stuck right in the middle of the road from Batasin City to the Scarlet Fortress.
He felt he had to capitalize on this advantage to get his first bucket of gold in the commercial exchange between Transylvania and the Northmen.
From his methodical arrangement and the obedience of the four NPC lieutenants to him, we can see that this guy is definitely not a good person in reality, and definitely belongs to the small group of people with “successful careers”.
In fact, his second place in the administrative test was not because of his strength, but because he didn’t give it his all.
He is not a person who likes to show off.
Moreover, he had already reached a “secret contract” with the village chief of the No. 1 village, and the two neighboring villages were destined to be tied together in their future development.
So the village chief of village No. 1, Lao Huo will be doing it?
“I say, you are all professional management talent, right?”
In the old Huo’s carriage, the freshly baked “top ranking expert in the field” is living a good life and frowning at the four female secretaries beside him, and he says with some dissatisfaction:
“Why did you come up with such a bad plan? A little executable have not! To be based on the status quo in Transylvania, digging deep into the local ecology to discover the advantages of playing well.
Go, take it back and redo it.
If you can’t do it, you’ll have to deduct your salary~ Your development plan is not good, my village will go hungry!
So, ladies, please be serious, okay?”
(End of chapter)