Chapter 9: Hidden Quest?
Chapter 9: Hidden Quest?
System Notification: Level increased!
System Notification: Your base attributes were enhanced!
— Strength +3
— Constitution +2
— Agility +2
— Intelligence +2
— Spirit +1
The Mutated Black Goblin fell down dead without surprise. The Mutated Black Goblin was still Level 4, but it gave several times more Experience than a normal Black Goblin. Chen Mo’s Experience bar increased by more than 30% in one go!
Clatter!
The moment the Mutated Black Goblin fell, a large number of copper coins and items scattered from its body. It was the first time Chen Mo saw a monster drop so many items, and he was quite astonished.
“A total of 105 copper coins, one bottle each of Low-grade Mutated Strength Potion, Low-grade Mutated Intelligence Potion, Low-grade Mutated Constitution Potion, Low-grade Mutated Agility Potion, another Low-grade Mutated Intelligence Potion, Low-grade Mutated Spirit Potion, Low-grade Mutated HP Potion, and one pair of Goblin Shoes. Mutated Monsters really are rich. All the previous monsters combined didn’t drop as many items as this one did.”
Chen Mo picked them up and counted. He found there were quite a lot of items.
Before this, he had killed a total of fifty or sixty Goblins, but he had only picked up less than fifty copper coins. Now, this one Mutated Black Goblin dropped more items than all the previous monsters combined.
At Level 4, with over 150 copper coins on him, Chen Mo could be considered a minor rich player. However, compared to the copper coins, those dropped Mutated Potions were clearly more valuable.
Low-grade Mutated Strength Potion: Increases the Player’s Strength by 20 points. Every physical attack the Player makes deals an additional 20 Damage to the enemy. Potion lasts 10 minutes, Cooldown Time is 15 minutes.
Low-grade Mutated Constitution Potion: Increases the Player’s Constitution by 20 points. Every time the Player is attacked, the Damage received is reduced by 20 points. Potion lasts 10 minutes, Cooldown Time is 15 minutes.
Low-grade Mutated Agility Potion: Increases the Player’s Agility by 20 points. Movement Speed Cap increases by 3 points. Potion lasts 10 minutes, Cooldown Time is 15 minutes.
Low-grade Mutated Intelligence Potion: Increases the Player’s Intelligence by 20 points. Every magic attack the Player makes deals an additional 20 Damage to the enemy. Potion lasts 10 minutes, Cooldown Time is 15 minutes.
Low-grade Mutated Spirit Potion: Increases the Player’s Spirit by 20 points. Every time the Player uses a Healing Skill, it provides an additional 20% healing effect to the target. Potion lasts 10 minutes, Cooldown Time is 15 minutes.
Low-grade Mutated HP Potion: Instantly restores 300 HP to the Player, increases HP cap by 300, then restores 30 HP per second. Potion lasts 10 minutes, Cooldown Time is 15 minutes.
There were six types of Low-grade Mutated Potions in total. Although Chen Mo had never seen normal potions, he knew that none of these potions’ effects could be compared to ordinary ones!
These potions should be suitable for low-level Players below Level 10. But because of the special effects attached to the potions, even Players around Level 20 could use them without the effects being bad.
If he had the time, constantly dying and going to other valleys to farm Mutated Potions could probably earn him a lot of money.
But Chen Mo only thought about it. He felt that if he killed the Mutated Black Goblin a second time, the dropped items would definitely not be as many as the first time. He could try if he had the chance, but he didn’t come to the Game to earn such a small amount of money. He wouldn’t waste his time on such things.
Finally, those Goblin Shoes looked like they had a good name, but they were actually just an ordinary white quality piece of equipment, increasing Strength by 1 point and Movement Speed Cap by 1 point. Still, this was the first piece of equipment Chen Mo obtained from a monster drop in the Game.
After changing into the Goblin Shoes, Chen Mo walked to the valley exit. He was surprised to see that the entire valley was actually enclosed. At the exit, there was a small Teleportation Array.
…
Half an hour later, Chen Mo wandered around the Starter Village named Earl Town.
The Teleportation Array in the valley sent him directly back to Earl Town. After returning to Earl Town, Chen Mo didn’t immediately start causing trouble to look for Game loopholes. Instead, he spent some time going to the Game Forum once.
Chen Mo was glad he went to the Game Forum first.
His plan to assassinate important NPCs like the town mayor had already been done by others. Various NPCs had been attempted to be attacked. However, it turned out that even the NPCs in the Starter Village couldn’t be killed by Players. Those Players who tried to assassinate NPCs were all thrown into jail, with imprisonment times ranging from 1 hour to 4 hours.
NPCs couldn’t be killed, but there were still many things Chen Mo could do.
Earl Town soon began to suffer. Chen Mo was very skilled at causing destruction. He set houses on fire, killed a chicken he saw strolling by with a casual slash, shaved a dog bald, cut off a cat’s whiskers… None were big deals, but Chen Mo knew that the more insignificant the matter, the less attention it got, and the more likely a loophole existed.
But unfortunately, Chen Mo secretly caused trouble in Earl Town for nearly half an hour and found nothing.
…
System Notification: You triggered the quest “Secret Meeting.” Do you accept?
After his ordinary troublemaking yielded no results, Chen Mo started secretly harassing female NPCs. Then, when Chen Mo passed by the front of a sexy-dressed beautiful shop owner named Enoch, who ran a tailor shop, and casually touched her, a System Notification suddenly sounded.
Looking at this System Notification, Chen Mo was stunned for a moment, then couldn’t help but find it both funny and annoying.
This was probably the legendary hidden quest. Other Players desperately tried to find hidden quests but failed. He went around causing trouble and unexpectedly triggered one.
What to do? Accept or not accept?
He didn’t know the quest difficulty yet, but Chen Mo knew it definitely wouldn’t be easy to complete. He always finished what he started. If he decided to accept it, he would definitely see it through to completion, even if the process might take a lot more time.
But… forget it. It seemed he couldn’t find any loopholes in Earl Town anyway. Since he needed to level up, he might as well complete this quest along the way to gain more capital before leaving the Starter Village. Spending a little more time on it didn’t matter. After all, if a Game loophole really existed, it wouldn’t run away.
System Notification: You accepted the quest “Secret Meeting”!
Quest: Secret Meeting
Quest Difficulty: Unknown
Quest Content: Enoch seems to have something to discuss with you. Please go alone to the house at the northernmost corner of the town at night to meet Enoch.
Quest Reward: Unknown
“Night… there’s still plenty of time until then.”
The Game also had day and night cycles, but the daytime was much longer than nighttime. Daytime lasted eighteen hours, while nighttime only lasted six hours. These six hours corresponded to real-world time from midnight to 6 a.m.
It was only 8:30 p.m. now. There was still quite some time until midnight. Before that, he should first raise his own Level.
After accepting a quest from an NPC to eliminate 20 Wild White Rabbits, Chen Mo followed the crowd of Players out of Earl Town.
“Darn, there are way too many people!”
Arriving at the Wild White Rabbit respawn point, Chen Mo immediately felt terrible.
Where were the Wild White Rabbits? It was all people! Finally, a few Wild White Rabbits respawned, but before the respawn light even faded, they were already killed by the surrounding Players with one hit each.
Even though the Wild White Rabbits respawned extremely quickly—one every ten seconds, and many at once—killing 20 Wild White Rabbits wasn’t easy. If PK wasn’t disabled below Level 10, this place would surely become a river of blood.
“Hmph, a bunch of poor folks! How hard is it to do a quest! You guys keep surrounding this area nicely. Just a few more left. Once it’s done, the remaining payment will be transferred to your cards immediately!”
“Yes, Brother Qing Shan!”
But in this vast world, there were all kinds of talented people. Chen Mo immediately witnessed how a rich person played the Game. They didn’t struggle to steal monsters like ordinary Players. Instead, they spent a lot of money to hire a large group of people to surround a small respawn area, then comfortably killed monsters and completed quests inside.
Moreover, this guy named Da Qing Shan was extremely arrogant, looking down on and provoking the surrounding Players. Many people around hated this guy who reeked of nouveau riche, but they could only pretend not to hear.
“Hey, beauty over there, want to come inside? I’ll let you kill monsters and do the quest!”
Chen Mo sweatdropped. He really didn’t play this Game for nothing; he gained some experience. In real life, people think about how to invite someone to eat or give gifts to pick up girls. Now in the Game, it became inviting beauties to kill monsters.
Chen Mo wasn’t rich, so naturally he couldn’t act like Da Qing Shan. But stealing monsters wasn’t too difficult for a Hunter!
Finding a spot, Chen Mo simply bent over and laid a Basic Trap at the Wild White Rabbit respawn point.
Hehe, as soon as a Wild White Rabbit respawns, the Trap will trigger! No need to even calculate the respawn time. Who could steal from him now!
“A Hunter? Hehe, think again!”
Several nearby Players saw this and immediately walked over with sneers, stepping directly on the Trap Chen Mo had set.
Boom!
The Trap exploded accordingly, but the person who stepped on it didn’t receive even a bit of Damage.
Darn it, this works too!
Chen Mo was dumbfounded.
Players stepping on the Trap could also trigger it. Being able to step on it was one thing, but it didn’t even count as Damage? Hunter Players really had it tough!