Chapter 7 The Crusaders of Light
Zhang Xiaoming carefully checked the task list. There were mostly errands, and few tasks required combat.
Xiaoming decided to run through the map in the village and do the tasks he could.
The village was not big, and after a round of walking, he found out the locations of many important NPCs and functional buildings, and completed most of the tasks on the way.
First, in the training ground, Xiaoming arranged infantry A to swing the sword 120 times to complete the mercenary training task.
During the period, he talked with the archer coach and sold the bow and arrow that he made with his superpowers and that only archer mercenaries could use to the archer coach.
Get 1 gold, 5 silver, 23 copper coins and a book of archery experience written by the coach.
(The hiring fee of 0-level 0 apprentice mercenaries is 1 gold coin, and the salary is 10 copper coins per day. 1 gold = 100 silver = 10,000 copper.)
On the side of the road, he chatted with a naughty boy and used archeology to find that the small stone in the child's hand was a broken seal of an ancient person. So he bought it with a silver coin.
Bought some materials, medicines, and supplies in the grocery store. Then he went back to the inn to confirm another conjecture of his. When there are corresponding materials, the consumption of using superpowers to make or strengthen items is greatly reduced.
There are fewer materials in the backpack, and more than a dozen items of various kinds. The most important thing is that he made a crossbow for himself. Now Xiao Ming has strengthened and made, and the backpack space has reached more than 50 grids.
A light bulb flashed in his mind, and he used superpowers and some stones to strengthen the damaged seal, and actually repaired it.
With the foundation of identification and erudition, Xiao Ming learned that this was the private seal of a light crusader who died here more than a hundred years ago.
The equipment is in the inventory, and it increases the charm of the light and crusader NPCs a little.
Go to the square and open the personal warehouse. There are many players setting up stalls in the square, and they sell all the equipment they don’t need to a player named Datang BBQ.
Got 6 gold coins and a book of priest skill "Light Ball". Unfortunately, you need a first-level formal priest to learn it.
Datang BBQ guessed that the explorer was a senior executive of a studio, and even had surplus equipment. Chasing Zhang Xiaoming to add each other as friends. He said that he would give priority to selling things to the Tang Dynasty Guild in the future.
(By the way, the game system does not recognize player guilds. Players can establish similar organizations after reaching the second level and becoming heroes: adventure groups, chambers of commerce, etc. Now, the self-proclaimed guilds are just the names of players.)
Wandered around the square for a while and bought some materials. It seemed that there was really nothing good to find.
Xiao Ming went to the temple again. He wanted to complete the temple prayer task, which is a blue task.
There are differences in the degree of completion for blue and above tasks.
There are two ways to complete the prayer task. Either you really pray in front of the statue of light for enough time, and the blue prayer takes 40 minutes.
Or donate money instead, 5 silver coins per minute. Xiao Ming tried to donate the seal, and completed the task with excellent results.
In addition to experience, the friendship of the Temple of Light is +10. The friendship of the Crusades is +15.
He also did a few tasks of delivering letters, finding pets, and buying things on behalf of others.
On the way, he also triggered a special task. He saw the village chief's son at the village chief's house and bought a piece of wolf cub skin from him at a high price.
After strengthening to high-quality wolf cub skin. Go to the tailor shop to trigger Liu Xiaomei's skill upgrade task.
Liu Xiaomei is striving for advanced tailoring. As long as she makes a mask, she can successfully upgrade. In fact, she needs two wolf cub skins, and she can make it twice to succeed.
The other piece needs to go to the wild, and it will drop from the wolf cubs in the wolf pack, which is quite difficult. And only one piece dropped before Liu Xiaomei upgraded.
Because Zhang Xiaoming provided high-quality wolf cub skins, Liu Xiaomei succeeded at once. The task is completed. In addition to experience money, Xiaoming was also rewarded with a special equipment "mask".
There is also Liu Xiaomei's favorability +30. The advantage is that Xiaoming can buy some equipment made by advanced tailors from Liu Xiaomei. Xiaoming bought a simple marching tent.
Didn't she just upgrade today? When did she make advanced equipment?
The marching tent is an advanced adventure equipment. When used, it forms a temporary safe area until the durability is exhausted.
Resting inside can quickly recover. You can also carry a reserve force equal to the number of players that can be hired.
Xiao Ming naturally strengthened it, and all functions have been improved. The reserve force that can be stored has doubled.
Other players still have to hire new soldiers to supplement or endure the state of insufficient combat power once a soldier dies.
After this round, there are only two tasks left in the task list, one blue and one purple. The completed tasks have been settled.
Zhang Xiaoming's apprentice priest has been upgraded to level 6, and the gold coins have exceeded 10. Infantry A has also been upgraded to level 3. (The upgrade of mercenaries is different from that of players. The upgrade route is set.)
The two tasks that have not been completed are:
Blue task "Expel wild boars": Li Erbo, a lumberjack at the lumber mill outside the village, is often harassed by a nest of wild boars. Please help.
Purple task "Han's mother's troubles": Aunt Han is selling swords in the square, please solve her troubles.
Aunt Han Xiaoming has seen it a long time ago, because it is a purple task, Xiaoming has kept it until now.
Purple tasks are unique. Except for Xiaoming who accepts the task, other players cannot interact with Aunt Han. Only after Xiaoming fails, others may receive this task.
"Auntie Han, is this the sword you're selling? How much is it?"
"It's the Explorer? I'll sell it for 10 gold coins."
"It's so expensive! Can you sell it? It's rusted like this." Xiao Ming picked up the sword and looked at it carefully. It was a big sword, but most of it was rusted.
Xiao Ming can afford 10 gold coins, but the task may be settled with a very low completion rate. Obviously there are other solutions. And Xiao Ming is reluctant to part with the 10 gold coins.
Eh? Isn't this the mark of the God of Light? Xiao Ming found that there seemed to be a broken mark of the God of Light on the hilt of the great sword. Thinking of the Crusader seal. He quickly threw out an archaeology spell.
The system prompts: "Congratulations on obtaining the Crusader skill mark "Double Slash". "Now there is a clue.
"Auntie Han, this sword could not be the sword of the Crusader who died here a hundred years ago?" Xiao Ming asked tentatively.
Auntie's eyes turned red, and she couldn't stop talking. Things are also old routine.
A hundred years ago, a Crusader named Han Qinlong died in battle here. He left a posthumous son to settle in the village. Auntie Han is the grandson's wife of Han Qinlong.
The ancestors died in battle, the family fell into decline, and everything went wrong. Now only Aunt Han and her grandson Han Dong are left to depend on each other.
Han Dong has a dream of becoming a swordsman. Aunt Han is relieved, but also has a headache. She really has no money. She has no choice but to sell her grandfather's weapons and send her grandson to the town to learn from him.
After Aunt Han finished talking about the past, the system prompted the player to choose:
1. Take out 10 gold coins to buy the big sword. Mission completed. Completion: Normal.
2. Take out 10 gold coins to give to Aunt Han, but don't take the big sword. Mission completed. Completion: Normal. If Han Dong is promoted to a second-level swordsman in the future, he will repay the player.
3. Express willingness to train Han Dong for free. Daily tasks completed. No reward. And open a large task chain "Han Dong's Crusader Road".
There is no doubt to choose the third option.
Aunt Han left, and soon came to Zhang Xiaoming with a child in tattered armor.
"The first link of the task chain: Please train Han Dong to become a formal infantry within a week."
