Chapter : 199
In stark contrast to the commoners of the border cities were the players continuously pouring into both factions.
Currently, there were a total of 10,000 closed beta players. Actually, not many had combat power, and not all players were interested in the faction war; there were always so who preferred researching the plot or the beautiful scenery.
However, the rewards for the faction war were too generous. Moreover, besides the mandatory choice to join one side for battle, a third option was added. [Let think again] seed like a delayed choice, but it also allowed accepting all other quests except for participating in combat.
【Discussion: Which side is better to choose for the faction war?】
0L: Looked at the system quests, feels like the final reward should be determined by the battle results. Has any player carefully analyzed the strengths and weaknesses of both factions?
1L: Sofa. Camping here for a big shot to analyze.
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59L: I'm a first-batch closed beta player. Luckily, I seem to have infiltrated an incredible group. I can only say that Bartovita daring to declare war really has sothing up its sleeve. Those participating in the faction war can consider the Bartovita faction.
60L: Does the poster above have inside information?
61L: Can't be considered inside information. I just vaguely know that Bartovita has hidden combat power, but I'm not sure what exactly it is. There might be a dedicated plotline.
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82L: Romunik's combat power isn't weak either, right? I infiltrated a noble family. Heard from that lord that the Romunik royal family has made a lot of money in recent years through shady operations like selling titles and has raised quite a few top experts. They all think King Barto is crazy to attack.
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102L: Isn't this a faction war? I feel like Return wouldn't just let players be bystanders in a faction war. Faction victory mainly depends on players, right? By the way, has anyone done Quest 2? Has anyone received the quest [Help Little Flower Find Her Children]? Who exactly is Little Flower? I looked around but couldn't find anyone nad Little Flower. Asked the villagers, and no one heard of any lost children.
103L: Little Flower? That na sounds so familiar. Seems like it's a stray cat in XX Village? Did she have kittens?
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Yan Yunqing closed this thread. He hadn't expected players to have already infiltrated the interiors of the Two Great Empires. Whether it was Bartovita having a mysterious force joining or the thoughts of the Romunik nobles, these weren't things ordinary people should know.
As expected of players!
Yan Yunqing sighed. He browsed the forum and found a few threads from players to whom he had previously given hidden quests. Surprisingly, they shared intelligence regarding the Eternal Divine Sect inside.
Yan Yunqing was sowhat surprised. He opened it to take a look; the intelligence inside even included so strongholds and distributions of the Eternal Divine Sect in certain cities that he didn't know about.
[Eternal Divine Sect? Wow, this na sounds like a cult.]
[I seem to have encountered the kind of NPC the original poster described in the wild outside XX City? Their nas were red. I rushed up to PK as soon as I saw them... Unfortunately, I couldn't beat them and happily earned a two-day resurrection CD.]
[Are these the world villains?]
[Eh, wasn't there a hidden quest in the novice village before that was related to this whatever Divine Sect?]
[This Divine Sect seems joinable? I tried it out. That recruiter has already loosened up. Feels like I'm about to infiltrate the interior soon!]
[XXXX has also seen...]
Sotis one had to admit that players were magical creatures. They would always achieve so incredible accomplishnts on a whim for inexplicable reasons.
Yan Yunqing glanced at the replies, decisively took out pen and paper to copy howork, and summarized the players' discussions in the replies. He planned to hand over those strongholds found by players to Isabel later and let Isabel wipe them out.
Absolutely must not let players have the chance to join the Eternal Divine Sect and cause trouble.
Yan Yunqing thought to himself.
***
In Loluosier City, west of the Barnot Mountain Range.
This was Romunik's border city. Because it was located in the barren Barnot Mountain Range area, the city looked dusty and gray, giving off a sowhat dilapidated feeling.
The people here were not wealthy.
Yan Yunqing ca to Loluosier City under the identity of [Nolan]. This was also a gathering place for many players who participated in the faction war and chose the Romunik faction.
Players bumping into everyone to seek quests could be seen everywhere on the streets. After several days of high-intensity quest grinding, there were probably no NPCs left in the city with quests to give out. In another two days, players who hadn't finished the basic faction war quests would likely start radiating out to the surrounding towns.
Of course, as the faction center of Romunik, Loluosier City, the largest border city, would also be the place with the most players.
Due to the gathering of many players, so even spontaneously cordoned off an area and started setting up stalls on the spot, mostly selling materials dropped by monsters and so blueprint items.
As soon as Yan Yunqing, who had covered his face completely, appeared, he received the players' gazes.
He looked out of place in Loluosier City. He looked mysterious at a glance, completely different from the ordinary NPCs in Loluosier City—in players' words: 『This NPC looks like a high-level NPC with a story (hidden quest)!』.
Imdiately, several players were itching to move, ready to go up and try their luck to see if they could trigger any quests.
Yan Yunqing took in the players' reactions. There was a reason he ca using the [Nolan] account instead of directly doing faction war quests as [Good Day].
The rewards for those basic faction war quests were indeed generous, but for a level 75 NPC like him, they were a bit insignificant. Moreover, the quests were cumberso, and the effort was not proportional to the reward.
So Yan Yunqing decided not to do those quests for now. Instead, he logged into the [Nolan] account to test his speculation—if the quests he issued were completed by players, would he receive experience?
Where was the easiest place to reverse-scam players? Only the main cities of the two factions.
Before the players could rush up to pester this mysterious mage, they heard the mysterious mage speak in a seemingly distressed tone, "I heard a war is about to break out here? I wonder if I can make a big profit here... But the people here don't know . Perhaps I need to think of a way to make them trust , an honest rchant, first."
Before the players could react, a ti-limited regional quest popped up in front of them.
【The Traveling rchant's Distress】
Description: On the streets of a border town, a travel-worn traveling rchant is busily organizing his goods. He just heard that a war is about to break out here, and his goods—from weapons and armor to various daily necessities—are urgently needed supplies on the battlefield. However, as a newcor, the traveling rchant is worried that his goods cannot be sold in ti. Thus, he found you, hoping you could help him promote his goods and attract more custors to purchase.
Quest Objective: Help the traveling rchant promote his goods and attract custors to purchase, ensuring he can sell enough goods and earn enough gold coins before the war breaks out.
Quest Reward: Issued based on completion degree. (Including but not limited to: Experience, Favorability, Gold Coins, etc.)
And the mysterious mage, who was just saying he needed to think of a way to make people here believe he was an honest rchant, casually set up a stall by the roadside and sat down.
He had absolutely no intention of promoting the goods himself.
The players, however, were extrely surprised by the newly popped-up quest. After asking around, they found that everyone nearby had received this quest. This was their first ti receiving a regional quest.
However, a player from the Romunik novice village recognized this mysterious profiteer at a glance and exclaid, "Holy crap, why did this profiteer run to Loluosier City? I thought he was a ti-limited encounter NPC!"
"What? Do you know this NPC?" Soone nearby imdiately asked.
"I know him. I saw him in the novice village before. It's said he's a rchant traveling everywhere. At that ti, he also issued a regional quest in the novice village. After completion, a product list opened up. If his favorability is high, a skill list can also be opened, allowing you to learn skills from him. Many high-level magic skills, just that he's too much of a profiteer!"
"But this NPC only stayed in our novice village for a few days and then disappeared. Soone on the forum speculated he's an encounter-type NPC whose location refreshes randomly."
"Damn, then why didn't our novice village have this NPC?"
"Who knows?"
"By the way, regarding this quest, promote his goods... Promote to whom? NPCs? Or players? Say, if I go up and buy two things from him now, does it count as completing the promotion quest?"
The players whispered among themselves. Yan Yunqing sat as steady as Mount Tai, pretending he couldn't hear the players' conversation at all, waiting for the first sucker to co up.
Sure enough, a player soon stepped forward: "Lord Traveling rchant, can I see what you are selling? I was recomnded by soone."
Yan Yunqing looked up at that player. The concealnt effect of the hood ant that even though he looked up and faced the player directly, the player couldn't see through the shadow cast by the hood to see his face clearly beneath it.
"Of course. Were you recomnded by my old custor? You can choose at will."
As he spoke, Yan Yunqing threw the prepared items into the trading interface, putting everything on the shelf. Considering the upcoming faction war, Yan Yunqing put up quite a few weapons, life-saving items, and so trash pulled from blind boxes.
He conveniently marked the other party's promotion quest as successful.
He issued 1000 experience points to the other party. Staring at his own experience bar, sure enough, the last digit automatically increased by 100 experience points after the player completed the quest.
As expected, when players completed quests he issued, he also received experience rewards.
Although the experience reward ratio wasn't much, only 10% of the experience he issued, Yan Yunqing was very excited.
Though this 10% looked a bit small, he was the one issuing the quests. How much experience to reward was also up to him. Moreover, it wasn't like he could only issue a quest to one player at a ti; he could issue multiple regional quests.
Like this product promotion, one player completing it only gave 100 points, but what if a hundred, a thousand, or ten thousand players all ca to complete this quest?
It was practically painless leveling!
This was the correct way to use a golden finger.
Yan Yunqing was in a good mood. He casually increased the favorability for the player in front of him a bit and opened his skill list to them.
Originally tempted by the items in the product list and debating whether to buy a few more, the player then saw the even more luxurious skill list and the blindingly expensive prices behind them.
Player: Damn it, who can resist spending money on this?
Tearfully spending the last gold coin on this profiteer, the profiteer chuckled. After trading the goods over, he generously issued a new stage of quest rewards for the player's promotion quest.
[You successfully promoted the product [XX Potion] for the traveling rchant... The traveling rchant thinks you have a very promising future. His favorability towards you has increased.]
[You obtained Experience x5000, Gold Coins...]
Although the money reward received was only one percent of what he spent, for every item sold, he could obtain quite a lot of experience points. Calculating it, it was surprisingly cost-effective?
Player: Eh? Does this count as commission?
Wait, if he brought other players or other NPCs to buy things here, would he be able to get more commission?
...He seed to have found the correct way to open this quest?!
The player looked at the quest still showing "In Progress," and his whole being fired up.
With a kind smile, Yan Yunqing watched players squeeze to his side one by one, paying large sums of money to buy the trash in his backpack that he had long wanted to clear out, while also providing him with a large amount of experience points. In just one hour, his level was about to approach level seventy-six!
Grinding monsters above his level wasn't as fast as sitting here selling things!
This was the correct way to open the quest system!
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