◎She doesn't seem to be fully prepared◎

[King: Sergeant Wei Bamon is very interested in your information. Let's talk to him more. - Completed]

[Reputation +8]

[Since your mission completion rate exceeded expectations, Weibamon has decided to reward you with +5 reputation points]

Wow, in just one hour, she'd already earned 21 reputation points! Even faster than when she'd completed her Queen mission.

In the following time, Xia Li basically ran back and forth in the East District, sometimes helping the patrolmen clean the streets of the royal city, and sometimes helping to escort the outbound teams. In just one day, her reputation value accumulated to 101 points, and she directly rushed into the first page of reputation value.

A bored player was flipping through the leaderboard and found that her ID had shot up from the back row to the front like a rocket, at an astonishing speed.

"Why is she trying to gain reputation points? It's useless." The players started discussing.

"It's still somewhat useful. You can exchange it for equipment and items at the exchange center."

"Oh yeah, are there any new goodies coming out recently? If so, I'll go get some reputation points."

"There's nothing good here. I just took a look and it's all just ordinary blue gear, pretty useless."

"Forget it, I'd rather go out and kill monsters to gain experience, not reputation."

…

After coming to the conclusion that reputation points were useless, players stopped paying attention to her, and the world channel fell into a rare silence.

It was late at night, and the royal city, which should have been resting with the night, was now brighter than usual and very lively.

There were more people on the street than usual, including players and NPCs from outside the royal city.

NPCs all have their names and titles on their heads, and those without titles have simple background introductions, such as "a townsman from Auchindoun", "a hunter who happened to pass by the royal city", etc., which makes it easy for players to identify them at a glance.

Looking at the streets of the royal city which were much busier than usual, the players couldn't help but sigh.

"So this is the legendary Queen's Celebration. It's really grand."

"How can this be called a celebration? Didn't you read the official announcement? Today, tomorrow, and the day after tomorrow are just previews. The official celebration starts on the fourth day. The experience points and gold earned from killing monsters will be doubled. It's so cool!"

"I saw the notice too. It says the celebration will last for seven days and seven nights. Besides doubling the rewards, there will also be many special celebration events. Just thinking about it makes me excited! I feel like it's time to give it a try!"

"Wow, I was in the dungeon all day and didn't pay attention to the notification. There's actually something good like this? Come on, let's go around. Maybe there will be fun activities during the preview period. Don't miss it!"

Everyone nodded in agreement. The few players who were originally planning to go out of the city to kill monsters decided not to go out, but turned around and followed the crowd towards the palace.

The reason why there are three days of notice before the celebration is because the Shia continent is extremely vast. If some humans who are far away from the royal city want to go there, the journey alone will take 2-3 days. In order to allow these compatriots to catch up with the celebration, the queen has established a rule long ago - to reserve three days of travel time for guests from afar.

Therefore, during these three days, the royal city will continue to welcome humans from all over the place, including high-ranking people who have been granted titles by the queen, as well as ordinary, hardworking and simple villagers and fishermen. Anyway, as long as they are willing, the queen will express her warm welcome, and the city gates of the four areas of east, south, west and north will be open all day.

However, being open all day means that more people will want to enter the royal city, including some with ill intentions. Therefore, Wei Bameng and several other sergeants had already dispatched additional personnel to take turns stationing at the four city gates to strictly check the identities of everyone entering the royal city within these three days.

After discovering the presence of demons outside the city during the day, Wei Bamende became more cautious and assigned a new round of inspection tasks to the players who came to inquire, including a male priest named Bubble Water.

Wei Bameng patted his shoulder earnestly and said, "I heard about your glorious deeds from the Queen. She praised you highly. I believe there is no one more suitable than you to go and investigate."

[King: Sergeant Wei Bamon has commissioned you to investigate the movements of five demons outside the city.]

Bubble Water's eyes lit up. The queen's advice was indeed correct. Wei Bamon would give him a suitable mission in the royal city. So he frowned and accepted it with great joy.

As long as he successfully completes this task, he can prove his absolute loyalty to the queen, and then he will be able to own his own land in the royal city.

Land is such an important asset. At this stage, players do not have a fixed residence. If they want to settle down, they either have to pay to stay in an inn, go back to their own guild to find a vacant room, or go back to their professional territory.

Guild headquarters usually offer a number of unused rooms, but most guilds have far more members than they can accommodate, so only members with high contribution points are eligible to stay. The area of ​​professional territories is also limited, so there aren't enough rooms available for players to stay.

Naturally, there is always a group of players who are always in a state of displacement, sleeping on East Street today and West Street tomorrow. If they are lucky, they can avoid the inspection of night patrols. If they are unlucky and caught, they will face reputation deduction and blacklist warning.

It can be said that since entering the Miracle, they can't even get enough sleep, so how can they talk about personal development? Therefore, owning a stable home is the biggest dream of this group of players!

And sparkling water is one of these players.

Fortunately, his luck has turned around recently.

Whenever he thought of the majestic scene where he personally escorted the Demon Hunter to the Queen, and the shocked and envious looks on the faces of the surrounding players and NPCs, Bubble Water couldn't help but smile. So this is what it feels like to turn the tide against the odds? It was so damn awesome!

Three days ago, the Queen was very surprised that he had captured the demon hunter alive, and she rewarded him with 50 reputation points, 500 gold coins and a title of nobility on the spot.

A title of nobility is a good thing! According to his investigation, no player has ever received a title as a reward from the Queen, not even Summer Pear Blossom!

What does this mean? It means he is unique to the Queen!

At that time, he almost fainted with joy. After leaving the palace, he immediately took out the title given to him by the queen and looked at it carefully. Only then did he really realize how precious this thing was!

The title symbolizes status and power. No matter what he does in the royal city, he will always be one step ahead of others. At the same time, he can enjoy benefits that other players cannot enjoy - for example, purchasing land.

The queen once revealed to him that the territory of the royal city would be further expanded after a period of time, and the resources in the east and south areas would be the best at that time. If he was willing to offer absolute loyalty to the royal city, the queen would agree to sign a land contract with him at a very low price.

As Bubble Water ran out of the city, he was calculating his account. Although he had very few gold coins now, as long as he could complete this task, everything would be fine!

After leaving the city gate, Bubble Water pulled out his pet red-haired hound. The hound's sense of smell was much better than his. Following a small path, he soon found traces of the demons' stay 2 kilometers outside the city.

Xia Li walked in front, and a man and a woman followed behind, keeping a distance from her.

The palace is ahead. Although today is only the first day of the celebration preview, large and small activities have been arranged at the palace gate. The rewards for the activities are very rich. One of the gifts is the second enchantment material that players have been looking forward to - the Demon Eye.

Behind her, a man and a woman in cloaks couldn't help but sway slightly. Xia Li noticed the abnormality of the two people, so she pretended to walk through the crowd casually and finally approached the two people.

"Do you two know this?" she asked.

Collins had attacked her to steal the Demon Heart, the enchanting ingredient. Dog and Wen Li, like Collins, were demons, and when they saw the second enchanting ingredient, they had the same reaction as Collins. Xia Li had a hunch that something was fishy going on.

The lips of Doge, whose appearance had been changed by her using the Disguise Pill, trembled slightly: "This is... the eye of our demon race."

There was no mistake. Only they, as demons, could smell that this was a part of their compatriot's body. At that moment, Doge felt his heart beating extremely fast, and a hot current rushed to his brain, almost making him lose his balance.

Wen Li quietly helped him up, but her expression was clearly abnormal: "You humans are always so cruel in pursuit of power..."

Not only did they kill their people, but they also took some of their organs, packaged them, and finally transformed them into enchantment materials that humans fought over. How absurd and ridiculous it was. Those were once living beings.

Wen Li lowered her head, wanting to say something else.

Doug nudged her gently with his arm. His lips, which had been trembling slightly earlier, quickly regained their composure. He stared at the demon eye and said, "Our mission is to rescue Collins."

We’ll talk about other things later.

Xia Li looked at the two of them without saying a word. For a moment, she suddenly felt that she should not take on the task left by the Skeleton Mage Van Arnold to future generations.

Because she seemed not to be fully prepared to switch sides.

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