Chapter 23

"From what I've observed, you seem to be interested in history as well?"

"Yes."

Ye Bai immediately stopped and turned to look at the NPC. While answering her, he threw an [Identify] at the other party.

Identity: Librarian,???

Level: ? ?

Occupation: Historian IV, ???

life:? ? ?

As expected, Ye Bai received a series of question marks. Identification works based on the level difference. The more the level of an NPC exceeds one's own, the less information will be seen. In the inner city of a main city like Melo City, nine out of ten people are high-level NPCs. It is normal for this situation to occur.

Judging from the fact that so much information is filled with question marks, the NPC who called out to Ye Bai should be at least a second-level or even third-level professional.

Being a librarian in a magical capital city that values ​​knowledge might lead to a combat profession like a great magician or mage.

"It's truly rare. Young people these days are so impetuous. It's rare to find someone like you who can calm down and study history. I have a commission for historical research. Perhaps... you'd be willing to give it a try?"

[Mello City librarian Anita has issued you the task of "Historical Research". Do you accept it?]

Ye Bai's eyes lit up and she immediately chose to accept it. This was what she had been waiting for!

Then, the librarian named Anita began to introduce Ye Bai, "There are various societies in Melo City that were established for the study of magic. Ever since the Arcane Association established the society subsidy resources, these societies, big and small, have developed a bad trend in order to compete for resources. They even fabricated and tampered with historical data to exaggerate the magical prospects of their own schools..."

"...I have some recent questionable research from several societies. I hope you can help me identify any falsehoods and verify the authenticity of this information."

[New task 'Historical Research - Distinguishing Authenticity']

Mission Description: Librarian Anita is dissatisfied with the society's tendency to arbitrarily add to and modify historical materials. She hopes that you can clearly identify them one by one and restore the true history.

Mission Reward: Unknown

[Obtain the quest item 'Suspicious Research Results' x4]

"no problem."

After taking the information handed over by Anita and successfully receiving the task, Ye Bai did not delay and checked the detailed information of the four "suspicious research results" one by one.

The link between the fall of the Tutankhamun dynasty and the misuse of fire magic

"How come an elven dragon isn't considered a dragon?"

'Proof of the real existence of elemental biological civilization'

'Ten legendary magical creatures in inventory, the first one is this'

These research materials, which have clickbait-style titles, are of course all fake. The specific content is in the form of serious reports, not real papers. The content is conclusions in paragraphs. All players have to do to distinguish the authenticity is to select all the erroneous paragraphs and submit them to the NPC.

Of course, the trial-and-error method is not feasible. If four submissions are incorrect, the task will be considered a failure and the task reward will be cancelled, even if the correct answer is found later.

Under normal circumstances, the standard strategy for this task is that the player needs to walk around the inner city, obtain information from the words of different NPCs, and finally identify all the wrong content.

Because these contents are the means used by various societies in the city to defraud funds, they are all exaggerated headlines. The residents living in the main magic city are all high-level NPCs, most of whom are powerful people proficient in magic, and these contents will be discussed by them as a collection of jokes.

For ordinary players, this is a time-consuming and energy-consuming task, and the difficulty lies in requiring sufficient care and patience.

But for Ye Bai, these are obviously not necessary...

After receiving the task, Ye Bai simply picked up a page of information at random: "A list of the top ten legendary magical creatures, the first one is this."

"Sixth place, the dragon clan..."

"First place, Slime..."

Ye Bai quickly checked off all the ten listed magical creatures. This was the most confusing information for players, because if you went to the streets to ask NPCs, you would find that different NPCs and forces had different ideas about the ranking of legendary magical creatures, just like later generations making inventories of the ancients for various purposes. It was all opinions, not facts.

Therefore, the entire ranking of this information is wrong. From the perspective of history, ranking is simply a false proposition. Existence is history, and its high or low cannot be evaluated if it is not in the same time dimension.

The next article was titled "The Link Between the Fall of the Tutankhamun Dynasty and the Abuse of Fire Magic." Ye Bai ticked off four more incorrect options. The Tutankhamun Dynasty lasted only fifty years from its founding to its fall, and it was a war-crazed force that ultimately incurred public wrath and was attacked. This had nothing to do with whether or not they used magic, let alone fire magic. Magic discrimination is unacceptable...

'Swish, swish, swish'...

In less than a minute, Ye Bai checked out all the incorrect contents in the four documents. He even checked again in the process to make sure he had not remembered it wrong.

Ye Bai was familiar with the question bank of the entire task, so it was of course easy for him to answer these four questions.

Then Ye Bai walked to... No, there was no need to walk. She looked up at Anita and chose to submit the task.

"……ah?"

Anita was stunned for a moment, looking a little confused by Ye Bai's speed. Then she seemed to react and took the information and looked through it page by page.

After reading it, Anita pulled her glasses down, revealing her emerald green eyes as she scanned Ye Bai from head to toe, looking at him with admiration.

"I'm really surprised by your accumulated knowledge and talent for history. Would you like to be my student? Of course, I mean in the subject of 'history'."

[Anita is willing to accept you as a student, and you will be given the secondary profession 'Historian I'. Do you agree?]

【yes】

A light flashed on Ye Bai's body, and the next moment, his personal panel changed. The occupation column had an additional information of [Historian I] as introduced.

Obtaining this secondary job was the reason why Ye Bai came to the library in the first place.

A secondary profession is also a life profession. To obtain the secondary profession of [Historian], the trigger condition is to read ten basic history books in the library. This condition is easy to meet in libraries with more book categories such as the Magic Main City and the Alchemy Main City, because the requirement must be "history books" and they must also be history books that beginners can understand.

If the Chaos Main City Library does not have such a complete range of books, it will not be so fast. You will need to go to multiple libraries to find enough basic history books to meet the triggering conditions.

The triggering conditions for several other knowledge-based secondary professions in the game, such as [Botanist], [Zoologist], etc., also follow a similar process and are semi-hidden life professions.

When Ye Bai obtained the deputy position, Anita nodded to her with satisfaction: "Not bad, I hope you can go further on this path in the future."

[New task 'Mentor's Expectations']

Mission Description: Your instructor hopes that you will make achievements in history learning and improve your professional proficiency in 'Historian I' to 100%.

Mission reward: Upgrade to Historian II; unknown;

After saying this encouragement, Anita ignored Ye Bai and lowered her head to continue reading.

The task Ye Bai completed before was the test of the history tutor, and he got his first job. This [Tutor's Expectation] is a long-term task with no time limit. When the professional proficiency is full, you can find the tutor to carry out new advanced tasks. After passing, you will receive rewards and your professional level will be changed to [Historian II].

Ye Bai opened his career panel and saw the information about the deputy position of historian.

Historian I

Job Description: You have already entered the subject of history. Now, use your inquiring eyes to discover the truths buried in history!

Professional proficiency: 0/100

Professional Skills - Archaeology: Ability to gain experience by excavating historical information; ability to discover hidden mission clues from historical information.

She immediately sought the position of deputy historian, mainly for the archaeological professional skills.

This is the life skill that best utilizes Ye Bai's information advantage, no doubt about it.

There are three ways to gain experience in Wanjie: combat, mission rewards, and life skills.

Generally speaking, the experience rewards from life skills are the least among all experience sources. After all, most life professions will have corresponding "artifacts". Relatively speaking, life professions like historians that do not have artifacts will have more experience rewards, but they are basically not as good as combat and mission rewards.

There is only one special case, that is when the 'Professional Inspiration' effect is triggered.

The most intuitive analogy is that if you learn the secondary profession of blacksmith, the rewards you get from making an ordinary white equipment and a rare blue equipment are obviously different. The latter is a geometric multiple of the former in terms of proficiency and experience.

As for the secondary job of historian, whether the player discovers hidden history that has not been discovered by NPCs before during archaeological excavations, or corrects incorrect history during the discovery, as long as it is a "new historical discovery", they can obtain huge experience rewards!

New historical discoveries are rare for ordinary players, but for Ye Bai, a producer who is familiar with all the settings of the game, it is just a matter of following the map.

More importantly, Ye Bai also has the [Well of Origin] leading to the divine realm in his hand.

The God Realm is a strange world to the other worlds, and the broken God Realm is equivalent to a large relic, which is full of new history that has not been recorded!

Considering all the advantages, for Ye Bai, normal monster hunting is definitely not as good as the experience gained through the historian's secondary job.

Furthermore, players can also discover historical clues during archaeological excavations.

Ye Bai did not leave the library, but continued to read the advanced history books that could only be understood after becoming a "historian" on the nearby bookshelf.

[You gain 1 historical experience point from "The Birth of a Guild"; gain 40 experience points.]

You from...

There wasn't much experience gained from reading history books, but Ye Bai wasn't doing it for the experience.

You obtained the historical clue "Faith Gathering" from "History of the Development of Alchemy", gaining 2 historical experience points; you also gained 100 experience points.

After receiving this reminder, Ye Bai's brows relaxed.

All historical clues involve tasks, some of which are hidden tasks, but they often require various other conditions and information. It all depends on whether the player can finally dig them out.

You obtained the historical clue "The Pulse of Magic" from "The Establishment and Fall of the Blood Dynasty"; gained 2 historical experience points; gained 100 experience points.

You from...

You obtained the historical clue "Transcendental Collapse" from "The Third Revolution of Magical Concepts"; gained 2 historical experience points; gained 100 experience points.

A flash of light passed by, and Ye Bai had to level up again because of the depletion of his physical strength. The experience in the experience pool was now about 40% away from the next level. The experience gained from obtaining historical clues was more than usual, but it was also within the normal range and could not compare with new historical discoveries.

However, Ye Bai's purpose in reading history books was not for experience.

She did not forget the main purpose of her trip - to change jobs.

If you have the game guide but don’t switch to a powerful hidden profession, you would be doing a disservice to your identity as a game producer!

[Historian] can obtain historical clues such as 'Pulse of Magic', 'Transcendent Disintegration', and 'Faith Gathering' from advanced history books about the three schools. These clues are prerequisites for a series of hidden professions.

If you follow the normal task flow, you need to kill monsters first to obtain the same item with a very low drop rate, then hand it over to the appropriate NPC to trigger the task, obtain the clue item after completing it, and then find a historian NPC to obtain the "historical clue", and finally reach the same progress as Ye Bai's current progress.

If this prerequisite is not met, the task cannot be triggered even if you go to the task location.

Ye Bai then left the library and came to the city’s iconic statue of the goddess of elements and touched a fold on the goddess’ skirt.

A stream of magic flashed and flowed into her body through Ye Bai's fingertips.

【You get an unknown magic coordinate】

The next moment, a flying light appeared in Ye Bai's field of vision, flying around and pointing in the direction outside the city.

Naturally, the condition of 'touching the goddess' skirt' to obtain the coordinates originally required a series of tasks to know, but Ye Bai simply omitted it.

Following the guidance of the light spot, Ye Bai came all the way to the outside of Melo City.

From the moment he entered the outer city, he saw more and more players nearby. Even after Ye Bai left the outer city gate and entered the wild area, he could still see some of them. After all, it was a big main city, and there were more players coming here to look for opportunities.

The players were busy with their own things, and their levels and names were not visible, so Ye Bai's appearance did not attract any attention.

Following the instructions, Ye Bai walked through the woods until dusk, when he saw an abandoned dilapidated house in front of him.

The flying magic coordinates of light stopped on the roof of the dilapidated house and dissipated in the wind.

Ye Bai walked into the dilapidated house and took in the view inside. It could be described as a typical "bare-walled" house.

There were several thick layers of cobwebs in the corners of the roof. There was burnt coal in the fireplace in the corner, with some moldy wood left next to it. There was a pile of grass on the ground. The only furniture was a table with a scratched top and an extinguished oil lamp on it.

In this scenario that clearly required a puzzle, Ye Bai did not search the items in the room because he was destined to find nothing.

She walked straight to the table, picked up the oil lamp, and placed it where the lines converged, following the seemingly messy traces.

“Bang!”

The oil lamp crackled and the wick ignited automatically.

Ye Bai closed the door of the dilapidated house. In the windowless house, the oil lamp became the only source of light.

A strange thing happened. Because of the angle of the oil lamp light, a shadow like a door was formed on the ground in the room.

Ye Bai walked into the 'door' formed by the shadow.

"clatter."

The ground was flat before, but it suddenly became lower at this moment, and Ye Bai stepped on a step going down.

This is a typical magic chamber.

The normal process of the secret of the oil lamp should be that after the player arrives here, he should look for clues, and then start to explore who the owner of this place is. After completing a series of tasks, he will get the solution.

But when it comes to Ye Bai, there is naturally no need to say more -

Skip!

From the moment Ye Bai first entered the library and obtained the profession of historian, to the time he found key clues along the way and reached his destination, it can only be said that his efficiency reached the extreme, and no action was redundant.

At the same time, Ye Bai received a system prompt:

[You discovered the hidden location 'Leto's Secret Basement']

[You gain 5 historical experience points; you gain 5000 experience points.]