Chapter 10
Because so many players were pestering him to become their apprentice, Brett was a little annoyed by her similar rhetoric. "Alright, I got it. If you want to become my apprentice, show your skills and make me a set of [Rough Shoulder Guards] right away! Don't submit anything unqualified."
[Bright's task: Make a set of [rough shoulder pads] that he is satisfied with (time limit: 24 hours)]
[Making a crude shoulder guard: Requires 3 Dahra crystals (green or green-blue), 3 Dunba bison leathers, 50ml of melted rubber]
As long as she received the task, Xia Mo politely said thank you and left the crowd with satisfaction. As for the other party's attitude towards her? It doesn't matter.
She had come across NPCs with worse tempers than Brett, so this tone was nothing at the moment.
And even if there was anything, she had to greet them with a smile. Because, in this game, NPCs were the ones that absolutely could not be offended.
With the mission, Xia Mo turned and left.
However, just as he took a step forward, a player behind him suddenly started shouting.
"What's with your attitude? He's just an NPC, why are you being so arrogant?"
"I'm just a blacksmith, what's so great about that? Without this title, who would want to come here?"
"Exactly. How on earth are the characters designed in this game? They're so unlikable."
Xia Mo raised his eyebrows.
Without looking back, she already knew the fate of these shouters.
Recite it silently in your heart three times.
As she expected, the cries and howls continued.
"Oh my god, he deducted 20 points from my favorability! My favorability has turned negative!"
"Woo woo woo, I deducted 10!"
"Good fellow, he's taking revenge on a personal level!"
"Oh no! I heard that if you have a negative number, you can't accept quests anymore. You have to refresh it to a positive number. Is that true?"
"No way! I haven't finished my professional mission yet. Let me see! Holy shit! The mission is really frozen! Ahhhh, I'm going crazy!"
Ghosts howled and wolves cried out, and the front of Brett's blacksmith shop had turned into a place of mourning.
However, no matter how loudly they shouted, the other players only dared to watch from afar, and no one was willing to step forward to comfort them.
It's so funny. Anyone with a discerning eye could see that they were rude and offended Brett. Who would dare to bring the fight upon themselves?
After hearing the expected ending, Xia Mo turned around calmly and left the noisy scene like the wind.
And the moment she turned around, a male player of the same profession as her just passed by her.
Fenghuo Xi Zhuhou suddenly stopped where he was.
That female star official just now seemed a little familiar?
He quickly turned around and looked suspiciously.
Suddenly, the other person's back as he walked away quickly overlapped with a scene in his memory, and his heart suddenly trembled.
Holy shit, isn't that the boss in his video?!
*
Fenghuo stared at it carefully again.
There was no mistake. Although he had only seen her profile for a moment, he was sure that the one who passed by him was the female star official!
This is also thanks to the unique face-shaping system of "Protoss".
When creating an account, the character's initial appearance is the player's original appearance. If the player does not want to change the character, he can directly enter the game with the original appearance.
However, considering the entertainment value of face-shaping, the planner still gives players a 10% floating space.
Fenghuo tried it when he was pinching his face. No matter whether he adjusted the appearance up or down, the final appearance was extremely similar to his original appearance, except that one was slightly lower in appearance and the other was slightly higher in appearance. In essence, the face was still his own.
Under this restriction, players' appearances always retain their original characteristics, so they will never have the same face as others in the game, avoiding the situation in the previous keyboard game era where everyone looked the same.
It was for this reason that Fenghuo was certain that he had not made a mistake just now.
With long straight black hair, a delicate yet realistic Barbie face, and that unique stern expression, he looks exactly like the person in his video!
After being 100% certain in his heart, Fenghuo couldn't help but wonder, what was the boss doing in the blacksmith shop?
Are you here to buy equipment, or do you want to learn forging skills like him?
Unable to figure out what the boss was thinking, Fenghuo simply stopped thinking about it and continued to rush towards the blacksmith shop.
Before speaking to Bright, he took a deep breath, rubbed his hands, and then, as if mustering great courage, humbly asked, "Mr. Bright, I've finished the [Rough Shoulder Pads] you requested. Are you satisfied with the quality this time?"
After saying that, hold your breath.
This was the third time he had handed in the shoulder guard.
The first two times, Brett always found fault with him. Either the crystals in the raw materials were of poor quality, resulting in too many impurities in the shoulder guards and making them unusable; or the rubber used was not completely softened, so that the joints between the shoulder guards were obviously stiff, making it difficult for the wearer to move freely.
He was not allowed to pass anyway.
So I learned from my mistakes.
When he started over again, he not only improved the quality of the Dahra crystal by one level, but also kept the rubber in a semi-fluid state throughout the process. Given this level, he didn't believe that Brett would not pass him!
With a nervous and uneasy mood, Fenghuo waited for the other party's answer.
"I clearly wrote in the materials list that I was using Dunba cowhide, yet you dared to fool me with ordinary bison hide! You've already wasted my kindness three times, playing tricks on the princes! I'm warning you, this is your fourth and final chance! If you still can't make something that satisfies me, pack up your things and get out! Don't delay my business!"
【You have been warned by Brett! 】
Playing with the princes with beacon fire: ???
how so? !
Didn't he use Dunba leather? How could it be bison leather?
Unable to believe Brett's evaluation, he quickly retrieved the shoulder pads he had made and opened the page of raw materials in the production details.
Then, I was dumbfounded.
Ahhhh! He actually used the wrong bullhide!!! He actually started swiping without even seeing the monster clearly!
Damn it, this is only one last chance left. If he can't complete it this time, he will probably be blacklisted by Bright!
Fenghuo was in tears and just wanted to smash his stupid head again!
A few seconds later, suddenly.
Thinking of something, he raised his head and his eyes quickly looked in the direction where the boss had left.
Yes, why didn’t I think of this trick!
He slapped his head, hope suddenly appeared in his eyes, and then without hesitation, he quickly chased after him.
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The task requires 3 Dahra crystals, which is almost no difficulty for Xia Mo.
She had mined once in the Liki Hills while doing her professional mission before. Now she was teleported there with ease and started digging directly at the edge of the hills.
The reason why we didn't go to the central area was because Brett only required the crystal quality to reach green grade.
This task is different from what mentor Quinn asked.
At the beginning, Quen said, "Bring back some Dahra crystals, this tower needs to be repaired." He did not clearly indicate the quality of the ore to be mined. Players can dig the lowest white quality, or bring back the relatively high blue quality. The final choice is entirely up to the players.
The items that players bring back are of high quality and may exceed the NPC's expectations, giving them a chance to receive additional rewards.
But Brett's current mission did not have this meaning.
Because the other party said very clearly - make a [rough shoulder guard]
The crude quality of the raw materials used must be low, and the mission details also explain this. Players only need green products or green-blue products.
If she was clever and deliberately dug up those high-quality crystals, it would be superfluous and would cause Brett's disgust.
So he found a piece of land at random, took out a small mining shovel, and started digging carefully.
The first crystal was soon unearthed.
[Obtain Dahra Crystal (Green)*1]
I moved to the side and continued digging, and successfully got the second piece.
[Obtain Dahra Crystal (Green)*1]
There is only one piece left.
Xia Mo looked down at his feet and found that there were not many crystals in this edge area, so he decided to walk a little towards the middle of the hill.
When the third shovel went down, she suddenly received a colored system prompt!
Normal messages are usually in white text. If they are in color, it means that the player has received some special reward.
Xia Mo's grip tightened. What had she dug up?!
[Congratulations, you got a Dakhla Crystal (Purple Orange)*1! ]
Purple orange product!
She was so excited that she almost jumped up!
It must be because of the title you got last time [Miner of the Liki Hills] - you have a 3% chance of digging out purple-orange Dahra crystal.
To be honest, she hadn't had any hope at all when she got this title. After all, the 3% drop rate was as difficult as winning the lottery, so when she came to mine today, she didn't think about it at all.
Who would have thought that she would actually run into one by accident!
Xia Mo accepted the purple-orange item with satisfaction. He planned to keep this crystal stone and use it to forge equipment for himself after he learned the forging skills.
The attributes of equipment made of purple and orange grades are much higher than those of purple grades. This is a great help for her who is obsessed with violent output.
There was still one piece of ore short of what Brett required. Xia Mo dug casually at his feet, and a piece of green-blue crystal fell out.
After putting the crystal into his backpack, Xia Mo turned around and was about to leave.
Suddenly, a figure appeared behind him.
She was extremely alert to all kinds of sneak attacks, so she spun around and dodged. At the same time, she swung the Star Staff in front of her.
boom!
The white cross star that is unique to star officials fell from the sky!
[You are attacked by the player "Mo Se", you can launch a counterattack]
Fenghuo was knocked to his knees by the sudden skill and looked dazed. He raised his head and looked at the small piece of his health bar that was left, and he was completely stunned.
What the hell is this skill? How did it instantly knock him down to such low health?!
Wait, isn't he also a Star Officer? Why doesn't he remember that Star Officers have such awesome single-target abilities?
After thinking about it quickly in his mind, Fenghuo couldn't figure out which skill was so powerful. Before he could ask, the next second, a cold and sharp dagger was against his throat.
"Sneak attack on me."
A pair of eyes, calm and without a trace of ripples, stared at him. In an instant, Fenghuo thought of a word - like falling into an ice cellar.
"No, no, boss... I wasn't s-sneak attacking you!"
Frightened to the point of being incoherent, Fenghuo froze in place, experiencing for the first time what it felt like to have his life in danger.
Xia Mo narrowed his eyes, scanned the ID above his head, his eyes flashed, and he retracted the dagger.
"If you don't want to sneak attack, then follow me?"
Not long after she left the blacksmith shop, she noticed this guy following her.
Xia Mo had been followed and ambushed many times in her previous life, so she was already accustomed to it. So she didn't expose it at the first time, but pretended to be unaware and took the person to the wilderness where there were relatively few people.
She wouldn't be marked as a red name if she took action in the wild, and she liked the feeling of being free.
But she didn't expect that the person following her was none other than Fenghuo Xi Zhuhou, the player who posted a message in his previous life complaining about dying numerous times in the Astrology Tower.
Seeing the dagger finally removed from his neck, Fenghuo's stagnant breathing began to flow again.
"I, I really didn't follow you, Boss..." His throat was choked, and all kinds of excuses came to his mind. "Well... I saw you in the Astrology Tower before. You passed the test of the Astrology Tower on your first try. You are very skilled. And, you also cleared the level 5 dungeon for the first time. I think you are very powerful..."
"Get to the point." Xia Mo interrupted expressionlessly.
Fenghuo's body tensed up: "Uh... that... the point is... I..."
As he spoke, he raised his eyelids to look at her guiltily. After stuttering for a while, he finally gritted his teeth, hardened his heart, and knelt on the ground with a thud!
"Boss, can I follow you on Brett's mission? I'm sorry, I know this sounds abrupt, but I'm really desperate! I want to learn blacksmithing, I want to become a blacksmith, but I failed my first three missions. This is my last chance, and I don't want to be rejected by Brett. Boss, I just followed you all the way, and I noticed that you seemed to have accepted Brett's mission as well, so I was wondering... I was wondering... if I could watch from the side! Learn a little!"
After saying that, Fenghuo shut up and waited nervously.
Will the other party agree, or will they just walk away like in a TV drama?
After holding his breath for a moment, he suddenly heard her ask.
"You said you saw me in the Astrology Tower?"
His narrowed eyes were full of unquestionable determination. Fenghuo looked into the eyes of the person in front of him and his heart trembled.
Oops! He seems to have let something slip!
Seeing his suddenly frightened expression, Xia Mo's pupils flickered slightly, and he probably guessed what he had done to him.
In his previous life, he had tried again and again to clear the Astrology Tower mission, and in order to record his mistakes, he recorded every attempt.
Although a lot of the plot has changed in this life because of her rebirth, what remains unchanged is that before he came into contact with her, Fenghuo Xi Zhuhou still followed his original historical line.
So when she was in the Astrology Tower, he should have been there too, and he turned on the video and recorded her.
"Did you save the video?"
Seeing the person in front of him was so scared that his face turned pale, Xia Mo sighed and softened his tone slightly.
Unfortunately, from Fenghuo's perspective, he felt the man before him was as clever as a sage, even predicting his secret videotaping! Suddenly, he dropped his kneeling position, leaning forward and kowtowed three times!
"Boss, I was wrong! I shouldn't have secretly recorded the video! And I shouldn't have uploaded it to the forum without your permission!"
"But I swear, I really didn't intend to release the video in the first place! I just wanted to save it in my personal space. Who knew I accidentally entered the wrong section? I'm going to delete the post right now!"
Xia Mo:?
"So, you uploaded it to the forum without my knowledge?"
Fenghuo rested his forehead on the grass and his whole body suddenly stiffened.
Shit, he seems to have exposed himself again!
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