Chapter 22
"Your desserts are delicious. Even I, a citizen of Non-Luvalu County, have heard of you."
Xia Mo answered with a smile while tasting it.
Her answer was flawless, and Ashaya's suspicions vanished. She smiled shyly, "Thank you for the compliment, but I'm still a long way from matching my grandmother's cooking skills."
Xia Mo smiled and said, "It's okay. I believe you will become a very successful pastry chef in the future."
"Really? Thank you so much for your encouragement!" Ashaya's eyes twinkled, a happy smile on her face. "You're the first guest who thought I could go to the Royal City. I'm so happy today. Consider this your treat!"
[Gain Asaya's Favorability +5]
The other party offered to waive the bill, so Xia Mo naturally didn't refuse and said "thank you" with a smile.
There is something very unique about Ashaya's desserts. In addition to restoring a certain amount of satiety, they occasionally come with some unexpected special effects.
For example, right now, after Xia Mo ate the dessert, not only did his satiety value increase by 20 points, but he also gained an automatic blood recovery buff.
[Eat Ashaya's dessert, HP +3/second]
Although the base number is a bit small, only recovering 3 health points per second, you should know that this is only Asaya's current level. After she goes to the Royal City, these buff effects will make players scramble for them.
After eating and drinking, Xia Mo looked towards a mountain outside of Luwalu County. She narrowed her eyes and asked Ashaya, "Has there been any unusual changes in Dragon Valley recently?"
Ashaya was slightly startled and paused. "So that's why you came here? There's been some activity in Dragon Valley lately. I heard from the hunter next door that all the beasts in Dragon Valley have fled. It seems there's something there that scares them."
The thing you're afraid of...isn't it referring to the giant dragon sleeping at the bottom of the valley?
Xia Mo understood in his heart, but did not say it on his face: "Okay, I understand, thank you."
After talking with Ashaya, Xia Mo immediately received the news that the mission was completed.
[The mayor has received your letter. Main quest completed! Experience +800, Silver +3]
Perhaps because she ran so far, the mayor actually rewarded her with 3 silver coins.
Even though it was not even a fraction of what one would pay for a golden horse, it was still a considerable expense for the mayor of a not-so-rich town.
After all, he got back a little bit of his money. Xia Mo was not greedy and accepted the reward with satisfaction.
At this point, all main quests within level 10 have been completed. If players want to take on more main quests, they can go to the royal city or other cities to collect them.
However, Xia Mo does not plan to take on the main quests anymore. On the one hand, the rewards for the main quests are relatively low and the cost-effectiveness is not high; on the other hand, the target audience of such quests are not players like her.
In her previous life, she had received quite a few in the royal city, intending to use them to trigger some hidden plots and thus obtain special rewards. However, after her diligent errands, she found no hidden clues at all.
Not only her, but other players didn't notice it either.
By that time, she and the others realized that the main quest of "Protoss" would not come with any hidden plots. If they wanted to find the Easter eggs, they had to go through other ways, such as taking on side quests, city quests, military quests, etc.
Later, Xia Mo thought about it and felt that the game was set up this way, and it made sense. After all, this was a game for everyone on the planet Alman, and its audience included not only young people, but also uncles, aunts, and even grandparents.
Because they are older, these players are less likely to go into dungeons or kill high-difficulty monsters with young people. At most, they will kill some small monsters on a simple map, and then start to be a scenery party or a leisure party. In order to make their gaming experience not too boring, the main quests in major cities have their meaning of existence.
The main quests are of low difficulty, but they are numerous and interesting. As long as the player is willing, he can continue to do them.
Moreover, completing the main mission can also earn experience points and coins as rewards, which is also a continuous positive feedback for older players, so it is worthwhile for them to keep playing.
In a word, the main quest is suitable for casual and older players, but not for people like Xia Mo who pursue levels and strength.
The town of Biblo in Luwalu County was bustling. After leaving the stall, Xia Mo didn't leave the county immediately. Instead, she bought two loaves of rye bread at a bakery. The price was not expensive, and the main thing was to fill her stomach. After all, the place she was going to run was also quite far, so how could she go without some dry food?
In addition, mounts can also be arranged.
As long as the player reaches level 10, the panel will automatically refresh the mount system.
Xia Mo doesn't have high requirements for his mount, as long as it has good endurance.
She asked a passerby NPC and found out about the nearest horse trading market. When she went in, she found it was very lively. People were choosing horses, riding horses, asking about horses... The edge of the pasture was packed with people.
If it was just the large number of people, Xia Mo would be used to it. After all, the flow of people in the royal city is much larger than here. What concerned her most was that among these NPCs coming and going, there were actually some players.
Yes, she was not mistaken, it was a player, the kind with the same identity as her.
Xia Mo narrowed her eyes, clicked on the level list of Buluo Town, and found that she was the only one who had reached level 10.
In other words... these players who appeared at the horse farm came from other novice villages.
In fact, Buluo Town is just one of dozens of novice villages. After the player creates an account, he will be randomly assigned to any novice town by the system.
Before level 10, the relationship networks of these towns are independent and do not interact with each other; after level 10, players can go to more distant maps, and these towns will intersect.
Luwalu County is far away from the town of Buluo, but it is very close to several nearby novice towns. As long as players reach level 10, they can come to the county to complete tasks and play.
Xia Mo thought about it and clicked on the world rankings. Now that she had left the Novice Village, she could view the world's related information and rankings.
At a glance, the top ten were all level 10 players like her, and some of them had higher overall combat power than her, surpassing her.
The spirit of not giving up suddenly rushed up, and Xia Mo immediately picked a horse with high endurance and bought it. He also bought two bags of horse rations as a backup.
The rations were not expensive, costing her only 4 silver coins, but the main expense was buying the horse, which cost her a full 50 silver coins.
Although Xia Mo was heartbroken, he knew that the money had to be spent.
The levels of players in other towns have been slowly rising, so she has to shorten her travel time so that she can devote more energy to leveling up.
As soon as he said he would practice, Xia Mo led the little black horse out of the trading field, rode it skillfully, and galloped out of the county.
"Heiye, that person seems to be black."
In the trading floor, a player stared at Xia Mo's departing back with curiosity.
Beside him, the sorcerer named Black Domain Sky-lifting narrowed his eyes slightly: "It's her."
"Oh, we missed it. We should have stopped her and asked her to join our guild." The speaker slapped his forehead and expressed regret.
Black Domain Qingtian curled his lips and said, "No problem. With our guild's benefits, she will definitely be willing to come in."
"That's right. From the way she was choosing the horse just now, it looked like she didn't have much money. That's unfortunate. The last thing our Black Master lacks is money, hahahaha!"
Hei Yu Qing Tian glanced coldly at the speaker, who realized he had said too much today and quickly covered his mouth: "...Sorry, Mr. Hei..."
After saying that, he shrank his neck and went to the trading desk to ask for the price.
Not long after, he came running back: "Heiye, what you want is five Anlu horses and five Ferghana horses. The owner said the total is 500 gold coins."
500 gold, a huge sum of money that is unimaginable in the eyes of ordinary people, is as light as a feather in the eyes of Heiyu Qingtian.
"Well, pay it."
He didn't even look at the price list, just glanced at it casually and waved his agreement.
*
Xia Mo found a map nearby, dismounted, and released the divine beast Jingjing from its home.
After being locked up for several hours, it started rubbing itself as soon as it came out.
Xia Mo admits that any animal is really cute when we are young!
She resisted the urge to pet it and pointed to the wolf in the open space ahead: "Try attacking one?"
Jingjing let out a howl, rushed forward, and clawed the wolf hard.
The wild wolf was several times taller than it. Xia Mo was a little worried at first that Jing Jing would be bitten back, so he silently held the Star Staff behind his back in preparation. Unexpectedly, with one claw, the wild wolf's health bar dropped by one third, and with another claw.
Skill Thunder Strike!
-890!
The wolf fell to the ground.
Xia Mo looked at it and suddenly smiled.
Jingjing is a divine beast with such strong attack power, what does she have to worry about?
She smiled and shook her head, then she fenced off a piece of land for it to level up in, while she herself killed black bear monsters nearby.
Black bear monsters are around level 15, and you can still gain experience points above your level by killing them. Xia Mo tried it and found that he could only get 1,300 experience points by killing 1.
From level 10 to level 11, a total of 25,000 experience points are required. If you only rely on the monsters near the town of Buluo or the Dunba bison in the Dunba Hills, I don’t know how long it will take to complete the level.
But if you change it to black bear monsters, you only need 20 to upgrade.
With the carrot hanging in front of him, Xia Mo was full of energy.
An hour and a half later, the 20th black bear monster fell to the ground, and she successfully reached level 11.
On the world rankings, her ID jumped to the top of the list.
The little divine beast also made commendable progress. Within 90 minutes, it killed a total of 30 wild wolves, a number that was even more impressive than that of its master Xia Mo.
It jumped from level 0 to level 5 in an instant, and in the battle pet panel, its various attributes automatically increased.
"Jingjing is so good~" Xia Mo smiled and touched its head. He picked up a piece of thigh meat that had fallen from the wolf pile and handed it to it. "Would you like something to eat?"
Jingjing let out a howl, his eyes shining, and immediately pounced on the meat and bones and chewed them wildly.
But after only a few bites, it suddenly stopped.
Xia Mo was puzzled: "What's wrong? Aren't you hungry?"
Jingjing kept shaking his head.
[The divine beast 朏朏 is not interested in your wild wolf meat. Please try another food.]
Xia Mo's mouth twitched. He didn't expect that the little guy didn't like to eat wolf meat. What about black bear meat?
Then he picked up meat from various parts of the black bear and placed them in front of it.
The response was still a shake of the head.
Hiss, Xia Mo was in trouble now. The divine beast was a carnivore, so it shouldn't dislike meat.
The one she had raised before loved to eat all kinds of wild meat and would eat anything that came her way.
But wait, she suddenly thought of something. Wild meat... cooked meat...
Xia Mo was surprised: "You don't like cooked meat, do you?"
“Ouch~”
[The divine beast 朏朏 is very satisfied with your proposal! ]
Xia Mo:?
No way, then she would have to learn [Cooking] as well!
Recalling the experience in her previous life when she blew up the NPC's kitchen three times and ended up paying a full 100 gold in compensation and was never allowed to set foot in the kitchen again... Xia Mo felt terrible.
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