Chapter 94
She was crawling forward, and the exit was also moving forward...which meant that if she moved slower than the exit, she would never catch up.
She has persisted till this point, she will never give up!
Xia Mo immediately clenched his teeth and struggled to stand up with his limbs.
Staggering and trembling, she struggled to catch up like a rag doll that would fall down at any moment.
Sweat dripped down like raindrops, and his breathing was heavy as if he was carrying a thousand-pound burden on his shoulders. Xia Mo could no longer feel how his legs moved forward or how his arms swung by his sides.
She just felt like a rusty machine that would continue to run forward endlessly until the "stop" command was given.
After an unknown amount of time, she felt she was on the verge of mental and physical collapse.
The last time I was so exhausted physically and mentally was when I was fighting for the priest and fought with a player for dozens of rounds on the PK stage. I was so tired that I collapsed on the ground.
Unexpectedly, after being reborn, just over a month later, she experienced it again.
Not knowing whether she should comfort herself with the old saying "God gives great responsibilities to those who are capable of them", Xia Mo smiled bitterly. When she was about to touch the edge of the exit, she held her breath, used all her strength, and like a moth to a flame, she rushed towards the light regardless of everything.
system:
[Successfully passed the second level of the White Tiger Star Officer's career trial, gaining +50,000 experience points and +5 points to be allocated]
[Successfully unlocked the White Tiger Star Officer skill - Advanced Kill]
[Advanced Kill: Any spell or physical attack has a 10% chance of inflicting a one-hit kill on the enemy target (limited to 1 person)]
[Congratulations! The White Tiger Star Officer has been unlocked. Click here to enter the switch panel.]
Unlocked successfully!
Xia Mo looked at the system prompt tiredly, trying hard to force a smile of relief.
It’s not easy!
The first and most important thing is that she has to dodge hidden arrows throughout the whole process, and the second one is to defeat the white tiger and run faster than the exit. Looking at the difficulty of this level, even she, who has been through hundreds of battles, couldn't help but complain. This is not a trial, it is clearly a test of life!
After cursing the planner in his heart, Xia Mo rested for a while, drank the medicine he needed to drink, replenished his stomach, and distributed the newly obtained points. Then he stood up and prepared to go back to the door of Marjorie, the blacksmith in the royal city, to squat and try to take the forging task today.
Previously, because of the bad luck buff, she was rejected by Marjorie. Now that she has no burden, Xia Mo is very confident about receiving the task today.
He rode the little black horse all the way back to the royal city in a hurry.
As before, Marjorie was still trimming flowers and plants in his beloved yard. Seeing her coming, Marjorie snorted softly but said nothing.
Xia Mo knew that he had upset him last time because he had not answered the question well, so he specially thought about it again on the way here today, and revised the words again and again, hoping to satisfy him.
Unexpectedly, just as she was about to speak, Marjorie suddenly put down the scissors in her hand and walked towards her.
"Young man, forging isn't as easy as you think. But since Brett praised you so highly in his letter, I'll tentatively agree to let you learn from me."
Xia Mo: Hmm???
Before I could react, a system prompt popped up.
[Master Blacksmith Marjorie has agreed to take you in as his apprentice (Current Blacksmithing Level: Level 10 9%, Blacksmithing Title: Apprentice)]
Do you agree now?
Xia Mo was stunned on the spot. Happiness came too quickly, so she, who had been unlucky for a long time, was stunned for several seconds before she finally realized that she had succeeded in becoming a disciple!
She was so excited that she jumped on the spot. For a moment, she was extremely grateful to her first master, Brett!
"Young man, I need you to complete something like this. If you can deliver it to me within three days, I'm willing to reward you with something good."
Marjorie ignored her excitement and began to assign the first forging task.
[Marjorie's mission: Create a set of reinforced armor (time limit: 72 hours)]
[Reinforced Armor: Requires 20 Copper Ingots, 20 Tin Ingots, 20 Gold Scale Armor]
Wow, after seeing the materials needed for the armor, Xia Mo’s surprise instantly cooled down by half.
She stared at the corresponding quantities of materials on the list for a while, then let out a long sigh. Among the three items, two were not easy to obtain.
The NPCs who had forged things for the royal family were indeed different. Even the difficulty of the tasks assigned to them was twice that of the ones in Buluo Town.
Xia Mo was shocked, but he took the task obediently.
The copper ingots in the list were easy to deal with. She had just bought 800 crystals from Fenghuo more than a week ago, which was equivalent to exactly 100 copper ingots. She could just take 20 of them to settle the matter.
As for the tin ingots...
Without thinking, Xia Mo contacted Fenghuo in his friend list.
[Mo Se: I need 20 tin ingots, delivered within 2 days, take it?]
Tin ingots, like copper ingots, are also synthesized from crystals. However, unlike the synthetic materials of copper ingots, tin ingots require a kind of stone called [Comman volcanic stone] to be synthesized.
The stone is as famous as its name, and this material can only be mined near the Kangman volcano.
As a person who is always busy and short of time, Xia Mo firmly believes that if something can be solved with money, she does not need to do it herself.
What's more, digging stones is originally the job of a miner. She is a blacksmith with no mining skills. Even if she goes to the volcano map in person, she may not be able to dig stones.
Therefore, professional matters should be left to professionals.
Soon, the beacon fire on the other end replied: [Accept!]
Xia Mo's eyebrows relaxed: [Okay, you name a price and I'll transfer the money to you]
Being already familiar with this process, Fenghuo immediately took out the price list under the current economic conditions and gave her a number.
Xia Mo was about to transfer the money when the system reminded him: [The current transfer amount is greater than 100 gold. To ensure fairness in the game, please go to the city hall or post office to complete the relevant procedures.]
Xia Mo was stunned for a moment, then he remembered that after the game was updated with the patch, any transactions between players exceeding 100 gold would have to go through official procedures.
It is indeed safer to do so.
With the official stamp, if either party wants to go back on their word or commit fraud, the other player can recover their losses by suing.
Those who are prosecuted will receive an official red card warning after it is found that they have indeed committed illegal acts.
This function protects the security of players' funds during transactions to a large extent, but at the same time, in order to obtain this protection, both players must pay 10% of the total transaction amount as tax, which is specifically used to support this business.
10% of 100 gold is 10 gold. You can buy a bottle of intermediate potion at this price. The tax rate is quite high.
At that time, many players complained that the tax rate was too high and asked the authorities to reduce it appropriately.
But how could the official reduce it?
You should know that every penny earned by players in "Protoss" is borne by the government of Alman Star. In order to reduce government spending as much as possible, the official is racking their brains to make a profit for the government of Alman Star.
Therefore, it is absolutely impossible to lower the tax rate, and it may even increase further in the future.
Of course, that was a long time in the future. At the moment, Xia Mo still couldn't help but be amazed. It turned out that life was happier when he didn't have to pay taxes.
Although she is not short of money now, she still feels a little pain in her heart when she thinks about handing over 10% of the gold coins.
Of course, she was not the only one who felt pain. Fenghuo was also heartbroken for a long time after receiving the system message.
Unfortunately, there is no point in feeling pain, everyone has to play by the rules of the game.
Xia Mo had a brief discussion with him and finally decided to go to the post office to handle the formalities.
The reason was simple: the post office was closer to the city gate, making it convenient for them to complete the transaction earlier after entering the city.
After paying, Fenghuo clutched his wallet in pain: "If I had known earlier, I would have done the deal with a few other clients in advance. This would have saved me a lot of money..."
Xia Mo looked at him and thought that everyone had the same feeling after this function was launched.
However, she only said these words in her heart. On the surface, she and Fenghuo parted ways at the door of the post office, then left the royal city and ran towards a high-level map outside the city.
The golden scale armor comes from a fish monster called the Potos, which is distributed in many maps and is generally around level 35.
Her previous level was 27, and today, after clearing the double trial of the hidden profession, her level was raised to 28. In addition, she has high output, so she has almost no pressure in dealing with the level 35 Potos.
However, monsters that are not difficult for her are sometimes more difficult for many players than dungeon bosses. Because of this, players basically do not come to farm Portofish, and the NPCs in the trading company are not selling it yet.
So even if Xia Mo had the money, he had nowhere to buy it and had to do it himself.
The portobello fish is very cunning and ferocious. When players catch them, they must be careful not to let it bite off their flesh.
Losing blood is one thing, but the main problem is that the fish's wound has a sequelae - parasitism.
If the player is accidentally parasitized by the worms in its body, the system will prompt the player that his body is in a sick state.
When in sick state, the player's attack, defense, speed and other attributes are all halved, and the physical strength and health volume drop very quickly. Unless the player finds the corresponding potion for treatment in time, he will die within 1 hour.
It's a very annoying debuff. Xia Mo is in a hurry and doesn't want to be infected by them at all.
She rented a boat from an NPC by the lake. She rowed the boat at a steady speed to the small island in the center of the lake, then sat down, put out the fishing net, and waited quietly.
While waiting, she suddenly remembered that she had sent an anonymous package to Zhuye Zuijiu before.
The latter did not respond after receiving it.
As he was free now, Xia Mo came to check the "after-sales" personally.
When he opened the forum, he found that the defamatory posts that Zhuyezuijiu had hired to post had been deleted, and those remarks that followed the rumor-mongering about Qingyao had also disappeared from the forum.
It seems that the anonymous package is still useful. Xia Mo curled the corners of his lips and was quite satisfied with Zhuye Zuijiu's approach.
Unfortunately, simply deleting the post is not enough.
For more than a week, Zhuye Zuijiu kept sending people to attack her secretly, trying to teach her a lesson. However, none of the people he sent could fight her, and they were all beaten to death by her.
If she hadn't kept a backup plan and recorded the sound from one of them, she wouldn't have known that these attackers were secretly arranged by Zhuye Zuijiu.
All I can say is that it is difficult to change one's nature, even if she were to start over again, many things would have changed because of her, but the disgusting nature of some people would not change no matter how much a butterfly's wings flapped.
Xia Mo sneered, searched for Zhuye Zuijiu's ID, and sent him a private message: [No apology?]
After waiting for several minutes, the other party finally replied: [I have already deleted the post, what else do you want from me? ]
Xia Mo remained calm and continued typing: [Apologize, publicly]
Looking at her reply, Zhuye Zuijiu, who was leading people to dig for treasure chests, glared and exploded instantly.
"Is she fucking sick? She's haunting me like a ghost! I've deleted the post, and had those people delete their accounts. I even lost the guild war to them, Qingyao, but why is she still pestering me!!!"
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