Chapter 35: Hard Life of a Professional Player, a Bad-name Planner

Yiyezhiqiu's speculation was correct, they did miss a lot of good things.

but--

What does this have to do with the honorable Demon King? Anyway, Luo Yan didn't miss any good things.

Don’t life players always complain about having no work to do?

This is not.

He's here to find work for them! ...

The entrance to the first floor of the maze.

In the hall covered with cobwebs, a group of blackened skeletons were standing in a line.

The reason why these guys are so dark is that they just came out of the coal mines. As for those who are not so dark, they are iron diggers.

Speaking of this, Luo Yan couldn't help but complain about the quality of the bones buried in the mine.

Perhaps it was because the people buried here had been dead for a long time, and some players' bones fell apart while digging, leaving only half of their bodies stuck on the ground.

Luo Yan really couldn't bear to deduct contribution points from these unlucky little guys who died accidentally, so he finally allowed them to pay with ghost money.

Why not just exempt it? Of course, that’s because some combat professional players protested, saying “This is not fair, unless I am exempted too”.

Let's compromise.

It's all ghost money whether he gives it or not, he thinks it doesn't matter, as long as the players are happy.

"Is everyone here?"

Appearing as a BOSS, Luo Yan counted the number of people present and found that there were surprisingly many players who came to join in the fun.

Not only players from the "Mining Department", but even those from the "War Department" came over.

He nodded with a satisfied expression on his face, and without waiting for the players to respond with a drawn-out "everyone is here", he went straight to the point.

"very good."

"In Hell, anatomy is a profound science, because the conditions and environment there are very harsh, and many resources need to be obtained from the corpses of monsters..."

"Among these, the most important and fundamental resource... is magic crystal."

From the magic crystal chalk used to draw magic circles and the wicks in the magic crystal lamps to the core units of war beasts and the core of the Demon Lord's territory...all of them are inseparable from the magical thing called magic crystal.

The most amazing thing is that this thing will only condense after the monster dies.

Not when alive.

Luo Yan reasonably suspected that this law might also have been set by a god in the first era.

But that's not important.

The important thing is that he is going to teach these little players how to collect magic crystals from the corpses of crypt spiders! Luo Yan erected a wooden board in the open space and started writing and drawing on it with a charcoal pencil.

"...Collecting magic crystals is a profound art. A skilled craftsman can remove the magic crystals within three cuts and keep the monster's body intact to the greatest extent possible without damaging other valuable materials."

Few people can understand those abstract scribbles.

Whether it was the players who were standing obediently, or Youyou who was watching this side worriedly.

Finally, the nosy Youyou couldn't help but speak in a low voice.

“Um… Respected, respected Demon King, you can just demonstrate it once in front of the video crystal. Youyou can help you upload the teaching video. If you demonstrate like this, even Youyou won’t understand what you are doing…”

Luo Yan, who was speaking vividly, froze in expression, and even forgot the lines he had just finished speaking.

However, the players couldn't see Youyou, so he was the only one standing there feeling awkward.

"...Okay, okay, I got it. Just shut up for now. This is acting. I'm acting out a plot animation. Why are you so anxious?"

Pushing the wooden board away in anger, Luo Yan took out the crystal ball from his arms and walked to the corpse of a burrow spider.

"…Theoretical teaching is over! Now, let me teach you the actual operation process."

As he spoke, he took out his wand and cast a cyclone spell to turn the body of the crypt spider over.

Then he operated the cyclone to float the crystal ball aside, took out a silver knife and cut open the back of the spider's head.

The dark green crystal is about the size of a thumb nail and is hidden near the superior pharyngeal ganglion.

With a light stroke of the knife, he picked out the magic crystal and held it on the tip of the knife to show it to the player.

"See, it's that simple."

Worried that the players couldn't see it, he even used his magic wand to light the torch nearby.

When seeing the Demon King's miraculous skills, many players applauded in amazement.

“Ohhh…”

“So that’s how it is!”

"As expected of the Demon King!"

Selectively ignoring the sounds of "skip" and "GKD", Luo Yan raised the corners of his mouth with a slight sense of pride.

joke.

After all, he is a top student who got full marks in theoretical courses.

Especially recently, not only the theoretical classes, but also the practical classes have improved visibly.

"Very good, very good. Now that you have learned it, let's start working!"

"Remember what I said, try not to destroy the monster's body to get the magic crystal!"

"There are a lot of treasures on crypt spiders, from glands to teeth, and even spider silk and chitin exoskeletons... Never mind, what I'm saying is of no use to you. You just need to know that this is the case."

He waved his hand, freeing the players' feet that were fixed before they began to try to use their hands instead of their legs to walk due to the bug.

In an instant, all the players present scattered like happy ducks, rushed to the nearest crypt spider corpses, and started to wreak havoc on them with the daggers snatched from the rats.

As long as you take out the stones in the monster's brain, you can get a reward equivalent to cutting off a mouse's tail! If you collect 100, you will get extra contribution points! This mission is too profitable!

Looking at the players busying themselves, Luo Yan, who was standing aside, couldn't help but reveal an expression of "that's really great".

The low IQ of summoned creatures has always been the biggest headache for all mages specializing in summoning spells.

For example, the Bond he is using.

Although it is possible to project mental power over to perform micro-manipulation, this will affect spell casting and is not convenient at all.

Unlike his cute little players.

More artificial than artificial intelligence.

This fellow who calls himself the God of Machinery really left me a good thing.

"My Lord Demon King... what is the use of collecting these magic crystals?" Looking at the complacent Luo Yan, Youyou asked curiously.

Luo Yan said with a smile.

"That's very useful. For example, the most direct use is that it can be sold for money."

The magic crystals on adult crypt spiders are much larger than those dropped by skeleton soldiers, and are also much more valuable.

According to the knowledge he had obtained from Chris, a magic crystal of a crypt spider could be sold for 100 copper coins at the Adventurer's Guild, and a better quality one could even be sold for 120 copper coins! Although this amount of money was not much, it was enough to fill part of the deficit of the cemetery.

When his "royal merchant" comes next time, he can use magic crystals to replace part of the payment.

By the way, the exchange rate between Austrian copper coins and Austrian silver was about 100:1.

It is said that two centuries ago, the ratio was 25:1.

The reason for this is, on the surface, inflation, but in fact it is because of "indirect taxes".

The emperor mixed copper into silver coins, and the nobles added lead into the copper coins, and over time it became like this.

I heard that because they couldn't stand the exploitation of the empire, the academic states in the north even used magic crystals to replace the ecological niche of silver coins for internal circulation... After all, there were not many feudal lords there anyway, mainly mages and mage towers.

In contrast, hell, where there is only one currency, the "Keira", does not have these problems.

In hell, when the price of one thing increases, the price of everything increases. If you round it up, nothing increases. There will never be a situation like in the Ottoman Empire where the price of bread increases but the price of wine does not.

Although Luo Yan didn't know what was so funny about this, it was still one of the human jokes in hell.

Youyou continued in a low voice.

"...But, you are the Demon King. Is it really useful to ask for so much human money?"

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Luo Yan said as a matter of course.

"Of course it's useful. I can't use Keira to buy things in the human world, right?"

Construction is very expensive! Especially building teleportation arrays, building altars to summon other monsters, etc., the cost is almost the same as building wonders! And preaching is also a costly job. Without money, he can't even afford to support a few monks.

There are only skeletons in his territory now, but it can't always be skeletons.

After all, he is a demon king with dreams.

Just as Luo Yan was imagining the bright future of the cemetery, he suddenly found a skeleton standing there without moving.

That ID is really pitiful. It seems that he has a big appetite and needs a big bowl to be full.

Looking at Xiao Wan who was almost crying with anxiety, Luo Yan sighed and said.

"You...just go and clean up those spider webs."

It just so happened that he was planning to transform the entrance of this maze into other facilities.

I really can't stand the corpse of the crypt spider, so it should be okay to clean up the spider web, right? "Yes, Lord Demon!"

Xiao Wan breathed a sigh of relief as if she hadn't eaten enough, and ran happily to clean the spider webs.

Is this what pua is? It is the same thing that I don’t like to do, but because it is not as annoying as another thing that I dislike even more, I am actually very happy about it.

Luo Yan suddenly felt a little guilty.

very good.

This means he did the right thing again.

…

Luo Yan watched the scene for a while and saw that the players were more skilled than he had imagined, so he turned back to the Demon King's territory and went into his workshop to brew potions.

Compared to magic crystal.

He felt that the "veterinary medicine" from hell should be more valuable.

Anyway, there are so many ingredients, it would be a shame not to cook some of them.

By the way, he can also record some materials so that interested young players can learn from them.

Just as Luo Yan left the maze, Arakdo from the Shadow Weaver Lair brought a group of hunters and quietly entered the hall at the entrance of the maze.

This is Her Majesty the Queen's "frontier", and it is also the place adventurers call the "entrance to the North Peak Mine".

However, having said that, since its birth, few adventurers have been seen entering through this entrance.

And the moment it stepped into this territory, it saw a scene that it would never forget in its life.

The ground was full of corpses! The dried blood was like a dried-up stream!

But what shocked it even more was that it saw a group of skeleton soldiers holding knives, dissecting the bodies of its own kind just like the adventurers outside!

“These bastards…”

Some hunters were angry, rubbing their mouthparts together, wishing they could rush up and chew these skeleton soldiers into ashes!

However, there were also some hunters whose scarlet pupils revealed unconcealable fear.

Skeleton soldiers...

That is a monster even lower than the ratman, and almost no one would bother with it except the slime.

However, at this moment, this group of skeletons that are supposed to be brainless actually possess intelligence that is not inferior to that of humans!

What frightened them were not only the skeletons themselves, but also the necromancer who summoned them.

How powerful is that guy!!!

"retreat!"

The resourceful Arakdo was horrified and gave the order to retreat without hesitation. Before the necromancer discovered it, he decisively led a group of hunters to quickly evacuate this dangerous place.

Run all the way.

Arachdo did not dare to stop at all and rushed straight into the depths of Shadow Weaver's lair, the palace of Lord Arachnos!

On a dense and tight spider web.

Her Majesty the Queen, with her gigantic body, was chewing with her mouthparts, savoring the taste of those male burrow spiders she had eaten before.

It had just been fed.

In every sense of the word.

Risking being eaten by His Majesty, Arakdo trembled and bowed to the ground.

"Your Majesty, I have already investigated the situation of the frontier land according to your instructions!"

Moving his enchanting and huge body, Arachnos looked at his subjects lazily.

"Tell me, what's going on there."

"It's the Necromancer!"

In an instant, Arachnos straightened up, his face full of panic.

"Necromancer?! How can there be a Necromancer?!"

Humans wouldn't cultivate such a stinky thing, and such a stinky thing wouldn't run through a maze for no reason! There is only one possibility -

He is a professional! And he might even be from that place! "That necromancer is very strong! The skeletons he summoned are not only intelligent, but also have extraordinary powers above bronze or even fine steel! Alatrulu, the most cunning hunter under my command, died at their hands!"

As Arakdo stated his findings, there was a hint of fear, even panic, in his scarlet eyes.

“It can’t be wrong…”

"He is the successor appointed by Hell... the new Demon Lord to replace Demon Lord Reggie Dragun!"

(End of this chapter)