Chapter 27 The Cruel Truth
[Faith value: 11086 (-100)]
[Daily growth: 108~128]
[Daily consumption: 100]
It takes 100 points of faith to upgrade a normal level soul to black iron level.
If the faith value was only in the three digits before, Luo Yan might have felt a little pain.
But now his strength is far from what it used to be! Thanks to the gold coins that exploded from a fat rat, his Faith Points reserve is quite abundant, and he can easily upgrade all 100 players in the server to Black Iron.
As for himself, there is no rush for the time being.
The amount of Faith consumed to upgrade from Steel to Silver is ten times that of Bronze to Steel, which is 100,000 points. This is an astronomical figure for him at this stage.
Instead of saving up until the end of time, it is better to let capable players improve first.
Another thing is that he had just been promoted to Fine Steel not long ago, and there was still a long way to go before he could reach the level cap. There was no need to rush to upgrade his "talent" to Silver.
The soul level only affects the upper limit of supernatural power, and does not affect the strength itself.
"…Hiding in the cave all the time is not a good idea. We need to find a way to attract some believers."
I hope Jack can give me a surprise.
Just as Luo Yan was thinking, the players in the Demon King's Territory also noticed him one after another.
To be precise, he noticed Sarah behind him.
The tender face and petite body made people feel pity, and the cat ears swaying gently on the head made the skeleton eyes of countless skeleton soldiers emit hot green light! What's going on? !
New NPC?! Seeing that all the players were looking over, Luo Yan didn't waste any more time. He cleared his throat and got straight to the point.
"Fellow citizens of the Great Cemetery, I have something to announce now! From today on, the first store in the Great Cemetery will be officially opened, and will only accept payment in ghost money—"
Before Luo Yan could finish his words, the entire mine was filled with the creaking sound of bones rubbing against each other.
“Ohhhhhhhh!”
"Cat girl!!! Cat girl!!!"
"Planning Dog really understands me!"
"Mine!!! All mine!!!" (screaming)
“So cute!!!”
"Damn it! I want to rub it so badly!"
"Can I touch my ears? I can go wash my hands first!"
Seeing the group of squeaking skeletons surrounding her, the hair on Sarah's head stood up and a low growl came from her throat.
If Luo Yan hadn't been standing next to her, she would probably have been stressed out.
"Quiet! Everyone, be quiet!"
He didn't expect these guys to be so useless. Luo Yan, who was very upset, finally used the power of his authority to force the players present to calm down.
Where have all the reliable players gone? Have they gone to play another game? Luo Yan was interrupted in the middle of his speech, and he didn't know where to start.
"In short, she is a citizen of the Demon Lord just like you. I don't want to see my people hurting each other."
"I will always keep an eye on this place. If I find anyone bullying her, or buying things without paying, or stealing my treasures... I will make him regret coming into this world."
very good.
Luo Yan felt that his on-the-spot performance was very much like that of a boss, and he couldn't help but feel complacent for two seconds.
The only regret is that no player paid attention to him...
In a corner of the Demon King's territory, several adventurers trapped in cages were looking at this side from afar.
Although they did not understand what the demon king said at all, they still clearly felt the difference in treatment.
Chris had an obvious expression of jealousy on her face and she grabbed the stone window with both hands like a resentful woman.
"Ah... Men are all like this. But if you look a little cute, the treatment will be completely different."
Rexon, who was sitting in the corner with his arms folded, glanced at Chris.
"Are you sure it's just because of this?"
Although he is also a thief, he is at least aware that he is not as skilled as others and is willing to admit defeat.
Even if he was executed, he would have nothing to complain about.
However, what he didn't expect was that Chris, who had completely misunderstood, was completely broken by these words and glared at him fiercely.
"What do you mean? You want to say that I'm unattractive? Believe it or not, I will dig your eyes out, stuff them in your mouth, and force you to eat them!"
Rexon looked at her speechlessly. He was too weak to complain and could only shut his mouth and stop talking.
It wasn't just Rexon who shut his mouth, but also Am beside him.
This guy didn't say a word from beginning to end. He just stared at the direction of the Demon King. There was a hint of desire in his fearful eyes, as if he was expecting some reward.
Greyhound huddled in the corner in fear as always, holding his head with his hands, looking outside and then at his teammates.
Crazy...
All crazy!
As the only normal person here, he wasn't sure how long he could hold on.
…
After the cut scene ended, Luo Yan hung a wooden sign that said "No Feeding" next to the store, then took Sarah behind the stone counter where she should be, and gave her some instructions.
For example, don't eat anything handed to you by players, and how to tell whether a skeleton has been paid or not.
For example, what to do when encountering a problem that cannot be explained, and how to call Youyou to deal with the skeleton that harasses her, etc.
At this stage, most players are poor. All the money in their pockets cannot even afford a steel dagger worth 20,000 ghost coins. Therefore, Sarah's work should not be too busy, and she can familiarize herself with the position first.
What followed was just as Luo Yan had expected. After seeing the store’s shopping list, all the players immediately shouted “black shop”.
"What the hell! A one-handed steel sword without any enchantment costs 60,000?!"
"Why is it as bad as Mount & Blade 2?!"
"It's too dark! Too dark!"
"MMP! I might as well forge iron myself!"
Looking at the angry skeletons, Sarah showed a frightened expression on her face. She looked around for Luo Yan, but found that the latter had already left.
At this moment, she suddenly remembered what Luo Yan said to her when he left. After hesitating for a long time, she finally gritted her teeth and squeezed out a shy murmur.
"Meow……"
In just a moment, the skeletons that were originally angry calmed down.
Looking at the skeletons standing still, Sarah blinked in confusion.
Is that word some kind of spell?
However, just as she was thinking this, the skeletons, which had been quiet for less than two seconds, became excited again!
“Ahhhhh!!!”
"Again! Again!!!"
"Louder! My brother can't hear you!"
The noisy creaking sound was like firecrackers, and the enthusiasm written on everyone's face was different from before.
Suddenly, a skeleton soldier took the lead, stood out from the sea of skeletons, and jumped onto the counter of the store.
"Brothers!!! I can't stand it anymore! For the sake of cat girl, I will show you even if I am the devil——"
Before he could finish his words, a flash of emerald green light hit the top of his head.
The transparent ghost left the body and floated to the vicinity of the core of the Demon King's territory in less than a moment.
Pig-Headed Knight: "Fuck! Why is it the Demon King's excommunication again?! No - what the hell did I do?!"
Hu Wan looked at him with a subtle expression.
"What did you do? You jumped onto the counter and scared the NPC."
Gou Shi even had a smug smile on his face.
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"Hahaha! It's you again! Tell me! Why are you always mentioned in every crackdown on pornography?"
Looking at the remaining time in prison, the Pig-Headed Knight howled like a pig being slaughtered.
"Brother, I am innocent!!! Lord Demon King, I will never dare to do that again! Let me out!"
So embarrassing!
The Tauren warrior shook his head, pretending not to know this guy, and walked away quietly.
…
Miserable wails echoed in the mines, adding a touch of sadness to the evil and horror of the cemetery.
Although he sympathized with this guy's situation, Luo Yan didn't have time to deal with him for the time being.
He has more important things to do now.
Through previous tests, he has confirmed that not only players can gain experience by killing monsters, but he, the Demon King, can do the same!
And not only that, gaining experience points by killing monsters is much faster than meditating! Previously, when he was in the Demon King Academy, Luo Yan vaguely remembered that it was Yige or someone else who mentioned to him that, aside from the extremely high death rate, the front line was actually a good place to improve strength.
Often after a great battle, the surviving demons will grow to varying degrees.
Especially those demons that massacred a city or a village, many of them have evolved into quite terrifying beings.
Although the academic explanation is that this is because the instinct for survival stimulates the potential of the individual, and the slaughter on the battlefield pleases the demon god Bayeli, passively triggering the sacrificial ceremony, etc.
However, Lint Isaac's system gave a completely different, cruel and cold explanation -
When a soul-being kills another soul-being, it can grow! This has nothing to do with faith.
It is a universal law in this world! Just like gods can absorb the other's faith when they kill gods, mortals can also plunder the extraordinary power of mortals! Even though the proportion of this plunder is not obvious due to the small individual power, and it has not been quantified, so that most people can't detect it at all, or even if they detect it, they will attribute it to other reasons.
For example, in a life-and-death duel, a new understanding of strength was generated, or the potential was stimulated under the instinct of survival, etc.
Actually, neither is true.
It's purely because a person or a monster becomes the experience pack of another person or monster.
Luo Yan had reason to believe that since his predecessor as a time traveler could discover the truth, there was no reason why Saint Sith and the Third Generation Demon God, who were locals, could not discover it... It was just that both sides tacitly chose to conceal it and used doctrines and creeds to hide this naked truth.
The reason why they did this is actually not difficult to guess.
From the perspective of a lord or knight, compared to killing demons on the battlefield, they actually have a lower-risk strategy with their power and authority... such as swinging their swords at the weaker ones inside.
The same is true in reverse for hell.
Even hell is a jungle society where the strong prey on the weak. If the demons knew that there was such a convenient way to improve their strength, I'm afraid that the high-level demons would slaughter most of the low-level demons who depend on them in an instant.
In this way, there will be no order.
From the perspective of Saint Sith or the Demon God, this is obviously not what they want to see.
Therefore, they will use various methods to restrain the chosen ones and the power class under their command, including but not limited to sending down oracles, setting laws, strengthening divine authority, etc.
As for those who go against their will or are demons, they will eliminate them at all costs to serve as a warning to others.
After all, no matter how powerful a person or a demon is, there is a limit to their power.
What's more, the mutual annexation of extraordinary powers will itself result in huge losses.
In a sense, Luo Yan also benefited from this rule.
If the demons in the Demon City used their extraordinary powers recklessly, it would be impossible for him, a human being, to live to the age of eighteen.
Not to mention the distant future, he couldn't even get past Professor Lilith.
As for why Lint Isaac leaked this information to himself, it is not difficult to understand.
Because this is indeed the optimal solution for individuals - if you want to quickly travel through the other world, the fastest way is to kill, kill, kill.
Killing with magic increases your mental power, killing with physical attacks increases your strength... The stronger the opponent, the higher the experience points provided. The efficiency of improving strength in this way is far greater than exercise and meditation.
Just like farming is not as efficient as fighting in accumulating wealth, the design of the entire experience value system actually implies this.
The reason why the natural disaster system cannot screen out players may be because that guy is more inclined to let "unnatural but not so unnatural" guys come in to cause trouble than neutral and lawful players.
Just as the "God of Machinery" said at the beginning -
Let this world feel the pain!
He is not kidding.
What he wanted to release was a real natural disaster! However, Luo Yan was not a guy who was used to being manipulated by others.
Lin Te has his own demands and he has his own ideas.
Of course, it’s too early to say this now.
No matter what he thinks, he must improve his strength as soon as possible.
Compared to the Thunder City which was not easy to provoke, the traitors in the maze were obviously easier targets to bully.
That's right.
He is going to start competing with the players for monsters!
After handing the NPC shop to Sarah, Luo Yan went straight to the depths of the mine, used a relatively open cave as his own magic workshop, and hung a "No Entry for Outsiders" sign at the entrance.
After finishing these things, Luo Yan continued to give instructions to Youyou.
"Youyou, find a few players and have them drag a few crypt spider corpses from the warehouse to me. You can decide on the mission rewards. I've already given you the idea for the numerical design."
The player named "Yi Ye Zhi Qiu" got him a lot of corpses of crypt spiders, which now came in handy.
"Okay, Lord Demon!"
Youyou responded and quickly assigned the task, then asked curiously, "By the way, can I ask you something? What do you want the corpse of the crypt spider for?"
That thing doesn't look delicious at all.
Luo Yan raised the corners of his mouth slightly as he took out the crucible, silver knife, mortar and pestle for preparing the potion from the suitcase.
"nothing."
"It's just some necessary preparation for the next monster hunt." - (I played too much sliding yesterday and fed the tiger. There's only one chapter today. Does that count as two chapters for me? I'll put it out early and go to sleep. TT)
(End of this chapter)