When physical strength is too low, players can replenish it by drinking physical strength potions or eating, but potions are only allowed to be used once a day, and drinking them twice will have no effect. Eating mainly increases satiety while increasing a little physical strength at the same time.
She had already drunk a potion and eaten food today, but she couldn't withstand a whole day of high-intensity tasks. In this case, the player can only restore her physical strength by being forced to log off, with 10 points restored in 1 hour. She would take a nap tonight, and her physical strength would be almost fully restored by the time she woke up tomorrow morning.
Xia Yao was thinking in her mind while looking around the studio.
Nowadays, it is different from the Novice Village period. Players under level 10 can be protected by the system after going offline, and other players cannot attack them. This is considered a benefit for the rookie period.
But after reaching level 10, players must take care of their own personal safety. They can pay to stay in a hotel, find a place deep in the mountains and forests, or of course sleep in a haystack outside the city. Anyway, as long as they are not afraid of waking up to be attacked by monsters or ambushed by malicious players, they can do whatever they want.
What Xia Yao was worried about was not the monsters, but the players.
Her red name is still there. If she is seen by someone with bad intentions after logging off, they will definitely take the opportunity to kill her, so she must find a safe place to log off.
Where is safe?
Xia Yao smiled proudly. Aldridge's basement was definitely one of them.
Xia Yao happened to see the folding bed in the corner. Although it was covered with dust, it did not affect sleeping at all.
There was no need to be too particular in the game. Xia Yao pulled out the bed and fell asleep peacefully on the thin mattress that was already on it.
In the early hours of the morning, Xia Yao slowly crawled out of the game cabin using her hands and feet.
Mining is too tiring, and forging is also quite energy-consuming.
She was so hungry that she was almost dizzy. She quickly went to the kitchen to cook a pack of instant noodles. A few minutes later, without caring whether the noodles were soft or not, she picked up the pot and started eating.
When she had almost finished eating, she finally had the energy to look at her phone.
It's not about whether anyone is looking for her, but whether there are any bills that need to be paid.
She doesn't have many friends in real life, and can be counted on one hand. Unless there is something important, they generally won't bother her. Apart from the few public accounts she follows that push notifications very punctually every day, the only other things she has are payment notifications.
It's the end of the month, and it's time to pay internet bills, electricity bills, water bills, property fees, and rent.
Dragging her tired body, Xia Yao logged onto the White Bear Live personal center.
Her account has an additional income of more than 2,000 this month, half of which came from tips from fans, more than 500 from platform rewards, and more than 400 from food expenses, which was the RPG stand-alone game that she live-streamed for half an hour last night.
The client's father sent her a private message this afternoon, and his tone was very excited. He said that her ability to sell products was first-class. After just over half an hour of live broadcast, many players placed orders on the platform to buy their games. The comments section below were all saying "I came here because of Crazy Rabbit."
"Crazy Rabbit" is her anchor ID on White Bear.
Xia Yao yawned and replied to the client's father, "It's my duty. You're welcome."
It is only natural to get things done for money.
Then she casually flipped through the messages sent by fans. Most of them were madly cheering for her performance and asking for more support. However, a small number of them were quite arrogant and called her a shameless shemale without any hesitation.
The online world is like an invisible place without any constraints. Some people only want to vent their anger by throwing shit and never care about the consequences of verbal violence against the other party.
A year ago, she had not been defeated by the rumors, let alone just a dozen messages?
Xia Yao first transferred the money to the bank card, and then slowly and methodically added the blacklist one by one.
Suddenly, she found a familiar username.
[Black Mountain Old Demon: How does it feel to win a prize for free, little sister? ]
[Black Mountain Old Demon: Have you played "Eternity" these past two days?]
[Black Mountain Old Demon: Please add me as a friend, maybe we can team up and fight monsters together later~]
The person who attacked her in the game was also called the Black Mountain Demon.
My intuition tells me that these two IDs belong to the same person.
So, what is the deeper meaning of his words?
Xia Yao tapped the table casually, thinking.
On the other side, in the messy e-sports room.
"Old Xu, the message shows as read!"
Ever since he sent her a private message, Black Mountain Old Demon has been keeping an eye on the message status, and just now, he found that the other party had finally seen his message.
Old Xu said "oh", but didn't look at the Black Mountain Demon: "Did she reply to you?"
"without……"
"Where's the other small account?" He remembered that Lao Yao had registered another level 1 account, specifically to lead the rhythm in her live broadcast room.
“Also read but not replied…”
"Maybe he doesn't have the habit of replying private messages."
"Then what should we do?" The Black Mountain Old Demon blurted out, "Will we then be unable to confirm whether the poetess is actually her?"
As he spoke, he also came over to Lao Xu's computer and carefully watched every movement of the character in the video.
"Her sprint was pretty good." The Black Mountain Old Demon licked his lips. Although he didn't want to admit it, to be honest, the poetess's killing moves when facing the wolf boss were indeed good.
Unexpectedly, after the sprint, the female poet in the picture followed up with a double jump, which surprised him even more.
"She's so skilled?!"
The Black Mountain Demon moved his butt unconsciously. This was a holographic game that required players to make real moves. Now, except for the ice-faced player and the player who chose the assassin, the rest of the team had only learned one jump.
And she, a lone person, learned it just like that???
"Old Xu, I'm afraid she really is that guy." The Black Mountain Old Demon deliberately lowered his voice to show the seriousness of the matter.
Old Xu shook his head: "No, it seems not."
"Huh? Why do you say that?"
"Three years ago, when Edmund split and reorganized the team, she and I competed for the last spot on Team One. We went through a Dark Realm Nightmare dungeon. Her style wasn't like that." Old Xu closed his eyes, thinking carefully. "She was very strong, but she was also very afraid of the boss's aggro. Every time she noticed it, her rhythm would be disrupted. She made several mistakes at the time, so the final result was very unsatisfactory, and then she was assigned to Team Two."
It's not like in the trial cave, where they are facing hatred head-on.
This is also why the coach later asked her to play individual competitions. Her performance in team competitions was unstable and depended entirely on the cooperation of her teammates at the time.
So, even in a top club like Edmond, he cannot avoid his shortcomings, let alone after leaving Edmond?
That's even more impossible!
"Oh! So that's how it is!" The Black Mountain Old Demon suddenly realized.
He had only joined Edmond a year ago and didn't know much about Vermouth's time in the team three years ago.
"No wonder their team lost when I watched her live broadcast the other day." He muttered, "It turns out she really isn't very good at team battles."
But even if he wasn't good at it, he could still beat up those professional players...
Suddenly recalling the tragic experience of that day, the Black Mountain Old Demon woke up and realized that he had said something bad, and slapped himself twice.
"Alright, let's just let what happened that day go." Old Xu realized why he had slapped him in the face, glanced at him, and said calmly, "She's a good prospect. I'll report to the manager another day."
Anyway, it’s good that this female poet is not that guy.
He breathed a sigh of relief in his heart.
At 5 o'clock the next morning, it was still dark outside the window, but Xia Yao woke up on time to the ringing of her cell phone.
After a quick wash and changing into sportswear, she ran in the community for half an hour, chatted with the elderly men and women who also got up early for a walk, and then returned home.
After taking a shower and having breakfast, she logged into the game at 6:15 in the morning.
The first thing to do when entering the game is to check the level list and combat power list.
To her surprise, someone reached level 11 in just one night, directly pushing her out of the first position.
What’s even more subtle is that the other person is also a poet, with the ID “Wushan Leng” and a male gender.
Quite interesting.
Xia Yao clicked on his profile picture out of curiosity and went inside to take a look.
Whether it is weapons or equipment, they are all the same as hers. None of them are ordinary items. They are all bronze.
He is indeed quite capable, Xia Yao thought to herself.
However, the other party still had one piece of equipment less than her. She had obtained the [Chain of Aldrich] in the difficult version of the Trial Cave, which belonged to the necklace category, but the equipment slot of his necklace was empty.
This is also why his level has reached first place, but his combat power is still behind her, ranking second.
The difference lies in the equipment.
However, even if he hit the necklace, Xia Yao believed that the opponent would most likely still be second.
Because her necklace has an attribute of intelligence +10%, unless the other party is really lucky, it is impossible for him to get a necklace of the same level as hers.
Without wasting any more time paying attention to this person, Xia Yao put away the folding bed in the studio, sat back at the workbench, and began to study how to enchant 8 green-quality gems.
The enchanting steps are written on the blueprint. She just needs to follow the instructions step by step, just like when forging.
However, the process was still difficult, and due to improper control of magic power, the first two gems were scrapped right after they were used.
In the blink of an eye, there were only 6 left out of the 8.
Xia Yao: I feel heartbroken... I feel heartbroken... I still feel heartbroken...
The third time, she gently used tweezers to place the third gem in the container of solution, took a deep breath, concentrated her mind, and slowly released her magic power.
This magic power refers to the player's magic reserve. Every time it is released for 1 second, it will consume 4 points of physical strength and 200 points of magic power.
As for how long it will take to be released, it all depends on the player's own understanding.
Because Xia Yao discovered that even gems of the same rank required different enchantment times. To succeed, she had to rely on herself to feel the extremely subtle differences between different gems and make adjustments.
Maybe it was because she had mastered the trick to releasing magic power, but after the third time, Xia Yao discovered that she had successfully enchanted the magic!
The crystal clear gem remained quietly in the solution, without breaking into pieces like the previous two times.
She twisted the gem out excitedly.
[Enchanted Gem (Level 2): Magic Level: Level 3, Strength +14 (Note: Can only be embedded in sword weapons)]
Paying only attention to the last line of text, Xia Yao discovered that it was not a gem that could be used by the poet profession.
I was a little disappointed for a moment, but soon cheered up again.
Since she can succeed once, she can succeed twice, three times...!
In the next two hours, she successfully enchanted all five gems, four of which were usable by magic professions and one was for physical professions.
Wiping the sweat from her forehead and cheeks, Xia Yao looked at the pretty good results with satisfaction.
It's time to hand it over to Ophelia.
Half an hour ago, Ophelia got up and when she walked from the second floor to the first floor, she deliberately looked at the door of the basement in the back garden.
Still no movement.
She shook her head slightly disappointed.
An entire night had passed, and this child, praised by his brother as having "great perseverance and potential", had not yet been able to hand over a gem of white quality or above.
"My dear brother, you've made a mistake again this time~" Ophelia stood in front of the window and murmured softly, "Don't let an unsuitable person occupy your beloved studio. I'll kick her out for you right now."
After saying that, he pushed open the door to the back garden.
The door creaked.
A figure came into her sight.
"Ms. Ophelia, this is a forged gemstone. Please take a look."
He looked at her with tired but determined eyes.
Ophelia casually glanced at the intact gemstone in Xia Yao's hand, and suddenly, she stopped in her tracks: "...6?!"
Her mouth opened slightly and her eyes blinked.
You know, her brother still couldn't forge a single gem after a month of apprenticeship, but she only spent one night...
What kind of strength is this!
Even though she already held a high position and was bestowed with the unrivaled title of "Master Cook" by the king, Ophelia was still so shocked that her lips trembled slightly.
Trying hard to suppress her emotions, she cleared her throat and stretched out her hand: "Show them all to me."
Xia Yao was also a little nervous because she was not sure whether the gems she handed over really met Ophelia's requirements.
Suddenly, a cool inhalation sound came into Xia Yao's ears.
She raised her head and looked at Ophelia.
Ophelia's pupils widened completely, and her tone was no longer as calm as before.
"You...you are all enchanted?"
She had clearly only assigned the forging task, but the child in front of her... actually completed the subsequent tasks ahead of time!
Ophelia slowly lowered her head in astonishment, twisting one of the gems in her right hand to observe it.
The sunlight perfectly penetrates the gem and reflects a strange light in the palm of your hand. The light is neither dense nor sparse, but spreads evenly in a just right way.
Only materials above level three can show such excellent quality!
Although only one of the six was of the third order, and the rest were ordinary first order, it was enough to make the enchantment master's sister, Ophelia, take a deep breath.
She began to look at Xia Yao again, and finally said, "Very good, Yinyao. Not only did you successfully complete the task my brother assigned you, you even enchanted the gems according to the blueprints in advance. I'm sure you've seen the magic levels of these gems. You are very talented and have great potential. If you don't mind, I will grant you the title of Enchanter on behalf of my deceased brother."
Finally I can get the title I wanted!
Xia Yao felt as if the blood in her body was boiling.
She bowed her head reverently, her tone sincere and excited: "Respected Ms. Ophelia, I am honored to receive your award!"
As soon as he finished speaking, he heard the system pop-up window ringing in his ears.
[Congratulations, you have successfully completed the mission, experience +1800, gold +180]
[Congratulations! You've earned Orphea's appreciation for completing the extra mission. Experience +3000, Gold +300]
Congratulations, you have obtained the title "Enchanter's Apprentice (Teacher: Aldrich)", current level: Level 3
Xia Yao: ╰(￣▽￣)╭
Wuhu takes off~
The six gems given to Ophelia finally all belonged to her. In Ophelia's words, she is a cooking master, not an enchanting master. Taking the fruits of her hard work, can you enchant the dishes?
Xia Yao smiled and took the things for herself.
Before leaving, Ophelia gave her a new task: [Forge an equipment slot]
Equipment slots are specifically used to hold enchantment gems, and each piece of equipment can be forged with at least one.
The raw materials for forging can be copper ore or iron ore. If you want to make a higher quality equipment slot that is not easily damaged, it is naturally more appropriate to choose iron ore.
Iron ore is only produced in Hughes Highlands. Xia Yao plans to go out of the city first to kill a wave of monsters, and at the same time take the opportunity to collect bone particles. After her level catches up with Wushan Leng, who has the same profession as her, she will go mining.
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PS:
1. Although Ophelia is a master cook, she can issue enchantment tasks on behalf of her deceased brother because she is Aldrich's biological sister.
2. There is more than one enchanter NPC, Aldrich. There are several enchanters in and outside the city, but the heroine's apprentice is Aldrich.
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