After arranging the matters of the Assassin Union, Tang Yao glanced at the level rankings. Currently, Tang Yao was level 25 and Po Tian was level 24. Although the level gap between them had always been around one level, it seemed to be widening.
“You’re out?” Tang Yao messaged Nie Yan.
“Yeah, finally out.”
“Do you want to join us to farm scale frogs?”
“I have something else to do. You guys go ahead. Anyway, judging from now, the experience from farming scale frogs is quite substantial.” Nie Yan replied. He didn’t need much time to catch up with those on the level rankings. It was fine to level up in a few days. First, he wanted to improve his lock-picking skill. Otherwise, in high-level areas, he wouldn’t be able to open locked treasure chests.
The guild warehouse was filled with level 30 equipment. The amount of level 30 gear they had farmed with Tang Yao, plus what they had previously dropped, was already over 500 pieces. Especially Tang Yao and his team, who had farmed elite scale frogs for seven or eight days, killing at least dozens of them daily, they had dropped nearly 300 to almost 400 pieces.
This terrifying quantity made players exclaim in amazement, but they were a bit frustrated since they were still far from level 30. The guild lacked low-level gear.
Nie Yan went to various places to practice his lock-picking skill. One reason was to level up the skill, and another was to help the guild acquire more low-level gear. Additionally, he needed to collect the remaining fragments of Order.
“Busy with what?” Tang Yao asked, puzzled.
“I just got a lock-picking skill, but it’s still at the beginner stage. I want to level it up before going to the high-level areas.”
“Oh, okay then.”
“Did your red name clear up?”
“My red name is gone, but I still didn’t get the Murderous Maniac Medal.”
“It seems your luck wasn’t good enough. Forget it then.” Nie Yan was quite puzzled. The Murderous Maniac Medal was indeed supposed to drop from the scale frogs. Could it be that Tang Yao’s red name wasn’t strong enough? That didn’t make sense. He had killed nearly a hundred people!
Sometimes luck came rushing in, unstoppable. Other times, bad luck could only lead to frustration.
Nie Yan went around to the Starry Sky Pharmacy and upgraded it by one level, making it a level 3 shop. Meanwhile, Bird Not Left Egg had already recruited a large number of production class players such as alchemists, scroll makers, and disassemblers. Basically, all the master-level production class players he could recall from his past life had received invitations from the Starry Sky Pharmacy. With the pharmacy’s financial strength, it was indeed tempting. Some directly signed contracts, while others were still watching. After all, even though the Starry Sky Pharmacy was booming now, it didn’t necessarily mean it would stay that way if they switched industries. However, after receiving the pharmacy’s invitation, they wouldn’t easily accept invitations from other guilds, choosing to wait and see first.
The rapid expansion of financial resources made Nie Yan very happy, but he also felt a sense of crisis. The land in several cities had already been snapped up. In fact, the land he had purchased accounted for less than 3% of the entire Griland Empire. Fortunately, these lands were relatively valuable plots. If calculated by value, it might reach around 30% of all commercial land in Griland. It was clear that a lot of land had fallen into the hands of various guilds, teams, or individuals.
In fact, the most profitable thing in Faith wasn’t land, but the future important military facilities—fortresses!
Fortresses were equivalent to the guild headquarters for various guilds. They also had various commercial shops where ordinary players could trade. Guilds would tax all transactions, manage the fortress, and even assign housing to players.
Therefore, many guilds preferred to invest a lot of effort into their guild warehouses to promote guild development rather than spending too much money buying land. After all, buying land and waiting for it to appreciate was a very long process. With guild development, what they would get in the future wasn’t just a piece of land, but an entire fortress city!
“Did Big Brother Qizi help me get a few random teleportation scrolls?” Nie Yan messaged Guo Huai.
“Two.”
“Mail them to my personal warehouse.”
“Okay.”
Nie Yan felt like he had too many things to do, a feeling of being overwhelmed. There were many things he could do with a second life, but he couldn’t do them all at once. He could only choose some and try his best to enhance his strength.
After obtaining the random teleportation scrolls, Nie Yan teleported to Link Town. Avoiding the players’ sight, he left the town and walked into the deep mountains and dense forests. It wasn’t that he was afraid of these ordinary players, but if someone followed him, it would be too troublesome.
His destination was a cave in a canyon on the level 20 map. There was a Wisdom Fragment there, guarded by an Infernal. Every two hours, the Infernal would sleep for two minutes. During this time, he could bypass the Infernal and obtain the Wisdom Fragment. Two minutes wasn’t enough for him to safely withdraw, so he would directly use the random teleportation scroll to escape.
Having random teleportation scrolls made it much easier to obtain the Order Fragments.
However, the Wisdom Fragment was a mage item, providing a stronger bonus effect for mages, but it was useless for Nie Yan. Like the previous Courage Fragment and Freedom Fragment, the Courage Fragment was more suitable for warriors who charged into battle, while the Freedom Fragment was a rogue item.
Dreaming Cloud Canyon had always been a holy ground for players leveling between levels 10 to 20. A team of six players was farming monsters here: one paladin, one priest, and four mages.
“Sweet Cane, do you know where our leader is leveling up? His leveling speed is too intense. Po Tian, who is in second place, is being left further and further behind,” said a paladin wearing silver armor. He looked about twenty-two or twenty-three years old, giving off a very neat and tidy impression.
Knight’s Elegy: level 16, member of the Bull Tribe guild, with 800 guild contribution points.
This guy was called the “Water King” by the Bull Tribe players. He was the most active in the guild chat group, always chatting idly in the guild chat every day. However, he had a good reputation in the guild, so Guo Huai promoted him to a small team leader.
“Who knows? Our leader is really awesome. I heard that now there are more than sixty players following Po Tian to train him, continuously using area-of-effect magic to farm monsters and level up quickly, but they still couldn’t catch up with our leader, who is being left further and further behind. Our leader is a god. Do you know what it means when a dragon is seen only by its head? If it were so easy to be found out, he wouldn’t be the leader,” Sweet Cane said. As an arcane mage, he had blind worship for Tang Yao, who always firmly occupied the top of the level rankings.
“Let’s hurry up and level up. When we reach level 30, I think I’ll be able to wear a set of silver equipment. If my guild contribution points are a bit higher, maybe I can even wear golden equipment. Our leader is so awesome. We struggle to get a piece of silver equipment, bronze is already good enough, but he has so many silver and golden ones,” Knight’s Elegy sighed.
“Our leader must be farming sub-elite or elite monsters! Sub-elite and elite monsters usually drop silver and golden equipment. We can’t even handle an elite monster, we have to go around it, and can barely deal with a leader monster, so of course we only get bronze equipment,” said Sweet Cane. Occasionally getting a piece of silver equipment while farming leader monsters, even if the attributes weren’t particularly good, the appeal of the equipment Tang Yao farmed was beyond doubt. Now the entire Bull Tribe was holding their breath and striving for levels and guild contribution.
“There’s a leader boar!”
“Paladin, go quickly!” Sweet Cane said. Since there was no warrior in the team, Knight’s Elegy had to take the lead. Fortunately, the priest in the team had learned basic healing, plus the four mages, they could handle a leader monster without any problem.
“Alright!” Knight’s Elegy cast a few buffs on himself and rushed forward, swinging his sword.
Paladins’ tanking ability was slightly weaker than warriors, but not by much. However, their threat generation wasn’t as professional. This was also the reason why paladins couldn’t replace warriors.
After a while, Knight’s Elegy finally stabilized the aggro.
“Focus fire!”
“Heal!”
These players were quite organized while farming monsters. The four mages poured their firepower onto the boar leader, explosions and damage numbers popping up.
For them, a level 15 boar leader wasn’t too difficult to handle. As long as they were careful, they could defeat it in two or three minutes and get a piece of bronze equipment.
They were immersed in the joy of getting equipment.
“Damn it, I hope it drops an arcane mage item. I haven’t gotten one in two days!” Sweet Cane shouted, casting spells.
“Go, it’s definitely going to be the paladin’s. I’ve always had good luck.” The knight said happily.
“I said, knight, you’re too ruthless. From yesterday to today, at least three pieces of bronze equipment dropped for you!” Sweet Cane said unhappily.
Just as they were in a good mood, preparing to collect the equipment, several figures appeared on the nearby hill.
A chill rose from behind, and Knight’s Elegy immediately felt something was wrong.
“Damn it, it’s a rogue! Hurry up and heal!” He immediately retreated, a beam of white light landing on him, restoring a lot of his health. He immediately activated his resistance skill to avoid being stunned by the rogue! Resistance was a skill shared by paladins and warriors. It was precisely because of this skill that they didn’t have to fear rogues!
“Damn it, which faceless bastard came to steal the kill!” Sweet Cane carefully watched the surroundings.
Knight’s Elegy fled backward, pulling the boar leader further and further away.
On the distant hill, eight players ran towards them. They had been leveling up in the distance and immediately rushed over after receiving the rogue’s message.
“There’s a leader monster!”
“It’s theirs.”
“So what? Let’s steal it!”
The warrior among the eight players charged forward, intercepting the boar leader.
“Damn it, it’s the Victory’s Return people!” Knight’s Elegy cursed, his eyes bloodshot. They had worked hard to find and reduce the boar leader’s health to half, only to have it stolen like this. How could they accept it!
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