Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios
On the eve of the opening of the Battle of Light, the system began to release information successively.
However, all that was released now was the background story of the War of Light. The specific issues would be disclosed during the maintenance period. This was also the systematic stereotypical strategy that was used.
What was worth mentioning was that many players had tried predicting the items involved in the expansion. Under the double stimulation of the Castle Wood and Job-Changing Mission trial, the players thoroughly understood the importance of speculations. After a lot of rational analysis by profiteers, they believed that the War of Light definitely dealt with Dark-Type monsters. Thus, they just bought all the Dark Resistance Potion and equipment that increased Dark Resistance sold on the market.
In this regard, Lin Jie just smiled sarcastically.
The eve before the War of Light totally did not involve race rivalries. Not only would the prices of those potions and equipment not rise in a short period of time, but it would even drop.
Lin Jie had not raised his Perfect Potion Mastery in a very long time since training the levels of Living skills was too time-consuming. In addition, there was Potion King, so his demand for potions was not high.
There were still 12 hours until the system maintenance, so Lin Jie returned to Sky Provisions Shop and checked the items bought – more than 1,000 level 3 to 8 Bronze equipment were accumulated.
Due to the Auction House’s terrifying transaction tax, the players were more willing to pawn the equipment they no longer used to the Sky Provisions Shop. Firstly, they would not have a loss at the price, and secondly, whenever they wanted to use it, they could redeem it back anytime.
Lin Jie looked around his inventory, finding four pieces of tokens.
[Solder Jimmy’s Identity Token], [Solder Lira’s Identity Token], [Decanus 1Gavin Identity Token], the last token was [Section Leader Chris’ Identity Token]. Those were all stuff which soldiers pawned in exchange for coins.
Amongst them, the Section Leader Chris’ token had already passed the redemption deadline.
Naturally, there was a reason why the Sky Provisions Shop was buying special items. Not only players but even NPCs had times where they were in need of money. They would pawn some strange things.
In his past life, a Provisions shop had even gotten a Lord’s Token from a lord that had fallen into poverty at a price of 20 gold coins, obtaining a territory from thin air.
Lin Jie took out 300 Low-Level Bronze equipment and packed them up properly. The biggest use for equipment after it passed the mainstream level was to break it down, providing Arcane Dust used for smithing.
Around the City Leader’s mansion was a military organization named Seven Iron-Willed. Players could go there to apply to enter the ‘battlefield’ as clearing the battlefield could help them obtain a large number of honor values and experience rewards. However, death in the battlefield was equivalent to death in the wild, drop by 1 level, and the extremely high mortality rate completely defeated the players’ fighting spirits. The victory rewards compared to the high equipment drop rate was insignificant. Therefore, few players went there.
When Lin Jie arrived at the Seven Iron-Willed, various killing intents assaulted him.
At the spiraling area of the battlefield, a figure calmly glanced at Lin Jie. He then turned and disappeared. Although the time their eyes met was extremely short that iconic dead fish eye still allowed Lin Jie to determine his identity!
‘No wonder this guy hasn’t appeared for a long time, it turns out he went to clear battlefields.’
“Darn it, the damn rebel invasion is becoming more and more frequent. The warriors’ weapons are not enough for use already.” The person who spoke was wearing silver-black heavy armor on his whole body and was armed like a human tank. That warrior holding a double-headed axe was the Military Commander—Skull Breaker Cario.
Lin Jie went forward and said respectfully, “Hello, Commander.”
“Soldier, this is not the place where you should come!” said Skull Breaker in a rough and powerful voice.
Lin Jie took out the token and slowly took out all the packaged equipment. The ground was filled with iron packages. “I am a Section Leader of the City of Light, Chris, these are the materials I have collected.”
“Chris? Consecutively absent one time for roll call, delisted!” said Skull Breaker irritatedly. Then, he took a look at the weapons and waved his hand. “However, seeing your contribution to the soldiers, I will resume your official position, go!”
Ding~
—’Your official position in the City of Light is promoted to the Squad Leader (Rank 3).’
The official positions in the city were divided into 12 ranks: Soldier, Decanus, Section Leader, Platoon Leader, Legion Soldier, Legion Leader and so on. The first six ranks belonged to working for the leaders. Only starting from the seventh rank, then was it a real official position, such as war officials, Tribunus, Marshal, Legatus, and as for governing officials, there was Trade Leader, Parliament Elder and so on.
Official positions enabled players to move faster within the city and enjoy a certain amount of discounts. When one’s official rank was high, they could also get the city’s exclusive mount and so on.
It was a long process to raise the official position, so in the past seven years of Lin Jie’s previous life, there had only been one person that had received the Legatus official position.
It took about a month to get promoted from a Soldier to the Section Leader. From Section Leader to Platoon Leader one needed not only official points but also sudden events, such as contributing to defending the city when monsters attacked or saving a city.
The Section Leader’s token saved Lin Jie a lot of time.
Lin Jie tapped on the token, the player could receive the token after getting the soldier’s title, and they could accept two official missions every day.
Ding~
—’Do you accept this official mission [Eliminate The Bandits]?’
Lin Jie’s eyes lit up, his luck was not bad!
Before becoming a Platoon Leader, the missions players could accept were overall divided into a few types: Sending messages, buying supplies, search and eliminate spies within the city, battle expeditions. The first two’s freedom was extremely low, and the rewards were the worst.
[Eliminate The Bandits]: A group of rebellious civilians is stationed outside of the City of Light. They kill and rob others for a living, go and kill them!
Outside of the City of Light was Qifeng Mountain, the spawning grounds of level 8 to 15 bandits. By right, it should be the best training ground for players. However, after killing bandits, they found out that these monsters were so poor that they couldn’t drop anything other than items such as [rags], [smelly foot binding cloth] that could not even be sold in stores.
After going through innumerable hardships and killing an elite, players found out that the items dropped were a lot of… Rags
Over time, no one came to this place.
In The New Era, the monster’s drop rate had a lot to do with the background story. For example, that group of bandits, if they returned after successfully robbing, one could get dozens of copper coins or even silver coins by just killing an underling!
Lin Jie came to right outside Qifeng Mountain. Many level 8 bandits were wandering around, their Health Points were only 600.
After luring a monster, Lin Jie did not use any attack skills, but he used his Broken Blade to slash normally. Even so, 200 plus points of damage per strike still beat the bandits up till they kept screaming in pain.
After two slashes, the Health Points of the bandit was only a little more than 100, whereas his rusty kitchen knife chopping on Lin Jie, only dealt 3 points of damage.
After unequiping his weapon, Lin Jie began to fight with his fist.
-74!
-85!
After two punches, the health of the bandit was almost empty!
“Daddy, spare me, Daddy! I’m just trying to make a living.” The bandits knelt down with a thump and said in a tearful voice, “I still have a 4-year-old child waiting for me to find food and bring back. Please let me go, let me go.”
Lin Jie stopped attacking and took out a loaf of bread. “Here, take it and bring it back to feed your child.”
The bandit looked at Lin Jie in astonishment, grabbed the bread, and thanked him while running back.
Ding~
—’The favorability of Qifeng Mountain bandits towards you has increased by 1 point.’
Lin Jie continued luring monsters, beating them up till their health bar was almost empty, and then let them go. However, the speed at which their favorability rose was very slow.
After over 10 minutes, the favorability had only reached 24 points.
Lin Jie frowned, looking for an area with more bandits in his mind, but he did not stop attacking, which led to the instant death of the bandit in front of him with one slash…
—’You have received 35 experience points.’
—’The favorability of Qifeng Mountain bandits towards you has decreased by 50 points.’
Lin Jie almost spat out a mouthful of blood. When the favorability dropped to a negative value, there would be a probability for them to return kindness with ingratitude even if one let them go. The probability of improving their favorability was only 20%.
‘Perseverance! Perseverance!’
Lin Jie spent a full hour and a half to restore the favorability of the Qifeng Mountain bandits to 0.
This time, he learned his lesson. He unequipped his weapon and only used his fists to fight… It was true that a single slip could cause lasting sorrow!
After another hour passed, the favorability of the Qifeng Mountain bandits increased to 100! Lin Jie was overjoyed and continued doing the same.
After their favorability was over 100, one could just barely gain the trust of the bandits. Every time a bandit was released, one could get an increase of 1 to 10 points of favorability randomly, and thus the increasing speed had soared.
Ding~
—’The favorability of Qifeng Mountain bandits has improved to neutral.’
Lin Jie heaved a sigh of relief. “It’s finally over.’
All of the bandits’ names changed to yellow. Now, they would not take the initiative to attack anymore.
Lin Jie walked step by step towards the peak of the mountain. As bandits, the place they lived in was actually a cave, one could imagine the degree of their poverty.
From time to time, there were bandits who passed by that sized Lin Jie up, looking at this outsider with vigilance.
“Benefactor, why have you come here?” A bandit ran towards him in surprise and pulled Lin Jie aside. Then, he whispered, “You better leave, the boss is angry right now!”
Boss, meant the Bandit Boss of Qifeng Mountain, a Level 15 Silver Boss with normal attributes. After killing it, one would not get anything besides tens of points of reputation.
Lin Jie smiled and asked, “Is it because you don’t have food and money?”
“Yes.” The bandit sighed.
“I can help you.” Lin Jie laughed and secretly took out his identity token.
“You, you are a soldier!” The bandit’s name suddenly turned red, but then it temporarily went back to yellow. The color changed non-stop, meaning his inner struggle was quite intense. Soldier and bandit, they were completely opposite!
Lin Jie said seriously, “No, these soldiers killed my family, I infiltrated the City of Light to take revenge!”
Looking into Lin Jie’s sincere eyes, the name of the bandit gradually calmed down. He gritted his teeth and said, “Alright, I will take you to see our boss!”
