Chapter 9: The Vigil

Bai Lidu went to the counter of the grocery store, and there was a money shopkeeper inside.

"Money shopkeeper, do you have any good goods?" Bai Lidu was happy in his heart, and his questions were relaxed and casual.

"This monk, the goods are all here, what is the like, please buy it directly" The money shopkeeper said with a wave of his hand, and a shelf full of all kinds of goods appeared in front of Bai Lidu, and each product could be seen with explanatory information.

Bai Lidu glanced at it, there are primary ordinary equipment for various occupations, related tools for various life occupations, and seeds of flowers, trees, grains, fruits and vegetables, etc., it can be described as a dazzling array of types, and there are many types, but they are not cheap, any piece of tabula rasa equipment is priced at a few silver coins, Bai Lidu found a carving knife in the life occupation tools, the price is 1 silver coin, although his current money can be bought, but thinking of level 2 to buy an entry skill book, it is better to put it first.

After leaving the grocery store, Bai Lidu went to the tavern again, only to see a few empty tables and chairs in the tavern, Bai Lidu went to the counter of the tavern, and there was a "proprietress standing inside".

"Boss, what are you selling?"

It is estimated that Bai Lidu has too little money on his body, the proprietress did not reply, and waved her hand directly, and a shelf also appeared in front of Bai Lidu, there are not many things on it, there are some pills that restore life and mana, and some food and wine, as well as leisure goods such as poker and chess, and after looking at the price of the pill, the cheapest lower grade blood pill costs 1 silver coin a piece, it is really not cheap, turn around and leave.

After Bai Lidu left the tavern, he walked directly towards the north gate of the village, and when Bai Lidu came to the stone archway at the north gate, he saw a bunch of players outside the torii, and the NPC who was surrounded by a mission was enclosed, and when he got closer, Bai Lidu clicked on the NPC called "Night Watchman" and started talking:

"Senior, monk Li Dubai has come to report, please assign me a task."

"Very well, now that you have obtained the weapons of the sect, then I will not issue you any more vigil weapons, there have been a lot of vicious spiders in the grass in the depression near the village recently, I hope you can go and eliminate them and bring back ten of their corpses"

[Vigil Mission 1: Depression Spider] (Normal Mission): According to the requirements of the night watchman, eliminate the spiders in the nearby depression and bring back ten spider corpses, task reward: 20 experience points, 20 copper coins

As soon as he saw the reward for the mission, he knew that it was for the newcomers, so he asked the night watchman:

"Senior, is there a more dangerous task, I hope to accept a more difficult challenge"

"Young man, be down-to-earth, don't underestimate these spiders, there is a more powerful poisonous spider among them, and if you come across it, be extra careful, if you can bring back the poisonous spider's sac, then I will consider the more dangerous task you mentioned," replied the Night's Watchman.

- System Prompt: You have activated the Hidden Quest: Poisonous Spider

[Hidden Mission: Poisonous Spider]: Find and kill the poisonous spider, and collect the poisonous spider's poison sac to the night watchman, task reward: unknown

It seems that there will be a surprise if you ask more, so hurry up and find his so-called poisonous spider.

Bai Lidu turned around and left the north gate, and walked towards the depression on the side of the village road, the depression was overgrown with over-the-knee weeds, which was very suitable for spiders to hide, at this time, there were many naked novice players nearby with wooden sticks and wooden swords looking for spiders to kill, Bai Lidu walked towards the depths of the depression, at this time, a basketball-sized spider appeared not far in front of him, and his right hand clicked to view its attributes:

[Depression Spider] (Normal, Bug): Level 1, Health 15, Attack Method: Bite

Bai Lidu didn't think much about it, he walked directly to the spider, stretched his right arm and made a provocative action from the bottom to the chest, and the characters in the game also made the same action. A -6.5 white damage value appeared on the spider's head, Bai Lidu immediately waved the arm on his chest to the spider outward, a -6.2 damage value then popped up, the spider had blood skin left, and then a casual knife gained 5 points of experience, and the corpse disappeared quickly, Bai Lidu opened the melee attack and defense panel, and found that his current main hand output reached 4.7-6.7, according to the damage of the two swords just now, this ordinary spider basically has no protection value, so it can maintain more than 6 damage value.

Bai Lidu continued to walk through the grass, deliberately avoiding crowded places, with the main goal of finding the poisonous spider mentioned by the Night's Watch.

After killing another ordinary spider, the corpse in front of him did not disappear, and after Bai Lidu picked it up with his right hand, he received a system prompt:

- Quest Hint: If you pick up 1 spider corpse, your quest completion is 1/10

- System prompt: You are comprehending life skills on your own - Collecting, comprehending maturity 5%

In this way, while looking for poisonous spiders, he killed the ordinary spiders that appeared in front of him by the way, and soon killed more than a dozen ordinary spiders, but at this time, the prompt was upgraded:

- System prompt: Your level has been improved, the current level: 2, you have gained 5 growth attribute points, you have obtained 1 skill point, your Vermilion Bird Body makes your mental attribute automatically increase by 1 point, and your physical strength is worth recovering.

It turned out that he had gained 235 experience points by making a peachwood sword from a planer carpenter, and he only needed 300 experience points to upgrade to level 2, so he leveled up unconsciously. At this time, the character has 5 attribute points to add, and the money on his body is still not enough for 2 silver coins, since he needs to use a sword to cut monsters now, it is better to add it to the strength first, so Bai Lidu added all 5 attribute points to the strength, and the character attributes at this moment are as follows:

Character name: Li Dubai

Race faction: Retro Ones

Vermilion Bird's Body: Automatically increases 1 spiritual attribute for each level, automatically reduces fire damage taken by 50%, and increases fire spell damage by 50%

Personal Talent: Refreshed - Every 1 increase in your Spirit Attribute is equivalent to the increase in Mana by increasing the same number of Intelligence, i.e. 4 Mana for every 1 increase in Spirit

Main occupation: monk (outer disciple); Life Occupation: Junior Carpenter (Mahogany Sword Making)

Primary Class Level: 2 (XP: 2/500)

[Basic Properties Panel]:

Strength: 10, Agility: 6, Constitution: 12, Intelligence: 5, Spirit: 7

Melee Panel:

Melee damage: 5.2-7.2

Damage bonus: 0% (dynamic value, displayed when the target is locked)

Base Damage: 2.2 (Base damage increased by 1 per 5 attack strength)

Attack Strength: 11

Attack Speed: 1.375 (Dual-wielding a weapon is ×110% of the average speed of both weapons)

【Buff Enhancement Panel】:

Protection value: 11.2

Health: 36

Mana: 28

Health: 240

Luck: 0

Freehand speed: 0.63

Movement Speed: 1.02

Dodge Rating (Rate): 6 (0.6%)

Health Regeneration: 1

Wealth: 1 silver and 10 copper

[Other Panels]:

Skill Points: 1

Primary Ability: None

Life Skill: Beginner Logging: 50/1000

Package Items: Logging Axe, Spider Corpse, ×6

Character Equipment: Straw Sandals; devotional church waist card; outer disciple robes; Ordinary mahogany sword; Delicate mahogany sword.

Bai Lidu finished adding attribute points, and saw that 6 spider corpses had been collected in the package, and he simply didn't look for any poisonous spiders, and hurried up to 10 to go back to hand in the task, so that at least the follow-up tasks could be activated, so he began to speed up the rhythm of killing spiders, and then encountered ordinary spiders at this time, there was no need to think about anything, basically two swords and one sword, so it was very easy, and finally after killing about ten ordinary spiders, Bai Lidu collected 10 spider corpses, Think about it, in reality, if you have 10 spider corpses in your backpack, it's disgusting.

While picking up the spider's corpse, Bai Lidu noticed that there was a plant under his feet that was different from the weeds, and it seemed that he could also be collected, so he tried to grab the plant with his right hand and pluck it, but only to bring out a few potatoes from the soil.

- System prompt: You have picked up three potatoes, note: Eating directly can properly restore physical strength and health, and the effect of eating after cooking is better

- System prompt: You are comprehending life skills on your own - collecting, comprehending maturity 65%

In the past, each spider corpse only increased the maturity of collection by 5%, but now three potatoes are directly given 15%, or potatoes are more cost-effective, so it is better to find a few more potato seedlings and comprehend the skills of collection first.

So Bai Lidu continued to look for potato seedlings, and when he encountered an ordinary spider, he also killed them, and finally found two more potato seedlings, and the attached seven potatoes also made the collection skill comprehension successful:

- Skill Tips: You have successfully mastered the life skill - Gathering

[Gathering] (Elementary, 0/1000): Collect items and materials that are visible or protruding from the surface. Note: Life skills cannot be upgraded through skill points, you can move the skill icon to the ground branch shortcut box at the bottom of the screen, and you can set gestures or voice-activated voice or directly touch the icon to collect the operation.

Bai Lidu moved the icon of collection to the ugly position as he did before when he set up the logging skill, and changed his activation voice to "gathering"

Next, when Bai Lidu walked back, about to go back to submit the task, he found a colorful spider lying in the grass in front of him:

[Depression Poisonous Spider] (Elite, Worm): Level 1, Health 50, Attack Method: Poisonous Bite

Bai Lidu stepped forward directly and raised his right hand to be a sword, only to see a -7 value come out, and then his right hand slashed back, this time there was a -10 blue damage value, at this time the attack of the poisonous spider also arrived, and a -2 point of ordinary damage appeared above the head of his character, and then a -3 point green damage value appeared, which was obviously poisoned.

- System Prompt: You are attacked and poisoned by a poisonous spider in the depression, you are poisoned by the primary insect poison, and you lose 3 blood points every 3 seconds for 10 seconds.

At the same time as his own poisoning, Bai Lidu took advantage of the situation to swing the peachwood sword in his left hand and slashed at the poisonous spider, this time there was only -7.2 damage value, seeing that the second attack of the poisonous spider was about to bite over, Bai Lidu slid on the tip of the index finger and middle finger with the thumb of his left hand, and the character flashed to the left front, "MISS", dodged the poisonous spider's bite, at this time the poisonous spider was already on the right side of the character, and the right hand of the sword swept sideways, and then cut back, two actions down, and took away the poisonous spider 14 points of blood, It seems that there is not much blood left for the poisonous spider, Bai Lidu slashed the opponent twice in a row under the poisonous bite, and finally killed the poisonous spider, but he was poisoned again:

- System Prompt: You are attacked and poisoned by a poisonous spider in the depression, and you are poisoned by the primary insect poison (layer 2), losing 5 blood every 3 seconds for 10 seconds.

Halo, this insect venom can actually be stacked, and it is poisoned again when it is near the end of the last time, although he currently has 36 health points, he can't resist continuous poisoning, Bai Lidu saw that only potatoes in the package could be consumed, so he consumed a potato:

- System prompt: You have taken a raw potato, your stamina and health are worth recovering, your stamina is restored by 10 points, your health is restored by 5, and the cooldown time is 3 seconds

Although the amount of life recovered was small, it could be regarded as offsetting the damage of a poison, and Bai Lidu sat on the ground to recover his health. Kill the poisonous spider, get 20 points of experience, originally thought that the poisonous spider died, the effect of poisoning is gone, but it is still poisoned for 10 seconds, fortunately the waist card can be 2 seconds back to 1 point of blood, so calculated, he faced the poisonous spider and dropped a total of nearly 30 points of blood, which still escaped a poisonous bite situation, if the insect venom is superimposed on three layers, now 36 points of life is estimated to be difficult to spare, if it is a newcomer who has not entered the village, then it is properly poisoned.

Seeing that the corpse on the ground did not disappear, Bai Lidu shouted "collect" to the corpse of the poisonous spider

- System Prompt: You have obtained 1 Spider Poison Sac through gathering, you have gained 10 experience points, and your gathering proficiency has increased by 10

Now that all the quest items have been collected, Bai Lidu is no longer in love with the battle, and quickly walks towards the position of the night watchman.

Coming to the night watchman again, Bai Lidu directly submitted the task

- Quest Hint: You have completed Vigil 1: Depression Spider, and you have gained 20 XP and 20 Copper Coins

- Quest Hint: You have completed the Hidden Quest: Poisonous Spider, you have gained 80 experience points, 80 copper coins, you have received 1 luck point as rewarded by the system, and your friendship with the Night's Watch has increased by 5

"Young man, I did underestimate you before, now I have an even more dangerous mission to give you, last night there was a villager who disappeared during the vigil, it is possible that he was taken by a more ferocious monster, I hope you can find him, if he is killed, I hope to bring back his relics" The night watchman said, and the quest hint appeared:

[Hidden Quest Follow-up: Missing Villagers]: Find the missing villagers who may have been snatched by monsters, and bring back possible relics, Quest Reward: Unknown

Bai Lidu is still reminiscing about the system prompt just now: the luck value has increased by 1 point, the reward of this hidden task is really good, now it is more energetic, and the villagers can be plundered, this is a BOSS-level monster, if it can be completed, the reward is definitely not low, so he hurriedly said goodbye to the night watchman, and now he has enough 2 silver coins, Bai Lidu hurried back to the religious order, found Elder Wang and bought the book suddenly appeared and studied:

- System prompt: You have consumed 1 skill point, learned and mastered the basic skill (active) - suddenly appeared.

[Suddenly] (Basic Skill): Consumes 5 mana energy, confuses the target by adding telekinesis to make them in a trance when facing your attack, increases the probability of their attack deflecting by 15% within 5 seconds, and has a skill cooldown of 15 seconds. (Note: Basic skills cannot be upgraded to skill level)

It seems that this attack is skewed, that is, he passively realizes the dodge.,It's a good introductory skill.,Bai Lidu moved the sudden skill icon to the rightmost side of the ground branch shortcut box.,When setting the activation of voice,The system requires that for professional skills,The activation voice must be the name of the skill.,That is, when you want to use your voice to launch the sudden appearance skill,It is necessary to shout "Suddenly".。

After Bai Lidu bought this skill book, he only had 10 copper coins on his body, and he was poor again.

Out of the north gate again, towards the place where the poisonous spider was killed just now, since the poisonous spider, then there may be a stronger spider monster nearby, this time Bai Lidu walked to the periphery of the depression farther away, and the ordinary spiders encountered were too lazy to kill, after all, no matter how easy it is to operate with control gloves, it is necessary to wave your arms, and people with poor physical strength in reality are estimated to not last long.

Sure enough, it was found that some ordinary spiders did not all appear out of thin air, but came from the same place, Bai Lidu followed it and finally found a small hole that had been covered by weeds at the edge of the depression, and could barely pass through a person, this should be a spider cave, Bai Lidu pushed aside the weeds and walked in.