Chapter 18 Task Nodes

In the dead of night, Zhou Xian returned to the game world. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

Riding the ground walking lizard, Zhou Xian followed the instructions of the large map menu and headed in the direction of Tian Yuan City.

Tian Yuan City is a small city in the game, surrounded by maps and dungeons suitable for players of medium level. Compared to other gaming cities, the number of players here is relatively small.

Such a city that is almost unknown in the game is familiar to Zhou Xian.

This familiarity comes from Zhoujia Town, next to Tianyuan City, which is also the hometown of the protagonist in the story of "Little Blacksmith Zhou Xian" that Zhou Xian heard from his father.

Approaching the area of Tianyuan City, the earth walking lizard turned to the direction of Zhoujia Town along the main road.

This kind of village-level place is where many new players haunt. The surrounding monsters are very low-level, and some single or two-player or three-person dungeons are also suitable for beginners to adapt to the game mode.

When Zhou Xian rode on the ground walking lizard, he could still see many rookie players on the road casting envious eyes. After all, it is not bad for these rookie players to have a little donkey with a system experience, and a fifth-order demon beast mount like the ground walking lizard is similar to the feeling of Zhou Xian watching others drive luxury sports cars in the real world.

But now Zhou Xian's mind is on the first node of the Emperor's mission, so he just rushes to that mission location.

After running for a while, Zhou Xian found that there were many low-level players running in the same direction.

Because of the Emperor's mission, Zhou Xianke had to be careful everywhere. Stopping to walk on the ground, he asked a group of players who were hurrying, "Is there something going on with everyone running in that direction?" ”

A female gamer in a newbie suit had a light in her eyes: "Wow! What a big little dinosaur! ”

The other one with thick eyebrows and big eyes was full of disdain: "What eyes? This one is not called a little dinosaur, it is called a little crocodile! But it's fun, and it's nice to ride a little crocodile. ”

"No, that's a little porcupine!"

"What are you kidding? Riding a porcupine, it's not all a colander on the butt. ”

Zhou Xian: "...... I'm sorry guys, but this is called a ground walker. Everyone is in such a hurry, what are you going to do? ”

"Brother Lizard, you don't know? Seeing that direction you were going, I thought I had heard about it. It was the female player who guessed the little dinosaur at the beginning: "According to the players who are leveling up nearby, there seems to be traces of adventure missions there, and everyone is going to try their luck to see." ”

Zhou Xianke was taken aback, and he didn't care about the strange lizard brother's title, and was surprised: "Adventure mission? ”

The female player blinked her eyes: "No, I see that your level is good, and the mount is so popular, don't you know the adventure mission?" ”

Of course, Zhou Xian knew that this adventure mission was actually a random field mission to help some rookie players quickly level up. Generally speaking, it's something as simple as helping NPCs find lost things, separated children, or critters.

And these seemingly low-level and simple tasks tend to have a slightly longer process, and there are many follow-up quest stories that are unfolded by gods, leading players to better understand and integrate into the world of this game.

At the same time, in the process, players will gain a lot of experience, so that the level can increase rapidly. This kind of rookie quest, which is jokingly called "adventure mission", once there is a clue, it will make many rookie players rush to it.

Zhou Xian was worried that this "adventure mission" would not be done well because the signs presented by his emperor mission would be misunderstood by rookie players, so he hurriedly asked for more information: "I also know this adventure mission, it is a very interesting thing." I don't know what the signs are this time? ”

This time it was the player with thick eyebrows and big eyes who spoke: "About a few days ago, the rookie players in Zhoujia Town heard that there were many NPCs there muttering that powerful fire-type demon beasts had escaped from the mountains, hurting a lot of people and animals. This kind of NPC unconventional discussion is often a sign of adventure quests, so everyone is now rushing to the place where there are rumored to be infested with monsters. ”

Zhou Xian wasn't sure at this time, whether this was a sign of the Emperor's mission or an omen of the adventure mission. However, the emperor's task could not see the light of day, so he could only thank him and check the order of his medicines again, and then continued to instigate the lizard on the road.

The Emperor's mission is extremely dangerous, and if he is killed abnormally, he will be declared a failure. At the beginning of this start, there may be some demon beasts infested at the beginning of the task node, and Zhou Xian had to be more careful.

Whether it was for his father's story or to save the two dormitory buildings in Area D, Zhou Xian decided to go all out to complete this emperor's mission.

Running wild, the lizard is capable of moving at up to 90% of the player's normal speed for long periods of time, and can even reach 160% of the player's movement speed in short bursts. Leaving behind a lot of players, Zhou Xian rode the ground and walked into the woods in front of the mountain in one breath.

[System prompt: Enter the initial node range of the Emperor's mission, and the game character cannot be offline until the task is completed or the task fails.] 】

As soon as Zhou Xian entered the forest, he found that a red system prompt appeared in his information box.

"What? Can't take a character offline? ”

Zhou Xian can be regarded as knowing why the Emperor's mission is so difficult, and the game character can't go offline, which means that even if he forcibly disconnects the helmet from the network, the character in the game will still be in an unmanned state and stay in place.

In this way, if you encounter danger in the game, you can't avoid it by going offline, and you can only try to solve the danger.

Just as Zhou Xian was stunned, he suddenly heard an exclamation not far away!

"Conditional!"

Zhou Xianyi pulled the reins, and the ground lizard swung its neck and tail, and suddenly started quickly, passing through the forest.

"Help!"

Zhou Xian's eyes suddenly lit up, and in a slightly sparse woodland, a teenager was rushing to the road. Behind him, a monster with long red hair, shaped like a wild wolf, with smoke and sparks in its nostrils, was chasing after him.

This young man who was being chased, with an obvious NPC yellow mark on his head, was wearing a leather apron for craftsmen, and was holding a broken spear in his hand, the key was that his appearance was exactly the same as Zhou Xian!

"Little blacksmith Zhou Xian!"

Zhou Xian, who has heard this character countless times in his father's story, doesn't know why. I immediately recognized this NPC as the little blacksmith in that story.

"Roar, roar, roar!"

Before Zhou Xian could react, the monster behind him erupted into a ball of flames! This monstrous flame was like a sword of scorching light, instantly enveloping the young man who was running and fleeing for his life in front of him.

"Ahhh

The boy screamed for a few moments, and then turned to ashes in the flames.

[System Prompt: Please be careful, enter the mission boss battle, and death in battle is a mission failure.] 】

"Ahhhh

Zhou Xian didn't have time to feel sorry for the NPC who hung up, and he was about to face the challenge of that huge monster!

"Special Skills, Eyes of Discernment!"

Zhou Xian quickly used an Eye of Identification, a skill he had specially cultivated in order to travel around the game world, and was able to probe the middle and low-level dangers and the level of most monsters.

[Identification completed: Sixth-order demon beast flame fang, fire attribute demon beast, level 75, the threat level to the current player is deadly.] The monster's combat power is unknown, the type of item dropped is unknown, and the current status is seriously injured. 】

If it weren't for the last sentence, Zhou Xian would have turned his head and ran now, definitely not hesitating for a moment.

What are you kidding, a level 75 boss-level monster, even if a hundred Zhou Xian comes, they will only be knocked down on the spot. However, this kind of mortal mission setting is obviously unreasonable, and there will inevitably be a glimmer of life for players to take advantage of.

Zhou Xian quickly lifted the riding state, and then did not put away the lizard, but gave it an order to protect the master!

"Summon skeletons! Summon Divine Beasts! ”

Not to mention, Zhou Xian's first hand is the two major summoning skills of the Taoist profession.

The level is only thirty-five, but Zhou Xian's skill enhancement direction is balanced development, so the ability to help the monster summoned is also quite not optimistic.

The groundwalker and two small summoned monsters that were weak and could not help the wind swooped down on the flaming fangs at the same time.

Zhou Xian moved quickly, entering a blind corner where the flame fang could not attack from a distance, and raising his hand was another Taoist priest's classic skill - poison magic!

"Roar!"

The two front claws of the flame fang were raised, and after the upper body stood up, it was a flame spit, and the skeleton with poor HP was the first to turn into a flash of light and disappear, and the summoned divine beast expanded its body into a combat state, but it was obviously unable to withstand the second attack.

However, at this moment, Zhou Xian's poison spell accurately hit the flame fang, and at the same time, he saw that the flame fang was under the right rib of the abdomen, and there was a big sword deeply inserted, only the hilt was still exposed, flowing with blood.

After being hit by the Flame Fang of the poison spell, a faint blue-green mist began to emerge from his body, and the amount of HP he did not have had began to decline slowly.

"Good!" Zhou Xian did not hesitate to move at any time, so as not to enter the realm of the flame fang's flame spitting attack, and at the same time constantly used the skills of summoning skeletons and summoning divine beasts to cooperate with the lizard to get stuck in the movement of the flame fang.

A magically aggressive monster like a flame fang is relatively limited in size. After the weight of the system's physical calculation, it can easily knock down the skeleton summoned by the Taoist, and can knock the divine beast summoned by the Taoist priest with a small displacement, but it can't hit the fifth-order demon beast's ground walking lizard.

Relying on such a card position, Zhou Xian carefully applied the ghost shield skill of adding a magical defense buff to the ground lizard, and then continuously used healing techniques to restore some HP to the ground walking lizard.

After more than ten minutes of continuous operation like this, the amount of HP of the flame fang finally bottomed out, and then the red light burst out in his eyes, and he roared again and again in the bloody mouth!

"This is the AOE (Areaofeffect, Area-based Skill) of the boss monster before it dies!"

Zhou Xian almost saw the red light, and immediately rolled on the spot flexibly, and at the same time, he quickly took out a bottle of instant HP recovery medicine in his carry-on bag, and poured it all into his mouth directly!

"Boom!"

A flash of light like a bomb exploded, and a suffocating wave of heat rolled over the ground, and a flame AOE with a coverage area of about twenty meters in diameter was released around the center of the flame fang.

Zhou Xian's HP amount, after wearing the current full set of HP-additive equipment, reached an astonishing 980 for a Taoist priest of this level.

But this AOE directly deducted Zhou Xian's 387 HP from the first wave of heat wave alone, and then a steady stream of red words such as -230 and -216 popped up from his head.

When Zhou Xian's HP was almost at the end, it happened that the bottle of instantaneous HP potion came into play, and a green +600 word quickly popped up on the top of his head.

The Instant Healing Potion has a cooldown, and the second bottle cannot be drunk for 15 seconds. Zhou Xian could only use healing techniques to recover himself, and finally survived this terrifying wave of AOE damage when his final HP was 187.

According to the setting of the system, the AOE before the release of the boss-level monster before death is the real near death.

The roar of the flame fangs continued, but the eyes dimmed, and the body fell down in a constant writhing, kicking up a large cloud of charred black earth and flying ashes.

Zhou Xian was distressed to find that his ground lizard did not survive the AOE damage, and also died with the huge flame fang.

When the pet dies, it automatically turns into a halo and returns to the owner's hand as a token. The token has a countdown number on it - for 12 hours, the mount cannot be summoned again.

After 12 hours, the mount will be weakened, even if it can be summoned, and its speed will be halved compared to before, and it will not return to normal until after 72 hours.

"Evil beast dares!"

Just as Zhou Xian was silently mourning for the heroic righteousness, a golden figure suddenly fell from the sky, and a lightning bolt thicker than a human roared and fell to the flame fang on the ground who was about to breathe!