Chapter 8: The Iron Eater
"Come on, take a look, professional maintenance weapons, military brands, only 3 copper coins to make your weapons look like new, the first ten customers also come with a fish killing spirit produced by Lord Augustus, come and take a look." Yang Hao shouted loudly.
"Hey boy, your tone is big enough, you're still in the military, are you an adult?" The mercenary uncle in a stall next to him scoffed.
Yang Hao didn't care about him, and continued to sell, and after a while, seven or eight mercenaries gathered at the side of the stall, and Augustus's name was quite useful in Baishi Town.
"Boy, the name of Lord Augustus also dares to pretend, and he is brave enough."
Yang Hao didn't say anything and took out the bottle of potion and the parchment given by Augustus, and said, "Look at the mark on the bottle, do you know, and this parchment, I am Lord Augustus's new purchaser." ”
"I haven't heard of what a fish slayer is." The mercenaries obviously believed Yang Hao, after all, no one dared to joke about a mysterious person.
"Fish Killer, it's a new product of Lord Augustus, are you still worried about the slippery mucous membrane of the fish man, the fish killer specializes in mucous membranes, making it easy for you to kill fish. There are only 10 servings, first come, first served. Yang Hao continued to sell.
"Does it work?" Someone questioned.
"What the hell are you, Lord Augustus dares to doubt it, bring me a copy." A strong man in black leather armor threw Yang Hao 3 copper plates.
"Thank you for your patronage." Yang Hao said excitedly for the first time.
After 15 minutes of calling up the system operation mode to complete the maintenance work, the long sword that was originally dusty and full of scratches suddenly became shiny as new. Handing the long sword and a potion, he handed the black-armored man and said:
"Big brother, take it and come back next time."
"Hey, I didn't expect the little brother to have some real skills." The black-armored man obviously came for the potion, which can be regarded as an unexpected gain, and he is in a good mood.
"Little brother, the craftsmanship is good, we both make one."
Yang Hao looked at the 6 copper plates in his hand and said, "Okay, I must take good care of the big brothers." ”
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Soon Augustus's 10 potions were sent out, and Yang Hao's craftsmanship was also recognized by the mercenaries, and the only business was not afraid of being robbed, and after 4 hours, Yang Hao had 48 more copper coins on his body.
Seeing that the time was almost up, Yang Hao collected his stall and returned to the barracks to continue practicing his skills.
At 18:00 all players received a message:
"Ding, congratulations to the player for getting one year older, +0.1 Strength, +0.1 Agility, +0.1 Constitution, +0.1 Spirit."
Yang Hao's next game activities became regular,
Daily morning exercise at 6:00,
7:00~11:00 Maintenance of weapons in the barracks,
11:00~12:00 Afternoon exercise,
12:00~13:00 to Augusta delivery, every time I bring a bottle of wine, rub some meat to eat, as for the test of the potion, there are no mercenaries to make trouble, it should be considered a success,
13:00~17:00 Set up a stall on the mercenary street in the south of the town, and chat with relatives and friends to understand the latest situation.
17:00~18:00 Evening practice,
18:00~22:00 Continue to maintain the barracks weapons,
22:00~6:00 (the next day) Sword practice.
Wake up again
"Ah, what a wonderful day to spend as four days." Yang Hao returned to reality from the game.
"Brother Hao, are you going to fight the wolf clan this time?" Makoto Fat Man is obviously a bit of a war maniac trend.
"No, I'm in business, making money every day, buying wine, and eating meat." Yang Hao quipped.
"Heh, it's okay to live a small life." Cheng Fat Man said enviously.
"That's it."
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The regular days fly by, and in a blink of an eye, it is the 15th day of the game, and today all players will be adults and enter a new journey.
During the period, Yang Hao's sixth-day cold weapon maintenance was upgraded to proficiency.
Skill: Cold weapon maintenance (proficient) proficiency 2/500
Effect: Increases the durability of Cold Weapons by 20%.
Evaluation: A true warrior understands his weapon, cherishes it like life, melts his heart into the weapon, and dies with the weapon.
On the tenth day, the players grew again, and the effect was the same as the first time.
On the twelfth day, the whirlwind swordsmanship rose to proficiency,
Physique: Whirlwind Sword (proficient) 73/2000
Effect: Strength +0.2, Dexterity +0.2, Constitution +0.2
Evaluation: The wolf killing swordsmanship explored by the soldiers of Baishi Town combined with the swordsmanship of the army, and the efficient killing swordsmanship.
"Come with me into the Black Forest after eating." Augustus fiddled with all kinds of bottles and cans.
"Wooh. Ahem, what's the matter? Yang Hao choked on the meat and said.
"Collecting a material needs your help, by the way, this one." Augustus handed Yang Hao a book with a brown cover.
"Strange Creatures Illustrated (White Stone) by Augustus Poison Ivy." As the name suggests, this is an illustrated book that introduces the monsters near Baishi Town, and Yang Hao feels that this journey will not be peaceful.
After these few days of contact, Yang Hao has a deeper understanding of Augustus. Poison ivy should be the title of Augustus, not the name, because Augustus studied plant-based witchcraft, Yang Hao has seen many strange plants cultivated by Augustus, and Augustus's archery is also first-class, and some witchcraft is even more powerful.
As mentioned earlier, the Darek Black Forest is a vast forest located north of the town, and it feeds half of the townspeople of Whitestone, but this is by no means a good place. The dark area of the Black Forest is full of all kinds of monsters, and Yang Hao's target this time is to penetrate the nest of the Iron Devouring Spider one kilometer deep into the dark area.
Augustus got a rare acidic plant two days ago that needs strong acid liquid culture, and the iron-eating spider likes to live in iron ore and eat iron ore, and there are glands in the body that can secrete strong acid, so Augustus was targeted to kill spiders to extract acid.
However, there is a problem that the Iron Eater is a social monster, and the powerful individuals in it are not much weaker than Augustus, so Augustus decided to resort to the classic tactic of their natural school - positional warfare. I saw Augustus take out seven or eight seeds from his bosom and scatter them around, and then took out two bottles of potions that had no effect, and then recited a mantra.
More than a dozen green vines thick with red spikes covered the ground in a radius of 15 meters at a speed visible to the naked eye.
Well, yes, the efficiency of arranging traps to fight monsters must be very high, and my mother should be quite suitable. Yang Hao shuddered when he remembered his mother's appearance of holding a rattan whip in her hand. When he came back to his senses and found that Augustus was staring at him, Yang Hao couldn't help but wonder, why is this old boy looking at me.
"What makes me blame, no, no, no, refuse, I refuse." It's not that Yang Hao is timid, but Yang Hao checked the information about the Iron Devouring Spider on the road, this kind of monster can attack from a distance, and Yang Hao's current small body will die if he is sprayed with a mouthful of acid.
Augustus was not annoyed by Yang Hao's refusal, and took off a ring from his hand and said:
"Yes, this Ring can cast the Wind Wall spell 3 times a day, and the activation spell is 'Oak'. I can't get too far from the Red Thorn Vine, so it's up to you. After speaking, Augustus patted Yang Hao's shoulder heavily.
Yang Hao can't beat what he can say, and he can't run away, "Master rest assured, the last general is willing to go to the soup and fight." ”
Yang Hao quietly touched the nest of the Iron Devouring Spider, and calculated the gap between friend and foe in his heart. Yang Hao's current agility attribute is 1.3, which should be considered high among players, but even if the Iron Devouring Spider is not an agility-based monster, the agility attribute has about 2 points. It is definitely impossible to run directly, the iron mine is surrounded by a twenty-meter clearing, and Yang Hao will be found as soon as he comes out of the woods.
According to the speed difference between the two sides, Yang Hao will be caught up in a little more than 3 seconds, and Augustus is 50 meters away, and if he enters again, he will be discovered by the big guy in the hole, and it will take at least 5 seconds for Yang Hao to run, so if you want to survive, you must use the trees in the dense forest.
Yang Hao found a big tree at 30 meters and 40 meters and stepped on it.
Coming to the edge of the forest, there were more than a dozen iron-devouring spiders patrolling the entrance of the cave, and when the other iron-devouring spiders turned around, Yang Hao walked out of the hiding place, and the most marginal one found Yang Hao.
Turning around and running, Yang Hao didn't have time to observe whether the Iron Devouring Spider had caught up, and after a while, there was a rustling sound behind him. Yang Hao knew that the Iron Devouring Spider was coming, the voice was getting closer and closer, and both of them ran out of a hurry.
Soon Yang Hao reached the big tree 30 meters away, grabbed a tree trunk with his right hand and forcibly turned it, and a gust of evil wind blew behind him. The Iron Devouring Spider obviously didn't expect the prey in front of him to play this game, and it bought Yang Hao more than 1 second of time.
At 40 meters, Yang Hao repeated his old tricks, deceived the Iron Devouring Spider again, and rushed towards Augustus's Red Thorn Vine.
The Iron Eater Spider has never been so angry, he was played twice by such a weak creature today, and when he catches the prey, he must eat the intestines of the prey in front of the prey.
More than a dozen thorny red vines bounced up like poisonous snakes and wrapped around the Iron Eater Spider, and the poor Iron Eater Spider had no room to escape and was entangled. The iron-devouring spider, which was originally 1 meter long and 60 cm tall, was tied up with five flowers, like a big crab to be bought.
The thorny red vine continued to shrink, and cracks began to appear in the body of the iron devouring spider, and the green blood was left and dripped on the thorny red vine, eroding the thorny red vine into black holes, but the thorny red vine only took a few seconds to recover. After a minute, the Iron Eater Spider was completely motionless, and Augustus stepped forward to carefully remove the Iron Eater Spider's glands.
"Yes, go ahead." Augustus was pleased with the outcome of the Dead Iron Spider.
Soon Yang Hao pulled the second Iron Eater Spider, but this time it was not so smooth, and the 30~40 meter Road Iron Eater Spider decisively used acid spraying. Yang Hao even crawled to the ground to dodge, and was almost caught up.
More than an hour later, Yang Hao seduced 12 iron-devouring spiders in a row, except for a mistake to pull two, and used a witch ring, all of them were thrilling successes.
"Okay, three more will suffice." Augustus looked at Yang Hao and said.
Speechless, all the iron-devouring spiders at the entrance of the cave have been killed, and it seems that they must enter the cave.
The entrance of the mine is very large, and there are no fingers in it, as if it is a big mouth that chooses people to eat.
With the fluorescent belt sent by Augustus, Yang Hao could only see the range of 3 meters around him, the ground was pitted, and the spider legs of the iron-devouring spider were harder than pig iron.
Yang Hao really didn't have the courage to go too deep, picked up the stones at his feet and threw them into the hole.
"Hiss~" A fierce hiss came, and Yang Hao ran away without saying a word, this is definitely not an ordinary iron-devouring spider.