Chapter 35: Lv20, Storm City!
After saying goodbye to everyone, Tang Feng came to the portal in the center of Thundering City alone, and found the NPC responsible for opening the portal, the Thundering Guard.
He patted the Thundering Guardian on the shoulder, and immediately a row of dialog boxes popped up.
"Before opening the portal to Storm City, I must make two things clear to you, first, in order to protect the vulnerable people living in Thunder City, once you enter Storm City, it will not be so easy to come back, not only will you have to pay extremely high fees, but you will also have to accept the punishment of falling out of rank!"
"Second, once you're in Stormtown, you won't be able to talk to your friends who fought alongside you in Thundering City, and of course, when they enter Stormtown, everything will be back to normal. As for whether to open the portal to enter Storm City now, think about coming back to me later! ”
"Yes! Open the portal now! Tang Feng nodded.
Regarding this setting, Tang Feng has also heard that in order to create a good game environment for the general public, the game developer will start from lv20, once the player enters a higher-level town, and then returns to a low-level town, he will be severely punished. The main purpose of this setting is to prevent high-level players from returning from high-level towns to maliciously massacre low-level players, causing damage to the fairness of the game.
Just think about what would happen if a top LV100 master returned to Thundering City? Not to mention the players in Thundering City who are less than lv20, even the NPCs in charge of guarding the city will probably be slaughtered by it.
With a soft groan from the Thundering Guard, a dazzling light flashed from the top of the two silver brackets behind him, and after about 5 seconds, the light converged into a white light curtain, standing on the spot like a door.
"Storm City, I'm coming!" Tang Feng lifted his spirits and strode in.
At the same time, a woman's voice came from behind him: "Liar, where do you want to run!" Give the equipment back..."
Tang Feng turned his head in surprise, only to see a female mage named 'Little White Aries' running towards him quickly.
"I lied to you...... 'What's wrong?' Before the three words could be spoken, a flash of white light flashed, and Tang Feng appeared in the middle of a majestic city.
"Big bastard! I deceived people, and I dare to be so arrogant! See how I fix you! The little white sheep stomped her foot angrily, and when she tried to talk to the Thunder Guardian and open the storm portal like Tang Feng, she was met with the Thunder Guard's white eyes: "The mage of lv16 also wants to enter Storm City?" Are you disgusted with your life? Go away, go away! ”
"LV20 to enter? What do you mean? Don't... Could it be that the liar is already lv20? The little white sheep was stunned.
Storm City -
"Strange, when have I ever lied to someone, why would that female mage call me a liar?" Tang Feng walked down the stairs quite puzzlingly, but after thinking about it, he also figured out that there must be a priest named 'Feng Ye', or 'Feng Shi', who deceived this player called Little White Aries, because the name is more similar, so she mistook herself for a liar.
Leaving this little episode behind, Tang Feng watched this 'Storm City' with wide eyes.
As one of the top ten cities in the Marfa Empire, Storm City has a long history and origins.
"According to legend, hundreds of years ago, the three empires of Marfa, Jialan, and Zuo-Hungarian were still unbreakable Iron Triangle Alliances, and one day, the three lords led millions of male soldiers to the 'Demon Battlefield' to participate in the 'Demon Slaying War', and this battle of millions lasted for ten days and ten nights before it ended. The final result was unexpected, the three imperial alliances of Marfa, Jialan, and Zuo-Hungarian were defeated by the 'demons' and retreated, and when the Marfa lord led the rout army to flee to a wasteland, there were few soldiers left, and they were about to be killed by the demons who followed. At this time, a terrifying storm rose from the ground, blowing the fierce demon clan across, and because of this, Lord Marcel was able to save a small life. After the battle of the Demon Slayer, Lord Marfa ordered the city to be repaired here, which is the origin of the name of Storm City in later generations. ”
As soon as he walked down the steps, Tang Feng was grabbed by an NPC named 'Jack the Bard of Bragging Skin', and he was forced to teach him a lesson in the history of Storm City.
Just as Tang Feng turned around and was about to leave, a huge golden question mark suddenly appeared on the top of Jack's head.
"Heh, as soon as I entered the city, I had a mission." Tang Feng smiled and stretched out his hand.
'Ding-dong! As the system prompt sounded, Tang Feng hurriedly opened the task bar, and sure enough, a brand-new lv20 task was recorded on it.
Mission - Map of Storm City
Description: Don't look at Jack's bragging every day now, in the early years, he was a very good draftsman, and if you can help Jack kill 5 'Necro Bosses' roaming the first floor of the Necronomical Palace, he is willing to help you draw a map of Storm City and the surrounding area for free. With this map, you can save yourself the trouble of getting lost, the coordinates of the 'Necronomical Palace' are located at 27880x.90098z, south of Storm City...
Objective: 0/5 Kill the Necro Boss.
Reward: Storm City Map x1.
"Well, this is a task that has to be done, but, as a casual player, there is no need to tighten yourself so tightly, let's do the task later," Tang Feng muttered to himself, took a big stride, and began to wander 'not doing business'.
It's a joke to say 'not doing business', but it's not. This is a habit that Tang Feng has developed for many years, no matter which game he is in, Tang Feng likes to wander around for the first time whenever he goes to a new place, the purpose is not to simply play, but to be familiar with the terrain, to avoid detours and wrong roads in the future, in order to achieve twice the result with half the effort.
Half an hour later, Tang Feng, who had almost walked around Storm City, walked into this palatial building, which could be called the hallmark of Storm City - 'Professional Union'.
Starting from lv20, each city has a 'professional union', where players can choose and learn any life skill, and the general category of life skills is innumerable, ranging from armor, weapon makers, and pharmacists who are familiar to online gamers, as well as fishermen, farmers, and strippers who are at the extreme. Players can find their favorite second class completely by their own preferences.
Tang Feng walked inside, looking around, and walked through dozens of workshops before he found the pharmacist NPC Teller in a small corner of the side hall on the right.
The long table in front of Teller was filled with all sorts of strange herbs and alchemical vessels, and some of the containers full of liquid were even 'gurgling' out of the smoke.
"Young man, you want to be a 'pharmacist'?" Teller turned.
"Yes!" Tang Feng nodded.
"There are rumors that each of the pharmacists has a lot of money and countless assets. I can tell you, young man, that these are actually lies! If you want to successfully refine a bottle of high-grade potions, you need to consume countless precious medicinal materials and time, and if you are not careful, there will be a situation of 'refining pills failure', so if you want to make money from a pharmacist, it is not so easy, before you officially become a 'pharmacist', you have to think clearly! Because, once you take office, the profession of pharmacist will follow you for the rest of your life...... "Like Jack, the pharmacist in front of him, Teller, is also a guy who doesn't have a door on his mouth.
"Yes, I'm going to be a pharmacist!" Tang Feng interrupted Teller's words, and directly clicked 'OK' on the virtual screen, he still has a lot to do, how can he have the time to listen to an NPC's nonsense!
'Ding-dong! ''Ding-dong! ''Ding-dong! ''Ding-dong! ’…
The pleasant system prompt sound kept ringing in Tang Feng's ears, and then he called up the screen to check, and rows of system prompts appeared on it.
"Congratulations on becoming a 'Lv0 Apothecary Apprentice'!"
"Congratulations on learning the 'Lv0 Primary Alchemy Technique'!"
"Congratulations on learning the 'Lv0 Primary Gathering Technique'!"
"Congratulations on learning the 'Lv0 Primary Implant Technique'!"
"Maple Leaf, since you are now a 'pharmacist apprentice', there is one thing I want to entrust you to do."
As soon as he was successfully inaugurated, Teller assigned Tang Feng a task.
Quest - "Gathering and Planting"
Description: If you want to refine medicine, you must have medicinal materials, and Teller entrusts you to collect 100 red leaf grass and 100 blue leaf grass around Storm City. Don't think it's an easy task, I'll tell you quietly, those beasts around Storm City didn't grow up as vegetarians, okay, I hope you can come back alive.
Objectives: 0/100 Red Leaf Grass, 0/100 Blue Leaf Grass.
Rewards: Junior Apothecary Tool Set x1, Life Potion Recipe x1, Magic Potion Recipe x1, Red Leaf Grass Seed x10, Blue Grass Seed x10.
Tang Feng yawned, glanced at the two tasks in the task bar, and walked out of the professional union quickly, there is no need to worry about the map or anything, but this life task, the earliest it is better for him to complete it.
Outside Storm City -
It was almost dusk, and the afterglow of the setting sun was sprinkled on the fields on the outskirts, making the whole land look like a piece of gold, looking at the cattle and sheep grazing in the distance, Tang Feng couldn't help but think of the scene when he used his positioning skills to break into Thundering City.
At that time, the scene was just like now, the whole field was empty, beautiful like a landscape painting.
"Alas, it's a pity, the good times didn't last long, a large number of players appeared on the second day, and by the third day, Thundering City was overcrowded, and the wind and grass were low to see people's heads..."Tang Feng sighed lightly with feeling, stretched his waist and walked towards the coordinate point.
After a while, Tang Feng appeared on a small hill, he looked not far away, there were indeed the 'Red Leaf Grass' and 'Blue Leaf Grass' recorded in the mission, but, as the mission record said, it seemed that it was not easy to successfully collect these plants, because there were groups of jungle wolves walking back and forth near these plants.
"Jungle Giant Wolf, there are so many..."Tang Feng's head was like the most advanced computer in the world, and he instantly called up the information related to the Jungle Giant Wolf.
Although the "Wing Myth" company claims to be 'the joy of exploration', the information of some ordinary monsters is still released for players as a reference, so Tang Feng knows that the information of the Jungle Giant Wolf is not unusual, and every time he makes up his mind to play a game, he will make sufficient preparations before entering the game, which has become one of his many habits.
Jungle Wolf: A creature endemic to the vicinity of Storm City, with levels ranging from lv20~lv22, sharp fangs that can easily pierce any armor, skill - Kiss of Death.
Tang Feng carefully observed for a few minutes, and after determining the range of activity of these giant wolves, he tiptoed down the hill.
'Roar! The giant wolf closest to Tang Feng seemed to smell the enemy, a pair of wolf ears were erected high, and at the same time, he opened his bloody mouth and looked ahead vigilantly.
'Fireball! ’
Tang Feng struck a fireball technique, and this small wolf pack of seven giant wolves was completely enraged, and they roared and pounced on this unknown human.
'Holy Light! ’
'Ice Trail! Tang Feng repeated his old trick, blessed himself with a holy light, raised his staff vigorously, and once again released the 'Ice Path', the angry giant wolves only thought about how to tear the enemy in front of them apart, but they didn't notice that they had fallen into the trap set by the hunters for them.
As Tang Feng's body swayed from side to side and took a cross-shaped route, the seven giant wolves that were originally somewhat scattered were immediately attracted into a straight line, and from a distance, it looked a bit like a string of sugar gourds, but this sugar gourd was light blue.
'Magic God Fist! Tang Feng's left fist clenched, and he groaned, and a huge fist condensed by pure magic power immediately hit the head wolf ten meters away, and the head wolf immediately let out a miserable scream, and not only did the word '-277' float out above his head, but also a circle of golden icons appeared-vertigo!
"Haha! It's still a pleasure to use new skills! Tang Feng looked at the damage caused by the Magic God Fist to the giant wolf, and immediately laughed, the power of this skill is much higher than the 'Fireball Technique', but it has a cooldown time of 5 seconds, and it must be used in turn with the Fireball Technique in order to exert the maximum attack power.
In fact, Tang Feng had learned the 'Magic God Fist' a few hours ago, and the main reason why he didn't use it in the Poison Cannibal Kao dungeon was that this skill was too blue-consuming. The current situation is different, before he left Storm City, he was full of magic potions, and he was not afraid of consumption at all!
After easily leveling the seven giant wolves, and cleaning up the leather and gold coins dropped by the giant wolves, Tang Feng bent down and picked a 'red leaf grass'.
'Ding-dong! ’
'Congratulations, Gathering proficiency increased by 3 and gain 120 experience. ’
"Huh? Not only can you gain proficiency by collecting, but you also have experience? "This time Tang Fengle is enough to choke, although the experience value is not high, only 120, but the grasshopper's legs are also meat, don't be in vain.
For the next two hours, Tang Feng had been guarding this small natural medicine field, waiting to brush the giant wolf while collecting red and blue herbs, which unknowingly gave him a 21% increase in experience, and now his level is lv22, 66% experience.
However, in addition to being happy, Tang Feng was also a little depressed, the reason for the depression was that with the successful improvement of the collection skill to lv3, the proficiency and experience of collecting red and blue herbs no longer increased.
After picking up the 200 herbs needed for the task as quickly as possible, Tang Feng returned to Storm City with a bulging bag of loot, the professional union.
"You've done a great job! Take it, it's a reward for you! Teller accepted the red and blue herbs with satisfaction, and with a slight wave of his right hand, as the system prompt sounded Ding Dong Ding Dong, Tang Feng had several more items in his backpack.
Without waiting for Tang Feng to take a closer look at these task rewards, Teller spoke again: "Now that you are familiar with how to collect, next, it is time to learn how to plant, planting and gathering are two skills that complement alchemy, you go to find the Storm City Medicine Field Administrator now, go to him to buy a medicine field, and then plant at least 5 Red Leaf Grass and 5 Blue Leaf Grass, of course, if you can cultivate all 20 seeds into mature herbs, I will also give you a special reward......
'Ding-dong! ’
Quest - Gathering & Planting II
Description: Apothecary Teller gave you 20 seeds, he hopes that you can successfully cultivate them to maturity, since you want to learn the art of planting, why do you need to have a medicine field, right? Please go to the medicine field manager to purchase the medicine field first, and then plant it.
Objectives: 0/20 Mature Red Leaf Grass, 0/20 Mature Blue Leaf Grass.
Task Rewards: Rewards will be given based on the completion of the task.
"Okay, my good apprentice, go quickly, the teacher is waiting for you here, don't let the teacher wait too long, because the patience of the teacher is limited, not infinite......"
Facing this chattering mentor NPC, Tang Feng showed a helpless expression, shook his head, ended this conversation, and went straight to the medicine field administrator.
Since the distance between the two sides was not far, Tang Feng soon found this NPC in the city, and after some inquiry, Tang Feng learned that the upper limit of the number of medicine fields in Storm City was 20,000 pieces, and each player could buy up to one medicine field, and once the limit was exceeded, it would not be possible to purchase it. This news was of little use to Tang Feng, what really excited him was the following item, information about the level of the medicine field.
The best medicine fields can not only grow up to a thousand plants, but also greatly improve the proficiency of planting and gathering techniques and the experience of characters.
Of course, the purchase price of this top-of-the-line medicine field is also very expensive and very rare.
Tang Feng quickly logged into the interface of purchasing medicine fields, and a few seconds later, the interface of medicine fields appeared, and what caught his eyes was a dense level and price of medicine fields.
In order to meet the needs of different players, the system has even repaired different patterns and peripheral decorations for the medicine field.
"High-grade medicine field..."
"Super high-grade medicine field..."
"The lowest medicine field..."
After turning hundreds of pages in a row, Tang Feng finally found the 'top medicine field' mentioned by the medicine field administrator, Tang Feng double-clicked on the top medicine field interface with his hand, and a row of subtitles about the top medicine field immediately flashed out-
Top medicine field (small): A small field where 100 plants can be planted at the same time.
Special Effects: Skill Proficiency increased by 100%, Experience increased by 100%, Plant Survival Rate increased by 100%, Plant Maturity Time Accelerated by 100%.
Purchase price: 200,000/day, 1,350,000/week, 6,000,000/month.
Looking at the data displayed in front of him, Tang Feng swallowed hard and spat hard, although the surname bonus was good, its purchase price had reached a sky-high price of 200,000 gold coins for 1 day!
"It's too expensive..."Tang Feng subconsciously touched his purse, after so many days of hard work, he only saved less than 900,000 gold coins, according to such an outrageous purchase price, it would not take 5 days for his hard work to be squeezed dry.
"Buy it for a day and try it first, and see if this medicine field is as good as the introduction says..."After thinking for a while, Tang Feng finally made up his mind and paid a fee of 200,000 gold coins to buy the medicine field.
The medicine field administrator who had collected a high amount of gold coins smiled at Tang Feng very humanely, "If you still want to renew the lease, please feel free to come to me." If you delay the renewal time because of something, then don't worry, we will help you reserve 48 hours, but within 48 hours, you have not paid the purchase fee, we will have the right to take back the medicine field, and you will also lose the medicine field and all the plants in the medicine field! Your medicine field is on the right side of the south gate of Storm City, and the coordinates are 188064s.266771b......"
According to what the medicine field administrator said, Tang Feng walked quickly to the vicinity of the coordinate point, and sure enough, he found this small medicine field in a small corner.
The soil in the field is very soft, and it is very comfortable to step on a piece of marshmallow. Next to the medicine field is a small stream, the water of the stream is clear and transparent, the player can take water from the stream to irrigate the medicine field, and there is a thatched house with an area of about ten square meters on the right side of the center of the medicine field, which is specially used to store seeds for the player.
At the beginning of the game, the player's backpack is not large, at best, it can only hold more than 100 items, including 'quest items', 'equipment' and 'potions'.
The medicine fields were also bought, the seeds were also available, and the next thing was, of course, planting.
According to the prompts of the system, Tang Feng buried the plant seeds into the ground one by one, and then covered them with a layer of soil shallowly.
"Congratulations, you have successfully planted seeds, increased your planting proficiency by 6, and gained 240 experience."
"Haha! It deserves to be a top medicine field! How much proficiency and experience you can get! Tang Feng was ecstatic, when all his seeds were sown into the ground, his cultivation technique had soared to lv3.
"Do more with less! Ha ha! You can't buy the top medicine field wrong! Tang Feng flipped through the list of life skills, and there was another heartfelt laugh.
The joy of the game is not only reflected in fighting monsters, fighting treasures, and upgrading, practicing life skills, and watching the plants you pick grow slowly, isn't this another kind of happiness?
Since it takes a certain amount of time for plants to grow, Tang Feng didn't want to waste the remaining 80 planting slots, so he quickly ran into the seed store and bought Heart Blue Flower Seeds and Willow Leaf Grass Seeds that needed Cultivation Technique lv3 respectively.
Among them, willow leaf grass is one of the three main medicines needed to refine the 'Divine Elixir'. As for the remaining gilded grass and three needles, they need to be planted at lv10, and he is still far from meeting the standard for cultivating these two plants.
Back in the medicine field, Tang Feng sowed all the purchased seeds into the soil, fertilized and watered them, and the next thing to do was to wait patiently for the plants to mature.
Don't look at this is just an online game, the setting is similar to the real world, each plant has its own growth cycle, the higher the plant level, the slower the growth cycle, just compare the red leaf grass and willow leaf grass, red leaf grass is lv1 plant, the growth cycle is 2 hours (top medicine field effect blessing), and willow leaf grass is lv3 plant, the growth cycle is 4 hours, which is fully doubled.
Tang Feng, who was not sleepy at all, saw that it was still early for the red leaf grass to mature, so he bought a backpack full of blue medicine and went straight to the 'Necromantic Dungeon', there were three reasons to go to the Necromantic Dungeon, first, to complete the map task assigned by Jack, and second, to raise his level to lv23, Tang Feng, who was blessed by planting experience, is now lv22, 87% experience. Third, try the unopened 'Pendant of the Word of the Word'.