303 Crazy Traditions
In this medieval world, there were no laws prohibiting the purchase of murder, even public duels were legal, and it was not unusual to hire mercenaries for revenge because of a grudge.
It is understood that although the "Sea Fire" organization only has more than 400 official members, there are quite a few small gangs affiliated with their names, and if all of them are included, the total number of internal and external members of the entire "Sea Fire" organization can reach more than 2,000 people!
At present, players have not been able to establish a guild-level organization, and there are not many who have even obtained official mercenary qualifications, so the vast majority of players have chosen to register as adventurers, form an adventure group to form a group, and build a pyramid-like team structure like building blocks.
The personnel structure of the adventure group is very loose, and basically the players appoint it themselves, which gives players the opportunity to exploit loopholes, and only the management of those large guilds has the opportunity to get the status of [trainee mercenary squadron leader], so the average player is at most the authority of a 10-person squad leader or a 4-person squad leader.
However, a squad leader with 10 player squad leaders, while the other nine squad leaders each form a squad of members, so that a squadron of 111 people can be formed, and if you are a squadron leader, you can form a full 50 squad leaders!
Although it is not as clear and convenient as the management authority of a formal guild organization, theoretically speaking, players can use this "matryoshka" method to bring all members into the jurisdiction of the organization.
The adventure guild, in order to make it easy for adventurers of the same team to identify each other, when registering a temporary adventure team, the team members will be given an "adventure emblem", and this kind of adventure emblem that exudes a milky white shimmer, although it is applied by the NPC caster of the adventure guild, but it can be designed by the players themselves, so in this way, there is an informal team organization among the players.
As long as the team leader does not disband the team, the [Adventure Emblem] imprinted on the player's chest will not dissipate, and because the [Adventure Emblem] is not an entity, it is just a circle of light made up of a palm-sized circle of arcane energy, so it cannot be concealed, and will always appear on the outermost chest of the player's equipment.
Like the [Adventure Emblem] organized by "Sea Fire", it is a dial of twelve stars on the zodiac, and at seven o'clock, a small Capricorn sign replaces the stars, and in the center of the "dial", there is a flame floating on the sea.
Although it is only a group composed of very simple lines, it clearly marks their identity, belonging to the "Zodiac Signs" guild alliance of the "Capricorn" guild "Sea Fire" group.
In this way, it has brought some convenience to the players, but also brought some trouble, unless it is a temporary group that is scattered in the morning and evening, otherwise, the emblem of the general long-term group, people who are familiar with them know at a glance that they are the team, register a temporary adventure group, and also need to pay a registration fee of 1 gold coin, although it is not much, but there is no guy to burn the bag to have nothing to do to register one and then disband to play.
If the team's power is huge, the exposed [Adventure Emblem] can still play a role in showing honor and intimidating enemies, but if you encounter a powerful enemy, then this emblem will become their lifeline, for example, now!
Sycamore's unrestricted wanted mission released in the Mercenary Guild is a free mission that can be completed without players taking it, as long as you kill a member of the organization, the [Adventure Emblem] on the opponent's chest will peel off and condense into a milky white "Emblem Stone" the size of a fingernail, which contains the basic information of the member who was killed, which can be used as a voucher for handing over the task, which is the same as after hunting a monster, cutting off the left ear and bringing it back.
When the Mercenary Guild announced this task, not only the players went crazy, but even many NPC mercenaries went crazy!
The standard price of a [Normal] quality Tier 0 Level 20 [Heavy Axe] is 210 gold coins, and the price of the [Military Heavy Axe] of the same level is twice as high as the regular [Heavy Axe], and the price of the [Dwarven Heavy Axe] is twice as high as the [Military Heavy Axe]!
This means that the standard price of a [Normal] quality [Dwarven Heavy Axe] is 840 gold coins, and then the [Fine] quality price is ×2, [Fine] ×2, [Exquisite] ×2, [Perfect] ×2
The [Perfect] quality [Dwarven Heavy Axe] that Sycamore took out as a bounty was officially valued at 13,440 standard gold coins!!
How much of an astronomical amount is this for the average gamer? Maybe for some medium and large player forces, it is not impossible to raise more than 10,000 gold coins, but the problem is that this thing is not something that can be bought with money!
The ordinary [Dwarven Heavy Axe] itself is regarded as a [delicate] product, and it is impossible to buy it in ordinary NPC stores, let alone the [perfect] quality [Dwarven Heavy Axe], this thing is currently a "divine weapon", and the value of this axe is not at all what can be bought with the official estimate of 13440 gold coins!
In addition, in addition to this "artifact" that requires the highest hunting points and the minimum number of 500 heads, there are also various super-quality pills, potions, Siwen, scrolls, alchemy items, and secret medicines that are clearly priced, all of which can be exchanged for hunting points.
One hunting point can be exchanged for a set of 50 ordinary combat grade pills worth 2.5 gold coins, or the [efficient], [powerful], and [special effect] quality pills can be exchanged proportionally, the price is still secondary, the most important thing is that these super-quality pills can't be bought at all! If you can have some super-quality pills, you may save your life in the process of fighting bosses and PKs! That's a lot of money!
In this case, how can you tell the players not to go crazy?
Almost as soon as the mercenary guild put out this free quest that does not restrict the aborigines or players to complete, the news spread throughout Fairhaven at lightning speed in a very short period of time, and quickly spread to the surrounding areas
There is no limit to the area you can complete this quest, as long as you can find a member of [Seafire] and kill him, you will be able to claim rewards in your local mercenary guild!
The twenty or thirty million players in the city, after a short period of silence, aimed at the players around them with wolf-like eyes, the green eyes hit the chest, and even made them feel a burning tingling, especially the sensitive female players, they hugged their chests with their hands in horror, trying to block the terrible eyes, it is estimated that this is the first time they are afraid of the gaze outside the lustful eyes, it is too terrifying!
More than 400 official members, and nearly 2,000 affiliated members, were thrown into Fairhaven City, which has a player population of up to 20 or 30 million, as inconspicuous as the sand in the sea, but after all, their activity area was probably near Mercenary Street in the guild area.
So as soon as the news spread, the traces of Wutong and their going to the Mercenary Guild had been discovered, and the members of the Sea Fire who were gathering people to ambush a group of mages suddenly felt a little "hot", and after looking around in a daze, they found that the players around them were enthusiastic, looking at themselves with hot and eager eyes, and suddenly felt a lot of psychological pressure!
Around the Mercenary Guild, hundreds of dying screams sounded almost at the same time, and most of the members of the sea fire had already been slashed to the ground by the strange players around them before they could figure out what was going on, and the one who died was as light as a feather!
The chaos began, although Mercenary Street and the surrounding area, and even the civilian and slum areas of the entire Fairhaven City, followed the law of the fist, and the law could not completely restrain people's behavior, but it did not mean that the Ander royal family would allow the people to fight openly unscrupulously, and large-scale chaos would still attract the control of law enforcers.
But do players care?
Not care!
One of the hapless Seafire Wanderers reacted quickly, and almost as soon as he noticed that the eyes of the players around him were falling on him, he immediately ran to the nearest enforcer, trying to save his life with the majesty of the enforcer.
But as soon as he ran to the heavily armed enforcer knight, a big knife strangely stretched out from the crowd and slashed at his back, directly cutting him to the ground, and then, a group of players rushed up, scrambling to chop the axe and chisel, lest the hunting points fall on others!
The dead Seafire Wanderer ignores a problem, that is, although the law enforcers will control the fight, but the law does not hold the public accountable, if only one or two players attack him, maybe the law enforcers will avenge him, but a large group of people rush up, who do you let the enforcers catch?
The Sea Fire Organization, which can also make up more than 2,000 people together, has all been lying in the "morgues" of various temples in just half an hour after the announcement of the wanted task, and the series of revenge plans originally planned to deal with the "No. 44 Secret Law Group" also disappeared because of the lack of executors, and they died directly.
Instead of thinking about how to take revenge on the people of "Secret Law Group No. 44", the "Sea Fire" organization should think about how to get out of the temple, and now outside each temple, there are groups of scouts squatting, all eagerly waiting for them to come out of the temple!
The bounty is only for a week, and the personnel of "Sea Fire" are only more than 2,000 people, and the wolves are more and less meaty, which is not enough to cut at all, and in the first round of hunting, all organizations have not even hunted the single digit of the minimum 500 heads, and it is a long way to go to make up 500 heads.
The players who participated in the hunt almost immediately reacted to the "sinister intentions" of the mission bounty, not to mention that the number of 500 heads is not much, but the requirement is to hunt enough 500 people to be eligible to participate in the highest hunting point ranking, that is, only the organization with the highest hunting points will have a chance to get the dwarven heavy axe.
But the problem is that there are only more than 2,000 people in the "Sea Fire" organization, and there are so many organizations in Fairhaven City that want that dwarven heavy axe, and it is great that an organization can catch a Sea Fire member and kill it, which is similar to guarding the "refresh point", there are more people and fewer "weird"!
After the player hangs up, the soul returns to the temple to be resurrected, and there will be an hour of "death punishment" time, and the corpse will have to lie down in what players jokingly call the "morgue" in the temple, and within the same day, each additional death will double the "death punishment" time.
(In the dead state, players can choose to exist in the soul state, or they can choose to go offline, and in the soul state, they can read the official background information and books that need to take time to learn in the mailbox bound to the account, or they can log in to the official community to browse.) In other words, a player can be killed up to 4 times a day, and if you hang up once, you will explode one-tenth of the current soul energy pool capacity, which is equivalent to dropping one level of "experience", and once you drop below the 1st level, you will enter a 24-hour [Divine Protection] protected state, and you can't be attacked by people or others.
This means that the number of heads that more than 2,000 members of "Sea Fire" can provide every day is only more than 8,000, and the number of heads a week is only more than 50,000, which is simply not enough for the broad masses of the people to divide up.
This forced some hunters to be in a hurry, and even sent people to contact those members of "Sea Fire" who were afraid of being killed and hid in the temple and did not dare to come out, and paid money to "buy heads"
Regardless of the chaos in Fairhaven City, Sycamore and the others have left the city unknowingly, and continue to go outside the city to brush the mission, no one will come to disturb them for the time being, while skillfully cooperating with others to release spells, clearing out the ferocious rats that rushed to the warriors, July Flowing Fire even has the strength to mutter: "A [perfect] quality dwarven heavy axe!" They made it like this, how much money will it make if it is sold for sale? ”
Lingyue Shuangxue on the side rolled her eyes angrily: "Why don't you say that if there is the dwarf heavy axe of the boss of Wutong, we will be hunted down by more than 2,000 people?" ”
July Flowing Fire threw a [Acid Splash] out, and collided with an acid ball released by the Moon, and the acid mist formed by the exploding acid splash just shrouded the ferocious rats that rushed to the front of the formation, but did not affect any of the meat shields, and with the tacit understanding of cooperation, their current spell casting skills have been greatly improved.
Taking advantage of the interval between singing, Qiyue Liuhuo smiled dryly: "Aren't I sorry for the boss, haven't you heard the official appraisal given by the appraiser of the Mercenary Guild?" More than 13,000 gold coins! How many pills do I have to rub to earn that many gold coins! It's used to reward those fools for their deaths! ”
The players who heard him muttering next to him collectively turned around and despised him, this guy is really greedy, more than 10,000 gold coins, bought more than 2,000 heads, it is estimated that those gang of guys, after this time, they will almost be scrapped directly, is it expensive? It's really not expensive, it's only equivalent to 6 gold coins per person, if they kill it themselves, how many pills do they have to take to kill so many people?
In fact, it's not that July Liuhuo doesn't know the truth of this, it's just that the dwarf heavy axe hurts, if he doesn't think he doesn't have that ability, it is estimated that he plans to participate in headhunting activities.
"No loss, this is just the beginning!"
As the "main controller" of the team, he is responsible for putting groups of ferocious rats into a semi-crippled state, weakening the strength of the big rats to impact the shield wall, and after brushing this batch of ferocious rats, they stepped out of the plains and entered the kobold hills, their plan today is to pass through the kobold autumn forest, go directly to the goblin jungle, and further improve their equipment.
"Khan, boss, what are you going to do?" The mages are also psychological about Wutong's plan, not everyone wants to play this kind of big scene, they can play it, first of all, they must have enough financial support.
"What for?"
Wutong smiled: "Don't do anything!" This is only the first stage, and the best is yet to come! "Another [Phantom Tribulus] shot.
"Phase one?" All the mages looked at each other, the "Sea Fire" organization is about to be crippled by you, this is only the first stage?
"Behind "Sea Fire", there is the "Capricorn" guild, let's eliminate their minions, can the other party let us go? Now they haven't come forward yet, probably because they are frightened by this national want. When they come to their senses, the chaos will expand even further! ”
After a pause, Sycamore continued, "Besides, if nothing else, no one will be able to get hold of this dwarven heavy axe."
Sycamore is very satisfied with the current situation, he has no intention of throwing the dwarf heavy axe as a reward at all, this thing is now like a handful of tender grass, constantly tempting those player organizations, and the direction that Super Sycamore hopes to develop.
At the same time, in a certain mage tower of Venaen Academy, a group of ** masters and a group of high-level mages were dumbfounded looking at Fairhaven, who had completely fallen into chaos, through a light curtain, and it took a while to react, and one of the ** masters sighed: "Zemmour, this disciple of yours is much crazier than you were back then!" Did we give him the wrong hint of the mission? Is he planning to destroy the whole of Fairhaven? Do you think it's time for us to intervene? ”
Zemmour was also dumbfounded for a while, and then said triumphantly: "Don't worry, the fun is still to come, the security problem, leave it to the old guys in the Royal Arcane Society to worry about it!" ”
**The teachers all looked at each other helplessly, the mages of Zemmour's line, whether it was Zemmour, Belial, or this little apprentice, none of them seemed to be normal, would this also become a tradition of inheritance?
(To be continued)