Chapter 20: Skeletons
Diplomatic skills are NPCs' ability to talk to other characters, and trade is naturally a bargaining skill.
The most common NPC will only have one skill. If you have good qualifications, you will have two or three skills, and as for your specialty, it depends entirely on luck.
Since Ni Wen was the first to hire NPCs as store clerks, this list has accumulated a lot of information. Pull down, and you won't be able to see the bottom for a while. However, the NPCs that are really special are all those that require a lot of prestige to hire. With that prestige, go directly to the battle NPC, and there is no need to spend it on the head of the living NPC.
Ni Wen's requirements are not high, she excluded NPCs with only one skill, and then selected three people from the list. Two of the female NPCs act as clerks on the same floor. As for the third layer, Ni Wen planned to stay in the laboratory.
The six plots of land in the undeveloped area can be put aside for the time being, and Ni Wen chose to build it as a living building here in the mercenary union. After the player buys his own land and builds a house in the city, the effect in the room can be better than that of the hotel. In addition, in living buildings, skills such as cooking can also be used to obtain certain bonuses.
But for Ni Wen, the most important thing is to be able to establish a permanent team station in the city.
The two buildings were quietly transformed in Kavanoli, and by the time players noticed, Ni Wen was no longer at the door. Some players just thought they were mistaken, or they only put all these changes on the NPCs, but there are still thoughtful people who guess it.
A player has bought Kavanaugh's land! How did he or she do it?
For guilds, this is even more important. The current guild, in fact, is like a civilian-initiated organization for the empire, and it is still not qualitative. Who knows if these adventurers are coming together to do good or bad? To put it bluntly, this is something that has not been stamped and certified by NPC forces.
And to really become an officially certified guild power, there are only two conditions. First, there are enough guild honor points, and you don't have to think about it without 5,000 points. Second, there is the need for a fixed station.
As a result, all public households, including the Wolf Tribe, the Cross Radiance, and the like, are now unlicensed.
However, Ni Wen is not too worried, the first-class guilds in the Horace Empire are all gathered in Ferran City and Kilbagan City. Kavanori, there's really nothing too outstanding. Anyway, there is not much need for her to show up in the store after that, so let these people guess.
Ni Wen came directly to the pharmacists' union, and there are still three hard-working pharmacists working here.
At this time, the three of them had already known some general news about their boss from the forum, so when they saw Ni Wen who walked in, their eyes also changed slightly. Only the little angel of Shimmer greeted him with an innocent face, "Boss, I also saw the video!" So you're so powerful! โ
Something may sound wrong. Her original image didn't have a little fighting professional demeanor in this guy's heart?
"I've got some potion recipes for you." Ignoring this, Ni Wen said: "Here are three formulas for magic recovery potions, learn them all, there is no instantaneous return, so you can only make do with it first, Shimmer You can make anti-โกโก agents next, see if you can produce a few more bottles of small superlatives." This is the permit for our shop, and you can go to the third floor to make potions. But I haven't been able to get the decoration drawings of the laboratory yet, and the buff that increases the success rate is gone. โ
"We're open?" Glimmer's eyes widened, "Then all the potions we made after that were sold in the store?" โ
"Well, then the previous auction house will be able to stay." Ni Wen nodded, "The matter of this store is also in our confidentiality agreement. The store will open the day after tomorrow, so you can stock up on the counter before then. We don't have to put ordinary small blood vials on the shelves, do boutique routes, understand? โ
This is something closely related to their own interests, and several people immediately responded.
Among the three people, Ni Wen is naturally looking forward to the glimmer the most. For example, the Fire Resistance Potion can only absorb about 300 fire damage of normal quality for 3 minutes. However, Shimmer can make a potion that absorbs 500 damage.
There are many ways to increase the success rate of the Apothecary, the player's own proficiency is one thing, the laboratory can provide a success rate buff, and there are some special holding items that can also play a role in increasing the success rate. In addition, every time a player is upgraded to a skill, he can receive the corresponding badge in the life professional union where he is located, which is an accessory in itself to increase the success rate.
There are thousands of ways to achieve success, but there is only one that can improve the quality of drugs.
After talking to a few pharmacists, Ni Wen went to the mercenary association, and the three NPCs she recruited were here waiting for the arrival of their employers. The two female NPCs can only be regarded as ordinary, and the other is called Grove, who also has a specialty and befriends nobles.
This perk sounds like a snag at first, but it's actually extremely useful, especially since Grove's trade skill is also level 3.
Befriending the noble perk allows Grove to earn more friendship with the noble NPC. And what does an aristocratic NPC mean? It's not bad money! Usually, Ni Wen can also let Grove as a temporary businessman, as long as he first has a good relationship with a nobleman and knows the other party's preferences, then Ni Wen can buy a batch, and then let him sell it to that nobleman.
This principle is actually the same as Ni Wen's previous quest to brush up on the dwarven alchemist, and it is also the consistent routine of the merchant profession in the game. However, merchant players usually take their goods to another city where they need them urgently, and they sell them at market price. And what Grove sells is the aristocratic price.
Therefore, after Ni Wen signed all three NPCs, she still bought a luxurious robe for Grove in the NPC's tailor shop. This piece of equipment basically has no attributes, and it is expensive to die, but it is solemn enough, and this kind of posture is good for friendship with those noble NPCs. She also gave Grove five gold coins and let him gather information in the city.
Maybe it's because of the first time they hired NPCs, the loyalty of these three people is enough 90 points, and Ni Wen doesn't have to worry about Grove running away with money. The trade of the Grove is also a high-end boutique route, and the horizontal and vertical is a share of the income of gold coins.
After settling the issues related to this side and the land, Ni Wen went to visit other places in Kavanaugh according to her memory.
There are so many places in a city that need to use reputation. As long as there are NPCs, it will definitely be affected by reputation. Ni Wen's reputation has risen now, and there were originally some places that could not be entered, but now she can enter them.
She came to the mage career hall, found the guide NPC in it, and after a salute, asked, "Is there a mage here who sells Transfiguration scrolls?" โ
The thin NPC, who seemed to be a skeleton of bones, glanced up at Ni Wen before replying, "There are three mages on the second floor who can make scrolls, you go and ask." โ
"Thank you, Your Excellency." Ni Wen saluted and walked to the second floor with a sigh of relief.
The upper floors of all the career halls are simply based on prestige! And this is something that no player knows yet. Everyone just takes it for granted that going upstairs requires advancement. But when the player really advances, the completion of the advanced task will increase a lot of prestige! At that time, the prestige was enough. Therefore, such a misunderstanding has been there among players for a long time.
At this moment, Ni Wen's whole body was wrapped in a cloak, and the mages in the professional hall could only see her back, and when they saw Ni Wen just walking upstairs, they started to talk about it.
"Is that an NPC or a player?"
"NPCs, where are the archmage players coming from now? Advanced: That's a level 30 thing. โ
"But will NPCs still talk to guide NPCs? Is there any hidden quest where you can guide the NPC to go upstairs? โ
"Guys, I'm going to talk to the NPCs first."
Ni Wen didn't know the situation downstairs now, and as soon as she walked upstairs, she saw a magic array not far away that covered most of the hall. On the other side, against the wall, there are all bookcases, and the books placed in them are slightly messy. Judging from the inscriptions on the spine alone, there are more than 20 languages.
It's really a pity that she can't improve her archaeology proficiency, but if you know the elementary archaeology, you can have a talent for language proficiency. At this time, I have to go around here in a big circle, and how many languages can be entered at once.
There are five or six mage NPCs in the hall on the second floor, and for Ni Wen's arrival, they don't even lift their heads, and they are extremely calm.
Many of the mage NPCs have quirky personalities, but there is one thing they have in common. Mages like to be quiet, and they believe that a quiet environment is the only way to communicate better with the elements. In particular, pay attention to NPCs that are meditating, if you interrupt rashly, maybe someone will throw a skill over.
Hehe, the favorability of a single NPC drops to hate, and it can also be PK.
Ni Wen came to the side of a female mage lightly and asked softly, "May I ask if it's the mage Tisiah?" I'd like to buy a few Transfiguration scrolls from you. โ
This Tithia is also not young, and she has a mature charm on her body, and she is one of the few mage NPCs that Ni Wen knows that specializes in enchantment.
Tithia was preparing some materials at this time, and when she heard Ni Wen's words, she only glanced at her faintly, "The scrolls are all on this table, you can see for yourself." โ
These stores are open. In the career hall, there are usually some NPCs that can sell things. For example, there are many skills that need guides after the middle of the legal system, similar to magic runes, and these things can also be purchased here.
Many of the things purchased here are personally bound, and Ni Wen is greedy for some aggressive scrolls, but she has no intelligence attributes and mana to support it, and it is difficult to use it if she buys it. What's more, her purpose this time is the Transfiguration Scroll.
Enchantment can imprint a skill on an item, which can be a blank scroll or a piece of equipment. Most of the metamorphosis that players can learn is to change sheep by default, so it is also called sheep transformation, but in fact, as long as the player has the heart to collect, it can change into a pig, a snake, a rabbit or something.
Ni Wen also needs to transform into an aquatic animal, and the cooldown times of the scroll and ring will not overlap, so that she can support her underwater in the form of an animal for more time. The Warlock actually has some magic patterns related to underwater action, but it's more about travel speed.
Gem Bay, which may be famous in NPCs for seafood, is not the same among players.
Ni Wen first asked Ling Feng Chenyang about the recruitment situation after that, and learned that they had recruited three more people in the arena. But even so, overall, there is still a bit of talent that has emerged from the limelight in Cavanaugh.
"Let's pause recruiting people here." Ni Wen said: "It's going to be a day, and there are not many results." Didn't you already send a message to all the people on the previous list? Then don't rush yet. You guys take your new teammates to fight a boss or something, and see how it feels like to cooperate. โ
Ling Feng Chenyang heard it at this moment, "Where are you going?" โ
"I was thinking that we just need a big butler right now." Ni Wen replied on this side, "So I thought about going out and turning one back." โ
Do you have to use the word abduction? I don't know why, Ling Feng Chenyang thought of himself, and the one, two, three, four, five beside him now. When you think about it, there doesn't seem to be anything wrong with that.
What Ni Wen wants to go to is naturally Jewel Bay.
There was a legend in Gem Bay who, as he later recalled, made his money fishing here in the early days.
However, this person himself is also from the management industry in reality, and after fishing for a while, he is unwilling to be lonely and starts his old business. He started his in-game Chamber of Commerce, which mainly brought together merchant players between cities to build a platform for trading with each other.
If this kind of platform wants to be built, it will naturally be coveted by many people, but he did it anyway. Even in the later stage, it is also very nourishing to live by relying on the platform's rake.
Ni Wen felt that she could just recruit when the other party was still addicted to fishing.
What's more, there are indeed some other exciting things in Gem Bay. Kill two birds with one stone, why not? Jewel Bay, known as a jewel of the Horace Empire.
Its coastline takes on a crescent-shaped arc, and in contrast, there is an island surrounded by the gentleness of this arc. The name of this island is also called Gem Island. Its foundation is made of coral, and the island is a fresh and pleasant landscape. In the previous life, the fame of Gem Island grew, and finally became a must-see sightseeing map for players.
And this area is not only for sightseeing. It's close to a Fish-Man settlement, and in previous lives, this news was only known to players when the first expansion was released.
Ni Wen now, she just has to go to the fish-people to get acquainted with her face before the first expansion is opened.
And to find the big butler, it's actually not that difficult. Ni Wen had been squatting in the tavern in Jewel Bay for a short time when she saw a player with a fish basket bag tied around his waist walking in. This person's eyes are small, but he is very energetic, as a dwarf player, Ni Wen suddenly has a feeling of seeing the orange cat catching fish. After all, this one's body shape is indeed a little rounded.
"Are you Wang Laoji?" Ni Wen stepped forward in a few steps, provoked a smile and said, "Why don't you sell these fish to me, I want them all." โ
Wang Laoji almost reflexively covered his fish basket, this is in the village and town, he is naturally not afraid that the other party will do it. But what made Wang Laoji feel vigilant was the momentum on the other party, which seemed to be a signal, a signal of aggression and conquest.
"You just want to buy fish? There are also a lot of fishing players here, and my fishing level is just average, so it's better for you to find someone else. โ
"The fish I want to buy is the kind of fish that Jiang Taigong wants." Ni Wen said slowly, "You say, will I go to find other players?" โ
Looking at this posture, it is clear that he is coming at himself.
After Wang Laoji realized this, he didn't have the mind to confuse the past anymore. However, his eyes looking at Ni Wen were still vigilant, and his voice was tense: "I don't know what value I have to you?" โ
"Then let's go first, go to the table over there and get some grilled fish?" Ni Wen raised her eyebrows and gestured.
Wang Laoji thought to himself, how to say that this platinum wings should not be like a life player for himself, just talk about it, and it won't drop a piece of meat.
And the two sat down at the table, and the first thing Ni Wen said was: "I'll give you three hundred gold coins now, plus a newly opened shop, how far can you go to let you manage the team and even the development of a guild under these conditions?" โ
Wang Laoji almost choked on his own saliva, "How many gold coins did you say?" โ
"Three hundred." Ni Wen said word by word, "And that shop can now be supplied by three junior pharmacists, plus the things that the platinum wings hit." This one, you can re-evaluate it in your own heart. โ
Now there are 300 gold coins in the game, how much does that have to be! Now that the credits can't be exchanged for the game, how did you get such a large amount of money?
"Are you trying to hire me now?" Wang Laoji finally found his voice back, "Do you know who I am? โ
"It doesn't matter how I know what you're capable of, just ask if you're willing to do something for me." Ni Wen said, "If we want, we will sign a contract, not only in the game, but also in reality." And the first thing I want you to do is buy Blastwind Studios. โ
"Wait a minute, I haven't thought about it yet." Wang Laoji suddenly felt a little overwhelmed, the other party's attitude was too determined and too strong.
"Oh, that's right." Ni Wen suddenly realized, "Then give you a day, tomorrow is still here, this table." By the way, I know you're a smart person, and you know what to say and what not to say. Here, it's "Divine Creation". โ
Wang Laoji was almost stunned in place, watching Ni Wen walk away in such a dashing manner.
This plot seems to be completely different from what he expected! Shouldn't she continue to discuss what she promised to do well? Can't you give a good bargaining time?
Time of day...... Wang Laoji felt that he was going to be entangled to death on this day.
Ni Wen came to Gem Bay, not just to kidnap a Wang Laoji. She bought twenty bottles of underwater breathing potion from the shop here, and while she rented a small boat and rowed out to sea.
This kind of boat is generally rented for fishing players, and it can accommodate one or two people in itself, and the speed is not very fast. In Ni Wen's cognition, the best battle ship drawings that can be obtained in the later stage are from goblins.
The dwarfs also had similar warships, and even the most famous air-sea warship, the Meteor, was built by them. However, in comparison, after the goblins split from the gnomes, they did pay more attention to magical machines, so the attack ability of the warship was much stronger.
The boat took Ni Wen for a while, and she estimated that the position should be about the same, so she got up from the boat and drank a bottle of underwater breathing medicine, and plunged into the sea.
When a character is underwater in a humanoid state, they will generally receive a 60% to 80% slow. Ni Wen tore open a magic pattern before her speed was restored.
Now she had to do that for now, the Transfiguration would maintain her aquatic form for a maximum of forty-five minutes, and then a fifteen-minute cooldown. However, although the Fish-People are still neutral towards the player, they will drive away the humanoids, and once they resist, they will directly enter into disgust.
So Ni Wen must make sure that she didn't waste the slightest of these forty-five minutes.
The world under the sea is actually more gorgeous than on land. On land, the yellow color of the land and the green of the vegetation are generally used as the color tone. But when the color tone reaches the bottom of the sea, it seems to have lost its meaning completely. The colors are mixed together, but they blend together naturally, as if you are constructing a fairy tale world in a dream.
But this fairytale world is also full of crises at the same time.
Ni Wen is now maintaining a stealth state downstream, this area is no longer a shallow sea, if it arouses strange hatred, it is a second kill without any other ending.
Therefore, Ni Wen must always pay attention to the direction of the monster here, so as to avoid getting too close to a certain creature.
Suddenly, Ni Wen's eyes lit up, and she seemed to have discovered her goal.
It was a reef at the bottom of the sea, but underneath the seaweed, there were faint traces of demonic patterns. This is actually a teleportation array! As long as the player stays here for five seconds, its teleportation function can be activated.
But the problem now is that near this teleportation array, there is a purple-eyed octopus! Ni Wen couldn't detect the other party's information at all, but judging from her experience, the purple-eyed octopus that would be here was at least level 40.
The level difference of more than twenty levels is not a gap that can be made up by technical operations, as long as the distance between Ni Wen and it is close, it will inevitably be discovered. And she didn't even have a chance to escape.
At this time, we can only hope that there will be a cannon fodder to attract the hatred of the octopus.
In her backpack slot, there is exactly this summoning item. I don't know if there is a possibility that the skeleton will be drowned.
Dark Wizard's Skeleton, OK to use!
System Hint: You used the evil item Dark Wizard's Skeleton, you are cursed, all stats drop by 10, and the duration is 2 hours.
I'll your grandma a leg!
Do you want to deduct it so hard? Was her luck so bad? Isn't this attribute value deducted between 1-10? She's hitting the max?
As if the system was also trying to compensate Ni Wen, a small purple teleportation array appeared in the seawater, and first, a skeleton horse jumped out of it! It is wearing iron armor, so it does not show too much skeleton, and it does not look like it has that sense of horror, but is extremely handsome.
And then came its knights. The other party is also dressed in black iron armor, and his whole body is almost tightly wrapped, if it weren't for the purple hellfire in his eyes, he really couldn't tell that this was a skeleton.
Skeleton Knight! O standard knight in the army of hell! Cow or not?
Ni Wen's first reaction was to immediately turn on the Transfiguration Technique and swim in the direction of the purple-eyed octopus. Ya's one is also a level forty monster, how can she be tamed? Summoned out, the first target of hatred is herself!
The skeleton knight turned over and got on his horse, and sure enough, he rushed directly towards Ni Wen.
Skeletons do not require air, but they are also affected by speed. It's fine for the skeleton knights to chase after them, but if they ride on the skeleton horses, they are estimated to be half as fast.
What horses have you ever seen swim under the sea?
Purple-eyed octopus, your current existence is the only savior. Ni Wen prayed in her heart, hurry up, go to that skeleton knight! I'm still a harmless little turtle (Transfiguration scrolls are used first, don't complain about this animal), no matter how you look at it, the appearance of a skeleton knight is more threatening!
The purple-eyed octopus swam up from the bottom of the sea, and Ni Wen quickly bypassed its swimming path and handed it over to the Skeleton Knight in a friendly manner. Go for it, and it's better to tear it for a little longer.
This is the bottom of the sea, and the Skeleton Knight is estimated to be unable to win, and the number of uses is not in vain!
The aquatic creatures' game speed bonus, coupled with the acceleration magic pattern, Ni Wen rushed to the teleportation array at a high speed. And the current that came immediately washed her into a Thomas spin, she is now small, and she can't control her body at all!
Ni Wen was dizzy for a while, feeling that she could take the initiative to bump into the monster.