Chapter 62: The Reward (I)
【Task Log】
【Silent Guide】【Mission Status: Completed.】 】
[Reward: 100 Soul Energy]
With a burst of magnificent and majestic background music, a dazzling yellow light burst out of the void and slowly descended with a majestic momentum. The light shines on your body, nourishes your soul, makes you feel that your whole body and mind are immersed in the warm current that soaks your heart, all the fatigue and pain are gone, your eyes are wide in surprise, the corners of your mouth are surprised with a smile of surprise, and the whole person seems to have been reborn!]
What the hell is it talking about? Barrett was a little confused. He didn't hear the majestic background music, nor did he see the dazzling yellow light descending, nor did he feel the inexplicable warm current.
The soreness and burden on his body and arms from carrying the huge frost worm still haunted him, and he didn't even have the strength to hold a sword. Before and after the completion of the mission, Barrett didn't feel the slightest difference, is this called getting a new life?
Well, at least Barrett did involuntarily widen his eyes, just without a smile.
As if hearing Barrett's heart-wrenching voice, the strange words continued to appear:
[Ahem, in view of the current lack of energy, please make up for the above scenario by yourself.] 】
[But no matter what, the acquisition of 100 soul energy is real. It's the most pure, immaculate energy in the entire multiverse, and it's given as a reward for completing your mission. What can soul energy be used for?First of all, you can use this energy to officially activate the "mission log" system. 】
【Please select whether to activate or not?】
[3, 2, 1, activated by default, please wait for a while......]
The strange words in front of me suddenly disappeared as they appeared.
Wait, what's activation? What the hell is going on? He didn't choose what mess he wanted to activate, and he didn't know how to cancel it.
The thing just talked to itself, activating itself when Barrett was still confused and overwhelmed, and the whole process was like a smooth flow, giving him no time to choose and think.
Hey, whatever you are, I want to say, I don't want to activate! I don't want that soul energy! Please go back to the way you were!Barrett shouted inwardly, but received no response.
Old Will seemed to see Barrett's abnormality, and he walked over to the brute, "What's wrong? You don't seem to be 'comfortable'? Are you still nostalgic for that well-behaved frost worm?" or do you want to leave here, don't want to leave the Misty Forest?" the mage laughed.
"No, I—I'm just a little tired. Barrett squeezed a smile out of the corners of her stiff mouth. There was a moment when the barbarian wanted to tell Old Will about the inexplicable things that were happening to him at this time, but when the words came to his lips, the content changed, "That frostworm really impressed me, it reminded me of a dog that I had at home when I was a child. They are all equally well-behaved and obedient. It's just that the dirt dog is more "smart", at least not eating indiscriminately.
"You picked a good target for us. Old Will had a meaningful smile on his face, or perhaps it was a misreading by Barrett due to weakness.
"No, that's all thanks to Estelle. "Actually, I didn't choose. "There's no choice. "I just came here with a vague impression and tried my luck. "There's nothing wrong with that, finding frost bugs in such a vast misty forest requires more or less luck.
"Luck is a good thing. Old Will nodded, "I want it to be like air all the time." ”
"Oh, you're a 'greedy' person. Estelle, the half-elf, also walked over, a charming smile on her handsome face.
If there was a dazzling light, it should shine on this half-elf who actually knew some of the druid's methods. Barrett thought to herself.
I remember the original sentence of the proverb saying that. "The half-elf muttered, "'The greedy want luck to be around them like air, and the contented want luck to be like the sunrise and only want to see it when they reach the top of the mountain.'" ”
Barrett had also heard this proverb because it came from the kingdom of Nord. The Nords have a lot of proverbs related to things like "contentment" and "greed", which are related to their traditions.
The barbarians have been a simple and honest people since ancient times, but they are a little barbaric and ignorant.
"No, my Asteri, I don't think that's greed. The mage lit his pipe again, apparently in a good mood, "I have enough gold to fill the barn, but I still wish there were more of them than goblins, my wives and groups of lovers are charming, but I still want to taste the sweetness of more women, my territory is rich and vast, but I would prefer to have my head printed on gold coins, etc., etc....... , such a thing is greed. And 'I want luck to be around me all the time' is just a beautiful fantasy because it can't be realized. My Estelle, it doesn't come true!"
Old Will and the Half-Elf politely argue about whether 'wanting to be lucky all the time' counts as 'greed', while Barrett struggles.
The two of them debated over some inexplicable trivial matter on the road, and Barrett had listened to it with relish before, and felt as if he could learn something, but at the moment he was obviously not in the mood for this.
The "meaningless" words of the two people made Barrett inexplicably a little irritable, he turned his head to look at the others, and found that the ogre was sitting on the moss, putting on his armor little by little, and the dwarf helped it adjust the position of the armor from time to time, and the two of them cooperated tacitly, obviously not the first time to do this.
Occasionally, the ogre would sneak a little moss and put it in his mouth, but he would immediately vomit it in disgust, but after a while, he would pick and chew some again, and then spit it out again.
"How can that frostworm eat so happily?" Barrett asked the dwarf angrily at the sound of the ogre's urn, but the latter did not answer it.
"Maybe it would be better to bake it. Moglock muttered to himself.
Barrett felt more and more that no one in the team was normal, and they all had all kinds of weird fetishes. Maybe the most normal of these people is himself, he thought. If you don't count that inexplicable "mission log system".
"Mission accomplished, I think we should go back as well. Old Will stopped communicating with the half-elves, turned to Barrett and said, "Although the scenery here is indeed 'charming', it will take a few days to get back to the Bay of Pigs from here, and then we will have to go from the Bay of Pigs to Garano, in short, the rest of the journey is still long." ”
The mage didn't say what to do when he arrived in Garano, because it was obvious that it would only take a blink of an eye to make a teleportation circle from the branch of the Magic Guild to the city-state of Muya.
It's a convenient and expensive way to travel, but Old Will is a mage, and he can ride the teleportation circle for a much lower price than ordinary people. Barrett had also heard that some of the members of the Magical Society were riding for free.
But Barrett was not envious of this, and even if he could afford it, he would not want to ride such a thing. If time permitted, he would rather spend a longer time doing carriage trips.
"As you wish, Your Excellency. Barrett put aside the uneasiness caused by the activation of the [Mission Log] and led the group in the direction of the Misty Castle.
Before the mission is completed, everything is based on the mission as the first element, and Barrett does not go to some places where there may be gains, but only to those places where frost worms may be active.
After completing the mission, although it only takes a slight detour to go to several locations where the gold coins are hidden, such as the lake called the "Eye of the Charr", Barrett is not in the mood at the moment. He just wanted to go back as soon as possible and find a quiet place to study this thing that was being 'activated'.
In fact, counting the pay, Barrett has gained enough. On the way before, he was lucky enough to encounter a cluster of three frost grasses, plus he would get some winter wolf corpses and some miscellaneous things picked up on the road, which added up to a lot of income.
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At night, the Misty Forest is as silent and eerie as ever. The slumber of one world represents the awakening of another, and under the double shroud of fog and darkness, a thousand strange events are constantly being staged.
Barrett and the 'Dirty Novel' group had dinner in the makeshift camp and were ready to go to sleep, the brute was still on the second shift of the night, and the half-elf was the first shift.
Just as Barrett adjusted her mood and prepared to rest, those strange words jumped out of their own eyes.
Unlike before, Barrity's first choice was a translucent piece of parchment, which was slightly yellowed and seemed to be very old, with a subtle spider-like pattern on the surface, and a black hard border like obsidian around the parchment, which was very quaint.
There are many words displayed on the paper, but those words are not the square words that Barrett couldn't understand in the past, but the most used words in the entire continent and even the multiverse - the lingua franca.
The most striking words on it read:
【Task Log - Activation Successful】
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