Chapter 8: Just an NPC

(Thanks to Silent Annihilation and Bandaru for their tips and support)

The basic mode of operation of the Kingdom of Terraria is: 1. Send people to regularly patrol the world and report new corrupt lands as soon as they are discovered; 2. Send a team of pioneers to destroy the Devourer of Worlds and their eggs in the Corruption; 3. The Pioneer Village, a temporary stronghold, developed in the direction of the town, becoming a new settlement for the Terra people, and monitoring and controlling the spread of the Corrupted Lands for a long time; 4. The new town pays taxes to the royal capital, and uses money as a carrier to send other things to support the royal capital.

The Pioneer Village where Lyle arrived was still in its infancy, and there was not even the porcelain of the 'town', with only a dozen boxy low cabins and a ring of stone walls just enough to keep out slimes and zombies.

"I said I had arrived, where did ...... come from?" Lyle looked left and right, and for a moment he couldn't find the house of his cohabitant, Ami, only a grocery store, a clinic, a gun shop, an explosives shop, an enchantment shop, and other functional stores.

By the way, because the Trail Five's group was out exploring, the shopkeepers were chatting outside, curious about Lyle who came on a unicorn.

"β€”Elven kid over there, here." A woman's voice came from the upper left.

Lyle rolled his eyes, too lazy to bother with the old woman, who was estimated to be five hundred years old, looked up at the treehouse spanning a few trees in the distance, and walked down to respond to his future cohabitant: "Hello, I'm Lyle from the Sacred Forest. ”

"I know, your village chief also wrote to me to keep an eye on you, saying that [genius boy loves to mischievous] is coming~ Come up." Ami laughed, having been harassed by the pioneers and other villagers for so long, and it was very kind to see Lyle, a junior of the same clan.

"............" Lyle protested strongly against the village chief's reputation for corrupting himself, and softly instructed his mount not to go too far, took his luggage, and walked up the wooden ladder to the treehouse.

Although it is not clear what is going on inside the house, the vine-like plants growing along the outside of the staircase and the two rows of flower pots planted with shiny roots and moonlight grass placed outside the door of the first floor of the treehouse can be guessed how high the cohabitants are in their home environment, and they will continue to expand and rebuild their homes in the future to make them more beautiful and comfortable.

(babble)

Amera opened the door and saw Lyle's face obviously stunned: "Huh? I didn't notice just now, are you really a boy? ”

"Is there any point in lying about being a man when you are about to cohabit with a woman?" Lyle was depressed.

The adults in the village who watched him grow up had long been accustomed to it, and they were more concerned about the hair that had faded year by year than the face that had been more delicate than Fili since childhood, and they were once worried about some unknown disease. But almost everyone outside the village would have the same question when they saw him, but Lyle's voice was quite neutral, and he couldn't show his gender in the simplest way.

Ami said without hesitation: "Prevent that group of humans who have been in heat for a long time from becoming interested in themselves." ”

β€œβ€¦β€¦ Miss Ami is not easy. Lyle said with a smile.

500 years old is 500 years old, and the appearance is still a beautiful girl with light green double diamond hair.

"Don't think you're going to stay out of it all the time." Looking at Lyle's face, which does not conform to the mainstream aesthetics of women, but will make some women with unique tastes crazy, Ami saw the future in advance, turned around and walked into the house, "The upper room is yours, it is said that you are good at a wide range of fields, I hope that work other than potion preparation will not be carried out at home." ”

Miss Elf prefers a quiet life.

She usually sells herb seeds and flower pots, and when the village is attacked, she casts a group blessing, and that's how she works.

"I'm sorry." Lyle hurriedly thanked him, Ami didn't have any obligation to prepare so much for him.

"There's no need to be respectful, this is not the character described in your village chief's letter." Ami glanced at Lyle, who maintained basic etiquette in front of strangers, and it was clear that what the village chief mentioned must be very 'representative'," ...... Besides, I'm looking forward to your inventions. ”

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After all, it is a temporary treehouse, and even if it is more comfortable than the low wooden houses of other villagers, it is only to the extent that the sparrows are small and have all kinds of organs, and there is nothing to elaborate on except that the view is relatively wide.

Despite the fatigue of the long journey, Lyle didn't want to miss the best time to say hello, so he moved out the groceries in his magic backpack and simply decorated his bedroom, leaving the treehouse to meet the other villagers and learn about the goods they sold and the services they offered.

The grocery store is run by the "Merchant": it mainly sells basic materials such as torches, glow sticks, wooden arrows, weak healing potions, weak magic potions, etc., which the pioneers can do on their own, but the time saved can be used for more things.

The clinic is run by "nurses": they provide services that heal the wounded quickly, and it is not recommended to treat all wounds with healing potions unless there is no choice during the battle.

The gun shop is run by "arms dealers": it sells guns and ammunition, and the wizarding world does not mean that there are no guns that rely on physical structure and chemical composition, only that there may be guns related to magic.

The explosives shop is run by "explosives experts": selling all kinds of explosives, using bombs is dozens of times more efficient than mining with a pickaxe, and of course it costs a lot of gold.

The enchantment shop is run by the "Goblin Engineer": the enchantment service that provides magic items, but I don't know if it's intentional or unskilled, the result of the enchantment is uncertain, and he is the blackest among the villagers.

There are many ways for Lyle to have a comprehensive knowledge, and he does not intend to affect the existence value and livelihood of other villagers, for example, he has the technology of precise enchantment but does not plan to disclose it, for example, he can start with raw materials and adjust the ultimate healing potion to choose to purify it from weak healing potions, for example, the ultimate healing potion is given priority and cheap to the nurse.

After getting acquainted for a while, the time gradually approached in the evening, and the pioneers who had gone out to explore returned from all directions, and Lyle finally got to know the actual owner of the village - Ah Jin is a white-skinned male warrior, Ah Yuan is a yellow-skinned female shooter, Ah Mo is a dark-skinned male magician, Ah Tou is a gay male pitcher, Ah Zhao is a female summoner with normal sexual orientation, and a politically correct team of five.

Then, partly to prove his existence and half-to improve the chances of survival of the pioneers, Lyle pulls out a Cthulhu shield from his magic backpack and sells it.

"Oooh~! I bought this thing! With the Ghost Boots and the Cloud Bottle, I've jumped high enough, now the problem is lateral movement force! Ah Mo, who jumped up and sprinted four meters forward in the air, cheered loudly after landing on the ground.

Ah Jin snatched the Cthulhu shield and said arrogantly, "Why do you want such a high movement power as a magician?" The shield must have been given to me as a melee warrior, right? ”

"No, one of you can't beat anyone, and the other needs to rest and return to the magic when fighting, and the best magic items should be given to the main output of the team." Ah Yuan puffed up his chest, sorry, she is the core of the team.

Ah Tou, who was in a bunch of grenades in the magic backpack, protested: "Slow, I'm not convinced, and I'm not low in terms of output alone!?" ”

"That ......" summon often plays soy sauce, and no matter how he thinks about it, he feels that he is not qualified to get the Cthulhu shield first, so he can only look at Lyle and ask a question that should have been asked a long time ago, "Mr. Lyle, is this shield still in stock?" ”

"No, I didn't carry that much." Lyle shook his head, "But as long as I have the corpse of the Eye of Cthulhu and enough magic gold mines, I can make it right away." ”

"You said it earlier!" The four people who were snatching the shield spoke in unison, and finally handed the shield to Ah Mo, who was the first to claim ownership, "Then, summon the Eye of Cthulhu tonight~"

Lyle frowned when he heard this, "Summoning the Eye of Cthulhu?" ”

"We also learned from the Pioneer that the Corruption has some strange altars where you can craft summons for the Eye of Cthulhu." The Eye of Cthulhu has never been the only existence, and this team of five has already killed one, "Originally, we thought it was pointless to summon it, and it wouldn't drop weapons and armor, so I didn't expect it to be useful~"

"............" Lyle Moran.

It seems that he will send a letter to inform the village chief in the future, so that the kingdom can send someone to keep an eye on this pioneer team.

Summoning enemies for the sake of material is not the right way. (Recommended reading: Reading Files 2013)