Section 57 The Pupil of Calamity

Three days later

As the crowd points out, Shield Guard Kerry leads the team into the lobby of the adventurer's office to submit quests and exchange them for rewards.

Don't blame others for pointing fingers, it's really too embarrassing for the group now, almost none of them, including Xu Yun, have their hair intact, and their clothes and armor are even more tattered, full of scorch marks and holes. Even the rare round shield that Kerry hung behind his back could barely find its original silver-white color.

After that, everyone will rest for seven days and return to the training class to learn new combat skills.

The three days of fighting in a row made them realize that they had many shortcomings, and they needed to learn or review some of the skills they hadn't mastered before.

And Nanqi also needs to use this time to refine more potions.

In the previous few days of fighting, the eight bottles of healing potions and other potions she carried were quickly exhausted, and it was only through the treatment of the nutritional paste provided by Xu Yun that she could survive the next day and a half, which was too torturous for everyone's tongues.

Of course, Xu Yun said, 'Improve your strength and suffer less damage.' More important than complaining that the paste is unpalatable. This is something that everyone actually recognizes in their hearts.

The special counter for receiving new adventurers is always the most idle, and today there is not even a newcomer queuing up to fill out the form, and a few newcomer adventurers with immature faces sit in the café on the side, asking for advice from senior adventurers who are enthusiastic about sharing adventure experiences.

The young teller lady sitting behind the counter saw Kerry coming here with his teammates, and her eyes lit up, she had heard about Old Jack's adventures many times, and she would rather have some work than hear it from beginning to end.

"Welcome back to the Adventurers' Guild, young adventurer, is there anything I can do to help?" The teller lady put on a standard professional smile, a beautiful face, and a sweet smile, which made people feel like a spring breeze.

Kerry was a little cramped, he was the first time he had negotiated with Miss Teller, the previous time was Nan Qi and Xu Yun who had completed the application form and the next series of formalities.

"I... I want to submit a task. ”

"Okay, please show me the task list, and if you need a voucher, please submit the voucher material as well. In addition, the Adventurers' Association provides a material recycling service, and the monster body materials harvested in battle can also be sold here, and the adventurers will recycle them according to the market price, ensuring that there will be no price bullying. ”

In fact, this is a kind of welfare and care for new adventurers by the Adventurers Association, and it is only for newcomers below level E who have registered as adventurers for less than two years.

On the side of the counter, there was a workbench covered with various stains and the quality scales that could be found everywhere in the market, and on the workbench and weighing pan, there was a faint fishy smell of black or green dry marks, and there were several hairs of different kinds of monsters.

"We didn't collect it very carefully, a lot of condensate was mixed, I don't know if the association will accept it?"

In the beginning, the team members would carefully collect the condensate left over from the shattering of the slime and encapsulate it in the test tube and round-bellied glass bottle carried by Nanqi, this condensate has a faint elemental energy and is one of the main materials used to refine alchemical potions, and it is said that in Liyue, there are also chefs who like to use different types of slime condensate to make dishes.

But later, there were too many slimes eliminated. After the slime is broken, the condensate falls to the ground, and if it is not collected in a short time, it will seep into the ground and be reabsorbed by the earth, turning into a part of the natural elemental energy.

Moreover, the test tubes and glass bottles brought by Nanqi have run out. They could only be packed into all the containers they could hold as quickly as they could.

Knock··· Knock·· Knock knock

Three large jugs, more than a dozen glass test tubes, a dozen potion bottles, and several round-bellied glass bottles were placed on the counter.

The slime condensate was so wet that it leaked out of the container, wetting the birch top of the counter.

These condensates are not water, and they do not evaporate if they adhere to the outer wall of the container because they are carried over time, so they are still the same when you take them out of your backpack.

The team members looked at Miss Teller with a wistful gaze, hoping that the slime gel would be paid a good sum of money.

"These... Are they? ”

Everyone nodded in unison.

The slime puree in the test tube and the potion bottle can be distinguished by color, and the puree dropped by the large slime is particularly bright in color and contains more intense elemental energy.

Most of the round-bellied glass bottles contain second-grade slime clear, which is much lighter in color than the original puree, but the varieties can still be easily distinguished.

As for the large jugs, the teller lady unfastened the lid of the sealed jugs, and there were various light-colored slime condensates mixed together, as well as some grass clippings and dirt, which was like a paste scraped from the ground.

The smile on the teller's face stiffened at this tragic scene, and Xu Yun seemed to be able to see the black line hanging down her forehead.

If she wasn't sure it was a slime gel, she would probably be going to go berserk.

"Rookie adventurers' quests about slimes shouldn't have encountered so many slimes..." The teller lady muttered and picked up the mission book handed over by Kerry, in her impression, the tasks usually given to rookie adventurers are mainly to find lost items in the city, deliver couriers and run errands, follow the caravan as logistics or temporary guards, and slightly more dangerous is to clean up mutant rats, slimes, and magic fish in the sewers.

But there aren't so many slimes in Mondstadt's sewers, and there's so much variety, just look at those slimes, each bottle requires at least two or three large slimes to be wiped out before enough to drop enough to fill it, and the glass test tubes and potion bottles add up to more than thirty bottles.

Before I knew it, the voices that were painting and imparting adventures were gone.

The teller's eyes finally fell on the sweat-soaked and somewhat wrinkled task book paper.

"Area Clearance Mission!"

"You're on a regional clearance mission... This is a mission that can only be taken by a squad of adventurers above D. The teller lady widened her eyes and looked away from the task book in disbelief, looking at the group of rookie adventurers in front of her.

Except for the tall and fat girl who looked like a legal profession with a long iron staff, even the boy who was a shield guard in this team was not as tall as herself.

Her eyes swept over her immature, smoky, sweaty and dusty faces, and the shock in the teller's heart became stronger and stronger.

"We're indeed a D-class team. If we can, we would like to move up to C level as soon as possible. Humadser shook the adventurer's badge worn as a necklace with a leather rope around his neck.

The iron blue of the steel card stung the eyes of all the bettors in the hall of the office.

So small, a team of people are all D-class?

When did there become such a new team in the association?

I haven't heard of any new people popping up lately.

The last time I saw such a young D-class was the little girl who had awakened her vision.

But she was the only one, and you see, none of the little ones in this group had the Vision on them, did they all rise up with real skills?

Isn't it really a real skill, isn't it all on the table? With so much slime condensate, the workshop owners don't have to worry about the lack of condensate for the time being.

They haven't been worried about it in the last few months, and now the price of slime gel has dropped again and again, and the price of a single unit is not worth the value of a mutant rat tail.

Ignoring the whispers around her, the teller lady gave a polite smile again.

"To the east of Windmill Town, to the southwest of the Windrise Wetlands, well, there's the Resident Knights' Commander signing off. You have completed this commission, and you can receive a 200 gold Mora cleanup bounty. ”

The team members nodded in unison and looked at each other, both seeing excitement and satisfaction, and Shuma and Kerry couldn't help but bump their fists into each other.

The income of two hundred gold morala for one task is a huge amount of money that was unimaginable before. This is the first amount of money they have made on their own.

"We're going to weigh your harvest next, and every 100 grams of puree counts as one large slime, okay? As for slime clearing, we can only calculate it based on one large slime per 500 grams or one ordinary slime per fifty grams.

As for the slime condensate, we will calculate it according to two hundred grams of an ordinary slime. After that, we will recycle these slime materials at the market price. Do you think it's okay? ”

This part of the harvest calculation itself is also to meet the conditions of the slime bounty task issued by the Adventurers' Guild, after all, it is impossible for the Guild to send someone to follow the adventurer team to calculate how many slimes have been killed. Weighing the weight of the material may indeed have errors and defects in the calculation of the number of kills, but this money is an additional benefit, not counted in the material sales, more or less, most adventurers will not care.

Even Biona, who has always been sensitive to money, has no objection, after all, if you think too much here, you don't know how much more time it will take. When everyone collected the condensate, a lot of slime condensate seeped into the ground and disappeared without waiting for the partners to end the battle to collect, wasting I don't know how much.

The free professional staff of the Adventurers Guild recycled the weighing materials, and poured the slime condensate, slime and puree into a special weighing container and placed them on the mass scale for weighing.

The final weighing results, calculated through the original pulp, there were 87 large slimes, the original weight was less than 8700 grams, and the teller lady generously filled in the number 87. According to the bounty of 10 gold morals per large slime, this is 870 gold morals

After the slimes were weighed, they calculated 483 ordinary slimes, and each small slime had a reward of one gold mora, which was 483 gold mora

The amount of slime condensate is the largest, but unfortunately, after weighing and calculating, the number of ordinary slimes killed is not satisfactory.

Three large water cans brought back more than 90 kilograms of slime condensate, which were weighed after the staff filtered out impurities, and the number of kills was calculated, and the number obtained was 464, that is, 464 gold mora.

With only this reward, Xu Yun's team earned 1,817 gold mora, plus the bounty of 200 for the task, and the team's income has exceeded 2,000 before the materials are sold.

The money Kerry used to buy the armor and the materials used to refine the potion were not only earned, but also surplus. But if you count the cost of the bottle of intermediate healing potion that Xu Yun poured into him in order to save Xiuma, as well as the cost of nutritional ointment, it seems that the money is not that much.

After all, the market price of a bottle of intermediate healing potion is 300 gold mora, and although the miscellaneous materials that Xu Yun needs to refine the nutritional paste are not expensive, the consumption of the nutritional paste in the past few days is not small. The stock of refining a few days ago was almost exhausted.

Since the condensate, clearing, puree and other materials on the slime have been packed with special tools by the staff, the team is too lazy to go out and shop around, find high-priced merchants to sell, and sell them directly to the Adventurers' Association.

What is disappointing is that the more than 90 kilograms of slime condensate were only sold for 92 gold mora.

The slime was a little more expensive and sold for 153 gold morals.

The slime puree is the most valuable, but 8,700 grams is sold for 174 gold mora.

You can't blame the low price of these materials, but you can only blame the fact that there are too many slime condensate materials on the market in the past month, which has destroyed the balance between supply and demand.

After hastily completing the settlement, the team members took a seat in the small restaurant outside the Adventurers' Guild to treat their stomachs and discuss the distribution and use of the money.

20% will be used as team funds, and each person will be able to share 324 gold mora, and the fraction will be confiscated directly.

The money that Kerry's armor owes to everyone will continue to owe for the time being, and will pay it back later when the funds are sufficient. How to use this fund rationally has become the next thing that needs to be discussed.

As far as Xiuma and Kerry's attitude is concerned, each person's money will be used according to their own wishes, but Xu Yun feels that they can be used in a more reasonable way, rather than allowing individuals to squander it wantonly, especially in the early stage of the team, everyone needs to strengthen themselves and make rapid progress.

This is not only for the purchase of equipment and items, but also for the practice of skills and consumables.

It is true that you can get free guidance from instructors and learn new skills when you return to the training class, but the dummy used for practice always has to be bought, the equipment always has to be repaired, and even the skills have to be learned in a short time, and you may have to consider hiring or bribing a senior who is relatively tight on hand to serve as a sparring partner.

Once it comes to spending money, these golden coins in his hand seem to be about to say goodbye to himself before they can be warmed. There are too many places where you need to use money, there was no money before, so you don't need to consider those ways to spend money, but now that you have money, you can naturally see the role of money.

"No wonder Timmy is so good, money can do so much." Shuma touched his bare head, which had grown a little burr on the top of his head since he had been burned bald the day before yesterday.

"Hire people to practice against yourself, point fingers in actual combat, hire people to teach martial arts, and learn knowledge that is not in textbooks in advance." Kerry sighed, he had heard his father Tima say all these things, but he had personally heard his peers mention them, and it was very likely that that person did this, that he first realized the difference in status between them (self-thought)

"What's more, you can also buy more advanced alchemy formulas, the experience of the alchemy master, and the experience. Or even lab notes. Xu Yun looked at Nan Qi.

Nanqi's chubby little hand grasped the cup in her hand.

"Better arrows, a place to practice shooting, targets, tailor-made bows." Xu Yun looked at Biona, who pursed her lips and curled her pointed ears.

Xu Yun's gaze fell on Lulu, and she didn't seem to have any extra needs to tell her, what she needed was similar to herself, and for the combat nun who specialized in combat, the points of equipment, weapons, and skills coincided with the points she had listed before.

"So we need money, more money, and if we want to make more money, we need to get stronger as soon as possible, invest the money we earn now in ourselves, and make ourselves stronger."

Then everyone began to discuss how to use the money reasonably, for the time being, the current equipment is enough for everyone to use, and there is no need to replace it immediately.

Nan Qi needs to refine more potions, improve the proficiency of her alchemy skills, and also need to purchase some drugs to improve the efficiency of meditation, the team's funds will be tilted towards her, and her partners will also use a part of the income to support her, after all, the potions she refines are also used by her partners to drink in the end.

You can't drink a bottle on the battlefield and go back and settle the score, although most of the adventurer squads do this, but that's also after Nanqi's alchemy level has been raised.

After all, the medicine she is refining now will not be able to make ends meet even if it is sold to her companions at a market price.

The reason why the price of primary potions is low is that the alchemy workshop has a mature refining process to ensure the refining power, a large number of interns who do not need to be paid, and the low purchase price obtained by purchasing materials in large quantities.

For example, Nanqi buys materials for individuals and makes primary potions, which are sold at market prices and are not enough for the material cost.

You can't keep letting her pay for the materials.

The role of the alchemist on the battlefield is very limited, and if she wants Nanqi to shine in the team, she can't just provide potions as a logistical support, but also needs to have her own means of attack, Xu Yun suggested that she buy or learn several poisons or alchemy bomb recipes.

Kerry, Xiuma, and Lulu need to go back to find someone to help train their skills, of course, this also includes Xu Yun himself, he is still just eating the old foundation of chopping wood swordsmanship, it's time to get in touch with real swordsmanship, always imitating the martial arts of the characters in the game, after all, it's just a cat and a tiger, tangible and non-qualitative.

And Biona, Xu Yun advised her to buy a suitable longbow first, and now this bow is too big for her.

As for himself, he still needs to refine more nutritional paste in case he needs it, and of course there are other recipes waiting for him to learn.

The team dinner was over, and the planning meeting for the future came to an end. Although this meal was a little later than the normal meal, it was still lunch, and it was still early, and the tired people said goodbye.

Kerry and Shuma said that they would go back and make up for a good night's sleep, and these days the boys were in charge of keeping vigil, and they had to fight during the day, even if the two guys had always been energetic, and their spirits had been so broken, and now that they were back in the city, their tense nerves relaxed, and they had eaten enough, and they became sleepy.

The girls meet to bathe, and then go to the cathedral to make up for the prayers that have been lost all these days.

Xu Yun touched his nose, as an overtime dog, his ability to stay up late has long been practiced, even if he fights for a few days in a row, he doesn't feel how unbearable it is, which may also be related to his previous experience on Longji Snow Mountain.

At that time, under the cold caused by low temperatures and the pain caused by freezing, I continued to wade through the snow in the snowfield mountains and forests for several days and nights, and the red alert around my vision never stopped.

What if... If you don't have a system, no residual blood and the ability to maintain normal body activities, you will probably be dead by then.

No!··· It's not your turn, maybe you already knelt on the day you jumped off the cold pool.

Thinking that he might have died a few times, Xu Yun unconsciously paced to the Nanfeng District, the civilian market.

It's the weekend, and the market is noticeably busier than the last time I was here, with more people setting up stalls and more chaotic. Pedestrians and traders with mules and horses, pack animals, and traders rubbed shoulders along the narrow aisles.

The clamor of people, the shouting and shouting, the chirping of animals, and the smell of spices, flowers, grains, food, sweat, blood, fox odor, animal smell, feces and urine, filled this chaotic and orderly place.

Xu Yun unconsciously blended into the crowd, and followed the team aimlessly wandering around the market, sometimes looking at spices, sometimes flipping through herbs, and asking about the prices of various materials, until a line of golden text appeared in front of his eyes.

It was a pitch-black stone ball next to a fine wine glass on the carpet, which had been carved into an eyeball in a very crude way, and in the center of the huge vertical pupil was in the shape of a diamond of a doji, which was now vacant, leaving only a dark and deep depression, embedded with dark red cracks concentrated behind the pupil, like dried blood vessels and nerves.

Its owner, the owner of this stall, was wrapped in a bright green turban, with a huge sapphire decoration embedded in the forehead, and bright red tail feathers raised high.

Xu Yun looked at the pupils of this stone ball and felt that the diamond shape was very familiar, and it seemed that it was just right to put down a rough stone.

The dragon's pupil of calamity

"Let me look at you, and calamity will befall you."

Randomly inflicts a negative negative effect on the hostile target, triggering a cooldown depending on the strength of the effect, 5 seconds ~ 72 hours.

Randomly removes the positive effect of your target, with a cooldown of 5 seconds.