Chapter 23: Twin Dragons’ Rest
Translator: Henyee Translations Editor: Henyee Translations
“The truth is, eight days ago, we heard a ssage from the heavens. It told us that a ‘Chosen One’ had descended upon this mountain. If this man was successful in taking the monster snake down, we should invite him to our clan and treat him as our most honored guest.”
As the old man spoke to Ji Ye, the other clan mbers began skinning the dead snake using their simple blades.
“Just a few monts ago, yet another ssage reached us and said that we should accept you as our master.”
“I see...” Ji Ye slowly nodded.
I guess this is the “privilege” I received for finishing the settlent quest.
It seed that “players” didn’t necessarily need a quest to enter a human settlent. In fact, Ji Ye already had a hunch about the location of the settlent before confronting the serpent. If he chose to risk his life entering the mist zone without fighting the serpent, he might have already discovered the settlent earlier, while perhaps finding so extra help from those people so he could approach the serpent with more tools up his sleeves.
That was exactly what the confederation governnt had suggested; that players who had recently t with a ga over should seek such settlents before doing anything else, since they wouldn’t possess any items or weapons upon rejoining the ga.
Of course, the final rating would be pretty bad if a player were to complete a quest this way.
Soone from the forum had already claid that completing quests with higher ratings was equal to receiving amazing bonuses from the “settlers.” Although this much was pretty obvious.
For example, the overseas Chinese who completed the mission first. His starter item helped him in killing an Extraordinary monster that was wreaking havoc, thus saving the village head’s daughter. After entering the Ren Hamlet, he received the gratitude of the entire village. As the village chief, Old Master Ren was even prepared to marry his daughter to him and promised to groom him into becoming the next village chief!
This opening was undoubtedly far better than those who chose to use the powers of NPCs to complete the mission. However, compared to him, the other party undoubtedly paled in comparison.
As for this “fort master” job, it did sound better than being the manager of a hamlet.
This had to be one of the privileges for getting a perfect score. Although Ji Ye still had so questions about this matter.
“If I beco the fort master, what about you?” he asked while carefully observing the old man’s response.
“Oh ho, I’m not the master, kind sir. I’m just an old sack of bones who has read more books than common folk, so they asked to take care of so affairs in the clan for the ti being.”
Hu Feng didn’t appear worried in the slightest. To him, electing Ji Ye as their master was a decision made by the Gods. He wouldn’t go against that for any reason.
Besides, he knew that not even all of his people banding up would be a match for Ji Ye after they saw the dead snake up close.
At this mont, several bulky settlers were trying to chop up the snake’s body to vent out their rage. But their cheap daggers and swords could do nothing more than make several sparks upon hitting the hard scales.
As a matter of fact, they had learned how to peel the snake’s skin just because Ji Ye had amicably told them how to.
“Is there a na for our place?” Ji Ye had decided to take this new job. Controlling and managing a new community sounded fun.
“Yes, master. This mountain is called the Twin Dragon Mount. While our ho... we nad it the Twin Dragons’ Rest.” Hu Feng bowed his head to show his complete obedience. As an “NPC” taken out of traditional literature, he would never disobey divine judgnt.
“Twin Dragons’ Rest? Hmm...” Ji Ye was a bit disappointed.
According to what was disclosed to players by the governnt, most of those “human settlents” had been based on existing human literature such as movies or stories, although common players wouldn’t easily recognize them unless they had read a lot of books. Since many of such spots were random, insignificant addresses or places of interest were only ntioned once or twice in their respective books.
Experts presud that more famous settlents would show up only after players knew how to defeat stronger enemies. This ant they didn’t have access to powerful NPCs at this mont. Anyone who wished to et strong and valuable NPCs had to work in a group, no matter what they wanted from them.
The old man saw Ji Ye’s frustrated look and quickly added, “Master, we used to have three leaders, each of whom possessed extraordinary skills, enough to fend off that monster. Unfortunately, those three along with several hundred of our brothers went missing during an expedition. Otherwise, although this demonic snake is ferocious, it wouldn’t be able to eat the people from our village. It would definitely be killed by our leaders.”
Being good at reading soone from their body language, he could tell that Ji Ye seed to be a little disappointed with the village. However, the old man nad Hu Feng was a little anxious as he said.
“Oh! Really?”
Ji Ye’s eyes lit up.
Although human settlents in the Land of Inheritance were not necessarily famous, every settlent would definitely produce an outstanding person who was equivalent to a Commander like “Ninth Uncle”!
However, according to Hu Feng,... could there be three of such people in this small clan?
Elder Hu continued with a serious look. “Trust , sir, while I cannot show you proof about the truthfulness of the tales in which they bare-handedly maid monsters, I did see the second brother once wrestle with a ferocious tiger and survived in the end. Because of it, the local office of his town granted him a lofty place among the authorities.
“But he was later frad by so filthy politicians and ended up at our settlent as a roar. Such a great pity... he used to have a bright future in the city.”
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