Zephyrwolf continued, No one really cared about it at first. Who had the leisure to give a damn about rcenary quests?
But then people noticed that rcenary quests gave decent rewards and experience. So are monster subjugation quests also, so we can accept those quests and farm in the wilderness. You can farm experience while clearing quests. Thats why the rcenary guild went from desolate to having crazy long queues now.
rcenary ranks also hella useful. You can exchange or buy special items based on your rank. For example, you can get as many Return-to-City Scrolls as you like for free when you reach Rank 5. Of course the scrolls can only be used by the guy who exchanged them, but its still a ga changer when these scrolls cost ten to fifty gold coins now. Thats like a few hundred bucks a ti.
The guild also sells interdiate potions that are a lot better than the ones sold in grocery stores. You can buy them at Rank 2. Everyone knows how aweso the rcenary Guild is, boss. We have to act fast.
Drako Yau nodded; the rcenary Guild was indeed very attractive. Putting everything aside, just having free Return-to-City scrolls could already drive everyone mad. For a rich guy like him, the scrolls werent expensive at all, but it was different for ordinary players. A few hundred bucks might be their salary for a day of hard work. Theyd rather walk their way back to their cities rather than waste a scroll.
However, walking back to the city took a lot of ti, and that brought complaints from many grassroot players. If Drako Yaus conjecture was right, the dungeons new death system and the rcenary Guild were implented to satisfy player demands.
Drako Yau was back in the city, his mind occupied with various thoughts as he walked.
The update lasted for twenty-four whole hours, yet he hadnt noticed it at all? In other words, he had fallen unconscious for twenty-four hours? It also happened that the system began its first update when he was undergoing his class progression. Was everything rely a coincidence?
Even though he had gotten stronger and had t more people, he was just as confused about this world as he had been from the start. The ga seed like a real world where NPCs were no different from true human beings. However, they also bore the characteristics of NPCs, such as nas and icons above their heads. If the ga was a real world, how could players resurrect then?
His mind occupied with such thoughts, Drako Yau arrived at the rcenary Guild.
The queue of players all gave way to him.
They looked at the fiery red mask with all sorts of emotions, so showing respect and reverence, so showing admiration, so showing jealousy. Regardless of what they felt, they all subconsciously let Mask pass when they saw him coming their way, even when Drako Yau wasnt giving off any sort of aura.
It was who Mask wasit was Drako Yaus status in Yoda.
Seeing everyone let him through made him feel a bit awkward, but he took up their offer and headed into the rcenary Guild. He walked towards a vacant counter to handle his mbership registration and was greeted by a nice lady.
While Drako Yau was waiting for her to finish the procedure, a middle-aged man walked towards his counter and said sothing to the lady, startling her. She looked at Drako Yau with a complicated look before leaving the counter, replaced by the middle-aged man.
Sir, the rcenary Guild already has a record of your mbership. This is your rcenary badge.
Drako Yau received the badge. It was a circular piece of tal decorated with three stars.
A nosy player stole a glance at his badge and yelled, Thats got to be a mistake! Thats a Rank 3 badge! Didnt he just apply to beco a rcenary?
The middle-aged man shook his head and said, There are no mistakes. We have taken note of this mans deeds in Yoda. He is well worthy of his rank. He wrapped up his explanation with such simple words, ignoring the crowd of players who were shouting Unfair!. He then bowed courteously at Drako Yau.
Drako Yau shot the middle-aged man a weird glance, then left the rcenary Guild.
This man Isnt he the butler back at the Castellans residence? The butler who smiled like a fox with slit eyes!
At that mont, he received a notification.
Find when youre Level 30. Dont forget our deal.
The senders na only consisted of a single word: Castellan.
Drako Yau was surprised; even the Castellan has access to private ssages?
Drako Yau left the rcenary Guild and shook his head heavily. Now was not the ti to overthink; he had to beco even stronger. The weird purple man, the Castellan, Ichor Hon, Chris They were all overwhelming opponents whom he couldnt resist against at all, but that also reminded him of how fragile and weak he was when up against true masters.
Drako Yau clenched his fist and left the city.
A month flew by quickly.
As ti progressed, the average player level was also steadily rising. However, as originally designed, it was more difficult and more ti-consuming to level up the higher the level. After an entire month, the average player level was still at Level 25, while the highest player level was in the early 30s.
In the past month, fights and races went on as usual, but Empyreal Spire caught everyones attention once again. The reason was simple: they took the first kill of Easy, Normal, and Hard of the Level 30 dungeon, Johns Laboratory. It was rumoured that they were already on the way to clearing Hell.
When the average level was still at Level 25, Empyreal Spire already had a squad of Level 30 players who could challenge Hell difficulty of the Level 30 dungeon. It just went to show how powerful Empyreal Spire as a guild was, and that made other guilds wary of them.
However, none of the guilds made a move against Empyreal Spire because the guild had a vastly different structure compared to ordinary guilds. Rather than a guild, it was more like a studio: few in numbers, great in quality.
Thanks to their different approach, they hadnt had major clashes with other guilds. They didnt need a lot of players because they went down the route of elitism and only recruited the cream of the crop. anwhile, other guilds emphasised strength in numbers.
Both approaches werent wrong. No matter how many elites you had, in a guild war on the scale of tens of thousands, what could half a hundred of players do? On the other hand, Empyreal Spire had an overwhelming advantage when it was about getting first kills in dungeons, encounter quests, or other squad-oriented tasks.
Everyone had originally thought that Empyreal Spire would continue to act against Mask after suffering severe losses in their previous attempt. After all, both Mask and Empyreal Spire were enemies to other major guilds. They certainly wouldnt mind seeing their enemies fight among themselves.
Whod thought that Empyreal Spire would just swallow such a massive defeat down their throats? They no longer made moves against Mask and instead reorganised themselves, taking three first kills of the Johns Laboratory dungeon as a result.
In the anti, what was Mask doing?
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