Chapter 6

The Tianjie game had been open for over an hour. Although people continued to enter, there weren't many left in the newbie village, at least not as many as the crowds when it first opened. Ye Luo smoothly found the village chief and received his second task in the Tianjie game:

【Deliver a Message】 (Newbie Village Task, Difficulty: F-)

Task Content: Deliver the message about Li Aunt's son being at Zhang Tailor's shop to Li Aunt.

Task Requirement: Within one hour.

Task Reward: Some experience points upon completion.

Task Method: Solo.

F- is the easiest task in the Tianjie game. Ye Luo didn't linger, pulled up the newbie village map, and headed straight for Li Aunt's house. His speed was so slow that he felt like spitting blood.

A few minutes later, Ye Luo finally arrived at Li Aunt's house and saw her looking anxious. He immediately delivered the message. Amidst her repeated thanks, he heard the system prompt that the task was completed. A ball of energy descended from the sky and merged into the War Soul Crystal in his mind.

"Huh, 10 experience points. No wonder no one wants to do this task; the experience is too low. Others just need to kill a small toad to get it, while I wasted several minutes." Ye Luo sighed inwardly, then looked at his experience bar: "To level up, I need to do six more tasks like this. My life is truly miserable."

"Ye Luo, thank you for telling me where Maotou is. However, I can't leave now. Can you bring him back for me?" Li Aunt asked, looking at Ye Luo with hope.

"Follow-up task!" Ye Luo's heart skipped a beat. He quickly accepted the task and the task token, thinking to himself: "It's said that consecutive tasks have better rewards than regular tasks, and there's no need to run around to find tasks. Only a fool would refuse."

With that, Ye Luo bid farewell to Li Aunt and hurried to Zhang Tailor's shop. After presenting the task token, he quickly gained Zhang Tailor's trust and began escorting Maotou back to Li Aunt's house.

A few minutes later, Ye Luo successfully delivered Maotou. To his surprise, this task had much better rewards than the first one. He received 20 energy experience points and 2 points of village goodwill. More importantly, Li Aunt still had a follow-up task.

This time, the task was to retrieve three sickles that Li Uncle had ordered from Sun Blacksmith a few days ago. The difficulty was still F-, the easiest errand task. Ye Luo didn't linger and set off immediately.

He quickly retrieved the sickles from Sun Blacksmith and received another task:

【Collect Wolf Teeth】 (Newbie Village Task, Difficulty: F+)

Task Content: Kill the young magic wolves outside the north gate of the newbie village in the Magic Wolf Valley and bring back 20 wolf teeth to Sun Blacksmith.

Task Requirement: Within three days.

Task Method: No limit.

Task Reward: Upon completion, you will receive a large amount of experience and some money. If you bring back more than 40 wolf teeth, there is a chance to obtain an item crafted by Sun Blacksmith using wolf teeth.

Task Hint: Young magic wolves are level 10 monsters and are quite fierce. Be cautious.

"Tsk, tsk, finally not an F- task. The reward is a large amount of experience and some money, which is quite interesting." Ye Luo muttered to himself, but his brows furrowed when he saw the task hint: "However, young magic wolves are level 10 monsters. With my inferior attributes, I probably won't have a chance until I reach level 10."

"Ah, level 10, that's still a long way off." Ye Luo sighed. Taking this time, he checked the level ranking in the newbie village and found that some players were already level 8. He sighed again: "Some people are already level 8, and I haven't even reached level 1. Comparing myself to others is really frustrating. I shouldn't have taken that Tianjie trial task."

"Hey, right, the village chief knows the most about the newbie village. I should ask him about the trial task when I have time. Maybe there's something to discover." Suddenly remembering this, Ye Luo decided to find the village chief after completing these tasks.

With these thoughts, Ye Luo continued running towards Li Aunt's house.

On the way, Ye Luo checked the attributes of the sickles and felt like crying.

【Sun Blacksmith's Agricultural Sickle】 (Task Item, Not Equippable)

Physical Attack: 10—10

Attack Interval: 3 seconds

A full 10 points of physical attack, while the newbie sword only has 1 point of attack, and even the agricultural sickle is better. How could Ye Luo not feel like crying?

Running all the way, Ye Luo finally arrived at Li Aunt's house. After handing over all the sickles, he received 40 energy experience points, 2 copper coins, and 4 points of village goodwill. A white light flashed, and he finally reached level 1.

After reaching level 1, Ye Luo felt the War Soul Crystal become more solid and slightly larger. He also felt his strength increase. After adding all 5 points of free attributes to strength, his attack became 9 points, defense became 3 points, and health became 120 points. He was now confident that he wouldn't be bullied by young toads anymore.

Thinking about this, Ye Luo couldn't help but want to find those young toads to vent his frustration, but Li Aunt called him back, as she had another task.

Ye Luo naturally didn't refuse and agreed readily.

This time, Li Aunt asked Ye Luo to retrieve a straw hat that she had ordered from Zhang Tailor a few days ago. On the way, he grumbled: "This game is really ridiculous. Why didn't you retrieve the straw hat when you picked up Maotou? Isn't this a waste of my time?"

Despite his thoughts, Ye Luo didn't slow down. He was looking forward to continuing with follow-up tasks.

By completing Li Aunt's three tasks, Ye Luo analyzed that the rewards for consecutive tasks increased exponentially. Previously, retrieving the sickles earned him 40 energy experience points, which meant that retrieving the straw hat would earn him 80 experience points.

Based on his previous experience of teaming up to kill young toads, killing one alone would earn him 10 experience points, and 80 points would require killing 8 young toads, which was quite a lot. More importantly, the experience from follow-up tasks would increase over time.

Thinking about this, Ye Luo checked the experience needed to reach the next level and was stunned. Reaching level 2 required 1500 energy experience points.

"Heaven, 1500 points, that means I need to kill 150 young toads." The thought of killing so many toads made Ye Luo's head ache. He soon realized: "It seems unrealistic to level up by killing monsters of the same level. I need to kill higher-level monsters. It's said that in the Tianjie game, killing higher-level monsters gives extra rewards, making leveling up much easier."

"However, monsters must be at least 3 levels higher than the player to give experience bonuses, for me..." Thinking about his inferior attributes, Ye Luo decided not to think about killing higher-level monsters.

While thinking about this, Ye Luo arrived at Zhang Tailor's house and easily retrieved the straw hat. There, he also received a combat task that he could now undertake.

【Collect Toad Skin】 (Newbie Village Task, Difficulty: F)

Task Content: Kill young toads outside the south gate of the newbie village in Toad Hill and obtain 100 toad skins.

Task Requirement: Before reaching level 5.

Task Method: Solo.

Task Reward: Upon completion, you will receive some experience, money, and a piece of newbie equipment.

Killing young toads was no longer difficult for Ye Luo, and he was happy to kill these monsters to vent his frustration. Moreover, this task rewarded experience, money, and a piece of newbie equipment, which he desperately needed. With his inferior attributes, he could only rely on equipment to kill higher-level monsters.

Thinking about soon obtaining a piece of newbie equipment, Ye Luo was motivated and ran back to Li Aunt's house as fast as possible. He quickly completed the task and, as expected, received 80 energy experience points, 8 copper coins, and 8 points of village goodwill.

The 80 energy experience points increased his experience bar, but Ye Luo still had a long way to go to reach level 2. Besides experience, he also noticed the 8 copper coins and 8 points of village goodwill he had received.

When he completed Li Aunt's second task, he received 2 points of village goodwill, and with the previous two, his village goodwill was now 14 points, and he had 10 copper coins.

"The first time I went to Zhang Tailor's shop, I didn't receive a task, but the second time, I received the task to collect toad skin. It seems that village goodwill plays a role." Ye Luo quickly realized this and thought: "Goodwill is very helpful for receiving tasks. I need to accumulate more goodwill in the future."

With these thoughts, Ye Luo was about to leave to complete the task given by Zhang Tailor, but Li Aunt stopped him, her tone urgent: "Young Hero Ye Luo, my husband Li was bitten by a snake while out. Could you please go to Doctor Hua and bring back a large detox pill? If you can, I'll give you three times the reward!"

"Saving a life is a duty. Li Aunt, wait for me." Hearing this, Ye Luo didn't hesitate, accepted the task, and immediately ran to Doctor Hua's residence.

After about seven or eight minutes, Ye Luo arrived at Doctor Hua's place, explained the situation, and Doctor Hua's expression turned serious, showing signs of difficulty.

"Doctor Hua, saving a life is urgent. Please give me the detox pill so I can save him." Ye Luo said, but he knew it wouldn't be that simple from Doctor Hua's reaction.

"It's not that I don't want to save him, but I'm missing an ingredient. I'm old and weak and can't go to the Toxic Swamp outside the west gate to gather it, so..." Doctor Hua looked at Ye Luo, his meaning clear.

Ye Luo's eyes lit up, knowing there was a task. He immediately said with determination: "Doctor Hua, please entrust this to me. I promise to bring back the ingredient. Tell me, which ingredient is missing?"

"Chinese Dodder." Doctor Hua said, but then seemed to remember something and frowned: "Unfortunately, you don't know how to gather herbs, and the Toxic Swamp is filled with poisonous mists and snakes, which are level 20 monsters. With your current strength, going there would be a death sentence, so..."

"This..." Thinking about his inferior attributes, Ye Luo also felt troubled.