Chapter 6

"Damn, he slapped the blacksmith."

After a while, a player finally reacted.

"I remember now, no wonder he looked so familiar, isn't he the guy from the top post on the forum?"

Another player suddenly realized and said.

"Yeah, yeah, I remember too. He's really something, yesterday he hit the village chief, and today he's hitting the blacksmith. Look, the blacksmith doesn't seem to be retaliating at all."

The blacksmith, of course, did not retaliate, because the system had already given a prompt.

System Prompt: Due to your attack on the blacksmith Bad in the newbie village, Bad's favorability towards you has increased by 20. Current favorability: Friendly.

"Beard, quickly give me the mining certification," Li Hailin said after delivering a slap.

"Brave warrior, if you want the mining certification, you need to complete the prerequisite quest, and then I can give you the secondary profession..." The blacksmith Bad's eyes immediately turned friendly, and he changed his address from "kid" to "brave warrior." However, before he could finish speaking, Li Hailin slapped him again.

"Slap." Another crisp sound echoed, and the blacksmith shop fell silent again.

System Prompt: Due to your attack on the blacksmith Bad in the newbie village, Bad's favorability towards you has increased by 15. Current favorability: Friendly.

"Mining certification..." Li Hailin repeated.

"Brave warrior, if you want the mining certification, you must first..." Just as Bad was about to speak, Li Hailin slapped him again.

"Mining certification..."

"Brave warrior..."

The players watched as Li Hailin kept slapping the blacksmith Bad, and Bad's expression changed from initial disdain to a somewhat fawning look towards Li Hailin.

"Damn, you're really stubborn. Even after a dozen slaps, you still won't give me the mining certification." Seeing that the system had already indicated that Bad's favorability was at admiration, but he still couldn't get the mining certification, it seemed he really had to complete the prerequisite quest to get it. Bad was just a low-level NPC in the newbie village, and he could only give standardized responses. Li Hailin had tried to see if he could increase favorability to skip the quest, but it didn't work.

"Great warrior, if you don't complete the previous quest, I really can't give you the mining certification." Bad was almost kneeling before Li Hailin. "By the way, I have a hidden quest here. If you complete it, not only can you become a blacksmith, but you can also gain 6000 forging experience points, which will directly upgrade your forging skill to intermediate level."

"Damn!" The players around who had the forging secondary profession were no longer calm. After learning the secondary profession, they were only at the apprentice level, needing 1000 points to upgrade to a junior blacksmith, and 5000 points to upgrade to an intermediate blacksmith. Crafting an item could only give 1-3 points of blacksmithing experience, and after upgrading to a junior blacksmith, apprentice-level items no longer gave any forging experience. To upgrade, they had to spend money.

But the hidden quest Li Hailin triggered could directly upgrade him to an intermediate blacksmith, which was simply too amazing. The money saved alone was already impressive, not to mention the time saved.

System Prompt: Village blacksmith Bad has issued a B-rank hidden quest, Perfect Iron Ore. Do you accept?

"Another hidden quest?" Li Hailin was taken aback. "Is this a solo quest or a team quest?"

"This quest needs to be completed by you alone..." the blacksmith Bad replied.

"Damn, can't sell it for money." Li Hailin said disappointedly, "Accept."

B-rank hidden quest, Perfect Iron Ore: Obtain an iron ore of quality 25 or higher. Hint: The depths of the mine may have what you need. Reward: 20,000 experience, 5 silver coins, 300 reputation points.

"Give up."

Before even looking at the quest details, Li Hailin had already given up on the quest.

System Prompt: Do you really want to give up the B-rank hidden quest, Perfect Iron Ore?

"Yes."

System Prompt: You have given up the B-rank hidden quest, Perfect Iron Ore. You have gained 200 reputation points.

"Only 200 points." Li Hailin sighed.

"Great warrior, are you really not considering forging? I think it's a great profession." The blacksmith Bad, seeing Li Hailin give up the quest, said a bit disappointedly.

"Don't bother me, I'm feeling melancholic." Li Hailin said, "Give me the task to find the fangs again."

"No problem, great warrior." Bad said as he issued the task.

E-rank task, Collect Fangs: Collect 10 fangs from Fang Rats. Reward: 300 experience, 20 copper coins.

"300 experience, 20 copper coins... I'm heartbroken." Li Hailin sighed silently and went out to find the fangs.

Only after Li Hailin left did the few players who had been stunned react.

"Awesome guy... really awesome... can't help but admire him." A player sighed.

"I've never seen anyone beat up and curse an NPC like that before, so manly." A female player's eyes were full of admiration.

"I feel a bit sorry for Bad, even though he sells things to me at a high price, a white sword costs 30 copper coins."

"By the way, he seemed to have given up the hidden quest just now." A forging player suddenly realized and said to Bad, "I'll do it, give me the hidden quest."

"Sure, sure, I'll do it." The other blacksmiths nearby immediately said.

Bad immediately put on a cold face, "Get lost, you brats. You want to take the hidden quest? Get lost!"

"Damn, what kind of discrimination is this? Brothers, this Bad is a scoundrel, he just needs to be beaten. Let's all beat him up, and we'll get the hidden quest after that." A forging player shouted.

"Right, beat him up." A group of people responded and rushed towards Bad.

The result was very tragic. More than ten people were thrown out of the blacksmith shop, not only dying once, but also receiving a system prompt that their favorability towards the blacksmith decreased by 20 points, becoming indifferent. In the future, buying things from the blacksmith would be 40% more expensive, and they were blacksmiths who needed to buy forging materials from the blacksmith, making it impossible to survive.

Just as these more than ten people were thrown out, Li Hailin had already returned. The respawn point for the Fang Rats was not far from the newbie village. Li Hailin had just run there when a few players suddenly blocked him. He thought they were robbers, but unexpectedly...

"Friend, are you doing the blacksmith's task in the newbie village that requires 10 fangs? There are so many players leveling up here, it takes a long time to get them. I have a set of 10 fangs for sale, just enough to complete the newbie task. It only costs 20 copper coins, saving time and effort. If you don't have money now, I can go with you to the blacksmith, and you can give me the 20 copper coins as the reward for completing the task." A tall and thin player tried to sell.

Li Hailin was quite willing. Although he didn't know how much experience the Fang Rats gave, he at least had to kill 10 of them, which would mean dying a few more times to make up for it. It was good that someone was selling them.

He spent 20 copper coins to buy 10 fangs and ran back, just in time to see more than ten people fly out, turning into white light.

"What's going on? What happened?" Li Hailin, a bit puzzled, asked the players who hadn't moved.

"Awesome guy, you're back. Damn, a few fearless ones just tried to copy you and beat up the NPC. They ended up tragically. Ah... awesomeness can't be learned." A player said with a sense of enlightenment.

"That's for sure. Someone as cool, awesome, and amazing as me can't be imitated by everyone." Li Hailin said, then slapped Bad, "Bastard, here are the fangs, give me the mining certification."

Bad, who had been looking fierce, immediately turned into a sycophant, "Sure, sure, great warrior."

System Prompt: Completed E-rank task, Collect Fangs. Deducted 300 experience, deducted 20 copper coins.

System Prompt: Village blacksmith Bad wants to teach you the secondary profession, Miner. Do you accept?

Yes

System Prompt: Obtained secondary profession, Miner.

"Here is the mining certification. Great warrior, you can go to the mine now. By the way, I have a family heirloom mining pickaxe, I'll give it to you." Bad said as he took out a piece of paper and a black pickaxe.

"Damn, why do I have to buy a pickaxe myself when I become a miner? The awesome guy is really different." A player said enviously.

And what Li Hailin was thinking now was, "300 experience, 20 copper coins... my heart is bleeding..."

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