my slow journey to infinity

Chapter 9 is very busy, but there is no work progress!

"That's just the way it is, so raising prices is not what I want."

While arranging the medicine box, she showed a helpless expression. In fact, her face was full of the proud expression of a businessman and a philistine, which formed a strong contrast with the innocent and ignorant cute little girl beside her.

"Originally, it was indeed for my daughter. Her serious illness required [Ovules of Small Man-Eating Plants]. As a reward, the first adventurer brother did take away my family's ancestral [Sword of Tenacity], but not after that. For some reason, several adventurers came over to inquire about my daughter’s condition.”

"In the anxious and confused words of one of the boys, I realized that you are here for the sword, but there is only one ancestral sword. Fortunately, my husband is a blacksmith in the town. He thinks this is a good opportunity, so he is working In addition, I will make some extra [Swords of Tenacity] and put them at home, because for some reason, adventurers who come recently always come to my house to ask about swords."

"Fifteen thousand kels, or two [small man-eating grass ovules], or other medicinal herbs, of course the value must be sufficient. Recently, because of the increase in adventurers, medicinal herbs have begun to be insufficient. The pharmacies in the town have already Get ready to raise prices.”

"If you say this, can you understand?"

Yes, I understand. Auntie, please stop laughing. The wrinkles on your face are almost biting.

Wang Shui carefully passed through the dense forest, followed some vaguely identifiable hunter's trails, and found this small village [Horuka]. Although the sparrow is small, it has all the necessary organs. In the village and town, hotels, weapon shops, prop shops, grocery stores, etc. are all available. , and it also belongs to [inside the circle] (safe zone).

It seems to be a supply point set up to conquer the dense forest.

When Wang Shui saw the name of the village, he remembered the information on the guide website, and at the same time he had an idea of ​​his location.

And this proud philistine aunt is the most valuable task trigger person in this village. After completing the [Secret Medicine of the Forest] task she released, you will get a rare one-handed sword named [Sword of Tenacity]. This is a powerful piece of equipment that can be used to the third level without falling behind.

Basically all of Wang Shui's knowledge about the game came from reading the forums a few days ago. From the original book, he only remembered the general plot and some famous scenes.

According to the online guide, this should be a fixed semi-hidden mission where everyone can obtain rare weapons in the early stage, but now it seems that the real magic modification of SAO seems to have rationalized the bug of infinitely refreshing ancestral swords.

Wang Shui doesn't care how the game justifies itself, he only cares about the results.

"Having said that, what is the quality of the [Sword of Tenacity] you are selling now? If it is just from ordinary stores, then I am not interested."

"Looking at what you said, weapons are not powerful just because they are old. As long as rare materials are used and high-level forging technology is used, the strength of the weapons will definitely continue to increase iteratively! Come and see, this is my husband's proud work. It is a great weapon for town. Good stuff that you can’t even buy in a weapons store!”

As she spoke, the aunt opened a vertical wooden cabinet, in which three one-handed swords of the same shape were placed horizontally.

These are three weapons with completely different textures from the [Bronze Sword] in Wang Shui. The elongated design of the sword tip looks very sharp. It starts to become straight at about 20 centimeters, and then becomes a slender and ever-widening sword body. , the spine of the sword has black protective paint, the blade is relatively narrow and the overall sword body is very thick, making it look very heavy.

The one-handed sword that combines thrusting and slashing effects is a bit too long, almost twice as long as the original [small sword], but considering Wang Shui's wingspan, it looks pretty good.

Aqua regia clicks on attributes:
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【Sword of Tenacity】

[Range: short]

[Weapon type: One-handed straight sword]

[Attack Power: 45-50]

[Durability: 100]

【Weight: 30】

[Equipment requirements: Level 3]

[Enhancement limit: 8]

[Power: +5]

[Agility: +2]

[Weapon-specific skills: none]

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Good thing, in terms of attack attributes alone, it is already more than five times that of the initial weapon. It is not an exaggeration to say that it can be used to the third level. In comparison, the weapon shops in the town also only have [Bronze Sword]. , could it be that all the good materials were stolen by the aunt’s husband?
Perhaps to emphasize individual forging, the attributes of the three swords on the shelf are not exactly the same. There will be single-digit deviations in attack power, durability and weight. Among the added attributes, one has a higher strength bonus. It was a very exaggerated "7", and Wang Shui immediately focused on this one.

"I accepted the mission, but can I reserve this one first? I can get 10% more resources."

"Oh, business must be run with integrity. Originally, no one would be given special treatment. Whoever finished it first could be selected in advance. But since I'm so smart, I'll put this one away for you first."

The smile on the aunt's face was something Wang Shui had seen on the face of the landlord who encouraged him to work hard. It was still so sincere and cordial.

After going out, Wang Shui first went to the armor store and bought leather armor. The leather armor here was not leather armor or large-area woven armor, but armor based on cotton clothing and reinforced with leather pieces on some key parts.

The multi-layered tanned leather has a brown-black shiny luster, and there is also a type with embedded metal nails, but that kind is much more expensive.

The top that Wang Shui bought was designed to strengthen the chest, shoulders, and forearms, while the trousers were only for the calves, and the thickness of the nail plates in different parts was also different.Generally speaking, it is relatively flexible, but the weight is much heavier than the previous coarse cloth clothes. In addition, the newly purchased thick-soled leather boots require some getting used to before fighting.

In terms of defense, it has been improved a lot.

In addition, as supplies, Aqua Regia also bought a few extra pieces of black bread and ten packets of salt!
That's all. He didn't spawn any extra monsters all the way here. He only had enough money to buy armor. Fortunately, novice armor was the cheapest.

There is a small river near the village. Wang Shui goes out and explores directly along the river. It is easy to return without paying too much attention to the map, and it is also convenient to get water with a water bag.

In reality, many people always feel that they cannot encounter any animals when they walk into a dense forest. In fact, this is just because the forest area near the city is small, and people will scare away the animals when they are active during the day.

When you go deep into a real jungle, quietly spend some time with it, and observe carefully, you will find that the jungle "comes alive".

There were various forms of snakes, insects, rats and ants everywhere, as well as larger apes, monkeys, foxes and deer. Wang Shui slowly walked through the dense forest and discovered some unique creatures in the game.

Huge beetle worms, giant wild boars with moss on their backs, and - giant walking plants.

Their main bodies are like pitcher plants, but the two- to three-meter-tall giant pitcher plants are a bit terrifying. At the bottom are a bunch of root-like vines for movement, and the rim of the bottle mouth is also very unscientific. Animals have canine-like fangs that make them capable of biting.

In fact, this monster's attack method is to poke and whip with the vines they use to help walk, or spit out corrosive mucus from its mouth. The fruit-bearing man-eating grass can also attack with a large-scale poisonous mist, and the poisonous mist will also summon There are small piranha plants nearby, and the [ovules] required for the mission are only found on the flowering piranha plants, and are rare drops.

After finding the mission target, Wang Shui stopped to survey the terrain, and then discovered that he was not the only one nearby. There were also the sounds and light effects of other players spawning monsters, but he could only see the general direction under the cover of the dense forest.

The people who can come here now are basically the first and second echelon hens. It is estimated that they will not want to share their experience with Wang Shui.Moreover, forming a team in this game will not increase the drops. Even if it is not a life and death game, this group of people will definitely not share the drops with Wang Shuiping.

Wang Shui knows this very well, because he is also such a person, and he prefers to act alone.

The monster called Man-eating Grass required by the mission has actually been detailed on the forum. After all, there are many one-handed sword players, so this mission is quite important.

According to the guide, the two most important points to deal with this monster are "watch your step" and "don't attract the fruit-bearing man-eating grass".The ground environment in the dense forest is very complicated. Small rocks and undulating tree roots are obscured by fallen leaves and shrubs, making it easy for players to trip.

There is no need to explain the fruit-bearing man-eating plant. The player's initial HP is only over 300. A higher level and equipment bonuses will not exceed a thousand. In the early stage, it will be damaged by its continuous toxins and summoned nearby minions to besiege. It will definitely be unbearable. of.

So Wang Shui chose one of the many play methods given on the forum, single lead and single kill.

First choose an open space, clean up the debris under your feet, then find a man-eating plant and lure the monsters over by throwing stones.

Refresh the man-eating grass by continuously killing it until single-digit percent flowering individuals are spawned. Then this monster will have a chance to drop the quest item [Ovule].

Monster spawning is a feature of MMORPG and must be tasted.

Wang Shui carefully touched the back of a man-eating plant, picked up a stone on the ground and threw it hard.

Only four or five meters away, the huge man-eating grass took -1 damage from its head, and then immediately turned around and chased after it.

Wang Shui was very depressed as he ran back to the battle field he had just cleaned up. The 1 point of damage caused by throwing the stone reminded him of the second skill bar occupied by the [Collection] skill.

Originally, Wang Shui planned to learn the [Flying Sword] skill. Oh, don’t get me wrong, it is written as Flying Sword, but it is actually a throwing skill.

The sword skill carried by [Flying Sword] (yes, it is also called sword skill) can make the thrown objects fly farther and cause higher damage, and the loss of mental energy is also very small (you need to concentrate on using the sword skill). The only The limit is the amount of ammunition, and you need to operate and equip spare projectiles during combat.

In the early stage, you can also throw stones all over the floor to level up. Although the damage of throwing stones will not be much high, it is not bad for the early stage.

The most important thing is the [Flying Sword] skill, which is rare in this game and may be the only long-range attack method.

His mind wandered for a while. The moving speed of the piranha was much slower than Aqua Regia expected. He returned to the open space long in advance. Looking at the swaying figure of the piranha, he always felt that something could be done.

Seeing that fat body squeezing out of the dense forest, Wang Shui fired [Rage Stab] first. This is a low-level thrust sword skill with a one-handed sword. It does more damage than the [Linear Attack] that is more commonly used for general or [thin sword]. It's higher, but of course the dash distance and speed are much worse than [Linear Attack].

"-70"

There was no critical hit, but this blow also knocked out about one-tenth of the opponent's HP. Wang Shui quickly jumped to the side, and the sword blade in his hand slashed left and right in the fastest and most effortless way.

This is the advantage of fighting monsters with stiff movements. You don't need to consider the flaws of sword moves, just strike quickly and powerfully.

Dozens and twenty points of damage appeared in large numbers with Aqua Regia's circle attack. In less than 2 minutes, the huge man-eating plant tilted its body and died.

Just over a hundred experience points, more than a dozen kels of currency, and vine materials dropped. The small pop-up window containing three types of information flashed away, and Wang Shui adjusted it to automatically close.

Okay, it’s quick to brush and the experience is pretty good.

The "breathing" action, which can be called a long-range attack, is particularly obvious at the start. It will first stop other actions, tighten its bottle-shaped body to accumulate strength, and then suddenly release it and spray out. The aqua regia can leave its front even if it walks slowly.

On the contrary, the piercing attack speed of bunches of vines is much more dangerous than expected. The circle speed of aqua regia is not checked during the attack, and it will only run two steps quickly when locked by vines with a slight tracking effect.

Although there are always near misses, but seeing that those vines can penetrate a large tree that a single person can barely hug, Wang Shui estimates that it may be very dangerous to be penetrated. The risks hidden in the seemingly easy-to-kill man-eating plants are not Not low.

Wang Shui twisted his neck and was about to lure another one, but he stopped after taking two steps - he looked back at the dead man-eating plant.

Um?Little brother, why didn’t you refresh?

This phenomenon has never been mentioned on the forum, and Wang Shui has never seen the corpse of a man-eating plant on the road.

After running back in a few steps, Wang Shui reached out and touched the man-eating plant. A small pop-up window appeared with only one line of words:

【Do you want to use collection skills?More items will drop when using gathering tools or collecting manually! 】

ah?Doesn’t the gathering skill only collect naturally growing materials?
Aqua regia, who was somewhat surprised, chose to collect it directly. He didn't know what tools were needed to collect man-eating grass. The only prop he had that seemed to be usable was his sword. He couldn't bear to waste his durability like this.

The collection progress bar is very fast, and the last drop is a plugged reagent bottle.

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【Pan-Eating Grass Honey】

[Item type: materials, consumables]

【Quantity: 500ml*1】

[Note: To be identified]

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An unexpected gain?There is some turbid yellow-green snot-like liquid inside called honey?

I tolerate the piranha dropping honey. Can you explain to me how you grew this glass reagent bottle?
Wang Shui didn't remember the name of this item he had seen before. It didn't seem to be on the drop list of Piranha.

He was more concerned about the value of this thing than tracing the source. After all, the gathering skills to collect herbs were valuable, but collecting firewood was of no value. He was not sure what the use of the mucus honey collected from monsters was.

Wang Shui wrote a letter directly to Argo, not only expressing his doubts, but also sending the news that the difficulty of the [Sword of Tenacity] task would be increased and that the cost of herbs and potions might increase.

Soon the information dealer Argo replied, first thanking him for the information, then saying that he had never seen the additional drop of this man-eating plant, and finally followed up with a paragraph of black bold text.

"Brother Tianshu, do you have enough skill grids to hang the [Collection] skill? Uninstalling skills will become more and more expensive. Even if the character level reaches full level, the skill grids will probably not be enough, so most people will only Choose one or two weapon skills, do you want to specialize in collecting?"

Wang Shui almost cried when he saw these words. He was originally a man who was going to accompany Master Tong to conquer the world. Unexpectedly, he was tricked twice by his shitty talent and ability before he even came out of Novice Village.

The [Collection] skill not only occupies a grid, preventing other skills from being practiced in advance, but also reserves a [-] kel deletion opportunity.

Damn, before deleting this skill, you must use it to earn more than 2 yuan!

The collected man-eating grass turned into blue glass light fragments like a normal death, and Aqua Regia once again started the monster spawning state.

While looking for monsters, he finally saw various herbs on the ground and trees.

Unlike monsters, herbs will not only ask whether to collect them directly, but also provide the tools needed for collection. However, some require shovels and others require knives. The most annoying thing is that there are berries that ask whether to use collection. Tools are "hands". Nonsense, don't you use your feet if you don't use your hands?
It seems that I have to go back to the village in a while. Even if it takes a little time, I will buy these inexpensive gadgets. At the same time, I will ask about the various herbs on my body and the value of the extra honey dropped by the monsters. In this way, I can look at the money. A little increase will prevent him from feeling tired and tired.

Inexplicably, Wang Shui feels that his game journey is particularly slow and rich.

(End of this chapter)