Chapter Twenty-Four: Murong Xiangxiang's Plea for Help

  Xu Lin was stunned, while Xin Yu's eyes widened at the sight of the leather armor, her mouth watering. For an archer, adding agility not only increased critical hit rate but also attack speed. This piece of clothing had high defense and added 8 agility points, with 7 endurance points being quite impressive as well. Overall, it should be a super ultimate item for archers.

  The first time I got a skill magic book, judging from the drop rate, the subsequent skill books will definitely be in short supply. Think about it, without skills, you can't even get good equipment, and without good equipment, where's the money going to come from?

  I walked over while picking some golden needle grass, and teased her by saying: "Lin Jie, are you learning yet? Do you still want to sell it? Your level needs to come up before we can get rich~"

  A flash of light passed by, and the skill book in Xu Lin's hand disappeared. Then she traded that piece of leather armor to Xin Yu.

  Xu Lin turned around with a smile and said: "Okay, mission accomplished, this time's harvest is really good!"

  Lu Xuehan looked at me and said: "Is the task already completed? What are we going to do next?"

  "Alright, the Golden Needle Grass has been obtained, this task is considered complete. The subsequent tasks will probably be much more difficult, let's just focus on leveling up for now. Xinyu, once you've put on your clothes, that's enough, stop constantly touching your chest, be careful not to touch anything else!"

  Xin Yu smiled and said: "Don't worry, even if I'm a bit flat-chested, do you think no one will want me?"

  "Stop arguing, let's just continue killing monsters and leveling up here. Lin Fan, are you going to keep leveling with us or go call for a quest?"

  I took a look at the items in my bag and there's quite a pile, five pieces of equipment above level 10 that I should probably clean up. The equipment on me has been through several priestly magic attacks and its durability isn't high either. Now that the task is complete, I don't know if there will be any follow-up tasks, but it seems like it's really time to head back.

  Told Xu Lin about it and let the three of them stay to team up and fight the level 18 monster, their attack power and supply ability are all pretty good, this is indeed a very good choice here.

  After using the return scroll to go back to Stormwind City, there were already many people on the streets. The large auction house was crowded with players of various professions, everyone had worked hard to reach level 10 and now they were all thinking about finding some equipment to enhance their strength, in order to ensure momentum for future leveling up.

  I went directly to the alley beside the church, and sure enough, Master Healer Lance was still there. I hastily walked up to him and took out the Golden Needle Grass for him to see.

  Lance's dry hand grasped the golden needle grass tightly, making me worry that he might get too excited and pass out. At this time, he finally told me about the reward for completing the task.

  "Ding!"

  System Prompt: You have completed the task entrusted by Master Therapist, gaining 42,000 experience points, 2 gold coins, and 80 reputation. You also received a follow-up quest: Rescue Princess Misha!

  Rescue Princess Misha (Red Mission - Unique)

  Mission: Help the great healer Lance rescue Princess Misha, who is being held captive in the underground chamber of the Western Plague Cemetery. Ensure Princess Misha's safety at all costs!

  The red task is obviously too strenuous for me now, I reckon it's better to do it when everyone turns 20.

  I repaired my equipment, took out a few pieces of white equipment from the warehouse, and added them to the five pieces of white equipment I was wearing. Now I have about 10 pieces of equipment. I came to the trading post and priced each piece of equipment. The trading post has already opened online RMB payment service. A defense 8 white leather armor is priced at 100RMB, which is not too expensive. However, weapons are much more expensive. A attack 5-14 white level 12 bow is priced at 500RMB. I'm not afraid that no one will buy it, but rather that there's not enough stock.

  Equipment below level 10 has basically started to decline in price, and the green sword I sold to Murong Xiangxiang for 3500 has also passed its peak period. Looking at my friend list, I just realized that Murong Xiangxiang is already level 14, only two levels lower than me, and has reached the same level as Lu Xuehan. If no one helped her, she would probably be wearing all top-notch equipment, otherwise it wouldn't be possible for her to level up so quickly.

  After taking a look at the function list, I suddenly realized that there was an additional city level ranking next to the original level ranking. It's probably been updated after the system maintenance. Upon opening it, I found that it was the level ranking of all players in the local area, and my name was prominently displayed in third place. The first place was a warrior named "Crazy War" who was also at level 16, while the second place was surprisingly "Little Ant on the Leaf", Ye Qiu had indeed entered the top 10 in the city! Lu Xuehan was ranked 8th with level 14, closely followed by female warrior Murong Shanshan!

  "Whoa!"

  "System Notification: The Short Bow you consigned has been purchased by player *** for 500 RMB. After deducting 2% commission, 490 RMB has been transferred to your bank account. Please verify in a timely manner!"

  I didn't expect it to sell so quickly, I hadn't even had time to be happy, when the system came with another message, opening it up was actually a message from Murong Shanshan: "Open the communicator!"

  I hastily opened it, and immediately came the urgent voice of Murong Xiangxiang: "Hello, I'm really sorry to disturb you, but in this city, there aren't many people who can help me."

  "What's wrong? Speak slowly, don't rush~" The lovely face of Murong Shanshan appeared in my mind again, her sweet voice clearly audible in my ears.

  "It's like this, I accepted a quest to kill a level 21 Stone Puppet BOSS, and brought five friends along to do it. However, because only I had a melee profession to tank the monster, and even with two priests we couldn't withstand the BOSS's attack, in the end we wiped out, and my level also dropped by one."

  "What? You dropped a level, so that means you were supposed to be at level 15 already? Good grief, how did you level up so quickly?"

  Murong Xiangxiang let out a "heh" and laughed, then said angrily: "Exactly, otherwise I would have already entered the top five in the entire city, and the distance between you and me would be even smaller."

  "Alright, alright, let's talk about the payment for me helping you complete your task. I'm not a selfless person."

  "Hmm, I knew you were a sly merchant. Alright, how about 300 RMB as payment?" Murong Xiangxiang smiled mischievously and started negotiating the price with me.

  "It's time to get serious, I couldn't be soft on this: 'This, you should also know, there are only a few people of my level in this city. If you look for someone else, it'll probably take until the city teleportation opens next week. And, even you can't withstand that kind of monster right now, not many people have that kind of perverted defense. I think this task should be very important to you? I said, why don't we add a bit more?"

  Murong Xiangxian fell silent for a moment, then said with hatred: "You're indeed a swindler, you win this time, 500 yuan is the most I can give, don't even think about asking for more or this lady won't have any left!"