Chapter 3: The Ultimate Mission

  Tian Huo's forehead was already covered in dense sweat, staring blankly at his system panel. There was no exit button to speak of, and even when he tried to force quit, the system didn't kick him out.

  Tian Hu's face turned pale as he stared at his left hand, and the "tian" character-shaped birthmark on the back of his hand was still there!

  Upon entering the game, a scan of one's true appearance is conducted and cannot be altered. However, blemishes such as moles or scars are completely concealed, restoring the skin to its original clarity. Yet, the birthmark on Tian Huo's left hand remained!

  At first, Tian Huo thought of a possibility, which was that he had crossed over again!

  One year ago, I traversed from Earth to this parallel world that is also called Earth. This time, however, I have traversed into a game!

  As he pondered, cold sweat kept flowing down, his own body had somehow entered the game!

  A chill ran down his spine as he found himself transported into the game, which meant that he only had one life! Unlike ordinary players who could revive after death.

  Although it's the second time crossing over, this time father is not by his side, how can he get out by himself?

  "Ding! System prompt: Player Tian Huo, you have unexpectedly triggered the quest 'Return to Reality'. Do you accept?" The system's voice rose.

  Heavenly fire suddenly moved, and without hesitation, shouted: "Accept!"

  "Ding, system prompt: Congratulations, you have accepted the ultimate mission: Return to the real world."

  The heavens were like grasping at a straw to save one's life, and the system had actually given itself such a task. As long as it completed the task, it would be able to return to the real world and see its father again.

  Looking at the task panel, a red task reminder has already been written on it!

  Ultimate Mission: Return to Reality World (Currently in Phase 1)

  Task difficulty: SSS level

  Task Reward: Allows players to return to the real world with Tianhuo

  Failure Punishment: Total Annihilation of Player Tianhuo

  Mission Introduction: Due to unknown reasons, player Tian Huo's body has entered the Tianming Continent, and he needs to unravel the mystery of crossing over step by step in order to return.

  Return to Reality World First Phase Mission: Lift the Seal

  Mission Difficulty: S-Class

  Task Reward: Unknown (dependent on completion time)

  Mission Introduction: You have been sealed with attributes by the system and need a powerful force to break the seal. For you, accepting the hidden profession inheritance is a good choice to break the seal. The mainland of Tianming has many special professions, carefully discover them, seize the opportunity and you can get it.

  Tianhuo sat back on the grass, it seemed that he had indeed crossed into the game. Otherwise, the system wouldn't have given him such a task. However, Tianhuo was somewhat puzzled, could it be that something unexpected happened during the thunder punishment?

  After a long time, Tianhuo accepted the fact that he had already crossed over for the second time and there was nothing he couldn't accept. Moreover, this time he had a unique hope, which was to complete this ultimate task.

  "Getting a special occupation can lift the seal for me, I'll give it a shot! Hidden occupations are all on those NPCs anyway, I'll go find them one by one!"

  Tian Huo stood up and walked towards the village in big strides. This time, he was going to go around and find NPCs one by one, perhaps they had hidden occupational inheritances.

  The NPCs in Novice Village are not many, only the blacksmith, pharmacist, general store, inn, village chief, novice receptionist and a few guards. Tianhuo is eager to find hidden occupations among these NPCs.

  The sky had darkened, and with a good mood, Tianhuo arrived at the village entrance, where two guards stood upright like statues.

  "Two big brothers, you've been working hard guarding the village, want to drink some water? Wine is fine too." Tian Huo looked back and forth at the two guards, smiling as he spoke, his heart filled with anticipation, wondering if these two NPCs had any hidden occupations.

  The two guards slightly turned their heads and looked at Tian Huo, saying in unison: "Take up your weapon to protect the mainland!"

  That was all he said and there was no further conversation.

  Tian Huo's mouth twitched slightly, but he couldn't shake the feeling that these two didn't seem like NPCs with hidden occupations. He didn't waste any more time and turned to head towards the blacksmith shop.

  The sky had just darkened, and the ironwork shop seemed a bit deserted. Tian Huo stepped into the shop, but found that there was no one there. "Is anyone here?"

  No response.

  "Blacksmith uncle, are you there? I've come to see you!" Tian Huo shouted again.

  "Are you blind? Can't you see I'm busy?" a thick voice came over, making Tian Huo pause, who was it?

  By the light of the lamp, a short figure emerged from under the table in the center of the house, holding a wine bottle and with the word "blacksmith" on his head. He glanced at the heavenly fire and said coldly, "What's going on?"

  Tian Huo carefully sized up the blacksmith, revealing a warm smile. "Hello, Uncle Blacksmith. I heard from the village chief that you like to drink wine, so I've come..."

  "Village head? He's brewed White Cloud wine?" The blacksmith interrupted Tian Huo's words, excitedly.

  Tian Huo was taken aback, and he himself was just watching him holding a wine bottle, making it up as he went along, who knew if the village chief had any White Cloud Wine or not!

  "Uh, this..."

  "Haha, little brother, as long as you can fetch me a jug of White Cloud wine, I'll give you the family heirloom!" The blacksmith was only about one meter tall, but his voice was extremely sonorous, shaking the eardrums of Tian Huo with a buzzing sound.

  Tian Huo's face turned red with embarrassment as he smiled awkwardly, but his eyes lit up at the same time. The family heirloom?

  "Alright, I'll go right away!" Tian Huo Xi said.

  "Ding! System prompt, congratulations on accepting the hidden task: Iron Blacksmith's Wine Bug."

  Task: Blacksmith's Wine Bug

  Task difficulty: D level

  Quest Reward: Blacksmith's Heirloom

  Task Introduction: The blacksmith has a strong interest in fine wine and has always wanted to taste the White Cloud Wine brewed by the village chief, but he hasn't had the chance yet. If you bring some back, the blacksmith will be eternally grateful.

  Having accepted the task, Tian Huo was somewhat disappointed. This clearly couldn't be the reward for a hidden profession, after all the task difficulty was only D-grade, how could he get a hidden profession that easily?

  Leaving the blacksmith's shop, he looked at the pharmacy next door and walked in. He saw rows of medicine bottles placed on the counter, behind which an unkempt old man was dozing off.

  Golden Medicine (Small): Restores 200 HP to player within 15 seconds. No cooldown time. Selling price: 10 copper coins.

  Magic Potion (Small): Restores 150 MP to player within 15 seconds. No cooldown time. Selling price: 10 copper coins.

  Looking at the medicine bottles on the counter, Tian Huo coughed dryly and said, "Boss, don't you have any higher-grade potions?"

  Behind the counter, an old man with disheveled hair woke up with a start, glanced at Tianhuo slightly, and said disdainfully: "New Village, where did you get high-grade medicine?"

  "What a pity! I was thinking of buying more high-grade potions just in case!"

  What a joke! This is absolutely ridiculous. I only have 1 HP left and can't even use the lowest level potion, let alone high-level potions?

  "Do you want high-grade potions? It's not difficult, but these past two days have seen a sudden surge of adventurers from other worlds, and my stock of potions is almost depleted. I've already sent my apprentice to gather spirit grass, but we're still short on snake gallbladders. If you can help me get some, aside from the high-grade potion, I'll also give you a rich reward, heh." said the old man.

  Tianhuo hesitated, seemingly this wouldn't reward hidden professions either! If it were something else, that would be fine to say, but needing snake gall... Tianhuo had been afraid of snakes since childhood, and upon seeing one, his scalp would go numb!

  The old man saw Tian Huo's hesitation and tempted him, "Don't worry, I won't let you lose out. I can teach you the collection technique for free, and the more snake gallbladders you collect, the richer the reward will be. It'll definitely move your heart!"

  The muscles on Tian Huo's face twitched, "I have a strong phobia of snakes... how about we change to another one?"

  The old man was taken aback, then smiled and said, "Most people in the world are afraid of snakes, I am too. Otherwise, I would have gone to collect them myself. However, snake gall is irreplaceable with other materials. Hehe, just agree, I'll secretly tell you that if you exceed 10,000 snake galls, there's a bronze equipment reward!"

  The eyes lit up with excitement, although it's unlikely to have hidden profession rewards, but bronze equipment isn't bad either! Getting a piece of bronze equipment, maybe I can go hunt monsters now!

  Thinking of this, Tian Huo gritted his teeth and nodded firmly. This opportunity couldn't be missed, "Alright!"

  "Ding, system prompt: Congratulations, you have successfully received the task: Yao Lao's Commission."

  Task: Yao Lao's Commission

  Task difficulty: A level

  Task Reward: Unknown

  Task Introduction: The medicine elder of village 9527 is afraid of snakes and dares not to collect snake gallbladders himself. He has entrusted you to go to the foot of White Cloud Mountain to collect snake gallbladders. The more snake gallbladders you collect, the richer the reward will be.

  Tian Hu raised an eyebrow, this was actually an A-level task, it seemed it wouldn't be easy. Ten thousand snake gallbladders, I wonder if there's a way to find them.

  "Ding! System Prompt: Yao Lao wants to teach you Gathering Technique, do you accept?"

  "Agreed!"

  "Ding! Congratulations on learning Gathering!"

  Gathering Skill: Novice, 0/1000, allows gathering from monster corpses after use.

  Accepting the tasks of Iron Smith and Medicine Old Man, Tian Huo somewhat came to a realization. It seems that these ordinary NPCs are unlikely to have hidden occupations. The most likely one should be the Village Chief.

  Tian Huo directly walked towards the village chief's wooden house with this thought.

  Outside the wooden house, the village head was sitting on a wooden staircase, looking up at the bright moon in the sky with his head raised, and he also held a wine bottle in his hand, thinking about something.

  Tian Huo couldn't bear to disturb the village chief's tranquility, so he quietly sat down beside him. After a long time, the village chief finally let out a quiet sigh and turned his head to look at Tian Huo, "You were sitting outside my window for a while during the day, you're not a thief, are you?"

  Tian Huo rolled his eyes, and during the day, he just casually sat outside his window for a while. Unexpectedly, this old man actually knew about it and still remembered it clearly. "Haha, Village Chief is joking, someone like me who is a 'five-good youth' is already hard to find."

  The village head looked at Tianhuo carefully, finally fixing his gaze on the back of Tianhuo's left hand. "You brought something out from the Temple of the Founding God and suffered retribution, did you? You still dare to say you're a good person?"

  The sky fire was stunned for a moment, and couldn't help but glance at the "heaven" character mark on the back of his left hand. Could it be seen from this?

  "What's past is past. I've been stargazing at night and found that the continent's hope has arrived, perhaps it's even in you!" The village chief sighed, handing the wine bottle to Tianhuo.

  Tian Huo looked at the village chief with a puzzled expression, then took a big gulp.

  "Ding, congratulations player Tianhuo for using Village Chief's Homesick Wine, all four attributes +1."

  The sudden system prompt tone made Tianhuo stunned, and there was such a wine?

  The village head hastily snatched back the wine bottle and said with a pained expression: "My good wine! I only asked you to hold it for a moment, how could you...!"

  "Huh, isn't it White Cloud wine?" Tian Huo said dazedly.

  "You compensate me for my homesick wine!" The village chief said angrily, his face red with rage.

  Heavenly Fire hastily patted HaHa on the back, "Hey, don't let the golden goblet face the moon alone, how can you drink by yourself?"

  The village head was still staring at Tianhuo with a fierce expression, while Tianhuo's heart was also getting tense. "That... drinking to forget troubles will only lead to more troubles, Village Head, it's not good to drink too much."

  The village head's expression changed, "You can compose poetry?"

  Tian Huo saw the village chief's expression ease up and felt relieved in his heart, hoping that the possibility of hiding his profession might be here, and he couldn't afford to ruin the relationship.

  A cough, Tian Huo smiled and said: "The bright moonlight in front of the bed, I suspect it is frost on the ground. Raise your head to gaze at the bright moon, lower your head to think of your hometown!"

  "Ding! Congratulations to player Tianhuo for singing an unprecedented masterpiece, increasing the four major attributes by 10 points and triggering the hidden profession: Literary Sage!"

  "Ding! Congratulations to player Tian Huo, the profession scroll of Wen Sheng is activated in your backpack under the powerful aura of the book!"

  PS: Starting tomorrow, two updates every day, seeking all support, moving towards the new book chart!