Chapter 31: The Arrogant Quartet

  "Go, go hand in the task!" Zhang Yang pulled Han Baozi to find Captain Sol of the guard team and handed over the "raid" task, receiving a black iron ring.

  Saul's Grateful Ring (Black Iron Ring)

  Vitality: +2

  Power: +3

  Equipment: Each of your attacks has a certain chance to restore health to you, with the value being 1% of the damage dealt.

  Required level: 10

  This is the first equipment with a blood-sucking effect in the game. Unfortunately, the amount of recovery is too small, and the trigger probability is not high! No way, this is the reward given by the public task, it's good to be able to give a ring, after all, it's better than not wearing one!

  Boom! A flash of golden light, with the 10,000 experience points from the quest reward, Zhang Yang also leveled up to level 11.

  Originally thought to be on the ranking list, but Zhang Yang opened the list and found that those 10th-level players who were on the list in the morning had already reached level 11, still without his position. Fortunately, the person ranked first was still at level 11.

  "Fatty, I'll go make the shield first, you go upgrade yourself!" Zhang Yang said.

  Han Paozi yawned and said: "I just slept for three or four hours, now I'm sleepy again, go sleep first!"

  "Look at the time, it's almost six o'clock! What's the point of sleeping now? Let's go have dinner first and then play online for a bit. Get some good rest tonight, no more all-nighters! You're already playing for so long every day, what's the need to stay up late?"

  "Hmm, that makes sense. I'll go kill some monsters again and try out my new weapon! Hmm, wait a minute... someone's messaging me!" After a brief pause, Han Piaozi's expression turned sly, "Yangzi, there's a beautiful woman looking for me to chat with. I won't bother talking nonsense with you anymore!"

  Zhang Yang smiled and turned around to walk towards the auction house.

  Materials needed to make a thick earth shield, 100 iron ingots and one copper ingot. Zhang Yang doesn't have any iron ingots on him now, can only go to the auction house to buy some.

  The auction house is a place in the game where players can buy and sell items, each main city has one, but different cities' auction houses do not share information. In other words, items put up for sale at the White Jade City auction house can only be purchased through the White Jade City auction house, and players from other cities who want to buy them can only come over in person.

  Entering the auction house, Zhang Yang opened the search interface and entered the keywords "iron ore, iron ingot". After a click on the search button, a large number of sales catalogs immediately appeared.

  Because the game just started, all kinds of sky-high prices dared to be marked up. Zhang Yang compared prices and bought 15 sets of iron bars at a flat price of 50 silver coins per set, totaling 300 pieces.

  He went to the mailbox and retrieved the iron ingots delivered by the auction house, then came to the blacksmith's shop, put 100 iron ingots and a piece of copper ingot on the anvil, opened the casting interface, selected the thick earth round shield, and pressed the "manufacture" button. The character automatically raised the hammer, and a forging progress bar appeared under the avatar.

  After 30 seconds.

  "Ding! You created a Thick Earth Shield, your Casting skill has increased by 1 point!"

  In "Miracle", the manufacturing skills are divided into seven levels: primary, intermediate, advanced, expert, master, grandmaster and artisan. Each upgrade requires 1000 points of proficiency. NPCs will not teach players any crafting methods, all of which must be learned by players through blueprints.

  The initial drawings are relatively easy to come by, but after reaching the expert level, it's extremely difficult to get a drawing that matches your level! And if you want to upgrade from expert to master, you must manufacture expert-level items to increase proficiency. Without the drawings, you're left with nothing to do but stare blankly!

  So even in Zhang Yang's previous life, after running the game for five years, there were hardly a few people who reached the master craftsman level of manufacturing professions!

  Zhang Yang lovingly stroked the shield, then equipped it, replacing his original thick iron shield. His entire character's attributes soared once again!

  Player: Zhan Yu

  Level: 11

  Health: 790

  Armor: 64

  Power: 86

  Agile: 32

  Lucky value: 2

  Melee Damage: 102-110

  Attack interval: 2 seconds

  64-point armor! Zhang Yang laughed, with such high armor, currently there are not many players who can break his defense! And the 790-point life value is enough for people to beat him for half a day without moving!

  He then crafted two thick earth round shields, cleaned up the materials, and ran to the mailbox. He used paid mail to send one of the shields to Chi Lian Huo. Then he went to the auction house, set a starting price of 400 gold coins with no upper limit, and anonymously put the other thick earth round shield up for sale. The auction time was one day.

  Look at the time, it's already half past six. Zhang Yang was about to go offline for dinner when he heard a "ding" and received a private message.

  "Friend, I have a lot of iron ore here. If you need it, you can contact me directly and we can discuss a slightly cheaper price!"

  Zhang Yang took a look and saw that the message was from someone called "Professional Miner". He immediately remembered that the 15 iron bars he had bought at the auction house were all put up for sale by this person. Because the auction house would charge a handling fee of 10%, players who collected resources all hoped to develop stable customers and reduce costs through direct transactions.

  Recently, a large number of iron ingots are needed to forge shields. Indeed, a stable supplier is needed. Zhang Yang immediately sent a private message, saying: "Hmm, I need 10-20 sets of iron ingots every day, can you guarantee the supply?"

  "Haha, I'm a professional miner, don't mention this little bit, even if it's several times more, I can dig it for you!" The professional miner replied with an extremely proud tone.

  "Alright, how about the price?"

  "How much more do you want?"

  "Ah, let's start with 100 sets then!" Zhang Yang casually mentioned a number, which was just enough to produce 20 shields, not too many.

  "Shh! You really dare to say that!" The professional miner sucked in a breath.

  "Haha, you're the one who said it's no problem!" Zhang Yang laughed.

  "Haha, 100 sets are too many, I only have 30 iron bars on hand!"

  "Alright, 30 sets for 30 sets, name your price!"

  "Hmm, 48 silver coins per group, how about it?"

  His auction house is 50 silver per group, and the 10% handling fee is also 5 silver coins. This group is 2 silver coins cheaper, which is acceptable.

  "Alright, send me an email with the payment receipt and I'll go offline for dinner first!"

  "Let's be friends and keep in touch!"

  The other party quickly sent a friend request, Zhang Yang casually clicked through and went offline.

  He took off his gaming headset, let out a sigh of relief, and lay down for a long time, his body feeling somewhat stiff. He moved his hands and feet around, then went to the kitchen to prepare dinner. After eating hastily, he went online again.

  Email assistant prompts new email, Zhang Yang rushes to the mailbox to collect mail. The first letter is a professional miner sending iron ore, because it's a payment collection, Zhang Yang clicked confirm and 14 gold coins were immediately deducted by the system, and 30 sets of iron ore also fell into his backpack. The second letter was Chi Lian Huo collecting the Thick Earth Shield, and the system automatically deducted 500 gold coins.

  I sent a message to Han Chubby, asking him to go complete the task together. As a result, that guy made excuses and said he wanted to chat with the beauty, no time to bother with him!

  "This guy values wealth over friendship!" Zhang Yang shook his head, he had originally planned to pull Han Chubuzi along to do a special task, but that fatty was not on board, so Zhang Yang didn't bother with him anymore!

  As soon as they left the city and headed east, they were stopped by four people who had been waiting for them.

  Flower pants, arrogant law god, arrogant milk dad, chest hair is burning, the four-person group of arrogance.

  "You, you second-rate warrior! I've told you before, if you can't even form a decent team with me, I'll kill you back to level zero!" The arrogant Law God glared at Zhang Yang, his teeth clenched in anger.

  After the four of them were kicked out of the team by Zhang Yang, they were furious. The four of them discussed it and decided not to give up yet, they must teach Zhang Yang a lesson! So, they lay in wait at the entrance of the instance, planning to gang up on him when he comes out.

  As a result, after guarding for half a day, I saw the server's red screen brushing!

  They were suddenly angry and anxious! If Zhang Yang hadn't kicked them out of the team, they would have had a share in this famous good deed too! These four people didn't reflect on why they were kicked out of the team, but instead put all their resentment on Zhang Yang's head, further solidifying their determination to "teach" Zhang Yang a lesson.

  They waited until everyone else had left the instance, and after guarding for half a day without finding Zhang Yang, Hao Shi Fa Shen finally realized that Zhang Yang had used a teleportation token! So they rushed back to the city again, and coincidentally, they bumped into Zhang Yang halfway!

  Zhang Yang smiled faintly and said, "Are you relying on these few useless guys?"

  "Damn you, sister! What's the point of talking to him? Beat him to death!" Chest hair was burning, he pulled out a hammer and glared at Zhang Yang fiercely.

  "Hmm, kill him! If I don't knock him back to level zero today, I won't be able to swallow this breath!" The figure in the flower shorts flashed and immediately entered stealth mode, disappearing from view.

  The arrogant law god also started rubbing a fireball, and with his chest hair burning, he picked up the hammer and charged towards Zhang Yang.

  Zhang Yang was neither slow nor hurried, his hands were clasped together in front of his chest, and a faint cold smile appeared at the corner of his mouth.

  "Two morons, go die for me!" Chest hair was already burning as he rushed over, his shield at the ready, and flung it at Zhang Yang.

  Flying shield.

  "Bang", a damage number floated above Zhang Yang's head: "-1!"

  "Ding! You've been attacked by the Panty Shorts Squad, you have 10 minutes to counterattack!"

  A cold glint flashed in Zhang Yang's eyes as a system prompt sounded beside his ear, and he finally revealed his killing intent!

  According to the game rules, if two parties engage in combat, the party that strikes first will be judged by the system as the aggressor and displayed with a red name, while the attacked party can counterattack freely within ten minutes. A player with a red name, whether killed by another player or a monster/NPC, will lose two levels!

  Zhang Yang didn't take action first just to let the system determine that the four of Jue Shi were red-name challengers!

  At the same time, Huā Kùshān also emerged from stealth and appeared behind Zhang Yang, swinging two swords at him.

  “－1！”

  “－1！”

  Encountering Zhang Yang's armor with a defense value of 64 points, the flower pants were unable to break through and could only deal 1 point of forced damage!

  "My god, this stupid warrior's skin is so thick!" exclaimed Huā Kùchuáng.

  "Bang!" The chest hair also swung up with the burning hammer and struck out a ridiculous "-1" damage.

  “－36！”

  The fireball of Hao Shi Fa Shen also came out, hitting Zhang Yang's body and finally causing a not-too-ugly injury.

  Armor can only reduce physical damage and has no effect on magic effects.

  Zhang Yang let out a light hum, aimed at Ao Shi Fa Shen and launched a charge, knocking Ao Shi Fa Shen into a dazed state. With a sweep of his sword, a terrifying number "-103" appeared above the opponent's head, instantly taking away a quarter of their health.

  "My day, how high is this damage!" The arrogant law god shouted wildly in the team, "Dad, hurry up and heal me!"

  At this time, Huā Kùtáng and Xiōng Máo, who were burning with rage, rushed back and charged at Zhāng Yáng with their weapons raised.

  "Awesome!"

  “－70！”

  “－82！”

  The numbers of Ge Dang's injury simultaneously rose from his chest hair burning and his flower underwear flying off his head.

  “－204！”

  “－210！”

  “－209！”

  “－190！”

  “－20！”

  Another horizontal sweep was made, causing huge damage to the four people in flower pants, and triggering the dark anger of the necklace, hitting Zhang Yang's current target Hao Shi Fa Shen.

  "My god, this guy is simply inhuman!"

  "Dad, hurry up and heal!"

  "Damn it, give me a blood transfusion first!"

  “－166！”

  Zhang Yang slapped his hand back, slamming the shield onto Ao Shi Fa Shen's body. The shield struck with incredible force, dealing massive damage once again and sending Ao Shi Fa Shen to the resurrection point with less than 100 HP remaining, not even giving Ao Shi's milk dad a chance to finish reading the healing spell!

  "Ding! You have killed the arrogant Law God!"

  “－99！”

  Zhang Yang swung his sword again, slashing at Ao Shi's father, while launching a "Power Strike", dealing another "-101" damage that floated above the opponent's head.

  "Ding! You killed Ao Shi Nai Ba!"

  In an instant, only the underwear and chest hair of the two people were left burning, with 146 and 428 life values remaining respectively!