Ta Tianqing
Chapter 10 Recruiting NPCs: Rabbit Girls, Cat Girls, and Fox Girls, All Present!
Lin Chen's operations were truly baffling to many.
The current Heavenly Moon City had become Lin Chen's private city.
This place was originally a player city, but now that the Jianghe Huhai Guild had withdrawn, the entire city was practically a ghost town. However, Lin Chen seemed quite satisfied. He said to Liu Mengyao, "Next, let's go to the Illusion Tower in the city and get both pets to level one hundred. Then we'll log off for today, what do you think?"
Illusion Tower!
This was a specialty of Heavenly Moon City…
The Illusion Tower dungeon was an out-and-out leveling dungeon, especially suitable for bringing pets, because the Illusion Tower had monsters from level one to level one hundred. That's why Jiang Haihe spent a billion to take down this city as their guild's main city.
Now, all of this belonged to Lin Chen.
"I'll set the permissions first… I'll give you a deputy city lord position!"
Lin Chen smiled and said, "That way, you can enter the city directly whenever you want."
The city was empty.
However, there were still guards.
These guards were all NPCs, a type of mercenary. You just had to pay them a salary every month.
People without permission would be stopped by the guards.
If you forced your way in, you had to have enough strength, at least enough to easily solo a dozen level 80 elite monsters to have a chance of getting through.
In addition, buildings like the Illusion Tower and the City Lord's Mansion could not be entered without permission.
Because both places had protective magic arrays.
And all the buildings in the city belonged to Lin Chen.
Some NPC merchants or player merchants who wanted to move in had to pay taxes to the city lord.
Right now, Heavenly Moon City didn't have many people.
NPC merchants also needed to make money. There weren't any players here, who were they going to do business with?
It could be said that Lin Chen had bought a dead city.
But Lin Chen didn't care.
What if the apocalypse arrived and the monsters in the game began to invade?
Then, he wouldn't have to worry about people coming to his city.
For the next two hours, Lin Chen and Liu Mengyao stayed in the Illusion Tower leveling up their pets. This was also preparing for the upcoming dungeon. The new expansion pack had been released at two o'clock, but Lin Chen knew very well that it would take at least three days for someone to clear the new dungeon.
So Lin Chen still had time.
When the pets reached level one hundred, they could awaken another skill.
He still directly fed them Divine Beast Pills, and the Vermilion Bird's fifth skill came out.
【Infernal Flames: The Vermilion Bird brings the flames of hell to the mortal world. Within a 300-yard radius of itself, irregular bursts of flame will appear, dealing magic attack * 3 damage to opponents hit and stunning them for three seconds. Cooldown time: ten minutes. Upgradeable!】
Another powerful damage skill!
No, it should be said that this was a crowd control skill.
With Infernal Flames, probably no one would dare to approach the area where the Vermilion Bird was located. This skill was also especially suitable for team battles. The range was large enough, and the damage was strong. The only drawback was the irregularity of the flames, which also brought many uncertainties.
But Lin Chen was already very satisfied.
Next, he didn't plan to continue to improve anything. After all, he needed materials, so he would wait for the big price drop tomorrow.
Besides, Lin Chen knew Liu Mengyao's game time. It was almost time for dinner in reality, and she had to log off, so the two of them exited the Illusion Tower. Liu Mengyao said to Lin Chen, "Rest early, okay? Take me to Nantianmen (South Heaven Gate) tomorrow! By the way, you…"
Liu Mengyao suddenly hesitated.
"What?" Lin Chen asked.
"It's nothing…" Liu Mengyao smiled.
"You're even keeping me in suspense now?"
Lin Chen said jokingly.
"Really, it's nothing. I'm logging off, bye-bye!" Liu Mengyao waved her hand.
Then, she logged off on the spot.
Lin Chen felt a little strange, but he didn't think too much about it. He didn't log off. Instead, he stayed to study the array blueprint he had obtained. According to the materials needed on it, it required five high-grade magic stones and some talismans.
He could handle these talismans himself, but he didn't have any high-grade magic stones. However, Zhang Chunlin definitely had them. Lin Chen directly sent him a message, and Zhang Chunlin quickly mailed them over.
"Consider these materials as a gift from your bro… By the way, I also got a set of equipment, but it's not as extravagant as yours. I got a set of Supreme-grade equipment, which is still a level below Divine-grade. Haha, even though it's just a set of Supreme-grade equipment, in the past, it would have been worth tens of millions!" Zhang Chunlin sent a voice message.
"Not bad!"
Lin Chen laughed, "Then why don't you come with me to the new dungeon tomorrow?"
Zhang Chunlin quickly responded, "Okay! But I'll state it in advance, I'm a businessman, so my skills are definitely not as good as yours."
"It's okay, just listen to my command. It's settled then."
Lin Chen closed the chat box.
He didn't deliberately try to win over Zhang Chunlin to play with him. Since Zhang Chunlin had this awareness and could get a good set of equipment, Lin Chen naturally pulled him into the team to play.
However, for the new dungeon, he probably still needed some teammates.
"I can only find them slowly!"
Lin Chen wasn't in a hurry. He started to try to study the array first.
He came to a courtyard in the backyard of the City Lord's Mansion. In the future, this would be where he rested. The City Lord's Mansion itself already had a magic array, but Lin Chen didn't care. He set up this magic array in his own courtyard.
It was considered an extra layer of insurance.
At the same time, it was also to gain experience.
It took half an hour for the array to be completed. Then Lin Chen returned to the room and felt it. In fact, there was no need to feel it. He could directly look at the attribute panel to see the results… In the array, all of Lin Chen's attributes were increased by 30%!
"Damn, this is only a level one array, and it already adds so many attributes. What about a level ten array?"
Lin Chen didn't dare to think too much about it…
After all, there didn't seem to be any level ten arrays in the entire "New World" game.
The most common high-level arrays were the city defense arrays of the main cities. Lin Chen had learned that the attribute bonus for the NPCs in those camps reached two times, but that was only a level eight array.
Because of this, no red-named players had ever dared to directly break into the NPC's main city.
Anyone who could break in would probably become famous in one battle.
After all, the guards of the NPC main cities were all powerful Divine Guards, whose strength had already reached level 120, plus the bonus of the array, it was simply amazing.
After setting up the array, Lin Chen returned to the City Lord's Mansion again, opened the City Lord interface on the City Lord's throne, and then chose to recruit some craftsmen to build the city and renovate all the buildings inside.
Here, Lin Chen spent a full 100 million gold coins again.
This money had to be spent.
After all, it wasn't comfortable to look at his dilapidated city.
At this time, Lin Chen discovered that there was a special recruitment option in the City Lord interface.
When he opened it, he could actually recruit many NPCs of different races, and these NPCs could all sign soul contracts.
【Soul Contract: Once signed, you can never betray!】
"Should I get some over here?"
Lin Chen didn't think about it for too long and chose to go in and take a look.
Although he wasn't sure if these NPCs would betray him when the game descended to reality, this didn't prevent Lin Chen from taking a look at what NPCs could be recruited with the mentality of looking for the best option while settling for something else.
As a result, what made Lin Chen speechless was that the level and strength of the NPCs inside were shocking.
【A Qi, Catgirl race, Strength Rating: SSS, Level 100, Class: Assassin. Recruitment Price: 30 million!】
【Xiao Mei, Rabbitgirl race, Strength Rating: S, Level 100, Class: Priest. Recruitment Price: 10 million!】
【Roaring Sky Divine General, Heavenly Dog race, Strength Rating: SSS, Level 100, Class: Berserker. Recruitment Price: 30 million!】
【Xiao Li, Fox Fairy race, Strength Rating: SS, Level 100, Class: Mage. Recruitment Price: 20 million!】
【Glory Knights, Commander Black Dragon Race Dragon General, Strength Rating: SSS, Level 100, Class: Knight. Recruitment Price: 500 million (including the entire Glory Knights forty-nine knights)】
【……】
So many good NPCs!
There were a bit too many.
Generally speaking, refreshing the recruitment hall once a day, it would be good to find an NPC with an S-level strength rating. What was going on?
Lin Chen quickly reacted. It should be that many players had quit the game or destroyed their accounts, selling their main cities, causing all these NPCs to be unemployed… Looking at the strength and price list of these NPCs, Lin Chen was really tempted.
What to do?
Should he gamble?
If he won, his strength would increase greatly!
Even if he lost, it would only be about 600 million gold coins in total, according to the current market price…
Less than 100,000 yuan!
"Do it!"
Lin Chen gritted his teeth and sent a message to Zhang Chunlin again.
He directly asked for 1 billion gold coins!
Now the price of gold coins had fallen again. 1 billion gold coins could be bought for 120,000 yuan. Then Lin Chen began to recruit. First, he recruited the entire Glory Knights, then the Catgirl, Rabbitgirl, Roaring Sky Divine General, and Foxgirl were all recruited.
Then Lin Chen also recruited a Glory Warrior Corps and a Glory Mage Corps. These two corps weren't as expensive as the Knights, and their strength ratings were slightly worse. It just so happened that Lin Chen spent all his gold coins!
Light flashed, and all the recruited NPCs were teleported to the hall through the teleportation array.
"Roaring Sky Divine General, greetings, City Lord!"
"Dragon General, greetings, City Lord!"
"Hehe, Xiao Li greets the City Lord…"
"Hello, City Lord."
"Ah, City Lord, you're so handsome. I'm Xiao Mei."
"……"
Good lord.
As soon as they met, the Rabbitgirl was about to stick to Lin Chen's body.
Although this was a game, the "New World" game was so realistic!
Lin Chen could even feel some sensations that made people unable to help but swallow…
"Alright."
Lin Chen stood up and said, "From now on, you will be the guardians of Heavenly Moon City. Roaring Sky Divine General will guard the East City, Xiao Qi will guard the West City, Xiao Li will guard the North City, and Xiao Mei will guard the South City. In addition, the three Glory Corps will all be renamed Heavenly Moon Corps. You will be responsible for taking turns guarding each city gate. All of you, go down!"
"Can I guard the City Lord's Mansion?" Xiao Mei looked at Lin Chen, her pair of fair and cute rabbit ears twitching…
This was too tempting!
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