Chapter 1 System Notification

Looking at the system notification, Nie Yan was puzzled that he didn't get any experience points for killing a headless knight.

Did the monsters in this map not give experience?

Looking at the quest status, he decided to continue and see what would happen after completing the quest.

Nie Yan mastered the technique of taking down headless knights, and dealing with these creatures became a piece of cake. He flawlessly shot down one headless knight after another, checking the quest status, 1620, and also collected 3 blueprints.

The drop rate of the Headless Knight Duoluo's Repeating Crossbow Blueprint Fragments wasn't bad, at least Nie Yan saw hope of collecting them all.

After killing a few headless knights, Nie Yan began trying to use the Necromantic Ritual to command them.

Having figured out the weaknesses of the headless knights, he was sure that as long as he stayed behind them, there would be no danger, so he could use the Necromantic Ritual with confidence.

The success rate of the Necromantic Ritual was a bit low, but there were always successes. After repeated failures, Nie Yan finally gathered five headless knights, commanding them to start a frantic sweep, and the speed of killing monsters became much faster. He quickly completed the quest.

System: Quest Progress 1 completed. You have obtained the title of Novice Undead Hunter.

System: Quest Progress 2, kill Headless Knights, 0/200.

Nie Yan looked at his status. The Novice Undead Hunter title allowed him to gain 1 point of respect in all human kingdoms.

Each player could have many titles, such as Shadow Dancer, Grand Thief, Divine Priest, etc. These were professional honors. There were also some special titles, such as Believer of the Gods, or the current Undead Hunter. Each title often had special stat bonuses. For example, the Novice Undead Hunter granted an extra 1 point of respect. This title reward was pretty good. After all, the entire human kingdom was so large, adding a point of respect would be very useful in the future.

Completing the Dryad Forest dungeon, purchasing a shop, and establishing a guild could gain a certain amount of respect. Nie Yan's respect in Calore City had reached 19 points, and now with an additional 1 point of respect bonus, the respect reached 20 points.

City respect was difficult to increase, while town and village respect were relatively easier. As for human kingdom respect, Nie Yan had only obtained it once in his previous life, when he obtained the Grand Thief title, which granted an extra 5 points of respect in the human kingdom. Of course, the Grand Thief title also had other extra rewards. He didn't expect this Novice Undead Hunter to have an extra human kingdom respect bonus.

Looking at the next quest, he didn't expect that Quest Progress 2 was still killing headless knights, with a larger number than Quest Progress 1. This quest was really strange.

With five headless knights, Nie Yan's speed of killing headless knights was much faster than before. He continued doing this quest, wanting to see what the later quest rewards would be.

After a long time, Nie Yan finally collected 10 fragments of Headless Knight Duoluo's Repeating Crossbow. These fragments emitted a dazzling light in his hand, and finally slowly combined into a complete blueprint. This was a heavy crossbow. If one didn't have enough strength, it would be difficult to even pick it up. Moreover, this crossbow was so heavy that wearing it on the body would greatly affect movement speed, so it couldn't be carried around often. Putting it in the backpack and using it only when needed was more like it.

After putting the blueprint into the backpack, he looked at the gains after coming in. In addition to a few level 30 equipment pieces, there were also three equipment blueprints, one level 30 Silver equipment blueprint, and two level 30 Bronze equipment blueprints. Equipment blueprints were relatively rare. Bronze and Silver equipment had a large market among ordinary players, after all, they couldn't afford Gold equipment, so they could only make do with Bronze and Silver equipment. In the future, if Nie Yan opened an equipment shop and hired some advanced blacksmiths and tailors, he could produce these equipment pieces. These equipment stats were decent and could earn a lot of money.

The equipment blueprint drop rate here was very high. In Nie Yan's view, these things were glittering gold coins!

In the future, besides the pharmacy, Nie Yan would also need various other shops, including an equipment shop. When commerce flourished in the future, it would be difficult to achieve a monopoly, but as long as he occupied a certain market share, he could earn a lot and lots of money. He could slowly prepare from now on.

Another headless knight was spotted. Nie Yan commanded his five headless knights to charge up and gang up on it, killing it, then searching for the next target.

Two hours later, Nie Yan completed Quest Progress 2.

System: Quest Progress 2 completed. You have obtained the title of Intermediate Undead Hunter.

Looking at the Intermediate Undead Hunter's bonus status, all human kingdom respect +2.

He didn't expect to be able to continue increasing respect. Increasing respect was very beneficial for doing quests and developing in various cities in the future.

System: Quest Progress 3, kill Headless Knights, 0/2000.

This quest was starting to become more and more terrifying, but out of curiosity about the final quest result, Nie Yan persevered.

Continuing deeper, Nie Yan gradually discovered that this Duoluo's Phantasmal Realm was very vast, it could be described as boundless. He walked for several hours without reaching the end.

More than three hours later, Nie Yan discovered a temple building in the center of this Duoluo's Phantasmal Realm. It occupied a very large area, was magnificent and spectacular, like a Greek temple, with tall stone pillars standing high, covered with lion carvings, and layers of steps leading to the main hall. The hall doors were tightly closed, huge iron doors six yards high, eroded by the years, but still giving a sense of dread.

Nie Yan lingered outside the temple for a while, and found that at least hundreds of black-armored headless knights were gathered at the temple entrance.

Although he was very curious about this temple, he didn't dare to take risks, bypassed the temple, and continued to obediently farm headless knights. Although headless knights didn't give experience, the items they dropped were extremely good, which could at least compensate a little.

What puzzled Nie Yan a bit was that although he killed countless headless knights, his red name disappeared very slowly, not moving for a long time.

This place was really strange.

When it was close to the time to log off, Nie Yan dropped a backpack. At first, he didn't pay attention to it, but after looking at it, he found that it was actually a 32-slot backpack.

Magic Rune Backpack: 32 slots.

In other places, even ordinary 24-slot backpacks were very rare, and 28-slot backpacks were even rarer. He didn't expect to drop a 32-slot backpack here. Even at levels 40 to 50, 32-slot backpacks were very valuable, and they couldn't be bought on the market at all.

After sorting out the backpack, he replaced a 20-slot backpack with the 32-slot one. The backpack immediately had many more empty slots. If he could get more Magic Rune Backpacks, the space would be much larger.

Since he dropped the first Magic Rune Backpack, it proved that farming headless knights still had a certain probability of dropping Magic Rune Backpacks.

Maybe he could drop a second one. Nie Yan was even more motivated. If he had five 32-slot backpacks, he wouldn't have to change backpacks until levels 50 or 60. He could carry more consumables each time he went out, so he wouldn't have to use return scrolls to run back to the city for no reason.

While Nie Yan was diligently farming headless knights, the outside world had already become a mess.

Tang Yao leveled up to 18 and started to rush to 19. Po Tian was also closely following behind, reaching level 17. Half-Awake Fox and others were not willing to be left behind, and a wave of leveling quietly swept through.

"Why hasn't Brother Nie Yan sent any news?" Sun asked with some worry.

"He should be in the game at this time. If he hasn't been hung back in the city, it proves that he is still safe. We don't need to worry too much," Tang Yao said, although he was also a little worried in his heart, he didn't show it.

Yao Yao sent message after message to Nie Yan, but never received a reply.

One elite after another died at Tang Yao's hands, but he still didn't find the Maniac Medal, but his experience soared and he leveled up quickly, and his red name was gradually disappearing, so Tang Yao still didn't relax. When the Dust of Mist ran out, he would have Sun borrow some money from Starry Night Pharmacy and raise money to buy some more.

Nie Yan had told Niao Bu Sheng Dan that if Tang Yao needed money, he should lend it to him first, not to mention that Tang Yao had sent several intermediate potion formulas to Starry Night Pharmacy, and the value of these formulas far exceeded the money Tang Yao withdrew. Sun also replenished the equipment that Tang Yao and others dropped into the guild warehouse, and then helped them replenish some consumables.

Feimeng Forest, the level 20 Dodo Bird spawn point. In the past, there were not many players here, but now it was very lively, with at least seventy or eighty players from the Triumphant Guild gathered.

Po Tian finally managed to gather twelve mages who knew small-range magic to form a team and level up together, using group attack magic to farm monsters.

Twenty or thirty thieves shuttled through the forest, leading groups of Dodo Birds to a clearing in the jungle, and then the mages cast range magic. Patches of range magic fell down, smashing up patches of damage. Range magic was extremely mana-intensive. When their mana couldn't keep up, a large group of holy word mages immediately came up to channel magic to the mages responsible for damage output, ensuring that their mana was always in a relatively abundant state. If that didn't work, they would drink mana potions!

A dozen range magic spells intertwined, and patches of Dodo Birds fell to the ground. Po Tian's experience points soared in sections. In this way, the leveling speed was not slow, and he even kept up with Tang Yao's pace, chasing very closely.

As for Half-Awake Fox and others, they also found some faster leveling methods and frantically rushed to level up. The level leaderboard was temporarily turbulent. However, Tang Yao's first position was always unshakable.

~Finally finished writing, Snail is starving to death.