Chapter 87

After completing the introductory quest, everyone received equipment pertaining to their own class .

Hawk received a shield with the enchanted attribute of stoutness, while Link received a chain mail with fire resistance .

Jett’s reward was a black scepter with a spiked iron ball hanging from the top . It was absolutely unlike a scepter and more like a meteor hammer .

3However, Jett himself quite liked it .

Betta was the luckiest . He obtained a fire element long sword . It was glowing red all over and looked extraordinary . This weapon would burn its user, but he had the blood of red dragons, which gave him additional fire resistance . This thing in his hand was just like a hand warmer .

Roland’s luck was normal .

He received a staff with two attributes: +2 spell power, +6 maximum health .

After receiving this staff, he immediately carried out a test by using a normal small fireball .

The spell’s power certainly increased, but not obviously so, just slightly better than nothing . However, the increase in maximum health was not bad either .

The best equipment he received was an achievement reward for being the first to complete the main dungeon quest .

Inside his system’s view, Mind-Calming Necklace was a piece of equipment with a gold name and it had only one effect…

Mind-Calming: Continues to absorb and store mental power unintentionally emitted by the wearer, and if the wearer’s mental power is lower than 50%, the stored mental power will be fed back to the wearer . Feedback speed: 30/s, continues for 3 seconds .

1Mental power was MP . Inside the system’s quantitative value, Roland’s current MP was 140/140 . Even if Roland leveled up to the highest level, he supposed that his own MP’s upper limit wouldn’t surpass 400, but the Mind-Calming Necklace’s storage upper limit was 500 .

In other words, it was an equipment that automatically regenerated mental power and could be used from the early stages to the late stages of the game .

It truly was a piece of gold equipment .

Roland naturally wouldn’t flaunt a piece of equipment like this . It could be said that this equipment was a hundred percent in line with Roland’s gaming style .

1For mages, equipment was just complementary and didn’t give them much of a boost .

However, what restricted the performance of mages was often MP and the number of spells . MP was the more important of the two—this was the prerequisite of all spells .

No matter how good your equipment was, and how impressive the spells you learned were, without MP, they would be of no use .

In addition, Roland really liked to study derivative spells . This required the non-stop use of a single spell .

1Although the specialty Roland’s Zeal could quickly replenish mana, if an experiment was conducted too frequently, a period without spellcasting would still emerge .

With this equipment, even if he didn’t use it to endure in a battle, he could use it on magic experiments .

Delaying neither learning nor battle, and it could be used for an entire “lifetime,” it was absolutely a godlike equipment .

1None of them was the type to flaunt . No one deliberately revealed the attributes of their newly acquired equipment and no one asked on their own accord .

Exiting from the tomb’s passageway, they discovered that it was already afternoon in the game’s world .

“Let’s go back to the city first,” Hawk said bleakly as he gazed at the sun, which was already inclining to the west .

The others replied weakly in agreement .

Although they completed the dungeon quest, apart from Roland, the other four weren’t all that excited .

1The reason was a little unimaginable—the dungeon was cleared too easily .

For players, sometimes a suitable amount of torture was a part of gaming happily .

1They rushed over here full of expectations, looking forward to what kind of gaming experience this dungeon quest in this unique game would give them .

Even if it were extremely arduous and challenging, they would accept it . Game progression for high-end players was a sense of achievement .

However, they never imagined to pass it so easily, and they almost didn’t use any effort .

Not to mention their expectations falling through, they also felt a sense of disappointment at the fact that they weren’t of any use .

However, Roland was rather happy . Firstly, he received a piece of gold equipment, and secondly, he proved that his painstaking efforts in studying derivative spells could pay off .

At least, Character Proficiency came in handy now .

Unlike the other four, whose player mentality was predominant, Roland was a pragmatist . As long as he could accomplish the objective, neither the process nor the method was important .

2Moreover, to use the skills and knowledge he acquired to complete a quest, this was an enjoyable process in and of itself .

They returned to the city walls . They weren’t in a hurry to get back inside .

Roland said to Jett, “What plans do you have? Return to your original city?”

“No, I’m staying here,” Jett said with a smile . “In my previous city, I was the only player . Although NPCs are very intelligent, no different from real humans, our views differ too much—there are no common points of conversation . Since you four are in this city, with me, there just happens to be five . We can chat on and correspond with each other on other matters . ”

1These words were quite to the point . Roland then asked, “Have you found a place to stay?”

“I’m a battle priest of the Church of Life . As long as there’s a Church of Life, I can stay there for free, and the church is responsible for all three of my meals . ”

Listening to this, Hawk’s expression was sour as if he had eaten a lemon . “The organizations that you spellcasters belong to are truly generous, providing all sorts of benefits—so **cking good . ”

1Roland asked curiously, “As far as I know, you warriors also have your own association . ”

“We do . But we warriors have to pay **cking pay money to enter the association,” Hawk said bitterly . “Not only that, after joining the Warrior’s Association, we also have to complete some specific quests without compensation . No one in hell would join them . ”

1“It’s impossible to just have obligations without power or benefits . Otherwise, the other warriors would already be making a large fuss!”

Hawk said helplessly, “There are, but they’re useless . For example, if warriors of the association encounter any troubles, they can help mediate, but it’s not a hundred percent guaranteed to work . Other than that, it’s cheaper to learn unique specialties and skills . ”

Indeed, this was pretty useless .

Unlike mages, the other classes’ specialties and skills would automatically be learned upon leveling up . After reaching a certain level, there were multiple special skills or abilities to choose from and there was no need to deliberately learn them .

As for mediating trouble… did the players seem like a community that feared trouble?

1They were eager for NPCs to come looking for trouble so that they had excuses to beat them .

“Then we’ll break up here now . If anything comes up, just contact each other,” Roland said with a smile . “As for the next main quest, we’ll talk about it when we’re at a higher level . ”

The others all nodded .

The next main quest had “Recommended level: Level 5” written in its description .

It belonged in a gray status that couldn’t be triggered .

1The five of them split up . Roland returned to the Magic Tower and discovered that there was someone waiting there .

Bard had two magic apprentices with him . He was looking pensively at Roland as he walked over .

1When Roland was in front of him, Bard said with a smile, “Golden Son, your inability to die is where your confidence comes from?”

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