WTYTIAAN Chapter 18
by Volare“Beside the small pond in the Sunset Forest to the east…” Yan Yunqing looked at the location displayed on the mini-map and compared it with the surrounding environment. The forest, just after the rain, was full of dew, completely wetting his clothes.
Yan Yunqing plucked a leaf from the top of his head and threw it away casually. “Should be here, right?”
“Why do you even take on hunting quests…” Lillian followed Yan Yunqing, utterly bored. “And use the bounty hunter excuse to deceive little Yuli. What bounty hunter takes on this kind of quest? No, you don’t even count as a bounty hunter. No bounty hunter would help an old man in the village plant the fields for a whole day for five copper coins!”
Yan Yunqing, who was being criticized for not being a bounty hunter, looked at the [Planting] life skill lit up on his panel, its level already at Lv.2, with the experience bar only needing a little more to break through to the next level. He decided to go back and see if any villagers needed help planting fields.
The player’s business, how could it be a deception! Mind your own!
The place called Sunset Forest was actually marked on Yan Yunqing’s mini-map as a small grove bordering the Sunset Mountains. The outskirts were often patrolled by guards from the village, making it relatively safe, but going a little deeper could lead to encountering more dangerous beasts.
However, beasts and the like were enough for the village guards to handle. As long as they brought weapons, a small team composed of several strong young people could completely hunt those beasts back and add to the entire village’s meals.
As for the battle in which Yuli’s parents died a few years ago, it wasn’t because of the beasts that roamed this forest.
It was because a monster of considerable level suddenly appeared and attacked the village.
The village itself didn’t have any powerful people, because it was relatively close to the Bato Vita Capital City. The children in the village with outstanding talent were sent to the capital to study magic or swordsmanship.
The remaining guards were just ordinary people with relatively strong bodies. Facing a terrifying monster, ordinary people couldn’t play any role at all, and could only use their lives to delay the monster’s slaughter of the village, protecting all the old people and children behind them, enduring for a day and a night, waiting for the Bato Vita army’s rescue.
It could be said that the final victory of that defense battle was actually filled with the lives of the young people in the village.
Finding the pond the village chief mentioned, Yan Yunqing looked around, searching for the ‘Lulu Pig’ the village chief spoke of. After solving this quest, his character level would be able to rise to level ten, officially breaking away from the identity of a little newbie, and he could accept the job transfer quest.
Although Yan Yunqing used a bug to skip the job transfer quest, the game system reacted quickly, filling the loophole in one fell swoop. All the skills that could only be used after the job transfer were all relocked, and the permission to light them up was only open when the corresponding level was reached. Only some skills that didn’t require level allowed him to use skill points to learn.
He also received an email from the game, thanking him for finding the bug for the game. The game side had fixed the bug and given compensation – a delicate little cake.
Beautiful and delicious, however, without any buff effect.
Perfunctory! It’s too perfunctory!
Yan Yunqing flew into a rage after receiving the compensation email, and shared the little cake with Lillian and Yuli in a fit of pique.
–Grandpa the blacksmith is old and can’t eat too sweet things.
Yan Yunqing found the Lulu Pig the village chief wanted, relying on the agility he had leveled up, he ran the Lulu Pig all over the forest. Finally, when the Lulu Pig’s physical strength was exhausted and it stopped to rest, he took away the pig’s last drop of HP with one sword.
The pig wailed, and with a thud, fell to the ground, becoming a fresh and hot corpse.
Yan Yunqing skillfully took out a dagger and used [Gathering] on the pig’s corpse.
A progress bar appeared on the pig’s corpse, showing [Butchering in progress]. When the progress bar was gradually pushed to full, the pig’s corpse instantly turned into several pieces of pork.
Yan Yunqing then put these pork pieces into his backpack.
Scenes that were very magical and unreal in reality seemed extraordinarily normal in the game. Even Lillian seemed to have had her common sense modified, and didn’t think there was anything wrong with the scene in front of her at all.
At this time, Yan Yunqing deeply realized that he had traveled into the game, rather than some other world.
It’s just that such a big Lulu Pig, after gathering, only had a few pieces of pork left, which was a bit too much.
Where’s the pig’s head? Where’s the pig’s offal? The pig whip… cough cough, where did those parts of the pig that are very delicious after special cooking go?
This life skill is simply like a black-hearted merchant, saying they’re selling a whole pig, but when you weigh it after bringing it back, half a pig’s weight is missing out of thin air.
A profiteer!
If it weren’t for the fact that handing in the quest and putting it in the backpack required the gathered pork, Yan Yunqing would definitely have brought back the entire fresh pig corpse.
So much meat is processed and then more than half is lost, it’s really heartbreaking.
Yan Yunqing put away the dagger and continued to take out his long sword to find the next target.
Kill a few more Lulu Pigs, hand in the village chief’s quest, and the rest can be brought back so Yuli can make them grilled pork chops. The meat of this Lulu Pig is especially delicious, and when it’s grilled and sizzling with oil, that fragrance belonging to fat will completely burst out, and no one can stop this temptation.
Thinking like this, Yan Yunqing couldn’t help but swallow, looking at the Lulu Pig moving in the distance, his eyes became much more loving.
Pigs are so cute, of course, we have to eat pigs!
“But will there really be monsters in this forest?” Yan Yunqing asked, while ambushing the sluggish pigs and looking around the Sunset Forest, “It doesn’t look like a place where monsters would exist.”
Lillian held a small magic wand, occasionally casting a ‘Deterrence’ spell on the pig, and the pig with the [Slow] and [Dazed] debuffs was forced to reduce its intelligence, and crashed into the tree in front of Yan Yunqing, and was taken down by Yan Yunqing’s sword in a daze.
“Who knows, after all, the formation of monsters is also very peculiar, maybe some unknown god is buried here.”
Monster.
When Yan Yunqing played 《Demon King》, this setting never appeared.
『Gods fall, and filthy creatures are born on the bones of gods.』
This is the explanation given by the game panel, but Yan Yunqing has not yet encountered a monster, and is not sure what the monster looks like.
However, just looking at the description, you know that this monster should be a completely hostile monster unit in this new version of 《Demon King》.
Creatures born from the bones of gods, this setting made Yan Yunqing think of whale falls. As the saying goes, one whale falls and all things live, but the whale fall in this world gives birth to monsters.
Damn, what kind of hellish joke is this?
Yan Yunqing was amused by his own magical brain circuit, and gathered the newly fallen pig corpse again, his character level just broke through level ten.
His mind was clear for a while, that feeling was mysterious and difficult to describe.
In short, Yan Yunqing felt that he seemed to have become stronger.
Opening the panel to admire the values that he had gradually trained to be more beautiful, Yan Yunqing conveniently lit up a few basic spells after the job transfer.
The swordsman’s skills couldn’t be lit up yet, he hadn’t completed the job transfer quest, and the road to card bugs was blocked by the game system, but the mage side didn’t need to take another job transfer quest, and he would automatically transfer jobs after leveling up to level ten.
Putting the fine iron sword made by Old Jason from the blacksmith shop back into the backpack, he took out a sharpened tree branch and waved it twice in his hand.
This is a twig of Ziwu wood. This kind of tree is very common and exists in Sunset Forest. The material is gentle, the magic circuit is simple, and it has a slight warmth when you start using it. It is the most common material for beginner magic wands. The magic wands made of it are not too expensive, and are very suitable for beginners.
Compared to swordsmen, who have the opportunity to learn a little if they are physically strong, mages have a very high threshold in this world, not only looking at talent, but also requiring enough money and status to have the opportunity to study in depth. Yan Yunqing’s village does not have any mages, and there is no store selling magic wands.
Those are shops that can only be seen in big cities.
Therefore, Yan Yunqing couldn’t find a place to buy a magic wand at all, and the magic wands in his backpack were too high-level, he couldn’t equip them, so he could only think of another way.
Lillian thought of a way for him, directly grabbed a twig of Ziwu wood, sharpened it, and removed the thorns, temporarily using it as a magic wand.
It’s just that the effect is definitely not as good as a specially quenched magic wand, which may lead to magic failure.
It’s just that for Yan Yunqing, the probability of magic failure is too low. He can cast the magic created by the first Elf King by relying on spells without a magic wand. With this kind of magic talent, he can still use magic with a tree branch.
No wonder there has always been a theory of only talent in the magic world.
Yan Yunqing chanted a Fireball spell towards the pond, the sandbag-sized fireball burned and was controlled by Yan Yunqing to sink heavily into the pond, splashing a water column.
The surface of the water made a gurgling sound, and after a while, several fish floated up with their bellies turned, their eyes emitting a strange light, and there was a burst of heat.
Lillian: “Wow!”
Yan Yunqing awkwardly hid the magic wand behind him and bowed three times to the fish that died with unclosed eyes.
He was only thinking about throwing the fireball into the forest, in case it caused a forest fire, but he didn’t expect to scald the fish in the pond to death.
Lillian: “You can use the simplest Fireball spell to create the effect of advanced magic, tsk tsk this talent, I’m a little jealous.”
Yan Yunqing ignored these sour words and tried a few more basic spells that he had just lit up, confirming that the lethality of each spell was not low before he satisfiedly put away the magic wand.
“It’s about time to leave in a while.” Yan Yunqing said, “After handing in this quest with the village chief, I’ll ask if there are any guards in the patrol team who can teach me swordsman skills. It’s still a bit dangerous outside.”
Lillian asked doubtfully: “What are you learning swordsman skills for? Don’t tell me you don’t want to become a mage?”
If people in this world can measure magic talent, they will sharpen their heads and squeeze into the world of mages. Those who really don’t have magic talent will consider becoming swordsmen.
Although swordsmen can reach the peak of cultivation, their status can be comparable to mages of the same level, but there are not many swordsmen who can reach the peak, and a beginner mage who has just started can get the respect of the vast majority of people in this world.
For ordinary people, becoming a mage is the easiest way to change their family.
No one would have ‘noble’ magic talent and learn ‘lowly’ swordsman skills.
Perhaps there is also the subtle influence of the upper aristocrats’ ‘magic only theory’.
“Huh? Do I have to choose one out of swordsman and mage?” Yan Yunqing asked back, “Can’t I practice both swordsman and mage, and then be a melee mage?”
“Melee mage…”
Lillian twitched the corner of her mouth, and thought about Yan Yunqing holding a great sword and fighting the enemy, suddenly pulling out a magic wand from the great sword and smashing it hard on the enemy’s head…
That picture is both beautiful and horrifying.
“People only have so much energy, how can they be proficient in both practices, I advise you to… be careful!”