WTYTIAAN Chapter 199

## Chapter 199

What clashed with the commoners of the border town was the constant influx of players from both factions.

Currently, there were a total of ten thousand internal beta players. However, not many of them possessed real combat power, and not all players were interested in faction warfare. Some players preferred to study the storyline or appreciate the beautiful scenery.

But the rewards for faction warfare were exceedingly generous. Besides being forced to join one side to fight, a third option was added: the seemingly procrastinating [Let me think about it again], which allowed players to accept missions other than participating in the war.

[Li Tao, which faction is better to choose for the faction war?]

0L: After looking at the system missions, I feel that the final reward for these missions should be based on the battle results. Can someone carefully analyze the strengths and weaknesses of the two factions?

1L: First! Waiting for a pro to analyze.

…

59L: I am one of the first batch of internal beta players. Luckily, I seem to have joined an incredible group. I can only say that Bato Vita’s declaration of war is actually something to be reckoned with. Those participating in the faction war can consider the Bato Vita faction.

60L: Does the above poster have inside information?

61L: It can’t be considered inside information, I just vaguely know that Bato Vita has hidden combat power, but I’m not sure what it is. There might be a special storyline.

…

82L: Isn’t Romunike’s combat power weak either? I’ve infiltrated a noble family, and I heard from the old man that the Romunike royal family has made a lot of money in recent years by selling titles and other shady operations. They’ve cultivated a lot of top experts. They all think that the Bato royal family is crazy to attack.

…

102L: Isn’t this a faction war? I don’t think Guitu would let players just be bystanders in the faction war. The faction’s victory still depends mainly on the players, right? By the way, has anyone done mission 2? Has anyone received the [Help Little Flower find her children] mission? Who exactly is Little Flower? I searched around and couldn’t find Little Flower. I asked the villagers and they hadn’t heard of any family’s children being lost.

103L: Little Flower? The name sounds familiar. Isn’t it the little wild cat from XX village? Did she have kittens?

…

Yan Yunqing closed the forum post. He didn’t expect that some players had already infiltrated the two major empires. Whether it was the mysterious forces joining Bato Vita or the thoughts of the Romunike nobles, ordinary people shouldn’t have known about them.

As expected, it’s still the players!

Yan Yunqing sighed. He browsed the forum and found several posts from the players to whom he had given hidden missions. They were even sharing information about the Eternal God Cult.

Yan Yunqing was a little surprised and opened them to take a look. The information inside even included some things he didn’t know, about the strongholds and distribution of the Eternal God Cult in some cities.

[Eternal God Cult? Wow, this name sounds very cultish.]

[I seem to have encountered the kind of NPC the poster described in the wild of XX city? Still a red name. As soon as I saw it, I rushed up to start a PK… Unfortunately, I didn’t win, and I happily got a two-day resurrection cooldown.]

[Is this the world’s villain?]

[Hey, wasn’t there a hidden mission in the newbie village that was related to this God Cult?]

[This God Cult seems to be joinable? I tried it, and the recruiter has already loosened his stance. I feel like I’m about to infiltrate the inside!]

[XXXX also saw it…]

Sometimes, you have to admit that players are magical creatures. They always inexplicably come up with some incredible achievements on a whim.

Yan Yunqing glanced at the replies and decisively found paper and pen to copy the homework. He summarized the players’ discussions in the replies, preparing to hand over the strongholds found by the players to Isabel and the others later, and let Isabel take down those strongholds.

Never give players a chance to join the Eternal God Cult to cause trouble.

Yan Yunqing thought to himself.

*

Lorius City, west of the Banot Mountains.

This was a border town of Romunike. Because it was located in the barren Banot Mountains, the city here looked gray and dilapidated.

The people here were not wealthy.

Yan Yunqing, under the identity of [Nolan], came to Lorius City, which was also the gathering place for many players who participated in the faction war and chose the Romunike faction.

Players could be seen everywhere on the street, trying to scam for missions. After a few days of high-intensity mission grinding, there were probably no NPCs in the city who had missions to issue. Players who hadn’t completed the basic faction war missions in two more days would probably radiate to the surrounding towns.

Of course, as the center of the Romunike faction, Lorius City, the largest city on the Romunike border, would also be the place with the most players.

Even because a lot of players gathered here, some people spontaneously designated an area and started setting up stalls, mostly selling materials dropped by monsters and some blueprint items.

Yan Yunqing, who had his face covered tightly, received the attention of the players as soon as he appeared.

He looked out of place in Lorius City. He looked very mysterious and completely different from the ordinary NPCs in Lorius City—in the words of the players: “This NPC looks like a high-level NPC with a story (hidden mission)!”

Immediately, some players were eager to try, preparing to come forward and see if they could scam any missions.

Yan Yunqing took the players’ reactions into his eyes. There was a reason why he would use [Nolan]’s account instead of directly doing faction war missions with [Rian].

The rewards for those basic faction war missions were indeed generous enough, but for a level 75 NPC like him, they were a bit lacking. Moreover, the missions were more complicated, and the effort and reward were not proportional.

So Yan Yunqing decided not to do these missions first, but to use [Nolan]’s account to test his guess—whether he could get experience if the missions he issued were accepted and completed by the players.

What place was the easiest to scam players in return? It was only the main cities of the two factions.

Before the players could rush up to scam this mysterious mage, they heard the mysterious mage speak, seemingly troubled, “I heard that a war is about to break out here? I don’t know if I can make a lot of money here… But the people here don’t know me. Maybe I need to think of a way to make them trust me, an honest merchant.”

Before the players could react, a limited-time regional mission popped up in front of them.

[The Troubles of a Traveling Merchant]

Description: On the streets of a border town, a dusty traveling merchant is busy sorting out his goods. He has just heard that a war is about to break out here, and his goods—from weapons and armor to various daily necessities—are urgently needed supplies on the battlefield. However, the traveling merchant is new here, and he is worried that his goods will not be sold in time. So he found you, hoping that you can help him promote his goods and attract more customers to buy them.

Mission Objective: Help the traveling merchant promote his goods, attract customers to buy them, and ensure that he can sell enough goods and earn enough gold coins before the war breaks out.

Mission Reward: It will be issued according to the degree of completion. (Including but not limited to: experience, favorability, gold coins, etc.)

And the mysterious mage, who was just saying that he needed to think of a way to make the people here believe that he was an honest merchant, just set up a stall on the roadside and sat down.

He didn’t have the slightest intention of promoting his goods.

However, the players were surprised by the newly popped-up mission. After asking around, they found that everyone nearby had received this mission. This was the first time they had received a regional mission.

However, a player from the Romunike newbie village recognized the mysterious merchant at a glance and exclaimed, “Why did this merchant run to Lorius City? I thought he was a limited-time adventure NPC!”

“What? Do you know this NPC?” Someone immediately asked.

“I know him. I saw him in the newbie village before. It is said that he is a traveling merchant who wanders around. At that time, he also issued a regional mission in the newbie village. After completing it, he opened a merchandise column. If you have high favorability with him, you can also open a skill column and learn skills from him. There are many advanced magic skills, but he is too much of a merchant!”

“However, this NPC only stayed in our newbie village for a few days, and then disappeared. Some people on the forum speculated that he is an adventure-type NPC, the kind that randomly refreshes its location.”

“Damn, why doesn’t our newbie village have this NPC?”

“Who knows?”

“By the way, this mission, promoting his goods… Promoting them to whom? NPCs? Or players? If I go up and buy two things from him now, does that count as completing the promotion mission?”

The players whispered to each other. Yan Yunqing sat as steady as Mount Tai, pretending that he couldn’t hear the players’ conversations at all, waiting for the first sucker to come up.

Sure enough, a player quickly came forward: “Traveling merchant, can I see what you are selling? I was recommended by someone.”

Yan Yunqing raised his head and looked at the player. The stealth effect of the hood allowed him to raise his head and face the player directly, but the player could not break through the shadow covered by the hood to see the face under his hood.

“Of course, you were recommended by my old customers, right? You can choose whatever you want.”

As he said that, Yan Yunqing threw the prepared things into the transaction bar, putting them all on the shelves. Considering the upcoming faction war, Yan Yunqing put on a lot of weapons, life-saving props, and some junk he had drawn from the blind boxes.

He also successfully judged the other party’s promotion mission as completed.

He gave the other party 1,000 experience points. He stared at his own experience bar, and sure enough, the tail number automatically increased by 100 experience points after the player completed the mission.

As expected, he also had an experience reward after the player completed the mission he issued.

It was just that the proportion of the experience reward was not much, only 10% of the experience he issued, but Yan Yunqing was very excited.

Although this 10% looked a little small, the missions he issued were issued by himself. Wasn’t it up to him to decide how much experience to reward? What’s more, he could issue missions to more than one player at a time. He could issue several regional missions.

Like this promotion of goods, only 100 points were earned for one player to complete, but what if a hundred, a thousand, or ten thousand players all came to complete this mission?

It was simply painless leveling!

This was the correct way to use the golden finger.

Yan Yunqing was in a good mood. He conveniently increased a little favorability to the player in front of him and opened his skill column to the other party.

The player, who was originally very tempted by the goods in the merchandise column and was struggling whether to buy a few more, saw the more luxurious skill list and the dazzling prices behind it.

Player: Damn it, who can bear not spending money here?

With tears in his eyes, he spent the last gold coin with the merchant. The merchant smiled and handed over the goods, and then generously reissued the new stage mission rewards for his promotion mission.

[You have successfully promoted the goods [XX Potion] for the traveling merchant…, the traveling merchant thinks you are very promising, and your favorability has increased.]

[You have gained experience x5000, gold coins…]

Although the money reward he received was only one percent of what he spent, he could gain a lot of experience points for every item he sold. It turned out to be quite cost-effective?

Player: Huh? Does this count as a commission?

Wait, if he brought other players or other NPCs to buy things here, could he get more commissions?

…Did he seem to find the correct way to open this mission?!

The player looked at the still-in-progress mission and his whole body was ignited.

Yan Yunqing smiled kindly as players squeezed to his side, paying a lot of money to buy the junk he had long wanted to clear out of his backpack, and also provided him with a lot of experience points. In just one hour, his level was about to approach level 76!

The speed of upgrading by killing monsters over the level wasn’t as fast as selling things here!

This was the correct way to open the mission system!