Rebirth of the God Hunter Legend

Chapter 62 SSS+
The Kanvida Merchant is the most profitable quest giver in the starting village. Their location is unpredictable, and they randomly teleport once an hour. They often approach players and initiate conversations; if a player utters the trigger phrase, they can obtain a collection quest of a higher quality than any public quest in the starting village.

Although each task has a one-hour time limit, you can accept it repeatedly within an hour if you are fast enough. In addition, the rewards for the Kanvida merchant's tasks are only linked to the player's level, so once you encounter them in a low-level monster area, it's like finding an experience-generating machine. Your leveling speed will increase significantly for a whole hour.

Okay, so this is the best strategy guide for dealing with the Kanvida merchant that players from the previous game generally agreed upon. However... it's wrong.

Reality is cruel. When you follow the crowd and take the same path, you find that endless congestion awaits you; those who go their own way often have a smooth journey.

That's right, the reality is completely contrary to this guide. The Kanvida merchants who appear in low-level monster areas are actually the least profitable. Because in low-level monster areas, they only see you as a manual laborer; conversely, in high-level monster areas, you will be regarded as a brave warrior.

Between a soldier and a laborer, who is more honorable? He thought no one could possibly be wrong.

The fire crackled and popped as the dry wood burned.

Using the bright firelight, the Kanvida merchant who was cooking porridge was the first to spot Ling Chuan and his companions.

"Oh! It's a young warrior from Urwu Village!" He quickly stood up, his dejected expression instantly filled with surprise.

The other three hurriedly came out to greet them, their eyes gleaming with admiration the moment they saw Ling Chuan and his companions. "They really are warriors from Urwu Village! Look at their burly physiques and excellent equipment, you must be the most outstanding warriors in Urwu Village!"

Yi Han and Ling Feixue blushed as the merchants flattered them. Ling Chuan, a seasoned veteran, stepped forward and stood in front of them. Just as he was about to politely speak with the porridge merchant, his gaze swept over the cuff of the outermost merchant. At the opening of the cuff button, a very subtle blue hue was spotted by his dark eyes, oblivious to the night.

"blue?!"

His eyes narrowed almost imperceptibly. Wait, there's more to this than meets the eye!
Ling Chuan quickly overturned his prepared remarks, changed direction, gave the outer merchant a simple gentlemanly bow, and smiled, "Honorable Kanvida merchant, we are hunting monsters and passed by here. We found your campfire and were worried that someone might be in trouble, so we came to check on you. We hope we have not disturbed your dinner."

"..."

Upon hearing Ling Chuan's words and the person he had chosen to speak with, the three merchants went from astonishment to amazement, and then from amazement to respect. The merchant being looked at by Ling Chuan smiled warmly, came up to the three of them, returned Ling Chuan's greeting, and exclaimed, "I never expected that there would be such a polite person as you in such a remote place. I am Arnold, a small caravan leader, and these three are members of my caravan."

"Kelvin."

"Anderson."

"Cook."

As Arnold introduced himself, the other three businessmen then revealed their names.

At this point, all the previously nameless merchant NPCs revealed their identities: in order, they were the caravan captain Arnold, the caravan accountant Kelvin, the caravan logistics manager Anderson, and the cook Cook who was making porridge.

"Ha," Ling Chuan chuckled self-deprecatingly. His life experiences were truly like censoring an article; no matter how many times he checked, he could always find flaws and shortcomings from the previous one. In his past life, he thought he had perfected his strategy for dealing with random merchants, but now he realized there was an even higher level beyond perfection. If it weren't for [Black Eyes] inadvertently ignoring the darkness in his sleeve, who would have noticed that one of the random merchants was actually a seventh-rank merchant captain from the Kanvida Merchant Guild?

How ridiculous! In his past life, he thought that discovering the refresh time limit of the random merchant could be extended five times by verbal stimulation and demonstrating strength was the ultimate strategy, but he didn't even figure out the NPC who actually triggered the quest.

At this moment, he finally understood why the newbie village was called "the place where dreams begin" by the official Divine Revelation team, because it had everything.

Suppressing the shame in his heart, Ling Chuan composed himself and continued, "Thank you for your praise, Captain Arnold. Perhaps it was a bit presumptuous, but when I approached the campfire just now, I noticed that you all seemed very downcast. ...Have you encountered any difficulties?"

Arnold looked at Ling Chuan and sighed, “Warrior Zhili, you are right. We have indeed encountered difficulties. When my caravan passed through Giant Bear Ridge, it was attacked by monsters. Logically speaking, with the strength of the caravan guards, we should not be afraid of those monsters. However, there is a strange force in this world that interferes with our actions. Whenever the caravan guards try to use combat power above level 20, they are forcibly suppressed by this force.”

"After a fierce battle, many monsters were killed or wounded, but the guards also suffered casualties. We were outnumbered by the monsters and could not fight for long, so we had to retreat to a cave to avoid their advance. We originally planned to wait for the number of monsters to decrease before making a breakout, but after two days, the number of monsters outside not only did not decrease, but showed signs of increasing."

"The guard captain knew that if we waited any longer, we would all be trapped in the cave and die. So, at his suggestion, all the guards gathered at one point to break out and safely send the four of us out. We were to head to Urwu Village, the closest village to Giant Bear Ridge, to seek help. However, that invisible force was too strange. Every time we approached the outskirts of the village, we would be forcibly teleported to the outer area. No matter which direction we entered from, the result was the same."

Hearing this, Ling Chuan understood. There were no random merchants in the newbie village. The so-called random refresh was just a forced teleportation set up by the program.

“We know that this force exists, making it impossible to approach the village. So we can only linger on the outskirts. Just when we were at our wits' end, you appeared. Wise warrior, could you please accept my request and help me deliver a letter of distress to the village chief of Urwu Village? If you agree, I will pay you an extremely generous reward!”

[Ding] System notification: You have triggered the hidden quest [Arnold's Rescue Letter] (Quest Difficulty: SSS+). Deliver the rescue letter from the merchant captain [Arnold] to the village chief and guide the helpers to see [Arnold]. Upon completion, you will receive extremely generous rewards.

"..."

Ling Chuan stared intently at the mission difficulty, which involved flowing blood, and a strong sense of suffocation welled up in his heart!
He had seen this bloody scene before...

In the third year since the launch of the game, an incident that baffled most players was posted on the forum: the disappearance of the 94525 newbie village!
No one knows the beginning or the course of the incident, nor has anyone explored the reason for its disappearance. In fact, the post was submerged in the sea of ​​posts within just three days of being posted.

However, he was different. In his previous life, he loved browsing forums. This post aroused his great interest, and it was this interest that made him read through the replies for a long time. One reply in particular still impressed him to this day because it only contained a simple animated screenshot and three words.

The screenshot shows nine characters covered in blood.

Task Difficulty: SSS+
That sentence was only three words: I'm sorry.

He initially thought the image was photoshopped, after all, he had never seen a mission with an SSS+ difficulty level in all the years of Divine Revelation. Now it seems that it was the real thing, and the person who replied was likely the cause of the disappearance of Village 94525.

Therefore, this task must not be accepted!
(End of this chapter)