Online Game: Super Beast Tamer

Chapter 82 Migratory Street
On the way to Vardanis City, Su Ming asked Venus about the origin and usage of the strengthening stone.

Venus told Su Ming that the strengthening stone was the product of the second BOSS on the second floor of the abandoned temple. The market price was about 50 gold coins. If you want to use it, you need to find a blacksmith-type NPC in the city.

Each time you strengthen, you can increase the equipment level once. There is a chance of failure. After failure, the strengthening level will be dropped. If there is no strengthening level, the durability will be lost.

Then Su Ming asked about the guild contract.

Venus was quite surprised to learn that a guild called "The Great" came to Su Ming, so she asked:
"What's the name of the person who invited you?"

"Allow the burial."

"It's actually him. He is a member of the Great Emperor Guild's vanguard team. In previous games, he usually played as a shooter. I didn't expect him to choose the spearman profession this time."

In Destiny, some career settings are different from previous games, so some well-known players will continue to reincarnate after entering the game to find a career that suits them.

It has been nearly two months since the server was launched, and Yunzang is probably the last batch of professional players who are still catching up with the average level of other players.

He first tried the hunter profession, but felt it was not suitable. He then tried the musketeer profession, but it was still not suitable. Finally, he changed to the lancer and shield warrior, and then he felt that the feel was right. He started to catch up with the levels, and happened to meet Su Ming and his men, so he got on the car.

Venus explained to Su Ming the structure of the professional guild. She said:
“The Fruit and Vegetable Killer Guild you encountered before was a group of players who got together to play games out of interest. Although large guilds like the Great Emperor, Dreamland, and Moon Shadow are also made up of idle players, the core members are the team members they trained.

These members help the guild expand its territory in the game and gain popularity to ensure the commercial value of the guild. The investors of the guild will sign contracts with these team members to prevent these high-level players from leaving.

Brother Spore, if you want to join a guild for fun, that's fine, but if you want to become a member of a team, I advise you to think carefully.

Becoming a team member is basically equivalent to becoming a half-public figure. Your privacy can easily be exposed, and there will often be some inexplicable public pressure.

Take your revenge on the 'Fruit and Vegetable Killer' guild for example. You are an idle player now, and this matter basically did not cause any splash on the forum, but if you were a member of a team, it might become a hot event.

Although it was others who interfered with your monster hunting and stole your equipment first, many people who don't like you, seeing that you have become a red name, will not care whether your starting point for doing things is correct. If they don't like you, they will find various angles to blame you, which is commonly known as "cyberbullying."

Even adults may not be able to withstand it. Since you are so young, your psychological endurance must be even worse, so you will be even less able to withstand it.

The money you earn now should be enough for you, and if it weren't for the fame, there's no point in becoming a member of a team."

Su Ming has never experienced cyber violence, nor has he participated in it, so he only has a vague concept of it.

However, he still has a clear concept of fame. After all, textbooks talk more about "being indifferent to fame and fortune" than "cyber violence."

Su Ming replied to Venus:

"Well, I don't need fame, so I won't join the guild."

"No, I don't join a team. As for guilds, if you come across a group you like, you can join it to experience the atmosphere. If you don't like it, you can just quit. There's no penalty."

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Su Ming and Venus were chatting and found the blacksmith shop in the city of Vardanis.

The walls of this blacksmith shop are painted pink, but this is not unique in the city of Vardanis, because their walls and the walls of various shops are basically painted in blocks of various colors, and occasionally there will be exaggerated graffiti.

Pushing open the door, Su Ming asked the NPCs with the prefix "Apprentice" in the blacksmith shop:

"I need to strengthen my equipment, does anyone know how to do it?"

"I can." An apprentice named "Gelder" grabbed the apron around his waist and wiped the sweat off his face. He walked towards Su Ming and asked, "What level of magic equipment?"

"Level 15."

"No problem, give me the magic wand and the strengthening stone."

"Hey, little brother, don't be fooled by Gelder. He doesn't know how to strengthen the equipment. Our master hasn't taught him yet." said another apprentice.

When Gerd heard this, he was so angry that he picked up a piece of ore and threw it at the apprentice's feet, saying:

"It's just a level 15 magic equipment. How difficult is that? I've already learned it from a book!"

Gerd said to Su Ming:

"I need a chance to practice, sir. I can give you money."

After Su Ming heard what the NPCs said, he certainly didn't dare to hand over the equipment to Gelder. After all, he only had one strengthening stone, and if he failed, the durability of the equipment would be reduced. He didn't really need to upgrade his equipment now.

So Su Ming took two steps back and said:

"Excuse me, where is your master?"

"Master is purchasing ore in other cities. Please come back tomorrow." said the NPC who reminded Su Ming.

Su Ming nodded and left the blacksmith shop. Before leaving, he could still hear Gelder complaining to other apprentices. It seemed that he really wanted to seize this opportunity.

"I may have missed a mission. If I had extra strengthening stones, I could help Gelder, but unfortunately I don't." Su Ming thought so and walked through the streets until he came to Huiyou Street.

The city of Vardanis holds a large-scale celebration every year. During the celebration, various interesting wood sculptures will pass through the city and finally return to the starting point from this street, so this street is called the Migratory Street.

Huiyou Street is home to many impoverished painters, musicians, and sculptors. These three characteristics are consistent with the identity of a ranger, so at the beginning, many rangers arrived here to explore missions. In the end, they discovered that these NPCs were just a group of arrogant poor ghosts...

The missions all require players to spend money to buy various things to support their lives, and the rewards are all tiny amounts of experience given by the system. The effort and reward are not proportional.

Over time, few players came to this street.

Su Ming wanted to find Pyle, but he couldn't look at the forum, so the easiest way was to catch an NPC and ask.

Su Ming found a painter who was making money by drawing portraits of ladies on the street, and asked:

"Excuse me, do you know Pyle?"

The painter waved his hand impatiently, signaling Su Ming not to disturb him. Instead, the lady who was sitting on the chair and acting as a model for the painter said:

"I know Pyle. He often goes to the Poole Welfare Home to give drawing lessons to the children. You can go there to find them."

"Excuse me, where is the Poole Welfare Home?"

The lady named Leif pointed behind her and said:

"Go straight ahead and turn left at the first intersection."

"Thank you, beautiful Ms. Life." Su Ming wrote down the NPC's name. Seeing that she was dressed like a noble lady, he took off his fish lantern hat and saluted her, just like in the movies.

Leif smiled softly, and when she saw Su Ming leave, she sat up straight again and asked the painter who was painting for her:
"Sir, I hope I didn't disturb your creation?"

"Of course not." The painter replied with a smile on his face.

"That's good."

(End of this chapter)