The Queen of Scrolls never admits defeat

As the Dreamers felt pressured by Moran's presence, the adventurers of Emerald Wood Village gradually heard about her deeds.

There is no online communication in the dream world, making it inconvenient for adventurers to contact each other.

Back in the real world, adventurers flocked to the Emerald Village section of the Forest Island Floating Island forum on the Dream Forum.

Soon, a post titled "The Scroll King Adventurer Appears in Greenwood Village, Is It a Hidden Quest or Something Else?" became a trending topic.

[Tiger That Can't Fly High: Family, does anyone understand?! Today I went to the village to turn in a quest and saw an adventurer teaching Dreamers how to transform animals! My pupils were practically dizzy from shock!]

[The little girl who loves planting flowers: Is she that weirdo who used to always hang out in Grenfell's class? My good friend Mengmin hasn't left the flowerbed for months because of her; apparently, she's been traumatized by her.]

[Professional Information Broker: I bribed Old Groot with 500 Dream Copper Coins. Although he didn't tell me the adventurer's identity, he said that the person had bought a large number of skill books from him, not only for the Beast Speaker class but also for the Forest Ranger class. Do you think she bought so many for her own use?]

[I don't want to be a forest ranger: Probably. I heard from the beast-speaker uncle who often gives me quests that she's mastered all the animal transformations in the village, and she's even better at them than the Dreamers.]

[The Spirit-Transformation Clan Prince: The Dreamers have been mocking our adventurers' shapeshifting abilities for ages. What kind of skill book has such a good shapeshifting effect? ​​I've bought those overpriced skill books from Groot before, but none of them have that effect. I bet she's gotten some hidden quest!]

[Professional Information Broker: I know this. Contact me privately if you want the information; it only costs one Dream Coin as a fee.]

[Veteran Adventurer: That can't be real! Even if she has a better transformation skill book, there are at least a hundred different animal transformations in Emerald Wood Village. I've been exploring the Dream World for decades, and I've never heard of anyone getting so many skill points! Skills are always about quality, not quantity, especially in the beginner area.]

[Team Cat Captain: It's true! Breaking news! She's recently become quite famous among the forest rangers. It's said she's mastered many plant transformation techniques and may have already become a forest ranger.]

[Theoretical scholar: The original job skills will disappear after changing jobs. Even for the title of "All-Round Explorer," there's no need to learn so many low-level skills after changing jobs! Unless she finds a way to simultaneously work as a Beast Speaker and a Forest Ranger, and learn shapeshifting skills without being limited by skill points.]

[Hidden Quest Hunter: Hidden quest! Definitely a hidden quest! Does anyone know where she is? Please give me her coordinates!]

……

The post was receiving dozens of replies per minute, and soon several related topics emerged.

Moran has been completely immersed in improving his plant transformation magic these days. He attends plant transformation classes in the dream world's Emerald Village at night and studies and digests the knowledge in the skill book during the day. He has almost no time to log in to the dream forum and is unaware that he has become the focus of discussion among the adventurers in Emerald Village.

One day, after finishing her course, she gracefully leaped onto the vine-covered corridor outside the Treeheart Inn in her Night Cat form, only to be suddenly blocked by an adventurer.

"Name your price! I want the hidden quest clues you have." The fully armed Spiritwalker crouched down: "Based on my experience, it shouldn't be a one-time hidden quest!"

Moran's cat ears perked up alertly, and her pupils contracted slightly. She stopped and looked up at the unfamiliar adventurer.

A level 25 indicator floated above his head, which was enough for him to leave the beginner area and venture into the exploration area.

Even if he was of a high level, he couldn't possibly have seen through her transformation at a glance.

How did you know I was an adventurer?

Instead of answering his nonsensical question, Moran used his "Speaking Human Language" skill to ask him a question in return.

The Night Cat transformation is one of the animal forms she has mastered most skillfully.

In this state, the adventurer's level and ID will be completely hidden.

With her level of transformation, ordinary detection skills wouldn't even be able to tell if she's a real animal, let alone further distinguish whether she's a dreamer or an adventurer.

Unless the other party has a deeper understanding of feline transformation than her, or possesses some kind of superior detection skill or powerful detection tool.

When Moran was active in Emerald Wood Village, he deliberately maintained his animal form in order to avoid the attention of other adventurers.

Many Dreamers unfamiliar with her often mistake her for a real animal. If she appears in places where real animals wouldn't go, everyone will assume she's a Dreamer in disguise, never suspecting she's an adventurer.

Now that she has slightly altered her animal transformation appearance, even the instructor of the animal transformation class can't tell the difference between her real and fake forms. How did this adventurer figure it out?

There was no energy fluctuation just now, which means he didn't use any detection skills or items. He just recognized her so naturally. Could it be that he, like me, has stepped out of the framework of the skill book and studied the essence of shapeshifting magic in depth? And his specialty happens to be cat shapeshifting?
"I learned about your form and general route of action from information I found on the forum," the adventurer said frankly.

"So you recognize my Nightcat form!" Moran drooped her cat ears in disappointment, her tail listlessly hanging down. She had thought she had met a fellow enthusiast who was also proficient in shapeshifting magic!
Downs straightened his collar and said seriously, "Let me introduce myself. I am Downs, an investigator from the Federal Dream Research Bureau specializing in hidden missions. If you have any clues about hidden missions that you can share, selling them to us would be a very good option."

"A hidden quest?" Moran tilted his cat head in confusion, his pupils slightly contracting. "I was just about to ask you, why were you so sure I received a hidden quest?"

She secretly grumbled to herself that she hadn't even done many regular missions properly in the past year or so; all of them were custom-made by old Groot, let alone hidden missions.

The only task she accomplished through labor was the one to "rectify the academic atmosphere"—and she even requested the reward herself.

Downs seemed quite surprised by her reaction, his eyebrows raised high: "How long has it been since you've been on the Dream Forum? The news that you've mastered hundreds of super-level animal transformation skills and then learned many plant transformation skills has already spread. I think you must have a way to simultaneously hold two main professions, Beast Speaker and Forest Ranger, and acquire a large number of skill points, right? In the newbie zone, besides hidden quests, I can't think of any other possibility." (End of Chapter)