novelODS Chapter 18: Stamina Recovery Ring
Chapter 18: Stamina Recovery Ring
"Lord."
"Complete the mission as quickly as possible: engage, search, take care of it, and then withdraw."
Teleport to Snow Wolf Town.
Lin Chuan then heard a system notification message.
Compared to the easier difficulty of the secret realm.
The map on normal difficulty is larger, and mission markers appear throughout the map.
"In the normal difficulty dungeons, you can directly obtain magic cores by completing the quests."
Lin Chuan's eyes lit up.
Magic cores have a wide range of applications, and currently only secret realms can produce them in large quantities.
It has replaced gold coins as the currency between lords.
After all, gold coins can be produced simply by mining, and their value depreciates very quickly.
Lin Chuan checked the location where he had landed.
This time it's in the handicraft district of Snow Wolf Town.
The map shows that there is a mission in this area.
You need to find a specific quest item to activate it.
"There are plenty of supplies in the handicraft area."
Lin Chuan took out the supply map he had just obtained, which marked the locations of many containers.
Searching these containers will yield the corresponding items.
Previously, when playing solo dungeons, Lin Chuan could simply brute force his way through.
There are not many guards in these places.
However, after entering the ordinary secret realm, Lin Chuan saw that there were patrol guards stationed outside the handicraft area, as well as fixed sentry posts.
To gather supplies, you must first eliminate these guards.
"Arthur".
"Yes, Your Excellency."
"Let's go and test the strength of these guards."
"yes!"
Arthur led his sword-and-shield infantry toward the handicraft district.
This quickly triggered hatred.
"Who goes there!"
"There is an intruder."
"Kill them all!"
The patrol squad rushed up with their weapons.
Configuration of the Snow Wolf Town patrol team.
One shield bearer, two spearmen, one captain, and one archer.
The shield bearers raised their shields to protect the archers.
Two spearmen circled around from the left and right sides.
The commander drew his longsword and stood to one side of the shield bearers.
The archer drew his longbow.
"call out."
Arthur raised his scabbard shield to block.
"They're not easy to deal with."
Captain Snow Wolf said in a gloomy tone.
"Let me show you this."
Suddenly, the shieldman pulled out a short crossbow and attacked Arthur.
"boom."
Arthur activated his Charge skill, knocking the shieldbearer away.
Then, with a thrust of his longsword, he killed the shield-bearer.
The patrol captain shouted.
"Let me have a go at you."
The long sword in his hand thrust forward.
The sword-and-shield infantry behind Arthur raised their shields to block.
Then Arthur stabbed the captain to death with his sword.
An archer and two spearmen roared and charged forward.
He was killed by Arthur and the sword-and-shield infantry.
The whole process was quick, but it was clearly not that easy.
Lin Chuan discovered that the sword and shield infantry had been wounded.
Arthur was also quite exhausted.
"Your Lordship"
"These snow wolf patrol soldiers are quite strong."
Lin Chuan nodded.
"I saw it."
"Alice, heal."
"Yes, Your Excellency."
Viktor, who was behind him, stepped forward to collect the spoils of war.
The shieldman dropped a blue shield and a blue crossbow.
The commander dropped a purple armor and a purple knight's sword.
Long spear infantry and archers drop only white equipment.
Some daily necessities were found in their chest straps and backpacks.
Supplies such as bread, medical bandages, and wolf pelts.
They can all be sold for some money.
Strip these patrolmen naked.
They made use of the local resources to arm their own militia squads, which were far superior to their standard-issue weapons.
Give better equipment to the heroes.
Arthur was assigned the purple armor and the purple sword.
The blue shield was given to his subordinate sword and shield infantry, and the crossbow was given to Victor.
Lin Chuan then led his men deeper into the town.
Having gained experience from the first battle, Lin Chuan roughly knew the strength of the Snow Wolf Guard beyond the normal difficulty level.
It will be easier to fight when we encounter it again later.
A single squad, Arthur led the militia.
The militia will suffer casualties in this process, but the spoils gained will clearly outweigh the losses.
Ten minutes later.
Lin Chuan led his team into the handicraft district and appeared in its core area.
The core area is guarded by three complete squads and an archer squad that occupies a high point.
After inquiring about the details of this battle, Arthur consulted Lin Chuan.
The decision was made to lure the enemy away and eliminate them one by one.
Lure the Snow Wolf Squad out of the core area and eliminate them in the area with concentrated housing.
The time has reached 20 minutes.
The Snow Wolf Squad in the core area of the handicraft industry was completely wiped out.
The remaining five archers were precisely killed by Lin Chuan and Victor's spells.
"There are 15 minutes left to evacuate."
"Arthur".
"quick."
"Take everyone and immediately search the container, pack up everything you can carry."
"Yes, Your Excellency."
Lin Chuan himself ran towards the central tower.
The quest item is displayed there.
After searching through some containers, Lin Chuan found the item to start the quest in a wooden crate on the edge of the tower.
"Ding-dong."
"Start the quest to eliminate the hidden thieves?"
"We need to clear out the handicraft area. There are long-standing thieves there. Killing them will reward you with 100 magic cores."
"catch!"
The purpose of coming here is to make money.
After accepting the task.
A roar erupted from the handicraft district.
Immediately afterwards, a dozen or so thieves wearing leather armor and carrying short daggers appeared.
"Enemy detected."
"Watch out, let me see where they are."
Lin Chuan found Arthur and led the militia to attack.
These thieves' weapons were poisoned, and they carried poisoned crossbow bolts.
Although they were not strong, the militia's combat effectiveness was also low.
Soon, there were a large number of casualties.
After eliminating all the thieves, Lin Chuan's militia was left with only ten men.
Even three of Arthur's sword-and-shield infantrymen died.
"hiss."
"That's 1500 gold."
"Arthur".
"Take the supplies from them."
Search the thief's belongings; each item contains 100 gold coins.
In an instant, they reaped thousands of rewards, and the thief's equipment, poisoned short blade, and poisoned crossbow bolts were all blue-grade items.
These are rare items on the market right now.
The leather armor they were wearing was also of green quality.
If you strip everything down, just selling the equipment would yield a considerable amount of gold coins.
The thief was also carrying some valuable supplies, such as poison and treasure map fragments.
Of course, what pleased Lin Chuan the most was the items on the bandit leader's body.
"Special Unit Summoning Scroll *1".
"Rare arrow tower and trap tower blueprints."
"Rare equipment blueprints, stolen glove crafting blueprints."
Meanwhile, after looting the supplies in the crafting district, it was shown that the value of these supplies was 15 gold coins.
Even after deducting the ordinary resources, the remaining materials are worth as much as 10.
Compared to the easy difficulty, the normal difficulty has far more abundant resources and higher value of materials.
Of course, it's also quite difficult.
Lin Chuan spent nearly forty minutes just in the handicraft area.
There were only about ten minutes left before the evacuation.
"I originally wanted to go to the residential area to complete my job change quest."
"It's too late now."
The evacuation point is an abandoned watchtower outside Snow Wolf Town.
It would take a while just to get there with people.
"We should know when to stop while we're ahead."
"Arthur".
"withdraw!"
They encountered several groups of Snow Wolf Guard soldiers along the way, and after killing them, they acquired a lot of equipment.
Lin Chuan also suffered considerable losses.
Upon entering the evacuation point.
All the militiamen were killed in battle, leaving only Arthur, sword and shield infantry, Victor, and Alice, among other high-level units.
"Ding-dong."
"Congratulations on clearing the Snow Wolf Secret Realm (Normal) difficulty."
"Gained 2000 experience points".
"The items taken out are worth 110 million gold coins."
"First million-person evacuation, achievement reward: 1 purple equipment."
When the final statistics were compiled, the value of the items was also tallied.
However, this figure is not accurate; the value of an item depends on the market.
But in any case, being able to bring out items worth millions is a considerable achievement.
This is why there are corresponding achievement rewards.
"Purple equipment".
"Let's see what it is."
Open the reward package.
"Ding-dong."
"Acquired the stamina recovery ring."