Chapter 10: The Formation of a Brick-Moving Team is Promising
Chapter 10: The Formation of a Brick-Moving Team is Promising
Zhou Nan already knew about the so-called "unexpected gain"—it was just a bottle of [Small Glimmer Potion] that could restore 20 health points.
Here's a little trick: if you give both the left and right hands of the Murloc Scimitar to Captain Kakar the Lame, you'll get five gold coins. However, the drop rate for the right hand sword is much lower than the left. It's quite normal to not get the right hand sword even after killing mutated Murlocs more than ten times.
Zhou Nan wasn't expecting to earn gold coins by farming these mutated little fishmen; he was just playing around!
They just casually played around, not even bothering to use their dual blades on the Murloc.
"Once we have more of the Hero's minions, we can bring them to the jungle to build towers and farm these monsters, and we'll be able to take off!"
Zhou Nan pondered silently, finding the [Hero Card] increasingly useful.
Time passed, and before they knew it, the last wave of murlocs spawned. Zhou Nan returned to the village square and saw the murloc leader Sharion locked in a fierce battle with Panda Panda, while the hero Solo was throwing his axe with great enthusiasm.
"-30"
"-30"
"-15"
"-30"
"-30"
"-30! Crushing attack..."
Dense, bright red damage numbers kept popping up above Sharion's head, and his health bar plummeted. In less than a minute, the murloc leader collapsed backward, without even being able to use his second Sweep of the Eight Directions.
Zhou Nan had never seen such a fragile old shark.
"They're practically made of paper! Sorry, my cards are a bit too strong!"
Zhou Nan was feeling quite pleased with himself when a system notification sounded, teleporting him back to the mission hall of his secret camp. There were four treasure chests in front of him: a Level 1 Experience Chest, a Level 1 Material Chest, Blair's Gift Chest, and an Achievement Chest!
"Killing more than 10,000 Murlocs will indeed unlock an achievement chest."
Full of anticipation, Zhou Nan first opened the achievement treasure chest, which contained a scroll, a fist-sized shiny diamond, and a card.
The scroll is the [Guardian of Casanar N1 Single-Pass Certificate], a bound item. After obtaining it, it automatically increases your game points by 30. It can also be hung on the wall of the Secret Camp mission hall as a decoration.
The diamonds in the treasure chests are not materials, but game items that are even more valuable than game points. They can be used to upgrade buildings in the secret camp.
"This diamond is obviously a solo completion reward, and I should get one for soloing N2 too... Once I collect ten diamonds, I can upgrade the Card Goddess Statue. I have the Black Card Synthesis Talent, so I don't lack powerful cards. I'll save my game points for now and wait until the Card Goddess Statue is upgraded to have a chance to draw high-level cards before drawing cards... Now, it's time to decide my fate!"
Zhou Nan took the card out of the achievement treasure chest, but didn't look at it at first. He took a deep breath and silently prayed before looking at it.
That's a one-star white card, [Heroic Village Guard Brody].
"Hahaha, it's done! As expected of the valiant village guard! Looks like there's hope of forming a brick-moving team!"
Zhou Nan was overjoyed.
Regular players can only have one [Heroic Village Guard Card]. Zhou Nan combined the [Heroic Village Guard Card] into a [Heroic Bear Card]. Now that he can obtain it again, it means he can farm [Heroic Village Guard Cards] and then use them to continuously combine [Heroic Bear Cards] or similar black cards!
In this way, he won't lack farming and lumberjack work in the [Guardian of Kassanar] dungeon, making it easier to clear the dungeon.
This is an advantage that other players cannot have.
Zhou Nan didn't really care about the lumbering task, but the brick-moving task was the key to clearing the [Guardian of Casanar] level. The N1 difficulty required moving 200 bricks, the N2 difficulty required moving 400 bricks, the N3 difficulty required moving 800 bricks, the N4 difficulty required moving 1600 bricks, and the highest difficulty, N5, required moving 3200 bricks!
The higher the difficulty of a dungeon, the more players who farm resources will be needed.
"I'm quite experienced at moving bricks. It takes me about 25 to 30 minutes to move 200 bricks, which averages out to six or seven bricks per minute. If I were to try to move 3200 bricks on N5 difficulty, it would take forever..."
Zhou Nan thought about it more and more and felt that he should accumulate a large number of Hero Cards.
He then opened the experience chest and gained 56 experience points. A golden light flashed around him, and he leveled up.
"Ding! Your level has increased to LV2, skill point +1, maximum health +100, maximum mana +100, and status fully restored!"
Having gained a new skill point, Zhou Nan wasn't in a hurry to use it. He opened other treasure chests and obtained six more low-level materials, 39 gold coins, and an unidentified white card.
After using the Appraisal skill to identify the white card, Zhou Nan obtained a [Long-tongued Frog - Jumping].
"What a piece of junk card! If you combine this card with the [Heroic Village Guard Card], what will you get? A Heroic Frog?"
Zhou Nan shook his head. The Long-tongued Frog was a notoriously bad summon, and he was reluctant to use the Heroic Village Guard to synthesize it. He felt it would be better to synthesize a Heroic Bear instead.
"Let's check the trading post. I have 81 gold coins now; maybe I can buy a Wilderness Black Bear card!"
Zhou Nan then left the mission hall and went to the trading post.
The trading house is essentially a large online shopping platform, equipped with huge monitors, and divided into two sections: auction hall and free market, making it very convenient to operate.
Currently, over 90% of the items in the trading market are materials, and there aren't many card items. Of those card items, 90% are unidentified cards.
This is mainly due to the card binding mechanism.
Generally speaking, cards obtained from the Card Goddess Statue and cards as quest rewards are bound upon acquisition. The same applies to many cards dropped by wild monsters. Unidentified cards can be traded freely, but once identified, they become bound and can no longer be listed on the auction house.
Therefore, although there are countless players in the card game world now, Zhou Nan felt that he might not be able to buy the Wild Black Bear card in the trading house.
Fortunately, the trading platform has a search function.
Zhou Nan first searched for "Wild Black Bear Card" in the free market section.
In a flash, three product listings popped up in the trading window, already arranged from lowest to highest price.
"One-star field black bear, fixed price: 100 gold!"
"Ten Wild Black Bear cards bundled together, only 666!"
"One-star Wild Black Bear, 99999 gold..."
Zhou Nan immediately locked onto the second item: ten Wild Black Bear cards for a total price of 666 gold, averaging only 66.6 gold per card. That's a very reasonable price.
However, Zhou Nan still didn't have enough money.
He frowned, clicked on the product information, and found that the player selling these ten Wild Black Bear cards had the nickname "King of the Cave." He then tried sending the player a message: "Boss, can you sell the Black Bear cards individually?"
To my surprise, the other party replied instantly: "Okay, 100 gold per card!"
"How about a discount?"
"99 Gold, lowest price online!"
"Couldn't it be any lower!"
"98 gold!"
"..."
"To buy or not to buy?"
"How about 70 gold coins per card?"
"5 for 350 gold, take it!"
"..."
"To buy or not to buy?"
"Where did the boss get so many Black Bear cards?"
"Trade secret!"
"Is it possible to get more Field Black Bear cards?"
"able!"
"Let's add each other as friends first, I'll buy from you when I have the money!"
"OK……"
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