Game of the World Tree - Chapter 158

158. Chapter 158: Crypt Spider

The improved favorability system was like a bowl of water thrown into a frying pan, which immediately caused the players to boil.

Some were happy, while others were unhappy.

While they were not used to it, some players even shouted on the official website that they wanted to quit the game.

Of course… in the end, it was just talk.

Although the improved favorability and reputation evaluations are more stringent, overall this system gives players more bonuses than penalties.

In fact, the players who can get huge bonuses under the new favorability system are a minority of the minority.

The value of NPC favorability is -100 to +100, and Li Mu is the only NPC who has a favorability of more than 40.

The reputation evaluation score is from 0 to 100, and Li Mu is the only one who can get a full score among 1,200 players.

Li Mu is an exception. In fact, the overall evaluation of players can reach 30 points, which is very rare.

So… for most players, everyone’s starting point is still similar, at least most people will not have a big gap because of this.

However, those players with higher reputations do enjoy higher bonuses and are promoted faster.

Therefore, how to improve the NPC’s favorability towards them and how to improve their own reputation have also become the direction of players’ efforts.

However, with further exploration, players found that the starting point of everyone’s comprehensive reputation evaluation is not 0.

The game system will regularly evaluate the overall reputation of the players and come up with an average score.

This average score is the starting reputation evaluation of the players, similar to an NPC’s overall impression of the Chosen One.

Even if you do nothing, you can get an average reputation evaluation.

At present, the overall evaluation of players is 5 points, neutral.

On this basis, according to the overall favorability of the player and the NPC, it will be added or subtracted.

The lowest is 0, cold.

This discovery relieved those players who are not used to brushing favorability.

At least… as long as they don’t make trouble, they can still enjoy the average reputation evaluation of the players.

This means that even if some players enjoy higher bonuses, as the average, they will not fall too far behind.

Of course, those who are courting death are really miserable.

Not only are they unlucky, but they also have to enjoy the cold eyes of other players.

After all… no one likes to be a drag.

Humans are highly adaptable creatures.

And players are even more receptive.

After the initial discomfort, players gradually accepted the system of comprehensive reputation rating.

And those with high scores have become the targets of wooing by major guilds.

Just the benefit of having a high probability of drawing rare special effect equipment is enough to make most players excited.

While players are getting used to the comprehensive reputation rating, Eve also issued new main quests.

Unlike the previous single quests, this time there are three main quests, namely [Develop Power], [Explore Rivendell] and [Explore the Underground World].

And under each main line, there are also many branch lines, some of which are fixed in the form of daily tasks and can be picked up every day.

Players can repeatedly accept different tasks according to their needs and preferences.

The main task of [Developing Power] includes branch tasks such as [Crop Planting], [Livestock Farming], [Resource Collection], and [Main City Construction]. Many of them are daily tasks…

and the daily tasks of building the Chosen City have also been included in the branch task of [Main City Construction].

In response to the many additional main daily tasks, Eve also selected some indigenous elves as new daily task NPCs to be responsible for issuing tasks.

The NPC of [Livestock Farming] is the black dragon Myriel.

Although the Elf Forest is rich in products, the players can’t bear it.

Whether for the ecological balance or for the perception of the believers, it is necessary to develop the breeding industry.

After knowing the goal of this task, the little black dragon’s eyes lit up and he was excited instantly.

It swore to Eve that it would let the players do a good job.

Well… as long as it can have a good meal once in a while after the task is completed.

The emergence of the [Developing Power] series of tasks immediately aroused the interest of many life-oriented players who don’t like fighting and killing.

At the same time, because this series of tasks are very safe, it has become the first choice for players with lower levels.

In the branch lines of this main quest, many tasks involve development gameplay, which is exactly what life-oriented players like. For

a time, many players chose to stay in the Elf Forest and devote themselves to the cause of development and construction.

Especially the “Cute Committee” with a large number of life-oriented players.

After completing the human caravan task, Xiao Xianmao obtained some seeds that looked like crops, and some interested druid players took them over and began to cultivate and plant them.

Some other players began to go to various parts of the Elf Forest with the assistance of the black dragon Myriel to look for Warcraft cubs, especially those that grow fast, have a lot of meat, and are easy to feed… They plan to explore the breeding industry.

And so on and so forth…

The main line of [Developing Power] attracted players of the life-oriented system, while [Exploring Rivendell] and [Exploring the Underground World] attracted players who love adventure and fighting.

This part of the players is the largest among the 1,200 people.

They all accepted the tasks and started their own adventures.

Among them, the main line of [Explore Rivendell] can be divided into branches such as [Ancient Book Search] and [Mineral Vein Exploration].

And [Explore the Underground World] has branches such as [Map Drawing] and [Monster Detection].

Because there are no daily tasks in the branches of these two main tasks, Eve did not arrange NPCs for these tasks, but directly relied on the game system to receive them.

Of course, the more important reason is that these tasks involve the expansion of power, and the early expansion is accompanied by risks, so Eve must control it personally.

And with the exploration of players, Rivendell and the underground world have gradually solved a corner of the mystery.

The first is Rivendell.

As the manufacturing capital of the elven civilization thousands of years ago, there should theoretically be a lot of elves left here.

However, it is a pity that Rivendell seems to have been plundered by humans.

When the players explored, they found that there were not many useful things to find.

At least… the places that could be explored on the surface were almost all hollowed out.

However, as the players explored further, they gradually found new places.

Rivendell was built in the valley, and when it was split in half by an unknown force thousands of years ago, part of the city was buried by rocks.

Thousands of years have passed, and this part of the city has long been buried underground.

When exploring, the players were delighted to find that these areas had not been plundered by humans.

As they explored, they found a large number of abandoned equipment, which were buried deep in the ruins. Players speculated that they were not taken away by human adventurers because they were almost all destroyed.

In addition, players gradually discovered more elven crafts, and even some ancient forging equipment and tools…

Although most of them were damaged after a thousand years, some of them looked intact and were all transported back by players.

Use what can be used, and sacrifice what cannot be used to the goddess to recycle contribution points.

In the process of exploration, players finally encountered monsters living here.

Unlike what the players imagined, they thought that Rivendell was connected to the underground world, and there should be many strange underground creatures.

But in fact, there was only one kind of monster that the players encountered –

spiders.

This is a spider covered with black armor plates. The shell is very tough, like metal, and the legs are covered with needle-like fluff.

They are of different sizes. The small ones are the size of a basin and are about the same strength as goblins. The

big ones are almost adults, and have hideous sickle-like teeth. Their strength has even reached the black iron level.

They are entrenched in the depths of Rivendell, and the deeper you go, the more you encounter.

After identification, players learned that this spider is called the crypt spider, an underground creature with dark attributes, with extremely sticky spider silk and sharp fangs, and the larger spiders are also highly poisonous.

They feed on other weak underground creatures or ores, and their entire skeletons are mineralized and extremely strong.

Unlike goblins, goblins are at least half-intelligent creatures, but these spiders are complete monsters.

In addition to their hard shells, their actions are entirely based on instinct.

However, it is precisely because of their hard shells that players encountered a lot of difficulties when cleaning them.

Ordinary physical attacks are almost ineffective against them.

Fortunately, after exploring, players found that these spiders are afraid of light and fire.

Then, players found a good way to eliminate them.

That is to lead them to a cave dug in advance, and then throw a lighting to temporarily make them lose their mobility, and then throw fireballs down crazily after the players jump out of the cave.

Burn them to death.

However, this method can only be used against small spiders.

There is no way to deal with large spiders.

Large spiders are very fast and have stingers. Although they are afraid of light and fire, they have a certain degree of patience and strong vitality.

In addition, they can drive small spiders to charge…

A large spider usually attracts more than ten small spiders.

When encountering them, unless the players are in large numbers, they can only run…

As the players continue to explore Rivendell in depth, they encounter more and more spiders.

This makes the players have to wonder whether the reason why humans have not explored in depth is because of the existence of crypt spiders.

However, this still does not extinguish their enthusiasm.

Because killing spiders will also gain a lot of experience points!

There are experience points and treasures!

Rivendell has completely become a carnival for adventure players.

However, unlike Rivendell, where the exploration mission is in full swing, the exploration of the underground world has encountered setbacks.

Rivendell has a huge cave that connects to the underground world.

This is also the starting point for players to explore the underground world.

As soon as the players entered the cave, they encountered a big trouble…

They encountered a giant spider that was five or six meters wide!

All attacks were ineffective against it, even the fireball spell only left a few marks on its shell…

But it had the speed of wind and strong attack power, and could easily catch up and kill the fully armed players.

Even the lunch team was wiped out by it when they attacked…

The players guessed that this gatekeeper spider might have the strength of silver!

Not only that, this giant crypt spider also has three large spider subordinates, and hundreds of small spiders…

The players are not their opponents at all.

“It seems that we can only ask the black dragon Myriel to help again.”

In the end, the players had to set their sights on the little black dragon.

However, when they found the black dragon who was taking a group of players to the Elf Forest to find monster nests and rob cubs, the little black dragon refused…

“Crypt spider? How many meters big?”

Myriel’s face changed.

“No! No! I won’t go! If you want to die, go ahead!”

It shook its head and flew away.

The always proud black dragon…actually got scared.

Only a group of players were left staring at each other.

The big guy underground…actually was afraid of the black dragon?

It shouldn’t be, right?

It felt that it was not as powerful as the idiot dragon…

However, the little black dragon was unwilling, and the players had no choice.

In the end…they had no choice but to temporarily give up the exploration of the underground world and continue to explore Rivendell.

And Hefan, also led his team, no longer went to the cave, but went deep into the ruins of the elves.

This time, he took the side quest of [Mineral Vein Exploration].

It’s just different from the past, this time…he has a little tail behind him.

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