Continuous Quests

The Heavenly Tribulation game had been live for over an hour. Although people were still logging in, the number of players within the Novice Village had significantly decreased from the initial overwhelming crowds. Ye Luo had also successfully found the Novice Village Chief and accepted his second quest in the Heavenly Tribulation game:

[Deliver a Message] (Novice Village Quest, Difficulty: F-)

Quest Content: Inform Aunt Li that her son is at Tailor Zhang's shop.

Quest Requirements: Within one hour.

Quest Rewards/Penalties: Successful completion will grant some experience.

Quest Method: 1 Player.

F-, the easiest type of Heavenly Tribulation quest, Ye Luo didn't hesitate. He brought up the Novice Village map, oriented himself, and then "sprinted" directly towards Aunt Li's house. The slow speed made him want to vomit blood.

A few minutes later, Ye Luo finally arrived at Aunt Li's house and saw the anxious Aunt Li. He immediately delivered the message. As Aunt Li thanked him profusely, he heard the system prompt that the quest was complete. A ball of energy descended from the sky and merged into the Battle Soul Crystal in his mind.

"Heh, 10 experience points. No wonder no one wants to do this quest; the experience is too low. Others get that much just by killing a small toad casually, but I wasted several minutes," Ye Luo thought with a wry smile. He then looked at his experience bar: "To level up, I need to complete six more quests like this. My life is truly miserable."

"Ye Luo Zhi Qiu, thank you for telling me where Mao Tou is. However, I'm busy right now and can't leave. Can you bring him back?" Aunt Li asked, looking at Ye Luo with anticipation.

"Follow-up quest!" Ye Luo's heart skipped a beat. He quickly accepted the quest and the quest item, thinking to himself, "They say that consecutive quests offer better rewards than normal quests, and I don't have to run around looking for them. Only a fool wouldn't do it."

With that thought, Ye Luo bid farewell to Aunt Li and immediately headed to Tailor Zhang's shop without delay. After presenting the quest item, he quickly gained Tailor Zhang's trust and successfully began escorting Mao Tou back to Aunt Li's house.

After another few minutes, Ye Luo finally delivered Mao Tou. To his pleasant surprise, this quest was much more rewarding than the first. He received a full 20 energy experience points and 2 points of villager favorability. What surprised him even more was that Aunt Li still had a follow-up quest.

This time, the quest was to retrieve three scythes that Uncle Li had ordered from Blacksmith Sun a few days prior. The difficulty was still F-, a simple errand quest. Ye Luo didn't linger and set off immediately.

He quickly retrieved the scythes from Blacksmith Sun and, while there, received another quest:

[Collect Wolf Fangs] (Novice Village Quest, Difficulty: F+)

Quest Content: Kill Young Demon Wolves in Demon Wolf Valley outside the North Gate of the Novice Village and bring 20 wolf fangs to Blacksmith Sun.

Quest Requirements: Within three days.

Quest Method: No limit.

Quest Rewards/Penalties: Successful completion will grant generous experience and some money. If more than 40 wolf fangs are brought back, there's a chance to obtain an equipment piece crafted by Blacksmith Sun using wolf fangs.

Quest Hint: Young Demon Wolves are level 10 monsters and are quite ferocious. Please be careful.

"Tsk tsk, finally not an F- quest. The rewards are generous experience and some money, that's quite interesting," Ye Luo muttered to himself. However, after reading the quest hint, his brow furrowed: "But Young Demon Wolves are level 10 monsters. With my trash-tier stats, I probably won't have a chance until I reach level 10."

"Sigh, level 10. That's still a long way to go," Ye Luo sighed. During this time, he checked the Novice Village's level rankings and found that some players were already level 8. He lamented again, "Someone's already level 8, and I haven't even reached level 1. Comparing myself to others is infuriating. I shouldn't have accepted that Heavenly Tribulation Trial Mission."

"Oh, right. The Village Chief knows the most in the Novice Village. I should ask him about that trial when I have time. Maybe I'll discover something," he suddenly remembered. Ye Luo decided to find the Village Chief after completing these few quests.

With these thoughts, Ye Luo continued to run towards Aunt Li's house.

On the way, Ye Luo checked the stats of the scythes and immediately felt like crying again.

[Farm Scythe Crafted by Blacksmith Sun] (Quest Item, Cannot be Equipped)

Physical Attack: 10—10

Attack Interval: 3 seconds

A full 10 points of physical attack! The Novice Sword only had 1 attack. Even a farming scythe was better than it. How could this not make Ye Luo want to cry?

Running all the way, Ye Luo finally reached Aunt Li's house. After handing over all the scythes, he received 40 energy experience points, 2 copper coins, and 4 points of Novice Village favorability. A white light flashed, and he finally leveled up to level 1.

After reaching level 1, Ye Luo felt that his Battle Soul Crystal had become more solid and had grown a bit. He also felt a slight increase in strength. After allocating all 5 free attribute points to Strength, his attack power became 9, his defense became 3, and his HP became 120. He was now confident that he wouldn't be bullied by young toads anymore.

With these thoughts, Ye Luo couldn't help but want to find those young toads and vent his frustration. However, he was called back by Aunt Li; she had another quest.

Ye Luo readily agreed, of course.

This time, Aunt Li asked Ye Luo to retrieve a straw hat that she had ordered from Tailor Zhang a few days prior. On the way, he grumbled, "This game is so ridiculous. Why didn't they have me pick up the straw hat when I was getting Mao Tou? This is just wasting my time."

Despite his thoughts, Ye Luo's actions were not slow. He was somewhat looking forward to accepting more follow-up quests.

From accepting Aunt Li's three quests, Ye Luo analyzed that the rewards for consecutive quests were increasing exponentially. He had received 40 energy experience points for retrieving the scythes, which meant he would get 80 experience points for retrieving the straw hat.

Based on his previous experience teaming up to kill young toads, killing one toad individually granted 10 experience points. To get 80 points, he would need to kill 8 young toads, which was quite a lot. More importantly, the experience from future follow-up quests would continue to increase.

With these thoughts, Ye Luo checked the experience required to level up to the next level and was stunned. It took a full 1500 energy experience points to reach level 2.

"Good heavens, 1500 points! Doesn't that mean I have to kill 150 young toads?" The thought of killing so many toads made Ye Luo's head ache. He quickly realized something: "It seems unrealistic to level up by killing monsters of the same level. I need to kill monsters of higher levels. I heard that the Heavenly Tribulation game gives bonus rewards for killing higher-level monsters, which would make leveling up much easier."

"However, monsters must be at least 3 levels higher than the player to get an experience bonus. For me..." Thinking about his trash-tier stats, Ye Luo decisively stopped thinking about killing higher-level monsters.

While contemplating this, Ye Luo arrived at Tailor Zhang's house, easily collected the straw hat, and received a combat quest there, one that he could currently undertake.

[Collect Toad Skin] (Novice Village Quest, Difficulty: F)

Quest Content: Kill young toads at Toad Hill outside the South Gate of the Novice Village and obtain 100 toad skins.

Quest Requirements: Before character level 5.

Quest Method: Single player.

Quest Rewards/Penalties: Successful completion will grant some experience, money, and a novice equipment piece.

Killing young toads was no longer a major difficulty for Ye Luo. He was also happy to kill these monsters to vent his previous frustrations. Moreover, the quest rewards included not only experience and money but also a novice equipment piece, which he desperately needed. After all, if he couldn't rely on his trash stats for higher-level combat, he'd have to rely on equipment.

Thinking about obtaining a novice equipment piece soon, Ye Luo was full of energy and rushed to Aunt Li's house at the fastest speed. He quickly turned in the quest and, as he had predicted, received 80 energy experience points, along with 8 copper coins and 8 points of Novice Village favorability.

Although the 80 energy experience points increased his experience bar somewhat, Ye Luo still had a long way to go to reach level 2. Besides the experience, he also noticed the copper coins and 8 points of Novice Village favorability he had received.

When he actually completed Aunt Li's second quest, he had already gained 2 points of Novice Village favorability. Adding the previous two times, his favorability in Novice Village had reached 14 points, and he also had 10 copper coins.

"I didn't get a quest the first time I went to Tailor Zhang's small shop, but the second time I went, I received a quest to collect toad skins. It seems to be due to the Novice Village favorability," Ye Luo quickly realized this. He thought to himself, "It seems favorability is very helpful for getting quests. I need to accumulate more favorability in the future."

Thinking this, Ye Luo wanted to leave to complete the quest Tailor Zhang had given him, but Aunt Li stopped him again. Her tone was a bit urgent, "Young hero Ye Luo Zhi Qiu, my old man Li accidentally got poisoned by a snake while out. Could I trouble you to bring back a great antidote pill from Doctor Hua? If you can, I'll give you triple the reward!"

"Saving people is my duty, Aunt Li, wait for me." Hearing this, Ye Luo didn't hesitate. After accepting the quest, he immediately sprinted towards Doctor Hua's residence.

About seven or eight minutes later, Ye Luo arrived at Doctor Hua's place. After explaining the situation, Doctor Hua's expression turned grave, and he looked very troubled.

"Doctor Hua, saving a life is urgent. Please give me the antidote pill so I can go back and save him," Ye Luo said. However, seeing Doctor Hua's reaction, he knew things wouldn't be that simple.

"It's not that I don't want to save him, but I'm currently lacking one medicinal ingredient. This old man is old and frail, and I can't go to the Poisonous Swamp outside the West Gate to gather herbs, so..." Doctor Hua looked at Ye Luo, his meaning self-evident.

His eyes lit up, Ye Luo knew there was a quest. He immediately vowed, "Elder Hua, leave this matter to me. I promise to collect the medicinal ingredient for you. Tell me, which ingredient is missing."

"Cassia Seed," Doctor Hua said. However, as if remembering something, he frowned slightly, "It's a shame you haven't learned the herb gathering skill yet, and the Poisonous Swamp is filled with miasma and rampant venomous snakes. Those are monsters of level 20 or higher. With your current strength, going there would just be sending yourself to your death, so..."

"This..." Thinking of his trash stats, Ye Luo also felt troubled.

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