After leaving the baron's manor, Su Yu headed toward the Mage Guild on the eastern side of the village.
As he walked, Su Yu recalled the Main Storyline involving the Saintess of Oran City from his past life.
To speak of this Main Storyline, one had to start with the Golden Flower Empire.
The game world of "Evolution" was vast. The human world alone contained three great empires, over a dozen kingdoms, and hundreds of duchies, not to mention the surrounding elves, orcs, goblins, Panda People...
The Golden Flower Empire was one of humanity's three great empires.
At present, this was the first Expansion Pack of "Evolution." The only open regions were the Golden Flower Empire and its affiliated kingdoms and duchies. More regions would be unlocked with later game updates.
The Saintess of Oran City Main Storyline could be called the main storyline of the entire Golden Flower Empire in the first Expansion Pack.
It mainly told the story of a rural girl named Garcia who met the empire's Princess, led the imperial army, and ultimately defeated the northern rebels.
At the time, nearly every player had participated in this main storyline event.
Of course, most players only did insignificant side quests. The lucky few able to participate in the Main Quest were extremely rare.
Su Yu had entered the game too late and missed the first few Expansion Packs. He had only hurriedly skimmed the full account of the event through materials compiled by veteran players.
He remembered that the lore enthusiasts in the game had said that the Saintess of Oran City questline was very similar to the real-life deeds of Joan of Arc.
Both were rural girls who led their nation's armies, and both women represented the will of their countries.
Joan of Arc was known as the Maid of Orléans, while Garcia was eventually granted the title Saintess of Oran City.
Beyond that, Su Yu did not know much.
But being able to participate in the Saintess of Oran City Main Quest was definitely a great stroke of luck!
The rewards from Main Quests were exceptionally generous. Even a player like Su Yu, who had an "infinite gold cheat," coveted them greatly.
Entering the Mage Guild, Su Yu exchanged two Medals of Honor for two Skill Scrolls.
The first was, of course, exchanged for Blink.
As for the second Medal of Honor, after much consideration, Su Yu decided to exchange it for Invisibility.
Invisibility was the most difficult spell to acquire among all the mage's excellent-quality skills. Moreover, Su Yu did not lack damage right now; what he lacked were functional spells like this.
After obtaining the two Skill Scrolls, Su Yu immediately clicked to learn them.
Blink (Excellent): Teleports you 15 meters forward. Stops if there is an obstacle along the route. Removes all stun and immobilization effects. Instant Cast. Cooldown: 15 seconds. Mana cost: 20.
Invisibility (Excellent): Enters the "Invisible" state after casting for 3 seconds, lasting 20 seconds. Attacking or casting while "Invisible" cancels the "Invisible" state. Instant Cast. Cooldown: 5 minutes. Mana cost: 30.
With these two spells, Su Yu's ability to stay alive was greatly enhanced. He no longer had to rely solely on Ice Shield and dodging.
With a grand wave of his hand, Su Yu upgraded both skills to rare quality.
After being upgraded to rare quality, Blink's teleportation distance reached 20 meters, while its cooldown dropped to 12 seconds;
Invisibility's duration increased to 30 seconds, while its cooldown was reduced to 4 minutes.
Moreover, both skills could be manifested in reality. Their uses in the real world were truly limitless!
After learning the two skills, Su Yu glanced at the quest countdown for Annie's Revenge.
There were still 40 minutes and 29 seconds until the arrival of the Star Forger Dragon King.
During those 40 minutes, Su Yu had to make the best possible preparations to deal with this quest.
Su Yu opened a private chat with Snowflake. "Snowflake, if it were you, what would you do for the Annie's Revenge quest?"
While they had been doing the quest at the baron's manor, the curious Snowflake had messaged Su Yu to ask about the follow-up quest for Tears of Goddess Savi.
Su Yu did not hide anything. He told Snowflake about the follow-up quest and everything related to Annie's Revenge.
Su Yu was asking Snowflake now because she had, after all, personally experienced it.
Through talking with Snowflake, Su Yu could at least eliminate one wrong answer.
"Emmm."
After thinking for a long while, Snowflake replied, "I remember there's a cliff beside Wolf King Valley, west of the village. If it were me, I'd stand on that cliff and jump down two or three seconds before the Star Forger Dragon King arrives."
"Using gravity to accelerate, my character could reach a very high speed. Maybe I could evade the guaranteed-death attack with that speed."
"Mm, that makes sense," Su Yu replied.
Su Yu had never considered jumping off a cliff.
But since Snowflake had suggested it, this method definitely would not work.
"What do you think? Are you planning to use my idea?" Snowflake replied excitedly.
Su Yu: "No, I have another way."
Snowflake: "Then what good idea do you have?"
Su Yu: "If you want to know, come to the village chief in 40 minutes. But you'd better keep your distance."
After replying, Su Yu closed the private chat window.
Su Yu's plan was very simple—stand beside the Novice Village chief.
As the most eye-catching "star" of the Novice Village, the old village chief had the most players around him, and NPCs were densely clustered nearby as well.
Furthermore, the village chief held a special position. If Su Yu stood beside him, the Star Forger Dragon King would definitely limit the range of its attack.
As long as the Star Forger Dragon King's attack range was less than 20 meters, Su Yu could easily use Blink to evade it and complete the quest!
"Mm, that's the plan!"
After thinking it through and finding no loopholes, Su Yu decided to do exactly that.
However, before going to the village chief, Su Yu still needed to buy some equipment that increased movement speed to improve his odds of survival.
So Su Yu went to the Warehouse and bought every piece of movement-speed equipment available.
Most equipment that increased movement speed was leather armor:
Shadowmoon Cloak lv1 (Excellent) (Defense 5, Movement Speed +0.4);
Assassin's Pauldrons lv2 (Excellent) (Defense +4, Movement Speed +0.2);
Shadow Boots lv1 (Excellent) (Defense +5, Movement Speed +0.5).
They were all green equipment that only increased movement speed. They were rather useless to ordinary players, but they suited Su Yu perfectly.
After putting on this leather armor, Su Yu transformed into someone who looked more like an assassin-class player.
His movement speed also reached 2.4.
A movement speed of 2.4 meant that he could walk 2.4 meters per second. At a full sprint, he could reach the high speed of 12 meters per second! This already far exceeded the limits of an ordinary human!
Wearing this set of equipment, Su Yu came to the center of the village and stood beside the village chief.
There were still 29 minutes and 12 seconds until the Star Forger Dragon King arrived.
The village chief was a white-bearded old man. At the moment, he was smiling as he handed out quests to players.
He had no idea at all that disaster was about to arrive!
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