Opportunities often came with risks.
Fang Yuan was an extremely cautious person.
He believed in planning before taking action.
When deciding whether something could be done, he did not look at the gains.
He looked at the price he would have to pay.
If the price fell within what he could bear,
then even if the chance of success was only 1%, he would still risk giving it a try.
So after hearing the prompt from the Lord's Mark,
Fang Yuan did not immediately choose to accept the quest.
Instead, he began recalling everything he knew about quests activated by tokens.
"Token-activated quests come in all kinds of forms."
"That also means it's difficult to find any universal rule for judging how rewarding a quest will be."
"However, the difficulty can be roughly inferred from how the token was obtained."
"Lilith obtained the Wolf Tooth Pendant after killing a scout from the Gnoll Tribe."
"And this quest is a plea for help."
"The quest is very likely related to the Gnoll Tribe."
"If that's the case, the quest should be to destroy the Gnoll Tribe."
"Then the danger of completing the quest will come from that Gnoll Tribe."
"Based on this deduction, the quest shouldn't be too difficult."
"I can simply send Lilith along with the Wolf Hunters and Flame Mages to take them down."
"Even if this turns out to be a high-difficulty quest,"
"there's a limit to how strong a lower-level creature like a gnoll can be."
"At worst, Lilith can cast Meteor Fire Rain to clear the field!"
"So in terms of the price I'll pay, at most I'll expose Lilith's forbidden spell."
"Although revealing a trump card ahead of time will make the other lords wary of me, it will also save me a lot of trouble."
"And then there are the rewards!"
"At least one red-quality item or material. If the difficulty is high, I might even obtain a higher-level item or a Building Card."
"I urgently need all of these right now!"
"So, all things considered, the price is within what I can bear."
"And the rewards are exactly what I urgently need!"
"This quest..."
"Accept!!!"
After making up his mind,
Fang Yuan no longer hesitated and decisively accepted the quest.
"Ding! Quest accepted successfully. Please find the quest clue on the token!"
Hearing the prompt,
Fang Yuan looked at the Wolf Tooth Pendant in his hand.
"The quest clue!"
"That should be the Plea for Help."
"It obviously couldn't be on the surface of the Wolf Tooth Pendant."
"So it could only be inside the pendant."
"This wolf fang is hollow!"
Fang Yuan lightly flicked the pendant with his finger.
Sure enough, it produced a faint, muffled sound.
He then felt around the Wolf Tooth Pendant for a while.
Soon, he opened the connection between the chain and the pendant.
As the top of the pendant opened, a thin letter fell out.
Name: Stone Spring Village's Plea
Use: After opening it, you can obtain a quest. You must send someone to complete the quest, after which you will receive the corresponding reward.
Lilith, who was standing beside him, saw this scene.
"Huh!"
"Paper from before the Great Calamity!"
"Judging from its quality, it should be the oiled paper most commonly used by commoners."
"How strange. It actually survived for so long!"
Fang Yuan said,
"It was probably affected by the laws of the Ten Thousand Realms Battlefield."
Then Fang Yuan thought of something and looked at Lilith.
"Lilith!"
"Is it possible that some of your items were also affected by the laws of the Ten Thousand Realms Battlefield"
"and became tokens in this world?"
"And you were a forbidden-spell archmage before."
"Could the tokens you left behind be especially high-end?"
"Do you remember where they are?"
"Can we go find them?"
Hearing this, Lilith fell into deep thought.
Then she slowly nodded.
"It's possible!"
"However, before I died in battle, I was at the final fortress on the continent."
"At that time, I was covered in divine artifacts."
"Especially the Abyssal Demon Staff in my hand. It could summon one hundred Demigod Level abyssal demons and one God-level Abyssal Demon Leader."
"The people fighting beside me were all figures from our civilization, such as Law Gods and Sword Saints!"
"Are you sure you want to go there?"
Fang Yuan sucked in a sharp breath when he heard this.
"Holy crap!"
"Demigod Level abyssal demons!"
"A hundred of them!"
"And a God-level Abyssal Demon Leader!"
"How powerful was Lilith back then?!"
After being shocked for a moment, he immediately shook his head.
"Forget it, forget it."
"That's simply too far beyond my current level."
"But if I get the chance in the future!"
"I'll find the Abyssal Demon Staff for you."
Hearing Fang Yuan's words, Lilith let out a string of giggles, her breasts heaving violently.
"Then I'll thank you in advance, Lord."
At the same time, a prompt sounded beside Fang Yuan's ear.
"Ding! Lilith's favorability toward you has increased. Loyalty +10!"
Fang Yuan's eyes lit up.
"As expected!"
"All women like sweet talk from men."
"I'll say more of it in the future. If her loyalty keeps rising, maybe I can get ahead of schedule~"
At this moment, Lilith asked,
"Lord, hurry and see what it says."
Only then did Fang Yuan suppress the trace of desire that had arisen in him.
Instead, he unfolded the paper and examined the specific quest clue.
As the letter opened, a passage of writing appeared before his eyes.
Great Lord Ron of the Golden Flower Family, Glimu, village chief of Stone Spring Village, sends his greetings.
Three days ago, a terrifying beast appeared outside the village.
As soon as it appeared, it ate ten of our children.
The hunters in our village went out to hunt, but only one returned alive.
The hunter who came back told me that it was a Magic Creature that only a knight could deal with.
Summer planting is about to begin outside the village.
With the monster roaming outside, the villagers dare not go work in the fields.
If we miss this year's summer harvest, our Winter Spring Village will be unable to deliver enough grain to His Majesty.
Therefore, I can only take the liberty of sending my youngest son to ask you for help.
Please send a Guardian Knight of the Golden Flower Family to drive away the terrifying Magic Creature.
Village Chief of Stone Spring Village, XX year of the Glory Era.
Only half of the letter remained. The writing after that was impossible to make out.
However, it was certain that Winter Spring Village was most likely gone.
After the Blue Star Lord appeared in the Gondor Kingdom, he discovered that
all the territories were covered in War Mist.
Inside the mist were nothing but monsters from the Ten Thousand Realms Battlefield.
The Gondor Dynasty had been destroyed an unknown number of years ago.
And Stone Spring Village was now also territory belonging to monsters.
However, none of that mattered.
He only needed to complete the quest.
Judging from the contents of the letter, Fang Yuan could roughly guess what he had to do.
Most likely, he had to eliminate the monster occupying Stone Spring Village.
At this moment, the Lord's Mark brought up a message window.
"Ding! Quest clue found. Proceed to Stone Spring Village and eliminate the monster occupying the village."
"Ding! Map leading to Stone Spring Village discovered."
"Ding! Quest activated. Completion time: seven days."
After a series of prompts,
a marching map appeared on the originally mottled letter paper.
The map's destination was marked in a mountain valley five kilometers from his territory.
That was the target location where he had to complete the quest: Stone Spring Village.
However, that was its former name.
Its current name was Grim Gnoll Tribe!!!
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