The system announcement rang through the night, sending all of Cloudside Town into an uproar!
"Holy shit? A hidden quest? Isn't that worth a fortune?"
"The achievement reward alone is one gold coin-that's ten thousand bucks! The quest rewards have to be good! He probably made tens of thousands!"
"Aaah, I'm so jealous! Why wasn't I the one who found that hidden quest?"
"But even though the developers said every beginner village has a hidden quest, the trigger conditions are incredibly obscure. How did Mo Shou Cheng Gui find it?"
"First golden gear, now a hidden quest! If Mo Shou Cheng Gui isn't cheating, I'll livestream myself eating shit!"
"Mo Shou Cheng Gui is hogging all the opportunities! Bro! Leave the rest of us a chance to survive!"
"Mo Shou Cheng Gui, I sent you a friend request. Why won't you accept? Let's be friends! I'm from Chongyu, a girl studying at Ning'an Technical College. Let me send you my location. Come hang out with me this weekend?"
Lin Mo had made a name for himself.
And he thoroughly enjoyed being envied and admired!
"So this is how good it feels to be one of those big shots I used to look up to!"
With that, Lin Mo began checking his quest rewards.
Tier 2 orange equipment!
A D-rank skill book!
At a time when over 99.99% of players across the server didn't even have a full set of tier 1 white equipment.
The value of tier 2 orange equipment was no different from that of an ultimate divine artifact!
Not to mention, this was a weapon-the most valuable equipment slot of all-
[Brave Golden Bow] (Lv8) Quality: Tier 2 · Orange Attack: 190 Bonus stats: Agility +35, Strength +35 Special effect: Heroism (grants the wielder +30 attack after killing an enemy, lasting 60 seconds and stacking up to three times) Description: A legendary golden bow that only the brave are worthy of wielding...
"Hiss..."
Seeing the weapon's stats, Lin Mo couldn't help sucking in a sharp breath!
"It's only orange quality, but its attack bonus is already almost four times that of the golden-quality Flowing Light Sword I'm holding!"
"Is this the difference between tier 2 and tier 1 equipment?!"
Lin Mo could scarcely imagine what would happen if he kept using Equipment Evolution Points to evolve the Brave Golden Bow to red, then golden quality.
Just how terrifyingly powerful would it become?!!!
Unfortunately...
"Once I evolve it with evolution points, the equipment will become bound. When I stop using it later, I won't even be able to resell it..."
"Letting such an incredible weapon rot in my inventory would be a complete waste!"
Lin Mo sighed softly. "I'll leave it as it is. Orange is already ridiculously strong! Once I replace it with a better weapon, I can sell this to a sucker like Wang Junjie and easily squeeze seventy or eighty thousand bucks out of him!"
Lin Mo was delighted.
After receiving the hidden quest's whopping 20,000 EXP reward, Lin Mo had just reached level 8, meeting the Golden Bow's equipment requirement.
Without another word, he immediately replaced the level 0 tier 1 golden World-Shattering · Flowing Light Sword in his hand with the level 8 tier 2 orange Brave Golden Bow.
He opened his status panel for a look.
Holy crap!
His attack instantly skyrocketed from 193 to a terrifying 382!
And that wasn't even Lin Mo's current limit.
If he stacked the Brave Golden Bow's [Heroism] effect three times, his attack would rise further to 472!
While almost every other player on the server still had only double-digit attack.
Lin Mo's attack was already closing in on the 500 mark!!!
How terrifying!
As for the Flowing Light Sword he had replaced.
It was bound and couldn't be sold, so Lin Mo could only incinerate it with his SSS-rank talent, Soulfire.
[Ding~ You incinerated the level 0 tier 1 · Golden-quality equipment World-Shattering · Flowing Light Sword. Equipment Evolution Points +32 (incinerating previously evolved equipment reduces the evolution points gained by 50%)!]
Although he only recovered half the evolution points, Lin Mo was more than satisfied.
After all, he had effectively spent just 32 evolution points to enjoy a nearly invincible early beginner phase in Oracle World!
Next, Lin Mo turned his attention to the skill book.
[Double Shot] (Archer · D-rank): Description: Use to learn the D-rank skill Double Shot (launches two rapid attacks at a single target, each dealing damage equal to 80% of attack and inflicting a slight knockback effect) Skill cost: 12 MP Cooldown: 13 seconds Level requirement: 10
Lin Mo remembered it perfectly.
In his previous life, he had only just encountered D-rank skills when the real world was devoured, three months after Oracle launched.
Yet in this life, he had obtained a D-rank skill book just three hours after Oracle launched!
Anyone who hadn't experienced it personally could never understand the sense of accomplishment filling Lin Mo's heart!
And both the Golden Bow and Double Shot suited Lin Mo perfectly.
Because Lin Mo planned to change his class to Archer after reaching level 10!
High burst damage!
Ferocious damage output!
In team fights, all he had to do was hide behind the warriors and knights and pew, pew, pew!
Safe and comfortable!
Most importantly, it was the only class in Oracle World that could shoot.
As he looked at the skill book in his hand, a sudden idea struck Lin Mo.
"Soulfire can obtain Equipment Evolution Points by incinerating equipment. By the same logic, could it obtain skill evolution points by incinerating skills?"
Lin Mo carefully examined his talent's description.
And sure enough, he spotted the key detail!
"Equipment incineration is only the talent's first-stage effect!"
"As long as I advance Soulfire to its second stage, I can unlock a second incineration effect!"
Lin Mo was instantly overcome with joy.
Because he knew that none of the skills in Oracle World could be upgraded. Players could only replace their existing low-rank skills after acquiring higher-rank ones.
And if the Soulfire talent really could unlock skill incineration, that meant...
"I'll be able to incinerate E-rank skills that even dogs won't want in the late game, earn tons of evolution points, and evolve top-tier SSS-rank skills!!"
Lin Mo's anticipation instantly soared a hundredfold!
He checked and found that advancing Soulfire to its second stage required 100 reputation.
And after killing two boss monsters in succession and collecting his quest rewards.
Lin Mo now had 97 reputation!
He needed just three more reputation points to find out whether his theory was correct!
The value of the server's only SSS-rank talent continued to rise!
Finally, there was also a title reward-
[Hidden Player] (Title): Quality: White Effect: Quest rewards received by the player +1% Description: A symbol of honor for completing the hidden quest in Cloudside Town, Beginner Village No. 116 on the Great Xia server...
"One percent more quest rewards?"
"Now that's a good thing to have!"
He had earned two titles in a row within just a few hours of Oracle's launch.
For Lin Mo, who had never obtained a single title in his previous life, right up until his death, this was something he hadn't dared to imagine!
Golden Gear War God!
Hidden Player!
Clearly, the former was better for showing off!
So Lin Mo set his displayed title to [Golden Gear War God].
He tossed [Hidden Player] into storage, which didn't stop its title effect from remaining active.
The one and only hidden quest was complete.
For Lin Mo, that meant his journey in the beginner village was nearly over, with only one final step remaining.
And this step was also the most crucial one of all!
It mattered even more than the hidden quest!
That was...
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