Game of the World Tree

Chapter 157 Crypt Spider

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

Some people are happy and some people are unhappy.

While not used to it, some players even shouted on the official website to retire.

Of course... in the end it's just talk.

Although the improved favorability and reputation evaluations are harsh, in general this system gives players more bonuses than penalties.

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

The value of NPC favorability is from -100 to +100, and Li Mu is the only one who has contacted with NPC favorability above 40.

The reputation rating is on a scale of 0 to 100. Among the 1,200 players, Li Mu is the only one who can achieve a full score.

Li Mu is an example. In fact, there are very few players who have an overall evaluation of 30 points.

So... for most players, everyone's starting point is still the same, at least there won't be too much gap between most people.

However, those players with higher prestige did enjoy higher bonuses and promoted faster.

Therefore, how to improve the NPC's goodwill towards you and how to improve your reputation has also become the direction of players' efforts.

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

The game system will periodically evaluate the player's overall reputation and come up with an average score.

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

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

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

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

The lowest is 0, cold.

This discovery is a relief for those players who are not used to brushing goodwill.

At least... as long as they don't act like demons, they can still enjoy the average reputation rating of the players.

This means that even if there are players who enjoy higher bonuses, they will not be too far behind as an average.

Of course, those who die are really miserable.

Not only is it bad luck, but also enjoys the eyes of other players.

After all... no one likes to be held back.

Humans are highly adaptable creatures.

Players, on the other hand, are more receptive.

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

And those high scorers have also become the targets of the major guilds.

The mere benefit of drawing equipment with rare special effects with a high probability is enough to make most players boil.

While players are getting used to the prestige comprehensive rating, Eve also issued a new main quest.

Different from the previous single quest, this time there are three main quests, namely [Developing Forces], [Exploring Rivendell] and [Exploring the Underground World].

And each main line contains many branch lines at the same time, and some branch lines are also fixed in the form of daily tasks, which can be obtained every day.

Players can repeat different tasks according to their needs and preferences.

The main task of [Development of Forces] includes sub-tasks such as [crop planting], [livestock breeding], [resource collection], [main city construction], many of which are daily tasks...

And the daily task of building the city of heaven has always been included in the branch line of [Main City Construction].

In response to the many additional mainline daily tasks, Eve also selected some indigenous elves as new daily task NPCs as appropriate, and asked them to be responsible for the distribution of tasks.

And the NPC of [Livestock Farming] is the Black Dragon Merrell.

Although the forest of elves is rich in products, it can't bear that players can eat too much.

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

After knowing the goal of this mission, Xiao Heilong's eyes lit up, and he was instantly excited.

It swears to Eve, touching his conscience, that it will definitely make players do it well.

Hmm... As long as it's done, it can occasionally slap its teeth.

The emergence of the [Development of Forces] series of quests immediately aroused the interest of many life-related players who don't like fighting and killing.

At the same time, because the tasks in this series are very safe, it has also become the first choice for lower-level players.

In the branch line of this main quest, many quests involve developmental gameplay, which is what these players love.

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

Especially the "Mengmeng Committee" with the majority of life players.

After completing the task of the human caravan, Xiao Xianmiao obtained some seeds of suspected crops, and some interested Druid players took them and started cultivation and cultivation.

There are also some players who began to go to various places in the forest of elves with the assistance of the black dragon Merrell, looking for the cubs of beasts, especially those who grow fast, have a lot of meat, and are easy to support... They plan to explore the breeding industry.

Etc., etc……

The main line of [Development Forces] attracts players of the life department, while [Explore Rivendell] and [Explore the Underworld] attract players who love adventure and combat.

This part of the players has the largest number of 1200 players.

They took over the tasks one after another and started their own adventures.

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

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

Because there are no daily quests in the branch lines of these two main quests, Eve does not arrange NPCs for these quests, but relies on the game system to receive them directly.

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

With the exploration of players, Rivendell and the underground world gradually unraveled the mysterious corner.

First up is Rivendell.

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

Sadly, though, Rivendell seems to have experienced human scavenging.

As players explore, they find that there are not many useful things they can find.

At least... the places that can be explored on the surface are almost hollowed out.

However, as players explored further, they gradually found new ground.

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

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

When exploring, players were delighted to find that these areas were not looted by humans.

As they explored, they found a lot of discarded equipment, which were buried in the depths of the ruins. Players guessed that it was probably because almost all of them were damaged, so they were not taken away by human adventurers.

In addition, players gradually discovered more elf crafts, and even some ancient forging equipment, tools, etc...

Although most of them were damaged after a thousand years, some of them seemed to be in good condition and were all shipped back by the players.

Use what you can use, and sacrifice what you can't use to the goddess to recover the contribution.

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

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

But in fact, there is only one monster that players encounter——

spider.

This is a spider covered with pitch-black armor, its shell is very tough, like metal, and its legs are covered with needle-like hair.

They are of different sizes, the smallest are the size of a washbasin, and their strength is similar to that of goblins.

And the big ones are almost adults, and they have ferocious sickle-like teeth, and their strength even reaches the black iron level.

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

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

They feed on other weak underground creatures or ores, and the entire skeleton is mineralized and extremely strong.

Unlike goblins, goblins are barely half intelligent creatures, but these spiders are complete monsters.

Aside from their hard shells, they act on instinct.

However, because of the hard shells, players encountered a lot of difficulties when cleaning them.

Ordinary physical attacks are almost ineffective against them.

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

Then, players find a good way to eliminate them.

That is to lead them into the cave that has been dug in advance, and then throw a light to make them temporarily lose their mobility, and then throw fireballs frantically after the player jumps out of the cave.

burn them.

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

And for those large spiders, there is no way.

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

In addition, they can drive the little spiders to charge...

A large spider usually attracts more than ten small spiders.

When encountering them, unless there are a large number of players, they can only run...

And as players continue to explore Rivendell, they encounter more and more spiders.

This makes players have to wonder if it is because of the existence of crypt spiders that humans have not explored in depth.

However, this still did not dampen their enthusiasm.

Because killing spiders will also get you 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 underworld.

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 problem...

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

All attacks are ineffective against the opponent, even if it is a fireball technique, it only leaves a few traces on its carapace...

However, it has wind-like speed and powerful attack power, and can easily catch up and kill heavily armed players.

Even the team of Bento was wiped out by it when they attacked...

Players speculate that this spider that guards the door is likely to have the strength of silver!

Not only that, this giant crypt spider has three large spider subordinates, as well as hundreds of small spiders...

Players are not their opponents at all.

"It seems that we can only ask the black dragon Merrill to take action."

In the end, the players had to put their minds on the little black dragon.

However, when they found the black dragon who took a group of players everywhere in the forest of elves to find the beast's lair to rob the cubs, the little black dragon refused...

"Crypt spider? How many meters?"

Merrell's face changed.

"Don't go! Don't go! I'm not going! I'm going to kill you all!"

It shook its head and flew away.

The always arrogant black dragon... actually cowardly.

Only a group of players stared at them with big eyes.

That big guy in the ground... is even afraid of the black dragon?

Shouldn't it?

I don't think it's as powerful as the two fool dragons...

However, the little black dragon is unwilling, and the players have 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 in depth.

And Bento also led his team, no longer going to the cave, but going deep into the remains of the elves.