"This is just one thing, so raising prices is not what I thought."

While tidying up the medicine box, she showed a helpless expression, but in reality, her face was filled with the smug expression of a businessman, creating a strong contrast with the innocent and naive little girl around her.

"Originally, it was for my daughter's serious illness that she needed the embryo of a small cannibal plant. As compensation, the first adventurer did indeed take away my family's ancestral 'Sword of Resilience and Refining'. However, for some unknown reason, several more adventurers came to inquire about my daughter's condition."

"In one of the young men's anxious and chaotic words, I finally understood that you came for the sword, but there is only one ancestral sword. Fortunately, my husband is a blacksmith in the town, and he thinks this is a good opportunity. So in his spare time, he will make some extra 'Tough Refining Swords' and leave them at home because for some reason, the adventurers who have come recently always come to my house to ask for swords."

"Fifteen thousand koels, or two 'small cannibal ovules', or other herbs, of course, must have enough value. Recently, due to the increase in adventurers, the herbs have also started to run out, and the town's pharmacy is preparing to raise prices."

"Can you understand what you're saying?"

Yes, I understand now. Auntie, please don't laugh for now. The wrinkles on your face are almost biting.

Wang Shui carefully crossed through the dense forest and followed some faint hunter paths to find the small village of Horuka. Although the sparrow was small and had all its organs, it had hotels, weapon stores, prop stores, grocery stores, and was also within the safe zone.

It seems to be a supply point set up to conquer the dense forest.

When Wang Shui saw the village name, he remembered the information on the strategy website and also had a concept of his own location.

And this proud philistine aunt is the most valuable task trigger in this village. After completing the "Forest's Secret Medicine" task she released, she will receive a rare one handed sword called "Tough Refining Sword", which is a powerful equipment that can be used on the third layer without falling behind.

All of Wang Shui's insights into games are basically derived from browsing forums a few days ago. In the original work, he only remembers the general plot and some famous scenes.

According to the online guide, this should be a fixed semi hidden task that everyone can obtain rare weapons in the early stage, but now it seems that the real magic modified SAO has rationalized the bug of unlimited refreshing ancestral swords.

Wang Shui doesn't care about how games justify themselves, he only cares about the results.

"So, Auntie, how is the quality of the 'Tough Refining Sword' you're selling now? If it's just a regular store item, then I'm not interested."

"Look at what you're saying, weapons are not strong because they are ancient. As long as rare materials are used with high-level forging techniques, the strength of weapons will definitely iterate and increase! Let's take a look, this is my husband's proud work, a good thing that even weapons stores in town cannot buy!"

Speaking, the aunt opened a vertical wooden cabinet, inside which were three single handed swords with the same shape placed horizontally.

These are three weapons with completely different textures from the bronze sword held by aqua regia. The elongated design of the sword tip looks very sharp, and it only starts to change around 20 centimeters

It must be straight, followed by a slender and continuously widening sword body, with a black protective paint on the spine, a relatively narrow blade, and a thick overall sword body, giving it a heavy appearance.

A single handed sword that combines both thrust and slash effects, but its length is a bit too long, almost twice the initial [small sword], but for aqua regia's arm span, it looks pretty good.

Aqua regia points to open attributes: [Resilient Sword] [Range: Short] [Weapon Type: One Handed Direct Sword] [Attack Power: 45-50] [Durability: 100] [Weight: 30] [Equipment Requirements: Level 3] [Maximum Enhancement: 8] [Strength: 5] [Agility: 2] [Weapon Exclusive Skills: None] Good thing. In terms of attack attributes alone, it is more than five times that of the initial weapon. It is not excessive to say that it can be used in the third layer, By comparison, the weapon shops in the town are all made of bronze swords. Did the good materials all be left behind by Aunt's husband?

Perhaps to emphasize individual forging, the attributes of the three swords on the shelf are not completely consistent, and there may be single digit deviations in attack power, durability, and weight. Among the added attributes, one of them has an exaggerated power bonus of "7", which Wang Shui immediately targeted.

"I have taken on the task, but can you book this one first? I can allocate 10% more resources."

"Oh my, doing business still requires honest management. Originally, no one would be given special treatment. If someone completes it first, they can choose in advance. But since I'm so up to the point, I'll help you keep it for now."

The smile on Aunt's face, which Wang Shui had seen on the face of the landlord who encouraged him to work and refuel, remained so heartfelt and friendly.

After going out, aqua regia first went to the armor store to buy body leather armor. The leather armor here is not made of leather or extensively woven armor, but is reinforced with leather pieces on some crucial parts of cotton clothing.

Multi layer tanned leather presents a glossy brown black oil content, and there are also types with embedded metal armor, but that type is much more expensive.

The top bought by Wang Shui is reinforced for the chest, shoulders, and forearms, while the pants only have the calf area, and the thickness of the armor plate varies in different parts. Overall, it is quite flexible, but the weight has increased significantly compared to the previous coarse cloth clothes. In addition, the newly purchased thick soled leather boots require some adaptation before combat.

In terms of defense, it has been greatly improved.

In addition, as a supplement, aqua regia also bought a few extra pieces of black bread and ten packs of salt!

That's all for it. He ran all the way here without any extra monsters, and his money was only enough to buy armor. Fortunately, novice armor is the cheapest.

There is a small river near the village, and Wang Shui can explore directly along the river without paying too much attention to the map. It is also convenient to use water bags to fetch water.

In reality, many people feel like they won't encounter any animals when they step into dense forests. In fact, it's just because the forest area near the city is small, and people tend to startle away animals during daytime activities.

When you delve into a real dense forest and quietly spend some time with it, observe carefully, and you will find that the forest has come to life.

Various forms of snakes, insects, mice, ants, as well as larger apes, foxes, and deer are everywhere, while aqua regia slowly moves through the dense forest and discovers

Added some unique creatures from the game.

A giant beetle worm, a giant wild boar with moss on its back, and a walking giant plant.

Their main body is like a pitcher plant, but the giant pitcher plant, which is two to three meters tall, is a bit terrifying. Below is a pile of root like vines used for movement, and the edges of the bottle mouth are also very unscientific and have been made into animal canine like sharp teeth, making them able to bite with their teeth.

In fact, the attack mode of these monsters relies on the vines they use to help walk, such as poking and whipping, or spitting out corrosive mucus from their mouths. The fruity carnivorous grass will also launch a large-scale poison mist attack, and the poison mist will also summon nearby small carnivorous grass. The task requires "embryo beads" that are only found on flowering carnivorous grass and belong to rare drops.

After finding the target of the mission, Wang Shui stopped to survey the terrain and found that there was not only him nearby, but also the sound and light effects of other players brushing monsters. However, under the cover of the dense forest, he could only see the general direction.

Most of the people who can come here now are liver experts from the first and second echelons, and they probably don't want to share their experience with aqua regia either. Moreover, teaming up in this game does not increase additional drops, and even if it is not a game of life or death, this group of people will definitely not share drops with aqua regia.

Wang Shui knew this deep down, because he was also such a person, and he also preferred to act solo.

In fact, there was a detailed guide on the forums for the monster called Cannibal Grass, after all, there were quite a number of one-handed sword players, and this task was still relatively important.

Stolen from Royal Road, this story should be reported if encountered on Amazon.

According to the guide, the most important two points to deal with this monster is "pay attention to the foot" and "do not lead to the fruit of the man-eating grass".

The ground in the dense forest is very complex, with small rocks and undulating roots covered by fallen leaves and bushes, making it easy for players to trip and fall.

Cannibal Grass with Fruit does not need much explanation, the player's initial blood volume is only more than three hundred, higher level plus equipment bonus will not be more than a thousand, the early stage by its persistent toxin damage and summoning the nearby minions surrounded by surely can not be eaten.

So Wang Shui chose one of the many ways to fight given on the forum, single lead single kill.

First pick an open space, clean up the debris under your feet, and then look for a cannibal grass to lure the monster over by throwing rocks.

Refresh the cannibal grass by continually hitting it until you get a single-digit percent of blooming individuals, and then this monster will have a chance to drop the quest item [Embryo Bead].

Brushing monsters was a feature of MMORPGs that had to be savored.

Wang Shui carefully touched behind an Ogre Grass, felt up a stone on the ground and threw it with force.

It was only four or five meters away, and -1 damage popped up on the head of the large-sized man-eater grass, then immediately turned around and chased after it.

Wang Shui was very depressed as he ran back to the battlefield that he had just packed up, the 1 point of damage from throwing the stone made him think of the second skill bar that was occupied by the [Gathering] skill.

Originally, Wang Shui was planning to learn the [Flying Sword] skill, oh don't get me wrong, the writing Flying Sword is actually a throwing skill.

The [Flying Sword] skill (yes, it's also called Sword Skill) can make the thrown objects fly farther and do more damage, the loss of spirit is also very small (to put the sword skill to concentrate on the spirit), the only limitation is the amount of ammo, the battle needs to be operated to equip a spare thrown object.

In the early stage, you can also throw stones all over the ground to practice, although the damage of throwing stones will not be as high as where, but for the early stage is not bad.

Most importantly, the [Flying Sword] skill, was one of the few, perhaps the only means of long-range attack in this game.

Thoughts ran off for a while, the movement speed of the cannibal grass was much slower than Wang Shui predicted, and he returned to the clearing long in advance, looking at the cannibal grass's swaying form, he always felt, as if he could do something about it.

Watching that chubby body squeeze out of the dense forest, Wang Shui first hand a shot of [Angry Stab], this is a low level sudden advance sword skill of the one-handed sword, compared to the general purpose or [Fine Sword] more commonly used [Linear Attack] damage to be a little higher, of course, the sudden advance distance and speed is quite a bit worse than the [Linear Attack].

"-70" There was no bludgeon, but this hit also knocked out about one-tenth of the opponent's HP, Wang Shui quickly jumped to the side, and the sword blade in his hand swung left and right horizontally and slashed diagonally in the quickest and most energy-saving way.

This was the benefit of hitting monsters with stiff movements, there was no need to think about the breaks in the sword moves, just give the blows quickly and forcefully.

Dozens and dozens of 20 points of damage popped up in large quantities with Wang Shui's circling attacks, and in less than two minutes, the huge Maneater Grass's body lurched and died.

Just over a hundred experience points, a dozen or so kor currencies, and vine material drops, the small pop-up window containing three types of information flashed away, and Wang Shui turned it into an auto-close type.

Good, brush up quickly experience is also good look.

The "spitting" action, which can be called a long-range attack, is particularly obvious at the start, it will first stop its other actions, tighten its bottle-shaped body to build up its strength, and then violently let go and spit it out, so Wang Shui can get away from its front even if he walks slowly.

On the contrary, the speed of the vines into bundles of piercing attack is a lot more dangerous than expected, Wang Shui attacked the speed of the circle is not calibrated, in the vines with a slight tracking effect is locked only when the fast run two steps.

Although it was always a surprise, but seeing that those vines could penetrate a large tree that a single person could barely encircle in one go, Wang Shui estimated that being pierced a little could be dangerous, and the risk hidden by the seemingly good-to-kill man-eater grass was not low.

Wang Shui craned his neck and was ready to go and lure another one, but he stopped just after taking two steps - he turned back to look at the dead cannibal grass.

Hmm? Why haven't you refreshed it, little old brother?

The forums had never seen anyone mention the phenomenon, and Wang Shui had never seen the corpse of the Maneater Grass on the road.

Running back in three or two steps, Wang Shui reached out and touched the man-eating grass, and a small pop-up window appeared, with only one line on it: [Whether or not to use the gathering skill? If you use a gathering tool or collect manually, more items will be dropped! Huh? Wasn't the Gathering skill only able to gather naturally grown materials?

Wang Shui, who was a bit surprised, chose to collect it directly, he didn't know what tools were needed to collect the Man-eating Grass, and the only item on his body that looked like it could be used was his sword, he couldn't afford to consume the durability like this.

The gathering progress bar was fast, and the final drop was a reagent bottle with a corked mouth.

【Nectar of Cannibal Grass】 【Item Type: Material, Consumable】 【Quantity: 500ml*1】 【Description: To be identified】 Unexpected Harvest? The somewhat cloudy yellow-green snot-like liquid inside is called honey?

I'll put up with cannibal grass dropping honey, can you explain to me how you grew this glass reagent bottle?

Wang Shui didn't remember seeing the name of this item, and it didn't seem to be on the list of cannibal grass drops.

He was more concerned about whether this item had any value than tracing its roots, after all, the Gathering skill of picking herbs had value, picking firewood had little value, and he wasn't sure what use he could make of this slime nectar that he had collected from monsters.

Wang Shui directly wrote a letter to Argo, not only expressing his doubts, but incidentally sending along the [Sword of Toughness and Refinement] quest difficulty increase, as well as the news that herbs and potions might increase in price.

Soon the intelligence peddler Argo returned the message, first thanking for the information, then stating that he hadn't never seen this extra drop of cannibal herb, and finally followed up with a paragraph in black bolded text.

"Does Tianshu-chan already have enough skill grids to hang the [Gathering] skill? Unloading skills but it will be more and more expensive, even if the character level rises to full level, the skill grid is probably not enough ah, so generally people will only choose one or two weapon skills, little brother is going to specialize in gathering?"

Looking at this passage Wang Shui almost cried out, he was originally a man who was prepared to accompany Master Tong to fight the world, he didn't expect to be pitched twice by shit talent abilities before he even got out of the novice village.

Not only did the [Gathering] skill take up the grid, making it impossible for other skills to be exercised in advance, but it also had to be booked for a 10,000 kor deletion opportunity.

TMD Before deleting this skill, one must use it to earn more than twenty thousand before doing so!

The cannibal grass that had been collected turned into blue glassy light debris like a normal death, and Wang Shui turned on his monster brushing once more.

During the monster search he finally saw various herbs on the ground and trees as well.

Unlike monsters, herbs in addition to asking whether to collect directly, but also thoughtful to offer the collection of tools needed, but some need a shovel and some need a knife vary, the most painful is a kind of berries ask whether to use the collection tool "hand", nonsense not use your hands still use your feet?

It seems that a moment to go back to the village, even if it takes a little time to go to buy these seemingly inexpensive gadgets, and at the same time ask the body of a variety of herbs, as well as monsters extra drop the value of honey, so that watching the money a little bit of an increase in the money he will not feel tired and exhaustion.

Inexplicably and marvelously, Wang Shui felt that his journey through the game was extraordinarily slow and rich.