Give or not to give?
Of course, you have to give it! S-class missions are so rare that even if people were holding lanterns, they wouldn't be able to find them. But with a reward of nearly three million gold coins, if he's not satisfied with what the thief guild offers, he will eventually tear down this guild!
However, Xiao Hua was still not giving up. He glanced at the thief MM's name and asked with a glimmer of hope, "Respected beautiful Lena, now I have no money at all, even for medicine. How can I walk in the wilderness? Can you reduce it a little bit, just a tiny bit?" Afraid that the thief MM would not agree, Xiao Hua emphasized the pronunciation on the words "tiny" when speaking.
"Of course," said the thief mentor Lena, "I also think this task is too inhumane. How can you be asked to pay all your money? I'll reduce it for you as you wish. You don't need to give me 77 silver coins and 88 copper coins. I will help you make up for it. Keep them to buy some medicine. Be careful not to get killed by monsters. Now it's hard to find a promising thief apprentice like you."
"Okay, anyway, this money was stolen, so it's like flushing it down the toilet! Besides, you can't catch a wolf without losing your child! After a moment of hesitation, Xiao Hua handed over the money.
The gold coins on Xiao Hua are just a series of numbers, but in Lena's hands they turn into bags of heavy gold coins. Lena looks at the table full of gold coins and laughs so hard that her eyes disappear behind her eyebrows.
After paying, Xiao Hua eagerly waited for his reward. Lena was not vague either, handing over a medal: "Take it, this is your reward! In the future, the Thief's Guild will be your home. If you have any difficulties, come and talk to me. Of course, it's just a discussion."
System prompt: Congratulations, you have completed the task "Great Mission"!
System prompt: Your level has been upgraded to 21!
System prompt: Your level has been upgraded to 22!
System prompt: You have obtained the thief's profession medal "The Legacy of Thieves", and you have become a novice thief!
The Legacy of Thieves (First Rank Medal):
Physical strength +10
Strength +10
Agility +10
Intelligence +10
Spirit +10
Lucky +1
Attractiveness +1
Effect: Movement speed increases by 5% while in stealth mode, and the success rate of stealing from players increases by 1%, and the success rate of stealing from NPCs increases by 2%.
Is this 3 million worth it? I won't talk about the experience of two levels. As long as you have money, you can get it by bombing. But the attributes of the medal make Xiao Hua very hesitant. The +10 attributes at the bottom can be ignored. He has confidence that he can complete the task and receive a medal with full attributes above +8. The attributes behind are quite good, but they are all 1s and 2s, making it difficult for him to expect the effect produced.
Perhaps it will get better in the future, Xiao Hua comforted himself inwardly. Every ten levels has an advancement task to be done, completing which can improve the attributes and maximum attribute upper limit of the medal. These 3 million are like investing in buying lottery tickets!
"Looking at your expression, it seems that you are not satisfied with my reward," Lena said a little displeased. "How about I give you another one?"
"Haha, thank you Miss Lena for your kindness. No need, I'm satisfied!" The NPC was angry, and there was a 99% chance that something bad would happen. Xiao Hua wouldn't take this risk. A medal worth 3 million won, an armor of dark gold is only worth this price. If he traded back something even worse, he might as well go to the corner and draw circles on the wall.
"By the way, Miss Lena, what's this about a novice thief?" Thinking of another reward that he hadn't seen before, Xiao Hua curiously asked.
"Oh, this is it. When a thief apprentice completes certain tasks and earns enough contributions, they will be promoted to a junior thief. Junior thieves can receive more missions in the union, and the requirements for these missions will be lowered."
Xiao Hua nodded. During the internal testing, players were all eager to level up and explore, so few people would take on quests from guilds because it was well-known that there wouldn't be any high reward quests in the hands of these large NPCs, so no one would bother to do quests. Therefore, Xiao Hua didn't know that there was a system for promotion within the guild based on completing quests.
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When he stepped through this old door, he was still a millionaire, but when he walked out of it, he had become a super poor man. It's hard to find anyone in Snow City who has less money than him. Originally, he planned to learn all the skills after receiving the task, but now that he is a poor man, it's not even worth thinking about. He'll wait for his next chance to get rich.
Fortunately, he had prepared all his equipment and medicines before coming to the thieves' guild, otherwise it would really be too late to regret!
When he reached the warehouse, Xiao Hua put away the lethal poison formula and remaining magic bombs. One skill forced card was enough, and when he was about to put the extra one in the warehouse, Xiao Hua suddenly remembered that if he managed to steal something from the frost dragon but died with it exploding, what would happen? He had only thought of getting the forced skill card, but forgot to ask for a substitute card from Old Fei to protect himself.
Although the chance of dropping is very small, this matter cannot be joked about. The problem is that he is penniless and has no money to buy a substitute card.
After thinking about it, Xiao Hua still sent a message to Old Fei. He might as well auction off the lethal poison recipe if he couldn't use it.
"Mr. Fei replied quickly: The demand for substitute cards is too large, we don't have any in stock here. I guess it's the same elsewhere."
There's nothing we can do about it. Xiao Hua scratched his head and gave up on the idea of using a substitute card. After putting on the slime king's leather armor, Xiao Hua took out "The Real Illusion" and then clicked to learn.
The real illusion (limit): consume one-third of total MP, summon a real illusion (is this an illusion? Perhaps one day you will feel that you are the illusion, and the illusion is you!). This illusion has half the attack power of the true body, cannot accept recovery skills or use any medicines, possesses all the skills of the true body, with self-destruct and illusion as innate skills. The cooldown time is 3 minutes, and it cannot be summoned again until the illusion dies.
Self-Destruction (Low): A cruel human explosion that causes 500 points of damage to all living beings within a three-meter radius.
Illusion (Low): Create an illusion to confuse enemies. This illusion has no attack power and will disappear when attacked, lasting for one minute with a cooldown of two minutes.
Xiao Hua, as he looked at the skill introduction, many evil thoughts came up!
Taking a group of magic bombs out from the warehouse and putting them back in his backpack, Xiao Hua left the city and found a place nearby where there were no people around and more than ten level monsters would spawn.
A false reality!
A shadow appeared out of nowhere, with the same appearance, height, clothing, and equipment as Xiao Hua's character. Even their expressions were identical! Looking at this illusion, Xiao Hua felt like there was a magic mirror in front of him!
How to control this illusion?
When Xiao Hua had this question in his mind, he suddenly felt a slight dizziness in his head. The dizziness lasted for a very short time, as if it was just a momentary lapse of attention. But when Xiao Hua came to his senses, he realized that his perspective had changed, and his consciousness had shifted to the illusion! While the original body stood motionless on the spot!
It's amazing!
Xiao Hua tried to control the limbs of the fake body, and felt that it was exactly the same as controlling his real body, with no difference. The attributes on his body were the same as before, except for a decrease in attack power and the name changing to "Not Stealing Other People's Wives" (fake). Everything else remained the same as his real body. He then checked his backpack, and sure enough, there was a backpack inside, with items that perfectly matched those on his real body!
Can the things in the backpack be used? Xiao Hua took out a magic bomb and threw it at the nearby small monster. With a bang, a red number -300 appeared on the top of the small monster's head!
It really works! How many items are on that real body?
Controlling consciousness to return to its true form, Xiao Hua realized that a magic bomb was missing from his backpack. The items used in illusions are also counted as consumption, which is a normal design. However, if he needs consciousness to control the illusion, he can't split his consciousness into two parts, that's the legendary multitasking supreme skill, and Xiao Hua doesn't have it.
Trying to control illusions without changing consciousness, Xiao Hua soon found a way. As long as he concentrates his mind and gives orders in his head, as long as the orders are not too complex, the illusions can be executed. For example, if you want to use a certain skill, just think of its name, and the same goes for items.
Next, Xiao Hua turned his attention to the skills of splitting and illusion that came with the clone. Xiao Hua first gave the command for an illusion, and then saw a faint darkness, where the phantom image flashed and split in two. At a glance, it seemed as if there were two phantoms. If he was not a skill user, the colors of the phantoms and their clones would be slightly different to him, even he couldn't tell which one was the phantom and which one was the illusion.
For self-destruct skills, Xiao Hua had one thing he needed to confirm.
Walking up to the illusion, Xiao Hu gave the self-destruct order!
There was a loud explosion! Sure enough, it didn't disappoint as a human bomb. Xiao Hua seemed to see blood and flesh flying in his eyes, but the system did not do such cruel and bloody things. There were only some traces of the explosion left on the ground, and nothing disgusting remained. Above Xiao Hua's head floated a red number -500.
Sure enough, it was a indiscriminate attack. In the future, when using self-destruct, be careful not to get yourself involved. The range of three meters is quite large. And the fake death didn't drop anything, which also relieved Xiao Hua. If the fake death would drop things, and his equipment and items were dropped out, he might curse.
After the skill cools down, Xiao Hua summons another illusion and moves his gaze to the last skill he wants to try. The real illusion on the body of the illusion!
Can it be used? If so, that would be too buggy!
Taking a deep breath, Xiao Hua commanded the fake to use skills, the real fake!