Chapter 27 The Cruel Truth
[Faith value: 11086 (-100)]
[Daily growth: 108~128]
[Daily consumption: 100]
To upgrade an ordinary-level soul to the black iron level, 100 points of faith power are required.
If his faith value was only three digits before, Luo Yan might even feel a little pain in his body.
But now his strength is no longer what it used to be!
Thanks to the gold coins that exploded from a certain fat mouse, his faith value reserve is quite rich, and even if all 100 players in the server are upgraded to Black Iron, there will be no pressure.
As for himself, he is not in a hurry yet.
The faith points required to upgrade from fine steel to silver are ten times that of upgrade from bronze to fine steel, which is 100,000 points. For him at this stage, this can be said to be an astronomical figure.
Instead of saving until the end of the year of the monkey, it is better to let the capable players improve first.
One more thing, he has just been promoted to fine steel, and there is still a long way to go before reaching the upper limit of the level. There is no need to be so anxious to upgrade his "talent" to silver.
The soul level only affects the upper limit of extraordinary power, but does not affect the strength itself.
…Always hiding in the cave is not an option, we have to find a way to develop some followers.”
I hope Jack can surprise me there.
While Luo Yan was thinking about it, the players in the Demon King's Territory also noticed him one after another.
To be precise, he noticed Sarah behind him.
That childish face and petite body are pitiful, and the gently swinging cat ears on the top of the head make the skull eyes of countless skeleton soldiers glow with hot green light!
What's going on? !
New NPC? !
Seeing that all the players were looking over, Luo Yan no longer wasted time, he cleared his throat and said straight to the point.
"Dear citizens of the necropolis, I want to announce something now! Starting today, the first store in the necropolis will officially open, and only accept payment in Hades coins——"
Before Luo Yan could finish speaking, the entire mine was filled with the sound of creaking bones rubbing against each other.
Love! !!”
“Damn it! I miss you so much!”
“Can I touch my ears? I can wash my hands first!”
Looking at the group of creaking skeletons, the hair on Sarah’s head was already exploding, and she let out a low growl in her throat.
If Luo Yan wasn't standing next to her, she might have been stressed.
"Quiet! Quiet!"
I didn't expect these guys to be so hopeless. Luo Yan, who was covered in black lines, finally used his authority to force the players present to calm down.
Where have the reliable players gone?
Have you all gone to play another game?
His previous words were interrupted in the middle, and Luo Yan didn't know where to start.
"In short, she is a citizen of the Demon King's Territory just like you. I don't want to see my people hurt each other."
"I will keep an eye on this place all the time. If I find someone bullying her, or buying things without paying, or stealing my treasure... I will make him regret coming to this world."
Very good.
Luo Yan felt that his on-the-spot performance was very BOSS-like, and he couldn't help but feel complacent for two seconds.
The only regret is that no player is paying attention to him...
In the corner of the Demon King's territory, several adventurers locked in cages are looking at this from a distance.
Although they could not understand what the demon king said at all, they still clearly felt the difference in treatment.
Chris had an obviously jealous expression on her face, holding on to the stone window with both hands, like a resentful woman.
"Ah...men are all like this. But if you look a little cuter, the treatment will be completely different."
Rexon, who was sitting in the corner with his arms folded, glanced at Chris.
"Are you sure it's just because of this?"
Although he is also a thief, he has the awareness that his skills are inferior to others and he is willing to accept defeat.
Even if he is executed, he has nothing to complain about.
However, what he didn't expect was that Chrissy, who was completely misunderstood, was off guard by this sentence and glared at him fiercely.
"What do you mean?! You want to say that I am unattractive, right? Believe it or not, I will pluck out your eyes, stuff them into your mouth, and force you to eat them!"
Rexon looked at her speechlessly, unable to complain for the moment, so he simply closed his mouth and stopped talking.
It wasn’t just Rexon who shut his mouth, but also Eminem on the side.
This guy didn't say a word from the beginning to the end. He just stared in the direction of the Demon King, with a hint of desire in his fearful eyes, as if he was expecting some reward.
Hindered in the corner as fearfully as ever, the Greyhound held his head in his hands, looking outside and at several teammates.
Crazy...
All crazy!
As the only normal person here, he is not sure how long he can hold on.
For example, don’t eat random things handed to you by players, and how to tell whether a skeleton has given you money or not.
For example, what to do when encountering a problem that cannot be explained, and how to call Yoyo to deal with a skeleton that harasses her, etc.
At this stage, the vast majority of players are poor, and all the money in their pockets combined cannot afford to buy a steel dagger worth 20,000 nether coins. Therefore, Sarah’s work should not be too busy, and she can familiarize herself with the position first.
The next development was just as Luo Yan expected. After seeing the shopping list in the store, many players immediately shouted "black store".
"Holy shit! A one-handed steel sword without enchantment costs 60,000?!"
"How can it be as cheating as Mount Blade 2?!"
"Too dark! Too dark!"
"MMP! I might as well strike the iron myself!"
Looking at the angry skeletons, Sarah had a frightened expression on her face. She looked left and right for Luo Yan's figure, but found that the latter had already escaped.
At this time, she suddenly remembered what Luo Yan said to her when he left. After hesitating for a long time, she finally forced a shy murmur out of her mouth.
"Meow..."
In just a moment, the originally angry skeletons all fell silent.
Looking at the skeletons frozen in place, Sarah blinked in confusion.
Is that word a curse?
However, just when she was thinking this, the skeletons, which had been quiet for less than two seconds, started to boil again!
「嗷嗷嗷！！！」
「再一遍！再来一遍！！！」 「大点声音！我兄弟没听见！」
那喧嚣的咯吱声就像鞭炮，写在一张张脸上的狂热不同以往。
Suddenly, a skeleton soldier took the lead, stood out from the sea of skeletons, and jumped onto the counter of the store.
"Brothers!!! I can't bear it anymore! For the sake of the cat girl, even if I am the Demon King, I will show you a shark——"
Before he could finish his words, a ray of emerald green light hit his Heavenly Spirit Cap.
I saw the transparent ghost escape from the body, and within a moment it floated to the vicinity of the core of the Demon King's territory.
Pig-headed Knight: "Gan! Why is it the Demon King's excommunication again?! No - what the hell did I do?!"
Hu Wan looked at him with a subtle expression.
"Whatever you did was okay, you jumped on the counter and scared the NPC."
Gou Shi had a mean smile on his face.
"Hahahaha! It's you again! Tell me! Why do you appear in every porn crackdown!"
Looking at the remaining time in jail, the pig-headed knight wailed like a pig.
Master Demon King, I don't dare anymore! Let me out!]
It's too embarrassing!
The tauren warrior shook his head, pretending not to recognize this guy, and quietly walked away.
...
The miserable wails echoed in the mines, adding a touch of sadness to the evil and terror of the necropolis.
Although he sympathized with this guy's experience, Luo Yan had no time to talk to him for the time being.
He has more important things to do now.
Through previous tests, he has confirmed that not only players can gain experience by killing monsters, but he, the demon king, can also do so!
And more than that, gaining experience points by spawning monsters is much faster than meditating!
When he was at Demon King Academy, Luo Yan vaguely remembered whether it was Ige or someone who mentioned to him that aside from the extremely high death rate, the front line was actually a good place to improve his strength.
Often after a big battle, the surviving demons can achieve more or less growth.
Especially those demons that massacred a city or a village. Many of them have evolved into quite terrifying beings.
Although the academic explanation is that this is because the survival instinct stimulates the individual's potential, and at the same time, the killing behavior on the battlefield pleases the demon god Bayali, passively triggering the sacrificial ceremony and so on.
However, Lint Isaac's system gives a completely different, cruel and cold explanation-
When an individual with a soul kills another individual with a soul, he can grow!
This is not about faith.
It is a law that exists universally in this world!
Just like gods can absorb the faith of others by killing gods, mortals can also plunder the extraordinary power from mortals!
Even due to the small strength of the individual, the proportion of this plunder is not obvious, and it is not quantified, so that most people are not aware of it at all, or even if they are aware, it will be attributed to other reasons.
For example, in a life-and-death duel, a new understanding of strength is gained, such as the potential to be stimulated by the instinct of survival, etc...
Actually, none of them.
It is purely because one person or monster becomes the experience package of another person or monster.
Luo Yan has reason to believe that since his predecessors as time travelers can discover this truth, there is no reason why Saint Sith and the third-generation demon god, who are locals, cannot discover it... It's just that both parties chose to conceal it tacitly, and hid the naked truth with doctrines and creeds.
The reason why they did this is actually not difficult to guess.
Standing in the position of a lord or knight, instead of killing demons on the battlefield, they actually have lower-risk strategies with strength and authority... such as swinging their swords at the weaker ones inside.
The reverse is true for hell.
Even hell is originally a jungle society where the weak can prey on the strong. If the demons knew that there was such a convenient way to increase their strength, the high-level demons would probably slaughter most of the low-level demons that were attached to them in an instant.
As a result, order will be lost.
From the standpoint of Saint Sith or the Demon God, this is obviously not what they want to see.
So they will use various methods to restrain the chosen ones and the powerful class under them, including but not limited to issuing oracles, setting laws, strengthening divine authority, etc...
And for people or demons who go against their will, they will also cut them off at all costs to serve as a warning.
After all, no matter how powerful a person or demon is, there is always a limit.
What's more, the merging of extraordinary power and extraordinary power itself involves huge losses.
In a sense, Luo Yan can be regarded as taking advantage of this rule.
If the demons in the Demon City used their extraordinary powers unscrupulously, it would be impossible for him as a human to live to be eighteen years old.
Leave aside, he couldn't pass Professor Lilith's level alone.
As for why Linte Isaac leaked this information to himself, it is not difficult to understand.
Because this is indeed the optimal solution for individuals - if you want to quickly pass through a different world, the fastest way is to kill, kill, kill.
Using magic to kill will increase mental power, and using physical attacks to kill will increase strength... The stronger the opponent, the higher the experience value provided. The efficiency of improving strength in this way is far greater than that of exercise and meditation.
Just like farming is not as efficient as fighting to accumulate wealth, the design of the entire experience value system actually implies this.
The reason why the natural disaster system cannot filter out players is probably because that guy is more inclined to let guys who are "against the heavens but not so against the heavens" come in to cause trouble than players who are neutral and lawful or above.
Just like what the "God of Machinery" said at the beginning——
Let this world feel the pain!
He is not kidding.
What he wants to unleash is a real natural disaster!
But having said that, Luo Yan is not a guy who is used to being manipulated by others.
Lint has his own demands, and he also has his own ideas.
Of course, it is too early to say this now.
No matter what thoughts he has, he must improve his strength as soon as possible.
Compared to Thunder City, which is not easy to provoke, the traitors in the maze are obviously easier targets to bully.
That's right.
He is going to start fighting monsters with players!
After leaving the NPC shop to Sarah, Luo Yan went straight to the depths of the mine, using a relatively open cave as his own magic workshop, and hung a "No Entry for Unused Persons" sign at the entrance.
After finishing these things, Luo Yan then gave instructions to Youyou.
"Yuyou, find a few players and ask them to drag the corpses of a few crypt spiders from the warehouse to me. You can decide on the mission reward. I have already left the numerical design ideas to you."
The player named "One Leaf Zhiqiu" got a lot of corpses of cave spiders for him, and now they come in handy.
"Okay, Lord Demon King!"
Youyou responded, quickly assigned the task, and then asked curiously, "Can I ask, please? What do you want the body of the burrowing spider for?"
That thing doesn't taste good no matter how you look at it.
Taking out the potion crucible, silver knife, mortar and hammer from the suitcase, Luo Yan slightly raised the corners of his mouth.
「Nothing.”
“Just making necessary preparations for the next monster spawn.”
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(I put in too much shovel yesterday and fed the tiger. It’s just one chapter today. Do you think I can do two in one? I put it out early and go to bed. T.T)
(End of this chapter)