The hidden story quest was a full clear. The entire server was in uproar. With such excitement, it’s naturally impossible for Indulge’s salted fish to not know about it.
Even the few individuals, who weren’t interested in story quests, returned to take a look. Love Escapist and the others didn’t hide from them either and instead sat right inside the garden to split the loot. As such, everyone scooted closer to take a look.
First clear, a perfect completion.
With these two criteria, the basic rewards couldn’t be too terrible. No matter how cursed your hands were, you could still obtain rare materials and gear. It’s just hard to say whether or not you’d be able to receive items for your own class; as such, the very self-aware Captain Jiang did not do it himself.
Fang JingXing lifted the cover and saw a flash of light. The treasure chest vanished, leaving behind a pile of rewards.
A long list popped up in front of everyone’s eyes. The first things that they saw were two divine weapons, both for magic classes. One was a pair of wristbands used by Wardcasters and Puppeteers. The other was a magic staff commonly used by Abysswalkers, Clerics, and such classes.
They didn’t have a Puppeteer in their squad, so the pair of wristbands went straight to Jiang Chen.
Instantly, a message appeared.
[System] Congratulations to the player Total Annihilation for obtaining the Divine Weapon, YingJun.
The players waiting for news from them instantly exploded.
Oh fuck, a divine weapon!
The first divine weapon of the server!
In Wandering Dreams, divine weapons were extremely hard to obtain. Clearing dungeons and killing world bosses were not enough to drop them.
In the past, there were only two methods. One was reaching the highest rank in the Bounty Board or PvP Arena and exchanging points for the Divine Weapons. The other option was to spend money to find a high level blacksmith to make it. However, to become a high level blacksmith was also very hard. Not to mention, the production rate was not 100% so it really depended.
Who would have imagined that divine weapons were included as rewards for the VR hidden story quests.
This meant that even normal players, who had no skills or money, have a new method to obtain divine weapons, which is to play story quests.
[World] Skittles: I’m willing to sacrifice the meat on my stomach so that the basic rewards for the hidden story quests remain unchanged.
[World] Late Night Snow: You’re thinking too much. It’s certain that divine weapons only drop from first clears.
[World] I like Summer: I’m not listening I’m not listening I’m not listening [Crying]
[World] Half Baked: What if we find the Aces and ask for a guide, then immediately switch servers. Can we also get first clear then?
[World] Don’t Stop Drinking: Oh fuck that makes sense!
All the people at the eye of the storm ignored the messages in chat and instead, examined the attributes of the wristbands.
The wristbands were completely black with a complex pattern engraved on it. Usually, the wristbands fastened around the Wardcaster’s wrists, harmless just like its owner. When entering combat, however, it will shoot out a chain that rapidly wraps around its owner’s finger. This is where powerful ward inscriptions are casted.
This divine weapon just happened to be used for an attack build player. Other than the basic attributes, it also has critical strike damage and an increase in casting range.
The casting range especially, increased by 3 meters, which actually seemed a bit overpowered. However this was a max level gear. Players could only use it after reaching max level.
Fang JingXing asked with a smile: “What do you think? Satisfied?”
Jiang Chen nodded, somewhat envious of this guy’s luck.
Next was distributing the other divine weapon.
Physical classes like Warrior, Swordsman, and others didn’t get involved. So they left it to the remaining few to decide.
As a cleric, This Majesty is Most Beautiful, naturally could use it, but she just felt a bit embarrassed.
Usually in a team fight, clerics were an indispensable part of the squad. However, this time, she basically followed the two Aces and completed the quest laying down. She didn’t expend much effort, so taking it made her feel somewhat guilty. She poked the deputy guild leader.
Love Escapist understood his guild member’s feeling very well.
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He said: “Then just roll the dice.”
The so-called roll the dice meant that people participating in the bid took turns throwing a dice. Whoever gets the highest number gets the item.
In the VR version, the roll did not involve a dice, but something like a slot-machine that’s about half a person tall. Grabbing the lever and pulling down, numbers will start spinning on the screen.
Fang JingXing went first. After a casual pull, he heard a ding: 98 points.
Jiang Chen: “……”
The remaining people: “……”
Alright, most likely the suspense is gone.
The highest was 100 points. A certain person stepped forth and immediately started with a 98. Love Escapist and the others could only roll a 99 or 100 to win against him.
None of them had this fate. After a round of rolling, the system automatically determined that the staff would go to Fang JingXing.
[System] Congratulations to the player Abyss for obtaining the divine weapon, LiuTu.
The world chat, which was still buzzing with activity, froze for two seconds and then went crazy immediately afterwards.
One divine weapon was enough to make people green with jealousy. Who would have thought there was another. This reward really made people salivate!
What made people salivate were not just the two divine weapons, but also the two divine level gears.
Fang JingXing was pretty lucky this time. The items that dropped for him were partial towards magic classes. Of the two equipment, one was for physical class, one was for magic class.
Jiang Chen and Fang JingXing had just obtained the divine weapons, so they gave up on bidding for the gears.
After all, with their strength, they could get whatever they want in the future through points exchange. There’s no need to compete with squadmates for gear.
The squad members didn’t act modestly with them. After two rounds of rolls, they divided the gears.
After this was the rare materials. There were a total of four, which made Avian Ruler speechless at the sight: “This… this is so generous, I feel a bit flustered.”
Fang JingXing speculated: “Perhaps the clear time is also part of the appraisal criteria.”
They had avoided plenty of pitfalls after all.
One was that Love Escapist had used money to change fate and hired the mission NPC as their old man gatekeeper; Two was that a certain Wardcaster was too impatient to listen to the old man cry and shockingly kicked him off the roof; Three was giving a group beating to the Oracle, which avoided some surplus lists of problems; Four was that they had the summoning talisman, which helped them kill the Lion King at this stage.
Just these four points alone would take a lot of effort for any other player.
Not to mention, when they found Gary and kidnapped the priestess later on, especially with kidnapping the priestess. If players couldn’t successfully lure the patrols away, they’d probably fail several times.
Avian Ruler and the others nodded their heads continuously.
They had really passed this time lying down. If it weren’t for the two Aces, they’d probably still be searching for medicinal ingredients for the little gremlin right now.
No, they wouldn’t have been able to trigger the hidden story quest at all.
Gou Cheng said: “Come Ace, you roll first.”
Fang JingXing looked at the person next to him: “You first or me first?”
Jiang Chen got up and stepped forward. Holding the lever, he pulled down.
“Ding.”
2 points.
He sat back down expressionlessly and persuaded himself to relax and not let unpleasant things affect his mood.
Fang JingXing laughed softly and followed closely behind, rolling 78 points.
For the moment, the squad members were still not aware of a certain Ace Wardcaster’s special attribute and only thought it was a random incident. They also rolled and in the end, the material ended up in 5cum’s pocket.
They started to distribute the 2nd rare material.
Jiang Chen didn’t go first. After they pretty much finished rolling, he finally joined.
“Ding.”
5 points.
Captain Jiang: “……”
Why thank you.
Avian Ruler said with a laugh: “Ace, your luck is not very good today.”
Love Escapist, Gou Cheng, and the others were more astute. Recalling how the Ace made the Abysswalker open the treasure chest just now, they slowly realized something in hindsight.
However, they didn’t make their conclusion too early. After the materials for this round reached Xie ChengYan’s hands, they started the 3rd round.
They saw the Wardcaster raise his hands elegantly and pull.
With a “Ding”, 8 points.
Fang JingXing: “……”
The squad members: “……”
The salted fish who were observing: “……”
Jiang Chen resisted the urge to blow up the slot machine. Seeing the deathly stillness around him, he asked coolly: “Why are you guys all looking at me?”
Fang JingXing was in agony from holding back his laughter. He didn’t speak.
The other people shook their heads in unison: “It’s nothing.”
Thank you, Ace, for being merciful earlier, not opening the treasure chest yourself.
The 3rd material was also distributed, leaving only one more left.
Fang JingXing patted the Wardcaster’s shoulder, indicating he should go first. Jiang Chen already wanted to end this as soon as possible, so he went over to pull.
“Ding.”
13 points.
Pretty good.
Finally over double digits.
With a cold face, Captain Jiang turned around and headed inside.
A row of messages quickly appeared in the squad channel.
[System] Abyss gave up on rolling.
[System] Love Escapist gave up on rolling.
[System] Qing Yan gave up on rolling.
[System] Gou Cheng gave up on rolling.
[System] 5cum gave up on rolling.
[System] This Majesty is Most Beautiful gave up on rolling.
[System] Avian Ruler gave up on rolling.
[System] Total Annihilation obtained the rare material, Star Silk.
Jiang Chen glanced at them.
Love Escapist and the others were afraid he’d be unhappy and was just about to say something when they heard him say calmly: “Oh, thanks.”
Forthright and refreshing!
The squad members instantly liked him even more.
Fang JingXing knew him well and knew that he wouldn’t feel awkward. With a smile, he said: “Come and see what else is left.”
Jiang Chen agreed and sat back down next to him.
The four rare materials were all distributed. Two of them could be obtained through world boss drops. The other two were newly added to the game specifically for the hidden story quests, not to mention, they should be very difficult to obtain. As such, the system provided server-wide messages for them as well.
The world chat channel went crazy again.
The players counted.
Two divine weapons, two divine level gear, two rare materials…… And these were only the items that were announced to the whole server. There were probably even more items not announced.
[World] Promise You a Lifetime: Oh fuck, I’m so jealous.
[World] Negative One Meter: Who’s not jealous over this?
[World] Life and Death Together: I’m uneducated. When did Wandering Dreams become this generous?
[World] Magpies Are Not Sparrows: There’s definitely a time factor here. The hidden story quests’ difficulty level is officially validated and recognized. Did you guys see how few days they’ve spent playing it?
[World] The Person in the Mirror: Guild Leader, it’s up to you now.
[World] Xing TianCheng: En.
[World] Jing’an: What? Did you guys discover it as well?
[World] Distant Mountains: Stupid, they’re trying to spend money to buy the guide.
[World] Happy Single: Ah? Can’t this guide be shared freely?
[World] Isatis Root: Are you delusional? If you had a guide for this, would you share it?
[World] Hamster Ball: When there were such activities in the past, didn’t Aces always share their guides? Do these people plan to hide and conceal them now?
[World] Gloomy and Annoyed: Is that the same? The other servers haven’t even discovered it. Two divine weapons, two divine gear, two rare materials, you’re going to share that for free?
Ai Poor Jiang Chen, we both have the same luck 😭
I feel you sister… I feel you… 😔
The only difference is he makes up for it with skillz 😭
d@mn is someone trying to put pressure on them in chat???? Fvck off and go get your own guide mate!!
tbh I be the one asking for freebie guide also lmao
shhh- don’t we all want them free guide….