Rebirth Of The Noble Mage Behind The Scenes Novel - Chapter 22
Chapter 22: Come Here, polish it
After some consideration, the last dragonborn decided to accept Anvis’ offer.
Wasn’t it just becoming an NPC’s follower? For a hidden mission, this small matter was nothing.
[System prompt: You have become Anvis’ follower.]
“Very well. What is your name?”
Anvis had a subtle expression on his face when he asked the question.
He actually remembered this ID. In his previous life, he was a famous professional mage player. He was nicknamed [Green-Eyed Dragonborn] and was said to be the former captain of White Light Esports.
He just didn’t expect that his beta character name would be so flashy.
“I…”
The elf was suddenly at a loss for words at this perfectly normal question. He began to regret not following the system’s advice.
“A fake dragonborn? Are you a slave who escaped from a certain mage’s laboratory?”
But to his surprise, the pink-haired girl suddenly frowned and said his character name.
“Or do you actually not have a name?”
The noble youth in front of him also shook his head and looked at him with sympathy in his clear blue eyes. The pity in his eyes was extremely obvious, and the elf could not help but feel a bit angry.
In the ears of Anvis and Erica, the elf did not pause but said his name directly.
However, what made the noble youth’s heart tremble was that in his eyes, the elf’s lips merely opened for a moment, completely incompatible with what he had heard!
“Well then, let’s call you Rivers.”
[System prompt: Anvis has renamed you [Rivers]]]
Anvis turned to Erica.
“I remember that you have a few short spears in your ring, right? Give me one.”
The girl strangely took out a short spear and handed it to Anvis. Anvis took the short spear and handed it to the elf who was stunned by the system prompt.
“All right, now is your first quest. Come here and polish my spear—”
If it satisfies me, I will reward you with this spear. ”
[System prompt: You have triggered the quest ‘Grinding’]
[Requirement Level: E]
[Mission Introduction: Don’t tell me you have to wipe it all night.]
[Mission Requirement: Wipe the spear continuously until Anvis is satisfied.]
[Reward: 1000 experience points, Black Steel Spear]
What kind of mission was this?
The last generation dragonkin received the short spear expressionlessly and greeted the plot developer in his heart.
Forget it. Since this is a Superior Rank equipment, I will endure…
……
According to the quality of the game items in < The Mystical Era >, they ranged from low to high: Inferior, Common, Uncommon, Magic, Grandmaster, Legendary, Epic.
They corresponded to colors: gray, white, green, blue, purple, orange, red.
A Uncommon Rank weapon was already a pretty good item in the early stages of the game.
After wiping the lance for two hours, Anvis was finally satisfied with the elf’s work. He gave him the lance and then threw him another task.
[Cleaning the drainage canal]
[Mission Requirement: Bring back the right ear of 100 drainage canal rats to prove your bravery.]
[Mission deadline: Five days]
[Reward: 20,000 experience points]
Watching the green haired elf leave, Erica had a complicated look on her face. She wanted to say something, but she could not because of her status.
“Are you curious why I did that?”
Seeing the curiosity in his little maid’s pink eyes, Anvis smiled mischievously.
“It’s a secret.”
Ignoring Erica, whose gaze had become helpless, Anvis stood still and analyzed the information he had obtained from this test with a deep gaze.
He could indeed use various items as rewards to give missions to the players. In essence, this was no different from him recruiting other natives. It was just that the players had a visual interface.
The only difference was that players could obtain EXP rewards from each mission. The amount of rewards seemed to be related to the difficulty of the mission.
To him, the players were a great help.
Most of the players were chaotic neutral, and had put their interests above all else. This was exactly where his advantage lay.
Moreover, these players who had obtained the qualification for the closed beta test would be the big shots of the players in the future.
Their actions and choices often affected the entire player community.
He only needed to guide them and use benefits to tie them to his camp, allowing them to develop a sense of belonging.
In the future, when their side was in danger, they would naturally do their best to protect their own interests.
Anvis had made an appointment with the last dragonborn. If the elf proved his bravery to him and returned here in five days, he could take his next mission.
He still had his own things to do. It was useless for him to remain here as a quest NPC.
Anvis had already thought of what to do next.
With the 100 times experience buff from the closed beta test, five days was enough for the last dragonborn to level up to around Level 20 and become a qualified worker. With that, he could travel with merchant caravans as an apprentice guard.
In the early stages of the game, travelling with the merchant caravan was the only way for players to go to other towns. This was in line with the requirement of the closed beta players to open maps.
The destination of Anvis’s caravan this time was the capital city of the empire. Along the way, they would pass through many cities of various sizes, and there would also be a series of systematic training missions that could allow him to level up quickly. Thus, he was not afraid that the elf would refuse him.
Although Duke Karlos had assigned the caravan to him, Anvis had only obtained the caravan itself. The high-ranking family guards protecting the caravan now were lent to him by the family only temporarily.
His actions of recruiting players could be explained with the excuse of nurturing his own team.
Through the Elf’s game window, Anvis also learned about the current time in the real world.
The first day of the closed beta was exactly three days after he transmigrated—
After sending off the elf, the master and servant headed to the caravan camp in Kalas City.
It was a spacious area near the western city gate, where a large number of merchant caravans had come from afar to rest and replenish themselves.
The rare trade goods from all over the continent were brought to Kalas, such as the silk and handmade cashmere carpets of Parthimia, the jeweled jewelry of the desert city, the exquisite perfumes, the ancient stone sculptures and crafts excavated from ancient ruins cities…
These commodities would be sold to the local Merchants guild. They were all items favored by the local upper class and nobles, and were very popular. As long as they were successfully transported to kalas, they would be able to sell for a crazy good price!
At the same time, the caravan members would secretly sell some rare goods on the side to earn extra money for themselves.
This was an unspoken rule that everyone tacitly agreed to, and the caravan leader could only turn a blind eye to this.
All the merchants who understood this would send people to stand guard here, so that when the new merchant group arrived, they could immediately rush over to purchase the private goods of these merchant group members.
Those were truly first-hand good stuff!
Anvis had received news early that a caravan from the distant kingdom’s Federation would arrive in Kalas City today.
As the uncrowned king of the Northern Region, the direct descendents of the Olivendi family naturally received different treatment from the ordinary merchants. The family had already cleared the area in advance so that Anvis could choose the goods first.
That caravan also received the notice that a big shot was coming to buy an item. Everyone fought to be the first to display all the goods, hoping that Anvis would take a fancy to their items.
The emissary who had informed the caravan had already announced that no matter what Anvis chose, the Olivendi clan would buy it at ten times the original price!
As they watched, Anvis’s eyes were drawn to a delicate silver cage.
Inside the cage was a little blue-gray kitten. It was staring at him with a pair of big, bright blue-green eyes. Its two round white paws were fidgeting around the cage. It was very cute.
