Dear Knight I

"How can this happen..."

Zyou slowly backed away until his back hits the wall. His health is very low, even pointing his sword at the monster in front of him takes a lot of effort because he got a bunch of bad statuses applied such as weakened, fear, paralyzed, bleeding, and slow.

The monster approached him and when they got close, it opened its mouth and showed its ferocious fangs, the monster with blue eyes blazing like fire was about to devour its prey.

"This game is really rigged!"

how could Zyou end up in such a situation? What is the cause? Let's go back to a few days ago.

After Zyou finished with the Ancestor Kobold and had a talk with Zetha about a few things. He went to Illumina city to sell the junk drop from the mob he killed. A junk drop can be sold to the merchant NPC, not all of them would buy the junk drop though, they also need money for their daily life.

Yep, most of the NPC are controlled by advanced smart AI that made them feel more lively just like a normal human being, they can think like a human, not just a scripted program that always spouted the same line every time you talk to them. That's why some NPC which is normal townsfolk, merchant, or farmer, didn't always accept the junk drops from players.

Remember that Ex World Persona has already become a second world referred to the gaming community and some normal people who want to enjoy the beauty of the fantasy world.

Zyou got 180 golds from selling 90 kobold's ears for 2 golds each item. You see, even though Zyou had killed a thousand kobolds, he only got 100 junk drops from them. The junk item drop chances are 10% because it's a trash item so it should also have trash probability as well, and a common to legendary loot drop chance from each mob is varied depending on the mob. Though, legendary loot can only be dropped from mob level 200 or higher with a probability of 0.1%.

"It's hard to make a lot of money from just killing a low-level mob. Their junk drops are worth 2 golds and the common drop is worth 20 to 50 golds. I only got a total of 3000 golds from the drops I got for a week grinding and leveling."

Zyou stopped his walk after encountered a huge fancy building, the Draceo Alliance's branch in the Sletlia Kingdom.

The goal of the Draceo Alliance is to help and support the people of the Draceo continent especially adventurers or other combat professions whose main task is to kill monsters on the continent. 100 years ago, the Draceo Alliance was actually created to gather the rulers of the entire continent with the aim of resisting the invasion of the demon king army, it was the biggest war that had ever occurred in the history of mankind.

After the war was won by the human side. The Draceo Alliance's goal had already been achieved and was about to be disbanded, but many rulers refused to disband the alliance especially the Fadian Empire which had the largest territory and military power on the continent.

Therefore, the Draceo Alliance has remained standing until this day. But over time, the purpose of the alliance changed slightly due to the peaceful era after the demon lord's death.

"Shall I try to take a quest from the alliance? Usually, people take it after reached level 50. But, I think I was considered level 50 with plus 100 STR from the title. It will be alright! Just take an easy quest with a lot of rewards."

Zyou entered the Draceo Alliance building, he was greeted by an NPC who worked as an employee there.

"Welcome to the Draceo Alliance branch in the Sletlia Kingdom! May I help you, sir?"

Inside the building was crowded with people, NPCs and players were gathered here. Some were chatting and enjoying their drink on the second floor, some were looking at the boards with papers contained detail of different quests hanging there or in the RPG terms we call it a Quest Board.

"I want to take the easiest quest available with great rewards."

The employer smiled awkwardly, "T-then, you can try to do some delivery or escort quest. Please follow me."

The employer walked to the board on the far left, Zyou followed after her.

"You can find various delivery and escort quests in this section. If you want to look for collecting quests, there are in the middle section. And lastly, the right section is for hunting quests."

"Each quest has different rewards and difficulties. The higher the difficulty, the higher the reward. If you want to look for good rewards, it's better to do a hunting quest. If you want to look for the easiest quest, then go with delivery or escort quests, the reward is not that much if you pick a lower difficulty."

"Thanks for your explanation," Zyou said while searching at the quest board.

"Good. If you have decided which quest you want to pick, go to the receptionist to confirm your quests. Remember that you can only take 3 quests a day."

"Can I take 3 quests at once?"

"Yes, you can!" she nodded excitedly.

"Oh, thanks. Then, I'll take these quests."

Zyou held 3 quest papers in his hand like a card.

Type: Delivery quest

Difficulty: F

Jack the drunkard ran out of wine. He ordered 5 bottles of wine to calm his anger. He lives in the eastern part of Illumina city.

Quest clear conditions: Deliver Jack's wine in 12 hours

Quest reward: 800 gold, Draceo Alliance reputation +5

Quest failure: Draceo Alliance reputation -5

Time left: 11 hours 59 minutes

Type: Delivery Quest

Difficulty: D

Garnes the blacksmith from Grimselt, the royal capital of Sletlia requested 10x equipment essences.

Quest clear conditions: Deliver 10x equipment essences in 7 days

Quest reward: 4000 gold, Garnes's favorability +3, Draceo Alliance reputation +20

Quest failure: Draceo Alliance reputation -30

Time left: 6 days 23 hours 59 minutes.

Type: Escort Quest (Group)

Difficulty: B+

Irelia, daughter of the Illumina city lord, count Saugner is going to the royal capital to meet her fiance. Count Saugnar asked for help from the alliance to escort his daughter until she arrived at the royal capital safely.

Go to count's manor the next day in the morning.

Quest clear conditions: Escort Irelia until she arrived at the royal capital.

Quest reward: 35000 gold, Count Saugner and Irelia's favorability +10, Irelia's secret reward, Draceo Alliance reputation +100

Quest failure: Irelia's death, Count Saugner favorability -200, Banned from Illumina and might be hunted by Count's army, Draceo Alliance reputation -200

Time left before the quest starts: 18 hours 22 minutes.

"Here are the items you need to deliver, don't forget to attend to lord's manor in time, or else your quest will be canceled automatically."

"Ok, I have plenty of time before I can do escort and the D-rank delivery quest. Let's start with the F-rank quest first, after that, I will leveling my level first before the escort quest started."