Leaving the Novice Village

"Grandfather Village Chief, I have some equipment here. Could you please appraise them for me? As for the price, I don't know if there could be any discount."

"Very well. Stone City, I will appraise your items for half price."

"Is that so? Thank you very much, Grandfather Village Chief."

Grandfather Village Chief is straightforward and takes care of me without hesitation. Let's quickly take out the four pieces of equipment.

"Not bad, Stone City. You've actually defeated so many high-level equipment."

"Ah! There's even a divine artifact."

Although Grandfather Village Chief is a person who has seen a lot, he is still very shocked by the equipment I took out, especially the divine artifact, the Golden Diamond Shield. Grandfather Village Chief keeps flipping and inspecting it in his hands.

"Stone City, you've defeated a divine artifact so quickly and have so many good things. You're really amazing!"

"Hehe, Grandfather Village Chief flatters me."

"You should know that so far, there have been over 100 million players who have entered 'King of Glory', but only about 30 pieces of gold-level or higher equipment have been defeated. You have so many gold-level or higher equipment all at once, and it is indeed impressive!"

What? 100 million players? 'King of Glory' has only been in public beta for less than a day, and there are already 100 million players entering. Such a huge number is truly unimaginable.

It seems that 'King of Glory' will indeed cause a huge change and become the second world of humanity, an indispensable part of human life. My early entry into the game was indeed a wise decision.

Grandfather Village Chief is an NPC in the game. Due to the intelligence of 'King of Glory', it can read game numbers, so there will never be any fraud.

"Appraising Wolf Feng costs 70 gold coins, War Bear Armor costs 80 gold coins, Ring of Greed costs 100 gold coins, and Golden Diamond Shield costs 1500 gold coins." After Grandfather Village Chief finished his sighs, he examined the four pieces of equipment and quoted me the prices.

"No way, why are they so expensive? Grandfather Village Chief, is this the price? Is this price correct?"

Damn, this is too abnormal!

The prices quoted by Grandfather Village Chief almost scared me to death, far beyond my ability to bear.

"That is the price. The prices are based on the equipment, and it is the price after giving you a half-price discount."

After re-examining the equipment, Grandfather Village Chief confirmed that there were no errors.

Damn it! Dragon Fly Group is too black. This is simply a money-eating machine.

Looking at the 153 gold coins in my backpack, these are all my hard-earned income today, achieved through hard work and frugality, and they are simply not enough.

It seems that 'King of Glory' has a very strict setting for gold coins.

Thinking about my experience today, if I hadn't appraised these pieces of equipment, the gold coins I defeated would have been enough for my own expenses. Therefore, 'King of Glory' does not make players extremely painful and tired, not to make the game a burden, and to make the game lose its original flavor.

But why does it cost so much gold coins to appraise equipment? Especially the gold coins needed to appraise artifacts are far beyond imagination.

If players want good equipment, good enjoyment, powerful abilities, or to make themselves different, they need to spend a lot of money in order to achieve a balance. After the exchange rate between game gold coins and real-life currency is opened, there will be a relative balance.

Depressed, the gold coins are not enough, so I can only choose to appraise useful equipment first.

Of course, the divine artifact Golden Diamond Shield is useful. I want to switch to the Knight class, and Knights have a huge advantage over other classes in that they have a shield. However, I don't have enough gold coins to appraise it, so I can only postpone it for now.

As for the remaining items, Wolf Feng is a weapon for archers and I cannot use it, so I won't appraise it for now. The War Bear Armor requires level 20 to equip, so I won't appraise it for now either. I can only appraise this red ghost artifact, the Ring of Greed.

"Grandfather Village Chief, I'm short on gold coins, so let's just appraise this Ring of Greed."

"Okay, it's a good thing." A red light flashed in Grandfather Village Chief's hand, and after the Ring of Greed also emitted a light, Grandfather Village Chief handed it to me.

I quickly took it and checked its attributes:

Ring of Greed: Ghost artifact. Originally a normal platinum ring, it was buried in a greedy demon for years and slowly transformed into the Ring of Greed. No wearing requirements, backpack capacity increased by 5 times, life recovery speed increased by 1 (automatic recovery of 1 life per second), magic recovery speed increased by 1, and gold coin drop rate decreased by 2.

Not bad, it's a good thing. I immediately put it on, and my backpack capacity increased to 250.

This is great. With this ghost artifact, the Ring of Greed, there will be no more overloading, and my future actions will be much more convenient.

"Grandfather Village Chief, I'm already level 10, and I want to change jobs in the city." The novice village ends here, and I should move on to the next step.

"Stone City, I'm very happy that you will embark on the path of a warrior. The demon invasion this time is imposing, and there are many demons. It will be the biggest disaster in the history of the Dreamland. Fortunately, you and your group of passionate youths have devoted yourselves to this great defense and counterattack war for justice, peace, friendship, and faith. May the Goddess of Dreamland be with you and bestow upon you the power of gods."

Wow! Here we go again. Grandfather Village Chief's solemn and dignified expression puts a lot of pressure on me.

"I am pleased to see that you have reached level 10, Stone City. This proves that you have undergone baptism by combat and have gained some experience. However, the path to eradicating the Heavenly Demons is a long and arduous journey. You must continue to work hard, constantly strengthen yourself, accumulate experience, and seek legendary artifacts, skills, and power to become a new hero of the Tianmeng Continent."

I am dizzy. It would be so much better if they could just teleport me directly to the city instead of boring me with these words.

"Alright, Stone City, I will now teleport you to the city of the Tianmeng Continent. It will be the beginning of your growth. However, before you leave, I will teach you some basic skills, hoping that they will be helpful on your future journey."

"Ding dong, Stone City, the village chief of the novice village wants to teach you some basic skills. Do you accept?"

Gosh, they don't need to remind me. I'm not stupid. Of course, I accept.

"Ding dong, player Stone City has received guidance from the village chief of the novice village and learned the skill "Capture Technique"."

"Ding dong, player Stone City has received guidance from the village chief of the novice village and learned the skill "Collection Technique"."

Haha, this is such good news. Since the skills taught by the village chief are basic skills given by the system, they have the highest priority. Therefore, my "Collection Technique" skill has accumulated and increased by one level, which is unexpected.

Let's take a look at these two skills:

Capture Technique: Auxiliary skill, initial level 0/50000.

Collection Technique: Auxiliary skill, advanced level 0/200000.

This is crazy. It's so difficult to level up the Capture Technique. It requires 50,000 experience points to go from beginner to intermediate level. And it's unbelievably difficult.

And Collection Technique, it takes 200,000 experience points to fully upgrade to advanced level. I estimate that this huge amount of experience may not even be enough for a player to level up to the maximum level of 100.

But I'm satisfied for now and have no objections.

"Alright, Stone City, that's all I can do to help you. Now, I'm going to teleport."

Finally, the village chief has finished speaking, muttering some words. A beam of light immediately surrounds me, and in a flash, I appear in the square of the imperial city, Tianlong City.

"Wow, it's so magnificent and majestic!"

Looking at the scenery in front of me, the strong city walls, wide streets, and luxurious and tall characteristic buildings make me dazzled. It suddenly feels like I have come to a prosperous and powerful ancient Chinese city.

Oh my, it's so shocking. I really admire the power and technology of Dragonfly Group. This virtual technology is so realistic.

However, Tianlong City seems a bit quiet now.

Thinking about it, except for me, there are only some system NPCs and city officials in the city. There are no players. Compared with the lively novice village, it is certainly much quieter.

Anyway, I need to change my profession quickly. I quickly run towards the martial arts school, leaving a series of footstep sounds on the cold and heavy bluestone street.