SEC Chapter 29 Who taught you to add points like this?
Chapter 29 Who taught you to add points like this?
Inside the tents at the camp.
Yu Che bandaged the wounds of the last adventurer's guard and also obtained the information he wanted.
He covered the wounded man with a rough blanket, then walked out of the tent with a slightly strange expression.
"Excuse me... how are they doing?"
Outside the tent, the merchant was waiting and immediately asked You Che a question when he came out.
"The basic recovery potion takes effect relatively slowly. They should be able to move freely for half a day, but it will take some time to recover their combat strength."
You Che answered.
"Well... okay, I think so too."
The businessman was clearly troubled, but there was nothing he could do about it.
You Che glanced at him. This man had more advanced recovery potions in his goods, but he was unwilling to give them to the three guards, and the three of them seemed unwilling to accept them either.
That's normal, since the three of them were adventurers who were hired to protect them, and their contracts obviously didn't include a clause that the employer should provide healing potions free of charge.
"Alright, tell me about your situation. How did you end up being chased by a group of dark beasts? And why are there dark beasts here?"
You Che sat down by the campfire and asked the merchant.
"That's a long story. It goes like this..."
The merchant sighed and began to recount his story slowly. From his narration, You Che confirmed his suspicions.
That is the "plot" of this world and this continent, and unsurprisingly, it is progressing in the direction of the game.
Not long ago, on the day the prologue ended, the army of the dark races conquered all the borders of the four great nations. Instead of rushing to advance further, they began to invade the occupied territories.
Thanks to their efforts, the Dark Realm has clearly expanded outwards by a large area in recent days.
The expansion of the Dark Realm is not simply a matter of the Dark Races having more living space and a wider range of activities.
Yu Che clearly remembered that, in the lore, dark races would erode the ley lines and assimilate the areas they occupied.
When the earth's veins are affected, it has far-reaching consequences for all life on this continent.
Because the land that has been completely tainted and assimilated by the dark races will become a desolate wasteland, where no life can survive.
And long before that, the effects of the dark forces eroding the ley lines had already erupted around the world.
As a chain reaction to the erosion of the earth's veins, dark forces are now erupting in various parts of the continent, giving rise to a number of beasts, monsters, and even humans and demi-humans tainted by the dark power.
In the game's terms, starting from the prologue, monster spawn points belonging to the dark forces will begin to randomly spawn across the entire map and radiate to the surrounding environment, essentially a kind of emergency, time-limited toilet-cleaning mission.
The group of dark beasts that had been chasing the merchant came from here.
"...So, according to you, this phenomenon has appeared all over the mainland now?" You Che asked after listening to the merchant's explanation.
"Yes, this is really tough on us small business owners. I clearly saw a business opportunity and went out to do business, but this happened."
The businessman sighed and began to pour out his grievances.
"We already earn so little, and now we might encounter dark races even on the street, forcing us to hire more guards... but it's no use."
Upon hearing this, You Che glanced at the tent next to him, his expression slightly strange.
He felt that the key issue was that the three adventurer guards hired by the merchant were rather incompetent.
While bandaging them, You Che, puzzled, inquired about the three's abilities and attributes.
In this worldview, personal abilities are sensitive information and are not easily revealed by ordinary people. However, attribute values can usually be disclosed to some extent.
After all, publicly available information only shows the other party's name, level, and health points. If an adventurer wants to accept a commission or team up with someone, they will definitely have to share their attribute points.
As for the three guards of the caravan... well, to put it another way, You Che felt that their skill point allocation strategy was to allocate points to whichever skill point they dreamed of.
The three consist of two melee fighters and one ranged fighter. Since none of them are level 10 and do not yet have a class, they are only combat-oriented.
But what about adding points? You Che asked simply, then looked completely puzzled.
That's basically it:
Melee A, LV8, weapon: longsword, highest attribute is Perception, a whopping 12 points, followed by Constitution, 8 points.
You Che: "..."
Well, it's barely watchable.
Melee B, LV8, weapon: club + hardwood shield, maximum attributes: 10 points in both Agility and Spirit.
You Che: "?"
Then the last one, ranged A, LV9, weapon longbow, stats... damn, only 15 intelligence?!
What are you adding? Are you trying to play a magic archer?
I didn't see you use any magic.
You Che couldn't help but ask them what they were thinking. To his surprise, all three of them looked blank and had no idea what he meant by "adding some ideas".
"I felt that increasing intelligence would make me smarter, so I increased it..." That was the archer's answer.
This left You Che speechless.
Alright, no wonder the three of you combined couldn't even beat a level 8 combined dark beast.
With this skill point allocation and equipment setup, being able to defeat monsters of the same level means you're a true master of skill, maybe even halfway to the level of Yu Che.
You Che wanted to ask if the other adventurers were just as bad as them, but in the end he didn't say anything, and after bandaging the three of them, he left them alone.
He was afraid he wouldn't be able to hold back if he kept asking.
So at this moment, You Che simply patted the merchant on the shoulder and said nothing.
merchant:"?"
—Back to the main point. In any case, the current situation on this continent is indeed very unfavorable for ordinary people, and this merchant is quite unlucky.
"...So I've been thinking, why don't I just open a small shop in Juventus City? At least it's much safer than my current business."
The merchant was still muttering to himself, "After all, Yuven City is the northern terminus of the Obsidian Defense Line, garrisoned with tens of thousands of troops, its walls are high and strong, and Duke Gray Wolf is stationed there. It's unlikely to be attacked by the dark races..."
Upon hearing this, You Che glanced at him, unsure of what to say.
What the merchant didn't know was that, according to the game's storyline, the four great nations would soon launch their first attack on the Dark Realm, and this campaign would collide with the Dark Race's second expansion, ultimately erupting into a brutal war far exceeding the scale of the prologue town.
Although the name is different from what You Che knows, geographically speaking, the battlefield of the Western Kingdom is undoubtedly in that Yuwen City.
That great battle left the town half-destroyed, and it never recovered throughout the game's main storyline.
So his opening a shop there now is entirely a case of "joining the National Revolutionary Army in 49"...
At the same time, Yu Che also remembered that in the original game's storyline, that was when the Four Heavenly Kings first appeared.
This major battle in the game is presented entirely through cutscenes and is not part of the player-participatory storyline.
In the storyline, each of the four great kingdoms dispatched a top-tier expert to lead their army, and they fought a fierce battle against the avatars of the Four Heavenly Kings corresponding to their respective kingdoms.
Every match ended in a lose-lose situation.
After this battle, the dark races temporarily settled down and did not expand outwards for a long time. The four great nations also suffered heavy losses and retreated to their defensive lines to recuperate. The two sides temporarily maintained a fragile balance.
Against this backdrop, the protagonist, who narrowly escaped death in the prologue, officially enters the game.
Looking back now, perhaps in the background story, the Dark Four were indeed prepared to send out their clones in the prologue.
Bronya's early arrival in Adela was due to the commotion they caused, which drew her there... This is a very important experience and lesson.
"Sir, sir?"
The merchant's call brought You Che back to his senses: "What's wrong?"
"It's nothing, I just wanted to ask what you think of my idea?"
You Che: "..."
Hmm... as long as you're happy?