After packing up his things briefly, Fang Qiuling said goodbye to Old Tom and embarked on the journey alone.

The destination of the first stop is a mine southwest of Lakesprings, the Yuanshan Mine, about a day's journey from Lakesprings. The Far Mountain Mine is the only mine in the Mist Lake area, and although it is not large, it has also produced many high-quality magic crystals.

However, the mine was closed several years ago because a group of gnolls and a large number of kobolds migrated to the vicinity of the mine from nowhere and began to infest the mine frequently. After repelling several waves of gnolls, the miners were helpless in the face of the absolute numerical superiority of the gnolls, and were forced to abandon the mine. The Far Mountain Mine was closed.

This information was provided by Old Tom. Before the closure of the Far Mountain Mine, he fought a guerrilla war with the gnolls in the mountains and forests outside the mine for more than three months, and the number of gnolls and kobolds who died under his command exceeded fifty. He had a general understanding of the situation in the Yuanshan Mine, so he suggested that Fang Qiuling come to the mine to try his luck, maybe he could have a clue about the magic crystal.

Fang Qiuling spent three days traveling from Huquan Town to the Yuanshan Mine and returned. One day on the way to the road, one day on the way back, one day on the mine. Unfortunately, aside from a day trip to the cave that has collapsed, no information has been obtained about the magic crystal.

Except for a few little green-skinned monsters that occasionally popped up on the road and shouted "Oak, Oak", the journey was quite smooth.

After killing a few little green-skinned monster goblins, Fang Qiuling verified one more thing, that is, fighting monsters does have experience points, and each goblin can provide 30 experience points.

When training, the amount of experience gained is around 300 points per day. If you exercise a lot of exercise that day, you will gain slightly more experience points by 10 to 30 points. Now, as long as you can kill ten goblins a day, then it is equivalent to a day's exercise of physical training.

Preliminary calculations, it seems that it is more cost-effective to fight monsters. Is there a plan to farm some goblins? On the ensuing road, the little green-skinned monsters were out of luck. Fang Qiuling's slogan is: Leave experience points, spare you from death!

As for how you can leave experience points without hurting your life? Fang Qiuling said that this subject is not under his control. Goblin scholars can work on it, and it's a very good subject.

Of course, the goblins would not obediently sit still, and every battle would bring a lot of trouble to Fang Qiuling. Cunning and timid, cruel and cowardly, goblins are actually quite contradictory creatures. They often attack with numerical superiority, but often single-digit deaths lead to a rout.

Therefore, giving a large number of casualties to the goblins at the beginning of the battle, and then triggering the goblin's rout, may be the trick to fighting the goblin, and it is also the experience that Fang Qiuling gained after several battles. And with the battles again and again, all kinds of knowledge in my mind gradually turned into real experience:

- Where is the weapon most handy, and it should be able to be pulled out as soon as it encounters the enemy.

- Spears and wooden shields are really good!

- In the mountains and forests, where can you walk and where you can't.

- How to conduct reconnaissance, how to distinguish footprints

In addition to the sword and shield he carried with him, the hand crossbow and cross crossbow in the storage bag were the first weapons he took out to use. The use of the hand crossbow and the cross crossbow is very sensible and extremely quick to learn. Fang Qiuling quickly got used to the routine of first pulling out his crossbow and crossbow to shoot a wave after encountering an enemy, and then slashing and slashing in close combat.

In the space of three days, Fang Qiuling obtained thirty-one goblin left ears, and his experience points increased by 930.

As for why he didn't have experience points when he cleared the goblins with Tom Sr. before, Fang Qiuling guessed that it might be because Tom Sr. was teamed up with him at that time. In the case of teaming, the distribution of experience points is according to the level of the character, Fang Qiuling is only a level 5 bard, and Old Tom's level is definitely much higher than him, so Old Tom takes the majority of the experience points, and Fang Qiuling gets very little experience points.

If this was indeed the case, Fang Qiuling felt as if he had discovered a secret!

The recruit instructors are all veterans who have been discharged. According to the setting in the game, veterans are generally in the early stage of Black Iron who have not long completed the breakthrough, and the level will not exceed 16. If a level 16 character is teamed up with a level 5 character, then a 30 XP mob should have 5 or 6 XP points for a level 5 character. However, Fang Qiuling had read the event records and did not have any experience points gained by killing monsters, which meant that Old Tom's character level was far more than level 16. To swallow all XP, level 30 or more. In other words, Old Tom's true strength should be at the silver level!

At level 30 of the silver rank, you can already have the status of a knight commander in the regular army of Karthas. How could Old Tom be so miserable as to be an instructor in such a remote place as Lakesprings? There is a problem, there must be a problem.

After returning to Huquan Town at the end of the three-day journey, Fang Qiuling rested for a while and went straight to Exchange Square, where he wandered around all day. Then early the next morning, he went straight to Jinhe Town with a caravan.

Merchants from Jinhe Town provided information that a caravan from the north had arrived in Jinhe Town with a shipment of gems and furs not long ago, and their next destination was the port of Jianwan further south. Among those gemstones there appear to be colorless transparent gemstones. When Fang Qiuling heard this, he immediately set off for Jinhe Town.

Jinhe Town is located north of Huquan Town, and the walk takes at least three days. However, as a temporary escort in the carriage of the caravan, the three-day walk took only one day.

After arriving in Jinhe Town, I inquired about it, and the caravan from the north had not yet departed. Fang Qiuling immediately found the caravan and communicated with the jeweler who was carrying the gem. But it's a pity that this trip was in vain. The colorless transparent gemstone in the jeweler's hand is not a magic crystal, but an ordinary crystal stone. The color is also not colorless and transparent, but slightly yellowish.

After pounced on two airs in a row, Fang Qiuling was not discouraged, but loss was inevitable.

Magic crystals of quality five or more are not so easy to find, and it is not too much for those who have no way to find them.

After a night of investigation in Jinhe Town, the news was fruitless. With the idea of planting widely and harvesting thinly, Fang Qiuling found a caravan to Wuxi Town early the next morning and set off again.

The town of Misty is the capital of the Misty Lake region and an important stronghold to prevent the Orcs of the Deciduous Forest from moving south. Although he still found nothing, an inconspicuous mark on the wall of the inn caught his attention.

- Two connected squares crossed by a diagonal line.

Fang Qiuling quietly activated the magic that came with the Seeker's suit, the Arcane Vision.

The vision dimmed slightly, and everything in the field of vision seemed to be hazy with a thin layer of mist. Turning your gaze to the marker on the wall, the simple lines changed instantly. The diagonal lines that run through them turn into red wands, and the two connected squares turn into books that are opened on one side.

This is the mark of the Philosophical Society, an organization of spellcasters composed primarily of academic wizards.

The Philosophy Guild is seen by the player as a caster organization with a low presence. Although there are many members, the structure of the organization is loose and there is little cohesion. It is not so much an organization of spellcasters as a self-help association where spellcasters gather to collect magical materials and exchange magical experiences.

Seeing this mark, a lot of information was turned out from the depths of his memory by Fang Qiuling.

It's October 379 in the Anno calendar, which is the beginning of the first act of the game's first chapter. Fang Qiuling actually didn't know much about the world of Elune during this period, because when he entered the game, the world plot had already entered the fourth act of the first chapter. After three minor versions of the update, the NPCs, items, and quests in the game have changed to a certain extent. The experience of the first act does not apply to the fourth act, and vice versa.

Where is the magic crystal in the fourth act, of course Fang Qiuling knows. But the problem is that the plot hasn't reached that time yet, and the magic crystal is still floating somewhere! So that's why you have to ask around and run around when you're looking for a magic crystal. Where is the magic crystal in the first act, he really doesn't know......

However, there is a big guy on the built-in game forum in the world of Elune, and this big guy is the liver emperor who entered the game just after the server. One day, the big guy wrote a show-off post. The gist of the post is that there were so few people when the service was first opened, and there were so many hidden treasures in various places, I took XXX treasures in XXX place, I bought XXX gold for this treasure, and then went to XXX place to get XXX treasures......

After the show-off post was issued, a large crowd of onlookers were watched. The sofa bench has built more than 10,000 floors. Fang Qiuling watched the whole process and contributed several floors.

I don't remember most of the post, but some of the original part of the post is now popping up from the depths of memory.

- The most rewarding quest: Go to the Adventurer's Guild in Lakesprings to pick up the bounty quest. One of the bounty missions is an orc wanted for an orc nicknamed "Nine Fingers". After taking the task, then go to the east shore of the misty lake on the night of the opening of the night market, wait there at a pier, the coordinates of the large map are XX, XX. At that point, the "Nine Fingers" will emerge from the lake, and if you kill him, you will definitely drop a dagger. THIS DAGGER CAN BE KEPT FOR YOUR OWN USE, BUT IT WILL HAVE A DEBUFF AND DEDUCT KINDNESS POINTS. Then take this dagger to the night market, and you can exchange it for a quality 4 magic crystal from a black-robed NPC. This magic crystal can ......

- Be sure to read the bounty before you go over, otherwise the "Nine Fingers" will not appear.

- Be sure to wait at the pier on the night of the night market opening, or you won't drop the dagger.

The night market refers to the underground gathering organized by the Philosophical Society. Because it is only open at night, it is used to being called a night market by players.

On the night of the opening of the night market...... The time for the underground meeting is generally on the fourth day of the rise of the red moon Ritana.

Looking up at the night sky, a red crescent moon was hanging in the night sky. Tonight is the first day of the Red Moon Ritana, and the meeting will be three days later.

Sometimes it's really weird. After three or four days in the misty lake, it didn't matter. When he turned around and looked back, he suddenly found that the magic crystal he was looking for was actually at the starting point. In this case, is it the so-called "remember your original intention when you are confused"? It feels subtle and something is wrong.

Fang Qiuling rested at the hotel for the night, rented a carriage after dawn, and went straight to Huquan Town.

"Dead boy, why did you come back?"

The rented carriage stopped at the Trade Square and happened to meet Old Tom as he got off. Old Tom was busy loading a wagon. As soon as I looked up, I saw the recruits who had been training for nearly a month getting out of the carriage next to them.

"There's an emergency...... Heh, hehe......" Fang Qiuling laughed dryly, "The instructor is busy first, busy first." ”

"Oh! I know, you go, go, go, go. ”

One was in a hurry to leave, the other didn't want to participate, and the two of them simply accosted each other and went their separate ways.

When I arrived at the Adventurer's Guild, there were several bounties posted on the bulletin board. One by one, the bounty of "Nine Fingers" was quickly found.

According to the description on the wanted notice, "Nine-Fingers" is from the Broken Tooth tribe of the Twilight Swamp, a thick, powerful robber on the go. The most recent report was recorded six days ago when he robbed a fishing boat at a fishing ground near the Yellow Silt Flat, killing several people. Coupled with the previous case record, there are already more than ten lives in this guy's hands.

- Bounty: 10 silver coins.

The amount of the reward made Fang Qiuling couldn't help but roll his eyes. Compared to the fact that the goblin's three left ears can be exchanged for ten copper coins, the bounty for ten silver coins seems to be high. But be aware that adult orcs are natural warriors with little to no training, and the challenge level in the game starts at least five. And the lone thief like "Nine Fingers" is undoubtedly an elite template, and it can be regarded as a wild little boss, and the challenge level will not be less than ten. The guy who challenges level 10 is only worth ten silver coins, and the Lakespring Chamber of Commerce is really generous!

Now that the bounty has been noted, it's time to look for the dock on the south shore of Lake Mist. There are two days and one night left!

While looking for the "mission location", Fang Qiuling was thinking about how to deal with the "Nine Fingers" X.

Although the goblins have a numerical advantage, they are not very effective individually, and they are like adults beating children. As long as you don't die, it's easy to be a pair of three or a pair of four. But "Nine Fingers" is different, this guy is an orc, and the wild little boss is not easy to deal with! Whether it is strength, speed, or even physique and courage, orcs far surpass goblins. Goblins have a clear sense of resistance when facing humans, but they don't have any thoughts other than to give in to orcs.

After running three laps in a row on the road around the lake on the east shore of the misty lake, the location of the "mission monster" can basically be confirmed, and it is an inconspicuous fishing boat dock. The pier is separated from the misty lake and the deciduous forest, which may be why "Nine Fingers" is here.

How to deal with "Nine-Fingered" Nexus? Undoubtedly, with traps!

It took Fang Qiuling most of the day to set up a huge trap on the dock, and then hid on the pile of wooden barrels and waited for the prey to come.

As night fell, "Nine Fingers" appeared unexpectedly. Sneak attack first, then introduce traps. After a thrilling battle, Fang Qiuling won the victory and returned to Huquan Town with the "Mission Item".

There is also a small episode on the way back to Lakesprings, where he rescues a caravan of kittens who have been attacked by goblins.

When Fang Qiuling left the Adventurer's Guild, the red moon was in the sky at this moment. The gathering of spellcasters is about to begin.