The system announcement echoing through the night sent all of Yunbian Town into an uproar.
["Holy sh*t? A hidden quest? Isn't that super valuable?"]
["Just the achievement reward alone is 1 gold coin, that's 10,000 yuan. The quest rewards definitely won't be bad. I'm guessing he made tens of thousands off it."]
["Ahhh! I'm so jealous! Why wasn't I the one who found that hidden quest?"]
["But even though the official announcement said every newbie village has a hidden quest, the trigger conditions are super secret. How did Rulebound discover it?"]
["Golden gear and now a hidden quest. If this Rulebound isn't hacking, I'll livestream eating sh*t!"] [T/N: This author has some questionable kinks]
["All the opportunities are being monopolized by Rulebound. Bro! Leave a way out for the rest of us players."]
["Rulebound, I added you as a friend, why didn't you accept? Let's be friends. I'm from Chongyu, a girl studying at Ning'an Technical Institute. I sent you my location, come find me on the weekend and hang out?"]
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Lin Mo was famous now.
And he really enjoyed this feeling of being envied and worshiped.
"So this is how it feels to be like those big shots I used to look up to."
Saying that, Lin Mo started checking the quest rewards.
Tier 2 orange equipment.
D-rank skill book.
At a time when over 99.99% of players on the whole server did not even have a full set of tier 1 white equipment yet, the value of tier 2 orange equipment was no different from a top-grade divine artifact.
Let alone that this was the most precious slot of all, a weapon slot.
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[Hero's Golden Bow] (Lv8)
— Quality: Tier 2 · Orange
— Attack: 190
— Additional Attributes: Agility +35, Strength +35
— Special Effect: Heroic (after the wearer kills an enemy, Attack +30 for 60 seconds, stacks up to three times)
[Description: Only those with the heart of a hero are qualified to use this legendary golden bow.]
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"Hiss!"
Seeing this weapon's stats, Lin Mo could not help sucking in a breath of cold air.
"It's only orange quality, and its Attack bonus is already almost four times that of the golden-quality Flowing Light Sword in my hand."
"So this is the gap between tier 2 equipment and tier 1 equipment?"
Lin Mo could hardly imagine: if he kept using equipment evolution points to evolve this Hero's Golden Bow to red or golden quality, just how terrifying its power would become.
Unfortunately...
"Once I use evolution points to evolve it, the equipment will be bound, and when I don't need it later, I won't even have the chance to resell it."
"Letting such a top-tier weapon rot in my hands then would be a complete waste." [T/N: Huh? You are not very bright, are you?]
Lin Mo sighed lightly, "Forget it, orange is already broken enough. When I get an even better weapon later, I can sell this to a sucker like Wang Junjie and easily rip seven or eighty thousand out of him."
Lin Mo was feeling very pleased with himself.
After getting the 20,000 EXP reward from the hidden quest, Lin Mo's level had just risen to level 8, reaching the requirement to equip this Golden Bow.
So without another word, he directly swapped out the level 0 tier 1 golden World-Shattering · Flowing Light Sword in his hand for this level 8 tier 2 orange Hero's Golden Bow.
He opened his status panel to take a look.
His Attack shot straight up from 193 to a terrifying 382.
And that was not even Lin Mo's current limit.
If he fully stacked the Heroic special effect on the Hero's Golden Bow to three layers, Lin Mo's Attack would continue to rise up to 472.
At a time when almost all the players on the server still only had double-digit Attack, Lin Mo's Attack was already about to hit the 500 mark.
How terrifying was that.
As for the Flowing Light Sword he had swapped off, since it was bound and could not be sold, Lin Mo could only use his SSS talent Soul Fire to burn it.
[Ding～You have burned level 0 tier 1 · golden-quality equipment World-Shattering · Flowing Light Sword. Equipment evolution points +32 (evolved equipment yields -50% evolution points when burned a second time)!]
Even though he only got back half the evolution points, Lin Mo was very satisfied.
After all, it was basically like spending only 32 evolution points to let him cruise through an almost invincible early newbie stage in the Oracle world.
Right after, Lin Mo shifted his attention to the skill book.
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[Double Shot] (Archer · D-rank):
Description: After use, you can learn D-rank skill Double Shot (launch a swift double attack on a single target, dealing two times 80% Attack damage, and each shot comes with a slight knockback effect)
Skill Cost: 12 MP
Cooldown: 13 seconds
Level Requirement: 10
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Lin Mo remembered very clearly.
In his previous life, until three months after Oracle launched, when the real world was devoured, he had only just come into contact with D-rank skills.
But in this life, with Oracle launched for only three hours, he had already obtained a D-rank skill book.
Anyone who had not experienced it personally could not understand the sense of achievement in Lin Mo's heart at this moment.
And the Golden Bow and Double Shot were both perfectly suited to Lin Mo.
Because Lin Mo was planning to change class to Archer at level 10.
High burst, crazy damage
In group fights he just had to hide behind warriors and knights and shoot. Safe and comfortable.
Most importantly, this was the only class in the Oracle world that could "shoot."
At this moment, looking at the skill book in his hand, Lin Mo suddenly had a bold idea.
"Soul Fire can burn equipment to gain equipment evolution points. So by that logic, can it also burn skills to gain skill evolution points?"
Lin Mo carefully checked the talent description.
He really did discover a key point.
"Burning equipment is only the effect of the first stage of the talent."
"As long as I evolve Soul Fire to the second stage, I can unlock a second burn effect."
Lin Mo was instantly overjoyed.
Because he knew that skills in the Oracle world could not be upgraded. You could only overwrite your existing low-rank skills after obtaining higher-rank ones.
And if Soul Fire really could unlock skill burning, that would mean…
"I'll be able to burn all those E-rank skills in the later stages that not even dogs want and gain a massive amount of evolution points to evolve top-tier SSS skills!"
Lin Mo's expectations skyrocketed a hundredfold in an instant.
He checked and saw that evolving Soul Fire to the second stage required 100 Reputation.
After killing two leader monsters in a row and adding the quest rewards, at this moment, Lin Mo already had 97 Reputation.
Just 3 more Reputation and he could verify whether his guess was correct or not.
The value of the only SSS-rank talent in the whole server was still climbing.
Finally, there was one more title reward.
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[Hidden Player] (Title)
— Quality: White
— Attribute: Quest rewards +1%
— Description: A mark of honor for completing the hidden quest in Newbie Village No. 116, Yunbian Town, on the Dragon Nation server.
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"Quest rewards +1%?"
"That's a good thing!"
Within only a few hours of Oracle launching, he had gained two titles in a row.
This was something Lin Mo, who had never obtained a single title all the way until his death in his previous life, would never have even dreamed of.
Golden Gear War God!
Hidden Player!
Clearly, the former sounded much more badass.
So Lin Mo set his displayed title to [Golden Gear War God].
[Hidden Player] he tossed into storage, but it would not affect its title attributes continuing to stay in effect.
He had completed the only hidden quest.
Which meant, for Lin Mo, that his journey in the newbie village was down to the last step before it was basically over.
And this step was also the most crucial one of all.
Its weight was even greater than the hidden quest.
And that was...
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