Volume 2: The Road to Dragon Feast Chapter 104 Where is the Promised Fourth Disaster?
Pinewood Village - a clearing in the forest.
Blade Flurry!
Murphy held two swords in his hands and used the fighting skills he had just learned on a wild boar.
The first part is a staggered horizontal slash, the second part is a three-step slash, and the third part is followed by a diagonal downward slash.
Blood splattered wherever the sword passed. Unfortunately, the wild boar was just a level 5 monster and was killed on the spot by a combo.
After the seven sword strikes, Murphy looked at the time and found that it only took 2.2 seconds.
In comparison, the Dragon Slaying Greatsword's flat slashing speed is 1.2 seconds, so in the time it takes to slash once, you can swing four times with Blade Flurry.
The two swords he was using now were the two blue one-handed swords that the bandit leader dropped yesterday - Swift Blades. Their thin and sharp blades formed a sharp contrast with the Dragon-Slaying Sword.
Although the current standing output is far less than that of the Dragon-Slaying Greatsword, it may be possible to catch up if there are top-quality one-handed weapons in the future.
Of course, we can't just look at the damage. When dealing with large enemies like dragons and giants, the two-handed greatsword has a natural advantage. However, when dealing with humanoid enemies, especially those agile ones, the dragon-slaying greatsword is too cumbersome, and the attacks are easily dodged, and often a few slashes of the sword won't even touch the enemy.
To solve this problem, he added all the 10 free attributes gained from yesterday's upgrade to agility, thus meeting the attribute requirement to learn Blade Flurry. Unfortunately, Assassin's Step required 30 points of agility to learn it, so he could only wait until he upgraded two more levels. By then, his mobility would be further improved, which would definitely improve his combat effectiveness.
It is not difficult to see from here the huge advantage of heroes over adventurers. With 30 points of agility, a hero can accumulate enough attribute points by simply leveling up to level 4, but an adventurer would need to reach level 20.
Because of this, adventurers' professions are fixed, and they stick to one path, either agility, strength, pure intelligence to learn spells, or spirituality to learn divine arts, and very few people will practice both.
But it is different for heroes. It is normal to master one skill at the same time, and mastering two skills can also cope with it. Various professional skills are combined together to form various routines and gameplay, which can be said to be a hundred flowers blooming.
The remaining extra attribute points can be added to physique to increase blood volume.
Only heroes can truly master professions that require both physical and magical skills, such as the magic swordsman and miracle warrior.
Some people have even played the bucket-type game, which adds points evenly across the board. Although their ultimate ability is not as good as those who specialize in one field, they can use various skills from various professions and show off a lot. It can also be considered a way of playing, but it lacks momentum and their upper limit of strength is relatively limited.
Murphy does not intend to play the bucket number, but he must still practice both. At present, it seems that practicing both strength and agility is a good choice. It can ensure that his melee ability reaches the T0 echelon of melee heroes to the greatest extent. As for the lack of spell ability, he can use the Dragon Feast skill to make up for it.
After getting familiar with Blade Flurry, the next step is to practice the skill 'Savage Roar'.
After taking a deep breath, Murphy yelled - Ah!
This roar was full of primitive wildness and was shocking. Murphy felt his blood boiling and his whole body became excited, as if he had endless energy.
However, compared to his own feelings, Murphy believed more in the changes in the attribute panel. He looked at his endurance and strength and found that both attributes had increased by 30%.
Unfortunately, this effect only lasted for a dozen seconds before it began to decay, and completely disappeared after thirty seconds. In addition, using this skill required mana consumption, and his mana was only 200 points in total, so it was not a permanent skill suitable for leveling up. Instead, it should be used as a burst skill when desperately fighting for victory...
When Murphy was summarizing the new skills he had learned, Knight Roland on the side was full of admiration, "Your Highness is indeed gifted. He has mastered these two advanced combat skills so quickly. Such talent is truly amazing. When I was learning the Cleave, it took me two full months..."
Razidanan standing aside had a laughing expression on his face.
Murphy smiled. Sometimes the casual remarks made by these NPCs were quite humorous.
"Okay, Roland, stop flattering me. You'll embarrass me. Let's go see what's going on at the construction site."
Before logging off last night, Murphy returned to his fiefdom, spent 3,000 gold coins, 1,000 pieces of wood, and 1,000 pieces of stone, and ordered the construction of a tavern. Calculating the time, it should be almost completed by now.
When the three arrived at the center of the village, as expected, a two-story tavern that also served as a hotel had been built.
Looking at the fantasy adventure style tavern in front of him, Murphy nodded with satisfaction. Not bad, not bad. Finally, there is a decent building in this small village .
He walked in and took a look. It had a standard tavern layout. The system also gave him several NPCs, including a bartender, a waitress, a chef, and an innkeeper.
It looks like it can open for business right away.
Murphy walked up to and decided to test the abilities of these NPCs. "Give me some hard bread."
"That's 7 copper coins in total . Thank you for your patronage."
"Huh? So expensive?"
Murphy was not surprised why the lord of the village had to spend money. What surprised him was why the price was one copper coin more expensive than the bread in Alterac.
Don't underestimate this copper coin. It is certainly nothing to him, but for adventurers who have just entered the game, every copper coin is precious.
He also bought a pot of dwarven liquor and a pot of Irish cider, both of which were slightly more expensive than those in Alterac.
It seemed that this was not a coincidence. He studied it carefully and soon found the problem.
It turns out it was because of the business tax rate.
The higher the business tax rate in the territory, the higher the prices. For example, this loaf of bread costs five copper coins. If the tax rate is 0, it will be sold at the original price. The tax rate in Alterac is 20%, so it sells for six copper coins, while the tax rate in Pine Village is as high as 40%, so the selling price will naturally increase by 40%, which is 7 copper coins per loaf.
Whether it is commercial tax or agricultural tax, both can generate income for the lord. If you can own a prosperous large city, preferably one close to a popular leveling area, you can make a lot of money just by collecting commercial taxes every month. It is said that some players who are good at business can earn more than one million a month by managing their territories.
Of course, it is difficult to tell whether it is true or not.
Murphy doesn't expect to collect much commercial tax in the early stages. The key point .
He directly reduced the business tax to 0%, so that the prices are even cheaper than in Alterac. This must be good news for adventurers.
He still has a lot of resources, but Murphy is not in a hurry to build more buildings. Resources can be robbed from bandits, but gold coins cannot. A tavern cost 30,000 yuan, and money cannot be wasted like this.
Now we just have to wait for more and more adventurers to come, and then we can use the adventurers to operate the construction of the village.
One day later——
Murphy stood in the village square, looking at the empty surroundings with a confused look on his face. Where was the promised fourth calamity? Where was the promised army of adventurers? Why was there no one there?
By the way, the Novice Village function has been activated, right?
In order to make sure everything was safe, Murphy went to the village hall to confirm it again and again.
That’s right! Pine Village (Novice Village).
The suffix of Novice Village is clearly marked behind the territory.
Could it be that the poor and remote areas of the Kingdom of Alterac cannot attract adventurers?
After thinking about it, Murphy decided to ask the village chief.
Aidan (Prince of Alterac): "Village leader, have any adventurers appeared today?"
Goodman (Chief of Songmu Village): "Yes, yes, Your Highness. A lot of adventurers appeared in the village yesterday afternoon. Some of them even asked me to accept quests. However, they all disappeared at night, and they haven't appeared again today."
Murphy frowned after hearing this. This means that the Novice Village function is useful, but why did it all disappear in one day?
No, I have to ask someone.
Thinking of this, he left the village hall and started looking everywhere.
