Volume 8: The Road to the Ancient Dragon Chapter 438: Centaur's Exclusive Mount
Barren Land——Haotian City——
"Come on, come on, number five!"
"Number Four, charge!"
"Run faster, No. 6! If you lose, I'll give you a big fireball!"
In the stands of the Haotian City racecourse, countless spectators were cheering wildly at the centaurs running at high speed below, and waving the horse betting tickets in their hands wildly.
Morgan Lisa was also among them, shouting loudly at the horse number six that she had bet on. If there hadn't been an anti-magic barrier installed around the track, she would probably have been unable to resist putting an acceleration spell on horse number six, or "lubricating its feet".
It was not until the Centaur Knight wearing the No. 6 jersey rushed across the finish line like the wind that Morgan Lisa finally burst into cheers.
"Oh yeah, oh yeah! I'm going to make a killing this time. The odds are eight times higher. Haha, ten thousand gold coins have turned into eighty thousand gold coins. I love Haotian City to death."
The Emperor Shenwu laughed loudly, "That's good, if you like it, stay a little longer. There are many similar entertainment projects in my Haotian City. I guarantee you will have a great time."
"Haha, then I must go shopping more. Uncle Shenwu, did you design all these projects? You are very talented."
Being called "uncle" made him a little defensive, but Emperor Shenwu still waved his hand modestly, "It has nothing to do with me. I am busy fighting wars every day. How can I have the time to design these things? They are all the wisdom of the masses. These racecourses were built by my employees."
This is not modesty at all.
In fact, not only were these not done by him, they were not even done by his direct subordinates. They were all done by some workers who brought their own food.
In the past two years, everyone in Haotian Group knows that the easiest way to get ahead in the group is to enter the game, join the Centaur Empire, and fight with the boss.
If you want your boss to remember you, what could be more eye-catching than fighting side by side with him, or even shedding blood and sacrificing for him?
No matter how well you do on weekdays, your boss can't see it, and it's just a line of comments on the work report at most. But if you die on the battlefield for your boss in the game, save your boss from danger amidst thousands of troops, or kill generals, capture flags, and conquer cities in a battle, then the feeling you give to your boss will be completely different.
Such examples are not uncommon, so when Emperor Shenwu called on group employees to play games, everyone signed up enthusiastically to participate. They could even get overtime pay for playing games. What a great thing.
However, not everyone is eligible for overtime pay. After all, no matter how fun the game is, it is still entertainment. No matter how addicted Emperor Shenwu is, he has to ensure the normal operation of the group.
Therefore, generally only a few hundred employees in his core circle enjoy this treatment.
As a result, many employees of Haotian Group simply bought gaming helmets at their own expense to get close to the boss.
Almost without exception, these people joined the Centaurs.
Of course, these employees did not receive any overtime pay, but as they were all business people, they soon discovered various business opportunities in the game.
Anyway, the culture of Centaurs is barbaric and primitive, so they have come up with many special entertainment projects.
There are knights' arenas, horse racing fields, horse racing stadiums, and even Didi horse-hailing services.
It actually attracted quite a few players to come and play, which greatly boosted the commercial tax revenue of Haotian City.
And there is another benefit to this. The more people come to Haotian City to play, the greater the publicity for Haotian Group will be.
Even though Emperor Shenwu has invested a lot of money in this game, he has not lost anything. Now, the King of Centaurs and Haotian City have become iconic business cards in the game. The advertising effect and the extra electric cars sold alone have made back the billions invested in minutes.
Morgan Lisa blinked her eyes and said, "Speaking of which, there are quite a few players in your Haotian City. Are they all here to play?"
The Shenwu Emperor smiled slightly, "Not really, many of them are here to gain reputation."
"Does your Haotian City have any special reputation rewards?"
"Of course there are, but the most special one is still the mount of our Centaur tribe."
Morgan Lisa was a little suspicious, "You centaurs have exclusive mounts?"
"Yes, the exclusive mount of our Centaur tribe is the Centaur."
As soon as these words were spoken, Morgan Lisa was speechless.
But she soon understood.
The reputation of each camp and each force has completely different values. The higher the value, the more adventurers will come to increase their reputation, and with more adventurers, it will naturally be easier to get things done.
Adventurers are productivity , and leaders of each camp have gradually realized this, so they have increased the reputation rewards of their camps.
The easiest way to increase the reputation value is to increase the special items of the reputation quartermaster.
Equipment, skill books, rare materials and so on.
However, those things require a lot of resources and money to develop. Relatively speaking, there is a shortcut, which is exclusive mounts.
This thing doesn't cost much, and as long as you have a suitable domestication map, you can refresh it in large quantities.
For example, the Hellboar of the Badao Clan, the Holy Light Horse of the Silver Hand Knights, the Storm Drake of the Dragonslayer Knights, and so on.
As long as your mount is cool, you don't have to worry about no one coming to gain reputation (do work).
The exclusive mount of the Centaur race is the 'Centaur'. This mount not only has first-class speed, but also has intelligent posture functions and combat functions, which are unmatched by the mounts of other races.
The mounts of other races need to be controlled, but for a centaur, you just have to tell it where to run, and your two hands are free for other things. If a magic profession has the skill of focused casting, you can also cast spells on the horse.
That's called a mobile operation.
Moreover, the Centaurs themselves have combat capabilities and can kill people and shoot arrows.
Emperor Shenwu introduced while taking out a horn from his bag.
[Centaur War Horn (magic item)
Use: Summons a Centaur to fight for you.
Item Description: The horn worn by the war lord of the Centaur clan. It is said that in the vast continent of Kalimdor, the footprints of the Centaur are all over every corner of the world. As long as the sound of the horn is heard, the Centaur warriors will come to help. 】
Strictly speaking, this thing is not a mount, but a summoned creature. However, the Centaur has its own vehicle function, which is equivalent to a mount.
Since this horn is not a mount, the reputation requirement is relatively high. You need to be Revered or above to purchase it, and the purchase is limited to one.
This thing is a hot commodity nowadays. A large number of night elf adventurers come to Haotian City to increase their reputation with the centaurs, just to own a centaur of their own.
Instead, the Centaur adventurers all went to brush up their reputation with the Night Elf, because the weapons rewarded by the reputation were better.
Speaking of it, Centaur players are also quite miserable. Because they have the mount attributes, they cannot ride a mount. They can only run on their own four legs on land and can only take airships in the sky. They can't even ride a griffon.
Morgan Lisa was also very interested as she listened to the Great Emperor Shenwu talk about the current situation of the players in Kalimdor.
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Unlike Morgan Lisa who was in a playful mood , the first thing Murphy did after arriving in Haotian City was to find an alchemy store and buy a dozen super-strong dissolving potions.
He is currently hiding in his room, staring at the ball of 'contents of Ankara' in his hand.
This was already the fourth thing he had dissolved, and so far nothing good had come out of it.
An 'Arcane Crystal Lump (Ore)', an 'Alien Insect Shell (Trash)', a 'Corroded Dragon Slayer Blade (Gray Weapon)', and an 'Unidentifiable Beast Skull (Trash)'.
Except for the Arcane Crystal Clump which is still valuable, the remaining three items are garbage.
But even if it is an arcane crystal agglomeration, it is only worth a few hundred gold coins, which is totally incompatible with the BOSS level of the Ancestral Dragon King.
This Ancestral Dragon King really eats everything.
Open, open, open! This one must bring out something good.
With a flash of light, the contents of the spherical object were melted by the super-strong dissolving agent, revealing its true appearance, which turned out to be an ancient stone slab.
[System prompt: You have obtained the 'Ancient Dragon Stone Slab'. ]
【Ancient Dragon Stone Slab (Ancient Relic)
Use: Decipher the mysterious text on the slate and gain a skill.
Required to use: Ancient Dragon Language.
Item Description: An ancient rock slab whose exact age cannot be verified. Some information is recorded on it in mysterious ancient characters. A strange dragon-shaped pattern can be seen on the edge of the rock slab. 】
Hey, this time it seems to be a good thing. Murphy immediately became interested. Ancient dragon language - I know this thing.
He looked at the words on the stone slab and interpreted them word by word.
When he read the last word, the stone slab shattered into a pile of rock fragments with a crash, and at the same time -
[System prompt: You have successfully deciphered the 'Ancient Dragon Stone Slab', and you have learned [Dragon Combat Skill: Dragon Fall]
[Dragon Fall (Dragon Combat Skill)
Use: Grab the target and fall to the ground, causing crushing damage equal to your weight x speed.
Skill introduction: An ancient fighting skill created by the ancient dragon clan. It is said that the ancient dragon's body is almost immortal. It hugs the enemy and falls from the sky, rotating its wings to achieve a speed-increasing effect. The moment it lands, it smashes the enemy heavily to the ground, which can cause extremely terrifying crushing damage.
As the dragons lost their immortal bodies, they gradually became less adept at hand-to-hand combat and mostly relied on their special abilities to fight against powerful enemies. This fighting technique was gradually forgotten by the dragons. 】
This skill is very powerful.
Moreover, it can be used in both human form and dragon form. Yes, this skill is very suitable for me.
The only thing to note is that this skill seems to only work on aerial targets.
There was one last ingredient, and Murphy poured the dissolving agent on it again, thinking it would be great if he could get another piece of ancient dragon stone slab.
Slate! Slate! Slate!
Murphy muttered to himself.
