Chapter 23
“The truth is, eight days ago, we heard a message from the heavens. It told us that a ‘Chosen One’ had descended upon this mountain. If this man was successful in taking the monster snake down, we should invite him to our clan and treat him as our most honored guest.”
As the old man spoke to Ji Ye, the other clan members began skinning the dead snake using their simple blades.
“Just a few moments ago, yet another message reached us and said that we should accept you as our master.”
“I see…” Ji Ye slowly nodded.
I guess this is the “privilege” I received for finishing the settlement quest.
It seemed that “players” didn’t necessarily need a quest to enter a human settlement. In fact, Ji Ye already had a hunch about the location of the settlement before confronting the serpent. If he chose to risk his life entering the mist zone without fighting the serpent, he might have already discovered the settlement earlier, while perhaps finding some extra help from those people so he could approach the serpent with more tools up his sleeves.
That was exactly what the confederation government had suggested; that players who had recently met with a game over should seek such settlements before doing anything else, since they wouldn’t possess any items or weapons upon rejoining the game.
Of course, the final rating would be pretty bad if a player were to complete a quest this way.
Someone from the forum had already claimed that completing quests with higher ratings was equal to receiving amazing bonuses from the “settlers.” Although this much was pretty obvious.
However, according to Hu Feng,… could there be three of such people in this small clan?
Elder Hu continued with a serious look. “Trust me, sir, while I cannot show you proof about the truthfulness of the tales in which they bare-handedly maimed monsters, I did see the second brother once wrestle with a ferocious tiger and survived in the end. Because of it, the local office of his town granted him a lofty place among the authorities.
“But he was later framed by some filthy politicians and ended up at our settlement as a roamer. Such a great pity… he used to have a bright future in the city.”