Rebirth Of The Noble Mage Behind The Scenes-Chapter 229 - 4: No Martial Ethics

In the past six months, he has always been practicing through various treasures that enhance spiritual synchronization.

Normally, this method would lead to an unstable foundation for professionals, but Anvis doesn’t have this drawback.

Due to his abnormally huge base attributes, using the normal method to synchronize his spirit and body was too slow; so slow that he could barely feel any change.

Even with the use of various rare resources, it took half a year to increase his spiritual synchronization by just 10%, and that was only the initial 10%.

Explaining it in player’s terms, the experience he needs to upgrade now is calculated as if he were at level 70.

"I wonder how the followers I previously let roam freely are doing now..."

With a final thought passing through his mind, Anvis initiated the Carrot Meditation Method, slowly sinking into a meditative state.

.........

Thud—

An arrow pierced flesh; the robed mage’s eyes widened in shock, his right hand desperately lifting, angry and wanting to say something, but he could only powerless fall, the bag of flash dust slipping from his hand to the ground.

Dressed in a mage’s robe, the Last Dragon Descendant holding a magic wand in his right hand lowered the pitch-black hand crossbow in his left, carefully removing two specially made magic-breaking crossbow bolts from the robed mage’s body and storing them cautiously.

A task progress notification appeared on the pane beside him, and at the same time, the long experience bar on the panel finally filled up the last remaining slot.

His level increased once again, reaching level 22.

He had taken on a bounty to hunt down an evil mage, and the reward was superb. Although the mage was one rank higher than him, after making some costly preparations, he successfully completed the task.

In this half-year, the Last Dragon Descendant’s personal development wasn’t as smooth as during the beta testing.

Half a year ago, although he chose Karlars as his birthplace again, he couldn’t find the treasure NPC from the beta testing.

The early period right after the server opened is incredibly precious, and not to be wasted.

Unable to find Anvis, he had no choice but to register his identity at the Mercenary Union branch in Karlars City, becoming a Travel Mercenary, and maximized the inside beta players’ understanding of the game world.

However, while investigating Anvis’s whereabouts, the Last Dragon Descendant realized that the NPCs he had completed tasks for during the internal test had no memory of his beta game character.

The tasks he had completed were the same, but the characters who helped them in the story changed, changed to other NPCs who were originally unrelated.

Also, since the public beta launch, many things have changed in the game during the past half year.

For example, Merica from the Royal Capital, who was originally just a night dancer offering players some daily tasks to practice oratory.

Now, she has opened a store on Autumn Dew Rose Street selling wild roses, and her business is reportedly booming.

After skillfully searching the body, the Last Dragon Descendant gathered a bit of coins, spell materials, and two pieces of low-level magic equipment, then he took off the ordinary black robe from the body, covered it over the head, and the system automatically packed the task item.

It’s just that he didn’t have a Soul Crystal Ball right now; otherwise, he could have also collected a second-rank spellcaster’s soul, which would be worth quite a few gold coins.

"I wonder how the top-ranked player actually climbed up there."

After tallying up his gains, the Last Dragon Descendant habitually glanced at the player leaderboard and couldn’t help but murmur to himself while looking at the combat power leader ’Xia Ye Yinghuo’ with no esports club suffix in the ID.

Mysterious Era has many leaderboards, and most of the top ten spots of these leaderboards are occupied by Silver Blue, White Light, Star Dust - three big esports clubs and their associated guilds.

Occasionally, there are some people from other clubs, and few are independent players without a suffix in their names.

But half a year ago, this female player unexpectedly soared to the top of the combat power rankings.

After staying there for a while, she was pushed down by the people from Silver Blue, and then she suddenly went up again a few days ago!

The combat power rankings only calculate character attributes, not the combat strength boosted by equipment or other items.

Many tried to contact her, but the problem was that she didn’t enable private message permissions, so message pigeons couldn’t find her.

After checking the major leaderboards, the Last Dragon Descendant opened the in-game forum built into the panel.

Due to asynchronous timing, the databases of the in-game and external forums are not synchronized in real-time but are synced every twenty-five hours of game time.

When the built-in game forum was first discovered, many people used it instead of message pigeons to communicate.

Therefore, to sell high-level message pigeons, the planners subsequently updated a patch, removing the ability to post, reply, and send private messages in the game’s internal forum, leaving players only able to browse without posting.

After a while, possibly due to severe backlash, the planners changed it back, only increasing the post review time, causing approximately ten minutes of delay for player messages.

In half a year of game time, the players have also gradually grown, with those in the first tier already successfully reaching level twenty and above.

The forum is full of strategic posts; some by true experts, some by novices pretending to know, and others are blatantly meant to dupe whoever they can.

With a massive base of players, regardless of the type of strategy, there’s always someone willing to try out the methods mentioned in the posts to seek ’NPCs’ to trigger tasks.

While browsing, the Last Dragon Descendant also saw a passionate complaint post.

The poster ’Charcoal-Grilled Squid’ tearfully accused a forum player ’Ji Ou’ of duping newcomers.

He saw a strategy posted by ’Ji Ou’ saying ’telling NPCs they live in a fake world could trigger an official easter egg.’

Charcoal-Grilled Squid’s birthplace happened to be the most bustling royal city of the Saint Messia Empire, Holy Song City.

So, he tried running to a priest of the Holy Radiance Church and said: this world is a fabrication, you live in a game world.

The black-robed priest initially failed to understand what this foreigner was saying, and Charcoal-Grilled Squid, struck with inspiration, used the metaphor of a grand illusionary world to point out that they were fictitious beings in this world.

As a result, Charcoal-Grilled Squid was almost sent to the stake for immediate purification.

But fortunately, the bishop in charge of the judgment, considering him a lost lamb, forgave his sins. He was spared the consumption of a resurrection crystal, but was punished to face the wall in the confession room for three days.

This is comparable to being imprisoned in the dungeons for committing offenses in other empires, except the Saint Messia Empire substitutes dungeons with confession rooms.

For players, being in a dungeon leads to a random drop in skill proficiency, while being in a confession room leads to experience loss and level reduction, equally tricky.

After browsing the forum, the Last Dragon Descendant, carrying the task items, rushed like the wind to the local Mercenary Union.

As he entered, a girl in a peculiar magic robe just happened to come out, brushing past him.

The elf slightly puzzled, turned her head to look back, but she had hidden her character nickname.

Shaking his head, the Last Dragon Descendant turned and entered the guild.

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