The sprite boy sat on Xu Sili’s shoulder, looking down with a thoughtful expression on his face.
Xu Sili noticed his abnormality and asked, “What’s wrong?”
“I saw a big hammer.”
Small Round Biscuit said this and his eyes finally revealed emotions other than contempt and questioning. Instead, there was a bit of curiosity and interest.
Xu Sili was stunned by the words. “A big hammer?”
“Yes.” Small Round Biscuit nodded and continued to stare downward.
Xu Sili followed his gaze, but couldn’t see anything specific due to the distance.
The big hammer should be the player’s weapon, right? It was quite unique that someone would use a hammer as a weapon.
Speaking of such a special weapon, he suddenly remembered the player his second brother had asked him to take care of before.
It seemed to be someone from the Yin Group?
Later, he went to the weapons store in Mercenary Town and became a life player.
Now his name appeared on the special talent panel. He had become a junior weapons master, the first among players.
In view of the Yin Group’s help to the Xu family, he had previously visited the player under the pretext of visiting Master Abel.
He even praised the player in front of Master Abel and increased the subsidy amount for the armory. Later, he was busy with other things and forgot about him.
Xu Sili shook his head, gathered his scattered thoughts, and asked the little sprite, “Is there anything different about this big hammer?”
“I feel inscriptions on it.”
Small Round Biscuit said, “This inscription was invented by the inscription master of Siasa. Turles taught me.”
“The inscription is very difficult. There are also three inscriptions engraved on this hammer. It is amazing!”
“Is it difficult to have three inscriptions?” Xu Sili asked.
“Certainly!”
Small Round Biscuit said seriously, “Inscription patterns can’t be stacked infinitely.”
“Once there are more than two inscription patterns, it is very likely that a rejection reaction will occur. Not all things can withstand multiple inscription patterns.”
“If the rejection reaction is too severe or the carrier is of poor quality, the engraving will fail. This can easily lead to damage to the carrier or even cause an explosion.”
Xu Sili nodded in understanding. This meant that there was a certain failure rate in engraving inscriptions.
Anyone who had played games could understand this.
“So, this big iron hammer can bear three inscriptions, meaning it is really excellent. The blacksmith must be very powerful!”
The sprite was very excited.
“Do you want to go down and take a look?” Xu Sili asked when he saw how excited the sprite boy was.
Small Round Biscuit touched his chin and nodded. “Okay, let’s go down and take a look!”
Xu Sili looked at Si Sheng. Si Sheng nodded and the two of them flew downwards together.
After launching the exploration mission of the Siasa ruins, Xu Sili notified Silin and asked her to withdraw all the NPC troops. Now there were only players in the Siasa Forest.
No matter how noisy the screaming dryad was, it couldn’t cause much damage to Roland.
As he flew downwards, Small Round Biscuit silently took out a pair of small earplugs.
This was made for him by Turles. It had sound-isolating inscriptions engraved on it. Once worn, it could effectively reduce the damage to his ears caused by the screaming dryad.
Meanwhile, Xu Sili was a sound elementalist. Even without Si Sheng’s protection, he could use the soundproof barrier to protect himself. What’s more, there was Si Sheng around and no screaming dryad could hurt him.
Soon, under the leadership of the sprite, they came to the dense forest and met the player holding the big hammer.
Xu Sili was slightly stunned when he saw the player’s face.
Wasn’t this Yin Xing? Was the big hammer really his?
Xu Sili casually used Insight on him.
Yin Xing’s current level had reached Lv 30. This wasn’t high among other players, but as a daily player, it wasn’t weak either.
He also discovered that Yin Xing’s health was much higher than the average Lv 30 player. This proved that his physical strength attribute value wasn’t low.
Did he put all his free points into his physique? Or did he have some other adventure?
Then he used Insight on the hammer.
[Iron Hammer]
[Description: Made by Collins, a master blacksmith. It is one of his most proud works. It has three inscriptions engraved on it and is related to a legendary quest.
Quality: Legendary.
Equipment effects:
- Indestructible. A passive skill. The hammer can’t be destroyed. When attacked, there is a chance to trigger a layer of shield, increasing physical defense by 10%. This can be stacked up to five layers.
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Metal glory: Enhances the metal elementalist’s elemental control in a short period of time. It doubles the effects of all metal skills, lasts for 10 minutes, and has a cooldown of 1 hour.
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Blacksmithing: A passive skill. When making equipment, there is a 50% chance of triggering this skill. Once triggered, the effect of the hammer in removing impurities from materials is increased by 100% and lasts for 30 minutes.]
“This big hammer is so beautiful!”
Beside him, the sprite’s attention was completely absorbed by the hammer.
If he hadn’t been afraid of being discovered, he would’ve flown over and studied the big hammer non-stop.
Xu Sili also nodded in agreement.
How could a hammer of legendary quality not be beautiful? This was even though it felt like an ordinary big hammer.
Moreover, according to the brief description, this hammer was related to a legendary mission.
Yin Xing must’ve come here for this mission, right? Could this legendary mission be related to his life profession?
After all, the description of this hammer mentioned the unfamiliar profession of ‘master blacksmith.’
Xu Sili immediately became interested.
He wanted to directly guide Yin Xing to find the entrance to the ruins, but the actions of the two players stopped him before he could release his spiritual power.
Yin Xing and Deng Jianan took note of the motionless and screaming dryads, but didn’t approach rashly.
They were also in competition with other players. If they could be the first to enter the ruins, who would be stupid enough to expose clues to other competitors?
The two of them randomly joined a battlefield and fought against a screaming dryad with a few scattered people.
As spiritual elementalists, they could stand in the back and output damage.
Under the cover of Deng Jianan, Yin Xing multi-tasked by secretly releasing several steel balls and controlling them to approach the motionless tree monsters.
No one noticed their little movements. Everyone’s attention was focused on defeating the monster.
Now a direction had been speculated in the forum.
The clue to the ruins was likely to be an item dropped by the screaming dryad. It was only by obtaining this item that they could enter the ruins.
This was a very common game idea, which had been recognized by a majority of players. Therefore, they were now pushing monsters like crazy. The major player mercenary groups were also organizing people to come in a steady stream.
Even if there were piles of corpses, they had to flatten the screaming dryad as soon as possible and get the mission items!
The players who kept coming were delicious food in the eyes of the screaming dryads. As the number of interstellar beasts decreased, they had generally been hungry for a long time.
Now there was so much ‘food’ and the screaming dryads naturally rioted.
The entire dense Siasa Forest was countless times more dangerous than before Silin and his army withdrew.
Therefore, even if some players discovered these quiet big trees, they wouldn’t think anything else for the time being due to their fixed mindset. They were too busy suppressing the rioting tree monsters.
Everyone was fighting to defeat the monsters. The lights of various skills on the battlefield flickered, becoming more dazzling as night fell.
This also facilitated the actions of Yin Xing and Deng Jianan.
“Ah Xing, how is it?” Deng Jianan asked in the team channel.
“The dryads don’t react to steel balls. Once the steel balls hit the trees, their health bars don’t light up.”
“So these dryads aren’t monsters?”
“Probably not.”
Deng Jianan became excited. He found that they had found a particularly important clue!
“Aside from a lack of response, is there anything else special?”
“I haven’t found it yet.”
Deng Jianan thought for a moment and said, “Let’s go to other places and try every abnormal tree.”
“Okay.”
Once the two of them finished talking, they pretended that they had no more mana and stopped taking medicine. Then Deng Jianan complained, “This broken tree, I’ve been hitting it for so long but its health bar hasn’t dropped!”
“Let’s try something else.”
Yin Xing said and the two of them moved their positions.
The few individual players didn’t doubt it, but they felt a bit more contempt for their behavior of giving up halfway.
Yin Xing and Deng Jianan walked through the dense forest, moving from one place to another almost every time they shot, slowly exploring.
They met a team on the way that finally killed a dryad. Deng Jianan pretended to want to take advantage of the opportunity, but was driven away by those players.
After some exploration, the two of them had found 13 unusual trees, but still no clues appeared as they had imagined. Just as Deng Jianan couldn’t help doubting himself—
“Huh?”
Yin Xing’s puzzled voice was heard in the team channel.
“What’s wrong? Is there something new?”
“One of the steel balls disappeared.”
Deng Jianan almost screamed, but he suppressed his excitement and asked, “Where did it disappear?”
Yan Xing secretly glanced at a screaming dryad not far away. “Over there. Come with me.”
Deng Jianan nodded before saying on a nearby channel, “I’m going to log off to eat.”
Yin Xing cooperated. “Will you log in later?”
“Of course. We will play all night today!”
“Then let’s find a safe place to log off. I need to take a break as well.”
The two of them performed again. Then they sneaked towards the screaming dryad that Yin Xing had discovered.
It was already late at night. The players were logging off one after another. Under the cover of the light of battle, their actions didn’t arouse any suspicion.
However, all of this was seen by Xu Sili’s group.
Xu Sili looked at the two actors and found them quite interesting. Seeing that they had finally found the entrance to the ruins, he looked at Small Round Biscuit. “Wait until they enter the ruins. Then you can go and interact with them.”
Small Round Biscuit had also watched the actions of the two humans and his eyes became even more contemptuous.
Not only were they weak, but they also had a lot of crooked ideas.
However, at least they had more brains than the other humans who only knew how to act recklessly.
At this time, he couldn’t help frowning. “Why?”
He had no desire to make friends with these humans.
Xu Sili stretched out his finger and gently tapped his head. “Of course, you want to ask for a gift. Ask them to buy you… something delicious and fun.”
“Aren’t you interested in the big hammer? You can ask him if he can lend it to you for research.”
Small Round Biscuit held his head and looked over suspiciously.
Wasn’t he the ruler of these humans? Why did Small Round Biscuit feel like…
He was digging pits?
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