Jiang Yan spent nearly three hours hunting tigers, filling his backpack with tiger bones and hides!
He counted out twenty tiger bones from his backpack and handed them to the Blacksmith Shop Owner. "Shopkeeper, here are the tiger bones you wanted!"
The Blacksmith Shop Owner's eyes lit up, and he snatched the twenty tiger bones with lightning speed.
[Ding~ Congratulations to player Jiang Taigong for completing the Blacksmith Shop Owner's quest!]
[Ding~ Congratulations to player Jiang Taigong for learning Mining!]
[Ding~ Congratulations to player Jiang Taigong for obtaining a Bronze Staff!]
Jiang Yan first opened his skill panel:
[Lightning Bolt] lv2 (150/1000): After a 2.5s chant, cast a lightning bolt on the target, dealing 180% of the base magic damage! Mana cost: 25! Cooldown: 2.5s!
[Mining] lv1 (0/100): Use a pickaxe to have a chance of extracting metal ores from an ore vein!
After reviewing Mining, Jiang Yan opened his backpack, where the one and a half meter long Bronze Staff lay quietly.
[Bronze Staff] (Bronze): Magic Attack +8! Requirements: Mage, Priest!
With this staff, Jiang Yan's magic attack could reach 72, and the damage from his Lightning Bolt skill would be 273.6 (72*380% skill damage bonus).
Critical damage would be 1094.4 (273.6*400% critical damage bonus)!
Now, with just this Bronze Staff, he could easily one-shot a tiger!
However, it wasn't enough!
With just this Bronze Staff, he couldn't defeat that Bronze Boss!
Jiang Yan glanced at the Blacksmith Shop Owner's head, seeing no exclamation mark above it, bought two pickaxes, and left.
Leaving the Blacksmith Shop, Jiang Yan found the Potion Shop, queued for over ten minutes, and successfully entered.
The Potion Shop Owner also had an exclamation mark above his head. After Jiang Yan focused, a line of text appeared: The Sorrow of the Middle-aged Single Man, the Potion Shop Owner had a crush on the Proprietress of the Tailor Shop next door but lacked a presentable gift.
Oh, what a coincidence?
Jiang Yan grinned and took out the tiger hide. "Shopkeeper, do you accept tiger hides?"
Tiger hide?
The Potion Shop Owner jumped three feet high, rushing over in surprise. "Tiger hide? Is it really tiger hide?!"
After carefully inspecting and confirming it was genuine tiger hide, he was overjoyed to tears. "If A Fang receives this gift, she will surely fall for me!"
"Is A Fang the Proprietress of the Tailor Shop next door?" Jiang Yan feigned eagerness, creating a sense of urgency for the Potion Shop Owner.
The Potion Shop Owner took the bait. "You, don't leave, I'll take all your tiger hides! Don't sell them to A Fang!!"
"I wonder what price you can offer, sir." Jiang Yan beamed brightly.
He took out a piece of clothing from a wooden box behind him, looking pained. "This is a leather armor A Fang made for me. If you give me twenty tiger hides, I'll give it to you!"
[A Fang's Magic Leather Armor] (Bronze): Physical Defense +2, Magic Defense +2, Spirit Attack +3! Requirements: Mage, Priest!
It had three attributes!
Jiang Yan's eyes lit up.
However, the combined three attributes only totaled 7 points, slightly less than the pure +8 magic attack of the Bronze Staff.
But even so, this magic leather armor was definitely a small treasure!
[Ding~ The Potion Shop Owner has given you a quest to collect twenty tiger hides. Quest rewards: Gathering, A Fang's Magic Leather Armor! Quest failure penalty: None!]
[Accept? Yes/No]
Yes!
Without hesitation, Jiang Yan immediately clicked yes and simultaneously took out twenty tiger hides!
"You brat!!"
Seeing the twenty neatly stacked tiger hides, the Potion Shop Owner widened his eyes, then grumbled, "Fine, fine, as long as they're tiger hides!"
With the quest completed, Jiang Yan successfully learned Gathering.
[Gathering] lv1 (0/100): Use Gathering to have a chance of collecting herbs from wild grass!
The [A Fang's Magic Leather Armor] also went straight into Jiang Yan's backpack.
To avoid drawing attention, Jiang Yan didn't change into it, continuing to wear his Novice Clothes and wield his Novice Wooden Stick.
Having completed the task, Jiang Yan didn't leave but said, "Shopkeeper, I also want to buy Health Potions and Mana Potions."
"Check the medicine list yourself." The Potion Shop Owner took the tiger hides and left.
Jiang Yan was speechless; this guy was way too lovestruck.
He then checked the Potion Shop's menu:
Health Potion: Restores 20 HP per second for 5 seconds! Price: 10 Copper Coins/bottle
Mana Potion: Restores 20 Mana per second for 5 seconds! Price: 10 Copper Coins/bottle
Advanced Health Potion: Restores 50 HP per second for 5 seconds! Price: 30 Copper Coins/bottle
Advanced Mana Potion: Restores 50 Mana per second for 5 seconds! Price: 30 Copper Coins/bottle
HP-MP Potion: Restores 50 HP and Mana per second for 5 seconds! Price: 1 Silver Coin/bottle
The Potion Shop only sold five kinds of potions. After a quick glance, Jiang Yan decided to buy Health Potions and Advanced Mana Potions.
Currently, his HP was still 160, so regular Health Potions were sufficient, but with 640 Mana, only Advanced Mana Potions could quickly restore it!
Jiang Yan's backpack contained 43 Silver Coins and 120 Copper Coins. Follow the newest chapters on g.com.
He wasn't stingy, immediately buying a hundred bottles of Health Potions, costing 10 Silver Coins.
Then he bought a hundred bottles of Advanced Mana Potions, costing 30 Silver Coins!
Potions of the same type could be stacked in the backpack, so the two hundred bottles only took up two slots in his backpack.
Leaving the Potion Shop, Jiang Yan headed to the edge of the square, where there was a designated area for setting up stalls, costing 10 Copper Coins per hour.
Upon arriving, Jiang Yan intended to set up a stall but discovered that the stalls not only sold equipment but also bought it.
"Brother, looking to sell?" A sneaky-looking guy approached Jiang Yan with a grin, glancing around while pretending to be casual.
Jiang Yan frowned, this guy looked like he was asking if he wanted to buy something illicit.
"Where's your stall?" Jiang Yan asked directly.
When setting up a stall, the system provided transaction protection, preventing scams, but in private trades, the system offered no such protection.
"Brother, my stall's over there, let's go chat?" The sneaky guy pointed to the end of the street.
Jiang Yan sneered, "Get lost!"
"Hey, are you looking for trouble?" The sneaky guy glared, trying to appear threatening. "One word from me and you won't be able to show your face around here, believe that?"
"I don't believe it, why don't you try saying it?" Jiang Yan laughed in exasperation; these small-time thugs were everywhere!
"You, alright, just you wait!" The sneaky guy stormed off in anger.
Not wanting to waste time, Jiang Yan quickly found a busy stall and took out the [Boar Armguards] with Physical Defense +2. "How much for this equipment?"
The stall owner glanced at the attributes and decisively said, "Trash equipment, 2 Silver Coins."
"And this one?" Jiang Yan took out the [Tiger Blade] with Physical Attack +3.
+3 Attack?
The stall owner's eyes lit up, immediately sending a private message: "Boss, found a Tiger Blade with +3 Attack!"
The reply came quickly: "Get it for under 10 Silver Coins no matter what!"
"Consider it done!!" The stall owner's eyes gleamed as he turned to Jiang Yan, smiling. "3 Silver Coins."
Jiang Yan also smiled.
Common Equipment attributes ranged from 1 to 4. The armguards aside, the Tiger Blade was a small treasure among common items. With Bronze Equipment not yet widely available, it was worth more than 3 Silver Coins!
Jiang Yan put away the equipment and went to the next stall to ask.
But the price at this stall was the same!
"Brother, all the stalls on this street are owned by Prosperous Dynasty. No matter which stall you ask, the price is the same! Of course, you can trade privately, but if you get scammed, don't blame anyone else." The stall owner walked towards Jiang Yan with a smug look, three big words above his head: Prosperous Peddler!
"So, how about selling both pieces for 5 Silver Coins?" Prosperous Peddler asked arrogantly.