The valley was very large, with rows of neatly arranged wooden houses. From time to time, groups of centaurs would pass by. When they saw Zhang Yang, they looked at him in a very strange way, as if they had seen a monster.
Perhaps, just as humans think their four-legged appearance is weird, they also think that two-legged humans are like monsters!
As Bangakukulo arrived at his residence, the mission was completed and Zhang Yang gained 50,000 experience points.
"Ding! You have opened the reputation of the Centaurs. Your current reputation is: Indifferent!"
Zhang Yang opened the reputation interface and saw that there was indeed an entry for a centaur, which was currently cold 03000. When he walked outside, the centaurs whose names were originally displayed in red had all turned light red.
In "Miracle", monsters with red names are actively attacking. As long as you enter the monster's hatred field of view, you will be attacked. If there is a reputation system, the corresponding one is hatred.
Monsters with light red names have a cold reputation. This monster will not actively attack the player, but if the player fights this monster, as long as there are monsters of the same type nearby, they will be attacked by a group. It's like someone is fighting with someone else on the street, and if a relative of the other person passes by, he will definitely come to help.
Monsters with yellow names have a neutral reputation. Neutral monsters will not actively attack players, and when players attack such monsters, they will not be aroused by the hatred even if there are monsters of the same type passing by. It's like a fight between people in a village, and you just need to watch the fun from the sidelines.
Monsters with green names have corresponding reputations of Friendly, Respected, Revered, and Worshipped. Players cannot attack green-named monsters unless they turn on the indiscriminate attack option. However, green-named monsters are usually NPCs in the main city. Once players attack them, they are likely to be expelled by the main city, which is definitely harmful to others and not beneficial to themselves.
Not long after Bangakukulo returned to the camp, he suddenly disappeared. As an NPC who guides players to open the reputation of the Centaur, his mission is to be chased by monsters, and then ask for help from the players and bring them back to open the reputation of the Centaur.
Zhang Yang thought that since a centaur's reputation was released, there must be a reputation merchant selling goods corresponding to each level of reputation. He walked around the valley and soon found a reputation merchant.
[Turon Kukuro, Prestige Merchant] (Elite, Humanoid)
Level: 80
HP: 120,000
"Hey, human, do you want to buy some good stuff? All our Centaur stuff is pure natural and authentic. There is absolutely no fake one!" Turonkukulo is a businessman. He didn't care about Zhang Yang's cold reputation and immediately started selling to him.
As he spoke, he opened the sales catalogue to Zhang Yang.
The first thing you see is the Soul Fountain! Each bottle costs 1,000 gold!
It turns out that the Soul Spring required for the mission can be purchased directly from the NPC! And, there is no doubt that this is definitely the only way to obtain the Soul Spring!
It's okay that the price is a bit high, but since he is a reputation merchant, the goods sold by Tulon Kukuro naturally have reputation requirements! And the reputation requirement for buying the Soul Fountain is: Worship!
The Soul Fountain is bound upon pickup, so don't even think about asking players who have reached the reputation requirements to purchase it on your behalf!
—In fact, anything that requires reputation to purchase is bound on pickup.
However, this reputation is not gained in vain. In addition to the Fountain of Souls, there are actually some good things in Turon Kukuro's place, including skill books, professional formula blueprints, small pets, etc.!
There are six skill books in total, corresponding to the six major professions, and the purchase requirements are all worship! The warrior skill book is "Oscillating Wave". Zhang Yang had seen this skill in his previous life. The effect is to send a shock wave straight ahead, causing damage to all enemies within the range and making all targets comatose for 4 seconds.
The blueprints and recipes for casting and alchemy are "Casting Diagram: Centaur Axe" and "Recipe: Primary Firepower Potion" respectively.
Zhang Yang didn't know what the Centaur Axe's properties were, but he clearly remembered the effect of the Primary Firepower Potion: it increased damage output by 20% within 15 seconds. This potion was quite good and could work wonders in certain places where concentrated fire and quick attacks were needed.
When playing PK, you might be able to turn the tables by drinking a bottle of fire potion! The downside is that all potions are cooled together, so if you drink a fire potion, you can't drink red or blue. You have to think carefully about whether to save your life or fight to the death.
Zhang Yang had no love for pets, and since he couldn't sell the bound ones after picking them up, he just skipped it.
There is also a special whetstone - the assault whetstone, which can provide an additional 1% critical strike chance when applied to a weapon.
Among them, the purchase requirement for skill books is worshipped reputation, the professional blueprint recipes require revered reputation, and small pets and whetstones only require respected reputation.
However, Zhang Yang was a little confused. Since the quest items were purchased with reputation, why was this quest S-level? In Miracle, if the difficulty of a quest increased because the monster was higher than the player's level, it would only change between B, C, and D levels. A-level quests meant that you had to kill a boss, but the boss wouldn't be too difficult to kill. If it was S-level, you definitely had to kill a big boss, such as Sulian in the Bone Spirit Cave or Teboliha in the Underground Tower!
S-level difficulty tasks mean both hardship and huge rewards!
That is to say, in the process of improving your reputation, you must defeat a big boss!
"How is it? Are you interested?" Tulonkukulo grinned like a businessman. "Unfortunately, you are a stranger, and our tribe has a rule that we cannot sell some precious goods to strangers! However, you can do something for us, something that is inconvenient for us to do. In this way, our people will trust you and gradually regard you as a good friend!"
After saying that, a yellow exclamation mark suddenly appeared above Turonkukulo's head.
The mission is here!
Zhang Yang immediately said, "Okay, Turonkukuro, I am willing to serve the great Centaur tribe!"
This flattery landed firmly on Turonkukulo's horse's butt, making the reputable merchant smile. He said, "Okay! Let's see your sincerity first. If you can prove your sincerity, I can consider giving you some more tasks! Winter is coming soon, and we need to store food for the winter. Go and hunt some prey!"
"Ding! Tulonkukulo has issued you a mission: Food for the winter. Do you accept it?"
After accepting the task, the exclamation mark above Turon Kukuro's head disappeared, which means that no other tasks were issued.
"Ding! You got the meat cleaver!"
Zhang Yang summoned the skeleton warhorse, left the Centaur camp, and opened the task list to check.
[Food for the winter] (Mission difficulty: C level)
Mission description: We want to eat meat! Tulon Kukuro of the Centaur tribe asks you to collect as much meat as possible to prepare for the coming winter! You can use a meat cutter to cut meat from the corpses of any beasts in Shiva Mountain.
Completion: Collected meat 0100
Mission reward: 50,000 experience points, 250 Centaur reputation points.
[Meat Cleaver]（Quest Item）
Use: Cut the flesh off the beast.
Zhang Yang rode his horse and pulled down a dozen saber-toothed tigers, grizzly bears, devil wolves and other wild beasts in one breath, then dismounted and started killing. The basic damage of these ordinary monsters was only over 600, and they could only cause about 250 damage to Zhang Yang.
Relying on positioning and blocking, or activating the special effects of furious recovery or lover's sword, Zhang Yang easily killed all the monsters and then used the meat knife to cut the meat.
One beast can get 2-4 pieces of meat, the exact amount is completely random. After one round of meat cutting, Zhang Yang's backpack has 44 pieces of meat. After pulling the monsters twice, the number of meat pieces has reached 127.
But these pieces of meat can be stacked up to 200 pieces in a set, so Zhang Yang was too lazy to separate and discard the extra pieces of meat, and ran directly to Turon Kukullo to hand in the task.
"Ding! You have completed the task: Food for the Winter, and gained 50,000 experience points, and Centaur reputation +250!"
Looking at Tulon Kukuro again, there is another blue exclamation mark above the head of this NPC - he can complete repetitive tasks.
Or kill the beasts and cut the meat, collect 100 pieces of meat to turn in the task. According to the convention of the game, this kind of repetitive task will only stop being issued when it reaches a "qualitative change". For example, the player is upgraded, or the reputation rises to another stage.
To upgrade from indifferent to neutral, you need 3,000 reputation points. Each mission is worth 250 points, so you need to complete it 12 times in total and collect 1,200 pieces of meat.
No big deal! Let’s go!
Zhang Yang summoned the Skeleton Warhorse and began the hunting operation. This time, he had to get 1,100 pieces of meat before returning to Turon Kukuro to hand in the task, raising his reputation to neutral at one time.
With Zhang Yang's current equipment, skills, and strength, he can fight at most 30 or 40 monsters of similar levels at the same time, but the beasts here are too scattered, so he can only pull in a dozen at most, otherwise the monsters he pulls in initially will automatically leave the battle because the pursuit distance is too far.
The whole process from attracting monsters, gathering monsters, killing monsters, and cutting meat takes about two minutes. Most of the time is wasted on finding monsters, and cutting meat is also a waste of time. Killing monsters is the fastest process.
More than an hour later, Zhang Yang collected 1,100 pieces of meat and went back to Turon Kukuro to hand in the task.
"Ding! You have completed the task: Food for the Winter, and gained 50,000 experience points, and Centaur reputation +250!"
"Ding! You have completed the task: Food for the Winter, and gained 50,000 experience points, and Centaur reputation +250!"
"Ding! You're done..."
After completing 11 tasks, a green light flashed on Zhang Yang's body, which meant that his reputation had been raised by one level.
"Human, I feel your admiration for us centaurs. As an encouragement, I decided to give you a new task!" Turonkukuro smiled with satisfaction, "We already have enough food for the winter, but we still need a lot of fur to keep out the cold! Human, go hunt down white-spotted antelopes and peel off their skins for me! The more the better!"
"Ding! Tulonkukulo has issued you a task: winter clothing. Do you accept it?"
How can I not accept it
[Winter Clothes] (Mission Difficulty: C Level)
Mission description: It's freezing, get some blankets made of premium antelope skins! Tulonkukulo asks you to collect the fur of white-spotted antelopes to help the centaurs keep warm. There are white-spotted antelopes everywhere in the Shivar Mountains.
Completion: Collect 020 white antelope skins
Mission reward: 5000 experience points, 250 Centaur reputation points.
This is also a repeatable task.
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