CHAPTER 42: CHAPTER 42: GAINING FACE

Mr. Zhou casually pulled Hand Rubbing Diamonds up: "This game is incredibly realistic, we, with our good rapport, should have ’face’ with Mage Fang Ka."

Hand Rubbing Diamonds hesitated for a moment: "Hmm, makes sense. The entire volcano is covered with that fiery red crystal."

"Even if that hidden dungeon isn’t open, opening a spot that’s a bit farther from there should still be possible."

Then, the two of them called over players with favorable impressions from Mage Fang Ka and headed towards the Ancient Castle together.

At that moment, Fang Ka was busy in the Ancient Castle brewing Basic Enhancement Alchemy Potions.

He had already brewed a heap of them, to the point where the containers in the castle were running low.

He was pondering about finding some lucky players to help transport these alchemy potions to the Divine Hall and then to get some big nuts for him.

Ever since the first time a player used that thing to collect blood for him, he noticed that these natural containers were particularly handy.

While he was thinking about this, from the corner of his eye, he noticed players approaching from a distance.

So he paused, and walked towards the lower part of the castle.

The room where he brewed potions had an excellent window, right above the castle entrance, so players coming to the castle would inevitably be heading towards the entrance.

Thus, it was easy to see players approaching from there.

He walked to the entrance of the castle and straightened his attire, waiting for them to get closer.

He noticed right away that these players had all leveled up to Level 2, indicating they likely came for a team mission.

However, what puzzled Fang Ka was why all the players that came had favorable impressions added by him, which was somewhat strange.

Finally, these players arrived before Fang Ka.

Leading the group, Mr. Zhou first opened his jaws to give a ’sweet’ smile to Fang Ka.

"Mage Fang Ka, we have a request and hope you can grant it."

Fang Ka did not answer immediately, instead, he observed this group of players carefully for a while.

This made Mr. Zhou quite anxious, secretly wondering if the AI of this NPC was too high because the way he was being scrutinized was making his scalp tingle.

Finally, Fang Ka slowly spoke: "Go ahead, what is it?"

Mr. Zhou finally breathed a sigh of relief: "We want to go to the volcano to the west and collect the fiery red crystals there; we need them."

Upon hearing this, Fang Ka contemplated briefly.

These players need Fire Crystals?

Honestly, these things are quite useless to Fang Ka since he’s a Necromancer, with clashing attributes, unable to practice fire, lightning, or light magic.

Therefore, these Fire Crystals, used for Fire Weapon Enchantment, are pretty useless to him.

Now these Level 2 players suddenly need this item, it’s apparent that it’s related to Iron Refining.

Are they planning to build a blast furnace with it?

Thinking of this, Fang Ka raised a brow slightly.

He pondered over the properties of this thing and suddenly realized that it’s indeed perfectly suitable for building a blast furnace.

Kain left him books on how to smith, how to build an iron smelting furnace, but he was always busy, either brewing potions, meditating, or reading books.

So, he never really thought much about these things, but he never underestimated the creativity and initiative of players, so leaving these tasks to players was reassuring to him.

Now that players have come to ask for Fire Crystals, he just linked it in his mind and understood.

These players probably want to churn out a blast furnace for Iron Refining, and given the current challenging conditions, they’re considering solving it with Magic Materials.

Hand Rubbing Diamonds and Grandpa Qian of Bone-Touching had obviously interacted with Fire Crystals at the volcano before, and a player like Hand Rubbing Diamonds would certainly be very interested in terrain materials entirely different from reality.

At that time, he must have observed and researched the Fire Crystals, gaining some understanding of their properties.

So, everything fits together.

After pondering for a while, he refocused on these players and slowly spoke: "Alright, I will open a small section of the volcano area for you."

"You should be aware that there will be a time limit, until tomorrow night."

"If you need a lot, it would be best to transport more outside."

"In addition, besides transporting Fire Crystals, you must not do anything else."

This sentence was actually just a verbal warning. He would directly issue a command within these players’ Soul Contracts.

Forbidding any digging behavior within one kilometer of the volcano.

This was Fang Ka’s maximum estimation of the Compatibility Domain coverage of that Water Element Magic Array.

That Water Element Magic Array wasn’t a particularly advanced magic array, and Kain’s books contained detailed descriptions.

It’s just that since Fang Ka is still at the Mage Apprentice level, he couldn’t decipher it.

With this command issued, these players wouldn’t be able to cause trouble.

When these players entered the volcano area to transport Fire Crystals, if anyone attempted to dig, they would feel an invisible force preventing them from doing so.

On the surface, they would certainly assume that Fang Ka had set up a magic array on the ground.

In fact, it’s the effect of the command, preventing them from exerting any force, which was the true insurance.

He gave this verbal warning just to caution the players not to court death.

Of course, the likelihood of these players courting death was low, but as long as there was a possibility, Fang Ka would eliminate it from the root.

After listening to Fang Ka’s words, the players present couldn’t help but show joy in their eyes.

Mr. Zhou quickly said: "Thank you, Mage Fang Ka."

Fang Ka nodded: "You can head to the volcano site now."

Mr. Zhou and the others nodded and quickly turned to leave.

On the way to the volcano, Mr. Zhou looked at the other players and spoke with a smile: "See? I guessed right. We, the ones with increased favorability from Mage Fang Ka, are definitely different from ordinary players."

"We have more ’face’ in front of him, and he values our words more. If ordinary players had asked just now, he probably wouldn’t have agreed at all."

"I must say, Mage Fang Ka’s AI intelligence is really high, and the game’s company really spares no expense on computing power for him."

Hand Rubbing Diamonds also nodded in agreement: "Let’s all work hard to transport as much back as possible later."

Mr. Zhou lightly nodded: "Of course, that volcano is too far from us. We can only choose to transport it to where we’re building the blast furnace."

At this point, Mr. Zhou looked at Grandpa Qian of Bone-Touching beside him: "We’ll head directly to the volcano, and Grandpa Qian, you should inform the other Level 2 players to come and help later."