Volume 20, Chapter 98: Map Rewards and the Status of the Poseidon System

Although the teleportation array on our side has been completely set up and entered an active state, it is not yet available because the teleportation hall of the Poseidon Temple opposite has not turned on the receiving function. [ ] To complete the transmission, the teleportation array is just like a telephone. It's not just that you dial the correct number. If the other party doesn't answer, it's useless even if you dial endlessly.

Although we have to wait for the other party to activate the teleportation array, Prometheus and I are not in a hurry. Not because we have the patience to wait, but because we know we can’t wait long.

The teleportation array in Poseidon Temple is an important connection channel. Even if it has not been opened for a long time, there will definitely be someone on duty. Once they find that the teleportation array can be activated again, they will definitely report it as soon as possible, and as long as the boss blocks it Dong nodded, and the teleportation array could resume work immediately.

In fact, we only waited less than eight minutes in the end. The blue light circle on the teleportation array in front of us suddenly rose upwards by more than two meters, and then quickly dropped down. After waiting for the light to rise and fall, the teleportation array suddenly There is one more person in the center.

"Huh? It actually works?" A sea fighter stood in the teleportation array and glanced around the surrounding environment in surprise, and then moved his eyes to us. "Are you the ones who restored the operation of the teleportation array?"

Prometheus once again used his excellent judgment and quickly pointed at me and said: "We are not, this one did it alone."

"Are you alone?" The guy glanced at me and nodded: "Since the teleportation array has been activated, leave the operation to me. Do you want to go to Poseidon Temple to have a look? Yes. If so, just go up and I'll help you teleport."

Prometheus and I both nodded, and then stood on the teleportation array under the command of the sea fighter.

This teleportation array is a public teleportation point, so it is generally not controlled by players. This sea fighter will probably become the resident NPC responsible for the teleportation array here in the future.

Under the control of that sea fighter, Prometheus and I and a few people he selected were the first to teleport to the teleportation array on the Poseidon Temple side. And when the halo of light around us flashed away, the scene around us changed drastically.

Originally, the teleportation array over at Poseidon Cave was built in a stone cave. Although the ground and walls have been simply treated, it is really just a simple treatment. It is even so simple that some places on the ground are not completely flat, and some places on the walls are covered with moss. It's pretty primitive anyway. However, the teleportation array here in Poseidon Temple is completely different compared to the one in Poseidon Cave.

The tall and wide teleportation hall is located on a sky platform. There is a circle of towering Roman columns surrounding the top of the square platform, but there is nothing above it. There was no roof above the platform, no walls around it, and nothing except the circle of pillars.

Although this structure can be said to be super simple, it is because of its simplicity. On the contrary, it makes it look more majestic and magnificent. Of course, another reason for this impression is that the scale of this building is really large. The platform under our feet is obviously a base higher than the ground, but its area is far more than one thousand square meters, at least two thousand to three thousand square meters. Although the circle of Roman columns around the platform is not very dense, each one is more than ten meters in diameter, and each one is a hundred meters high. At a glance, it really looks like an Optimus pillar. However, in my opinion, what is more shocking than those giant pillars is the sea water above our heads. That's right. It's sea water. We don't know how high above our heads is a piece of blue water, and some fish can be seen swimming in it, but they are being supported by an invisible force at this time, with no intention of falling down. .

"How spectacular!" Prometheus sighed as he looked up at the water above his head like me. Compared to me, he was even more shocked. I have been to Atlantis before, and our guild’s Great White Shark submersible carrier also has an all-glass viewing room. When the viewing room is raised, it is also shocking to look out from inside. After these two baptisms, I just feel that the current Poseidon Temple is spectacular, but I am not very surprised. But this is the first time Prometheus has seen anything like this. So he was definitely more shocked than I was.

"Are you the ones who activated the teleportation array?" We were still admiring the surrounding scenery when we suddenly heard someone talking, so we followed the sound and looked over, and we finally discovered that there was someone standing next to us. However, only now did we realize that it was not our fault, it was entirely his own fault. Who said this guy is less than one meter tall? Although my height is relatively short among the crowd. But it's definitely not so short that people will ignore it.

Although the guy in front of me looks humanoid, his height is a bit exaggeratedly short, and this guy is obviously not human, because he actually has a green cauldron on his back... maybe it's a shell! Anyway, this guy looks like a genuine Kame Sennin, but he is not as fashionable as Kame Sennin's clothes, but he comes out naked. Of course, because of the tortoise shell's front and rear cover, this guy is still covered up tightly even if he doesn't wear anything.

"Hello. May I ask what your name is?"

"I am the executive officer of Poseidon, you can call me Kameda."

"Huh?" When I suddenly heard such a name, I was stunned.

The other person obviously didn't know why I had such a big reaction when I heard his name. He thought I had heard of his name, so he asked me suspiciously: "Have you heard of me?"

Of course I quickly shook my head. "No. It's just that the name is very similar to the naming convention of a certain area."

"Oh, is that so? The other party is very close to you, right?"

"No, on the contrary, we are old enemies."

Kameda was a little embarrassed by what I said, so he quickly changed the subject. "Well, since you have restored the connection between sea and land, you should be rewarded. Now please give me the scroll we left at the mission release place, and I will give you the reward you deserve based on the completion record."

I nodded and handed over the scroll, and Kameda was stunned for a moment after opening the scroll, and then asked with slight surprise: "Did you really do this alone?"

I nodded and said, "Of course. Isn't it written in the record?"

"I wrote it, but the task is too fast, right?" Kameda looked at the scroll and said, "Did you really complete the entire task in just a few hours?"

"Isn't everything recorded?"

"Okay then. The basic reward of the mission is multiplied by the advance factor of the completion time. Then multiplied by the difficulty increase factor if the number of people is less than the standard number of people, then the reward should be like this. First you will get a treasure map." Kameda said He took out a scroll and handed it to me.

I took the scroll and asked, "Can I ask about the value of the treasure?" The reason for asking is that this mission is only a low-medium difficulty map, so the rewarded items may be of a low level. If it has no value, I might as well sell it to a local and save myself the time to find it.

Kameda heard my question and replied: "The treasure is a water element essence, which can strengthen a small amount of water magic power."

I thought about it and went back to ask Prometheus. "How much would you pay for this thing if I sold it to you?"

Prometheus was stunned for a moment, then reacted and shouted directly: "I will offer eight hundred... no, I will offer one thousand crystal coins."

After thinking for a moment, I felt that the price was quite high, so I threw the scroll directly. "It's yours."

Prometheus excitedly caught the scroll and directly ordered his men to hand the money into my hands. Although this water element essence is not of high grade, it has no side effects. And it can be strengthened repeatedly, so it is considered a mid-range treasure on the market. Of course, thanks to the ultra-low treasure appearance rate in "Zero", even mid-range treasures are not something you can buy if you want. Anyway, in the game "Zero", apart from the various healing and magic-recovering potions, other materials are basically always out of stock, whether it is equipment, magic pets, strengthening drugs or other resources, anyway, "Zero" "There is no overproduction of anything in "Zero", so the prices in "Zero" are always very high, and as the level of the items increases, the prices do not increase cumulatively. Instead, it jumps up in a geometric progression. Generally speaking, if you come across super high-end items, it is common for them to cost over 100 million, and if you have the money, you won’t be able to buy them.

Kameda doesn’t pay much attention to our buying and selling behavior. After all, things belong to others after they are sent out. He is not boring enough to care about how others deal with his own items. After we finished the transaction, he immediately announced: "The second task reward is to provide an opportunity to assimilate the water element. You can choose to assimilate any element."

The so-called element assimilation is to make someone have a super high affinity for a certain element, which is expressed by attributes. When you cast this type of magic, the power will increase by a certain percentage, but the specific increase depends on the degree of assimilation. Generally speaking, the increase percentage is the assimilation percentage, and the difference between the two is generally not more than three percent. In addition, elemental assimilation also allows you to obtain lower requirements and lower costs when learning and using all magic in this department. Let's say you get the fire elemental assimilation. So a fire spell that others need to learn at level 1,000, you may be able to learn at level 800, and when you cast it, it will be more powerful than others at level 1,000. Also, for the same magic, if someone else consumes 3,000 magic points at a time, you may only need 60%, or 50%, or even 30% of that. This is the magical effect of elemental assimilation.

To be honest, I never thought there would be such advanced bonus content before. I always thought that a mission of this level would only give you some equipment. Just giving him a few more attribute points would be enough. Unexpectedly, the outrageous attribute reward of elemental assimilation appeared in the end. You must know that this thing does not just add one effect. It greatly increases the power while reducing the magic requirements. This is like turning the submachine gun in your hand into a rapid-fire grenade launcher, and the ammunition power is greatly increased. At the same time as the improvement, the continuous ability of firepower has also increased. Such an exaggerated reward can no longer be compared to simply giving you a few hundred attribute points. In terms of my attributes. If you want to achieve the same effect by purely adding attribute points, you don't even have to think about thirty or fifty thousand attribute points.

"This, this, this, why are there so many rewards?"

Kameda seemed happy to see me scared, and then he explained proudly: "This is a team task, the task reward is fixed, and the default number of people who complete the task is seventy-six. So if the number of people is more than seven Sixteen people, then the reward you get is the default reward for each participant multiplied by seventy-six of the actual number of people. Similarly, because you only have one person, the reward you get is the single-person reward multiplied by seventy. The result after six. In addition. Since this is a large-scale team task, the default task time is seven days. However, you only spent eight points and seven hours, so your task reward is multiplied by the time reward, so the final reward will be It’s quite exaggerated. If you could speed up the task a little more, the reward might be even more exaggerated.”

"No need to be more exaggerated, this is already scary." The assimilation attribute strengthens the magic ability of a single system in proportion, so this attribute becomes more powerful in the later stages. With my current level of more than 2,000 levels, I have obtained this attribute. Even if someone else has the same attribute as me and uses the same magic as me, the power of my spells may be more than four times that of his. certainly. This calculation result is calculated based on the fact that our other attributes are exactly the same. After all, if my actual attributes are included in the calculation, even without the assimilated attributes, my magic power is definitely six times that of other thousand-level players. Ten to eighty times more.

"Okay, that's it for the rewards. Do you want to assimilate with me now or come back when you want?"

"Now, now."

"Then please come with me." After Kameda finished speaking, he said to Prometheus: "You can move freely, but please remember to abide by the city rules, otherwise you will be thrown out by the law enforcement team to feed the clucking beasts."

"What is a gurgle?" Prometheus asked suspiciously.

"I'll know when I see you." After Kameda said this, he pulled me out of the teleportation hall.

There is a wide street outside this roofless teleportation hall, and standing on the slightly higher base of the teleportation hall, you can see the scenery of a large area nearby. Obviously, the urban construction of Poseidon was not completed in stages. It was built once and for all. The reason why I say this is because at a glance from here, the streets in the entire city are completely straight lines. The buildings in the city are all distributed in square areas composed of streets, and the area of ​​each square area is exactly the same. However, although the area of ​​these square areas is the same, the type and number of buildings squeezed into the square areas are different, so the entire city does not look very monotonous. On the contrary, precisely because of the differences in the number, size and purpose of the buildings, these square areas are well-proportioned to form a coordinated beauty. certainly. Because the streets are too regular, the city as a whole still looks a bit too solemn. However, considering that this is the Poseidon Temple, which itself has a religious nature, it should be more solemn.

Unlike most cities on the ground, Poseidon Temple is located on the bottom of the sea, so things like dust are basically insulated from Poseidon Temple. and. Since the residents here are all voters of Boseidon, they will consciously abide by and protect this religious city, so the entire city is unimaginably clean and tidy. Here you can't see the dust and mud on the ground in ordinary cities, nor can you see all kinds of broken jars and cans stuffed in the gaps between buildings. What's more important is that the public facilities here are not only the number. They are extremely numerous and well maintained, almost as if they were just built, with no trace of human damage at all.

To be honest, we also had this design idea for Essinger at the beginning. But when Essinger was still the only city in our Frost Rose Alliance, the environment inside the city was indeed similar to that of Poseidon Temple. But as Essinger opened up to the outside world, various problems followed. At first, there were foreign players littering in the city. As a result, our guild specially assigned the city patrol team the responsibility of monitoring environmental sanitation. If anyone is found throwing garbage, they will be fined. but. This method can only reduce the number of people littering, but it cannot prevent it from happening.

In fact, things like littering and having mud on your feet are still trivial matters. As long as you increase investment in city cleaning and hire more free NPCs to act as health workers, there will be no problem. The key is that various behaviors that damage public property are more troublesome. Since Essinger is a European-style city, according to European habits, there are many various sculpture fountains in the city. As a result, some people like to add random things to the sculptures or deliberately damage the sculptures. Of course, the result is usually that these people are killed directly, then resurrected and come back to make noise in our guild, only to be killed again.

Based on city security considerations, our bank will set up sculptures of various characters and monsters in Essinger, more than two-thirds of which are gargoyles or simply disguised golem guards. When people who came to Isengard for the first time and never knew about this attempted to destroy the sculpture, our golem guards acted on the principle of self-defense. Of course it will come alive and start fighting. And because the golem guards are part of the city defense system, when one golem is activated, the others will also be activated together. This kind of thing would be more frequent at first when Essinger was first opened. Later, many people knew about it, and no fool would look for trouble anymore. After all, there are only a handful of guilds or individuals in the country who dare to challenge our Frost Rose Alliance. Generally, no one likes to play around if their immediate interests are not involved. However, China is really too big. Moreover, the people Isinger interacts with are not only Chinese, there must be guys who don't know about this and have poor hands. The direct result of this situation is that Essinger's golem guard system is accidentally activated almost once or twice every day. If it weren't for the God of War, a guy who never knew what boredom was, we would have changed Essinger into a closed city that is not open to the outside world. certainly. In that case, our income will also drop a lot. After all, the flow of people is sometimes equated with wealth. Have you not seen how scary the rents of shops in those commercial streets are? Who has ever seen a canteen in a barren mountain with a monthly rent of tens of thousands?

Although I envy Poseidon Temple's urban hygiene, I'm not too sad. Although our Essinger is a little bit dirty compared to others, but compared with other guild cities and system cities, it is absolutely no problem to be a world health city or something. And according to my estimation, the sanitary conditions of Poseidon Temple may not be maintained for long. The reason why this place is so clean now is that there are no outsiders, and the local staff are basically Boseidon's gods and people. They are a group of fanatical believers who can survive only by faith. The moral integrity of such people is off the charts. . There is absolutely no chance of anything damaging to the environment happening. However, there is no filtering system among players. I have never heard of any city that restricts people with poor quality from entering or exiting. Therefore, with the opening of the teleportation array, some players with poor quality will inevitably enter here in the future, and then all kinds of graffiti, littering, and vandalism of public property will appear. Anyway, don’t expect Poseidon Temple to maintain its current situation in the future. Maybe Poseidon Temple will not be as clean as Isengard in a few weeks. After all, we have tens of thousands of cleaning staff there, and I don’t believe Poseidon Temple can be equipped with so many cleaning staff.

With this thought. I followed Kameda and browsed the various buildings along the way. In general, the urban construction of Poseidon Temple is quite beautiful. The building structure is unified and standardized, and it looks solemn and changeable. There are many shops of various kinds, but most of them only have storefronts without actual operators. Even the shops that are operated are empty. Basically, depression is no longer enough to describe the place. situation. certainly. With the influx of players, this place will become lively sooner or later. After all, Poseidon Temple is a special expansion map that has many advantages over regular maps, so players usually want to squeeze into this kind of place. And when there are more people, the city will naturally prosper.

I was thinking wildly when I suddenly heard Kameda ask: "By the way, I forgot to ask before, what do you want to be called?"

"Purple sun."

"What did you say?" Just like when I heard the man in front of me say his name was Kameda. Kameda also had a huge reaction after hearing my name, and he almost fell down because he turned around too fast. "What did you say your name was?"

"Zi Ri. What's wrong?"

"The purple sun from the Frost Rose Alliance?" Kameda confirmed.

I nodded and said, "Yes, is there any problem?"

"Problem?" Kameda looked at me in surprise and asked, "Aren't you afraid of this kind of emotion?"

"Why should I be afraid?"

"I..." Kameda was about to say something, but I choked him and couldn't continue. Finally, after a while, he slowly said: "I really don't know what you think. Are you really not aware or are you pretending not to know?"

"What do I know? I know?"

"Okay. Let's pretend you don't know." Kameda said: "Then let me tell you now, because of what you did to the Olympus Protoss, Zeus has judged that you are plotting to subvert our Olympus Protoss. The theocratic rule of the Pius Protoss, so now you are the mortal enemy of our Olympus Protoss."

"Then what?"

"Pfft..." Kameda spat out blood and said, "Why are you teasing me? And then? Don't you know that our Poseidon family is also part of the Olympus clan?"

"Yes. You said it yourself, you are just a part of the Olympus Protoss, and you do not represent the Olympus Protoss. Besides, saying that I want to subvert the Olympus Protoss is what Zeus said, and I Didn’t say anything.”

"Then what, just let me be afraid of you, right? Anyway, you should keep a low profile, right? Zeus is arresting you all over the world right now. But you came to Poseidon in a big way. Do you want us to arrest you or not? What? If people see this, how can we explain it to Zeus!"

"Anyway, your Poseidon line has never regarded Zeus as the boss. What the hell are you trying to explain to him? Since you are Bo Seidon's assistant, you should know some confidential things, right?"

"What should I know?" Kameda suddenly became nervous after hearing my words.

As a member of the Poseidon family, he is different from me. Although the Poseidon family has decided to betray Zeus, it is just a decision after all. In fact, they are still Bo Saidon's subordinates. Therefore, they cannot openly talk about rebellion. Zeus and I are already on the same level. Even adding a little more negative relationship will only make Zeus angrier, and it will have no effect on me. But. At least until now, their Poseidon family has to rely on Zeus's breath, so they have to be cautious.

"Hehe, I know why you are pretending to be stupid. Okay, I won't force you anymore. You should take me to complete the assimilation first, and then take me to see Boseidon. I have something to interview with him."

Kameda thought for a while and nodded: "This is no problem, then come with me quickly."

The so-called assimilation does not mean that I give you something to eat and it becomes ok. Assimilation is a ritual that needs to be performed by twelve mages of at least the same level as or higher than the person being assimilated. Because of this harsh condition, it is painful to assimilate senior personnel. Just like me, it is simply impossible to find twelve people with more than 2,000 levels among players. After all, the person currently ranked second in level is still five or six hundred levels away from me. It would be even more impossible to have twelve people of the same level as me at once. Of course, although the players can't gather them together, there are quite a few NPCs.

There are naturally a lot of magicians under Bo Saidon. As long as the high-level big bosses are gathered together, not to mention twelve, even twenty can be gathered together. Therefore, when I arrived at the place where the assimilation ceremony was performed for me, there were already twelve senior mages here. certainly. These guys are not all gods, nor are they all humans. Among them are sea tribes, monsters, humans and so on. The races are very chaotic.

These guys were obviously summoned temporarily because of my super high level, because if we were to assimilate ordinary people, we wouldn't need bosses like them to personally take action, so these guys were a little resentful. After all, they were called to do this kind of work at their level. That is simply an insult to them.

Although many of these guys are not humanoid, so it is impossible to judge their attitude from their expressions, but at least eight of the twelve mages are humanoid, and I can read their attitude toward me from their faces. Attitude. Of course, I won't care about this, because I know that once they know my identity, they will immediately change their attitude.

really. When Kameda came in, he realized that the atmosphere was not right, and he immediately understood it as soon as he rolled his eyes. Then he turned back and locked the door of the room specially used for assimilation ceremonies. Then he walked to the center of the room, clapped his hands and said, "Okay everyone, let me introduce you to you first. This is... "

A female mermaid mage with fins on her ears interrupted Kameda's introduction, and then said directly: "Isn't he just an adventurer who gets benefits? Why waste that time? Call him over quickly. .We have other things to do after we finish."

Kameda was very angry at this person, but before he could open his mouth to argue, another humanoid mage also spoke up: "Yes, Kameda. How did you calculate this reward task? You have to give it so high. Level adventurers are assimilating, do you think we all have nothing to do?"

"What are you talking about?" Kameda saw that someone was about to open his mouth again, so he jumped up and shouted before he could speak. But with his pair of short trousers, the height he jumped up was really... Anyway, I didn't find him ever leaving the ground. Of course, at least he got the right to speak for this, and in order to avoid being interrupted again, he directly shouted out the key points. "This is President Ziri who is here to discuss matters with Lord Bo Seidon. You all should be polite to me!"

"Purple Sun? The Purple Sun of the Frost Rose Alliance?" The female mermaid mage who spoke before asked in surprise.

"You said he is that Ziri?" The male mage who spoke before also asked in shock.

During this period of unforgettable memories, my name is already a household name among the Poseidon family. Of course, all the low-level personnel knew was that I had made Zeus unhappy, and only some high-level personnel knew that the Poseidon Department might switch to my sect. And it just so happened that the twelve people present happened to be insiders.

Speaking of which, the transfer hasn't even happened yet, but you have offended your future boss first. How will you be able to survive after you change jobs? The two talkative mages now wanted to slap themselves in the face. Really, if so many people didn't speak, what would they do to themselves? Do you still hear about things like shooting a bird in the first place? As a result, he still forced himself to hit the muzzle of the gun. Isn't this asking for death?

Seeing that they were silent for a while, Kameda also knew that it was time to liven up the atmosphere, so he said: "Okay, okay. Stop pretending to be pitiful. President Purple Sun doesn't care about these things at all. Now use your strength to assimilate President Ziri. A good assimilation effect proves your strength, and others will naturally reuse you in the future."

Kameda said this not only to remind those guys, but also to remind me. He was telling me that although I am the boss, these people are all working for me. My interests are directly related to their work attitude, so even if I have a higher status than them in the future, I cannot suppress them based on my temper.

In fact, Kameda's words are completely redundant, if I don't understand this kind of thing. It is impossible for the Frost Rose Alliance to make it to where it is today. Of course, just because I know this doesn't mean they also know it, so I still followed Kameda's words and said a few words to express my attitude. Besides, we haven’t officially started talking about the matter with Bo Seidon yet. The previous speculation that Bo Ceidon was controlled by Zeus was just a guess after all. If this is not the case, or the reason why Bo Ceidon is controlled is something I cannot solve. So, the collective transfer of the Poseidon family is really uncertain.

After I expressed my stance, these guys felt a little more relieved. Although I am still a little worried, I am finally not as worried as before. Finally, under the guidance of Kameda, the twelve mages began to perform the assimilation ceremony for me. During this period, the twelve mages also used all their strength. I hope that the assimilation effect can be stronger, so that I will value them more in the future. . After all, although the assimilation ritual requires a mage above the level of the subject to perform it, not all mages above this level can perform it. Therefore, the twelve of them are actually considered a special resource. If they transfer to our guild collectively in the future, they can assimilate our people in our guild. Although the assimilation ceremony is too expensive and can be performed by a group of mages once every two days at most, so it cannot be done for everyone in our guild. However, the main combat power should be strengthened and then used as rewards to encourage member players. Contributing to the guild is quite useful. Of course, there is a more perverted approach besides this. That is to ask them to do assimilation for me more than ten times in a row, and let me assimilate all the elements of all departments. Of course, you have to find someone to do experiments before you do it yourself. After all, no one has done more than one assimilation in a row before. It would be bad if there would be conflicts or something if you do it a few times.

The assimilation ceremony is strict though. The conditions are harsh, but the process is very simple. Put a special special magic circle on the ground, then let me take off my clothes, use the special magic guide solution for drawing magic circles to draw a receiving magic circle on my body, and then put the energy medium, which is magic crystal, and finally the twelve mages together Just activate the magic circle and consume all the magic crystals in one go.

The whole process took more than ten minutes to prepare, but it only took ten seconds after the ceremony started. However, ten seconds later, the group of mages lay back together neatly, as if they had made an appointment, and stopped moving. This shows that they are indeed working hard. Of course, thanks to their efforts, the assimilation effect is also surprisingly good.

"Huh? What's going on?" I just wanted to praise those mages and suddenly felt something was wrong. "Holy crap, what kind of plane are these guys doing?"! .