Chapter 6 Main Mission 1

  The five major cities in Westeros are King's Landing, Oldtown, Lannisport, Seagull Town, and White Harbor. They are the five port cities that directly contribute taxes to the Iron Throne and are also the most populous cities in Westeros, densely populated.

  Whenever a tournament is held in these cities, knights and mercenaries from all directions flock to them, including some prominent nobles.

  Jousting is the most typical aristocratic game. Who can win the jousting championship in these cities, even in the second-to-last smallest city, Seagull Town (the smallest, White Harbor, is in the north, where there is no jousting event)? Not the wealthiest knight?

  To put it bluntly, are players who have just started playing in this formal lance duel worthy of it? Not to mention whether their strength is up to standard, the competition armor, and competition horses dedicated to lance competitions are not something that knight players can afford at this point.

  Usually, the thickness of plate armor used for competitions is more than 4 mm, and its price is much higher than actual combat plate armor with a thickness of just over 2 mm. Competition horses are first-class thoroughbred war horses, and their prices are usually several times that of ordinary war horses.

  And what about the Mercenary Knight players? An old chainmail suit and an ordinary, tame horse.

  Of course, if you are an expert and brave, you can also sign up for the competition, but Ian thinks that he has not reached that level yet.

  In his imagination, he would most likely participate in some peasant sword competitions held in the castles of minor nobles or in some towns.

  "So what does this replacement mean?" Ian asked himself.

  "We have designed at least three quest lines for each profession that players can choose. Players can choose which one to complete after viewing all the options. Once accepted, they cannot change." After hearing this, Ian clicked "Change."

  And secretly prayed that the next mission would be more reasonable.

[Main Mission 1: Road of Robbers

  Mission Description: People often say that mercenary knights and robber knights are two sides of the same coin. Even if you have never been a robber, you are still affected by the infamous reputation of your peers. In this case, maybe it would be a better choice to throw away that meaningless honor?

  Mission goal: Loot the castle or manor of a wealthy knight and plunder more than 100 golden dragons in total.

  Mission reward: 5 points, 3 attribute points, 3 skill points]

[Accept] [Replace]

  "Plundering the castle of a wealthy knight? And plundering the wealth of more than 100 golden dragons?" Ian exhaled deeply, his face completely changed.

  He felt a sense of despair wash over him.

  Take a castle belonging to the poorest knight as an example. To sack such a castle, Ian would need to face at least one knight and one attendant. It's not impossible for him to win in this case, but in such a poor knight's castle (let's call it a castle), the loot would likely be worth less than the armor and horses of the knights.

  If he wanted to rob 100 gold dragons, Ian couldn't even imagine how many such castles he'd need to raid.

  What does 100 gold dragons mean? In the original book, after Emperor Joe was poisoned to death in the Purple Wedding, Ser Adam Marbrand offered a bounty for Sansa Stark, suspected of conspiring to kill the king. The bounty offered was only that much!

  For instance, taking the top equipment of a knight, a set of high-quality plate armor from head to toe, a set of high-quality longswords and hammers, a war horse, and two packhorses would only cost about 30 gold dragons in total. However, only wealthy knights in certain regions could afford such equipment, and even they would struggle financially afterward.

  As for other regions, knights typically wore less expensive plate and chain armor, and some still used chain armor as their main equipment, even in the Riverlands.

  So, it seemed like this mission was designed for someone like Fusuo Excalibur. All he'd have to do is defeat six Kingsguards and strip them of their armor to complete the task, Ian thought absurdly.

  Forcing himself to calm down, Ian clicked "Change," clinging to the hope that the next mission would be more manageable.

[Main Mission 1: Golden Road

  Mission Description: The first time you wielded your sword for money instead of justice or lordship, you suddenly realized the truth of this world. Gold is the only true god, and everything else is false.

Mission goal: Earn 1,000 gold dragons.

Mission reward: 5 points, 3 attribute points, 3 skill points]

[Accept] [Replace]

  Ian felt completely numb. Originally, 100 golden dragons were already a ridiculous number, but now it had become 1,000.

  Although there were no restrictions on how to earn these 1,000 gold dragons, it was still 1,000 gold dragons! During the War of the Five Kings, Catelyn Tully secretly released Jaime, who was captured by the coalition forces, and asked him to return his two daughters when he returned to King's Landing. This behavior undoubtedly caused dissatisfaction among the people in the North and the Riverlands, putting the coalition forces in a difficult position.

  In response, the Lord of the Riverlands, Duke Ahmaud Tully of the Bend Valley, issued a wanted order for Jaime, with a bounty of 1,000 gold dragons (this was also the highest bounty ever seen in Ice and Fire).

  At that time, Jaime was the commander of the royal army, the captain of the Kingsguard, one of the strongest knights in Westeros, the heir to the richest Lannister family in Westeros, and the biological father of Emperor Joe (crossed out). He was only worth 1,000 gold dragons.

  Perhaps many people might think that golden dragons were worthless when they saw that Robert would provide 40,000 gold dragons as a bonus to the champion knight when he held a tournament in King's Landing.

  However, it's worth noting that the first volume of Ice and Fire was published in the last century. In common belief, 1,000 gold dragons were considered a reasonable sum. In fact, after Robert's death, when Littlefinger approached Eddard Stark, he mentioned that 6,000 gold dragons was the amount needed to buy an entire city guard, and Eddard considered this a reasonable figure.

  In other words, 1,000 gold dragons would be equivalent to buying one-sixth of the city's defense team. It was practically impossible for early players to accumulate this wealth.

  Suddenly, Ian had a terrible thought. After planning and designing such tasks, did they actually not want players to complete them at all?

  Immediately, Ian remembered what the organizer's receptionist told him before entering the game:

  'This time we put the competition in the game throughout the period, which means that players start from the moment they land. If they start, they will fall into fierce competition and even kill each other. And this time we will only provide players with extremely limited development resources, and players must take huge risks to fight for them. In fact, a large number of players may not only not get a single point of resources from the auxiliary system, but also Being exhausted due to certain mechanics. '

  The receptionist's words clearly hinted at the ridiculous difficulty of the main mission! Otherwise, how could it be said that a large number of players were unable to obtain resources from the system throughout the entire process? 'Ian slapped his forehead.

  "If we can't get points by completing tasks, then if we want to avoid being drawn by the assassination mechanism because we are at the bottom of the standings, we can only get points by hunting other players?" Thinking of this, Ian felt a chill in his spine. Chill.

  Feeling a huge pressure on his head, Ian did not dare to waste another second and quickly continued to turn down.

  He remembered that the mission update prompt sounded twice, which meant that the bounty mission was updated simultaneously when the game officially started.

  [Bounty Mission 1: First Blood

  Mission Goal: Complete the first kill mission on the player.

  Reward: 3,000 gold dragons (2,500 of which are provided in the form of gold bars), 3 attribute points, 3 skill points, 2 S of your choice Level NPC  (in the area).

  Note: After this task is completed, other players will be notifed one day later]

  "???" Looking at this outrageous reward amount, Ian's breath froze.

  Is this what the receptionist said, 'extremely limited development resources provided by the system that require players to take huge risks to compete for'?

  Since it is almost impossible to complete the main mission in the early stage, any player who grabs the 'first blood' resource will definitely develop faster than anyone else.

  Not being able to obtain development resources from the system is very harmful to the players in this kind of game. Unlike those single player time travel scripts, even if the time traveler has no other cheats, and can only rely on his own understanding of the original work and modern knowledge he can still make a difference in the grand scheme.

  In this kind of 100 player game, all the players are familiar with the original work. As long as any player suddenly appears in a situation where he is not there, his identity will be instantly recognized by other players who are watching the situation.

  Without sufficient strength to support it, exposing one's identity is almost the same as committing suicide.