Chaos

In less than two hours, Beta had swept up all the high-quality cactus fruits on the street.

In Mystra's Mansion, the girls were eating fresh cactus fruits. Emma found it odd. "Why did Beta buy so many fruits? That's enough for him to eat for a year, isn't it?"

Shirley shook her head. Although she was close to Beta, she didn't know Beta very well. At best, she was familiar with his personality. She didn't know anything about his abilities, his background, or even his future plans. She didn't want to ask. Beta was Beta anyway. It didn't make any difference to her whether he was good or bad, kind or evil. Alice didn't care.

Alice, on the other hand, didn't mind. She was a half-elf and loved fruits more than any other food.

Jessica, on the other hand, was sorting the fruits. She put the good-looking ones on one side and the not-so-good ones on the other. There were so many fruits that it would take her at least a few days to sort them all out. Also, the quality of the fruits wasn't bad. She simply couldn't stay idle.

Cactus fruits were plentiful in the desert. Betta had swept an entire street in one go, which instantly made him famous in this city. Many people knew that there was a Spatial-type Spell Caster from abroad who was purchasing cactus fruits in large quantities.

Of course, this wasn't a bad thing for Beta. He had come to this city to look for clues. According to the hint given by the system quest, there should be a direct descendant of the True Ancestor of vampires here. As long as he found it, he might be able to find the True Ancestor.

That was how the quest system of the game worked. It never told you the specific information of the quest directly, but guided you step by step to complete it on your own. Beta remembered that there was once a very exaggerated quest called Stalvan's Legend. It was a legendary quest … The quest could be solved when the players were very low-level, but the players had to run around. There weren't many difficult combat quests, and they just had to run around in different countries.

For players who didn't have flying mounts, horses, teleportation spells, and didn't know the way, this quest was a torture. However, the player who triggered the quest completed it and even used the game's function to record the entire process. In the end, the quest reward was mediocre. It was just a ring with average stats and a small amount of character experience.

After that, the quest was evaluated as one of the most deceptive quests in the game. However, the player who completed the quest later became one of the top 100 players in the server. That player developed a kind of tenacity during the long process of completing the quest. He relied on his own pair of legs and extraordinary willpower to travel across the Seven Nations alone. The duration of the game lasted for a year and a half.

This was how troublesome the quest system was. It would never specify the reward for completing a quest, nor would it directly tell you the process of the quest. It would only give you some ambiguous clues and let you find the truth on your own.

This was also why there were many players who did side quests in the process of completing quests, and some even helped the evildoer … Betta remembered that there was once a female player who was deceived by a certain NPC. She helped him gather a lot of alchemy materials and made a deadly poison. Then, she personally put it into the water source and poisoned an entire village of NPCs to death. From white-haired old people to babies crying piteously for food, not a single one survived.

When the NPC of the game saw the tragic scene he had created, he laughed maniacally at the side, continuously provoking the female player. The female player nearly had a mental breakdown and suffered from mild depression from then on. This incident caused a huge sensation at one point in time. The media denounced the game, and the other game companies even slandered it. The game was nearly taken offline.

However, the game's developer and operator were resourceful enough to keep the game alive, which was why the game could continue. Since then, after players accepted a quest, they would pay attention to the content of the quest, so as not to repeat the mistakes of others.

However, players were very smart, and although the clues of the quest were ambiguous, as long as they carefully considered it and combined it with their own observation, they would always be able to find some clues. Therefore, the probability of players being deceived by NPCs when doing quests was significantly reduced.

Now, Beta was being cautious. The quest system only hinted that there might be vampires in Perth and that if he found them, he might find the True Ancestor of the vampires … But it was just a hint. In the game, he had been led astray by quests more than once or twice, and most of the time, he would fall into very dangerous situations.

As a player, he could be resurrected after death, but in this world, Beta didn't think he could be resurrected, and he didn't want anything to happen to the girls, so he made a lot of foolproof plans before coming here.

A lot of light magic scrolls, a stressful one-time self-protection magic amulet, and keeping the four women in Mystra's Mansion without letting them out as a surprise attack.

Although there were three Master experts in their group, and Alice, an Elven Summoner who wasn't a Master but was quite powerful, faced with the True Ancestor of the vampires who was almost a demigod, Beta still didn't have much confidence. At best, he had a seventy percent chance of success.

If it were in the game, not to mention a seventy percent chance of success, even if it was only ten percent, the players wouldn't be afraid and would die a few times at most.

But it was different now. Beta had to be responsible for the lives of the girls and himself. After all, people only had one life.

Such foolproof preparations cost a lot of gold coins. If it were anyone else in this world, they might not be willing to do so. They preferred to overwhelm a strong enemy with numbers, but the players thought differently. They believed that elites were more important than numbers.

Also, when a creature was strong enough, numbers were useless. They could only rely on a small number of elites to kill it, and it was easier to coordinate and cooperate with a small number of people.

For example, slaying a god.

After purchasing enough cactus fruits, Beta checked in at the nearest hotel.

The fact that he was a spellcaster was enough to shock the whole city, not to mention that he had purchased so many cactus fruits generously, which further increased his popularity in Perth.

Not long after he checked in at the hotel, his fame was already known by the whole city.

A powerful spellcaster of the spatial class who liked to buy cactus fruits in bulk … Combining the information, a strange image of a spellcaster was established in everybody's mind.

Before Beta was ready to gather information, someone came knocking on his door.

There were two Mages of the earth and fire classes. One of them was a middle-aged man in a white robe and a white turban. He had the typical appearance of a desert man. He had brown eyes, an aquiline nose, and a face that was wrinkled by the hot, dry desert wind. Although his eyes still looked young and energetic, his face was already that of a middle-aged man.

The other person was the sexy female Mage that Beta had seen outside the city. When she saw Beta looking at her, she raised her thin brown eyebrows and gave him a flirtatious look.

Beta invited the two to sit down. Wood was scarce in the desert, and chairs were a luxury. Most people sat on the ground with a linen blanket, but this was the best hotel in the city, so there were naturally such things as chairs.

After the man with the white turban sat down, he released his mental power, circled around Beta, and then retracted it.

Although it didn't seem very polite, it was still within the bottom line of most people. After all, it was just a test, and there was not much hostility or malice.

Beta just looked at him quietly, and then saw that the forehead of the man with the white turban began to sweat, and the sweat had even penetrated his white turban.

Beta's mental power was very suspicious, because his willpower had grown well, and he had the experience of becoming a Legend in the game, so he knew how to restrain his mental power and not release it as much as possible.

However, if a Mage used mental power to detect his strength, they would still be able to sense his strength.

This was the situation now. After the white turban's mental power circled around Beta, he was surprised to find that the person sitting opposite him was actually a Master!

Although the special Mages of Sunderland were dual elements of earth and fire, this didn't mean that the number of Mages in this country was very high. On the contrary, the number of Mages in Sunderland was actually the lowest among many countries.

The reason was very simple. Sunderland was a desert country, and the people of such a country generally had a characteristic, which was that they were violent and impulsive. They were very suitable as Warriors, but they were lacking as Mages. After all, Mages were a profession that focused on rationality.

It wasn't that there weren't any Mages with violent personalities, but that it was much easier for such people to become Mages than those who were rational.

The growth of a Mage required a lot of resources. As one of the top commercial cities in Sunderland, Perth was relatively wealthy, and it wasn't difficult for it to support two Mages at the same time.

Mages with dual elements of earth and fire were equally outstanding in terms of attack, control, and defense. This was also the foundation of their existence, and they could deal with enemies that were two or three levels higher than them. However, even so, if they encountered an opponent that was too strong, they would still feel helpless. After all, most of the time, one's own strength was the foundation of everything.

Now, the white turban realized that he had actually been rude to a Master. Cold sweat immediately broke out on his forehead.

He was about to speak, but the female Mage beside him spoke first. She smiled and said, "Sir Mage, we meet again. May I know your purpose for coming to Perth at such a sensitive time? "

Upon hearing this, cold sweat broke out on the white turban's forehead even more.

The two of them had originally come to intimidate Ma Ling. After all, if a Mage of unknown origin suddenly came to Perth and wanted to do something, Perth would definitely suffer heavy losses.

However, the white turban didn't expect that the person who came was not an Elite Mage like them, but a Master Caster.