Virtual World: The Legendary Thief

People came and went in front of the palace of Hurricane City. Many novice players below level 30 were here to supply medicine and other things. However, there was a large group of palace guards guarding the road leading to the palace. A row of sharp spear blades reflected the dazzling light in the sun, looking extremely positive.

"Stop, no idler may enter the palace hall,"

An NPC with the appearance of a captain blocked our way, and I immediately stepped forward and said, "We are old friends of Princess Misha, this time I need to find her for something important, can I trouble you to inform me?"

The NPC captain frowned, and said, "Even so, you can't enter the palace. Recently, there has been turmoil in the kingdom. Unidentified people are not allowed to enter the palace."

"Can't you accommodate me?"

When I spoke again, the NPC just looked at me and then stopped talking, and then he didn't even look at me.

"Isn't it possible to enter the royal palace in the past?" Murong Shanshan said in bewilderment.

I shook my head and took a few casual glances, only to find the Mystic Association next to the palace, and suddenly I had a flash of inspiration, perhaps, he could help me.

"Shanshan, come with me, I also know an NPC,"

I immediately ran to the Secret Art Association, and Murong Shanshan followed after being slightly startled.

"Squeak~"

Pushing open the ancient gate of the Mystic Association, which seemed to be about to be scrapped, a strong smell of medicine came into his nostrils, and Murong Shanshan's hesitant voice came from behind: "This... where is it?"

I didn't answer, but my eyes fell on an old pharmacist in the corner. He was holding an old, somewhat yellowed parchment. On the table next to him were several rows of medicine bottles. A pot containing medicinal materials was boiling on the stove. The pungent medicinal smell should be from it.

"Teacher, this is already the third antidote formula, is it really okay?" A slightly childish voice came, and I noticed that there was a young pharmacist at the next table.

The old pharmacist looked up at the tormented herbs, and said, "Use it on livestock to see if it has any effect."

I was about to speak, but the old pharmacist had already spotted us. He immediately threw away the parchment in his hand, and slowly stood up. His whole body was trembling slightly. I don't know if it was because of excitement or exhaustion.

"Young man, you are finally here," the old man opened his arms and gestured for a hug.

I immediately shivered, but when I was about to step back, I was pushed hard by a pair of small white hands, and fell into the arms of the pharmacist miserably. Murong Shanshan's apologetic voice came from behind: "The task is important, you can take care of it."

"Master Lance, I have other things to do this time,"

I said something hastily.

That's right, this old man is Lance, the court pharmacist who was looking for an antidote and was determined to save the princess.

Lance's excited expression gradually faded, and a trace of melancholy appeared on his face.

"The current Hurricane Kingdom is actually in jeopardy." Murong Shanshan and I were slightly startled, and the old man continued, "Did you know that half a year ago you persuaded Dake to return to China to serve His Majesty, now that you think about it, that decision may have been wrong."

I was a little hesitant, and said, "How is Dak now? Where is Princess Misha? Is she with Dak?"

"Together," Lance sneered suddenly, and said bitterly, "No one would have thought that His Majesty's efforts to get Duck back were actually just for his Golden Knights. Since Duck's return, His Majesty has continuously placed his cronies and generals in the Golden Knights. Duck didn't know it. It wasn't until the final mutiny that he realized that the Golden Knights were no longer his army..."

Murong Shanshan and I didn't speak, and Lance continued: "A few months ago, His Majesty sent Duck to lead the Golden Knights to attack the Valley of the Undead in the east of the main city of the Silver Moon Alliance. There, Dake sent the vanguard Lin He to lead an army to attack first. After that, there was no news from Lin He's troops for three days. Dake probably guessed that Lin He might be in trouble, so he prepared to bring all the troops to help Linhe. Ye subdued Dak with the secret technique of dementor..."

I never thought that there would be such a big shady scene after the Linhe incident, and Murong Shanshan also looked at me in surprise.

"Then, what happened next?"

"Later," Lance smiled sadly, as if the trauma in his heart had been touched, and he said distraughtly: "Poor Duck didn't figure out what happened until he entered Wangcheng Prison. What's even more sad is that Lin He, who is the vanguard, has never heard from him. After returning to the palace, the governor of the Golden Knights reported to His Majesty that Lin He had sold his soul to the dirty undead creatures.

My heart suddenly felt cold, and I asked in a trembling voice: "Lin He's family, did they not suffer from the catastrophe..."

Lance let out a long breath, and said: "I am the only one in the whole palace to intercede for Lin He's family. Unfortunately, I am just a small healer. The king doesn't think much of me. Not only that, he also thinks that my soul has been desecrated, so he ordered me to be expelled from the palace. Fortunately, Princess Misha came forward to intercede for Lin He's family, so His Majesty spared the death of Lin He's wife and children."

"It's okay..." I breathed a sigh of relief, and Murong Shanshan's nervous expression eased a little.

"It's not over yet," Lance sighed, looking at the swaying branches and leaves outside the window, and said, "Although Lin He's family members have been pardoned, Dak's army has been charged with resisting orders. The old king doesn't want to let go of Dak's thorn in his side. Although the Golden Knights were disbanded after returning to the kingdom for the second time, all the organization was disrupted and reorganized into other legions, but I believe that as long as Dak stands up and calls, those loyal knights will continue to follow him, and the old King, he absolutely cannot tolerate the existence of such a person, so, with his acquiescence, the inspector sent someone to poison Duck's food, but Princess Misha found out, "

"Princess Misha...she will definitely save Darke." This time it was Murong Shanshan who spoke, her moving eyes were so clear.

Lance nodded and said, "Princess Misha knew that her father had already made up his mind to kill Duck, so her begging had no effect. It seemed that there was no hope of life. At that time, Misha gave up. In order to prove that the meal was poisonous, she asked herself to eat the poisonous meal. What is even more sad is that the confused king agreed to her request..."

"Ah," Murong Shanshan exclaimed in shock.

Lance punched the table heavily, his body trembled slightly due to anger, and tears flowed from his gradually cloudy eyes: "Poor Misha was dying of poison, and I used medicine to temporarily save her life. On that night, nearly a thousand cavalry from the Golden Knights attacked the Hurricane Palace at night. They were fully armed, their eyes were red, and there was blood everywhere they passed. Dak was rescued from the prison, but their losses were quite heavy, nearly 500 brave warriors lay forever on the cold stone road of the palace..."

I couldn't help but took a deep breath. This move of the Golden Knights will cause them to be in conflict with the court. It is conceivable that the old king must be quite angry about this matter, so I asked worriedly: "Dark, have you been rescued?"

Lance nodded: "After experiencing this incident, Duck fully understood that the relationship between him and the old king could no longer be a normal relationship between son-in-law and father-in-law. Therefore, he led the remaining 500 knights into the quarters of the kingdom's four regular legions overnight, gathered nearly 20,000 troops from the Golden Knights, and dispatched 15,000 cavalry to meet the fierce attack of the four major legions outside the royal city, while he rushed into the palace with 5,000 cavalry."

Lance's voice was a little trembling, and he looked up to the sky and sighed: "Dark went completely crazy for Linhe and Misha, because he actually wanted to destroy the Hurricane Kingship in one fell swoop. When he led the elite cavalry to kill the palace guards and rescue Princess Misha, he also tried to rush into the inner palace and kill the heartless old king. Fortunately, the old king escaped this disaster in the basement of the apse."

I was a little puzzled, so I asked: "Master, the king treats you, Misha and Lin He so much, do you still favor him?"

Lance sat down, sighed, and said helplessly: "Although the king is ashamed to be a king and a father, he is a king after all, and he is the one we swore to be loyal to all our lives."

"Pedantic..." Murong Shanshan whispered.

I quickly stopped her, then turned to Lance and asked, "Master, where did Dak and Princess Misha go?"

Lance said: "Although Dak's Golden Knights are elite, they can't fight against the kingdom's four major armies without any supplies, so Dak has led the Golden Knights to occupy the Moonlight Town in the east of the king's city. There, they wiped out the local barbaric and bloodthirsty orcs, and used the orcs' property as their own supplies. There is nothing I can do, I can only use medicine to prolong her life..."

I was very surprised: "Could it be that even you can't make an antidote?"

Lance shook his head weakly, and said, "Although my formula may be effective, it still lacks several very important ingredients..."

(2) Requiem

Raw material again.

I immediately asked excitedly: "What raw materials are missing, I see if I can help you."

Langston's face brightened immediately, and he said, "Are you really willing to help me find those few precious herbs?"

"Ding~,"

System prompt: Whether to accept the task, Lance's detoxification formula.

I chose OK without hesitation.

Lance said happily: "I could go to the distant Silvermoon Mountains to collect these medicinal herbs, but unfortunately I am too old now, and the young pharmacist can't distinguish those precious medicinal materials. We already have 8 of the 11 required materials, and the missing three are pansies, agave and snake grass, especially the latter two, which are very rare..."

I was ecstatic, and said, "I have pansies and agaves, can you tell me where the snake's eye grows?"

Lance seemed to see the light in the dark night, and happily grabbed my shoulder and said, "Do you really have pansies and agaves?"

I nodded heavily, but Lance showed a melancholy expression again: "Snake's eye grass is really too rare, and I only saw it a few times on the Silvermoon Mountains..."

Murong Shanshan looked at me disappointed, and said, "Is there no way to complete this task?"

My head was in chaos. Although I knew that this task was quite difficult, I always felt as if I had seen the three words "snake's eye grass" somewhere. As for where Jian'an had been there, I really couldn't think of it for a while.

Lance saw my expression of embarrassment, so he looked at the sky outside and murmured: "It seems that Misha is destined not to survive tonight. I don't know if Duck will come again tonight..."

"Looks like this mission is obsolete..." Murong Shanshan pouted, and said, "It's already past 10 o'clock, and I'm going to go offline for dinner. I still have a few pieces of equipment to send back to Silvermoon City. How about you?"

"Silver Moon City consignment," these five words immediately echoed in my heart, I tried my best to recall it, and seemed to think of where I had seen the snake's eye grass.

Overjoyed, I turned around and hugged Murong Shanshan fiercely, and said excitedly: "Shanshan, I know where there is a snake's eye grass."

"Where is it?" Murong Shanshan asked in surprise as I hugged her at a loss.

"It's the exchange in Silvermoon City. When I was looking for materials there yesterday, I seemed to see the words Snake's Eye Grass," I let go of the beautiful woman in my arms, and said to her with a smile.

Murong Shanshan gave me a coquettish glance, caressed her twin peaks, and said through gritted teeth: "I told you earlier, I thought you were taking advantage of my sister."

I smiled awkwardly, patted her small shoulder and said, "Wait here for me, come back in ten minutes,"

Immediately use the city return scroll, because the city return scroll was bought in Silvermoon City, so the default city return location of the scroll is Silvermoon City, after a flash of white light, I was already standing on the square at the east gate of Silvermoon City, and there were already many people standing beside the NPC of the exchange, and I also ran over quickly.

Opened the search interface and directly entered the three words "snake's eye grass".

"Don't be bought by others," I stared at the interface tightly, praying in my heart.

After a few seconds of searching, a search result appeared in the results column.

Very good, there is.

I was secretly delighted, and hurriedly clicked on the result, but the price behind the herb surprised me.

【Snake grass】

Starting price: 50 gold coins

Current bidding: 1546 gold coins

Buy it now: 2500 gold coins

...

A herb can be fried for as much as 1546 gold coins, which is 1W5 when converted into RMB, and the best ginseng on the market is only at this price...

Murong Shanshan and Lance are still waiting for me...

After thinking about it, I stopped being stingy with the little money, and after a quick click, I bought this precious snake-eye grass at a price of 2,500 gold coins.

I took out some agaves and pansies from the warehouse, and then ran to the west gate in five minutes. After passing through the teleportation array, I ran to the Arcane Association in another five minutes. When I opened the door, the cup of tea that Lance made was still cold.

Murong Shanshan greeted her with a smile, and asked: "How is it? Have you collected all the things?"

I raised the herbs in my hand and said triumphantly, "Of course."

Lance stood up happily, took the herbs from me and said with relief, "Great, with these rare herbs, Princess Misha's poison should be relieved,"

"Ding~,"

System prompt: Your team has completed the mission "Lance's Detoxification Formula", gained 400 million experience, 2500 gold coins, +1500 reputation, and +1000 friendliness of the emerging faction.

I was a little surprised. This is the first time I have heard of the word "emerging camp". Could it be that there will be changes in the current major camps, or a new camp has already emerged.

"Swipe~,"

After gaining experience, Murong Shanshan and I were shrouded in holy light almost at the same time, which is very good. With 400 million experience, we fell back to level 59 and returned to level 60 again.

Without responding to my expression, Lance immediately pounded the herbs in a trough, and then said to the young pharmacist, "Get the other herbs ready, I will refine the medicine overnight,"

I was slightly startled, and asked, "Master, how long will it take you to make this antidote?"

"It will take about one night," Lance said without looking back.

Murong Shanshan blinked her eyes and told me softly, "By the time his antidote is ready, the Spring Festival Gala will be halfway through."

So I cut straight to the point and said to Lance: "Master, we actually have other things to do this time..."

"Oh," Lance raised his head slightly and looked at me in surprise.

I nodded and said, "Actually, Lin He has been demonized to become a commander of the undead. When we went to explore the Valley of the Undead last time, he committed suicide to cleanse his soul, but we lack a tool to purify his soul. That is the Requiem hidden in Princess Misha's staff."

Lance immediately stayed there, as if he had been hit hard, and after a while he said sadly: "Maybe that's his fate, the staff you want is right there..."

We followed Lance's fingers and looked over, and sure enough, there was a delicate staff in the corner.

"Can we take it away," I asked cautiously.

Lance nodded and said with a smile: "Of course, Princess Misha's life has been extended because of you. What is this little staff?"

So Murong Shanshan was not polite, and immediately put the staff into her bag.

...

After leaving the Mystic Association, we cleaned up our mood and walked towards the altar of the palace.

Murong Shanshan blinked her eyes and said, "I didn't expect that this task of collecting recipes would only give me some experience and money, but what is that new faction?"

I shook my head and answered in confusion: "It stands to reason that the current camps are very clear. The alliance between humans and elves, the alliance between orcs and half-orcs, and the other one is the power of the undead. Could it be that the camp referred to by the system is based on the country as an individual,"

"I don't know, whether it means that a new country is about to be established," Murong Shanshan smiled slightly, and continued: "And this country was established by the Golden Knights led by Duck."

I was stunned and said: "This idea is too bold, can Dak build a kingdom with 20,000 horses?"

"What's wrong?" Murong Shanshan looked at me and said with a smile: "The old king has lost his conscience and paternal love. I think that even Misha is also dissatisfied with him. If Darke wants to replace him, there should be many people responding to him. What's more, the Golden Knights under Darke are so brave. Didn't you hear what the old pharmacist said? ,"

"It seems to make sense," I stroked my chin and glanced at the little beauty.

Murong Shanshan immediately said with a wicked smile: "Why, do you think I'm very smart?"

"Is there?" I pretended to be surprised, and said, "I don't think you are very smart, but I think you are more virtuous."

Murong Shanshan smiled sweetly: "Xianhui is not bad~"

"Nothing at home," I added.

"You are courting death,"

Murong Shanshan gritted her teeth and drew out her lightsaber to compete with me. I knew I couldn't beat him, so of course I had no choice but to run away.

The two chatted and laughed, and finally arrived at the altar of the palace before 11:00 noon. The high priest on the altar was still standing there facing the sun, but there were a lot fewer guards around. It seemed that it should be the result of Darke's bloody battle in the palace.

"Master, we want to release the souls of Lin He and the soldiers of the Golden Knights," I quickly stepped forward and said straight to the point to the high priest.

The high priest moved his eyelids, glanced at me and said, "Have you brought the flowers of the oath and the requiem I need?"

"Of course," I said, and took out two vow flowers from the package, which were the weight of Murong Shanshan and me, and Murong Shanshan also quickly stepped forward, and handed over the delicate staff with one hand.

The high priest was slightly surprised when he saw these two items, and then smiled and said, "I didn't expect you to get these things. Well, give me Lin He's soul container and the soldiers' soul fire. You can watch from the sidelines, and I will complete the soul ceremony soon."

Murong Shanshan and I immediately handed in all the mission items, and the high priest put them all on the altar, where there was a miniature hexagram magic circle.

The high priest began to chant spells, and at this moment, the sky began to darken, and the entire Hurricane City was plunged into darkness, and the people began to panic.

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