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Chapter 194 - 166: Merfolk Invading Reality?_1

Chapter 194: Chapter 166: Merfolk Invading Reality?_1

Mu You could only place the tree in a corner of his space for now, and continue to focus on the game.

Next, he found another elf nearby, had him send out a signal, and called the ranger troops over. He handed over the captured troll to the Ranger Captain.

[You have completed the task of investigating the source of the trolls, providing key information to the forest elves. You have gained 1000 elf clan reputation points.]

The elves were pretty generous. Since the task was completed by the three of them together, Mu You and Lin Xue each received 1000 reputation points in the end.

As for Little Ya, she was already of the elf clan, so the concept of reputation was not applicable to her.

[The Ranger Captain told you that these trolls came through a dug-through troll tomb, with the purpose of stealing the ancient trees of their tribe.]

[As non-trolls cannot approach the tomb, he will lead the Ranger Troop to fight the trolls in the opposite Troll Forest. However, trolls may still appear at this entrance in the near future. He hopes that the three of you brave warriors could stay nearby and help him to defeat the trolls appearing at the entrance as much as possible.]

Mu You was worried whether they would discover that he had got the ancient tree first and ask for it back.

Fortunately, this did not happen. Instead, a new task was triggered.

[Combat Task: Kill the Troll!]

[Task content: Stay near the entrance of the cave and kill the trolls that appear from it. You will receive 20 elf clan reputation points for each troll killed. This task can be repeatedly completed.]

This task was very good for Mu You. He could grind monsters and gain reputation at the same time. He could stay here for the next few days and complete it repeatedly.

Moreover, considering the process of the troll stealing the tree just now, Mu You thought of a new idea...

After sending off the Ranger Troop, he found a vacant space a little far from the cave entrance. He tried to plant the sprout of the World Tree here.

Resulting in an immediate prompt.

[Warning, this location is too close to the Troll Cave. Planting the sprout of the World Tree here may attract the trolls’ covetousness. Do you confirm?]

"Confirm!"

Mu You didn’t think twice before clicking confirm because this was the effect he wanted.

These trolls did not dare to invade the Elf Forest en masse. They could only sneak in one by one, and maybe only a few would be able to come in a day.

By planting the Tree of Life, it could attract more trolls more frequently, indirectly helping them to speed up the monster grinding.

By the way, after the Tree of Life matures later, there was no need for him to cut the tree personally. he could wait for the trolls to come and steal it, and then he would intercept them...

You steal my tree, I take it back, that’s not overboard, right?

[You have planted a sprout of the World Tree. This sprout, which contains the breath of the World Tree, will grow into a Tree of Life in the future. However, because the breath of the World Tree it contains is too little, the Tree of Life cannot become a Tree-man nor bear fruit.]

[You have planted the Tree of Life in Elf Forest, your elf clan reputation increased by 500 points!]

He didn’t expect that planting the Tree of Life could also increase reputation. It seems that the Tree of Life is also a very valuable thing for the elf clan.

[You used ’Rapid Growth’ on the sprout of the Tree of Life. The sprout quickly grows and becomes a two-meter-tall ’Tree of Life Seedling’ in the blink of an eye. Your elf clan reputation increased by 20 points.]

Stimulating growth can also increase reputation. However, there was no hint when Mu You had previously stimulated the growth of the Spiderweb Cotton, which means that only these ancient trees can do so.

Mu You continued working hard.

[You used ’Rapid Growth’ on the seedling of the Tree of Life. The seedling grows rapidly and becomes two meters taller in the blink of an eye. Your elf reputation increased by 20 points.]

[You used ’Rapid Growth’ on the seedling of the Tree of Life...]

...

[The growth limit of the Tree of Life Seedling has been reached today. It cannot continue to grow within 24 hours.]

After being used ten times consecutively, the growth stopped. Now the Tree of Life has grown into a tree over 20 meters tall, but it was still described as a ’seedling’ stage in the text.

Mu You was not sure how tall the mature Tree of Life would be, but at this growth rate, it would only take five to six days to grow the tree to the length needed for the ghost ship’s keel.

...

The following two days were spent by the three of them guarding this cave entrance, grinding trolls and watering trees.

With the breath of the Tree of Life as bait, indeed, many trolls came through the entrance every day. However, they never dared to invade massively, and instead, they sneaked in one by one at intervals. It perfectly met the expectations of the three members.

The three took turns guarding nearby the cave entrance. Whenever a notification was seen, others were called over to fight the monster. They killed one for each one that came. It was comfortable grinding, and the experience points and elf clan reputation were rapidly increasing.

In their spare time, Lin Xue and Little Ya were busy learning the Star Spirit Language, while Mu You was busy brewing potions and making cards.

During these two days, Mu You had not brewed any new potions. The main reason was that the inventory of some of the remaining first-order potions was somewhat depleted.

He did not forcefully find materials to brew potions, but first brewed some of the potions he had already learned.

HP potion, exploding potion, sleeping potion, and of course the simplest healing ointment, all were very practical. Mu You prepared as many as possible for backup.

Especially the HP potion, not only served to increase lifespan. More importantly, it could recover HP instantly.

You should know that most of the healing magic potions recover over time. However, on the ever-changing battlefield, there is no time to recover slowly. Therefore, HP potions, which instantly recover HP, are extremely valuable in actual combat.

In addition, the most important potion was the Evolution Elixir.

Mu You was already at level nine, and with frequent monster grinding, the experience points were quickly approaching level ten. This thing needed to be prepared in advance.

After a lot of practice, Mu You’s potion-making skills had greatly improved. Finally, he was able to brew a higher-grade Evolution Elixir.

After more than a thousand repetitions and using the Drunken Immortal Brew, a bottle of Excellent Grade Evolution Elixir was successfully brewed.

[Evolution Elixir (Excellent Grade): After consumption, it breaks through the leveling bottleneck and increases the attack and defense effects suppressed by the level by 5%.]

Excellent Grade potions have an additional effect known as ’Tier Suppression Promotion’, which means when facing lower-level players, the effect of doubled attack and halved damage will increase slightly. Unfortunately, the increase is only 5%, which can only be said to be better than nothing.

However, the emergence of this effect has made Mu You somewhat look forward to higher-level potions. The Excellent Grade ones provide a 5% increase, the Rare ones might be 10%, and the Epic ones 15%...

Moreover, the higher the level breakthrough, the more Evolution Elixirs are needed. For example, 15 levels require 5 bottles, 20 levels require 25 bottles... If the extra effects of each Evolution Elixir can be stacked, then if high-level potions are used completely when leveling up, the final Tier Suppression figures will reach a terrifying level!

Of course, this is just Mu You daydreaming a bit, considering he has the formula for the Evolution Elixir and is a rapidly advancing Magic Potion Master.

For ordinary players, there is simply no choice. If they can get an ordinary or even a Black Iron Rank potion, they consider themselves lucky. How can they dare to hope for more?

Aside from that, the fishing net had been repaired the same day. Mu You would teleport to the sea every day, put on bait and wait for the catch.

Doing this every day, just the cost of using the Teleportation Array would consume two years of one’s life. However, when compared to the harvest, it makes it worth it. A repaired fishing net could consistently catch three to five Magic Fish every day.

Not all these fish were killed by Mu You. Instead, he dug a pool in his game backpack and started raising the fish, preparing to bring them back next time he entered the game and start a sustainable aquaculture.

...

Two days passed in this busy schedule.

In the early hours of Wednesday, after Mu You killed a newly spawned troll in the game, he finally accumulated enough reputation points, and a prompt immediately popped up on the screen.

[You have 3000 Elf Clan reputation points now, and your favorability in the Elf Clan has increased to ’Respected’. You can now enter the ’Elf Training Hall’ to exchange for any ability you need at any time.]

Finally, he accumulated enough reputation points. Without hesitation, Mu You clicked on the training hall and selected [Shooting Technique] and [Night Vision Training] from the seven or eight ability training options.

[You have chosen Shooting Technique and Night Vision Training, consuming 3000 reputation points. Remaining reputation points: 0.]

[Training for Shooting Technique is underway and is expected to be completed in 8 hours...]

[Night Vision Training is queued and is expected to be completed in 16 hours...]

Durnig training, you can’t do anything else, and you can only undertake one at a time. Fortunately, each one only takes eight hours, so they could all be done by the afternoon.

Mu You ran the game in the background and went out to complete a patrolling mission, then processed some fish meat as usual and returned to the space to feed his pet bird.

The Chocobo, which he had been focusing on feeding, had now grown over a meter tall and was full of energy every day. Its speed was far beyond that of its siblings.

The only pity was that the underwater breathing ability had not yet been unlocked. It seemed it had to completely consume a whole fish to acquire it.

After feeding the animals, Mu You went to rest for a while. After playing the game intensely for three days straight without sleep, he had accumulated quite a bit of exhaustion. This time he slept straight through to noon.

By the time he woke up, Little Ya and Lin Xue had already arrived at the shop.

Mu You got up and cleaned up, preparing to continue playing the game, when all of a sudden, he received a call from Zhang Yang.

"There’s an emergency. We need to go out."

"Oh? What’s up?" Mu You asked.

"I’ll explain at the station."

Mu You didn’t think much of it. He left a message with Little Ya and hailed a taxi to the police station.

When he arrived, he found a military helicopter parked in the backyard of the police station!

As soon as Zhang Yang saw Mu You, he stuck his head out from the helicopter door and waved him to board.

When Mu You got on the plane, he saw six or seven people were already seated, besides Zhang Yang. The others were his colleagues from the K City Aberrant Branch, all experienced players. It seemed like they had gathered the strongest forces from their branch.

"Brother Mu!"

"Brother Mu is here."

...

Each of them was fully armed. Upon seeing Mu You boarding, they all greeted him.

The propeller was already running and the helicopter soon took off.

Mu You nodded at them and sat down, and then turned to Zhang Yang, "What happened?"

The others immediately perked up their ears. It was clear that they had just been called over, and still didn’t know what had happened.

Zhang Yang nodded solemnly, "Seven hours ago, in a small town near the river on the outskirts of Y City in the south, a large number of Merfolk traces were found."

"Merfolk?"

Mu You was taken aback: "You mean the Merfolk from the game?"

"Yes."

Zhang Yang sighed and said gravely, "At first, the folks in Y City didn’t pay attention to it, thinking it was just an ordinary anomalous node. They sent people to exterminate them. But soon, they found that there were more and more Merfolk, totaling a few thousand, and still rapidly increasing. And this is just what’s visible above the surface. The town is located near the Yangtze River, and there might be more Merfolk underwater. By now, they have most likely spread to surrounding cities along the Yangtze River. The Y City Branch Office only realized the gravity of the situation and urgently sought help from across the nation..."

"A few thousand?"

Everyone took a sharp breath.

Mu You frowned. A few thousand Merfolk. This was not something that could be explained by a space node. No matter how intense the Space Fissure was, it could not transmit so many magical creatures all at once, and even more, are still continuously increasing.

Mu You immediately thought of a possibility: The Gate...

And today was Wednesday...

He hadn’t forgotten that during the last visit to the Gate, he eavesdropped on a conversation between the Illuminati and a black-robed person. They mentioned ’the action will take place in four days’. Calculating four days from that time, it happened to be today.

Could it be, this was their so-called ’action’?

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