Chapter 920 - Venerable Title! (1/2)

Time slowly passed as Nie Yan repeatedly turned in the quest. His Influence was gradually rising.

After turning in the quest 300 times, the items Katherine requested became more and more expensive, including materials like Dark Runic Cloth and Blackwater Crystal. The value of these items were over several thousand gold, and she would ask for multiple at a time. Yet there was no indication that the rewards would increase. It was no wonder that the person in the rumours had given up after turning in the quest 300 times. Even Nie Yan started to feel his wallet hurt.

Nie Yan wondered if he should give up. If he continued on with this quest, the amount of gold he would have to spend for a point of Influence simply wasn’t worth it.

Weighing his options, Nie Yan decided to go up to 390 times. If nothing happened by then, he would give up.

So far, Nie Yan had gained 132 Influence. This was roughly equal to completing three S-rank quests.

After handing over five Blackwater Crystals, a crisp notification jingle rang out.

You have received 3 Influence.

This was the 306th time. There finally seemed to be a slight increase in rewards, a small consolation for the ever increasing costs of completing the quest.

When Nie Yan turned in the quest for the 330th time, he received a Resurrection Crystal worth about 60,000 gold. One had to know, he’d spent at least 1,000,000 over the last 30 quest turn ins. A Resurrection Crystal did very little to soothe his bleeding heart. The experience rewards were fairly decent though, filling up his experience bar by 7%. He’d also gained 52 Influence.

Nie Yan estimated even big shots like Cao Xu, Plenty, and Soaring Angel would be hard pressed to continue. Nevertheless, he continued turning in the quest. He couldn’t help but wonder how much more he would have to do to reach the end.

“Oh, Great Prophet. The Hilton Stronghold is being sieged by demonic beasts once more. The soldiers there are fighting bravely to protect our homeland, but they’re running low on equipment and supplies. Please help me find 1,000 pieces of Level 130 Gold-grade equipment,” Katherine said.

Katherine started to ask for equipment. Thankfully, 1,000 pieces of Level 130 Gold-grade equipment wasn’t worth that much. It was much cheaper than the items Nie Yan had to collect before.

Nie Yan had his helpers deliver a thousand pieces of Gold-grade equipment with fairly mediocre stats. They weren’t worth much. Fortunately, Katherine had only specified that the equipment had to be Gold-grade, not whether their quality was good or not.

Nie Yan handed over the equipment to Katherine.

“Great Prophet, thank you for your generosity. I thank you on behalf of the soldiers from the Hilton Stronghold.” Katherine performed a deep bow.

You have received 9 Influence.

That was 161 Influence gained so far. 300 Influence didn’t seem all that far away anymore.

The subsequent quests all asked Nie Yan to collect equipment, 500 pieces of Level 130 Dark Gold-grade equipment, 800 pieces of Level 135 Silver-grade equipment, 700 pieces of Level 135 Gold-grade equipment… If not for him being the guild leader of a large guild, gathering this much equipment would’ve probably driven him mad. Even though he could always go to the auction house, the equipment listed there were all high quality with expensive price tags. Anything mediocre or bad would generally be scrapped. However, turning in anything better than mediocre equipment for this quest would be pointlessly wasting gold.

From the 331st repeat and onwards, it was all equipment collection, which wasn’t too difficult for Nie Yan. After all, the guild treasury was filled with low-level equipment no one needed anymore, at least several million in fact. Even though the treasury would regularly undergo a spring cleaning, Level 130 equipment was still relatively recent.

After the Resurrection Crystal, the rewards only got better and better, leaving Nie Yan bursting with joy. He quickly accumulated 230 Influence, and his experience bar was also rapidly filling up.

Ding dong! A crisp notification jingle rang out. A level up!

Nie Yan quickly opened his status bar. Sure enough, he had risen to Level 157!

At this rate, it wouldn’t be long before he gained 300 Influence. This progress was far faster than he expected, and the experience rewards were nice too!

Nie Yan was nearing the 360th quest turn in. He wondered if there would be a special reward.

On the 359th repeat, Nie Yan was asked to look for 30 pieces of Level 120 Sub Legendary-grade equipment. This was Sub Legendary equipment! In the past, he had Guo Huai do some inventory. All of Asskickers United only had 1,200 pieces of Sub Legendary-grade equipment, and only 600 of those were over Level 120. Yet Katherine wanted to take away 30!

This was only the 359th repeat. Who knew how much more ridiculous the subsequent quests would be?

Nie Yan started hesitating. 30 pieces of Level 120 Sub Legendary-grade equipment, this was no small number!