Chapter 16 (1/2)
Translator: Henyee Translations
Editor: Henyee Translations
Dusk was soon falling.
In the forest of elves, ancient trees of various shapes were towering into the clouds, their branches crisscrossed, and their flourishing leaves covered the sky and the sun.
A golden sunset shone over the trees through their leaves like twinkling stars in elusive stillness.
Cadences of singing slowly sounded as a few tough vines suddenly emerged from the soil and came flying from all directions, and twined round a tall and straight ancient tree.
Li Mu put down his staff, gently breathed a sigh of relief, and said to the people behind him, “I have fixed it!”
“Nice! The skill Twining Vines is very useful!”
“Hey, now we don’t need to worry that the falling tree will accidentally kill people!”
“Poof… Demacia, you were purely unlucky to stand in the wrong place. What else can explain the fact that you were struck every time?”
“Get out!”
“Ha ha ha!”
Several elves dressed in linen clamored, rushed to the ancient tree, and started chopping at the base with their wooden knives…
“I find it really strange… Clearly, the goddess is a World Tree. But our task is to cut trees…”
“It must be that the goddess is not in a good condition. As you can see, the World Tree is withered.”
“There is no lack of wood in this forest. The goddess shouldn’t be worried about it?”
“You are a hard-core deist…”
“It’s just a game. Don’t take it too seriously.”
“Uh… If you hadn’t mentioned it, I would have almost forgotten that this was a game…”
The players chatted while working.
They were Li Mu’s teammates.
After finishing the first task, Li Mu teamed up with several players in order to do routine work more efficiently.
With bouts of shouting “one, two, three” and the sound of chopping, the ancient tree that was dozens of meters tall shook slightly, and then more and more intensely…
“Push it together! Quick! One! Two! Three…!”
“Broken! It’s broken!”
With cheers, the huge ancient tree shook slightly before finally falling down and startling a group of flying birds…
Several elves rushed to it again and took out their wooden knives to chop it. With brilliant sword skills, they segmented the ancient tree like serious lumberjacks.
“This tree is enough for us to hand in?”
They talked while wiping sweat.
“It’s enough. This tree is very big. I suppose that we cannot move all the segments in one trip.”
Li Mu said while carrying the segmented ancient wood with the others.
This was already his sixth task. After teaming up with several other players, his efficiency had improved greatly.
Without noticing it, Li Mu had already been playing in the game for a whole day.
To be precise, it was a day of cutting down trees.
Glancing at his character card, he curled his lips and said, “After finishing this task, I should be able to upgrade to the rank five.”
“Damn! Big boss!”
“You are a determined player! This is just one day? It is only three or four hours on the blue planet and you are going to reach the rank five?”
“This is Brother Mu!”
Several players instantly looked towards him in admiration.
Li Mu grinned, managed a smile on his handsome face, and explained, “I’m lucky. I found a sun fir of light affinity after receiving my first task. Alice directly gave me 300 points of experience.”
“What a lucky player!”
“Is it the golden one at the gate of the camp?”
People around him were green with envy.
“That’s terrific! Why am I so unlucky? Previously, the task I received every time was to clean the temple, which offered few points of experience value. I finally received a task to collect wood, but was killed several times by the falling trees. My experience points were all gone.”
The elf with the word “Demacia” on his head complained.
“Ha ha ha ha, perhaps you are an unlucky player! Ha ha ha ha!”
“In a sense, you count as a talented person to be killed by the falling trees every time.”
“You took off your clothes at the beginning and you took the initiative to flirt with Alice. I think you alone are remarkable on the whole server of this game.”
“Demacia, what is Alice’s impression of you?”
Demacia glanced at the system bar. His two sharp ears drooped. He touched his exploding hair and said weakly, “Minus… Minus 100…”
“Ha ha ha ha ha ha!”
“You really want me to laugh to death. Ha ha ha ha!”
“It’s no wonder that you get a rubbish task every time. Ha ha ha ha…”
“No, I think the only reason is the fact that he has a black face…”
Laughing, the freely formed logging team of several players carried the wood and returned to the camp under the World Tree.
There was originally a low shrub in the campsite. But at this moment, it had already been cleared out by the players.
Dozens of players in groups of three or two were building houses with timber from cut trees and collected stones.
Although a dozen wooden houses of different styles were simple, their shapes had already emerged. The players who were faster had even finished a two-story wooden house.
Looking at the decent buildings, Demacia could not help but sigh.
“They are talented people! They have built houses in such a short time!”
“Because they have skills! It’s true that sometimes magic and sword skills are really useful. And the higher their rankings, the greater their strength and the more they can do…” some people explained.
“Of course, design is also crucial.”
Saying so, he pointed to the center of the construction site. A tall female elf with pink hair wearing a magic robe stood there, holding a drawing made of an unknown material. She was gesticulating with several other players. The green words “Cuckoo Bird” were on her head.
“Do you see? The little sister over there called “Cuckoo Bird” is really a big boss. It is said that in reality, she studies civil engineering at Jinghua University. She has designed several houses here. It seems that she will soon upgrade to the rank 5 through the construction task.”
Li Mu looked at her in surprise and secretly remembered the words “Cuckoo Bird.” Other players were in an uproar.
“Gosh! It’s less than a day!”