52: Super Backpack Expansion

“Ding!”

“Congratulations! Your incredible charm has triggered a hidden quest—Concerns of the Fashion Store (3 Stars): The fashion store has opened and business is booming. Orders are increasing dramatically, and the store’s production capacity is insufficient, requiring a large amount of silk. The owner of the fashion store earnestly requests you to go to the wilderness to collect silk.”

“Required quantity is greater than 1000. The more silk you collect, the higher the quality of the reward.”

“Do you wish to accept the quest immediately?”

“Accept.”

Li Si decisively accepted the quest with his mind, then opened the Mingyue Village map and typed “silk” into the search bar.

“Swish!”

The map interface refreshed.

It showed the locations where silk could be found.

Level 18 area, Silk Cavern.

He had never been to this area before, so he couldn't use the Great Teleportation Technique.

However, Silk Cavern was very close to Black Flame Valley.

“Great Teleportation Technique.”

Li Si chanted the incantation on the spot.

Four seconds later, his figure vanished from within the fashion store.

“Awesome!”

“Was that spatial teleportation just now?”

“So powerful!”

“Simply incredible, is this what a super player is like?”

“Perhaps not for long.”

“Seven days. I hope Crazy God can find a way to leave Novice Village without leveling up to 20.”

“After all, he's from the same Novice Village. I hope to see him do well.”

“Indeed.”

“If Crazy God can overcome this tribulation, his status as a super player will definitely be as solid as a mountain.”

“I hope he succeeds.”

“……”

At this moment, the players inside the fashion store silently offered their blessings to Li Si.

Inside Silk Cavern.

“Clang!”

Sky-Piercing Blade Draw, sword energy rampaged, instantly killing all the venomous silkworms within 100 meters ahead.

“Ding!”

“Killed 102 venomous silkworms. Experience increased by 18360 points. Killing enemies 17 levels higher grants an additional 18360 experience points.”

A single skill instantly granted over 36000 experience points.

Thus...

The 45 million experience points needed to level a gold skill from level 1 to max level no longer seemed like much.

“Sky-Piercing Blade Draw is indeed a divine skill for clearing areas. It would be perfect if its cooldown were a bit shorter.”

Looking at the corpses within a hundred meters ahead, Li Si sighed, feeling that Sky-Piercing Blade Draw didn't seem like a gold skill, but rather a mythical quality one. Phantom Sword Dance was similar, its stats were also quite explosive.

After quickly picking up the loot, he began to collect silk...

While he was diligently doing quests, the players in Mingyue Village were also racing against time to level up. In the various leveling areas outside, players could be seen everywhere.

“Brothers, charge! Level up to 20!”

“Just 15 more levels, and I can leave.”

“Damn it, I don’t want to stay in Mingyue Village for another second.”

“Brothers, I’ve already found out that the superior main city of Mingyue Village is called Luanxing City.”

“I also heard the news. After leaving Novice Village and crossing a forest, you can reach Luanxing City.”

“Have you heard? The Zhang Corporation from Hai City has already settled in Luanxing City and is aggressively recruiting talent.”

“Hiss... Zhang Corporation? Holy cow!”

“The Zhang Corporation is the number one corporation in Hai City!”

“Terrifying as such!”

“This All Heavens Game...”

“It's clearly becoming the second world of Blue Star.”

“……”

While leveling up, players exchanged information in the chat channel.

Time passed.

12:00 AM.

“Ding!”

“Congratulations on completing the hidden quest—Aunt Wang’s Needs (3 Stars).”

“Congratulations! You have gained 80000 experience points.”

“Congratulations! You have obtained: Equipment—Aunt Wang’s Heirloom Sword (Blue).”

Li Si walked out of Aunt Wang's small courtyard holding the blue weapon.

A level 20 weapon.

It was barely acceptable.

Li Si silently tallied the number of quests. Starting from the first quest at the fashion store, in just three short hours, he had already completed seven quests.

At most, with one more day tomorrow, he would be able to complete all 30 quests and obtain the title of Honorary Villager.

Much faster than he had imagined.

He casually shoved the weapon into his backpack, but it showed that the backpack space was insufficient.

“Disgusting.”

The initial ten backpack slots for players, with a maximum stack of ten for identical items, equivalent to 100 slots, were clearly not enough.

When collecting silk, Li Si used the Great Teleportation Technique to go back and forth more than ten times to deliver 1000 units of silk to the fashion store. Originally, ten trips would have been enough, but he couldn't bear to throw away his infinitely durable Newbie Sword, and he also had the Seven Stars Mausoleum treasure map.

These two items occupied two backpack slots.

As for why he only collected 1000 units of silk, it was because Li Si didn't want to waste time; he just wanted to leave Mingyue Village as quickly as possible. The rule that players who remained in Novice Village after seven days would be forcibly deleted was like the Sword of Damocles.

He wouldn't be comfortable for a moment until he left.

Looking at the blue weapon in his hand, he decided to go to Divine Smith Valley to forge a backpack expansion himself.

“Buzz!”

Space vibrated.

Li Si activated the divine smith token and entered Divine Smith Valley.

Numerous construction materials were piled up like mountains.

Every time he saw these materials, it made him happy.

This was the inheritance left by his cheap master—no, that's not right, this was the collection of his cheap master's entire life.

“Let me look.”

See if there's a high-level backpack expansion.

The quality must be high.

The level must be low.

Then Li Si began to rummage through everything to search.

Soon after...

He really did find a design blueprint.

“Super Backpack Expansion (Gold): Forging materials required: Amethyst Ore * 8, Silver Sand * 9, Crystalline Stone * 5...”

A long list of over thirty types of materials were required.

Moreover, several of the gold materials were extremely rare.

But luckily, Divine Smith Valley had them all.

“The forging table is here too.”

Li Si walked to the forging table and activated the Blazing Sky skill. Level 2 Blazing Sky was just enough to smelt gold materials.

“Boom!”

Crimson flames shot into the sky.

Melting over thirty types of materials.

“Ding!”

“The base success rate for this forging is 33%.”

“19 points of luck increase the additional forging success rate by 19%.”

“The final success rate for this forging is 52%.”

Not bad at all.

The success rate was over half.

Li Si swung the forging hammer without hesitation.

Clang! Clang! Clang!

The crisp sound of metal reverberated through Divine Smith Valley...

“Ding!”

“Congratulations! Your forging was successful.”

The crimson Blazing Sky slowly dissipated.

A backpack glowing with golden light appeared on the forging table.

“Super Backpack Expansion (Gold)”

Level: 1

Backpack slots increased to 100, and each backpack slot can stack up to 100 items.

Description: A gold-quality backpack, extremely rare.

“The attributes are not bad.”

Li Si secretly evaluated.

With the Super Backpack Expansion, the backpack capacity should be sufficient for a long time.

“It’s 12 o’clock. Time to log off.”

Immediately before logging off, Li Si specifically checked the Blazing Sky Craftsman’s proficiency. Forging one backpack actually increased proficiency by 3%.

It really does pay to forge high-quality equipment.

As he mused, Li Si's figure vanished from within Divine Smith Valley.

In the real world, inside the rented room.

Li Si's vision returned to the ceiling of his rented room.

“Grrr...”

His stomach was a bit hungry. He should go eat something first.

He strode downstairs.

Walking towards the restaurant called 'Here's a Restaurant'.