55: NPC favorability can also be upgraded billions of times

“Ugh, so boring. We’ve been playing mahjong for four days straight.”

“Sigh, who isn’t? But at least we have mahjong to play.”

“Exactly! It’s a good thing there are so many professional mentors here. In some smaller Main Cities, you can’t even get a full table for mahjong.”

…

From the area where the professional mentors were located, various sounds of “eat,” “pong,” and “hu” from mahjong, and the sounds of Dou Dizhu with two jokers and four twos, could be heard.

Because it was a Newbie Main City and the players’ levels were very low, after transferring professions, they would usually only come here once to learn skills, and then there would be no more skills to learn, so they wouldn't come again.

And because it was a Newbie Main City, it would be a long time before someone capable of transferring professions would appear.

So these professional mentors were idle every day, only able to pass the time by playing mahjong and Dou Dizhu.

“They’re here, they’re here! Players are here! Let’s show them the demeanor a professional mentor should have.”

The Archer profession’s skill mentor had the best eyesight and saw someone walking towards them from afar.

At his reminder, all the professional mentors quickly put away their mahjong tiles and playing cards, and returned to their respective positions.

Their faces all changed to profound expressions as they looked expectantly towards the entrance.

Slowly, a figure appeared at the entrance. It was Qin Tian, who had come here to learn skills.

“This kid is muscular, exuding a fierce aura like a wild beast. His strength is probably over a hundred. He’s definitely a Berserker.”

The Berserker skill mentor, shirtless and holding a large axe, stroked his beard, a relieved smile on his face.

It had been a long time since a Berserker had appeared. If no Berserker appeared soon, he would be transferred to another Main City.

He had grown accustomed to staying here, already having a wife and children, so he didn’t want to leave.

“Nonsense! Look at this kid’s movement speed! Such fast movement speed, and I observed him; his eyes are very sharp. He must be an Archer.”

“Stop arguing! Did you see the large shield on his back? And his muscles are very firm, with abundant qi and blood. He’s clearly a Protection Warrior.”

“What Protection Warrior nonsense! Can’t you feel the magic aura on him? That feeling of abundant mana, even I fall short. This kid is a Mage, maybe even a hidden profession.”

…

All the professional mentors looked at Qin Tian and immediately started arguing, no longer maintaining their previous masterly demeanor.

There was no way around it; they faced the same dilemma as the Berserker mentor. If too few players of their respective professions appeared, they would be transferred to other Main Cities.

They all hoped that a player of their own profession would appear, and they weren’t speaking nonsense. Their judgments of Qin Tian were all based on their genuine feelings.

“Hello, I’d like to learn skills?”

Qin Tian walked up to the Berserker mentor, who was the closest mentor to him.

“Haha, I told you this kid was a Berserker!”

The Berserker looked at Qin Tian in front of him, instantly feeling much better. He winked at the skill mentors of the other professions, looking smug.

“No problem, let me verify your profession.”

The Berserker smiled as he looked at Qin Tian. In his opinion, this was just a formality. If he wasn't a Berserker, he wouldn't be able to teach him skills at all.

No, that's not right.

When the Berserker mentor saw Qin Tian's true profession, his expression suddenly changed drastically.

“I can’t teach it, I can’t teach it! My skills cannot be learned by you; it’s against the rules.”

Hearing the Berserker mentor say this, the closest Mage mentor instantly brightened: “I knew this kid was a Mage! Why are you getting so excited for nothing? You got happy for nothing, didn’t you? Come here, kid, I’ll teach you… Oh, sorry, I misread it.”

The Mage mentor was halfway through his sentence when he suddenly changed his tone.

The other mentors were also very puzzled. Were these two people mentally unstable?

“Holy cow, this kid’s profession is the Mythic-grade profession [Human]!”

“Why is it a [Human] of all things? Although this profession can learn all skills, it can only learn them through skill books! We can’t teach directly!”

“Relying on skill books is hard too! The attribute points need to be a hundred times more. Early-stage skills are fine, but in the later stages, those skills are simply impossible to learn.”

…

Exclamations of surprise kept ringing out. Out of curiosity, the other professional mentors also checked Qin Tian’s profession. Upon seeing Qin Tian’s profession, all their expressions changed drastically.

Seeing the reactions of the professional mentors, Qin Tian’s expression didn’t change much. He had actually anticipated this situation.

He had already prepared other countermeasures.

“It’s our first meeting. I’d like to give you a gift. Is there anything you need?”

Qin Tian looked at the Berserker mentor and asked.

For players, NPCs are like factions, having a favorability system.

As long as a player completes the favorability tasks provided by an NPC, they can increase their favorability with that NPC.

The higher the favorability with an NPC, the more willing the NPC will be to provide assistance.

The gift Qin Tian mentioned was the simplest way to increase favorability.

However, because the tasks were simple and the required quest items were very common, the favorability that could be gained was extremely limited, only about 10 points.

Moreover, after completing such a task once, if it was continued, the increased favorability would become lower and lower, eventually even providing no favorability bonus.

Therefore, most people rarely did them, or even didn’t do them at all.

After all, such a small amount of favorability was not enough to advance the NPC’s favorability towards you to the next stage.

And thus, no benefits would be gained.

However, for Qin Tian, this was not the case.

The Goblin Clan incident in the Nightmare Dungeon earlier had given him an idea.

Since faction favorability would be affected by the Billion-Fold Upgrade talent.

Then the NPC’s personal favorability was also highly likely to be affected.

Once affected, it would be a thousand times the effect for one action.

And the initial NPC favorability tasks were all very simple, like giving peaches or eggs.

They were very easy to complete.

Qin Tian felt that this kind of low-investment, high-return endeavor was very much worth a try.

“Don’t think you can bribe me this way. We NPCs have rules and regulations. However, since you said so, go buy me a chicken.”

The Berserker mentor was not polite.

“Okay, no problem.”

Qin Tian readily agreed and successfully accepted the quest.

[NPC Favorability Quest: Buy a Chicken]

[Quest Description: Help the Berserker mentor buy a chicken and give it to him.]

[Quest Reward: Berserker Mentor Favorability +10]

Qin Tian then walked to the mentors of the other professions and used the same line, very smoothly accepting all the quests.

As with the information he had received earlier, they were all about buying chickens, ducks, apples, peaches, and the like.

With all quests accepted, Qin Tian went directly to purchase the items.

In a short while, he had bought everything and returned.

Qin Tian still walked towards the closest Berserker mentor first.