[National Chat Channel]:
"Holy crap, who is this big shot? They actually completed a hidden quest."
"Begging the big shot to show themselves."
"You upstairs are shameless. Why would you offer yourself?"
"To be honest, I'm that big shot."
"I wonder who this person is. If only we could know what that hidden quest was."
"Excuse me, what's the use of reputation? I can't find anything about reputation on my stats panel."
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[International Chat Channel]:
"I'll pay 100,000 spirit coins for that hidden quest."
"I am Prince Baidi. If you're willing to reveal the secret of the hidden quest, I'll give you five million spirit coins."
"My Tokugawa Group is willing to pay three million for the hidden quest data."
"My Yamamazon will offer ten million, provided the content is real."
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Logically speaking, people from these major groups wouldn't do this.
It's simply because they've never heard of a hidden quest in the novice trial.
In other words, this novice trial is the only one that has ever had a hidden quest.
Before this, there had been no hidden quests.
It was precisely because of this that people all over the world were so desperate to know what the hidden quest was and how to trigger and complete it.
Unfortunately, despite the countless wealthy individuals shouting in the international channel for a long time, they still didn't get much information.
Instead, there were countless people claiming to know about the hidden quest, trying to trick them out of their wealth, but they weren't easily fooled.
And Zhou Yan was completely unaware of all this.
He had no time to look at the chat rooms right now; he was busy reviewing Jerry and the others' information.
[Name: Jerry]
[Gender: Male]
[Age: 42]
[Race: Dwarf]
[Belonging Lord: Zhou Yan]
[Quality: A]
[Loyalty: 90]
[Level: 18]
[Soul Coins required for leveling up: 260]
[Charm: 2 (Base 0.2)]
[Luck: 2 (Base 0.2)]
[Strength: 18.5 (Base 0.5)]
[Constitution: 18.7 (Base 0.7)]
[Agility: 9.3 (Base 0.3)]
[Spirit: 9.6 (Base 0.4)]
[Talent: Forging]
[Forging Level: Silver 35%]
[Skill 1: Dwarf Forging Technique (Forging weapon speed +10%, attribute bonus +10%)]
[Skill 2: Cloak Hammer Technique (Forging speed +50%)]
[Introduction: Chief of the Dwarves, possesses decent forging skills. They are natural forging experts.]
"Compared to summoned heroes, they're really no match," Zhou Yan sighed after looking at Jerry's information.
Jerry, at level 18, had attributes inferior to Si Teng and the others.
However, what Zhou Yan valued was their forging talent.
This time, he had acquired dozens of blacksmiths. Coupled with the dwarves' innate forging talent, this was an absolute fortune.
"Jerry's forging level has already reached Silver, which means he can forge Silver-grade equipment."
This was an unexpected surprise.
The experience for副职业 (secondary professions) increased based on the quantity of forged equipment, and it couldn't be improved with spirit coins or soul coins.
Forging levels, like equipment, increased sequentially from lowest to highest: Black Iron, Bronze, Silver, Gold, Dark Gold, Platinum, Diamond, Master, Grandmaster, God-tier.
Jerry was already a Silver-grade blacksmith, capable of forging Silver-grade equipment.
This was contingent on having sufficient materials for him to forge.
Silver-grade equipment required at least three-star ores to forge.
Most of the ores at the foot of the Goblin Mountain were one-star iron ore, with a small amount of two-star. As for three-star ores, only a few had been discovered so far.
It was enough to craft daggers, but no one in his territory liked using daggers.
Ultimately, it was a lack of materials.
He planned to return and check the trading hall for higher-grade ores.
It was estimated that very few people would have them at this stage.
After the dwarves became residents of his territory, he opened the storage function of the territory's [Treasure Chamber] to them and had them collect all the ores here.
After the Goblin Chief's death, the remaining goblins either fled or died.
He instructed everyone to collect the spoils and put everything into the [Treasure Chamber].
Weapons were collected one by one.
Treasure chests were picked up.
Pieces of ore accumulated.
"Lord, I've found where the goblins stored their treasures!" Zhen Mi ran over to claim credit.
"Excellent, Chan'er, let's go take a look!"
Zhou Yan, accompanied by the two beautiful women, headed towards the goblin's treasure chamber.
What greeted his eyes was a pile of well-crafted weapons and equipment, as well as a lot of silver and gold.
"These are jade carvings."
Zhou Yan saw some jade ornaments here as well, likely plundered from some race by the goblins.
Unfortunately, these jades were merely decorative and not equipment, offering no attribute bonuses.
"This is a Silver-grade ornament!"
Zhou Yan did spot a statue carved from white jade, a divine statue of some unknown race.
[Item: Mountain Spirit Statue]
[Quality: Silver]
[Introduction: A statue carved by a tribe of Mountain Spirits, which brings them good luck.]
Generally, such items had no value.
But like antique jade in the real world, these items held different values in different hands.
Many people in the real world favored jade and similar items; the higher the quality, the more expensive the price.
"This thing should be useful for the Treasure Chamber."
He placed all these items into his territory and then checked if there were any changes in the [Treasure Chamber].
Indeed, he discovered a change.
[Building: Treasure Chamber]
[Level: 20]
[Required for leveling up: 30,000 Spirit Coins, 300 Four-star Wood, 300 Four-star Stone]
[Quality: SSS (0/4)]
[Required for leveling up: Four Treasure Chambers]
[Defense: 30,000/30,000]
[Special Attribute 1: Contains a space of ten thousand cubic meters, capable of automatically classifying and organizing various treasures.]
[Special Attribute 2: Can automatically repair damaged treasures. The higher the quality of the treasure, the longer it takes. (Repairing treasures consumes Spirit Coins.)]
[Attribute Bonus: Bronze Treasures 5, Silver Treasures 1. Insufficient treasures, additional attribute bonuses not activated.]
[Introduction: Stores various treasures. The more treasures stored and the higher their quality, the more unexpected rewards you will receive.]
Equipment did not count as treasures. Only items like the Mountain Spirit Statue could be considered treasures. He now understood the capabilities of the Treasure Chamber.