In the underground space, the bored Kent was multitasking, searching for prey while browsing the forums. As a modern standard internet-addicted youth, these days without a phone and internet access were unbearable for him. Even just browsing the forums and watching players cause trouble seemed exciting to him now.
However, he soon realized he was overestimating himself. After the nth time getting distracted by a forum post and letting his prey escape, Kent closed the forum and decided to focus on finding prey.
Before closing the system interface, he glanced at the private chat interface and noticed a private chat request.
[Player "Practice" has sent you a private chat request, note: Kent is that you, I'm Mike.]
Mike? Could it be Mike? Kent accepted the private chat request and subtly asked a few secrets that only the two brothers knew, then confidently admitted his identity.
[Practice: Wow, it's you! Kent, quickly cancels the transaction for the Iron-eating Worm's excrement. I'm saving up money, and this kind of job can't be given to others cheaply.]
Upon hearing this, Kent immediately canceled the transaction. Mike was his best buddy, and apart from Mike, everyone else was no different from strangers.
When Kent was in sixth grade, a group of middle school dropouts started targeting him because he refused to let the school bully copy his answers during an exam. They blocked him at the school gate every day after school. The teachers, fearing trouble, resorted to the classic theory of "Why do they bully you instead of others" and "Think carefully, are you completely innocent," ignoring his pleas for help. Why not ask his parents... It was well known that the permanent respawn point for transmigrators was the orphanage.
At that moment, his deskmate Mike stood up for him, and together in the alley, they fought against the ten bullies, or more accurately, the ten thugs together.
In the end, Mike's parents reported the incident to the school, and Mike's older brother also brought people to fight fire with fire. With the help of his family, Kent finally escaped from this nightmare.
Now, when Mike spoke, even if he asked Kent to give him shit, Kent would gladly do it.
[Practice: Kent, I just inquired, and the buyback price for the Iron-eating Worm's excrement here is 57 silver coins per cubic meter. How about selling me your 4 cubic meters for 223 silver coins? I'll earn 5 silver coins for running this errand, but you'll have to wait a while. I don't have that much money at the moment.]
Looking at the private chat interface, Kent showed a sinister and terrifying smile, and directly gave the Iron-eating Worm's excrement to Mike, saying privately:
[Turn Away: You don't need to save up, just take it and sell it. Give me 200 silver coins later. You can't give advantages to others, especially not to brothers.]
[Practice: Thanks a lot, Kent. By the way, since you have Iron-eating Worms, do you also have iron ore? I have a big business opportunity here.]
Upon hearing this, Kent became interested and asked about the big opportunity. It took Mike a long string of words to explain the situation to him.
Unlike combat players, who are seen by NPCs as coming from the stars and have an incredible resurrection mechanism, life players randomly replace NPCs in towns when they descend, even using their appearance, and other NPCs will think that they are the original person. This is also jokingly referred to by players as "the second reincarnation."
Some life players are lucky enough to directly become researchers at the Mana Institute. Although their savings will be cleared, as soon as their salary is paid at the end of the month, they will immediately have no worries about food and clothing. However, some players become beggars on the roadside, with nothing but a startup capital of 1000 copper coins, and have to find a job themselves.
Mike's descending identity was not too good or too bad. His father's identity was a steward for a merchant, so he had been helping the merchant with odd jobs. During this time, he learned from the merchant that the iron veins near Frost Earth City were almost depleted, so the price of iron ore in the area had soared. The merchant wanted to bring in a batch of iron ore from outside to sell, but he had no way.
If he could get a batch of iron ore, not to mention how much he could earn, his reputation level would skyrocket. For life players, increasing their reputation level is like leveling up for combat players. With a high reputation level, they can buy high-level resources.
Upon seeing this, Kent became interested. If Mike could increase his reputation level and help him purchase Rare-level resources, he wouldn't have to wait until the combat players reached level 10.
However, although he knew where there was iron ore, he didn't have the means to mine it. Breaking iron ore directly with force would not be recognized by the system, and the resulting debris could not be traded with other players as resources. It had to be mined with an iron pickaxe to drop "iron ore" as a resource.
Thinking of this, Kent looked unhappy. More painful than not having money was having money in front of you that you couldn't pick up. Suddenly, a touch of dark green caught his attention.
Kent focused and saw a dark green arm slowly retracting into the cluster of Nightlight Mushrooms not far away. He pretended not to notice and casually passed by, waiting until he was close enough to cast "Insight."
[Race: Cave Goblin Rank: Normal Level: lv9]
[Attributes: Strength 7, Constitution 7, Spirit 7, Agility 10]
[Health: 350/350 Mana: 350/350 Stamina: 70/70]
[Talent: Bully the Weak (Rank D) - When the enemy's level is lower than the goblin's, all attributes +1.]
[Skill: Pummel (Rank E) - Cost: 50 mana and 50 stamina. Strikes the enemy, dealing 350 physical damage. Cooldown: 30 seconds.]
[Commentary: Long, long ago, goblins once established a kingdom. However, in a certain battle where they destroyed a human village, a human survivor emerged who specialized in killing goblins. Eventually, he became the legendary "Goblin Slayer," single-handedly destroying the goblin kingdom.]
It was none other than the famous Goblin! The goblins in the Immortal World were portrayed traditionally, as greedy, cunning, evil, and brutal, but relatively weak, relying on numbers and group tactics for victory. Goblins were not lascivious, or rather, the idea of goblins plundering females as breeding tools was a trend set by a certain country.
In the Immortal World, goblins took the concept of group tactics to the extreme. The more goblins there were, the more powerful types of goblins would be born, such as Goblin Fighters, Goblin Shamans, and Goblin Wolf Riders.
During the beta testing period, there were no goblin activities in The Chaotic Rock Cave, so it was clear that this was new content added to the official server.