Lost Temple Chapter 2

Black Mark was stepping out of his birth place the novice temple and began to casually watch the surrounding scenery, the artwork of "Lost Temple" is really formidable. With the support of high technology, the entire game has almost reached 100% simulation level. The sky outside the novice temple is b.l.o.o.d.y-red. Under the feet is a land full of yellow sand. When the foot touched on it there was a slight tactile sensation in the sand. Even the blowing wind comes with a faint smell of sulphur, to put the atmosphere of the demon world into full play. The most important thing in the game is the level and equipment. He has got a new outfit. The first priority for Black Mark is to go out to the village for leveling. The white harp was pulled out first, the five-finger frame was strung on the strings, and a melodious piece of music came. This was the first-hand piece of music that he learned after he had taken a position as a bard. He looked at his character’s status bar above to display a BUFF (Gain Magic) song of courage, and increase his attack power by five points.

The NPC in Lost Temple only teaches some of the most basic skills. The real useful skills are based on the player doing the task or learning the acquisition. The acquired(learned) skills are different from the skills taught by NPC in terms of power and practicality. The acquired skills cannot be used unless the player volunteers to teach them. This also reflects the purpose of the “Lost Temple” that was promoted from the very beginning: “The world and the fate are created by you.”

Black Mark put a feather arrow from the quiver onto the bow string.  He narrowed his eyes and aimed at a rabbit who was grazing in the distance. In order to take care of newly born players, all the monsters in Xinshoucun will not take the initiative to attack. This setting greatly reduces the chance of death for novice players. So Black Mark dare to stand here, aiming at the unlucky rabbit. When the bowstring sounded, a feather arrow broke and went to the rabbit, but this arrow did not seem to hit it at all. The rabbit just froze and ran towards Black Mark. The damage calculation in Lost Temple is related to the player’s own level and attack strength, but the most important thing is “weak point damage.” Each type of monster has its weaknesses, which means that it is much better for you to hit the monster on its weak point. So now Black Mark is dragging a wounded rabbit while searching for its weak point. There’s no other way, who let his blood level be only 30 points? Even a small rabbit can make him reincarnated…

* Even a small rabbit can make him reincarnated: means that he can get killed by the rabbit and then he will reincarnate*

Thanks to his own agility, his current speed of movement can only be described in terms of abnormality. It also gives some relief to Black Mark. After all, if he get beaten, can he still run?

Shooting at least six arrows, the system finally prompted him to attack the rabbit’s weaknesses. Looking at the rabbit that was about to be shot into a sieve, Black Mark stay still. Who can tell him exactly what the programmer of this game thinks, and why the rabbit’s weakness is neither the head nor the stomach. But it’s the ear! ! !

It is depressing, watching this first monster he hit in “Lost Temple”, but Black Mark still have a little sense of achievement. After squatting down, he pull out the feather arrow from the rabbit and put it back into the quiver — not that he is stingy. This branch of feather arrow is money ah! Especially for the poor and novice, he has to save as much as possible. Without the right weapon, he could only use the sharp arrow to replace the dagger. He had a bit of a smashed rabbit skin. Although he could not sell a few dollars, it can be said as good. The leg was fine and there’s also a piece of meat, isn’t it? Without the initial acc.u.mulation of wealth, there would be no later development. He had a good understanding of this truth.

It’s easy to skinned down the rabbit skin, he just about to throw it into the new backpack, before he heard a “Ding” system prompt “Congratulations on the player Black Marks for winning the primary task. Gain proficiency 1 point "

Having learned a skill in such a simple way, Black Mark could not help but feel happy. It seems that this game is even more interesting than in his imagination. Although the task is not a combat skill, life skills are an essential aid skill for adventurers in a world where survival and fighting are equally important. Life skills are also an essential aid for an adventurer. He was reminded of his desire to explore, but instead of going for leveling he starts to learn some life skills.

The skill that he had just learned from rabbits was called "Gathering." Is there any possibility that this skill can not only be minked, but also collect something else? His brain has always been smart, he turned his eyes and picked up a nearby weed, and it turned out that the proficiency of the task technique had changed from 1 point to 2 points.

Look at the gra.s.s that i have pulled in my hand, the slender stems, and the stubby hairy head at the top. “Dog tail gra.s.s.” Black Mark muttered to himself. I have to admire how powerful the Lost Temple programmers, this wild gra.s.s has been made so realistic by them. After voice out this sentence there heard a “Ding” sound: “Congratulations on player Black Mark acquired primary identification, gain proficiency 1 point”

…… This is also possible… Black Mark could not help but hung a black line -_-”’. It seems that “Lost Temple” is really omnipotent in order to encourage players to tap into the spirit of innovation…

One afternoon in the novice leveling point around, the new backpack has been stuffed with messy things, wild gra.s.s and fruits, stone sand, flowers, a myriad of wonders, and now that his task and identification techniques has reached more than half of the primary level, according to the experience summarized in the afternoon, the same thing can provide up to three points of proficiency, that is to say, after the same gra.s.s is collected three times, it will no longer obtain proficiency. In order to upgrade the proficiency, you must look for new varieties.

Seeing that the backpack is full and his stomach has been hungry for so long, supposed it’s time to return to the village.

The first target of Black Mark is the grocery store. Seriously he has to sell those pile of sc.r.a.ps first. He's running with such a heavy burden while he's low-powered. Not to mention running. Being able to move is already a good thing…

The grocery store stunned at the pile of jumbled materials he had piled on the counter, his jaw nearly drop to the ground: “That… where did these things you get from?”
“Doing task.”
"Doing task？ did you collect it from doing task?" The grocery store owner’s eyes suddenly flashed a trace of light.
“Yeah.” Black Mark shrugged inexplicably. Didn’t any players collect things to sell? Is it worth so much fuss?
“In this way, I have all these things for you. What about all for ten silver coins? Then, you can help me to do a task. Here, this is the deposit, five silver coins, so you have a total of fifteen silver coins. You take it.” In an instant, the boss quickly swept the material piled on the table to under the counter and counted fifteen silver coins in his hand.

To know that in ‘Lost Temple’, the coins are very rare. First of all, only the humanoid monsters will drop coins. Secondly, the player of this level will not even touch the humanoid, even if they comes in contact with the drop coins, it’s just a few copper coins. (The exchange rate of coins in Lost Temple is 100 copper coins = 1 silver coin, 100 silver coins = 1 gold coin, and 10,000 gold coins = 1 crystal coin).

Now that the game has just been open for half a day, this fifteen silver coins probably a huge sum of money for the majority of players.

“What task? I’ll take it!” Looking at the silver coins on his hands, Black Mark can not suppress the excitement in his heart, this is the first pot of gold that he digs in the game!

“Help me collect some materials, here, this is the list.” After receiving the parchment that the grocery store owner handed over, he reads the list, ten pieces of rabbit skin, twenty spikes, twenty branches and twenty chicken feathers.

Are some trivial little things, unexpectedly worth five silver coins?! When Black Mark took the list, he was happily going out but was stopped by the grocery store owner. “You go to the blacksmith shop next door to buy a knife, to save the rabbit skin from being crushed.”

A glance at the rabbit skin that was drawn by his own arrow. Black Mark couldn’t help but feel sorry. In the game, he forgets the basics of common sense – Do you have to use a knife?

The blacksmith shop is not far from the grocery store, and it took a few minutes to arrive. Now that the game has just begun beta testing, players are generally shy so that everyone basically uses the system to install new equipment. No one has extra money to change weapons for themselves, so this weapon shop is very quiet. The wrinkled old dwarf was not hitting iron, instead he was smoking a pipe while watching the counter. Uncle Zhang, who has not opened up his shop so far, is not enthusiastic about this customer.

Black Mark is not in a hurry. Instead, he looks back and forth and looks at the furnis.h.i.+ngs of the house. There are a lot of s.p.a.ce that is filled with all kinds of weapons. Many things are covered with dust. It seems that the blacksmith shop is not good. Inattentively looking at the store, when Black Mark found a short bow hung on the wall his eyes suddenly lighten up, he walked over to take the short bow down and took it in his hands, a several identification appeared and a name showed up “Patrol Short Bow, Agility +2, Item Level: Blue Rank, Item Quality: High Quality.”

To know that the system is loading with new equipment just ordinary whiteboard equipment, did not expect this bow turned out to be a high quality blue rank! The more Black Mark hold the bow, the more he can’t put it down.

“What do you want to buy?” After sucking the smoke in the pipe, the blacksmith uncle finally greeted the guest.
“How much does this bow cost?”
"That? 15 silver coins." The Blacksmith uncle lifted his eyelids, and filled himself with a full pipe of tobacco, and he paid no attention to the price.
“…okay, i buy it.” After handing over the silver coins that haven’t been hold up in the hand, Black Mark suddenly changed back from the “rich” to the poor cla.s.s. However, the traces of Black Mark’s face is not miserable. He knows that the value of this blue rank short bow is far greater than fifteen silver coins!
"That…I’ll have to buy a little knife again, how much is it?" Touched the five copper coins that were distributed to the system at his birth, Black Mark secretly praying, hoping that his money was enough to buy a knife, otherwise the task that the grocery store boss handed over is probably not complete.
"Knife?" the dwarf blacksmith Uncle took a small knife from behind the counter and looked at it and handed it to Black Mark. "You are the first person to visit the blacksmith shop since the beta test, so this is for you."

Black Mark took the knife, he was so lucky that he could not wait to kiss the dwarf’s face which full of mustache and beards!

Leaving the blacksmith shop, Black Mark went to the food store and used the only five copper coins to buy some of the cheapest black noodles into the bag and couldn’t wait to get out of Xinshoucun.

Wild jungle, I am coming!

my note: i'm not major in neither chinese nor english so please bear with my poor translation. i'm only using google translation for all of the chapter story above. feel free to correct me if i had any mistake for the translation or you can tell me if you wanted to join in to translate. thank you. ?