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Chapter 829: Chapter 830: Task Reward_1

There weren’t many Hawk Harpies roaming around, totaling only about thirty, but as the peripheral hunt progressed, their numbers dwindled. Inevitably, Song Jian had to venture deeper into the valley.

Deeper in the valley, the monsters weren’t just roaming Hawk Harpies anymore. There were also Witch-winged Harpies with lightning flickering on their wings and Harpy Wizards donning a red crown—their attacks were all ranged, and they mingled with the roaming Hawk Harpies. One careless move could attract their attention.

Song Jian’s attack skills were limited to two: the “Thousands of Swords Flying Immortal Decision” and the “Mysterious Moonlight Sword.” The former was a long-range attack, while the latter was a melee damage skill.

While Song Jian used the “Thousands of Swords Flying Immortal Decision” against a Harpy Witch, a Spirit Sword uncontrollably lunged toward another Hawk Harpy four meters away.

A critical hit exceeding a thousand points burst above the Hawk Harpy’s head. With a screech, it flapped its wings and charged toward Song Jian.

Before he had a chance to collect the loot dropped from the recently fallen Harpy Witch, Song Jian brandished his Sky-breaking Sword and rushed at the Hawk Harpy.

His figure was like lightning, even faster than a warrior’s charge skill, leaving faint afterimages in the air.

The long sword pierced the Hawk Harpy’s chest viciously. Suddenly, the creature’s body tilted sideways, as if it had lost control, and began floating in mid-air.

Swish, swish, swish~

Bright sword lights flashed continuously, splattering blood, and the Hawk Harpy’s head showed damage numbers of three to four hundred. Its Vitality Points plummeted by more than half.

When Song Jian sheathed his sword and withdrew, the suspended Hawk Harpy crashed to the ground, struggling fiercely to stand back up.

“Not bad, not bad at all, it seems that integrating this sword technique into ‘Thousands of Swords Flying Immortal Decision’ was the right choice. This move truly combines damage, control, and displacement skills into one powerful stroke!” Song Jian thought excitedly to himself.

After leveling up “Thousands of Swords Flying Immortal Decision” to level 2, its proficiency had greatly increased. At least two or three high-quality sword techniques would be required for another upgrade. Even if he fed the Mysterious Moonlight Sword to it, it wouldn’t immediately level up to 3. Considering the potency of this sword technique, Song Jian hesitated for a moment but decided to keep it, and to his surprise, it gave him a pleasant surprise during live combat.

The Hawk Harpy, left with just over a thousand Vitality Points, was dispatched by Song Jian with a couple of simple slashes, dropping its last breath along with a palm-sized, jade-crafted claw.

It took over an hour for Song Jian to kill more than fifty roaming Hawk Harpies, along with twenty or thirty Harpy Witches and Priests, before he collected thirty Witch-winged Harpy claws.

One should note that not every Hawk Harpy would drop a claw, and Witches and Priests were even less likely to drop them than roamers, resulting in Song Jian having to kill close to ninety Witch-winged Harpies to gather all the quest items.

“Had I known it would be like this, I should have asked for more rewards!” Song Jian hadn’t anticipated being so cautious yet still letting the Goblin Gold Seal take advantage. He suddenly felt rather frustrated.

In this game, the NPC quest givers didn’t offer fixed rewards. Players could even negotiate with them to increase the quantity or quality of the quest rewards.

However, this increase had to be within a certain range, or else it would result in the NPC refusing to issue you tasks and even cause the NPC to dislike you, which could result in a loss not worth the gain;

Considering the difficulty of this quest, Song Jian estimated that even if he asked for two more Hawk essence cores, there was a good chance that the Goblin would agree.

Returning to the location of the Goblin Gold Seal, the little dwarf was actually hiding behind a huge rock, causing Song Jian a bit of a search;

“Here, these are the Harpy claws you wanted!” Song Jian dumped all thirty Harpy claws, glowing with the light of white jade, in front of the Gold Seal, saying discontentedly;

“You really are a powerful deity-favored one. I didn’t expect you to finish the task so quickly!” The Gold Seal said with a smile beaming across his face, cautiously glanced at Song Jian’s expression, and hesitated before saying, “You’ve done an excellent job on this task, I’ve decided to give you a little extra reward. No matter which reward you choose, you’ll get an additional Hawk essence core!”

Goblins could be said to be the most calculating race in the game. Feeling Song Jian’s dissatisfaction, the Goblin immediately offered to increase the quest rewards;

Seeing the Goblin being so tactful, Song Jian’s expression lightened slightly, and he gave a nod as a sign of agreement;

Soon, Song Jian had pocketed four Hawk essence cores in his pack, in addition to the one he had obtained earlier, he now had five Hawk essence cores, which would increase his flight mount’s speed by 10 points;

Song Jian gave it a try, and these essence cores could still be used on the Black Dragon, even though strictly speaking, the Black Dragon was his combat pet and not a flight mount;

Ordinary flight mounts only had a flying speed of thirty to fifty points. A twenty-point increase was a significant improvement. However, for the Black Dragon, which already had a flying speed of one hundred and eighty points, a twenty-point increase was not very noticeable;

“I could use another five, but I wonder if there’s a better way to get them,” Song Jian thought to himself.

“By the way, Hawk essence cores are very useful to me. If you have any spares, I wonder if you could sell some to me? I can give you a satisfying price!” Song Jian said;

As more players would acquire flight mounts in the future, Song Jian wanted to stock up, not to mention that giving them out as benefits to the brothers in his league would also be good;

“Of course, I’m a merchant. Meeting the needs of my customers is my duty!” The Gold Seal said with a brilliant smile, barely able to contain his enthusiasm.

“However, you have to recover my goods for me first. Otherwise, it’s impossible for me to sell any items to you. Even those four Hawk essence cores were carried on my person, and now I don’t have a single one left!” The Gold Seal quickly added, his eyes rolling with cunning;

“All right, let’s continue with the next task. Am I to go directly to hunt the leader of these Harpies?” Song Jian asked.

“Deity-favored one, you have already proven your strength. Next, you can go and kill the Harpy leader in the cave deep in this valley. As long as you bring me its crown and the batch of goods I lost, I will give you a generous task reward!” The Gold Seal said, grinning widely: “But before that, I hope you can first kill the six Harpy slaughterers who stole my goods and bring me their Guardian Feathers. Otherwise, those Harpy slaughterers will interfere with your fight against the Harpy leader!”

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