Chapter 11 (1/2)
Liang Li Dong brings the young boy and young girl to where the golden light points to, a flat gra.s.sland. Logically speaking, this beam of golden light that descends from the sky should be very obvious but Kyle and Behring’s expressions do not show any abnormality. This shows that they cannot even see this unusual sight. But come to think of it, he feels this is very normal. While in the game, the effects from the special skills of players cannot be seen or felt by NPCs. For example, the feat ‘Humanoid Knowledge’. When detecting humanoid, it will not produce any hostility or inappropriate mind power fluctuation. Even the most powerful among humanoid NPCs, mixed blood between fire dragon and human, Margaret cannot resist the detection of this feat.
Young boy and young girl are puzzled as to why Liang Li Dong suddenly brought them here. Kyle even asks: “Lord Priest, aren’t we catching rabbits? Why are we here? This place does not seem to have any game.”
Liang Li Dong deliberates a while and smiles: “G.o.ddess Waukeen suddenly gives me instructions just now. She wants to give me some money to better accomplish my mission of spreading truth since I’m penniless right now after all.”
Hearing that, Kyle and Behring both have surprised expressions on their faces with ‘Are you kidding me’ mixed in it. In this world, most people believe in G.o.d but to normal people, especially kids from rural village like this, miracle is something very far off.
Now, a ‘quack’ suddenly says, he received G.o.ddess’ instruction…… At any time, being able to communicate with G.o.ds or receive words from G.o.ds can be seen as miracle. In the perception of the 2 kids, when G.o.d bestows miracle, there should be holy phenomenon in the heavens and earth…… But everything seems normal in the surroundings now, it is no wonder they suspect Liang Li Dong to be teasing them.
“It should be here.” Liang Li Dong steps on the ground under the golden light guiding and feels that the soil under the gra.s.sland is a bit soft. He brings out a stone pick from his dimensional backpack and digs on the ground.
This stone pick is the finger of G.o.ddess Waukeen’s statue. After killing the rabbit, Liang Li Dong put it into the dimensional backpack. In the game, every player owns a dimensional backpack. Its capacity increases slowly with their increase of level. The capacity is 8m3 when the character is created.
Seeing that Liang Li Dong suddenly have a stone pick in his hand, although young boy and young girl are surprised, they are much calmer now knowing that it is also a special ability of spellcasters. Kyle scratches his head and says: “Digging for real…… Then Lord Priest, let me help too.”
“No need to!” Liang Li Dong stabs the stone pick into the gra.s.sland hardly forcefully once again. This time he feels himself stabbing into a hard object and he then lifts the turf and digs out an old brown pottery pot.
Behring is shocked: “There is really something here”
Liang Li Dong breaks the pot using the stone pick with expectations and s.h.i.+ning silver coins flows out with 2 gold coins mixed in it. Now, both Kyle and Behring are staring in shock. The girl is dazzled by the amount of money and cannot even speak anymore while Kyle cannot help but says: “There’s really money here and so much money it is enough to buy a huge house.”
After slightly counting, this windfall totals to 2 gold and 43 silver. To common villagers, this is a huge sum of money but to Liang Li Dong who used to command a territory with a population of 40 thousands, this windfall is mere paltry. But in the early stages of the game, for any Cla.s.s, 2 gold and 43 silver is a large sum. Liang Li Dong remembered only until he reached level 7 and after selling many equipments, he barely managed to save up 1 gold coin. It is obvious how difficult it is to earn money in the game.
No wonder players refer to ‘Lucky Wealth’ as a G.o.dly skill in the forum. In the early stage, many things will be easier to accomplish with money.
Looking at the 2 kids’ surprised expressions, Liang Li Dong smiles. He counts 10 silver coins and stuffs it into Kyle’s hand and then puts another 10 silver coins into Behring’s hands. The 2 kids blanks out for a bit before hastily trying to return the money and Kyle says at the same time: “Lord Priest, this money is yours, I can’t accept it.”
Behring continuously nods too, 10 silver coins is such a large sum of money to them she dares not accept it.
Liang Li Dong smiles and says: “G.o.ddess Waukeen has said before, for windfall, everyone involved should have a share. Although this is reward from the G.o.ddess, to me, this is indeed a windfall. While you two have seen me dig out the money, therefore I have to share some with you two. If you two don’t accept it, it will cause me to go against G.o.ddess’ teachings and turn me into less devout, understand?”
Since it has come to this, Kyle and Behring have no choice but to accept these money.
Liang Li Dong turns his wrist and keeps his coins into the dimensional backpack. He then observes the two young boy and girl. Kyle calmly puts the silver coins into his pocket while Behring’s face turns slightly red and stares at the 10 silver coins in her hands. She appears excited and cannot move her eyes away from the silver coins.
Coming from different environment and difference in horizons results in huge difference in mentality. This is the reason why commoners in has difficulty in rising up. n.o.bles’ descendants have first cla.s.s education, possess broader horizons and contacts. They naturally can easily continue to be successful while commoners’ descendants have to toll for their daily meals and after barely managing to fill their stomachs, they have to consider their next meal. Under these conditions, how can they receive education and broaden their horizons.
A NPC feudal lord in once said: The child of a shepherd will still shepherd. n.o.bles’ descendants will forever be n.o.bles. Although these words are a joke to players, after all players believe more in ‘Power and n.o.bility are not inborn’ but players with not even 50 thousand in numbers cannot change the systems of the country in , after all there is too many NPCs with a whopping amount of more than 5 billions.
Once a group of aspired players band together to form an organization with the slogan of ‘Revolution’ attempted to change the systems in the game world to create a relatively more warm and democratic world. This slogan attracted many NPC commoners to join but not long after they stirred up a hornets’ nest. The 4 great primal G.o.ds together with the other lower-cla.s.s G.o.ds pa.s.sed down an oracle to form a religious coalition. This gathered around 2 millions people made up of purely believers and Cla.s.s-ers, they included beast-men and elves too. They put down their racial hatred and chased down and killed all members of the organization with craze and anger. Not more than 3 months later, the organization was destroyed.
Players of the organization were killed back to level 0. This is not the thing that made them depressed, levels can be trained back, players have all the time in the world. The thing that most stricken them is…… NPCs of the organization all died. Even relatives of the NPCs are implicated with no one surviving.
Calculations showed that a whole 40 thousands and more NPC commoners died in the hands of the religious coalition. This is what most stricken the players. Many players of the organization left the game with tears and never came back again. Only small portion of the players change their names, deleted their accounts and restarted and never mentioned revolution again.
Liang Li Dong joined the organization back then but because he was delayed by some matters. When he managed to break away from his miscellaneous stuff, he heard the news of the organization being destroyed. He is clear that if 50 thousand players were united and opposed the religious coalition together, they will definitely win again the coalition. It is a pity that all players are independent and have their own mindsets. Many people just liked the system in the game and within the coalition to exterminate the organization, many players can be seen.
Thinking back that he did not did his part made him have a sense of regret. This slight guilt made him cannot help but touch Behring’s head and said towards the surprised young girl: ”All right, stop looking, I guarantee, if you believe in G.o.ddess Waukeen, you will get more money than these in the future. ”
“Really?” Behring raises her head and asks with expectation.
“Of course, so hurry up and keep these money. We still need to catch rabbits.”