291 Quest: Mana Node (1/2)
Since the start of the quest, the prices of many materials skyrocketed as time passed. There were even cases where players had taken advantage of the situation and increased the price of other unrelated materials! What they were thinking then was that since a few of the materials had been chosen to be used as quest items, it would only be a matter of time before other materials that were not in demand now, would be in demand in the future.
Hence, in just a span of a night, the prices of all materials in Dawnlight City had risen. Even with extra money in hand, Jiang Fei would not want to waste the money on greedy merchant wannabes.
In the span of the entire week, players swarmed the same NPC, trying their best to submit as many rounds of materials as they could. Aside from the daily dungeon run, players would be outside the city, farming for materials, both pug players and guild included.
Fields and swamps that had never seen the light of day was suddenly packed with players. Like a storm, guilds had started to claim their farming grounds while pug players had to live by farming the gap in between the guild's farming spot. After the week was over, the material collecting quest was done. The NPC had collected enough materials and had stopped accepting any more. The quest was then updated.
”Ding! City-wide announcement: Mana Nodes has been activated!”
Quest Title: Mana Nodes!
Description: Due to the War of Shadow and Light, the four Teleportation Circles that connect all four main city has been destroyed. To restore the connection between the cities, you must first restore the Mana Nodes that were connecting the Teleportation Circles.
Objective: Eliminate all enemies around the Mana Nodes and restore it.
Reward: For every monster eliminated you will earn points, which could be used to trade with rewards.
Node Wrecker (Normal): 1 Contribution Point
Elite Node Wrecker (Elite): 10 Contribution Points
Node Destroyer (Advance Elite): 50 Contribution Points
Node Destroyer Commanding Officer (Leader): 300 Contribution Points
Fluer the Attacker: 10,000 Contribution Points
Note:
1 Contribution points can be exchanged for 10,000 Experience points.
30 Contribution points can be exchanged for 1x Level 30 Green equipment.
100 Contribution points can be exchanged for 1x Level 30 Blue equipment.
The announcement was made citywide and every player received it. The quest was also sent to every single player that was online at that time. The choice to review it lied with the players themselves.
As the reward was very luxurious, so was the difficulty. One normal monster was only worth one point. They would have to kill at least 10,000 normal monsters to trade for the best reward. Naturally, it was a matter of accumulation. Anyone with enough patience could do it.
Along with the announcement and the quest update, the system had also included the coordinates for the monster's spawn points. In that instant, a sea of players swarmed out of the city like locusts! Even players who were severely under-leveled had also joined the fray.
Usually, players would scatter around the city, hence, the number of players was not obvious. That day was different. The swarm of players, nay, the sea of players came out rushing like a tsunami as they gathered.
The coordinates given to all players was a quest map. To fit that much players, the developers had adjusted the map size and purposely made it large enough to fit all players in Dawnlight City. Even with that many players, once the crowd started to adjust to the size of the map, one could clearly see that the number of players participating in the quest was… uncountable.
”Oh my… That's a lot of monsters!”
”Hoho, looks like there's no need to fight for monsters! This is nice!”
”Well, what are we waiting for? Charge! Onward! To victory!”
Once the monsters were seen, players started to charge towards them and started fighting. However…