Chapter 56
**Occupation:** Senior Tailor, ???
**Life:** ???
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Seeing a pile of familiar question marks, Ye Bai was not surprised at all. After all, this was an NPC running a high-end tailor shop in the inner city of a magical capital, specializing in magical gear. A senior tailor catered to players who had advanced to at least the second job class, with a personal level of at least 40. Anything lower would be quite odd.
Even though Ye Bai was now a first-job class player, he was still out of his depth in Mei Luo City, where second-job class experts roamed freely.
"Do you recognize these two pieces of equipment?" Ye Bai paused in his tracks.
"Not only do I recognize them..." The shopkeeper chuckled, covering her mouth. "If I'm not mistaken, the two pieces you're wearing are my creations."
At that moment, Ye Bai was clad in exquisite leather armor, with the Snow-colored Sword at his waist, a feathered light feather hat on his head, and matching light feather boots. He looked no different from the NPC adventurers on the street, and he had already pulled far ahead in terms of style compared to the players who wore whatever gear they could find.
Aside from the special faction gear like the assassin's robe, all external appearances in the Wan Jie (Myriad Realms) followed the player's equipped items.
So it was no surprise that the shopkeeper recognized the gear Ye Bai was wearing.
"That's quite a coincidence," Ye Bai said, thinking he had probably triggered a job-related quest.
The shopkeeper continued, "You're just one piece short of completing that set, right? If you're willing to help me with a little task, I can make you the last piece as a reward..."
At this point, it seemed the shopkeeper was about to elaborate on the details and assign Ye Bai a quest.
"Wait."
However, Ye Bai unexpectedly interrupted her.
The shopkeeper blinked in surprise. "What's wrong?"
Ye Bai replied, "I don't have much time right now. If you can still craft it, how much would it cost for you to make me another one directly?"
"…"
The shopkeeper stood there, momentarily stunned, as if Ye Bai's response had left her at a loss for words.
If other players had witnessed this scene, they would probably have been furious—turning down a quest that was practically handed to him? Was that something a normal player would do?!
Ye Bai didn't want to refuse, but he was currently busy with matters concerning his territory and trade routes, leaving him with no time to spare.
Some quests not only had time limits but also, if missed, could not be accepted again. If accepted but not completed for a long time, it would lower the player's reputation with the quest-giving NPC and their associated characters.
The tailor shop owner was a senior tailor in Mei Luo City, and she surely knew many NPCs in the city. Losing credibility in her "social circle" was not a good thing.
Yet, Ye Bai didn't want to miss the chance to obtain the final piece of the set. Remembering his previous experience with Kazmai, where he had bypassed the usual process, he thought he might try to buy it outright before triggering the quest—after all, she didn't seem to be short on money, and if the price was reasonable, he could skip the quest altogether.
After a while, the shopkeeper finally regained her composure and looked at Ye Bai hesitantly. "Are you really that busy?"
Ye Bai nodded. "I need to leave here soon and return to my territory."
The shopkeeper seemed to notice Ye Bai's lord status, and a look of hesitation crossed her face, as if she were weighing something.
Seeing this, Ye Bai felt that the situation might be a bit complicated, so he started to excuse himself. "Then I guess I'll—"
"It seems like you're not short on money, but for that task, aside from asking a Blood God, I can't think of anyone else..." The shopkeeper interrupted him, and to Ye Bai's surprise, she proposed a condition: "I can make you the light feather cloak first as a deposit for the task. If you can truly complete my request, I would consider opening a shop in your territory."
Upon hearing this, Ye Bai's first reaction was not excitement but alarm bells ringing in his mind.
The quest system in the Wan Jie operated on a random algorithm. Aside from job change quests, the quests triggered by players at NPCs were all different.
Like the generation of maps, they fell into three main categories: collection quests, career quests, and personal quests.
Collection quests were the most common and easiest for players to trigger. NPCs needed various materials for their daily needs and would commission players to gather them, rewarding them with items and experience upon completion. These quests were routine, easy to trigger, had low entry requirements, and offered modest rewards.
Next were career quests, which were tied to the NPC's professional advancement. The difficulty of these quests was significantly higher, requiring players to meet certain conditions to trigger them, such as reaching a specific value in a basic attribute or achieving a certain level of proficiency in a life skill. Of course, the rewards for completing these quests were also quite generous.
The last type was personal quests, which were the most special and classified as hidden quests. Each NPC would only have one such quest, and unlike the previous two types, which could be triggered multiple times, these quests represented the NPC's "life obsession." Completing them would max out the NPC's favorability, and the quest content could be anything from finding a specific item to defeating a certain boss...
The only commonality was that the rewards for these quests were proportional to the NPC's level and the quest's difficulty.
Now, the shopkeeper hadn't even specified what she wanted Ye Bai to do, yet she offered a condition that was hard for a lord to refuse. It was undoubtedly a personal quest, and a highly difficult one at that!
Ye Bai immediately prepared to refuse.
The reasoning was the same: if the quest's difficulty was too high, it was beyond what a first-job class player could complete at this stage. Who knew when it would be finished? More importantly, a player could only accept three personal quests at a time.
If those three quests weren't completed, even if a more suitable quest opportunity arose, they couldn't accept it. The system would prompt, "You are already burdened with too many others' obsessions."
"I've always dreamed of seeing the legendary fabric left by the 'Luo Zhi Clan.' I heard that the Chaos School has revived the Luo Zhi Clan. If you can bring me a piece of their fabric for research, the light feather cloak and the shop opening would be no problem..."
【Senior Tailor 'Di Linna' has issued you a personal quest 'Post-Heaven Luo Zhi Clan.' Do you accept?】
Luo Zhi Clan?
Ye Bai, who had initially planned to turn and leave, paused upon hearing this.
It seemed like this was a quest he could take!
Throughout the history of the Wan Jie, a few other races had emerged, but in this current era, those races had all vanished, existing only in legends. Only the human race, with its thin "divine blood," had managed to survive tenaciously. Thus, in terms of lore, official players had a stronger divine bloodline than the NPCs in the Wan Jie, which granted them the status of city dwellers.
As for tracking down the Luo Zhi Clan, as the shopkeeper mentioned, one would need to seek clues from the Chaos School. The Chaos School studied bloodline biotechnology and might have developed a post-heaven version of the Luo Zhi Clan. However, it was easy to imagine that such a thing would be a prized possession of the Chaos School, difficult to approach.
But Ye Bai was now thinking that there was another place where this quest could be completed— the Divine Realm!
As the origin of life in the Wan Jie, the Divine Realm still housed many races with varying appearances and abilities, not just a post-heaven version of the Luo Zhi Clan, but the original, innate version!
With a glint in his eye, Ye Bai didn't choose to accept the quest right away. Instead, he looked at the shopkeeper Di Linna and asked, "Do you want the genuine fabric of the Luo Zhi Clan?"
Di Linna was taken aback. "Genuine?"
Ye Bai nodded. "The real Luo Zhi Clan, not the post-heaven creations of the Chaos School."
"What?!" Di Linna suddenly stood up from her chair. "How could that be possible?!"
It seemed like there was a chance...
Ye Bai couldn't help but smile. "Have you ever heard of the 'Well of Origins'?"
Di Linna was visibly shaken, waving her hand to close the shop's door, which then automatically displayed a "Closed" sign.
"The legendary Well of Origins... Do you... do you have a way to enter the Divine Realm?"
Ye Bai's words clearly stunned the senior NPC before him. Aside from the game developers who knew the strategies, players at this time had never even heard of the Divine Realm. NPCs who knew about it were at least second-job class.
"If I didn't have confidence, why would I say such a thing?" Seeing her reaction, Ye Bai instinctively began to negotiate. "But you know, the price for genuine Luo Zhi fabric is not ordinary, so we need to adjust the terms a bit."
Di Linna looked puzzled. "How do you think we should change them?"
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