NOVEL NEXT Chapter 118 Shapeshifter Elementary
After bidding farewell to Butler Mills, Ian temporarily returned to his room on the grounds of carefully studying the business information in his hand.
After all, he was more eager to know whether he could get stuck on the optional task bug than a task that had already been completed and only needed to be done for now.
"There is a huge Dothraki army approaching Pentos. If you can defeat them halfway, I will pay you this golden dragon as a reward," the selected task publisher is still the old tool man Roll. , he repeated this paragraph at Ian's signal, "If you can ensure that Pentos will not be captured by them this time, you have completed your mission."
This is a script that Ian temporarily thought of. It has the same logic as the ghost mission in the Chamber of Commerce. That is, the second goal, "At least ensure that Pentos will not be captured", is also the purpose of the first goal, "Prevent the arrival of the Dothraki".
[Discover the triggered mission: Defend Pentos
Mission description: Khal Drogo is leading a Kara S with 40,000 roaring warriors and is approaching Pentos. Sir Roll hopes that you can defeat it halfway, or at least ensure that Pentos will not be captured by it this time.
Mission reward: 1 golden dragon
Additional reward: unknown]
[Accept (consumes 1 point)] [Reject]
【accept】
Ding!
[Complete optional mission 4 ‘Defend Pentos’
Mission Difficulty Rating: Moderate
Mission reward: 1 golden dragon
Additional rewards: 3 points, 3 attribute points]
"Medium difficulty determination?" Ian frowned immediately.
Calculated based on his current strength, defeating Khal Drogo's army is simply impossible. Logically speaking, it should be judged as extremely difficult.
As for this mission being completed directly, that is because Drogo came to get a wife and had no intention of attacking Pentos at all. Its core logic is the same as the bug in the mission "The Insider of the Illyrio Chamber of Commerce".
But why is this task also judged as medium? It makes absolutely no sense! Is it possible that the optional mission itself only has a difficulty level of medium? Or is it that my previous guess about the difficulty determination was wrong?
When determining such a mission, not only objective one [defeat Drogo's army] will be considered, but also objective two [defend Pentos]? If you take into account the tall walls of Pentos and the Dothraki's lack of siege skills, it is understandable that this mission is rated as medium.
However, this conclusion conflicts with the previous determination of the ghost mission within the Chamber of Commerce.
Shaking his head, Ian temporarily suppressed the doubts in his heart.
There is no point in guessing out of thin air. You only need to test a few more groups. With more samples, you will naturally find the answer.
To put it another way, even if you can't find the answer, just rely on medium tasks, as long as you insist on completing them, wouldn't you be able to get 10,000 points by writing 3,000 scripts?
"The next thing is..." Ian told Rohr the content of the next script.
"I suspect that there is a mole in the mercenary team of Strong Belwas. They may pose a threat to you. If you can catch him, I will pay you this golden dragon as a reward," Luo Er is familiar with the road. Di cooperated, "If you can guarantee that you will not be killed by the mole next, you have completed your mission."
Ian further simplified the task following the same logic, which compared to the previous task excluded variables such as the strength of Pentos itself. Moreover, this mission can also test whether there are any problems with Belworth's men.
[Discover the trigger mission: The mole in the Belwas Mercenary Team
Mission description: Rohr suspects that there is a mole among Belvos's men, and hopes that you can catch him, or at least ensure that you will not be killed by the mole.
Mission reward: 1 golden dragon
Additional reward: unknown]
[Accept (consumes 1 point)] [Reject]
Ian still clicked [Accept] directly, but this time it was not a task completion email that popped up, but a prompt box.
【Unacceptable!
Tip: The number of optional tasks accepted this month has reached the upper limit]
Upper limit? Ian was stunned for a moment, and then remembered that he seemed to have only accepted the two optional tasks [The Truth about the Death of the Black Falcon] and [The Treasure of Black Fire] last month, and there was no prompt to trigger the maximum number of times for this task. box, and I have accepted two optional tasks this month.
Therefore, the upper limit for accepting optional tasks per month is only two, which is very troublesome. Ian started to think about it.
According to his original idea, testing the rules for determining task difficulty would require at least dozens of experiments by controlling variables. The limit on the number of tasks per month makes such an experiment very luxurious, or even impossible to conduct at all.
But if the experiment is not completed, and tasks such as "defeat Drogo's army" are judged to be of medium difficulty, it is difficult for Ian to imagine what kind of script would be judged to be extremely difficult.
Defeat the Night King? Or is it easier to defeat the Cold God directly?
Maybe, but you'll have to wait until at least next month to test it.
"Forget it, think on the bright side," Ian stopped his speculations that lacked evidence. "Although I haven't been able to further test the rules for determining the difficulty of the tasks, I just need to follow this template and write the script. There will be at least two guarantees every month. Moderately optional mission.”
After stopping the test, Ian began to look at his data card and take stock of today's gains.
[Ian: Strength 32, Agility 27, Mental Strength 7
Skills: Basic etiquette, basic reading and writing of Common Tongue, advanced swordsmanship, advanced equestrianism, intermediate lance, basic shapeshifter
Attribute points: 6
Skill points: 6
Points: 35
Props: Scroll of basic skills of your choice]
Without hesitation, Ian directly gave all 6 attribute points to mental power, and then raised the basic level of the shapechanger to the primary level.
As soon as he finished adding points, a lot of knowledge poured into Ian's mind.
First, some warnings: a skinchanger's consciousness is more likely to invade animals close to him or her. If the consciousness of the skinchanger is lower than that of the animal it invades, the skinchanger will be negatively affected.
Human consciousness will have a negative impact on both parties, unless the shapeshifter's mental power is much higher than that of the other party. If a shapechanger takes over an animal's consciousness and the animal is killed, the shapechanger will suffer extremely serious damage.
If a shapeshifter is killed while invading an animal's consciousness, part of his consciousness will remain in the creature.
Then there are ways to feel the existence of your own soul and control it, ways to invade the consciousness of animals, and what to pay attention to when doing consciousness invasion for the first time.
Ian carefully digested all the information, and then came to the conclusion that the primary shapeshifter could start trying to shapeshift on close animals.
So he found his attendant Denzel, the Dornishman, and asked him to go to the market to buy a few young eagles and cats. Then he officially started to read the business information given to him by Mills, Illyrio's butler.