Chapter 353 - 354: Area Fluctuation Strengthening Skill
Chu You and his group finally saw the only resource mine in the area: a level 5 gemstone resource mine.
There was only one way to the resource mine, which was through the path where they had previously eliminated the Queen Toad. From there, they had continued on without encountering any other forks in the road or toad monsters. Only players who thoroughly explored this area could discover this gemstone resource mine, tucked away like a village concealed beneath the shade of willows and blooming flowers.
However, Chu You was not looking at the entrance of the resource mine at this moment, and he was not in a hurry to rush in and occupy it. Instead, his eyes turned to the far side of the mine, where he knew there was a small outpost teeming with NPCs!
The levels of these NPCs were around 42, and they were not from the Human Tribe but from the Yuan Tribe!
The Yuan Tribe was a moderate power within the "Celestial World", having a very close relationship with the Human Tribe and being considered their allies. They both belonged to the Light Faction. However, the Yuan Tribe was more neutral.
Legend had it that the Yuan Tribe was a new species born from the union of angels and humans. They had complete human forms, but they only had one wing behind them instead of a pair. They could fly, but their flying ability was not very strong. They longed for peace, had normal intelligence, and despised darkness and the forces of Hell.
However, the Yuan Tribe was not recognized by the Angels. The Angels saw them as mutated deformities, a race that needed to be eradicated completely. The perfectionist Angels hated deformities and felt the Yuan Tribe brought them shame. As a result, the Light Faction was not a unified force. There had been wars between the Angels and the Yuan Tribe, which ended with the defeat and retreat of the Yuan Tribe.
The Yuan Tribe did not belong to the experience monster system. The experience gained from killing them was not high, and killing them would not yield any equipment. Some players were confused: wasn’t the equipment that NPCs wore actual equipment? Couldn’t they take it off after killing them?
Indeed, one could take the equipment off an NPC after killing them, but it was found that the equipment of an NPC had a soul imprinting effect. This means that once the NPC died, the attributes of the equipment they carried would be lost, turning it into a piece of ordinary equipment. Moreover, NPCs were very hard to kill because, as NPCs, their hidden attributes gave them a ’high resistance’ to player-induced damage!