With his sensitivity to architectural layouts, Nie Yan quickly found the shop selling consumables and walked inside.
Selling the potions was an elderly gnome. He was extremely short, only reaching a person's waist, with wrinkled skin, wearing a black cloth robe, hunched over, and every step he took was very difficult.
To Nie Yan's surprise, this old gnome was actually of a neutral faction.
In many high-level towns in Greenland, a large number of neutral NPCs would also appear. They sold various things, rarely issued quests, and would not be involved in the war between Lawful Good and Lawful Evil.
Gnome Gaines: Level 60 Elite.
The old gnome sized up Nie Yan, and a ray of essence flashed past like a solid object.
Nie Yan felt like he was being seen through. His hand gripped the random teleport scroll. This old gnome was probably not simple. He felt the Diary of Bennett in his hand tremble. A little cyan-gray light cluster rose from the pages of the diary and hovered around Nie Yan.
"Respected guest, what do you need?" the old gnome asked.
An item bar appeared in front of Nie Yan, with many potions listed, including intermediate slow recovery potions, magic spring water, bread, etc. Nie Yan bought some, filling a backpack, and his eyes fell on the last item in the item bar, a strange blue potion. It was contained in an extremely strange open-mouthed bottle, and the potion inside was muddy, with many suspended solids floating in it.
Nie Yan checked this potion.
Soul Potion: Specific effect, unknown. Price 600 gold coins.
Seeing Nie Yan's gaze fall on this potion, the old gnome said, "This is a soul potion. It is said that after drinking it, one can see through the deepest memories of a dead person's soul. Many pharmacies sell it."
The old gnome and Nie Yan looked at each other, that deep gaze piercing straight into the heart.
Nie Yan thought for a moment and clicked on the soul potion, purchase quantity, 1.
This soul potion might be related to his quest. If he could obtain a clue to the quest, spending 600 gold coins would be worth it.
Seeing Nie Yan buy a bottle, the old gnome said, "When the spirit of a creature is attached to an item, the item will have powerful magic. Necromancers use these things to create many soul vessels with evil magical power. Young man, the diary in your hand, never let it be seen by necromancers."
"Thank you, respected wise man," Nie Yan said respectfully, extending his right hand. The little light cluster flew into his palm, and he grasped it.
After Nie Yan replenished his consumables, he said goodbye to the old gnome, came out of the pharmacy, and strolled through the other shops in the graveyard town, to see if there were any special things for sale here. The things sold in Lawful Evil shops were completely different from those in surface shops.
After passing through six shops and a large number of player stalls, Nie Yan did manage to find some good things.
Soul Pendant (Quality 3): Required Strength, 300, hangs on the belt.
Attributes: Additional fifty slots of backpack space, only allowed to place consumables, +2 Dark Vision, +3 Dark Acumen.
He found this from a level 45 player. It is said that this kind of soul pendant is very common underground, and many necromancers can make it. Underground players often get lost and can't find villages to replenish consumables for several days, so their demand for backpack space is much higher than that of surface players, so their backpacks are often larger, and they have an additional pendant that increases backpack space compared to surface players.
This thing is not bad, stuffing all the consumables into it, and the backpack space will naturally free up a lot.
In addition, he also found that the scroll manufacturer sold beginner-level Wave of Death scrolls, 2 gold coins each, dealing 1000 points of damage to all creatures within a 20*20 yard radius, ineffective against mechanical units and dark creatures. Requires 100 points of Intelligence to cast.
Fortunately, Nie Yan's Intelligence had already exceeded 100. In the underground world, the Wave of Death scroll had very little effect, because most of the creatures underground were dark creatures, so the Wave of Death scroll was of no use, so it was sold so cheaply, but still could not be sold. But if it were taken to the surface, it would definitely be a good thing for leveling up, even better than some advanced scrolls. He could take some with him when he left.
In addition, Nie Yan also got the news that the backpacks in the underground world were much larger than those on the surface. If he had known this, he should have asked someone to get him a set of super backpacks.
Nie Yan thought of Ren Sheng Ru Xi, but he didn't dare to whisper to Ren Sheng Ru Xi directly, so he could only find someone to deliver a message and bring Ren Sheng Ru Xi over.
"Big brother, what's the matter?" Ren Sheng Ru Xi ran over in a hurry.
Nie Yan asked Ren Sheng Ru Xi to help him buy five 50-slot backpacks at the Cemetery of the Dead, and his backpack space immediately increased a lot. When handing the money to Ren Sheng Ru Xi, Nie Yan was nervous. If Ren Sheng Ru Xi ran away with the money, he really had nowhere to find him, but Ren Sheng Ru Xi did not disappoint Nie Yan's trust and bought the backpacks back.
After this incident, Nie Yan's trust in Ren Sheng Ru Xi increased a bit. He could still let him handle some small matters in the future.
Although Ren Sheng Ru Xi was very surprised why Nie Yan didn't go to buy them himself, he didn't ask too much.
After chatting with Ren Sheng Ru Xi for a while, seeing that three hours were almost over, Nie Yan said goodbye to Ren Sheng Ru Xi, and then left the graveyard town with the crowd.
After Nie Yan left the graveyard town, he disappeared into the darkness and flew towards the north of the graveyard town.
He opened his hand, and the light cluster in his hand had disappeared. After searching for it, he found that it was floating around him.
Since encountering the old gnome, this light cluster seemed to be more active than before.
"Let's level up and grind monsters first," Nie Yan thought, preparing to level up a few more levels. At this time, a mysterious and vague voice sounded in his mind. This light cluster kept floating north, as if guiding him.
Nie Yan followed behind the light cluster, going further and further. Every time the light cluster floated forward a distance, it would wait for Nie Yan to catch up before continuing to move forward.
Quest Progress: Bennett's spirit is guiding you, respected warrior, go and find the traces of Queen Finas.
After looking at this status, Nie Yan pondered for a moment. Queen Finas's level was definitely not low, and it might not be appropriate to go at this time. But he could go and take a look first, and if something went wrong, he could use the random teleport scroll to escape. Before coming underground, he had prepared a whole group of random teleport scrolls, which should be enough.
After passing through an endless wilderness, he entered a mountainous area. He wandered around in the mountains for a long time, and he had already lost his direction in the darkness.
System: You have discovered Spider Canyon.
A system prompt sounded. Nie Yan looked ahead, and giant spiders crawled back and forth in the darkness. A huge black spider crawled towards where he was.
Nie Yan threw out a scout.
Rum Spider: Level 60, HP 2000/2000.
Spider-type monsters have relatively low HP, but their toxins are very terrifying and can paralyze the whole body, so spider-type monsters are often listed by players as one of the most difficult monsters to deal with. Try to avoid them when grinding monsters to level up.
Nie Yan summoned the Golden Earth Dragon, picked up the crossbow, and shot it at a Rum Spider.
Dudududu, five arrows hit a Rum Spider, and the Rum Spider immediately pounced on Nie Yan.
Under Nie Yan's control, the Golden Earth Dragon blocked in front of Nie Yan, and a mouthful of hot dragon breath was sprayed on the Rum Spider's body.
A damage value of 823 floated above the Rum Spider's head. Nie Yan was behind the Golden Earth Dragon, constantly casting Undead Sacrifice on the Rum Spider.
System: Command failed.
System: Command failed.
......
The Rum Spider angrily sprayed a mouthful of venom on the Golden Earth Dragon's body. The venom stuck to the Golden Earth Dragon's scales, making a sizzling sound, but it failed to corrode the Golden Earth Dragon's scales.
The Golden Earth Dragon had strong poison resistance, and the Rum Spider's venom only caused 321 damage to it.
Soon, a Rum Spider fell to the ground.
Seeing that the command was not successful, Nie Yan continued to attract the next Rum Spider. After walking all the way and killing dozens of Rum Spiders, he finally successfully commanded a Rum Spider. Soon, the spider army under his command began to expand.
With such a large group of Rum Spiders, his leveling speed immediately soared.
Grinding level 60 monsters gave a lot of experience.
About an hour later, a crisp system prompt sounded. He finally reached level 40, adding all the attribute points to Agility. In addition, he also added Sleight of Hand, Dual Wielding, and Dagger Specialization. Looking at his own HP, it had reached 2500.
Since having the Chapter of Peace and the Chapter of Benevolence, the speed at which Nie Yan's HP increased had obviously accelerated a lot.
The Golden Earth Dragon led a large group of Rum Spiders to begin sweeping, and continued to move towards the depths of the canyon.
After killing about one or two hundred Rum Spiders, he walked to a protruding rock and looked towards the depths of the canyon. The groups of Rum Spiders in the distance stunned Nie Yan. The monsters in front could be described as densely packed. They came in all sizes and covered the ground like a carpet.
If there was a mage here who knew area-of-effect magic to grind monsters, that would be great, especially a fire mage. Fire magic had special bonus damage to spider-type creatures.
Nie Yan looked around. There were cliffs all around. If he were an ordinary player, he would definitely have to clear the spiders here before he could pass. If he used the Crawler Ring, he should be able to pass by sticking to the cliffs.
He thought for a moment. It was not easy to find such a good place to level up, so he should level up a few more levels first.
Nie Yan sorted out his backpack and flipped out seven scrolls from it, two advanced and five intermediate. It seemed that it was necessary to buy more advanced area-of-effect magic scrolls next time.