Serial Player
Chapter 684 - 356: Dawn Investigation Team (Part 2)

"If their investigation team delays our plan, I’ll really go and snatch a ship." Li Changhe rubbed his hands and replied.

Since they had already demonstrated their extraordinary strength, the players weren’t hiding anything anymore.

Anyway, there was hardly anything in this city that could threaten them.

Stealing a battleship for the task was one of their plans.

However, doing so might result in being hunted down by the Guild.

While the Guild was assembling the investigation team, Li Changhe and the others happened to be going to Elf Island, so they wanted to take advantage of Li Changhe’s strength. There was no problem with that, as long as it didn’t interfere with the task. It was actually a good thing. A large number of adventurers could provide cover for Xiao Ye.

As soon as Li Changhe returned to the hall, he saw that the Guild reception desk had put up an escort mission with Elf Island as the destination.

The reward was 80 Gold Essences, and the ships for the escort team would be provided by the Guild. There was no limit on the number of teams that could accept the mission, but their rank must be Gold or higher.

Actually, this price was unbelievably high.

Li Changhe and the others completed twelve high-star tasks overnight, and they only earned 180 Gold Essences, with an average of just over ten per task. Offering 80 Gold Essences at once, even if the reward was to be divided among other teams, was still a huge sum. It instantly attracted the majority of adventurers.

Of course, with such a high reward, the corresponding task would be very dangerous.

Many veteran adventurer teams were weighing whether they needed to accept the task.

Li Changhe didn’t have to do much more, as the Guild was preparing the investigation team, and they must have had great candidates in mind.

As for other things, Li Changhe and the other players didn’t have to worry. As long as the ship was in place, they could set off.

Wang He and the others were rather frustrated, especially Wang He. After realizing Li Changhe’s intentions, he was the first to volunteer to board the ship as a guard. As for the danger... well, he didn’t think that the ruthless people who managed to complete twelve tasks in one night would encounter any danger.

"Don’t worry about it." He Feng patted Wang He’s shoulder and said, "We won’t need that ship afterward, so you guys can handle it on your own. As for this kind of task, it’s still too early for you."

"It’s a Shark-class battleship, you know." Li Changhe mentioned with a smile.

They actually didn’t want Wang He and the others to be involved too much, as their strength was far from enough. Participating in this kind of mission would be too dangerous.

"A Shark-class battleship?" Wang He was momentarily stunned. That was an unimaginably huge sum of money, and whether they rented or sold the ship afterward, it would be a great source of income.

This could also be considered compensation for the players for using the ’Dawn’s Hammer’ to accept the mission.

By the way, the name "Dawn’s Hammer" came from the fact that the first generation of team members eliminated monsters before dawn.

This time, the players had, in a sense, helped them revive their tradition.

"I also want to see it for myself," Wang He thought for a while and whispered, "Though my strength may not be as great as yours, I have been wandering around this area for a long time. Although I haven’t been ashore on Elf Island, I have gathered some intelligence at the island’s port. Let me be the guide."

He actually wanted to witness some of Li Changhe’s exploits. He even... even believed that they might become one of the Hero Statues.

Half of those heroes were powerful and mysterious beings. How similar they were to Li Changhe and the others!

If they could indeed reach that level, being a witness would be a satisfaction for himself.

"Speaking of which, where do these heroes come from?" Li Changhe happened to think of this and asked. After all, some of them were natives with considerable strength, and it was best to be wary of them.

"Heroes?" Wang He paused, and replied, "If you mean the contemporary adventurers rated as heroes, there are only four in total. They are in different countries. The nearest one is the Sword Saint. He is in the capital city, half a month’s journey away."

Li Changhe nodded, the strength of this world’s hero-level adventurers was considerable. Unfortunately, they were too far away to be drawn in.

"As for the heroes on the statues..." Wang He continued, "They are the best among the past generations of adventurers. Their achievements should be admired by future generations."

"Let me start with the recent ones. For example, 300 years ago, the Dwarf King jumped into a volcanic crater alone, killed a Lava Giant who was about to wake up, and saved tens of thousands of civilians."

"Two hundred years ago, the great Elf Sage held a magic wand, led the Elf Navy and confronted sea monsters directly and slew them."

"One hundred and fifty years ago, the western kingdom, at the cost of half their treasury, summoned Battle Angel Chen. He personally killed three humanoid monsters that had already killed tens of thousands of people."

When Wang He mentioned this, the players’ faces turned quite colorful.

Well, case solved. That was Chen Guang.

Chen Yu and Jiangshan subconsciously averted their eyes, feeling somewhat uneasy as fellow official members of Chen Guang.

Battle Angel indeed, and summoned with half a national treasury, no less. This was clearly nonsense.

More likely, Chen Guang accidentally encountered those three monsters after raiding half the treasury. Or, perhaps the king discovered Chen Guang’s strength and employed him with half of the treasury as compensation.

After all, considering Chen Guang’s personality, it was plausible that he had thrown the mission target aside and went off with his sword to plunder.

What Battle Angel... A black-winged, wildly wicked, sweet-smelling angel?

That kingdom probably decided that his character didn’t match the image of a hero, so they simply beautified him and gave him the title of Battle Angel.

Just like the Eternal Prosperous Tang Dynasty, which went out of their way to beautify Li Changhe and added many stories to create an almost perfect General Li Ba.

Before leaving the Great Tang, Li Changhe had read several stories about Li Ba, which were brought to him by Xia Wu. They were said to be popular tales before the Great Rebellion.

In those stories, General Li Ba had countless close friends amongst the fairer sex, was unparalleled in talent, and astonishing in battle. Any good story with General Li Ba as the protagonist would sell well.

The girl was overjoyed, especially when learning that Li Ba had countless close friends amongst the fairer sex. She even teased Li Changhe using lines from the story.

In short, he was so perfect that he didn’t even poop.

What? Poop?

Heroes don’t poop, just like little fairies!

Li Changhe was afraid that one day when he encountered Great Tang players, they would ask him if he could poop or not.

Wang He didn’t notice everyone’s facial expressions changing and continued talking about the various exploits of the heroes.

As adventurers, they all aimed to become like these heroes. They had memorized these stories by heart.

"Of the seven heroes on the statues, one of them is still alive in the world."

"That is the Great Elf Sage."

"Rorodoa."