After getting back to the rabbit Boss, Su Xiaojiu was filled with battle intent, and there was an Iron Eater called Qiuqiu fighting by her side.
Vicious Dragon Roar!
“Eee!” The big rabbit slowly ran at Qiuqiu. Even though it could kill Su Xiaojiu in a few blows, it could not do anything against Qiuqiu.
Qiuqiu was already Level 13, and it was a professional meat shield. When its health was low, Su Mo would heal it; when Su Mo’s Pet Healing was on cooldown, it had its Azure Dragon Barrier. The big rabbit would not be able to kill it even if it worked itself to death.
Moreover, Qiuqiu was able to stably maintain aggro. Whenever its Vicious Dragon Roar was off cooldown, it would shout again, making it so that the big rabbit never had the opportunity to attack Su Xiaojiu.
Su Xiaojiu was responsible for attacking. She jumped up and down, her big spoon creating a vigorous wind as she continuously shouted.
Su Mo did not attack and would only occasionally heal Qiuqiu.
He cared about his little sister a lot, but since she had decided to play the game, she needed to at least have the strength to deal with problems by herself.
After the big rabbit died, Qiuqiu and Su Xiaojiu both received a large sum of EXP, and they both leveled up.
There were not any good equipment drops, only a Green grade Magician’s equipment. This was the normal drop for a Mini Boss, so it was impossible for Su Mo to make money by killing Bosses, unless he heard that it would drop extremely good equipment.
It was fine if he killed them once or twice, but if he continuously exploited this, he might be discovered and outed as a traitor.
“You’re already higher than Level 10 so don’t keep dallying at the Newbie Village; come with me to a town,” Su Mo said as he patted his little sister’s head, planning to bring her to Hargins Town.
Hargins’ location was quite good, and there were a few popular maps around it.
“No, I said I’d eat with Aunty Karina today. She has many recipes that I haven’t learned yet.” Su Xiaojiu actually rejected his offer.
Since it was like this, Su Mo could only leave by himself.
He had to raise his level. No matter if it was to take requests or protect Su Xiaojiu, he had to catch up to the players at the top.
Su Xiaojiu did not demand for Su Mo to continuously stay with her; most of the time she was quite sensible and considerate.
In terms of leveling up, apart from grinding monsters, one could do hidden quests or collect materials. If hidden quests were miraculous opportunities for ordinary players, collecting materials could be said to be the special right of pay to win players.
Every game was profit-oriented, and this was the case for New World too so far.
Even though New World did not earn much money when it was first released, it now had over 10,000 workers. These people had all signed rigorous non-disclosure clauses and had ridiculous salaries. As such, just the salaries of these workers were a massive sum.
Given this, how could New World survive without making money? It could not rely on financing or the government.
However, New World lived up to everyone’s expectations in becoming the highest-earning game. Just from the gacha alone, it earned hundreds of millions of dollars, and it also had other revenue streams.
Gachas did not provide EXP orbs or EXP cards, so did that mean pay to win players had no way to quickly level up?
Of course not, otherwise only idiots would pay money.
The first method for pay to win players to quickly level up was to put up requests for hidden quests in the mercenary hall, the second method was to hire some high DPS players to grind EXP with them, and the third method was to collect materials for Supply Officers of cities or towns.
Any Supply Officer could give out quests like this.
However, there were not many people who were willing to do these quests. After all, the requested materials were not easy to collect. Moreover, they were either very expensive on the market or not even on the market.
Su Mo knew the locations of many materials; when looking at the Boss monster chat group as Lafu, he had secretly recorded it all.
He could finally use them to earn money and level up.
Being at Level 26 was indeed quite pitiful; the highest level players were already Level 28.
Orange Tree Heart was something that could be used as the main material for a quest. A tree heart plus a few ores, medicinal grasses, and furs could complete a daily quest.
Everyone knew where to find Orange Tree Hearts; they were dropped by the Dryads of the Kers Mountain range.
The Kers Mountain Range had millions of Dryads, and since the drop rate was not that low, logically speaking, it should not be something that cost a lot.
However, that was not how things were in reality.
An Orange Tree Heart was worth 40 gold coins, which was around $2,000. If someone wanted to do this daily mission five times, it would cost $10,000. Even many pay to win players were not that rich.
What was key was that even though there was such a high price on it, there was low supply; even if one had the money for it, one would not necessarily be able to buy it.
The Dryad Legion held the dominating position in the Kers Mountain Range, and with a super powerful existence like Dryad King Alfred, human factions did not dare to go there.
If players went around there, they would face the threat of the Dryad Legion at all times.
Back when Su Mo and Omnipresent Brightness had gone to kill Dryad Commander Ackerman last time, they had immediately left afterwards, not daring to stay. From when the battle had begun, it was possible that the Dryad Legion would surround them at any moment.
Ordinarily speaking, if one fought with Dryads for more than 30 minutes, they would not be able to leave the Kers Mountain range afterwards. It meant that one had given up on escaping from the Dryad Legion.
Ordinary players would farm Dryads for around 30 minutes before immediately teleporting back to the city.
Only some crazy players did not care about their deaths and killed Dryads all day there. After being killed, they would revive and repeat the process. In order to deal with these players, the Dryad Legion had come up with hanging cages.
They would capture players, bind them up, and hang them on trees that dripped poison.
The poison was not very intense but would continuously reduce players’ health slowly. It took roughly half an hour for the poison to kill players, which meant that players could not do anything during those 30 minutes,and had to endure being locked up.
Was $2,000 expensive?
If anyone felt that it was too expensive, they could go and collect the Orange Tree Heart themselves.
Su Mo did not have the guts to farm Dryads at the Kers Mountain Range, but he knew where there were Dryads not under Alfred’s protection.
These Dryads were at a place called Pawo Marsh, to the south-west of the Kers Mountain Range. They were called Dark Dryads and were monsters that players had not encountered yet.
Pawo Marsh’s terrain had to do with the Kers Mountain Range. The Masa River originated in the Kers Mountain Range and flowed to the sea, but a portion of a tributary stream had formed this marsh.
Pawo Marsh’s terrain was treacherous and most of its monsters had high HP and Attack, and they were quite difficult to lock on to. In this kind of environment, it was quite difficult for players to properly fight.
The reason was simple—New World was a VR game that mimicked real life, and terrain was very important when fighting.