Time travel at the same time: Is the golden finger actually me.?

Chapter 101 [There is a wandering merchant in front]

Kibaou couldn't believe what he saw.

That man is back!
  I can actually come back after going out at night...

And... isn't this guy a "useless person"? Why did he become a "wandering knight" when he came back?

There is a set of wandering knight armor directly on his body.

There are no shortage of four people out there, right?

Could it be his own equipment?
  If he had told me he was a knight earlier, Kibaou would never have dared to cause trouble last night.

The knight wearing full armor is very advantageous at this stage when the rookie players are fighting each other.

He quietly moved his position and began to observe Rock and his group.

"Rock, let me strengthen the weapons first." A guy who looked like a fallen warrior waved to Rock and walked towards the forging platform.

Kibaou knew about him, and after Rock went out, the samurai followed him.

At that time Kibaou was still mocking him in his heart, another fool was about to die.

But what does that mean now?
  You even spawned forging stones in one night? Damn it!
  Kibaou clenched his back molars.

"Clang, clang, clang!" Klein began to swing the hammer.

There is no blacksmith at the forging station, so the player has to do it himself, but with system assistance, it is not a big problem.

Strengthen once...

Kibaou withdrew his gaze and prepared to go back and rest for a while. At noon, he would also go brush the Grek soldiers.

"Dang, Dang, Dang!" The hammer struck again!
  twice? Kibaou suddenly turned around!
  "Clang clang clang!"

Three times... This is already the strengthening limit of Airey Church's forging platform, and Kibaou cannot accept it.

He wanted to get up and question these dog beta players!

Why?

Why don't you give me a forging stone? !

Do you know what helping each other means?

The more capable you are if you don’t understand—

"Brother? What's wrong with you?"

Klein's voice interrupted Kibaou's thoughts.

The opponent's hand held the newly strengthened Sword +3, shining brightly under the light of the golden tree.

Kibaou knew that there were only three things worth looking up at in the border area.

The golden tree, the dark moon, and the weapons in people's hands.

At this time, it was daytime and the dark moon disappeared. The golden tree was far away, and only the light of the blade lay in front of Kibaou.

When he saw it, he found that he had stood up and blocked the other party's way without knowing it.

"Brother, sorry, I didn't pay attention to the road."

After the weapons in the magic circle were strengthened, the difference in strength was obvious. Looking at the edge of the blade, Kibaou swallowed his saliva and became angry.

He returned to his corner in despair.

As I squatted there, I started to think: It's useless. In this rotten world, the better your equipment, the more you dare to fight monsters, and the more you dare to fight monsters, the easier it is to die.

Just wait to die, you are finished! The better the equipment, the sooner you die.

Kibaou closed his eyes contentedly and lay down peacefully in the corner.

……

Rock and Klein waved their hands, and the other one ran off to forge weapons happily.

He, Kirito, and Asuna came to the wandering merchant Gale.

"A regular customer, you're here again. What do you want to buy?" Gale sat cross-legged on the ground, with a fire in front of him.

He glanced at Rock and seemed to be very familiar with Rock.

"When Galle first met, he would recommend each player to buy a tool bag." Kirito reminded Asuna.

The tool belt is very useful. With the tool belt, the player can make things, food or other props.

“And after buying the tool belt, he’ll remember you.”

Asuna nodded, but she didn't quite understand why Rock was a "big regular", which was obviously beyond the scope of remembering.

"Frequent customer, I'm also curious, where did you get so many runes before?" Kirito asked in a low voice.

Rock looked at Kirito and smiled, shaking the armor on his body, signaling Kirito not to forget the runes he had obtained from the invaders before.

Those runes were not used for upgrades, but items were purchased from merchants many times - torches, telescopes, tool belts and wandering warrior notes [2].

The Wandering Warrior's Notebook [2] records the production methods of 'Lighting Stone', 'Strong Jerky', and 'Strong White Jerky'.

Food and lighting are still very important in the junction area.

"Sell me the remaining wandering warrior notes [1] and the preacher's notes [1]..."

Rock was counting the runes, and he would reserve some runes for later use to buy other things.

Gale took the rune, handed the note to Rock, and then said: "Our surviving tribesmen should also make a living on this land. If you meet them and are interested, buy something with them."

He paused, and then continued: "Well... this warning may not mean anything to you... but remember, never attack our people."

"There is a rule among wandering people: being alone is also good - even if you are despised or abandoned by others, you don't have to think about pursuing anything."

"But those who hurt us must not be let go easily."

"If anything, this is our law."

"This nation sounds very persistent and annoying, right?" Gale looked at Roque with a deep look.

Rock narrowed his eyes. In the background of the story, the wandering nation Gale is said to have a deleted branch, related to [epileptic fire].

The wandering people were once accused of believing in the Three Fingers and believing in madness, so a large number of wandering businessmen were buried alive in the sewers of the royal city of Rodel, and were driven into madness during their long imprisonment. And as Galle said, they are a persistent people, and they will never let go of those who hurt them.

The wandering people chose to embrace this crime. With no excuse, they simply accepted the wrong and chose to believe in epilepsy.

Epilepsy, as the name suggests, will basically cause you to go crazy after being exposed to it. If possible, Rock would not want to come into contact with this thing.

And Rock's real purpose of coming to find Gale has nothing to do with epilepsy, but the howling of wolves in the foggy forest.

In the game, players need to first hear a wolf howling in the foggy forest, and then ask Gale about the howling, and he will give certain hints.

This is very important, you have to hear the wolf howl before you can trigger it.

Rock hasn't heard the wolf howl yet, but he wants to verify if it works.

"Callie, do you know the wolf howl in the foggy forest?"

"..."

After a moment of silence, Gale raised his head and looked directly at Roark. A voice came out from under the mask: "... There are wolves howling in the foggy forest..."

"I see, it's him... By the way, I should introduce him to you."

His tone sounded like he was remembering something, but his eyes kept looking at Rock.

Obviously this game is very real, and the NPCs look like living people, but for some reason, at this moment, Rock feels that Gale is more real.

"If you hear a wolf howling later, put a code signal right below the sound."

[Acquire the special action 'flick']

A prompt appeared in front of Rock.

"Thank you."

"...It's okay, it's nothing. I just think you guys should get along."

Gale lowered his head, and Roque seemed to feel that everything had become a game again.

He looked at Caleb, then silently withdrew his eyes, turned to Kirito and said, "Let's go, then we should find some kindhearted people to take us to the foggy forest."

"Eh? I thought..." Kirito pointed at Gale, thinking that this was a kind person.

To be honest, he was shocked that the businessman was related to the howling wolf in the foggy forest. There were actually other NPCs. Is this a branch line that serious players can think of?

"Don't think about it, get ready, we are going to Mengliu Cave next, it may take a while."

"Mengliu Cave? Does Nimgefu have such a place?"

Rock drew a simple map on the ground with his sword and pointed out the location of Mengliu Cave.

"We have two ways. One is to go through the forest, go to the front of the level, take the map, and light up two blessings: "The front of the level" and "North of Aquile Lake". The second way is to go east across Yakir Lake—"

"The first one!" Kirito replied hurriedly.

He looked at Rock and the two and explained: "The name of Lake Yakir comes from the flying dragon Yakir. We are not the opponent of the flying dragon, so let's leave the level."

He would rather hang out with the Grek soldiers for a few days.

"That's okay, just let Klein and the others practice more." Rock nodded, and then suddenly thought: "Kirito, are there Kaidan mercenaries on horseback in the north of Yakir Lake?"

"Um, yeah, what's wrong?"

"Can we ride their horses?"

This Kirito has never thought about competing with the enemy for a horse? During the closed beta, there was a spiritual horse named Thoret, so there was no need for Kirito to force the monster's horse.

but now……

Maybe try it!

Many things are easier to do if you have a horse, even if the horse may not be as useful as the Torrett calf horse.

After Klein forged the knife, the four of them quickly left the blessing point.

They must quickly travel through the forest and become the fastest to develop the blessing points.

……

Five days later.

In front of the level.

The four of Rock broke through the forest, reached the checkpoint, and were about to reach the blessing point.

"Rock, there are fewer admonitions around." Kirito said looking at the admonitions on the ground.

There is a warning next to the nearby mushroom: [It is indeed a mushroom]

Advice is a message left by each player. There are fixed sentence patterns for players to choose, so some advice will be slightly abstract.

Rock: "Do you think the advice that appeared in our field of vision was left by players in this world or players in other worlds?"

That's what admonition is, the message you leave in the same location can be seen by other worlds.

After crossing the forest in the past few days, Kirito can be sure that the current progress of the four of them is absolutely exaggerated. It is difficult for players in this world to catch up with their progress. Of course, this is only an estimate.

He and Rock are both masters, and Klein has a three-strength fighting knife in his hand. In addition, Klein is also very talented, and he has quickly become more proficient and stronger in the past few days.

As for Asuna, I can only say that regardless of her excellent talent, the magic of the Elden Circle is the magic of the Master, a noble profession.

What limits her is that there is no Holy Grail bottle to restore magic power.

"It should have been left by players from other worlds at the same place, and then the message was seen by us." Kirito felt heavy, and he felt that this matter had been confirmed.

"Players in other worlds may not know that there are multiple worlds." Rock comforted.

"Let's go, let's open the blessing point first."

The four of Rock quietly bypassed the soldiers in front of the level.

Arriving at the blessing point [in front of the level], this is where Melina met the blessing entrusted to her by the spirit horse.

Kirito and Rock were a little nervous. They both knew that a girl had appeared here before, guiding the Faded Ones forward. The two looked at each other and stepped forward silently. Their fingers gently touched the light of blessing. At this moment, gold suddenly appeared - —

[Even if the guidance has long been broken, please be the King of Elden. 】

(End of this chapter)