Chapter 19: Because You Were Originally a Good Person
Although many people are reluctant to admit or realize it, in fact, most people have a certain dark side in their hearts, whether they are players or NPCs.
For example, in the world of “Iron and Fire,” there are often NPCs who renege on their promises after releasing missions, and even try to kill the players who completed the missions.
And the players are immortal, so why would they be afraid of this? If you want to mess with me, of course I will fight back directly, but it is very troublesome to be calculated by NPCs all the time when doing missions.
However, there is an organization whose NPCs will never calculate players, that is, the “Blade Warriors” within the territory of the Holy Solomon Empire, composed of extraordinary warriors who hope to serve their lords with their swords. They master the “Kingsguard” bloodline path, the first Sequence of which is Justice X.
Whether it is a murderous bandit or a sneaky thief, as long as they drink Justice X, they will all become knights of noble character.
They keep their word, do not play tricks, do not bully the weak, and will definitely give the rewards they promised to the players. If the difficulty of the mission is 100 points, they will never say it is only 99 points. If the players complain that the difficulty is too high, they will even take the initiative to add money. They are a shining example among the NPCs who release missions, a friend of the players.
What’s even more amazing is that this change in personality is not gradual, but the moment the potion takes effect, it cuts off the dark psychology of the NPC and directly removes it.
Asker still remembers a mission called “One Drink to Forget,” which was about a drunkard NPC who had just joined the Blade Warriors. Because chivalry did not allow him to drink excessively, he could only ask the player to find him good wine.
When the player found the wine, the guy even brought the bottle to his mouth, but in the end, he still couldn’t drink it, his face full of pain, entanglement, and helplessness. So the name of Justice X spread among the players, and they gave it the nickname “Honest Man” potion, meaning “Drink this bottle of milk, and you will be an honest man.”
According to some adventurous players, after drinking Justice X, your game character can no longer steal, provoke, or kill for no reason, nor can you break into the homes of NPCs without permission. Even some players who like to swear found that even some aggressive words were blocked, such as “What are you looking ******” and “What ****** are you looking at,” which became “beep!” when they came out of their mouths, causing a lot of complaints from uncomfortable players.
Of course, there are also those who feel that it is very immersive after getting used to it again.
“Ah, I don’t feel anything.” Eleanor said puzzled.
“How can you not feel anything?” Asker was quite surprised. “Don’t you have a feeling of ‘I don’t know why, but I’m being forced to turn over a new leaf,’ or ‘I didn’t have a choice before, but now I want to be a good person’?”
“No.” Eleanor said honestly.
“If someone on the side of the road asks you for donations in the name of ‘a child at home is seriously ill and needs help’,” Asker thought of a classic psychological test question online and asked, “what would you do?”
“Donate money.” Eleanor blinked. “See how much money I have on me.”
“What if the other party is a liar?” Asker immediately asked, “In fact, there is no sick child at all, he is just using this name to cheat money and squander donations?”
“If I can be 100% sure that he is a liar, then I definitely won’t donate money.” Eleanor said in a matter-of-fact tone, “But even if there is only a 1% chance that it is true, why wouldn’t I donate? Maybe it can save the life of an innocent child, right?”
“So that’s how it is.” Asker sighed, “So you were a good person from the beginning.”
“Because her values are already very upright, so even after taking the Justice X potion, her mentality has not changed at all?” Medea said thoughtfully.
“That’s great.” Nuo, who thought she wouldn’t donate money in this situation, said guiltily, “Eleanor, you are really a kind and good person.”
“I don’t know if it’s my illusion, but I feel like you are mocking me?” Eleanor said suspiciously.
“No, this is not mockery. In this cruel era, there are fewer and fewer people like you.” Asker touched his chin and sighed, “Once upon a time, I was also a pure-hearted teenager, how did I become so dark and suspicious now?”
He muttered and turned to Nuo and instructed, “Nuo, pay attention not to let Eleanor handle the team’s funds, I’m afraid she will be cheated out of all her money in the future.”
“Okay.” Nuo nodded.
“Wait a minute!” Eleanor cried and laughed, “Why did you suddenly start looking down on me! Don’t look at me with that pitiful look!”
In addition to affecting her mentality, Justice X also provided Eleanor with a certain amount of physical and mental strength, making her six attributes significantly improved. Another thing worth mentioning was the “Smite Evil” ability. According to Eleanor, who automatically acquired the relevant knowledge, this ability gave her a stronger ability to strike evil. When fighting evil enemies, her six attributes would receive a significant bonus.
“The question is, how do we judge who is evil?” Medea asked, thinking to herself that I wouldn’t be classified as the type that “Smite Evil” would work on, would I?
“Free heart certificate, if I remember correctly.” Asker said, “The premise is that Eleanor needs to sincerely believe that the enemy is evil, then the ability of Smite Evil will take effect on her.”
“Eh! Then, if I use the ability of Mind I to exert mental influence on Eleanor.” Medea’s eyes lit up and she said, “As long as she thinks that the enemy in front of her is evil, then no matter who she faces, wouldn’t she be able to exert the bonus of ‘Smite Evil’?”
“You are a genius.” Asker said, both amused and annoyed. Of course, this method had been explored by players and nicknamed “Justice Warrior Sleepwalking Style” or “Hypnosis Flow,” but it was not discovered until much later in the plot. The fact that Medea could come up with such a cheap trick without any hindrance the second she heard about the characteristics of Justice X showed that this woman was a schemer herself.
Eleanor’s mouth was half open, as if she had never thought of this. She hesitated and said:
“But… wouldn’t it violate the true meaning of justice to interfere with the judgment of good and evil with mental abilities?”
“What is the true meaning of justice?” Medea asked disdainfully.
“Justice is…” Eleanor tried to speak, but was interrupted by Medea’s righteous words, “The true meaning of justice is to defeat the enemy! Only by surviving can you have a say. How can dead justice be justice? If it’s dead, you say it’s evil, and it becomes evil. Can it still get up and talk back?”
Eleanor didn’t refute, but her expression clearly showed that she didn’t accept it.
“So now in our team, there are two people who are still missing potions.” Asker quickly came out to smooth things over and changed the subject, “Medea, how are your potion materials?”
“I haven’t collected the Menarche yet.” Medea burst into tears. Other spiritual materials were easy to say, even if the origin was far away, there would always be merchants selling them. This strange thing depended on the right time. In order to avoid attracting attention, Medea secretly contacted dozens of poor families in the city, all of whom had 12 or 13-year-old adolescent daughters, and bribed their parents with a lot of money – as for when their daughters’ menarche would come, only God knew.
Maybe tomorrow? Maybe next year? It was simply unpredictable.
“Nuo’s Life I, we already collected the formula and main materials last night.” Asker didn’t tell everyone about last night’s battle, but took out the Life I formula and showed it:
-Ingredient-
Three Flowers of the Eden Tree
-Subsidiary-
Two Seeds of the Fruit of Eden
One spoon of Corfu Olive Oil
200ml of Fruit Brandy (Rakijas)
-Processing-
Take fruit brandy (the brewing ingredients must include the following 10 kinds of fruits: plum, pear, apricot, peach, raspberry, orange, apple, cherry, banana, red date, no honey is allowed), add one spoon of Corfu olive oil, crush two Seeds of the Fruit of Eden and add them. Finally, put in three Flowers of the Eden Tree, with the pistils facing up, and let them sink naturally. After the petals change color, the liquid can be drunk.
“We have both the Fruit of Eden and olive oil.” Nuo said in surprise.
“The main material, Flower of the Eden Tree, can be replaced by the extraordinary characteristic of Life I.” Asker thought for a moment and said, “Only the auxiliary material, fruit brandy, we have to go to the taverns in the lower city to find it.”
“And Peggy and Eleanor, you two have just been promoted to level 1, and the extraordinary power inside has not been fully digested.” Asker looked at the two of them, “You must practice through actual combat to transform it into corresponding physical and mental strength. Today I will go out with Nuo to collect auxiliary materials, you two go to the training ground under the hotel last time to spar. Medea, you watch over them and don’t let any accidents or injuries happen.”
“Oh, okay.” Medea replied absentmindedly.
So everyone went out and acted separately. Peggy, Eleanor, and Medea went to the training ground, while Asker and Nuo went to the wineries in the city to look for auxiliary materials. In the room opposite the ancestral home, the Church spy yawned as he watched these people go out.
“This young nobleman is very strong, he actually took in 4 girls for the night?” The spy muttered, writing down the recorded information on the document in his hand. But he knew in his heart that this was just routine.
Unless the other party blatantly used extraordinary power, or something strange happened in the house, even if his surveillance records were submitted, it was very likely that no one would pay attention to them, and they would probably be thrown into some wastepaper pile.
He twirled his pencil boredly, rested his hands on the windowsill of the surveillance, stared at the empty house and door, and narrowed his eyes lazily.
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