All players: I can choose my own dungeon rewards.

"Obtain a complete set of scales of the Sandy Unicorn Python. This mission is difficult, but the reward is also very good. If you are confident, you can accept it. You can find traces of the Sandy Unicorn Python in the great desert in the south."

"Enter the Willen Castle in the central area of ​​​​Youjing City and obtain any portrait of the Willen family. This task is not easy. Willen Castle has swallowed the lives of many professionals. However, it is said that the portrait of the castle is hanging on the wall of the first floor hall. You don't need to go too deep. If you are familiar with that place, you can consider accepting it."

"Searching for the lost remains of the Swamp Queen in the southeastern Blackheart Swamp is actually a long-standing mission... I don't recommend it to teams that are not good at exploration. It's hard to say whether the remains actually exist..."

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After listening to Miss Deya at the counter introducing several fine steel-level tasks, Wang Zhifan ignored the thin wizard boy Joseph who looked tangled and fearful, and the lame female knight Miss Anna who was lost in thought, and directly made a decision:

"Just choose the first task. I'm good at hunting sand pythons."

As soon as he finished speaking, the female knight Anna, who was in deep thought, turned to look at him and reminded him:

"Sir, the southern desert where the Sandy Unicorn Python lives is at least half a month away from Silver Castle. We have to consider the troubles in the past. I don't think this is a good idea..."

Wang Zhifan waved his hand and interrupted her directly:

"Don't worry, distance is not a problem. I know a shortcut that can greatly shorten the journey to the southern desert."

But his words did not produce much of an effect. Instead, they caused the female knight Anna and the counter lady Diya to look puzzled.

"Shortcut? How can there be a shortcut to such a far place?"

The tomboy-looking Miss Anna frowned and couldn't understand.

"Mr. Wang, as far as I know there is no other route to the southern desert."

Daiya couldn't believe it either.

Wang Zhifan didn't care about their thoughts and replied calmly:

"I will prove with facts that it only takes a short time to complete this task. If you two are ready, come with me."

"I need to go back and prepare... No, I can leave now!"

The female knight Anna was halfway through her reply when she suddenly spoke, making a 180-degree turn that shocked even herself.

The young wizard Joseph standing next to him was even weirder. He wanted to say something, but strangely he couldn't say it. Yet he still felt very normal and stood beside Wang Zhifan like a loyal younger brother.

"Since everyone has no objection, let's set off now."

Seeing this, Wang Zhifan, who had distorted the two people's thoughts and dominated everything, turned around and left with a smile, taking with him two followers who were unable to control themselves but were unaware of it.

"It feels a bit boring. If we can't get the information we want today, we will have to change our next action strategy."

Deep down, he actually doesn't like manipulating others, especially those who are much stronger than him. He would feel like he's just playing a joke. It's fun to do it once in a while, but if he keeps doing it, he'd be like taking off his pants to fart.

So, under the strange gaze of Miss Daiya at the counter, Wang Zhifan and the other two walked out of the front door. Daiya muttered to herself:

"Why did Mr. Joseph and Miss Anna seem to have changed their personalities after seeing Mr. Wang today? Is there something I didn't notice? It doesn't seem to be wrong... Mr. Wang is so young and handsome, he can't be a bad person..."

Wang Zhifan, who was considered not to be a bad guy, immediately led his two confused teammates to an unnoticed alley outside the street and explained the shortcut he knew:
"You two, the shortcut I just mentioned is actually a teleportation scroll I obtained in my early years. It happens to take people to the Great Southern Desert, so I chose to accept this mission."

As he spoke, he did not give the two men a chance to think. A makeshift golden scroll appeared in his hand, which he unfolded casually. A burst of light enveloped the people present and swept them in.

The scene changed, and a scorching heat wave hit them in the face. The three of them appeared in a vast khaki desert. Tall sand dunes were slowly moved by the strong wind, forcing the mage boy Joseph and the female knight Anna to reflexively raise their arms to cover their eyes to prevent the flying sand from rushing in.

"Mr. Wang, your teleportation scroll is indeed magical, but we haven't made any preparations at all. How can we continue this mission?"

At this moment, Anna first confirmed through careful observation that they had indeed arrived in the desert, and then questioned Wang Zhifan, who was in charge of all this, and thought that there was something wrong with his behavior, but her mental state remained stable and she showed no anxiety or fear.

On the other hand, the young wizard Joseph was in a different state. Although he was wearing a hooded robe that was theoretically more comfortable in the desert environment than the other two, his legs soon began to tremble, his eyes were dull, and he began to mutter:

"It's over... It's all over... I'm definitely going to die in this terrible place..."

Wang Zhifan couldn't help but feel a little amused when he saw his miserable performance. He immediately took out the golden scroll he had used to teleport, and showed it to the two men. Then he said with an expression that said, "Don't make a fuss."

"My two friends, please don't worry. I have only one life, just like you. This scroll can bring us from Silver Castle, and it can also bring us back. So as long as we find the Sand Unicorn Python as soon as possible and complete the mission, we won't have to stay in this ghost place and suffer. As for the preparatory work, I have actually completed it, such as this monster detector." Wang Zhifan said as he put the golden scroll in his hand into his pocket, and took out a compass-like thing from his back. This thing was naturally made by him temporarily to fool the two men that he had professional search equipment.

The lame female knight was a little suspicious of the strange plate that Wang Zhifan suddenly took out. Just as she was about to ask what it was, she heard Wang Zhifan looking at the compass in his hand and making a surprised voice:

"Found it! A sand python is over there!"

After saying that, he took a step and rushed in the direction he mentioned, leaving behind a long streak of dust. The female knight Anna and the mage Joseph hurried to catch up, otherwise they would be lost in the desert and really doomed.

Just three minutes later, the three of them arrived at the top of a sand dune. Following the direction indicated by Wang Zhifan, they could see a coiled earth-yellow snake monster in the sand about two hundred meters below.

This monster has a signature short horn on its head that points up into the sky. It is completely motionless and appears to be sleeping, not caring at all about how inappropriate it is to lie on the sand in the sun.

The female knight Anna was shocked when she saw this scene. She lowered her voice in disbelief and said:
"How is this possible?! According to the habits of the Sand Python, it should burrow deep into the sand to sleep... Is this a snake slough? Or is it an individual that died in its sleep..."

As she spoke with doubt, the sand python on the sand below, which had been enjoying the sun for a while, finally woke up. It raised its triangular head with a single horn and looked around in confusion, as if it couldn't understand how it had returned to the surface of the sand without noticing, when it was clearly sleeping in the dark and comfortable sand. Its skin made of tough scales was sunburned and felt painful.

Wang Zhifan suddenly jumped up when he saw this scene, and flew down from the high sand dune to the sand below, then rushed madly towards the still confused sand unicorn python, shouting:
"Hurry up! Don't let it get away!"

On the sand dune, the thin young wizard was shocked by his amazing action and shout, and was suddenly a little at a loss. He hurriedly took out a short simple staff, not knowing how to help. But the female knight next to him was very calm. Although she had a problem with her left leg, she still drew the silver sword at her waist and rushed down the sand dune desperately, trying to support Wang Zhifan who was challenging the dangerous monster alone.

Wang Zhifan did not feel any threat at the moment. His only concern was that the two people behind him were not cooperative enough and insisted that he keep performing a solo, which would be difficult for him to continue.

Fortunately, the lame female knight had quickly rushed down from the sand dune and could provide support in two seconds. The young wizard Joseph also got over the initial panic and used the first support spell while standing on the top of the sand dune. However, his choice of spell made it hard for people not to suspect that he had a problem with his brain.

Wang Zhifan saw a circle of earth walls rising slowly from the sand and gravel around the sand python in front of him, trying to trap the monster living in the desert inside the earth wall. However, the sand python was not a fool. It was good at drilling in the sand. When it saw this attack, disdain flashed in its eyes. It lowered its head and drilled into the thick sand. In less than half a second, only a section of its several-meter-long body's tail was left outside the sand, and its entire body was about to lurk in the desert.

At this moment, Wang Zhifan once again demonstrated his amazing explosive power. He jumped and landed inside the earth wall. Then he grabbed the exposed part of the sand python's tail with both hands and used his strength to pull it out.

"Don't come near! I'll knock it out first!"

After displaying amazing strength, Wang Zhifan shouted a warning to prevent the rushing female knight from being accidentally injured. Then he used the usual method to deal with snakes, grabbing the snake's tail and spinning it rapidly in circles. The huge centrifugal force made the Sand Python unable to control its body. It could only endure the feeling of high-speed dizziness and being slammed into the sand surface again and again, making it realize that it was seeing stars.

In fact, considering the powerful physique of the Sandy One-Horned Python, this kind of conventional attack could not cause any real harm to it. At most, it could only restrict it for a short period of time. However, Wang Zhifan's power was too great, and he added some small moves in the process without anyone noticing, such as activating the source of ice to freeze the brain of the big earth snake, causing it to fall into a deep coma within a few seconds.

"Got it! Hope I didn't damage the crust!"

Under the slightly shocked eyes of the female knight who was holding a long sword to provide support a few meters away, Wang Zhifan threw the big snake's tail in his hand to the ground, then bent down and began to check the snake's body section by section to make sure its scales were intact enough.

The female knight couldn't understand why Wang Zhifan was so sure that the monster in his hand had been subdued. According to her estimation, such a powerful creature could not be defeated so easily. But when she saw that Wang Zhifan flipped the snake up and down without any surprise, she had to believe it.

"Mr. Wang, thank you for your hard work! Please let me take over from now on. I am very good at dissecting prey and I guarantee that I can remove the snake skin intact."

The approaching female knight immediately took the initiative to undertake the follow-up work. She first stabbed the unicorn python's eye socket deeply with her sword, killing it completely, and then began the meticulous work of peeling off the snake skin.

Wang Zhifan naturally had ways to do it faster, but he felt that it would be a good idea to let this woman help out, which would increase her sense of participation and would be beneficial for continuing to team up with her later, so he left the finishing touches to her.

The skinny young wizard Joseph also bravely walked down from the sand dune at this moment, and got close to observe the Sand Unicorn Python which had become a fresh corpse. He found it hard to believe that the steel-level monster was solved like this and became something that could be manipulated by anyone, but the facts were in front of him and he had to believe it whether he wanted or not.

"We completed a steel-level mission so quickly? Is this really not a dream?"

As he watched the female knight squatting and peeling the snake's skin, the young wizard Joseph sighed, as if he was still in a daze.

Wang Zhifan looked at him and replied with a smile:

"Yes, Joseph, with our united efforts, a simple fine steel mission is so simple! In the future, we will also complete dark steel and silver level missions! I hope everyone will continue to cooperate and write the fastest legend of Silver Castle!"

"But I feel like I didn't play any role. This time I was just lucky. If it happens again..."

Joseph immediately shook his head after hearing this. Although he was young, he was still self-aware and realized clearly how bad his previous performance was and how it had almost entirely played a negative role.

Wang Zhifan did not refute his statement, but immediately persuaded him from another angle not to give up the opportunity to get rich quickly.

"Joseph, the difficulty of high-level missions will indeed increase, but the rewards will also be more generous! As long as you complete a Dark Steel or even Silver Brilliance mission, you will have enough money for the next few years or even more than ten years. Do you want to give up such an opportunity so easily? Sometimes luck comes and it cannot be stopped! If you don't seize this opportunity and give the chance to get rich to others, you will definitely regret it in the future! As for the risks, don't I still have me? As long as I rush to the front, you just need to stay away from monsters and provide support like before. Even if you carry out high-level missions, it is not as dangerous as you think..."

After a while of persuasion, Wang Zhifan calmed down the young mage who always wanted to run away. For the hardworking female knight, there was no way she could run away. After experiencing the amazing success of cooperating with Wang Zhifan, she would definitely not want to leave. (End of this chapter)