Players’ NPC daddy.

Favorability is a more useful attribute than reputation, and can even be said to be an all-round superior version of reputation.

Of course, better also means harder to get. This is not something that can be obtained automatically by killing monsters, but needs to be cultivated with the same care as taking care of fragile flowers.

During the Christmas Hunting Festival, the Giant Volcano and Giant Snowfield were officially presented to all players, and the special monsters in them attracted the players.

Many people took the opportunity of this hunting festival to recommend "Godlock" to those who have never played it.

This hunting festival is the most suitable time to get started. Not only is there the Christmas Explorer Set, which is considered a great outfit for pioneering new areas, but you can also obtain a large amount of materials and experience points according to the strategy.

Not to mention that the big guys who used to be elusive will randomly refresh on the map, and the big guys generally don't mind having a leg pendant. Of course, it would be even better if this leg pendant could sometimes voluntarily serve as bait.

In addition to the hunting festival, the event venue, Christmas Village, itself is also full of atmosphere. No matter when you go online to the Christmas Village, it is always bustling with people coming and going.

On the fourth day, the Christmas Hunting Festival event section updated the information about two holiday monsters.

[Cursed Ghost Snowman LV100]

[Ice and snow creatures from the world of death will indiscriminately attack the living]

This is a round head, a cute carrot nose, and a super muscular body. It wields a large ice weapon and freezes all living people it sees.

The Cursed Undead Snowmen possess all the advantages of the undead, and the water attribute that restrains the undead will strengthen them. Although the fire attribute is effective, fire itself is a targeted attribute in the Giant Snowfield.

Only weapons of the High Temperature Knife series can cause effective damage to the Cursed Ghost Snowmen, or you can pull out the carrots on their faces, which are their true bodies.

However, directly pulling out the carrot will only give you a carrot-sized soul flame and very little experience points. Directly defeating the Cursed Ghost Snowman will give you a large amount of experience points and the rare drop [Ghost Ice].

【Christmas Forester LV120】

Foresters are common in guild wars, but the foresters here are Christmas versions, with a lot of red Christmas gift fruit hanging on their bodies.

The Christmas Forest Man will wake up after the player cuts down the Evergreen Tree and attack the player. In addition to the regular stomping attack, the Christmas Forest Man will also take off the Christmas Gift Tree Fruit on his body and throw it at the player.

The Santa's Present Berry is both a high-explosive throwing weapon and a rare item worth 500 Santa's Raffle Tickets.

However, the speed of the Christmas gift tree fruit is very fast, like a cannonball. If you don't have a profession like a "baseball player" who can assist in catching it, or have the reflex speed to cut through bullets with a knife, it is not recommended to catch it. Failing to catch it is tantamount to suicide.

At the same time, the Christmas Forest Man is also the mission target for completing the limited-time events [Shadows beside the Christmas Tree] and [Santa Claus Village in the Extreme Cold].

After all, the Christmas tree is the most eye-catching one at Christmas.

……

"The event went smoothly." Penguin checked the event section to confirm that everything was normal.

The NPCs manually created holiday monsters, which was an unexpected surprise. You know, as lives living in the game world, NPCs have always resisted breeding monsters, but this time they actually broke the rules for the players' activities.

He was planning to use this incident to write a paper on AI learning and accumulating data.

“This event will definitely end successfully.”

"Not always."

The penguin was happy for less than two seconds before the boss poured a bucket of cold water on him with his sad face.

"What's the reason for this?"

"Murphy's Law." The cook turned sideways and threw the elastic ball in his hand towards the penguin. Of course, the penguin caught the elastic ball easily.

"Although the NPCs are planning the entire event, and every aspect of the event is within their plan, the better they control it, the easier it is to make mistakes. For example..." Kitchenware rolled his eyes and grinned.

“It’s so easy for you to zip up your pants, but you often forget to do it.”

"Impossible!" Penguin said firmly, "For work, I have already arranged my toilet time, which includes time to unzip my pants!"

Kitchenware moved her body back guiltily, she felt in her heart that she might have gone too far.

"Although we didn't make Christmas, Christmas does have a prototype. The prototype of Santa Claus is wandering around the Christmas Village." The boss patted the penguin on the shoulder, and his face looked no less guilty than the kitchen utensils.

"How about you do some on-the-ground research? Just treat it as a paid vacation."

Chapter 1084 Good Boy, Bad Boy

【L-22】, once there was only ice and fire here. The giant incarnated by Hebi brought land here, and the vitality of the foreign people melted the ice and snow, and the water nourished the land and brought vitality.

A huge chimney was puffing out thick smoke, which was rising water vapor. The chimney came from a wooden house. The steeply sloping roof was a standard design in areas where it often snowed.

At first glance, it is just an ordinary wooden house, but it is so huge that it looks like a house prepared for giants.

This is the [Giant Christmas House] that was gradually completed in the [Limited Time Mission: Santa Claus Village in the Extreme Cold Land].

The players were like they had robbed the giant's house and transformed everything in the house into their paradise.

The largest and most conspicuous one is undoubtedly the [Super Fireplace Monster] that provides temperature for the entire house.

It was like a fireplace monster with its mouth wide open, but the scary monster was the atmosphere of Halloween, so the fireplace monster opened its mouth and laughed heartily. The charcoal-like tongue was a forging furnace, and whenever a blacksmith struck a forge on it, the light of the flame would illuminate the entire fireplace monster's mouth, making the smile red.

I'm afraid that even after the Christmas event is over, there will still be many blacksmiths coming to this large forging building.

The only thing that is outshined by the fireplace monster is the extremely creative [Wine Glass Hot Spring].

It was like a careless giant accidentally touched the wine glass, and the mellow wine overflowed from the glass, leaving a large wet area on the table.

In fact, this is a huge wooden barrel-shaped hot spring facility. The damp marks on the table were deliberately dug out, similar to water stains in a hot spring.

In addition, there are many other exquisite designs, and the reason for this is that the official has organized activities to support it.

In the event of [Santa Claus Village in the Extremely Cold Land], a voting election was launched to select the best design for peripheralization. If the number of voters and the number of people participating in the design exceeded a certain number, the entire Christmas village would be peripheralized, and 5% of the people who participated in the vote would be randomly selected to receive the entire Christmas village.

In order to show the official financial strength, the players who participated in the construction agreed to complete the entire Giant Christmas House. Players will have a small red flower sticker in their hands to stick on their favorite design.

The fireplace monster from the Fairy Kingdom is far ahead. There is no way, the Fairy Kingdom has already started making giant fireplaces before the concept of the giant Christmas house appeared, and the entire giant Christmas house was also built with a giant fireplace.

The small guild completed the "Wine Cup Hot Spring" which was a latecomer and almost defeated the fireplace monster. However, the "Wine Cup Hot Spring" was not wrongly defeated, after all, only players can take off their clothes and soak in the hot spring in public, and NPCs cannot do it, so it lost.

At present, the entire Giant Christmas House is half completed. With more and more players participating, the interior decoration of the Giant Christmas House is becoming more and more rich. Some players even gave up the teleportation tower and built a rail car in the Giant Christmas House.

……

"It's going well."

Blaze was observing the event through a telescope in the cuckoo clock in the Giant Christmas House. This cuckoo clock, which looked like a wooden house, was the headquarters of Hermes' Traveling Hat in the Giant Christmas House.

Of course, it could also be simply called Herbie's house.

The Christmas Hunting Festival went very smoothly. Basically every foreigner who participated was able to enjoy the event. The inventory of materials for redemption was very sufficient, and the currency was even the cheapest.

Not to mention the Giant Christmas House, which surpasses any other building in the world, not even the Avalon Park. But this is understandable, as countless foreigners started building the entire Giant Christmas House at the same time, and all kinds of creative ideas collided with each other.

The only funny thing is that after the Wine Glass Hot Spring received extremely high praise, many foreigners followed suit.

The unfolded quilt - [Marble Climbing Wall], the slippers thrown under the bed - [Flavorful Dark Cuisine House], etc., this giant Christmas house has become quite sloppy under the arrangement of strangers.

Compared to Blaze's stable mood, Herbie was overjoyed. She decided that this would be the headquarters of [Hermes' Traveling Hat] from now on.

This was not an impulsive decision, but one that was carefully considered.

The Giant Christmas House is huge, and it is a waste to use it only once a year. Both strangers and Herbie would feel sad.

Therefore, it would be better to make it the world's largest trade center, so that those organizations that are always in an awkward position due to conflicts between kingdoms, such as the Adventurer's Guild, the Astrology School, the Mercenary Guild, etc., can all build their headquarters in this giant Christmas house.

This will give foreigners more reasons to be active in the Giant Christmas House. More frequent foreigners' activities can also feed back to these organizations and promote their development.

Herbie would also invite other chambers of commerce, but Herbie's expression when he wrote the invitation could be described as a smiling tiger.

This invitation letter can be described with a phrase from foreign culture - the Hongmen Banquet. If you don't come, you will be out of touch with the future economic trend and will perish sooner or later.

Here it comes... I guess it will soon be promoted to a small department of [Hermes's Traveling Hat] under the erosion of [Hermes's Traveling Hat].

Of course, such a large building will have more and wider uses in the future. Just thinking about it makes Herbie very happy.

Seeing Herbie's expression, Blazer stopped bothering him and focused on observing the strangers. Whenever the strangers talked about the Evergreen Forest Man and the Cursed Snowman, Blazer would feel a mischievous sense of pride.

Now that the important elements of Christmas, the Christmas tree and the snowman, are in place, and the event is being held in an orderly manner, he should breathe a sigh of relief, participate in the event, and enjoy the excitement of this festival in another world.

Chicken hinted to him that he should invite Audrey and Marika to hang out. They represented Arcadia and the Giant Royal Family respectively and came here to show their support for [Hermes' Traveling Hat]. It was obvious that they were using business as a vacation.

Blaze wanted to invite them, but Audrey and Marika were really busy with serious matters, and Audrey was asking Marika for advice on how to improve the efficiency of managing the territory.

The topic allowed Blaze, who had added to Marika's workload, to slip away.

"Let's wait until the hunting festival is over before inviting them... ah, I almost forgot about this."

Blaze looked at the Christmas tree next to the fireplace. Although it looked realistic, it was actually a building in the shape of a Christmas tree.

This is the material exchange point for the Christmas Hunting Festival. Foreigners can exchange materials or Christmas lottery tickets in the exchange house shaped like Christmas gifts. The exchange house in the shape of socks is generally inhabited by Jinlunga people.

Blaze looked at the Christmas tree. In addition to making sure whether the activity was going smoothly, he also had some doubts in his heart.

"What's wrong?" Herbie took the time to look up and asked.

"Strangers say that Santa Claus gives gifts to good children, but...what about bad children?"

"Of course it is..." Odin's old voice came from the fireplace.

"Captured."

Chapter 1085 The Evil Ghost is Ready to Move

Odin's voice came from the fireplace, or to be more precise, from the chimney.

Although Odin was a god and was not afraid of the flames in the fireplace, the black smoke still made Odin's face black and he kept coughing.

"Do you have to make your debut in such a strange way?"

Blaze stretched out his hand to block Hebi behind him, so that the two of them could keep some distance from the humanoid charcoal in front of them. If they got close or were touched, they would definitely be stained with black marks.

"When you become a god, you will realize the importance of [appearance]. Ahem—" Odin coughed a few puffs of black smoke and laughed awkwardly twice. This appearance was completely different from what he had imagined.

"Let's get down to business."

"You want to give me a Christmas present? Then you gave it to me too early. The stranger said this is a surprise part."

"Cough cough..." Odin started coughing again, this time he was choked by Blaze's premature opening of his mouth.

"Okay, I'm not kidding anymore." Blaze spread his hands and sat on the windowsill waiting for Odin to get down to business.

"Actually...something's going to go wrong."

"Not good? Very bad, very bad, it's over, what level is it." Blaze's eyes twitched. He hadn't even breathed a few days of peace, and he was in big trouble again?

Herbie, the organizer of the Christmas event, was surprisingly calm and even showed an expected expression.

"You mean the ghost ship Najilfa is missing? Don't worry, I drove it away. I parked the ghost ship Najilfa at the Giant Volcano and asked the ghost crew to forge props for the second half of the hunting festival."

"What? It was just a false alarm."

Blazer breathed a sigh of relief, then reached out and lifted Herbie's hat to express his dissatisfaction that he hadn't even been told about such an important matter.

"Eh!? Did you take the ghost ship Najirfa away?"

Odin was stunned for a moment, then he stroked his chin and nodded in agreement, "Logically I should stop you, but regarding the matter of Odumbra... you can take the ghost ship Nagilfar as compensation."

"The big trouble you're talking about isn't the ghost ship Najilfar!?" Herbie's expression changed drastically, and then his whole body began to twitch.

She invested a lot in the Christmas activities. Money was not the only thing, but the most important thing was [trust].

If the event goes wrong, regardless of whether it is the fault of [Hermes's Traveling Hat] or not, it will damage [Trust].

"Wait, you just said..." Blaze reacted and told Odin about the big trouble that was going to happen when he appeared.

"Good children will get gifts, bad children will be caught... Is there something that will catch the bad children?"

Odin did not give a direct answer, but continued to smile awkwardly, with a guilty conscience in his expression as if he was confirming that the big trouble that would be caused was related to him.

"Just be frank with me. You paid a lot in the fight against Loki. Your merits and demerits can offset each other." Blaze sighed heavily.

"Then I'll be frank."

Odin tells stories about the ancient times of the gods.

In the Age of Gods, the change of seasons was not necessarily a natural change; sometimes it could be the activity of some great creature.

For example, the cold winter of the World Tree is when the ice and snow gods from the ice and snow world are trying to invade. At that time, he will ride on his eight-legged warhorse and fight against the ice and snow gods together with his son to drive away the cold they bring.

When the ice and snow gods were defeated by him, winter was over.

It was a coincidence that at that time he would give gifts to the humans of the World Tree, and his son, who was fighting against the Ice and Snow Gods with him, was wearing red clothes.

Blaze and Herbie looked at each other. The Christmas described by the strangers was highly consistent with what Odin had described.

This is not strange. The world of strangers is highly similar to this world in some places. Strangers can even speculate on things that have not happened in this world through the stories of their own world.

This also explains why, even though there is no Santa Claus and Christmas in this world, strangers can unlock Santa Claus at this time.