Chapter 010: Novice Quest

After Wang Bo brought Malthus and Caroline back to the Head Player world, he bought a helmet for each of the two demons and took them into the Oasis.

Games, after all, are more fun with more people.

But the two demons still needed to register. By the time they finished creating their accounts and regrouped with Wang Bo, half an hour had passed.

Neither of them had altered their appearance—the man was handsome, the woman beautiful. Such looks in the real world would indeed be striking, and might even attract a horde of sycophants.

But in the game world of the Oasis, they weren't quite as impressive.

After all, this game allowed face sculpting. Some players molded their faces to look like celestial maidens or reincarnations of Pan An—that was just basic stuff, nothing special.

If possible, even an ordinary passerby could have the stunning looks of a young Leonardo DiCaprio in the game.

So the game had no shortage of handsome men and beautiful women.

Of course, there were also plenty of people who liked to make themselves look bizarre, like robots, aliens, or even tentacle monsters.

Well, that touched on aesthetics. Wang Bo couldn't be bothered to comment.

Anyway, most users or players in this game were either handsome or beautiful, or dressed with distinctive personality. Those who truly dressed like ordinary passersby were few and far between.

As for the names of the two demons, they hadn't changed much.

They just added a prefix.

For instance, Malthus added 'Butler' before his name, so his name became Butler·Malthus.

And Caroline did the same; her name in the Oasis was Head Maid·Caroline!

It showed both their names and their identities.

After reuniting with his two subordinates, Wang Bo decided to level up first. He paid a hefty teleportation fee to send the three of them to a world of swords and magic.

Undoubtedly, it was a very high price, but Wang Bo didn't care.

After all, he had plenty of money.

This world of swords and magic was not based on a game or a movie, but on a world of fairy tales and myths.

In this world, there were over a dozen countries warring with each other, but besides these nations, there were all kinds of monsters, such as goblins, hobgoblins, dragons, vampires, dwarves, elves, fairies, witches, cyclopes, and so on.

In addition, many half-baked myths circulated on the continent.

It was one of the earliest worlds of swords and magic opened in the Oasis.

Considered a novice village world.

After arriving in this world, Wang Bo was teleported to the capital of an empire called Roa. Interestingly, the king of this Roa Empire was named Vlad!

He was now the third king of this country, so he was also called Vlad III.

Generally, those familiar with Western culture knew the meaning of the name Vlad III. He was a famous general of ancient Romania, later enshrined as a voivode, known for his cruelty.

He often inserted a long wooden stake through the anus of prisoners, piercing through the entire body and exiting through the mouth, then erected the stake high, torturing them to death. He once used this method to execute over a thousand Ottoman Turkish prisoners at once, earning him the name 'Țepeș'.

Because in Romanian, Țepeș means... Impaler!

So he was also called... the Impaler Prince.

But what truly made him world-famous was not the fearsome title of Impaler Prince, but a novel called 'Dracula'.

The protagonist of the novel was named Dracula, a count and a bloodthirsty vampire who preyed on young beautiful women. The novel was later adapted into a film, gaining worldwide fame.

And the prototype of this Dracula came from the Impaler Prince Vlad III.

Over time, people gradually came to regard this Vlad III as a vampire.

In the Oasis game, the name Vlad III was not given to a king without reason. In fact, in this game, King Vlad III of the Roa Empire was a real vampire.

And a king who liked to drink human blood.

But the people of the Roa Empire did not know this; they did not know that their beloved king was a blood-drinking vampire, because Vlad III was too good at disguising himself.

On the contrary, the people of the Roa Empire, due to Vlad III's great talent and bold vision, fanatically worshipped this king.

In the past few decades, some players had tried to expose this.

But they all failed.

Later, after players leveled up, many returned to this novice village and killed Vlad III.

But as soon as they killed Vlad III, the game would quickly respawn a new Vlad III.

To truly overthrow this Vlad III, one had to go through a series of quests.

But this Vlad III was too cunning, very good at hiding himself. Many players who accepted the quest died under his schemes, losing the chance to expose him.

What was even more frustrating was that each player could only accept this quest once.

Once failed, there was no chance to try again.

Moreover, once a player's level exceeded a certain limit, they were no longer allowed to accept the quest.

So to this day, Vlad III had remained securely as king for decades. Thus, the quest to expose Vlad III as a vampire was one of the most difficult quests in the novice area.

No one had ever completed it.

Wang Bo came here precisely to accept this quest. In his view, only such a difficult quest was worthy of a high-level player like himself.

After all, ordinary quests held no challenge for Wang Bo.

But to accept the quest, he had to pass a series of trials. Wang Bo, along with his butler and head maid, arrived at an adventurer's guild in the capital of Roa.

At this adventurer's guild, after registering as adventurers, Wang Bo and his group accepted a quest to clear out an old castle.

This castle was located in a remote area on the outskirts of the capital. It had once been a prince's palace, but after the prince was executed for rebellion, the castle became taboo and gradually fell into ruin.

Currently, the castle was occupied by goblins and hobgoblins. These hobgoblins often emerged to harass nearby villages, so the villagers came to the adventurer's guild to recruit adventurers to clear the castle.

However, because the villagers offered too low a reward, many adventurers were unwilling to take on this low-reward, high-risk quest.