Chapter 171 The Father's Support

Nie Yan was heading towards his room when he heard the sounds of cars outside the villa. His parents were back. He didn't dare to get out of line now, so he told Xie Yao to return to her room and get dressed.

People were bustling in and out, carrying things. They were large items, like the household appliances.

"Your uncle is back. Should I go meet him?" Xie Yao asked a little flusteredly. She felt a little timid at the thought of meeting Nie Yan's father.

Nie Yan thought for a moment and said, "No need. It's not the right time yet. You staying at our house needs to be kept a secret. It won't be good if too many people know. We have no way to explain the situation to my father."

Xie Yao nodded. She didn't want Nie Yan's father to think she was frivolous for staying at his house without his permission.

Nie Yan understood that now wasn't the time to "eat" Xie Yao.

"I'm going to see my father. You stay here for now," Nie Yan said, settling Xie Yao down before heading towards the living room.

A large group of employees was bustling around in the living room, placing some equipment in the villa.

"What are these for?" Nie Yan asked his father, looking at the strange instruments.

Nie's father squinted at Nie Yan, smiled, and said, "Some security measures to improve the villa's safety."

"Oh," Nie Yan nodded. He felt that his father's smile contained some special meaning.

"Recently, the company just signed a few big deals, starting cooperation with the Longyue Consortium and Zhengrong Consortium. The Zhengrong Consortium decided to enter Faith. They decided to cooperate with us to assist the War God Tribe. They are very optimistic about the future development prospects of the War God Tribe," Nie's father said with a grin.

Hearing his father's words, Nie Yan immediately thought of Xie Jun. It seemed that all of this was Xie Jun's doing. The Tianxia Group had only just risen and its strength wasn't on the same level as the Zhengrong Consortium and the Longyue Consortium. The Zhengrong Consortium might not think much of the Tianxia Group. Deciding to assist the War God Tribe was practically giving the Tianxia Group a great honor.

"Of course, we can't lose momentum either. You are my son. No matter what, your father is your strong support. You can go and fight with peace of mind. Even if the sky falls, your old man will hold it up. I know about the things you said to the Xie family at the Moro River Hotel. You spoke very well. We can't let others look down on us," Nie's father said with a hearty laugh.

Nie Yan understood his father's meaning. His father must have gotten some information about Xie Yao from Xie Jun. Nie Yan was very touched by his father's words.

"I'll have her come and see you," Nie Yan said.

"No need, it's not time to see her yet. I had someone investigate, and the Xie family's daughter is not bad. I'm very satisfied. You're a capable kid," Nie's father chuckled, patting Nie Yan on the shoulder.

The Zhengrong Consortium's cooperation with the Nie family undoubtedly gave the Nie family a great development opportunity.

However, listening to his father's tone, he wouldn't compromise just because the Zhengrong Consortium was strong. Face is given by others, but reputation is earned by oneself. The Tianxia Group can't rely on other people's charity. It has to become truly strong!

Nie Yan wanted to make the Nie family a truly large consortium, at least not inferior to the Longyue Consortium and the Zhengrong Consortium. As for the Century Consortium, he had to face it as well. No matter what method he used, as long as he could bring down the Century Consortium, that would be enough.

Nie's father had people install strict security measures in the villa. After everything was completed, he left to go to the company, where he had to stay tonight.

Nie Yan and Xie Yao had dinner, then the two re-entered the game.

Nie Yan appeared in Calore. He had some arrangements for the upcoming activities. He entrusted Zhai Hao, Li Rui, Liu Chenxu and others to Brilliant Knife Light, Watery Rose, and the others. They would often take newbies to dungeons in their spare time. Generally, completing an ordinary dungeon would take them only an hour or two.

Xie Yao returned to the city to replenish some consumables. She was preparing to go to the City of Elements, Kavodien, to continue her quest for the Legendary set.

Nie Yan and Xie Yao met up near the Starry Sky Pharmacy. At this time, Xie Yao was wearing a set of blue and white Holy Words Mage robes, holding a staff inlaid with sapphires. The blue glow of the staff illuminated her face, making her look particularly charming and cute.

"Nie Yan, I'm going to the City of Elements, Kavodien, to do a quest. I estimate it will take two or three days to come back," Xie Yao said.

"The City of Elements, Kavodien?" Nie Yan thought for a moment. It seemed that there were several newly developed small guilds in the City of Elements, Kavodien. There wasn't a single powerful guild to unify that city, so it was relatively chaotic.

"Yes, is there anything I need to pay attention to?" Xie Yao asked. When moving around in other cities, she had to avoid some enemies to avoid causing trouble for the Nirvana Guild.

"Nothing really. Take these scrolls with you. They should come in handy at critical moments. Here are also a few Holy Words magic damage gems. Take them and embed them in your equipment," Nie Yan said. He traded some scrolls to Xie Yao, and at the same time gave Xie Yao a few high-level gems specifically for crafting equipment.

"Okay," Xie Yao nodded, confirming the transaction.

Looking at the scrolls Nie Yan gave her, there were more than twenty of them, all very useful.

"Then I'm leaving," Xie Yao said, looking at Nie Yan.

"Have a good trip!" Nie Yan kissed Xie Yao's forehead.

Watching Xie Yao leave, Nie Yan thought for a moment. He should get busy too. For the sake of Shadow Dance, he had to break through to the Shadow Dance class before the other players caught up, to completely become an existence they couldn't reach.

Nie Yan thought of an item, the Javelin Launcher, which was sold by High Inquisitor Koster. In his previous life, High Inquisitor Koster was a familiar figure to players who liked to increase their military rank. When players' military ranks reached a certain level, they were qualified to buy some equipment from High Inquisitor Koster, who sold all kinds of standard weapons and equipment. For example, after being promoted to Centurion, one could go there to buy Centurion equipment of various levels, which was relatively cheap. Generally, a better Gold or Dark Gold equipment only cost a dozen gold coins. However, these equipments were bound after purchase and could not be traded to others. If you didn't wear them, you could only sell them back to High Inquisitor Koster, and of course, you could only sell them back for a few gold coins.

If one reached the rank of High Inquisitor or Grand Inquisitor, they could even buy Sub Legendary and Legendary equipment.

In his previous life, Nie Yan's military rank had reached Commander, but he could never advance to High Inquisitor. It was too difficult, beyond human capability. The rank of Commander was relatively easy to achieve. Under normal circumstances, honor points dropped slowly and would accumulate more and more until one reached Commander. Advancing from Commander to High Inquisitor was a little different. It was stipulated that one had to kill a certain number of players from the opposing faction every few days, otherwise the honor points would drop very sharply. Sometimes, when one was close to High Inquisitor, if one didn't kill anyone for a few days, the honor points would drop back to their original level. In his previous life, there were quite a few High Inquisitor-level players who dropped back to Commander.

After reaching Commander, one could buy some relatively good equipment from High Inquisitor Koster. There were all types of equipment, covering all levels, and the best one could buy were Dark Gold items. The Javelin Launcher was one of them.

The Javelin Launcher was a famous high-attack throwing weapon. Generally, when used on the battlefield, the maximum throwing distance could reach about 200 yards. Commander-level Warriors and Thieves could use them to deal with Mages, so they were relatively good. The attack was much higher than ordinary crossbow bolts. This thing was limited to Commanders. The only drawback of the javelin was that it was easy to dodge and had a very low hit rate, but sometimes it was good for grinding monsters.

Nie Yan headed towards the Holy Church. After a while, he met High Inquisitor Koster. Koster was a tall Paladin, very young, exactly as he remembered from his previous life.

"Honorable Nie Yan, what do you need?" High Inquisitor Koster asked, greeting Nie Yan after seeing him.

"I need to buy some equipment," Nie Yan said.

A list of items appeared before Nie Yan, with all kinds of equipment, dazzling the eyes. He first selected the Commander option, and a row of equipment options appeared, including gauntlets, leg guards, leather armor, weapons, and so on.

Nie Yan selected the ranged weapon option, and then entered the Javelin Launcher page.

There were dozens of Javelin Launchers listed, from Level 10 to Level 200, with a Javelin Launcher every ten levels. Nie Yan looked at the attributes of the Level 100 Javelin Launcher. The Level 100 Javelin Launcher was a Dark Gold equipment, with a throwing attack of 3200 and an attack interval of five seconds, while the Level 90 Javelin Launcher had an attack of only 1800, which was much lower.

A Javelin Launcher could be inlaid with two gems.

Nie Yan looked at the price of the Javelin Launcher, 210 gold coins. Such a price was nothing for a Level 100 Dark Gold ranged weapon.

Nie Yan bought one without hesitation. Looking at the Javelin Launcher in his hand, it was a cylindrical object with complex mechanical springs. It was the masterpiece of the mechanics. This small thing could make the javelin's launch distance reach a full 200 yards!

In addition to the Javelin Launcher, Nie Yan looked at the javelins sold below, which were divided into five levels. The cheapest was only fifty copper coins each, which were just ordinary javelins without any additional attack. The most expensive cost two gold coins each, with an attack increase of 30%.

Without batting an eye, Nie Yan bought 150 sets, a total of 3,000 javelins, spending 6,000 gold coins. These things could be very useful next!