Since the system became my girlfriend

"Let's hurry up and turn in the mission!" Su Rui didn't see what Rixi was holding, so he didn't pay much attention. He took the girl's hand and led her to the front of the pharmacy.

"Ah! Warriors, have you completed your mission?" Manager Wang of the pharmacy asked with a smile.

"Yes, we have completed the mission. Here is the hemostatic herb you requested." Su Rui and Feng Lixi each handed in twenty portions of hemostatic herb.

"That's great! You've been a huge help to me!" Shopkeeper Wang said with a smile. He had a fixed smile on his face. Because he didn't have much intelligence and was just a service-oriented NPC, he didn't interact much with the players.

"Ding! Mission complete!"

With a system notification, Su Rui and Feng Lixi both received the mission rewards. Although a few copper coins and a few potions weren't much, two hundred experience points were still good. After all, if they were just grinding monsters, it would take quite a while to get two hundred experience points!

"Let's go find the proprietress of the pharmacy!" Seeing that Manager Wang didn't seem to have any intention of issuing any more follow-up tasks, Su Rui immediately stopped lingering.

"Okay!" Feng Lixi nodded, then offered her small hand to Su Rui, and the two walked together toward the tailor shop.

"Warriors, you're back!" Li Meili's expression was more animated when she saw Su Rui and his companion, after all, she was an intelligent NPC.

"Yes, we have collected the flax you requested." Su Rui said as he and Feng Lixi handed over the flax materials.

"Thank you so much! This is your reward!" Li Meili first settled the task rewards for Su Rui and the other person, and then took out a letter and said to them, "This is a letter from my own hand. Please give it to my brother. He is at the pawnshop in the city."

"Okay!" Su Rui nodded and then took the letter.

"Ding! You have received Li Meili's letter. Please give it to Li Meili's brother."

With a notification, Su Rui's task list added another delivery task. However, like the letter he obtained when he wiped out the bandits, this task could only be completed after reaching level 10 and leaving the starting village.

"My two warriors, you have completed my task. Now you can go to the blacksmith's shop in the village. Brother Zhang may need your help with something!" Li Meili posted the follow-up to the beginner's task.

"Okay! Thank you!" Su Rui nodded with a smile, then led Feng Lixi straight to the blacksmith shop. On the way to the blacksmith shop, he equipped the blank beginner's robe that he had been rewarded with from the quest. Although it was just a blank piece of equipment, it could at least provide ten points of physical defense.

Before long, Su Rui and Feng Lixi arrived near the blacksmith shop. A group of players had already gathered there, all wearing the novice robes given by the quest giver. Although the light blue robes weren't bad-looking, it still felt strange that everyone was wearing them.

"Shall we wait a bit?" Su Rui looked at Feng Lixi. He knew that girls didn't like to join in the fun, especially in this extreme case of wearing the same outfit.

"Mm!" Feng Lixi nodded, and then the two chatted for a few minutes.

Brother Zhang, the blacksmith, was a very generous guy. He didn't waste any time and would immediately issue quests. The players would accept the quests and leave, so after two minutes, there were hardly any people left in front of the blacksmith's shop.

"Let's go over there!" Su Rui took Feng Lixi's little hand and walked forward.

"Two brave warriors, were you introduced by Sister Li?" Brother Zhang asked bluntly.

“Yes.” Su Rui and Feng Lixi nodded.

"That's great! I need manpower right now!" Brother Zhang was immediately delighted upon hearing this. He said to Su Rui and the other man, "Go to the north of the village now. There are rough iron ore veins there. Collect some for me. But be careful while collecting, because there are also rock golems there. Be careful not to get stepped on by them. If it's convenient, you can also collect some rock golem cores for me!"

"Okay, we'll go right away!" Su Rui nodded, and at the same time, the system notification sounded.

"Ding! Mission updated: Collect crude iron ore!"

Collect crude iron ore: Brother Li at the blacksmith shop urgently needs some crude iron ore. Go and collect some for him! If possible, you can also help collect some rock golem cores!

Mission objective: Collect 20 pieces of crude iron ore!

Quest Level: 3

Risk level: Low

Quest Rewards: 200 Experience Points, 30 Copper Coins, Beginner's Iron Sword (1)

Special Reward: For each Rock Golem core you collect, Brother Zhang will provide you with an additional 100 experience points and 20 copper coins.

"I can handle this mission!" Su Rui thought to himself immediately after receiving the assignment.

Although he had only recently entered the game, Su Rui had already gained a general understanding of the difficulty of leveling up in "Source". Right now, he could only get eight experience points by killing monsters of the same level, and if he was in a team, he would only get five points.

The upgrade from level 5 to level 6 requires 1,600 experience points. Although he has already gained a large portion through previous missions and only needs another 400 experience points to level up, what about after level 6? Level 7 will probably require even more experience points, right?

A single monster can only provide a handful of experience points, making it seem like leveling up is a long and arduous process for players. However, the blacksmith named Brother Zhang provides a quick way for skilled players to level up: by collecting the cores of rock golems.

Although he hadn't seen the monster called Rock Golem yet, Su Rui could guess that it must be difficult to kill, or that its core drop rate would be low. However, as long as he could quickly collect the cores, his leveling speed would skyrocket!

"Let's go do the quest!" Su Rui said to Feng Lixi with a smile. As a professional player, he was quite confident in obtaining this puppet core.

"Are you in such a hurry to complete the quest because you want to leave the starting village as soon as possible?" Feng Lixi asked curiously.

"Yeah, the quests in the newbie village are just for getting used to the game. For a professional player like me, they're not that important. I want to explore the outside world as soon as possible! After all, I'm a pro!" Su Rui said smugly.

"I see..." Feng Lixi nodded, then said nothing. She followed Su Rui, and the two of them quickly walked towards the north of the village.

Because Su Rui and Feng Lixi weren't moving at a leisurely pace, they arrived at the entrance to a small valley five or six minutes later.

After entering the small valley, Su Rui saw the rough iron ore veins that spawned along the foot of the mountain. Like the flax or hemostatic grass before, in order to help novice players get familiar with the game mode, the spawn rate and spawn quantity of this mineral were also very amazing.