Chapter 675 – Dreamweaver World 13

Mo Lan closed her eyes once more, and under the influence of the dreamstone bracelet, she quickly re-entered the dream realm.

When she transformed into a sphere of light again and passed through the Dream Gate, appearing before the large boulder at the entrance of Greenwood Village, something stirred in her mental sea. Theerta《Universal Skill Book – Dream Language》that had been sealed along with the Dream Gate seemed to detect that she had fully mastered this language and no longer needed the skill book’s assistance. It flashed briefly like a night-blooming cereus, then dissolved into scattered points of luminescence and vanished.

At that very moment, a message bordered in flickering gold suddenly popped up on her adventurer panel:

【”Universal Skill – Dream Language” fully mastered. Rewards: Skill Point ×1, Experience ×500, Dream Silver Coin ×1】

Mo Lan stared in surprise at the newly appeared skill point column on her adventurer panel and the “1” beside it.

Skill points were an extremely precious resource in the dream realm. Learning any magic-type skill required spending skill points, and the ways to obtain them were severely limited.

Typically, skill points were only awarded as fixed bonuses upon leveling up a profession, and the rarity of one’s profession directly determined how many skill points could be earned per level.

Her original plan had been to accumulate skill points by repeatedly switching professions and leveling up to learn new magic. She never expected to stumble upon a completely new method of acquisition!

Moreover, this method seemed to have never been discovered by any other adventurer.

She had never seen this mentioned in any guide.

Dream Language was classified as a knowledge-type skill, and learning it didn’t cost any skill points. If that was the case, couldn’t all dream adventurers earn skill points simply by studying knowledge-type skills?

Magic-type skills were difficult to learn—without a skill book, one might even need a certain degree of magical talent to master them. But knowledge-type skills had virtually no learning barriers.

Mo Lan quickly pulled up her panel’s screenshot function and saved this reward notification.

For her, someone who planned to switch between different professions to learn various magic skills, an extra channel for obtaining skill points wasn’t particularly precious. But for the adventurers of the dream realm, it was an entirely different story.

When she encountered other adventurers, this piece of intelligence could definitely fetch a good price.

After all, for those adventurers pursuing power, one additional skill point could mean learning one more critical spell.

Although mastering knowledge-type skills required an investment of time, compared to risking life and limb on rare quests, rote memorization was obviously much safer.

After dying ten times in the dream realm, you’d lose your life in the real world too!

Compared to the unexpectedly obtained skill point, the experience and dream coin rewards seemed far more ordinary.

In the dream realm, both of these were standard resources that could be steadily earned by defeating dream creatures and completing various quests.

But for a newcomer adventurer who had just entered the dream realm, 500 experience points and 1 Dream Silver Coin was still a considerable fortune.

Experience points were directly tied to leveling up one’s profession.

Upon accumulating a certain amount, one could raise their professional level, unlocking new class traits or earning additional skill points.

And dream coins, as the universal currency of the dream realm, were something no adventurer could do without.

Dream coins were divided into four tiers.

The most basic was the bronze-gleaming Dream Copper Coin, followed in ascending order by the silver-shimmering Dream Silver Coin, the brilliantly golden Dream Gold Coin, and the crystal-clear Dream Crystal Coin.

The exchange rate strictly followed a 1:10,000 ratio—ten thousand Dream Copper Coins would automatically merge into one Dream Silver Coin, and vice versa. This property made transactions extremely convenient.

Furthermore, the Dreamweaver Federation had established liaison points on every beginner floating island, specifically handling the exchange between dream coins and Federation currency.

According to the official exchange rate, 1 Dream Copper Coin could be exchanged for 1 Federation coin. This meant the 1 Dream Silver Coin Mo Lan had earned was equivalent to 10,000 Federation coins in the real world. Sina had lived in the orphanage for nearly fifteen years, and all her expenses combined didn’t amount to that figure.

And Mo Lan had only been in the dream realm for a few minutes before easily earning this sum.

No wonder so many people in the real world yearned to become dream adventurers! There truly existed the possibility of overnight riches and transcending social class here.

After receiving the Dream Silver Coin, Mo Lan wasted no words and immediately took it out to feed to her Book of Cards.

Soon a {Dream Silver Coin} card appeared in her hand. After materializing it, she knew she would never be short of money in the dream realm.

She placed the Dream Silver Coin into her {Spatial Card}, split it into ten thousand Dream Copper Coins, fed them to the Book of Cards, then produced ten thousand Dream Silver Coins, merged them into one Dream Gold Coin, and fed that to the Book of Cards. Finally, she produced ten thousand Dream Gold Coins, merged them into one Dream Crystal Coin, and fed that to the Book of Cards as well.

In no time, Mo Lan had mastered the ability to create every denomination of dream currency.

Having achieved complete financial freedom in the dream realm, Mo Lan decisively scrapped her original plan.

She had originally intended to follow the forum guides—first find a few dream citizens in Greenwood Village who needed help, accept various miscellaneous quests, and build up her reputation with the village while earning some Dream Copper Coins and accumulating experience.

Once a dream citizen’s affinity reached 60, she could ask them to write a settlement endorsement letter for Greenwood Village.

Taking the endorsement letter to the village chief, the chief would then prepare a race conversion ceremony and help convert her into a Dryad.

After becoming a Dryad, she could seek out Greenwood Village’s professional Instructor, complete the class change quest, and start learning professional magic skills.

Mo Lan had it all planned out—she was going to find a Beast Speaker dream citizen who could transform into a fluffy beast, and take on quests like grooming fur and cleaning or repairing pelts to build up affinity.

According to the guides, Beast Speakers with fur in their animal forms were very particular about their coats, and these types of quests raised affinity the fastest.

The entire process, according to the fastest record posted on the forums, would take at least two weeks.

But now, she had achieved financial freedom. She could have as many dream coins as she wanted, so naturally she didn’t need to go through all that trouble anymore.

The power of money worked in every world. And if it didn’t work, it simply meant you’d chosen the wrong “currency,” or the denomination wasn’t large enough!

Dream coins were the sole circulating currency of the dream realm, and they held considerable appeal for dream citizens too.

Mo Lan recalled the information she’d read about Greenwood Village’s dream citizens and quickly thought of a perfect target for “bribery”—the Greenwood Village chief, Old Groot.

Not only had he always been the one responsible for adventurers’ race conversion ceremonies, he was also a level 30 Beast Speaker who could craft profession invitation letters as well as magic-type skill books for the Beast Speaker class.

Most crucially, the old fellow was greedy!

He had always been very enthusiastic about posting quests for adventurers. The only problem was that adventurers had long since blacklisted him through past dealings.

Because the miser would never include a single Dream Copper Coin in his quest rewards. Sometimes he would even pocket the Dream Copper Coins that the dream realm system allocated as quest reward subsidies, replacing them with bits of junk.

Adventurers used to think those pieces of junk held hidden secrets, but they eventually discovered that junk was just junk.

For quests of equal difficulty, Old Groot’s always offered slightly less in rewards than those from other dream citizens. So gradually, the old fellow had become quite infamous among adventurers.