Volume 1 Chapter 10: Crazy Leveling
After saying goodbye to A Wei and the others, I walked to the largest medicine store in Shenghua City, "Huichuntang Head Office". When I entered the door, I saw that the big pharmacy was different. The types of medicines were much more complete than those in the Novice Village. The Novice Village only sold medium-sized life water at most. Here, there were not only various grades of potions to restore HP and MP, but also antidotes, gold healing medicines, and holy water (abnormal states such as freezing, petrification, paralysis, etc. were restored to normal). Unfortunately, I was a little late. The special pills that were sold in limited quantities every day and could improve the attack and defense attributes for a short time had been swept away. Fortunately, my physical attack was already super high, so I had to make do without special medicines. I paid 22 gold coins and bought 10 bundles of powerful life water (100 silver coins per bundle) and 10 bundles of medium-sized magic water (120 silver coins per bundle). I looked at the backpack weight, which was 394/565, and there were still 15 spaces. I bought 5 more bottles of Holy Water (30 silver coins/bottle) and 5 bottles of antidote (20 silver coins/bottle). I was almost penniless. However, this amount of medicine was enough to last for a long time.
I looked at the time and it was almost 7:00. I really wasted too much time! But I got the basic equipment for myself and my friend, and sold the golden axe to get the starting capital in the game. I also got a second job. The whole night's hard work was not in vain. In short, it seems that the "money future" is bright, but I have to work harder. Professional players, especially those like me who rely on leveling up, earning money by selling equipment, eat hard work...
After running out of Shenghua City, I prepared to go to the Dark Cave to level up.
What? You ask me why I always like to dig holes? There is no other way. I have too much strength. My attribute characteristics are super high attack, average physical defense, and super low magic defense. The cave terrain is generally narrow, and I don't have to face a group of monsters besieging me. It is the most suitable place for me to level up.
Without saying anything, I ran all the way to the dark cave, dodging the monsters on the road as much as I could, and slashing the ones I couldn't. After more than 20 minutes, I was already standing in front of the entrance of the dark cave.
In fact, the Dark Cave is a general term, which consists of countless passages from the City of the Dead to the ground. The City of the Dead is the base camp of undead monsters, which is definitely a terrifying place. However, the Dark Cave is divided into many layers, and the closer to the surface, the lower the level of the monsters. I am here to fight the ghost bats and vampire bats living on the first and second floors of the cave.
Ghost Bat, level 22, attack and defense are similar to those of a goblin, HP 400, but high agility, and can cast the spell "Black Mist", which can reduce the target's attack and defense by 15%, and has a 1% chance of paralysis. Basic experience 280.
Vampire bat, level 23, attack 130-160, defense around 80, HP 500, high agility, has the skill "suck blood", success rate 10%, the target hit loses 10HP per second and converts into the bat's HP, basic experience 350. The most amazing thing is that this blood sucking skill can be stacked! If you are unfortunately besieged by a large group of vampire bats, with 10 or more blood sucking, and losing 100HP per second, what would it feel like? Therefore, warriors rarely fight these bats, and their high agility has a high miss rate for physical attacks.
But for me, this is a paradise for leveling up! Because the first professional skill of my second profession, the archer, is "Precision", with a hit rate of +30% at level 0, and an additional 5% for each level up (although the archer's professional corrected hit rate is high, in long-range attacks, the farther away from the target, the lower the attack power and hit rate. Therefore, even if the archer's hit rate exceeds 100%, when attacking a very far target, the actual hit rate may not even reach 50%). And I also found that using precision to increase the hit rate of the knight's close-range attack is also effective! I guess it is difficult for the bat to miss my attack due to its high sensitivity. In this way, with my high attack, I can definitely kill a bat with two swords. If I can deal double damage, I can even kill it instantly. Isn't my upgrade speed very fast?
Because all attributes have been modified after the job change, and my novice leather armor was broken and I couldn't put together a complete set, so I changed into a level 12 white breastplate and a cold iron dagger. Now my attributes are:
HP: 746
Physical attack: 354~372, additional ice damage 12, attack speed +10%
Physical defense: 139~149
Weight: 404/565
Magic Defense: 61~72
MP: 318
Mobile: (30.2-3.8)
Everything is OK. I took out a torch I bought at Ziwei City Department Store (30 silver coins/torch, lighting range 20 meters, duration two hours, I brought three), lit it, walked into the cave, and started leveling!
In the first layer of the dark cave, ghost bats are the main force, and they appear in groups, with a number of at least 10 or more, and occasionally two or three vampire bats. But I am not afraid, the ghost bat's attack is too low, even if its spell "Black Mist" successfully reduces my physical defense by 15%, the attack of a bat only knocks off 1 to 5 points of my HP, which is almost painless; on the contrary, I use "Thrust", which adds 20% to my physical attack. Even if it is reduced by 15%, it can at least exert more than 360 attack power. One sword strike will deduct more than 300 HP. Two sword strikes will kill a ghost bat and gain 280×150%=420 experience!
In fact, I also kill one with two slashes with normal attacks, but in order to improve the skill level of thrust, I wasted my MP and kept using thrust. When my MP ran out, I drank a bottle of medium magic water to replenish it. This extravagant leveling method was originally a patent of the rich, but now I have the 500 gold coins that Bigo gave me when I bought the golden hand axe, so I am confident and don't hesitate to spend. Because I know that as long as I can maintain the level advantage, I can always kill the boss, and as the level increases and more and more players in Fantasy, the price of equipment will only get higher day by day. The investment now is for the future to reap ten times or a hundred times!
With the help of precision, I can almost never miss a target with my sword. As the bats die one by one under my sword with squeaking screams, my experience soars. Haha, with my current ability, it's not that I can't challenge higher-level monsters, but the speed of killing monsters is definitely not as fast as killing bats. And with the damage that ghost bats can do to me, I don't even need to drink life water. Therefore, comprehensively calculating, the dark cave is definitely the best place for me to level up!
Now I didn't even look at it. After killing a group of bats, I continued to rush in. Because no one had been here before, the density of monsters in the dark cave was amazing. Almost every few steps I took, a group of bats would fly over and surround me. The sword in my hand never stopped.
If a group of monsters are all ghost bats, my life can be automatically restored to full HP; if there are vampire bats mixed in, the vampire bats will be my priority target - after being hit by the skill "sucking blood", as long as you kill it, the skill will immediately become invalid. Generally, there is no need to replenish blood. Of course, when you are unlucky, there are a lot of vampire bats, and they are on the periphery of the bat group, and you can't attack them for a while, then it's unlucky. Several vampire bats keep hitting me, and there will always be two or three hits, and HP will drop one by one. But I brought a full 10 bundles of powerful ones ! It's more than enough to deal with this loss of life.
It takes 50,000 experience points to upgrade from level 12 to level 13. I had 10,000 experience points left, which means I can upgrade if I kill more than 90 bats. Just 20 minutes later, the system prompt sounded. Hehe, I think, in terms of the speed of gaining experience under the same level conditions, I should be the undisputed number one in fantasy, right?
This time I upgraded, I added 21 HP, 18 physical attack, 5 physical defense, and 14 HP, which is pretty good. Now, the ghost bats can't break my defense at all, and all attacks are forced to -1 HP. I am even more reckless and rush around in the first floor of the dark cave.
Level 13-14 and level 14-15 require 80,000 and 120,000 experience points respectively. I need to kill about 500 bats in total. After about two hours, I finally reached level 15, and the "Thrust" level was also upgraded to level 1. Damn, this skill is really difficult to practice. The first level requires 1,000 proficiency points, and each additional level requires +50% proficiency. In this way, if you want to upgrade to the highest level 10 after practicing the 9th level thrust, even if you use the thrust continuously, it will take nearly 80 hours of game time!
However, the effect of the skill upgrade is also very obvious. The level 1 stab can exert 140% of the physical attack power. I added 10 and 19 points of physical attack to the two levels respectively. Now my minimum attack power when using the stab is also above 560. After deducting the physical attack of "black fog" -15%, it is still more than 470 points. The defense of the ghost bat is only 50. I can kill the ghost bat in seconds! In this way, my killing speed has almost doubled, and the magic water consumed by using the stab is not wasted. Unfortunately, I dare not go to the second floor to fight the vampire bat, although its experience is much higher. When I can kill the vampire bat in seconds, maybe it will be a good choice to go to the second floor to level up?
Just when I was about to rush to level up, the system suddenly prompted me to receive a text message from Wei: Da Xia, are you still practicing? It's already 9:00, and Ji Mo and the others have all logged off. Shouldn't we at least log off and have some breakfast?
Well, what Wei said is right. Although I am not sleepy yet (I have done enough preparation), I have not eaten for 14 hours in reality. I only went to the toilet once when I was offline in Ziwei City. The simulation helmet that comes with Zero Degree Fantasy has the function of detecting the human body state. If your real body can no longer support it, such as low blood sugar due to hunger or disordered brain waves due to sleepiness, the system will issue a warning in the game. If you insist on playing the game, you will be forced to quit the game before your physical condition has a negative impact on your health. I looked at the system help menu, and sure enough, my physical condition in reality is close to the warning line, mainly because of low blood sugar. It’s time to replenish some energy!
I killed the last bat beside me, took out the tent I bought at Ziwei City Department Store (50 silver coins/piece, you must stay in the tent to ensure safety when logging off in the wild; the tent can also be used as a prop to quickly restore HP, MP and remove abnormal status when you are seriously injured and have no medicine. A tent can only be used once), and then I logged off.
After exiting the game and putting down the helmet, I turned around and saw Awei, who looked tired and annoyed, sitting there.
"Hey...what's up, buddy? You look so depressed!"
"Oh, don't mention it. Lonely and Hanjiang took us to the Gray Wolf Valley to kill monsters. Because there were more people, it was relatively safe, and the experience increased quickly. We all reached level 13. Later they said they were going offline. After I sent you a text message, I was curious and walked a few more steps deeper. Unexpectedly, I ran into the Boss, the giant gray wolf, and it killed me in a few moves. I regret not listening to Lonely's advice. I lost 10% of the experience."
"Hey, look at you. If you can't win, use the City Retrieval Scroll. It's not like you can kill instantly, so how can you die?"
"...Woo, Boss, this is my first time playing a virtual reality game. I'm not like you who have participated in the internal test. The online games I played before were all used by opening the inventory and clicking with the mouse. In Zero Degree Fantasy, it's a real person substitution. I need to silently recite the backpack in my mind, then take out the return scroll and open the scroll in my hand. I didn't react for a while! But then again, New Era Group is really amazing. They can actually make this kind of technology. The feeling of being truly integrated into the game... Well, it's like I suddenly entered another world! In comparison, the games I played before are all garbage! It turns out that the simulation games that those rich people played with ecological warehouses in the past were so cool! Damn, this world is really unfair!"
"Okay, okay, okay. Complaining too much might break your heart. It's more practical to eat first. Don't worry, after this round of training, I will go and fight the wolf pack's super boss, the Silver Wolf King, to avenge you."
"Oh, thank you so much, Boss. My admiration for you is like a surging river..."
I hit Awei in the stomach with my elbow to stop his disgusting compliments and ignored his cries. "Boss, be sure to bring me with you when you go to challenge the Wolf King!" and walked leisurely towards the bathroom.
"Hey, I'll take over the restroom first . If you want to take a picture or something, just bear with it."
"You are so vicious!"
After washing up, I took out the fast food I bought last night from the refrigerator, heated it in the microwave and had a big meal. I was full of energy and ready to continue working hard on Fantasy. However, Awei was a little listless and had to go to bed to catch up on some sleep. Hehe, it was because he was so excited before getting the account that he couldn't sleep.
After connecting online, my character was lying in the sleeping bag in the tent. I got up and walked out of the tent. Ha, there were a lot of bats outside, densely surrounding my tent. There was no need to be polite. I drew my short sword and chopped wildly. After killing all the bats around, I continued to go deeper. Ordinary tents cannot be taken back after being used once. They will be left in the same place. The system will delete unmanned tents after two hours (this is also a very interesting factor in Fantasy. If a person commits a crime and is wanted, he cannot use the return scroll or random scroll, and those bounty hunters who make a living by chasing criminals will use the tent as a very important clue in the tracking process).
I enjoyed the pleasure of killing bats instantly, and my experience increased rapidly. By the time I logged off at 2 o'clock to eat lunch, I had reached level 18 and learned two new skills - the knight skill "Solid" (increase physical and magic defense by 10%, and increase by 5% with each level) and the archer skill "Triple Shot" (shoot three arrows at the same target in a row within the time it takes to shoot one arrow with a normal attack. At level 0, each arrow has only 60% of the power of a normal attack, and the attack is increased by 5% with each level).
But to my regret, the drop rate of bats is far lower than that of goblins. After killing more than 3,000 monsters, I only got four pieces of equipment, and none of them had attributes!
I ate something casually. Awei was still sleeping soundly. I didn't care about him. I made up my mind that I would not go to bed until the game was open for 24 hours !
