Volume 1 Chapter 12: Setbacks and Sacrifice (1)
I woke up in a good mood and looked at the time. It was only a few minutes past 1:00. When I was a child, I had insomnia, which made me feel listless all day long. My parents took me to see many doctors but there was no good solution. It was impossible for me to start taking sleeping pills every day at such a young age, right? Later, they took me to Shangqing Temple in Qingcheng Mountain to ask a Taoist priest to see if I had encountered any evil spirits! The result... what result could there be? The Taoist priest in the temple first felt my pulse, then asked for my horoscope to calculate it, and also presided over a ritual for me, torturing me for a long time like a shaman (I don’t know how much money my father donated for incense). After eating the vegetarian food in the temple, I couldn’t sleep more when I rested in the Taoist temple at night, and I got up in the middle of the night to look at the moon! And... my insomnia seemed to have spread to my father? He was still awake and talked with an old Taoist priest with a big white beard until dawn!
The old Taoist priest with white beard seemed very happy after playing chess with my father all night (my father was an amateur 6th dan in Go, which was also considered an expert). He grabbed me while I was jumping up and down in the temple like a monkey, climbing trees and walls, and said he had a way to cure my insomnia. Then he asked me to worship him as his master and accept me as his registered disciple. He taught me a formula, saying that if I persisted in practicing, insomnia would be cured, and perseverance would also have the effect of strengthening the body and prolonging life.
The formula was so well-written that I couldn't even read it fluently. The old Taoist priest forced me to memorize it for a whole day. Fortunately, there were not many words and I had a good memory, so I memorized it. Then the master began to explain it to me in detail.
Damn, after all this time, isn't it just a breathing control method? By adjusting the length, speed and slowness of one's own breathing, one can achieve a rhythm, calm the mood, suppress brain excitement, trigger brain waves to enter the beta wave state, and enter deep sleep. To put it bluntly, isn't it a kind of self-hypnosis (long-term illness makes a doctor, even though I was young at the time, I knew a lot about this)? I thought it was some kind of magical skill!
But the old Taoist's method is really effective. I have tried many such methods in the past, but none of them worked. But I was able to sleep soundly that night, and it was extremely sweet. After going down the mountain, I continued to practice for a while. My insomnia was really cured without medication, and I could sleep normally every night like an ordinary child. But children are children. How can they have the patience to follow the master's instructions and practice the exercises once every day before going to bed? So I stopped.
Later, before the college entrance examination, I was under too much pressure (Chinese education... Sigh, maybe it will be like this in another 100 years), and I couldn't eat well and sleep well. Then I thought of the "Sleeping Magic Skill". After trying it, not only did it work well, but I also discovered another magical effect of this skill: practicing it once before going to bed can not only make people fall asleep soundly, but in this deep sleep state, one hour of sleep is enough to replace the effect of 2 to 3 hours of sleep at ordinary times. Only 4 hours of sleep a day, and I will wake up early the next morning with full energy and surprisingly good physical condition. With this magic weapon, I had several more hours of study time every day before the college entrance examination than those classmates who were almost self-torturing and hardworking, and the efficiency was higher. As a result, I, who usually had average grades, was admitted to a key university.
After entering university, everything was free, but because of the pressure from my parents, I chose a major that was not to my liking, so I had no interest in studying. My life could almost be described as "rotten". What did it matter if I slept well? I gave up practicing again.
Until I became a professional gamer, I picked up this skill again. Hehe, no matter how powerful a master is, it is impossible to be online for nearly 20 hours a day? Unfortunately, in previous online games, there were many power-ups and plug-ins, so my advantages could not be reflected. Now Zero Degree Fantasy is different. Identity authentication is implemented, one person has one account, and plug-ins are eliminated. Hehehe... Even if there is no extra point reward for special accounts, I am absolutely invincible! It seems that this time I can do the master's request to practice the skills persistently!
After washing up and finding something to fill my stomach, I went to the computer room and saw Wei wearing a helmet and sitting in front of the computer desk. Looking at his monitor, he was having a great time in Grey Wolf Valley!
I entered the game and my character was still in Taibai Restaurant. Woo… I only had 10 gold coins left. If you don’t count the equipment, the fight against the Bat King was in vain!
I called Awei, and sure enough, he was leveling up with Momo, Hanjiang, Zui Ai Chi Yu, and Fatty! Everyone else was offline, but Qian Shan Fei Niao just came online. I asked them to go back to the city to prepare, and we went to fight the Wolf King together, and everyone agreed excitedly. I went to the bank to withdraw some gold coins, and then repaired equipment, bought potions, and bought props. Everything was ready, and we gathered outside the west gate.
After a short wait, everyone arrived one by one, I formed a team, and with a shout, we set off, and the seven of us headed for the Grey Wolf Valley. On the plain outside the city, some level 11 and 2 rookies who were leveling up by beating low-level monsters saw our group of masters, almost all of whom had full-body equipment, whizzing by, and all of them showed envious expressions.
Among us, Ji Mo, Han Jiang, and A Wei are all about to reach level 17, and the others are also at level 15 or 16. Only Fei Niao came online late and is still only level 14. But she is an elf archer, and her agility is high, and there is also a bonus from her racial profession, so our movement speed is not slow, and it took less than half an hour to reach the outside of the Gray Wolf Valley. Ji Mo and Han Jiang took the lead and rushed in. Their attacks were not weak. They used the warrior's "heavy attack" and the swordsman's "basic swordsmanship" respectively. It was easy to deal with the level 20 gray wolf. Almost three or four hits were enough to kill one. Since they all wore the armor I made, their defense was not low. They only lost more than 10 or 20 points of blood when bitten by the gray wolf. Zui Ai Chi Yu sent out healing spells at will to keep their HP at full blood. In fact, Zui Ai Chi Yu was a waste of using healing spells like this. He was taking the opportunity to practice his skills. Ah Wei's Taoist priest is not very powerful at this level, but he has additional attribute points, physical attack and magic attack are not bad, waving a long sword in one hand and slapping talisman paper in the other, he is also very impressive. Fatty is particularly insidious, hiding behind everyone, always aiming at the gray wolf that was seriously injured by the three of them and shooting fireballs, burning the wolves and howling, wanting to seek revenge on him, but his blood is already low, and he hits them again before they pounce on him and burns them into charcoal, and the number of monsters hanging on his hands is the largest. Fei Niao's level is low, so her bow and arrows are not very lethal, and she has no other skills except accuracy, so it is useless to waste arrows. Anyway, no wolf can rush to her without being destroyed, so let her stay at the back of the team to gain experience (but Fei Niao is not a vase, she was an excellent archer in the past game, as long as her level is improved a little, she will be a very important combat force in the team).
Haha, everyone cooperated well, but then again, we have all cooperated in previous games. Seeing how hard they worked, I felt embarrassed to just watch and kill them, so I drew my dagger and rushed forward.
"Hey, big shot, why are you still using this broken level 9 sword? Although you gave us all the equipment you obtained, you should keep a better weapon for yourself!" Awei glanced at the short iron sword less than half a meter long in my hand and was very surprised.
Alas, I don't want to either! Although I have obtained a higher-level warrior weapon, I can't use the Bloodthirsty Demon Spear now, and its other attributes are very average. On the contrary, the attack speed +10% of the Cold Iron Dagger is very useful to me, so I have not changed my weapon.
Before I could answer Ah Wei, a gray wolf had already pounced in front of me. I swung my sword, and stabbed at level 2. The gray wolf lost 712 HP, and was killed instantly!
"Wow! Instant kill! Too...too exaggerated. Blood, did you deliver the fatal blow?" asked the fat man.
I smiled and shook my head, "A normal thrust attack."
"...To be honest, I'm beginning to doubt whether you are Mr. Li's godson."
Humph, I ignored the fat man and rushed into the wolf pack to kill them fiercely. The gray wolves that were hit by my sword were basically either killed instantly or seriously injured. I was too lazy to add another sword to the ones that were not dead, so I left them to the fat man's fireball to deal with them. When I killed more than 30 wolves, I deliberately did not use the thrust, so that the wolves that were injured by me still had nearly half of their health left. The fat man probably had developed a habit of killing the wolves I had chopped with one blow. I threw several fireballs at several injured wolves, but I didn't expect that none of these wolves were dead. They were all angered by the fat man and pounced on him together. The fat man was shocked and shouted "Oh my God" while dodging and throwing fireballs. Seeing his flustered look, I laughed secretly, hehe, I'll cause you some trouble. I can't let you, a sinister mage, have it too easy. It's time to move your body and exercise. Anyway, dealing with a few wolves won't kill you.
I killed my way through the Gray Wolf Valley and came to the Wild Wolf Plain outside the valley, but I didn't encounter the boss. I asked in surprise: "Ah Wei, why didn't I see the giant gray wolf?"
"Hey, I killed that guy myself a long time ago to avenge him. Boss, you called us together to form a team, not just for this side dish, right?"
"Of course. Let's keep going. The Super Boss Golden Wolf King is still far away."
The main monsters on the Wild Wolf Plain are wild wolves, which are stronger than gray wolves and are level 25 monsters. However, with the support of the fish-loving healing technique, we didn't have a hard time fighting, especially my powerful attack, which led the team like a sharp arrow piercing into the wolf pack. When we advanced to the center of the Wild Wolf Plain, Lonely, Hanjiang and Fei Niao were all upgraded. The upgrade of warrior professions will increase a lot of attack and defense, so it will be easier for us to fight. Fei Niao was also very happy. She finally learned a new skill, three consecutive shots. Although the 60% attack power at level 0 can't really do much damage to the wild wolf, she still kept shooting, just as practicing skills!
After walking for a while, we encountered the boss of the wolf pack, the Violent Wolf. This guy is a little stronger than the giant bat, but still far inferior to the Bat King. I have no problem fighting him alone, and it is even easier now that so many people are in a team. I will entangle it for a while, and the rest of us will start to beat it up after we kill the nearby monsters!
It feels so good to outnumber the weak! In less than five minutes, the Wild Wolf fell down with resentment, and more than 20 gold coins and three pieces of equipment were dropped. It was a pity that none of us had practiced life skills, otherwise we could have collected some wolf skins and wolf teeth from the boss, which would have been very good materials. Only one of the three pieces of equipment had attributes. I used a scroll to identify it, and it was a dagger for level 24, with good attributes, but it was a special equipment for thieves, and we didn't use it, so I had to put it away and prepare to auction it later.
The scope of Wild Wolf Plain is extremely large. It took us a long time to reach the end. In front of us is our destination, Blue Wolf Gorge. The super boss Golden Wolf King, the official G-level boss, will be our target.
