Volume 1 Chapter 24: Damn, Thief
I spent the next two days leveling up like crazy, and now I am almost level 27, with brand new equipment. But the orc guy on the leaderboard is really catching up with me, still only one level behind me, I have to admit he is awesome!
Now my character's basic attributes are:
Constitution: 7
Strength: 18 (16% weighted)
Accuracy: 3
Agility: 2
Wisdom: 4
Spiritual power: 1
Spiritual consciousness: 3
In terms of equipment, the Bloodthirsty Demon Spear and the Blue Eyes Ring are both top-grade items at this stage. The other items are also pretty good. The armor, helmet, necklace, bracelet, gloves, and shoes are all above level 20 attribute equipment. Even compared to those rich people who spend a lot of money on equipment, I am better than them. My performance attributes are:
HP: 1209
Physical attack: 657~835 (self 589), attack speed +10%, hit rate +20%, blood sucking 5%
Physical Defense: 258~284 (self 206), physical damage -5%, physical attack immunity (Miss) +4%
Magic Defense: 136~168 (self 102), Magic Damage -20%, Magic Attack Immunity (Miss) +6%
Weight: 943, backpack weight 1000
MP: 522
In the early morning of June 7, I started another day of gaming.
After challenging the Wolf King, I never went to Qinglang Gorge to level up again. But for the sake of safety, I didn't kill higher level monsters. I just went to places farther away from the city and where few people went to kill some level 31 and 2 monsters. But after reaching level 25 and equipping the Bloodthirsty Demon Spear, things were different. On the one hand, the Demon Spear had high attack, especially the blood-sucking attribute, which was almost like a priest following me to replenish my blood constantly. It was safe and greatly reduced the consumption of life water. On the other hand, the higher the level, the more experience was needed to upgrade. It took 4 million experience to upgrade from level 25 to level 26! Killing low-level monsters could no longer meet my needs for rapid upgrades, so my goal turned to the level 37 macaques that lived on the top of Luohun Ridge.
Entering the game, I logged off in the city last night. Before I quit, I asked the profiteer to buy me enough medicine, but I didn't have time to repair my equipment. Now the profiteer hasn't come online yet, so I have to repair it myself. Riding on the Black King and holding the magic gun, I always feel a little weird. Well, I ride a black horse and use a weapon with blood-sucking properties. No matter how you look at it, I look like a dark knight.
Now there are more and more players above level 20, including quite a few knights. When I ride on horseback on the street, I am no longer as eye-catching as when I was just promoted. However, there are still many people pointing at me and whispering, because the dark gold weapon in my hand that emits a faint golden glow still attracts the players' attention!
After getting everything ready, I set off. Level 5 riding, hehe, now I am much faster than walking, I ran to the top of Luohun Ridge, which is more than 30 kilometers away from the city, in less than half an hour. This is the advantage of single-player action, if many people form a team, they have to gather teammates, wait for everyone to buy medicine and prepare, gather, etc., and walk based on the slowest person, and the time wasted may be more than the time spent fighting monsters.
As soon as I reached the top of the mountain, 6 or 7 monkeys surrounded me. The 37-level macaques were much stronger than the blue wolves. With my defense of nearly 300 after adding level 1 solidity, I would lose 40 health points for each hit. Although I was not as fast as the blue wolf, I was much more flexible. Fortunately, my accuracy had reached level 2, and the bloodthirsty demon spear and the blue pupil ring each added 10% to my hit rate. My skills were not bad, otherwise I would have missed many times. Moreover, the macaques could also use the skills of "back attack" and "sneak attack". In total, they were a very troublesome monster below level 40. I took advantage of the macaques' low defense and short health of only 2,500. I could kill one with two or three shots after using stab or charge, so I was able to kill it quite quickly. Here, I could get about 300,000 experience points per hour, which was a very satisfactory number.
I thrust at a monkey. Oh ha ha ha ha, the bloodthirsty demon spear is indeed a dark gold equipment. While deducting more than 1400 HP from the opponent, it also sucked 5% of the blood, which means 72 points of life were converted into my own HP, which is more than the HP lost by a monkey. I also made full use of the mobility of the mount and tried to keep a suitable distance and position, so that at most two or three monkeys could attack me at the same time. In this way, I almost didn't need to drink the water of life! For this item alone, the demon spear saved me more than 20 gold coins in medicine expenses every day. It is definitely a must-have tool for home travel and PK leveling!
After a crazy period of hacking and killing, I didn't know how much time had passed. I only remember that I had let Black King rest twice because his fatigue had reached the limit. I also ate dry food once to replenish my hunger. It was time for me to log off and have lunch in reality.
Just as he was about to take out the tent and prepare to go offline, something strange happened!
The terrifying name of Luohun Ridge is definitely not for nothing. Apart from the boss, the highest level monsters here are macaques. It is the best place for players around level 30 to level up, but monsters above level 50 will randomly spawn in any location on the entire mountain. Although the chance of spawning is very low, low-level players who come here to level up and unfortunately encounter them will often lose their lives inexplicably.
I was so lucky that two level 55 black bears suddenly appeared less than 3 meters in front of me!
I was startled. The black bear's huge size made it look like it was not easy to deal with. Fortunately, I had some knowledge of black bears during the internal test, so I didn't lose my mind. I quickly analyzed it. The black bear's level was very high, but it was an ordinary monster after all, not a boss. It was stronger than the silver wolf... no, it was a little stronger than the bat king, but not as strong as the wolf king. With my current level and equipment, it would be difficult to fight two at once, but I think I can still hold on. There is no need to go back to the city and escape. That would waste too much time. Let's fight!
The black bear monster has thick skin, high attack and long health. Its only weakness is its low agility. It is easier for a magician to fight it, but I can only fight it head-on. It is worth mentioning that in order to maintain the leveling speed, I have never practiced the archer's attack skills. The damage of the bow and arrow to the black bear is too low. Otherwise, it would be much easier. Now it is too late to regret.
However, my attributes are not comparable to those of ordinary players in their twenties. As long as the two black bears do not deliver a fatal blow at the same time, there is no possibility of killing me instantly. The probability of this happening is less than four in ten thousand. I don’t believe that I am so unlucky. I will just have a good time with these two big guys!
Now I have mastered the alternation of charge and thrust, and the black bear's movements are clumsy, especially when it attacks while standing up. The circle of white hair on its chest is particularly obvious, which is its heart. I specifically aim at this part to attack, and no matter how high the black bear's defense is, the damage caused cannot be underestimated. However... the black bear's slap is so powerful that it even has a stun effect!
Although I am lucky, the two black bears would slap me one after another with their four slaps, and it is inevitable that one of their slaps would make me dizzy and see stars in front of my eyes. I couldn't fight back within three seconds, which was a big loss!
Humph, you have a big slap, but my charge is not for nothing, right? Look, a black bear was hit by my charge, ha, it was dizzy and spinning on the ground! Opportunities are not to be missed, and it is not a gentleman to not take revenge. Taking advantage of the good opportunity when the black bear was dizzy, I resisted the fierce attack of another black bear and stabbed it three times in a row, each shot hitting the vital point, and killed the guy.
It was much easier to deal with only one black bear left, and it fell under my gun in a few rounds. I was very proud of the magic gun, which was very useful today. If I changed to an ordinary long sword with low attack power, I would have a hard time.
I logged off and had dinner. I continued leveling in the afternoon. When it was almost evening (the game had been open for more than three days, and the day and night were starting to change), the system prompted that I had reached level 27!
Look at the leaderboard, that orc guy is still level 25, haha, he is finally two levels ahead of you. It is said that God has allocated a balance of happiness and pain to humans. Now I am in a good mood, will you be extremely depressed?
But I can't continue leveling, even though I still have a lot of medicines left. The problem is that I don't have any spare equipment now. If I change into a set of garbage, it will be much worse than the one I have on. My leveling efficiency will drop immediately. It's better for me to go back to the city to repair my equipment before trying again.
Back in Shenghua City, the flow of people has obviously increased. Yesterday, New Era Group released another batch of accounts, but they were still snapped up by players who couldn't wait. Now the total number of players in Zero Degree Fantasy has reached 45 million, but according to surveys from major websites, this number is less than one-tenth of the market expectation. It seems that the estimates of profiteers are still a bit conservative. The final number of players in Fantasy is likely to exceed 500 million!
Now Shenghua City is already very crowded, but this is also because it is the largest city in Cangzhi Continent, and players are overly concentrated here. There are also many small and medium-sized cities scattered all over the continent . Those places have fewer entertainment facilities than big cities, but because of the sparse population, it is very beneficial for leveling up. Now there is a situation where there are too many people and too few monsters near Shenghua City. I believe that in a few days, players will notice this and gradually disperse. Hey, who cares? Anyway, the places where I level up are all very dangerous places based on the current average level of players. As long as there are not so many people that they block the city traffic, it will not affect me.
I was sitting on the Black King's back thinking about random things when I suddenly received a system prompt and an alarm sounded: You were robbed by a thief and lost your Blue Eyes Ring.
Scared rice?
Oh my god, this can't be true? My gold ring is worth at least several hundred gold coins. I haven't enjoyed it for two days, and it was stolen just like that?
Damn, this is simply impossible! At my current level, I dare say there is no thief who is not at least 4 levels lower than me (the lower the level of the thief is, the lower the success rate is). Add to that my 5 points of luck, and the probability of someone succeeding in the first attempt, and stealing my best equipment except for weapons, is almost zero. It must be that God saw that I was too lucky and killed too many bosses, so he punished me on purpose! Sure enough, pain and happiness are balanced in this world...
Here I want to explain the thief profession. Its combat power is not strong, but it is the only single profession that can use both melee weapons and long-range attacks with bows and crossbows. It can also learn skills such as traps and bombs, and its comprehensive strength is not weak in the later stages. However, in the early stages, due to low defense and low blood, long-range attacks are not as good as archers, and melee attacks are not as good as warriors, so leveling is very slow. However, as a thief, the "main job" is not fighting but stealing. This is a skill that can be learned at level 20. There is a certain chance to steal a certain amount of money or items from players or monsters, and the successful theft does not affect the explosion rate of the monster when it is killed. Therefore, players who team up to level up like to have a thief in the team. In addition to being able to gain more, some auxiliary skills of the thief are still very helpful for group combat.
But in fact, not many players choose the thief profession, because the skill of stealing is too difficult to practice, and the success rate is really low. Once you fail to steal from other players, the punishment is very serious - not only will your reputation be deducted, but your sin value will also be increased (when the sin value accumulates to a certain level, the system will determine you as a criminal. At this time, if you are encountered by the city patrol, you will be arrested and thrown into prison. If you approach the city gate, you will be attacked by the city guards. This means that you cannot enter the city to obtain medicine supplies and repair equipment. Players attacking criminals will increase their reputation. Moreover, after the death of criminals, the experience loss and the explosion rate of items and money are much higher than normal; people who are extremely evil will be listed as wanted criminals, and the end can only be described as miserable. The sin value can only be reduced by imprisonment, death, using special items, completing special tasks, or having a long enough online time), and the player who was stolen will receive a system prompt pointing out the identity of the thief. During the protection time specified by the system, the player will not be punished for PKing this thief. Of course, the situation is different when the theft is successful. The system only prompts you that you have been stolen, but it has no idea who stole you. Who can you seek revenge on?
Now I am in the situation where I am furious but can't find anyone to retaliate against. Looking around at the people around me, I suddenly feel that everyone has a shifty look in their eyes. I want to massacre the whole city to vent my anger, but I can only think about it in my mind. If I really do this, let alone whether I can defeat so many players, I will probably become the first wanted criminal in Fantasy. Ha, I wonder if there will be any rewards for being the first in the system?
My strength is that I can immediately change my mind when I feel unhappy. The most important thing in life is to be happy. But I will not let go of those who offend me. Humph, as the saying goes, once you have tasted the marrow, you will know the taste. He succeeded this time, so he should know that I have a lot of good stuff. He will definitely do it to me next time. It's impossible for you to succeed every time, right? As long as I know your identity, I will kill you!
