Axie Online

Chapter 14 - Wolf Plains

Arriving at the herb shop, Rudy immediately went to an NPC in the form of a wrinkled old grandmother who was the only seller in this shop. Not too many players who came here made Rudy heave a sigh of relief. He is grateful that there are very few players in this shop.

Rudy browsed the items for sale there. There are Health Potion I, Health Potion II, Recovery Potion I, Energy Potion I, Energy Potion II, Poison I, Antidote I, Stimulant I, Strength Potion I, and Dexterity Potion I.

Seeing all the potions in the shop, Rudy was immediately amazed. Especially the Strength Potion I and Dexterity Potion I. They were potions that could temporarily increase players' status points. However, he could only put on a wry smile when he saw the prices displayed in the shop.

Each bottle of Strength Potion I and Dexterity Potion I sells for 300 Byl. Actually, this was an opportunity for Rudy to make even more money by hunting high-level monsters, but the potions he drank didn't last long. Like the drop item material which, if eaten, will provide detailed information on its usefulness.

Since the two potions were expensive, he started to turn his gaze to a bottle of potion that had a dark green liquid. He focused his eyes on the Potion and read the explanation written on it.

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Poison!

Reduces 10 Health Bar points per second for 30 seconds.

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“This status buff that Poison I grants me is enough for me to hunt mob monsters above my level without any difficulty at all.”

Rudy couldn't help but smile after seeing the buff that the opponent would give when he was hit by Poison I. He understood how to use poison potions like Poison I in this full-dive Virtual-Reality world. One had to take it out of the Inventory and coat the weapon he was wielding with poison liquid, that way his attack would get stronger if it was equipped with a buff -even if it was only temporary.

Without further ado, Rudy bought 50 bottles of Poison I and 20 bottles of Energy Potion I worth 50 Byl and 30 Byl per bottle. Although quite expensive, Rudy can level up faster and there is a possibility that he can also make Poison I if he uses poison in succession on his weapon.

After completing the transaction, Rudy immediately went to the Quest Center and looked for a quest recommended for level 10 or 11 players like him. After a while, he got a quest that required him to hunt 20 Wolfmonster mobs in the form of black wolves.

The amount required by the Quest is indeed not kidding, but the Rewards offered are also a little tempting. When completing this quest, Rudy can jump up to 6 levels and get 1,000 Byl.

Rudy started wearing the Epic Blood Bear Leather Armor and Epic Wild Boar Fur Helmet to reduce the damage he would get from monster attacks, but not the Rare Ironforge Sword. Since he had Iron Sword +4 which was obtained as his first weapon and also with great difficulty so that it left such a meaningful impression, he still wanted to adventure with this first sword until it was time for them to part.

Although it's not effective for most players, Rudy will try to compensate with his sword skills and status points. Rudy was also determined to find Materials that could be used to upgrade his +4 Iron Sword to +5 Iron Sword or above. That way, he can use the sword without thinking that its attack power can't keep up with its status and movement.

Carrying a quest that contained killing 20 wolves, Rudy began to walk quickly towards the Wolf Plains—the place where wolf-type mob monsters appeared.

Then after a while passing through the leveling area of the players, Rudy finally arrived at a very wide green plain. As far as the eye could see, there was nothing but small green grass beneath his feet.

Arriving at the Wolf Plains area, Rudy could see about 12 black-haired wolves wandering here and there for no apparent reason. Of course, he observed the Wolf group first from as far away as possible because if they got too close, they would immediately notice his position.

The Wolf Beast was an aggressive mob monster, different from the Rook Turtle Beast Rudy had fought before. Even if the players stayed in the middle of the Rook Turtle horde, they wouldn't attack the players as long as the player didn't attack them first. Of course, having an abnormal status like berserk was an exception.

The status points are also different. From the information obtained from the internet, Wolf has a fairly high Dexterity but his attacks are not that strong and often miss if the player has good reflexes. It could be said that the Wolf Beast's attack moves were very easy for players to read.

After about 10 minutes of silence looking for ways to attract attention, Rudy found something he wanted to try. The means that could be used wouldn't be able to reduce the number of wolves that would come at him, but it would most likely hinder some of them.

Right after that, Rudy started to come out of hiding and ran through the wind towards the Wolf Beast group. Immediately all the Wolf Beasts that were there ran towards him with threatening looks, realizing that another creature had stepped on the habitat they were in.

The silver-haired player drew his sword and took a bottle of Poison I from the Inventory, then poured half of its contents over the sword. After the dark green liquid was absorbed into his sword, Rudy started throwing the bottle that was half-filled with the green liquid at one of the wolves that were running towards him.

Crash!

Splash!

When it hit the Wolf Beast's head, the Poison | . bottle which contained half of the poison immediately broke and gave Poison status to the wolf that was hit by the throw. Without further ado, Rudy began to take out three more Poison I from the Inventory, then threw them up, then slashed them with a sword so that all the liquid came out and spilled over the other four Wolf tails.

Splash! Splash! Splash!

Seeing that his little trick worked, Rudy immediately swung his sword and slashed at one of the Wolf Beasts in front of him using the Swing skill five times in a row without stopping.

Pababak! Pababak! Pababak!

The Wolf Beast couldn't stop the quick combo attack at all before taking its last breath and turning into thousands of pixels which gave Rudy's character a certain amount of experience and Byl.

He also used the same method to deal with the other Wolf beside him.

Rudy could only use Swing ten times in a row so he could only use this small trick on two Wolf Beasts. But with the help of the Energy Potion, I purchased from the potion shop, he can use Swing three more times. That's why Rudy slashed Wolf one by one while continuing to consume Energy Potion I and Health Potion I, then once every half a minute Rudy retreated backward while smearing his sword again with Poison I.

After half an hour later, Rudy finally came out victorious from the results of the mob. His health bar shows that he has 2% Health left before he will die and be penalized for being banned from logging into the game. Of course, Rudy will drink a bottle of Health Potion 1, so he can breathe a sigh of relief.

As a result of the hunt that nearly resulted in being penalized, Rudy finally got a level up so rapidly that he had now reached level 18. In such a hunt, it was not impossible to raise 9 levels, moreover, none of the party members got half of the experience they earned. he can.

In addition, he accidentally got a new title which was quite surprising.

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Skill Modifier

The title obtained for using additional moves on the skill so that the attack power becomes higher

Fame +50, Intelligence +10

Yes, Rudy accidentally added a spinning attack when activating Swing on the Wolf Beast he was targeting, but in that one hit the Wolf Beast instantly died. Even though the Wolf Beast's Health bar still shows 12%. This is the most surprising thing Rudy has ever encountered since playing Axie Online.

Why? In an RPG system, a predetermined skill program shouldn't be able to change the position of movement or attack power. However, what just happened to him broke the opinion that the skills in this game were just a program.

You can imagine, just adding one move has doubled the attack power. Then what happens if other skill movements are also reproduced shortly before attacking as Rudy did? Maybe he has found a way that can surpass or even improve the system itself.

At that moment, Rudy realized that Axie Online was not just an ordinary game like VRMMORPG