Chapter 3: Dominating the Beginner Village
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"I'm the kind of guy who's going to get rich through gaming, keep going."
"Leveling up is so slow," Yunxi sighed, drawing his sword. After killing six sick pigs, he got two copper coins and one medicine bottle, bringing his total to three medicine bottles, four copper coins, and a level 2 pig-slaughtering knife.
The experience bar is just a hair's breadth away from level 2, and surprisingly, there are no sick pigs left in this forest.
Once her health was fully restored, Yunxi found the nearest pig, swung her wooden sword, and charged at it.
"—7".
The damage startled Yunxi. The sick pig only dealt 3 damage per bite, but the healthy pig was truly extraordinary. With only 30 health points, it could be killed in four bites. It seemed that Yunxi would have to use her intelligence to survive.
Yunxi slashed and ran, circling around rocks and trees, which was indeed effective. She was able to dodge an attack occasionally, but even so, she ran until her legs were about to break and used two health potions before finally killing the pig.
"I'm exhausted!"
A beam of golden light shone down, and it was upgraded.
Ding~
The system emitted another exhilarating notification sound: something dropped!
Not health potions, not coins, equipment, it has to be equipment.
When she finally got her hands on it, it was indeed a pair of shoes that fit in her hand. Yunxi burst into tears. She had just been chased to death by the pig, and her shoes had been destroyed. It was truly a blessing from heaven. It wasn't for nothing that she had been reduced to only three points of health and almost had to return to town for free.
Exquisite Straw Sandals (Basic): Defense +1. Movement Speed +1. Requires Level 1.
The straw sandals have average defensive attributes, but considering that the system didn't even give away a pair of shoes with a defense of 1, these shoes not only add 1 point of defense but also 1 point of movement speed. Not bad, quite practical. I'll equip them.
All 5 attribute points were allocated to Strength, which increased Attack by 2 points.
Yunxi: Attack 8-9, Health 40, Magic 30, Defense 5
Attack, health, and defense have all been increased, and there's no longer any level suppression. Most importantly, the Butcher's Knife can finally be used. Looking at the attack power now at 11-14, Yunxi laughed loudly, "Don't rush, line up! I'll take you all down with one s***h each and send you to be reincarnated and soak with Chang'e."
"—7"
"—8"
"-10"
"—7"
"—12"
"Upgraded from a slingshot to a cannon!" Yunxi laughed heartily. "You bit me and took 7 damage, but now I can cut you and take at least 7 damage. Look at the damage I did to myself, it's down to 4."
Looking at the absurd damage values, Yunxi was too lazy to calculate attack and defense anymore. All she knew was that each pig's attack, defense, and health values were fluctuating, so she could only crush them with sheer strength.
Bro, you're lucky. If it weren't for this butcher's knife dropping, you wouldn't have been able to deal such overwhelming and insane damage. Maybe it's all because of that god-tier talent, Eye of Disaster. Bro, you're the one who's going to support your family.
Seven or eight cuts to kill a pig, that's much more efficient. Although killing a pig requires a minute of meditation to recover health, killing pigs without taking damage is exactly the level Yunxi is pursuing, hahaha.
Yunxi, blindfolded and focused on his task, had no idea that he had become a celebrity in this newbie village, number 1155.
Outside the beginner village, a huge crowd of people were gathered, with more than a dozen people supporting a pale-faced young man as he made a ruckus as he left the village. The pale-faced young man had a character name that everyone feared: Long Aotian.
"Get the hell out of here, we've got this place to ourselves."
The errand runners started clearing the area; a dozen or so people shouted together, and a small clearing was instantly created.
The players next to him ran and cursed.
"f**k your mother! Didn't they say player spawns are random? Where did these i***t guild members come from?"
"Long Aotian, I am your father. If a father calls his son, do you dare to answer?"
"i***t! I won't answer you." Long Aotian habitually smirked and waved his hand, signaling his underlings to start killing rabbits. "Write down these sons' IDs in a notebook, and kill them all down to level 0 later."
I rented an internet cafe with 500 people, and only then did I get two underlings randomly assigned to spawn here with me. But with them running errands, hiring more underlings is a piece of cake.
The fastest way to level up is, of course, to monopolize the area and kill rabbits! A dozen or so level 1 players go to pull the monsters, and you finish them off. You can't help but level up fast, hahaha.
One rabbit, two rabbits, Long Aotian laughed wildly as he killed them. This is the effect I wanted! This is what leveling up is all about! I was level 0 just now, and I'm about to reach level 1 in the blink of an eye.
He habitually opened the leaderboard and saw that his ranking had started from around 70,000 or 80,000 and was rising rapidly, quickly entering the top 1,000. Looking at the long list of level 1 players behind him, he thought they were all dog s**t that he had stepped on.
Thousands, five hundred, one hundred, fifty, ten.
"Wooden swords are too rubbish; I'll buy weapons at a high price."
The monster-killing speed is too slow. There are dozens of dogs blocking my way. It was okay at first, but as I fought, my weaklings were being bitten by rabbits and bleeding profusely. Many of them were even meditating.
Moreover, this method of finishing off enemies only yields a portion of the experience points.
Weapons were obviously unavailable for purchase, so I had no choice but to keep killing rabbits. After killing dozens of rabbits, I finally made it into the top ten. Hahaha, I killed even more rabbits and rose to second place.
"Who is this i***t who levels up faster than Brother Long?"
Long Aotian paused in his hand as he chopped at the rabbit. He looked and, sure enough, with his super memory, he discovered that a fool who had been ranked thousands of places ahead of him had climbed to fifth place.
"Damn, this i***t is level 2."
The leaderboard refreshed again, and Long Aotian stared in disbelief as his opponent leveled up to level 2 and climbed to the top of the newbie village.
"How did this i***t level up?"
Long Aotian was utterly baffled. Galaxy Online had no closed beta, no GMs, and wasn't even developed on Earth. There couldn't possibly be any bugs or guides. Everyone was just hunting rabbits and ganging up on NPCs to get quests. He'd been in the game since it opened, and he already had so many followers. Most importantly, his cool nickname, 'Long Aotian,' was somehow overshadowed by some i***t named Yunxi.
"Go find out where the monsters are, and recruit 10 more people for me, level 1, 1000 yuan a day."
Long Aotian was furious. "I don't believe it! You son of a b***h, you can't possibly be richer than me! I'll crush you with a bunch of people!"
Soon, they found out that in addition to the level 0 white rabbit in front of them, there was also a level 1 gray rabbit, and some experts were already fighting the level 1 gray rabbits one-on-one.
"Hahaha, I knew you couldn't be faster than me. Turns out you were just killing level 1 rabbits. You just wait. Let's go."
Thus, Long Aotian, the tyrant of the newbie village, began his rampage towards the level one gray rabbit area.
Poor Yunxi had no idea there were gray rabbits; she bypassed the level 0 white rabbits and stormed into the Wild Boar Forest.
The entire newbie village was astonished. Who came up with these idiots? A guy named Long Aotian, who had booked the whole place, was in second place, and another guy named Yunxi was in first place, already at level 2.
Especially the handsome players, the beautiful players, and the professional players, all of them were cursing those two idiots, Long Aotian and Yunxi.
Only Yunxi herself knows how slow the leveling up is.
It took me about an hour to reach level 2, but I still couldn't reach level 3 after two hours.
I killed about forty pigs, but I still couldn't level up. Luckily, the game time is 2 to 1 of real time.
It hasn't been upgraded, but the drop rate for Pigsy is still pretty good.
I currently have 11 health potions, 20 copper coins, and I've also gotten a few pieces of equipment.
Cloth Pants: Defense +1
Cloth Shoes: Defense +1
Iron Sword: Attack 2-3
The cloth trousers are for personal use, while the iron knife and cloth shoes can be sold for money. The blank board is not to be sold, as it will depreciate over time.
"Hey bro, give it your all! If you drop another piece of equipment, I'm heading back to town to repair it."
- Writer
