The World Of Skill

Lind

Ryu didn’t realize it but he really sleeps on the duration the party cleared the swamp dungeon. Since the party level is already exceeding 20, they face no problem when clearing it. They are teleported to the entrance of the swamp dungeon and Ryu is still sleeping there.

Azalea can only laugh while she saw his face and the three of them decided to take their lunch break first while leaving Ryu asleep. Luckily there is no monster coming to attack Ryu as he is in a vulnerable state.

After two more hours, Ryu slowly gets up. He feels really refreshed and the annoying headache is already gone. Seeing that the rest of the party has logged out, he read a message saying that they will be back in another hour.

Ryu also logs off to grab something to eat. After that he immediately logged back in. as only 15 minutes have passed, he still has some time before the rest of the party come back.

“Alright, I guess I can use the time to practice again.”

Once more, he moves back and forth while sliding and doing suspicious movement. It was something arduous but he never stops. One time, two times, he is so focused to the point he didn’t realize that the rest of the party is already there.

“Hahaha, what is that perverted i***t doing? He is moving back and forth like a robot. Not to mention he put on such a serious face with that doodle still on. Hahaha.”

“Princess, I believe he is trying to learn a skill by himself.”

“Oh wow. He is too poor to buy a skill book so he resorts to such a barbaric act. His idiotic side never ceases to amuse me and it actually reaches a new height now.”

“Don’t you think that kind of hardworking behavior is charming?”

“What are you saying, big sis? If that perverted i***t heard that, his nose will reach the sky. How many people out there deserve your praise? That p*****t is definitely not one of them.”

*cough cough*

Geoffrey had to step forward and coughed to take Ryu’s attention. However, he really is focused and didn’t pay attention to his surroundings. It is one of Ryu’s best points, his focus. When he is immersed with himself, he will stay focused. This is one of the main reasons that his accuracy with the bow is so high. Geoffrey had to cough louder to the point he almost choked himself to death. Finally, Ryu realized that they are already there waiting for him again and can only scratch his head to hide his embarrassment.

“Alright, lets clear the swamp dungeon once more and leave this forsaken place.”

This time, it only took three hours for them to clear the dungeon. This kind of speed is really fast but since their level already exceeds the recommended level for the dungeon, the experience is negligible. Geoffrey and Azalea didn’t even manage to level up.

At the end of the hunt, Geoffrey and Azalea are at level 22. Marina is level 21, and Ryu at level 20. The experience needed is increased exponentially and they need to find a better hunting ground if they want to keep level up steadily. When they reach the hundredths level, one level up might take days. Crossing the 150th mark, it might even take one week to increase. The threshold dividing top players and the masses is at the 200th level where one level up might take weeks or even months.

Finding a suitable place to level up and having a high level comes with dedication. Researching strategy, monsters, and location, finding the most efficient way to gain experience.

Quests are almost negligible at a low level but high-rank quest gives the most experience for the high-level players. That is why the Green World cities are always lively and busking with people trying to find NPC that could give them quests. Spending two days finding NPC and another week to clear it just to level up is a common occurrence nowadays as the average level of players in Green World is at 143.

“Alright, let’s travel back to Lind. It will be one day travel and the easiest way is to kill ourselves and be resurrected back in town. But this p*****t i***t hasn’t registered his respawn point at Lind, so he needs to walk there. Can’t you just die and then use the teleport service to Lind?”

As usual, Azalea’s speech is sharp and painful. “Just die and use the teleport. We don’t have any time to waste. If you don’t have enough money to teleport, you can get some from Geoffrey.”

“Don’t tease him Azalea. Don’t you have 「Light Wings」? It enabled the whole party to teleport to the party leader’s respawn city.”

“Big sis, how can you mention that now? Although the item isn’t cheap it really is useful. However, using it at our level is such a waste. 10% experience at our level can be gained in hours but at a high level, 10% can mean days or weeks. I rather save this item for now and die to respawn at Lind. So perverted i***t, what you say?”

“I honestly don’t have any money for the teleport service. I still prefer to walk to Lind.”

“No can do. It wastes one day of our precious gaming time. Geoffrey, give him one gold for the teleport service.”

“Wait, it cost one gold for teleport?”

“Yeah, what’s wrong?”

“That is freaking way too expensive. 100$ just for teleporting. That’s highway robbery.”

“Not only you are perverted and i***t, but you are also poor. One gold is nothing for high-level players since one dungeon raid will grant them hundreds and thousands of gold. Why are you overreacting?”

“Still, how can I owe you that much money?”

“Don’t mind the small details. Consider it as a supply given for party members by this beautiful party leader. Now, choose how you want to die? Killed by a monster or you want to experience my fist again?”

「Geoffrey has invited you to trade. 」

「You have received 1 gold. 」

Ryu couldn’t even decide as it happened too fast. Geoffrey handed him some money before Azalea instantly sends him to the sky with a chain combo. In a few seconds, Ryu’s body disappeared in white light as he respawned in Veloz.

“Damn that girl, she definitely did this on purpose.”

**

“Now big sis, you can use this to travel to Lind.”

Azalea offered a trade and Marina received the item. 「Lind’s travel stone」. Travel stone is a much cheaper option for teleport service. It cost only one-fourth of the teleport service. The difference is that the travel stone each has a specific city where it could teleport to. For example, Lind’s travel stone and Veloz’s travel stone. If the party size is 20 people, using light wings is cheaper. But if it was only a party of 3 or 4, using the travel stone is better.

The higher-level party sometimes used to walk to travel for 5 days journey for low-level players will only cost them 1 day as they can breeze through the monsters and kill them with ease. Not to mention doing so will increase their skill proficiency at the same time. Actually, not a lot of high-level players are using the travel stone or teleport service either except if they are really hard-pressed for time.

Of course, Azalea didn’t give Ryu a travel stone because she wants to teach him a lesson. She still holds a grudge for him as he makes her wait earlier and he already enjoys the free experience as he sleeping. The treatment was too good and even her brother doesn’t even deserve that kind of VIP service.

 “Princess, where’s my part of the travel stone?”

“It was unfortunate that I only have two travel stones with me. I guess you will have to bear my punches for a bit.”

“Princess…”

So, the old man can only writhe as Azalea looked like an S as she sends him punches with a wide smile and laugh.

**

Ryu approaches the 「Teleport Tower」. Surely the game exaggerates the teleport service as they need to use the teleport tower for it. He walked in and approaches the receptionist who is in charge.

“I would like the teleport service to Lind please.”

“Alright, it would be one gold.”

“Here.”

Ryu is giving the gold coin to the receptionist with a pain in his heart. It is so expensive. 100$ just for moving to another city. If it was his own money that needs to be spent, he won’t even use the teleport service. No wonder Ginji didn’t want to come and help him. He finally knows the real reason; he didn’t want to spend money on the teleport service. Darn, that miser!

Ryu is then climbing the stair of the teleport tower and arrived at the top. There is a magic circle carved on the ground and Ryu was directed to stand in the middle by the NPC in charge. There are three NPC wearing a purple robe and each took a corner of the magic circle.

As Ryu already stands in the middle, they lifted their hands and a transparent magic circle appeared on top of his head. It slowly moves downwards and passed his body as Ryu is being teleported.

「You have arrived at Lind. 」

Ryu walked out of Lind’s teleport tower and the view took him away. The smell of the sea, white sands beach stretches as far as he can see; more importantly, Bikini!

There are many players relaxing on the beach. It was even better than the beach in reality as many people from around the world are gathered here. There is no problem for conversation because the game has its automatic translation so he can pick up girls from different parts of the world and it excites him. He totally forgot his bad experience with Sayu right now as his lower body took control of his brain.

Scanning the girls on the beach, he is looking for one that fits his ideal criteria. However, it doesn’t go well as he heard a high-pitched voice that annoyed him.

“I told you, big sis, this p*****t i***t will be ogling girls here. Look at his expression, hahaha.”

Marina can only giggle along with Azalea as Ryu’s current expression is really comical.

“Now, let’s go to the 「Church」 to set your respawn point.”

A player can set their new respawn point to another city, the only thing they needed to do is going to the church in each city to register their respawn point. It doesn’t have to do with religion but it is just the setting that every time a player dies, the God of rebirth brings back their soul so they won’t perish. That is why the church is the place where a player respawns as the church worshipped the God of rebirth.

“Alright, let’s sell our loot and replenish our potions before we head out.”