A split-second after our eyes met, I immediately made my mask visible and leaped into an alleyway before he could overcome his shock. Not hesitating for a single moment, I sprinted the quickest I could towards the town teleport pad. Weaving in and out of alleys, I managed to arrive in only a few minutes.
I'm ignoring the stares and shouts, for now, just thinking about new rumors popping up makes my head hurt….
Looking behind me to make sure I wasn't followed, I activated my return scroll and flashed back to my peaceful abode.
Guh, that stressed me out. Hopefully, he didn't recognize me in that small amount of time, it's been ten years since we've met after all.
But meeting him in this game this quick is bad bad bad news. He's already settled down in Japan so fast. Doesn't this mean he will be coming to school really soon?
"Ughhhhhh…." I groaned loudly while slumping down on my favorite sofa. "This is the worst. I thought dad said it would take a while before they moved, how is this a while?!"
No no no, complaining about it won't do anything. Everything's fine, I'll deal with it once I cross that bridge. In fact, maybe the school will take some time to accept his application.
Okay! Let's check the root-of-all-my-dark-history forums for information on PK players then. Since my visit to the Record Hall failed miserably and it's too risky going back, this is the only thing I can do for now.
Hesitantly opening up the tab, I ignored all the headline and quickly searched up PK points.
If the sake of my sanity, I will refrain from reading popular posts.
Scrolling through the massive list of complaints and trash talking, I finally found a post that told players how to watch out for player killers.
Well, except I'll do the opposite of everything that it says. I want to hunt the players, I don't mind getting ambushed at all. In fact, that would make things easier for me!
[How to avoid getting Pked while grinding!
I know that all of us hate getting killed while simply peacefully leveling, so I piled up some tips that I made to make sure there is less risk while killing mobs. *Warning, these will not always work.*
First of all, I'm pretty sure everyone knows how to tell PK players apart, but for the sake of noobs, I'll explain it once again. PKers have red player tags, the more points they have, the darker the shade becomes. You can check how many points they have by inspecting them, but they cannot be ten levels above you or higher to see any information.
Too avoid PKers while in the forest of beginners, the most suitable places…..]
Ahhh…..thank god for noobs. I'm so glad he didn't skip over that. But there's no point for me to read over the rest unless I want to get targeted. Do these people not understand that the killers have access to forums as well? For all we know, the author of the post might be luring innocent people into a trap.
That would be pretty interesting to see actually.
Yosh! Let's get hunting!
Organizing my equipment, I put on my gloves, hood, and mask. They're my trademark accessories after all! Killing without them wouldn't be fun.
Instead of teleporting back to town, I instead ran straight out from my cabin towards the forest of beginners. On the way there, I killed a few level 15 bears and wolf packs, successfully leveling up to level 7!
Taking a mini-break once again perched in a tree, I happily equipped my helmet and dagger. Now I can use the dual wielding skill! I'll get some practice on mobs before I actually do it on normal players. Oh right, I also wanted to try out a new technique that I researched on during my free time.
Squatting on the end of a thin branch that was covered by many leaves, I let my senses spread out and relaxed my tense shoulders while swaying with the breeze and keeping my balance. Lightly holding onto both of my daggers, my loose cloak gently fluttered behind me. I stayed in the same posture for some time, getting a good feel of the wind brushing past me and the ruffling of the leaves.
Great, everything's going well so far. Onto stage two.
I've been training my patience and meditation since I was young, so waiting a long amount of time was considered nothing to me at this point.
After waiting for a few more minutes, I suddenly felt a slight change in the air as the wind started to gradually pick up the pace. Noticing a rustle in the bushes out of the corner of my eyes, a small figure appeared. Without hesitation, I coiled up and bounded off the branch in sync with a large gust of wind and landed on the poor boar, stabbing it in the neck with both knives.
What was I doing? Uh, trust me, I wasn't trying to act cool like some ninja okay. It was actual practice!
To others, it would seem as if I had suddenly appeared out of nowhere and was standing over the boar. The reason is that the large blast of wind acted as a natural silencer against sound, the leaves of the trees acted as cover and combined with my insane agility, I suppose you could say that it looked like I had teleported.
Although it's pretty useful, the timing for this technique is quite difficult to achieve. A strong gust of wind has to appear while your prey is still at a reasonable distance. Having a stationary target would be much easier.
I suppose my luck with this time was just too good!
But anyways, this dual wielding skill is awesome, if I use it in the right circumstances I could even inflict double damage!
….Ah...I just remembered.
I almost forgot to place my new stat points!
Of course, I'm placing them all into agility, cause strength can be substituted for skill and technique at this early point of the game. And I really don't find a need for anything else....okay!
But, what should I do with all these skill points that I haven't used yet?
Thanks to a bonus from my titles, I got a generous amount of 3 every level up. I currently had 21, ordinary players only get one a level.
...….You know what, let's just save these up for now. I don't have a big use for them, so I might as well apply them when there's an emergency or a rare skill pops up.
Finishing up my leveling up business, I sped towards the forest at an even faster speed than before.
Haaaaaa....I hope I don't break the game.