The starting town Mutelight was one of many possible destinations for players who decided to start the game as members of the human race, with a maximum capacity of 20,000 players the nearby maps were large enough for everyone to level up without too much bothering each other to others.
But today in particular as the game's opening day thousands of newcomers were out in droves to hunt rabbits on the nearest map, creating huge herds of players chasing down the few rabbits closest to the city.
Amid the herd of players chasing after a pair of rabbits with bloodthirsty eyes, stood one who calmly walked along without bothering to attack the few nearest rabbits. With her blue hair and green eyes she managed to improve her current 7/10 looks to a solid 8/10, but currently she wore a grimace on her face as she watched the many players go about their antics.
"Maybe the excitement of playing made them fools?" thought.
He then turned his attention to the map of the area, from the moment he left the city and entered the nearby plains a notification appeared in front of him.
[you have entered the map {rabbit plains- level 0-5}]
And its territory map was updated to show the information of the area and the locations of the various monsters in it, basically they were all rabbits, and only on the edge with a higher level hunting area did baby wolves rarely appear.
Comparing it with the map of the town, he could get an idea of the general situation, the city had four exits, the eastern, western, northern, and southern exits. So basically players wouldn't all be crammed into one section of the map, but that doesn't change the fact that currently hundreds or thousands are constantly pouring out of the door where Sylas left.
In that case, the area closest to the city would become a slaughterhouse with many people competing for a single rabbit. Thinking about it, Sylas decided to move away to the edge of the area where the lower-level rabbits appeared to start hunting.
After a few minutes of walking the concentration of players dropped drastically and that of field rabbits increased, but still he did not stop because he was aware that the number of players hunting in this area would only increase and not decrease, the more on the edge it would be better to hunt to avoid interference
Arriving at an area of tall grass where many rabbits could be seen around Sylas stopped, beyond the tall grass he could see rabbits larger than he was used to and with darker fur, no doubt they were higher-level monsters.
The current mission was to hunt 100 field rabbits so it would not benefit him at all to hunt the higher level ones and it could be dangerous, finally, Sylas tightly held his bronze spear and approached one of the cute white fur rabbits nearby, as he approached and carefully looked at it, his statistics jumped out at him.
[field rabbit- common monster
Level: 0
Life: 50
Mana: 0
Defense: 8
speed: 6
attack: 0
Description: incredibly cute and friendly semi-domesticated rabbits, due to unknown phenomena they began to reproduce scandalously and it is necessary to control their population to avoid damage to crops]
It seemed to be a perfect monster at the tutorial level, it had no attack damage or mana so it couldn't use abilities, but thinking about it since Sylas entered the game he hadn't checked its stats or profile, he thought it was a good one to compare to this one monster.
[Name: WordlySpear
title: -----
job: ----
Class: ----
Range: 0
Level: 0
XP: 0/1000
STATISTICS
-Life: 100/100
-Mana: 100/100
-Attack: 11 – 13
-Defense: 5
-Speed: 5
-Strength: 10
-Luck: 1
-Destination: 0
MAIN ATTRIBUTES
Vitality:1
-Affinity:1
-Dexterity:1
-Spirit:1
-Charisma:1
-Intelligence:1
-Resistance:1
Free points: 0]
Looking at the stats Sylas understood a lot about the difficulty of this game, they seemed to be very adequate and balanced stats for a level 0 character classless, but when you realize that a simple tutorial level monster already had 2 stats higher than his, the future turned dark.
I wasn't the greatest expert in VR gaming, but I knew that speed was a very important stat, if you weren't even able to hit your target how were you supposed to kill them? Although one point difference might not do much, in the future when the difference is 100 or 1000, how am I supposed to live?
*sigh* letting out a sigh Sylas prepared himself to go into combat, he may not be an expert in games, but he was when it came to combat, knowing that his target was faster, the best method to hunt him down would be a surprise attack and damage their mobility as much as possible.
according to his research, normal monsters only have an aggressive range of about 3 meters, it increases according to the size of the target and its level, but with this rabbit, while outside the 3 meter range, he wouldn't notice Sylas
With excellent distance perception, Sylas stood just outside the 10-foot range of the rabbit, which was happily grazing without noticing the human standing near it without being particularly hidden, having found his investigation fruitful. Sylas crouched down a bit and held his spear horizontally.
Leaping into the rabbit's aggressive range and attacking, a quick stab struck the rabbit on one of its hind legs, and just as he withdrew the spear, a light flashed from the tip before attacking at a faster speed than before, stabbing twice in its other hind leg.
He had used his first skill [Double Strike], only then the rabbit reacted to the ambush and tried to jump to the side, but due to its two injured hind legs it stumbled and fell to the ground, taking advantage of it Sylas launched another blow less than a second later. from his previous direct hit to his neck, dealing critical damage.
-6.1hp!
-4hp!
- 5.2hp!
- 13.2hp!
With a single combo, he had dropped more than half the rabbit's health in just 3 seconds, taking a break to process it. Sylas checked the rabbit's stats again.
[field rabbit (badly injured)- common monster
Level: 0
Health: 21.5/50
Mana: 0
Defense: 8 (7)
Speed: 6 (3)
attack: 0
Description: incredibly cute and friendly semi-domesticated rabbits, due to unknown phenomena they began to reproduce scandalously and it is necessary to control their population to avoid damage to crops]
It seemed that his attacks on vital points managed to severely injure the rabbit and reduce several of its stats, after a pause of less than half a second he continued to attack the wounded rabbit with his spear, always aiming at its neck.
Due to his injuries and reduced mobility the rabbit could not evade properly and received all the attacks, with 3 consecutive blows to the rabbit's neck he managed to kill it, but he was surprised that even though the 3 attacks hit the weak neck with certainty of the rabbit, only one of them was critical, and it was also the last one, otherwise only two would have been enough to kill him with his reduced defense.
And so, in just over 7 seconds, he managed to kill his first prey, at which point a notification jumped out in front of Sylas.
[killed a {Field Rabbit}, gained 1 XP]
Quickly checking his stats he noticed that his XP had increased by 1, but compared to the 1000 he needed there was a long way to go to level up, only completing quests while hunting could increase his leveling speed a bit.
Lowering his vision, he looked at the place where the rabbit was, at the moment the notification appeared, the rabbit burst into gray particles and dispersed in the air, only a few seemed to merge with my body, and in its place it left 3 objects which should be their drops. When taking them the game informed them that they were.
[rabbit fur: useful for making clothes]
[rabbit meat: rich and nutritious meat]
[Rabbit's Left Leg: Quest Item]
With excited eyes Sylas put the three items back in his inventory, the other two he wasn't sure about but the rabbit's feet should drop whenever he kills one, otherwise it would be very discouraging.
Because it was in a fairly secluded area, it had a lot of prey to hunt, and perhaps for consideration of the game, all the rabbits were solitary and had enough distance between them so as not to disturb each other when hunting them.
Sylas was quite anxious to catch another one, but he had to wait for the [Double Strike] CD to pass, luckily a player's base mana regeneration was 1 per second so it was impossible to run out of mana using just one basic ability, maybe it was a consideration of the developers towards the beginners.
While waiting a few seconds for the [Double Strike] CD to finish near a field rabbit, Sylas pondered on the previous fight, surprisingly the rabbit didn't try to back away at any point during the fight, only to jump and dodge to the sides. This was something that would make hunting much easier as it would be easy to predict with getting used to even for a novice.
Also, if the rabbit backed up at the right time, with its speed higher than level 0 players, it could easily dodge attacks by going out of weapons range, for spears it wouldn't be a big problem since they are long, but for novices it would be a problem to reach them with shorter swords.
The fact that they only dodge to the sides gives swords a clear advantage in the early game period since they are more agile and faster among many weapons, and their only flaw against spears would be their range.
Sighing at that, Sylas just shook his head and took the same stance before near the rabbit's aggro range, his cooldown had already passed and he was planning to use a new strategy to kill them more efficiently, it was time to complete this quest!