Jinling City...
In a private room of a restaurant, the executives of the Su Corporation were all present. With the title of the top mage, Su Muxue contributed to the rapid development of the Su Corporation, successfully establishing a foothold in Jinling City, becoming the fifth guild after the renowned forces and the three major guilds.
At this moment, all the executives were quietly waiting because Su Zhengfeng, the chairman of the Su Corporation, had also entered the novice village today and would soon come to deploy tasks.
Before long, the door of the private room opened, and a middle-aged man with a dignified expression walked in. Everyone quickly stood up and greeted, "Hello, Chairman Su!"
"Alright, please take your seats. This is a game, no need to be so formal. I'm here today to see how our Su Corporation is developing in the game," Su Zhengfeng said.
Then, he turned to Liu Shu, who was beside him, and said, "Lao Liu, please introduce the current situation in Jinling City."
"Sure." Liu Shu gave a thorough introduction of the situation, including the various forces in Jinling City.
After hearing Liu Shu's introduction, Su Zhengfeng fell into contemplation and said after a while, "So, there are still several guilds blocking our path?"
"Yes," Liu Shu replied.
Frowning, Su Zhengfeng, who didn't play games himself, had a keen business sense. Just by listening to Lao Liu's description, he knew that this game had great prospects. Therefore, he planned to develop it well. But if they were going to develop, they had to become the strongest. After pondering for a moment, Su Zhengfeng said, "Increase our investment in the game, offer high salaries to recruit more people. According to what you said, Jinling City should have at least thirty million players, and the larger guilds only have a few tens of thousands of members. It's just the beginning now, so we need to increase our numbers. Most of the time, quantity is the key."
"Furthermore, we also need experts. It seems that our guild doesn't have any particularly powerful experts." Su Zhengfeng turned to Su Muxue and said, "Xue'er, didn't you add that Dust Sealed person as a friend? Is there any way to bring him into our guild?"
Su Muxue decisively shook her head and said, "I can't bring him in. He seems unwilling to join a guild."
Su Zhengfeng thought for a moment and said, "Is there any way for me to meet him?"
"I'll try, but Dad, this person is unyielding. Be careful with your words. Even if he doesn't join, we still have a friendly cooperation with him. It's not beneficial for us to have any unpleasantness," Su Muxue advised.
"Mmm, I understand," Su Zhengqiang nodded nonchalantly.
Seeing her father's attitude, Su Muxue couldn't help but feel that something was going to happen.
Shaking her head, Su Muxue sent a message to Chen Feng.
At this moment, Wu Shaochen was constantly maneuvering within the Blood Hell Lion, occasionally dodging attacks. After an afternoon of practice, Wu Shaochen was now able to evade over half of the attacks in one-on-one battles.
"If my speed doubles, I should be able to clear these non-CC (crowd control) and non-targeted skills monsters without taking any damage," Wu Shaochen thought to himself, although these monsters were relatively rare.
"Anyway, as long as I understand their patterns, it will be useful for future PvP (player versus player) and boss fights. There's no need to keep dodging when dealing with ordinary monsters, as it affects efficiency. Besides, group grinding doesn't provide much room for evasion," Wu Shaochen muttered to himself.
Just then, a private message notification popped up, and Wu Shaochen opened it to read.
Xue'er: "Are you busy?"
"Busy leveling up. What's up?" Wu Shaochen asked.
Xue'er: "When will you return to Jinling City? I need to talk to you about something."
"Let's talk when I go back," Wu Shaochen replied before continuing to grind monsters.
The two of them continued grinding until 11:30 PM, with only a break for a meal in between. The territory of the Blood Hell Lion was vast, although the quantity of monsters wasn't as abundant as the Skeletons in the Abandoned Mine. However, the Blood Hell Lions respawned quickly, so by the time Wu Shaochen finished clearing a area, more would appear elsewhere.
After nearly 9 hours of non-stop grinding, a total of 1880 Blood Hell Lions were slain. Wu Shaochen mass-killed these non-CC monsters throughout, although his practice in evasion did consume some time. Nevertheless, his speed was unmatched by other players.
To Wu Shaochen's surprise, level 30 normal monsters could already drop bronze equipment. Out of the 1880 Blood Hell Lions, Wu Shaochen obtained 6 pieces of bronze equipment. Although the drop rate wasn't high, it was still acceptable. Bronze equipment might depreciate rapidly, but they still sold for several tens of thousands each. Moreover, these were level 30 bronze equipment with attributes that surpassed those of level 20 equipment.
Out of the 6 bronze pieces, two were usable by Wu Ziyin, so he gave them to her. The other 4 pieces were listed for sale at 100,000 each, but there were no buyers. Wu Shaochen had to relist them at 80,000 before they were finally sold. Additionally, 14 pieces of iron equipment dropped, and although iron equipment was gradually being phased out, these were level 30 iron equipment. They sold for 5,000 each. In the end, the iron equipment was sold, but the 4 bronze pieces had no buyers until Wu Shaochen lowered the price to 80,000.
The monsters at level 30 gave 800 experience points each. With a 60% experience bonus for killing monsters 6 levels higher, Wu Shaochen received approximately 1,280 experience points per monster. However, half of that went to Wu Ziyin, and 40% was shared with Silver Wolf. In the end, Wu Shaochen only received 384 experience points per monster. The 1,880 Blood Hell Lions only brought him a total of 721,920 experience points, enough for him to level up to level 25: 44,162/800,000. Surprisingly, Wu Ziyin, who had been idling the entire time, skyrocketed from level 13 to level 21, an unprecedented speed.
Silver Wolf also reached level 20, experiencing a significant increase in attributes and even learned a skill that pleasantly surprised Wu Shaochen.
[Silver Wolf]
Qualification: Awakening in progress...
Level: 20
Health: 120,400
Mana: 6,200
Physical Attack: 1,550
Physical Defense: 930
Magical Defense: 720
Speed: 620
Howling Moon Wolf's Exclusive Talent: Increases attack damage by 30% and lifesteal by 30%.
Skill 1: Extreme Speed: Increases attack and movement speed by 50% for 30 seconds, with a cooldown of 2 minutes.
Skill 2: Inspiration: Roars to enhance self and teammates' damage and defense by 20% for 30 seconds, with a cooldown of 2 minutes.
Skill 3: Wolf's Howl: Deals 150% physical attack damage to all targets within a 5-meter range, silencing them for 2 seconds, with a cooldown of 3 minutes.
Skill damage is not a concern for Wu Shaochen, but group silence is what he needs. With this skill, future battles against mages will become much easier.
Of course, although Wu Shaochen has only leveled up once, his strength has greatly improved. His talent has reached the maximum limit of 2,000 points, and the Golden Realm has increased his talent by 30 times, making it 80 times. Considering the current 5 levels of talent, he can take away 600,000 health points in a minute. With the addition of 1,880 health points from the Immortal Body, his health has surpassed the threshold of 20,000, reaching 21,745 points, commonly known as a "meatshield."
Because Wu Ziyin has classes tomorrow, Wu Shaochen asked her to log off at 11:30. Feeling a bit tired himself, Wu Shaochen didn't feel like grinding anymore and decided to return to the city to rest. After midnight, he would log off and go to sleep.
Then, he used a teleportation scroll to return to Jinling City. As he was about to go home and rest, he suddenly remembered that Su Muxue had asked him to contact her after returning to the city this afternoon, as if there was something she wanted to discuss with him. Wu Shaochen thought for a moment and sent her a message: "I'm back in the city."