"Boom!"
Eighty yards away, a fist-sized red fireball exploded above the head of a level one gray wolf cub, instantly killing the gray wolf cub with 52 health points.
"I go!"
A combination of a gnoll and a dragon-veined kobold nearby were so shocked that they even forgot to continue attacking the monster in front of them.
Seeing him kill four or five monsters in one breath with one fireball, the two looked at each other, and the Dragon Vein Kobold shouted:
"Brothers, let's team up!"
He smiled and said nothing, but picked up the fallen fur and went to hand in the task.
The Novice Village is full of quests and players, with more people than monsters, which broke his idea of A-ing all the way up.
Originally, he wanted to use triple spell damage to kill monsters of higher levels, but there were more people than monsters in the Novice Village, and the monsters outside the village were more than five levels higher than him. His hit rate was worrying, and he had to fire four or five times before hitting one. His efficiency was pitifully low, so he had no choice but to come back and do the quest.
According to the game, this is called level suppression. After the real world is digitized, levels and templates are used to measure the strength gap between monsters and players. There will be a series of suppression when facing high-level monsters.
For example, it cannot hit the target, the spell is resisted, and it will be crushed by high-level monsters and cause additional damage, etc.
Arrival is random, and there is no telling how many novice villages there are in this world. In any case, he didn't see a single acquaintance, and his girlfriend didn't know which novice village she had landed in.
With his extremely high spell damage, he completed each task with extremely high efficiency. When others were only level three or four, he was already level six. He took the letter from the elder of the novice village and left Silver Moon Valley along the path at the entrance of the village.
Outside the Silver Moon Valley is a forest called Silver Moon. There is a road that passes through the Silver Moon Forest. Everywhere there are towering trees with a diameter of three to four meters or even five to six meters. The huge tree crowns are open, and the sunlight cannot shine through. It is cool and dark under the shade of the trees.
The forest is covered with lush grass and vines. From time to time, small animals and insects crawl around, and occasionally wild beasts can be seen passing by.
Walking on the road, Lin Xiao stretched out his hand and clenched it. The extraordinary talent bestowed by the star spirits allowed him to feel the moonlight and shadow energy under the shade of the trees, as well as a small amount of earth, sacred and other energies.
He was sure that ordinary people could not sense these energies directly, but the star spirits could.
The monsters near the entrance of Silver Moon Valley are all large crows. Killing them can yield bird feathers or bird meat. Many level three or four players are killing monsters of higher levels in groups of three or five, but the number of people decreases as you go further back. After walking about two or three kilometers, there are no more players.
The road is relatively safe. From time to time, there are knights patrolling on horses of about level 40. Guards of this level can kill nearby monsters less than level 10 with one sword.
However, it is impossible for only one team of knights to cover all places, so they would occasionally encounter small monsters rushing out from the jungle on the roadside. At level 6, he could easily kill them with two fireballs or one.
After walking about five kilometers, he came to a village called Xingyue, where there were a lot of tasks again.
This time, no one competed with him for the tasks, so he completed them quickly, one after another, earning him a lot of experience and coins, as well as some equipment as an occasional reward.
Lin Xiao discovered that most of the tasks at this stage were to guide them to become familiar with the general gameplay of this game world, and to slowly reveal the background of the world through one task after another. At the beginning, he completed the tasks as quickly as possible, but later he found that the introductions to many tasks included detailed introductions to the background of the world, so he gradually slowed down.
However, this slowness is relative. His powerful spell damage makes his task efficiency extremely fast, and only some tasks that do not depend on combat power will slow him down.
He stayed in Xingyue Village for half a day. When other players reached level five or six and came to Xingyue Village, his level had exceeded level eleven and the tasks here were basically completed. He once again took a new letter and went to a nearby town called Yuese Town, which was where many nearby novice villages gathered.
At the same time, he needs to determine his specialization and choose his professional talents there.
The so-called specialization refers to the proficiency in a certain element, such as the common fire, frost, arcane, the rare earth, lightning, shadow and so on.
Professional talent is the enhancement of the current specialization. When you choose a specialization, the professional talent tree will be opened. There are many professional talents on it. After level 10, the talent will be strengthened by one talent point at each level.
Lin Xiao is now at level 11 with two talent points, but he has no specialization yet and cannot choose one.
At the entrance of Yuese Town, he was surprised to see a half-dragon warrior with a dragon head and a dragon tail talking to the town guard. Seeing Lin Xiao, the half-dragon warrior was stunned for a moment, looked at Lin Xiao carefully, walked over and said:
"You are the third person I have seen coming here. Add me as your friend first. We may play together in the future."
"Playing the book?"
While accepting the friend request, he asked curiously:
"Are there dungeons in this world?"
The half-dragon named himself the Quiet Night. He smiled and said:
"Since the world data is gamified, it must be there, but we haven't encountered it yet. When we encounter it, we will go to the dungeon to level up. The speed is much faster than completing quests."
"That's fine."
No one mentioned doing the quest together. They all had strong racial talents, so they could complete the quest very quickly alone without having to work with others.
Enter the town and follow the path directed by the guards to a spire in the town. This is the gathering place of mages in the town, and many trainers of magic professions such as mages, priests, warlocks, etc. are here.
"May the light of magic shine upon you!"
A middle-aged man in a blue robe said to Lin Xiao:
"To achieve enlightenment overnight, please choose to specialize in an element."
Below are the three most common specializations: Fire, Frost, and Arcane.
Looking over the three specializations, Lin Xiao tried to ask:
"Are there other specializations?"
Surprisingly, the middle-aged man actually answered:
"If you are not satisfied with the following specializations, you can choose the following different locations to find different specialization instructors to complete the job change. Please note that you only have one chance to become a master overnight. If you fail, you can only choose one of the following three specializations."
There were actually five different coordinates that appeared on the light screen in front of Lin Xiao. Upon closer inspection, they were five different specialization routes, namely - Holy, Earth, Lightning, Shadow, and Undead.
The middle-aged man then went on to say that in addition to these five rare specializations, there are other extremely rare and powerful specialization routes in this world, which require special methods to obtain. He can switch jobs or take on new specializations when he encounters them in the future.
This was too far away. He didn't think too much about it and checked the coordinates carefully. Only one of the five locations was in the town, and the other four were all outside the town. They were still very far away, at least across one map. The locations of the Undead and Shadow were the farthest from Moonlight Town. From the world map, it was necessary to cross two maps, and there were monsters between levels 30 and 37 there.
Shadows and Undead directly made him pass. He was not likable in the first place and he was so far away. With his current level, it was impossible for him to run that far.
That leaves three specializations: Holy, Earth, and Lightning.
Earth and Lightning are easy to understand. The Holy is not a priest, but the same energy as the priest. The priest is good at healing and assisting, while the Holy Mage is good at attacking. Of course, it is a Holy Mage after all, and it also has certain treatment methods, which is the treatment in the mage system.
"Well!"
At first glance, it's a nebulous product, with both healing and output, but neither is very powerful. If it were really powerful, it would steal the priest's job, so Lin Xiao considered it and ruled it out.
The earth and the lightning.
One defense and one offense.
Thunder and lightning are violent output at any time. For him who has triple magic damage, choosing lightning can best bring out the effect of this talent.
The Lightning Specialization location is located in the map next to Moonlight Town to the north, called Lightning Hills, where the monsters are between level 20 and 30.
After buying some supplies and four six-grid small bags in Moonlight Town, I went out and walked straight north along the avenue.
The map in this game is very large. The total distance from the Novice Village to Moonlight Town is more than ten kilometers. The large map is often dozens of kilometers long, and it is difficult to run there just on foot.
Although the world is digitized, we still have to follow basic rules in many cases, such as day and night. When the sun sets at night, the wilderness quickly becomes dark. Although it is a highway, there is only one light far away. It is pitch black in the middle, and you walk alone in the darkness.
A huge black shadow rushed out from the jungle beside the road and knocked him down, and with one slap, it knocked away two-thirds of his health of about 200.
He reacted extremely quickly and released Frost Nova instantly. A circle of cold frost exploded from under his feet, freezing the black shadow and the insects flying on the grass in place.
He quickly distanced himself and cast Frost Armor instantly. He fired a fireball and saw the target clearly. It was a level 21 beast called Strangler.
The level difference allowed the magic leopard to break free from the ice in just three seconds and pounce on him again, knocking him and his shield to death with one slap.
When I awoke again in a spirit state, I was in an unknown cemetery. It looked like an abandoned altar. The collapsed stones were covered with moss, and strange runes and words could be vaguely seen on the stone slabs.
When he opened the map, he was already in Lightning Hills. Before his death, he had just crossed two maps and was in Lightning Hills. So the resurrection point after death was in Lightning Hills, but it was quite far from the main road, so it would probably take a while to run away.
Fortunately, the soul state will not be attacked by monsters, and at the same time you can run around the map safely, especially the main road you will take next.
However, although this idea was good, the soul could not move forward after being a certain distance away from the corpse. A negative BUFF of soul weakness would appear, and a countdown appeared in front of him. He tried to move forward, and the countdown accelerated. When the time was up, his eyes went dark and his soul disappeared. When he regained consciousness, he was standing on the lawn of Silvermoon Valley. There were many players around him sitting on the stone steps and chatting in the light of the lawn.
"this"
A quick check of the logs showed that the soul was too decayed to return to the body, and he was resurrected directly at the location bound to the hearthstone.
His default Hearthstone binding location was the Novice Village, so he went out for a day and a half and then returned to the Novice Village.
"Oh my goodness, I worked hard for a day and a half and ended up back where I started. It was all for nothing."
He didn't know what to say for a moment.
What can I do? I can only run again!
(End of this chapter)