The prerequisite for advancing to the next stage requires Player Level to reach 3.
There's no need to worry about this for now, as reaching Level 2 still needs 200 experience, and perfectly clearing an F-grade map only gives 100 experience, it's estimated that it would take at least ten days to half a month to level up to 2.
Unless one seamlessly transitions into secret realms, the incessant kind.
The speed would be much faster.
And so would the death rate.
After his Player Level reached 1, it was as if he had truly become a Supernatural Occupation Player, and many features were subsequently unlocked, such as the Fengtian City leaderboards.
He could now see many of Fengtian City's leaderboards.
Among these were the "Fengtian Combat Power Leaderboard," "Fengtian Level Leaderboard," "Fengtian Merit Points Leaderboard," "Fengtian Perfect Clear Leaderboard," "Fengtian Secret Realm Entry Leaderboard," "Fengtian Occupation Leaderboard," and so on.
Dozens of leaderboards.
Besides these, he could also see the entire Federation's leaderboards.
Indeed, as the shop owner said.
In the "Federation Level Leaderboard," the first hundred names were almost entirely players from Jingjiu City, with virtually no players from other cities, let alone Fengtian, not even a shadow to be seen.
It couldn't be helped.
Players from Jingjiu City inherently benefit from a strong city-state effect that grants them 30% less experience required to level up compared to players from other cities; with such an advantage, who could compete? At that time, the highest-ranked player on the leaderboard was—
"Federation Level Leaderboard Rank 1": Lord Miao, Lv.67 Holy Demon Envoy.
A Level 67 Holy Demon Envoy was indeed frightening.
Especially since the Holy Demon Envoy profession, although not well understood, sounded quite intimidating.
And Chen Miao, after scrolling down the "Fengtian Perfect Clear Leaderboard" for quite a while, finally found his name at the 789th position—
"Fengtian Perfect Clear Leaderboard Rank 789": Chen Miao, Lv.1 Gunner.
Damn it!
This feeling of being utterly crushed was overwhelming, not knowing by how many folds; moreover, the player named Lord Miao had his name flashing in multicolored lights, glittering to the point of blinding, while his own name on the leaderboard looked plain and ordinary, a dull grey.
At this rank, unless someone deliberately sought it out, it would be virtually impossible to notice.
"I'll take a look when I get home!"
Chen Miao took a deep breath and closed the leaderboard in front of him; this was the first time he had looked at something like this. Many things were very attractive to him, especially the Fengtian City leaderboards, but now was not the time. He would take his time and look through them when he got home that evening.
He would need to study them carefully tonight.
And... why shouldn't he have a shot at the number one spot?
Being at position 789 was a bit frustrating. No, he had to take a seat at the top of the leaderboard himself and see what the view was like from number one.
Besides, when he leveled up to 1, he also unlocked the backpack feature.
There were 10 slots, allowing for 10 items, and even identical items could not be stacked; one item per slot.
It was possible to expand.
And the price wasn't expensive, 10,000 Star Coins to expand the 11th slot.
Well, if nothing unexpected happened, perhaps the price wouldn't stay the same when expanding the 12th slot.
And his backpack was nearly full at this point, the perfect secret realm clear also gave him three batches of materials, 2 batches of F-grade materials "Fox-Tail Grass" and 1 batch of F-grade material "Saltpeter," all familiar names.
He didn't need these materials for now; if he were to sell them, he could probably fetch around seven or eight thousand credit points.
Earning money was rather fast, certainly much better than working a job.
It's just that the intensity of the work was quite high, after all, killing 33 people in a row is a bit hair-raising.
Perhaps the limitation of the backpack slots is also a significant factor hindering the development of the Gunner profession; after all, if the ammunition can't keep up, it means no solo firepower coverage, but he didn't need to worry about this.
The Jade Amulet of Safety's five-meter by five-meter space allowed him to store a large amount of ammunition.
Moreover, this "Nothingness Space" was currently at Level 1.
After spending 2000 Star Coins to advance to Level 2, not only would he be rewarded with a Gun-specific skin 'Tao Wood' and production lines for two calibers of ammunition, but the space would increase again, and then he would truly never worry about ammunition again.
There would be no more need for something like the Small Revolver.
Directly start with a Gatling and its intense thatch thatch thatch of firepower.
The Small Revolver was too boring, satisfying none of his aspirations for firepower coverage. Of course, with his current strength, it was impressive enough that he managed to get his hands on that gadget. If he were to follow the old ways from where he came, not to mention the Small Revolver, even eating would be a problem.
And just then—
Chen Miao suddenly noticed that Hungry Monkey had also made it onto the "Fengtian Perfect Clear Leaderboard," ranked at 790.
"Fengtian Perfect Clear Leaderboard Rank 790": Hungry Monkey, Lv.3 Laborer.
"Hmm?"
Chen Miao noticed something about the lv3 and was slightly stunned, subconsciously asking, "You leveled up three times?"
"I was already level 3 before I met you, Miao."
"How come you never mentioned it?"
"Ah? All my coworkers are around levels three and four. We lifestyle professionals don't need to enter secret realms to earn experience; we get it by working, and it increases pretty quickly. Our foreman is a level 6 carpenter."
"Did you activate your backpack yet?"
"No, only Supernatural Profession Players have backpacks; Lifestyle Professions Players don't have those."
"Got it."
Chen Miao nodded thoughtfully, paused for a long moment, then suddenly said, "Share your attribute panel with me, I want to take a look."
He had just seen an option button for sharing projections on the attribute panel.
He was a bit curious to see how high Hungry Monkey's strength attribute was.
"Oh, sure."
The next second—
'Player Name': Hungry Monkey.
'Player Level': Level 3 (158/500)
'Profession Name': Laborer.
'Occupation Exclusive': Skin becomes tougher and less prone to blistering.
'Player Strength': 16 points.
'Player Agility': 10 points.
'Player Resistance': 6 points.
"..."
Chen Miao stared expressionlessly at the attribute panel with 16 points in strength, silently rooted to the spot. He had thought there was something outrageously strong about Hungry Monkey.
Damn it!
16 points in the strength attribute, that's twice as much as his own!
"Did you add all the attribute points from leveling up to strength?"
"No," Hungry Monkey shook his head and denied, "I added them all to resistance. My initial resistance was only 3, and I don't know why it was so low; maybe that's why I don't handle hunger too well."
"I was going to add them to strength, but I thought 15 points would be enough, so I didn't. Who knew that maybe after working hard for a while, my strength would increase a bit on its own and went up to 16 points?"
"..."
Chen Miao fell into silence once more, feeling the vast difference between people.
Naturally having 15 points in strength attribute, he truly was born to work as a laborer.
"Hungry Monkey."
"Huh?"
"Ever thought about becoming a Supernatural Profession Player?"
"Yes!" Hungry Monkey nodded vigorously, like a pecking chicken, "I've always wanted to become a Fighter, which is a Supernatural Profession, but the Occupation Inheritance Book for Fighters is too expensive; it costs 50,000 credit points, and I could never afford it."
"You bought a grave chamber with a 30-year lease for 80,000 credit points but are short of these 50,000?"
"Back then, I thought love was a little more precious..."
"And now?"
"Now I think the Occupation Inheritance Book for Fighters offers a bit more value."
Chen Miao gave Hungry Monkey an annoyed look and then walked towards the city: "Let's go, it's already dark. Let's enter the city and grab something to eat first."
"I'll buy you the Occupation Inheritance Book for Fighters."
"From now on, you follow me."
"Of course, Miao. Even if you weren't buying it for me, I'd still follow you. My granny told me many times to stick with someone smart, and you, Miao, are smart."
"Tsk," Chen Miao smiled and said nothing, instead, he rested a walking stick in his palm and continued walking forward.
The walking stick was an E-grade limited-time item 'First Show of Sharpness' from the secret realm.
It was a walking stick.
And it looked good.