[You killed the 'Sprinter (Bronze)'.]
[You gained 600 experience points.]
[Congratulations on reaching level 3!]
[Congratulations on gaining 2 evolution points!]
[You gained 55 days of life (tradable).]
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The moment the BOSS fell to the ground, a series of system prompts sounded in Yang Shung's mind.
After throwing the poisonous dart, he activated Shadow again, entering an invisible state.
"The shadow cooldown is still 26 seconds. It's a bit long."
"It impacts monster respawn speed..."
"But, it's better to evolve the 'Hand of Greed' first since I have evolution points."
Yang Shung thought.
He approached the 'Sprinter's' corpse silently and gathered a pile of spoils.
To Wang Wei and the other six, this looked strange. No shadow, just a sudden disappearance of loot near the BOSS.
"Thank you, my friend."
Wang Wei clasped his fists in the air, a serious expression on his face as he spoke sincerely.
"Thank me?" Yang Shung's voice echoed from all directions. "In the wild, don't trust others so easily..."
This made Wang Wei look stern. "I understand. Thank you for the reminder, brother."
In the God Forsaken game, only the town was a safe zone. Outside, players could kill each other, dropping either [Tradable Life] or [Non-Tradable Life]—half would be lost on death.
Yang Shung could easily kill Wang Wei, but it would be pointless. No valuable loot would drop.
Wang Wei understood. If Yang Shung had bad intentions, he wouldn't have warned him. This made Wang Wei even more grateful.
"Then, we'll go now and leave you to appreciate the equipment. My name is Wang Wei. If you need help, come to me."
Wang Wei, very sensible, said this before leading his team away.
However, the girl behind him, still covered in mud, waved. "Big guy, big guy, I'm Bai Mei Da Mei. Can I add you as a friend?"
"..."
Yang Shung almost laughed at the code name. He knew this girl. Her real name was Lin Liyu, and her father's surname was Lin and her mother's surname was Li, giving birth to her code name 'Bai Mei Da Mei'...
This girl was indeed cute and lively, with a stunning figure. Her class was a hidden class 'Prophet', much stronger than normal mages.
In his previous life, Yang Shung had teamed up with her multiple times.
"Seems like her start is the same as before, teaming up with Wang Wei."
"She'll join Daxia later..."
Yang Shung shook his head. He had no need to befriend her right now.
He replied calmly, "Sorry, not interested in Bai Mei Da Mei."
The girl frowned but was dragged away by the middle-aged priest, helplessly.
Yang Shung watched them leave, feeling a bit emotional.
Wang Wei's 'Holy Shield Warrior' class was tanky. The middle-aged priest's hidden class 'Oracle Priest' doubled her healing power compared to a normal priest. Without them, the team would've fallen much faster.
"My attack is nearly an instant kill."
"But the shadow cooldown makes the attack intervals too long."
"It took almost two minutes to kill the BOSS and the polluters..."
In two minutes, an ordinary team would have been wiped out by the Sprinter...
Yang Shung shook his head and didn't dwell on it.
This wave of monsters had given him a lot!
As Wang Wei's team left, Yang Shung activated the 'Hand of Greed' on the Sprinter's body.
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[Congratulations on getting 2 evolution points!]
[You have obtained 55 days of life (tradable).]
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A bronze BOSS dropped a total of 4 evolution points, plus 110 days of tradable life, and five pieces of loot.
"Great haul."
"Three equipment pieces and two skill books..."
One equipment piece was usable for Yang Shung.
In the God Forsaken game, with so many professions, it was normal to get drops from other classes.
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[Sprinting Leather Leggings (Bronze): Assassin equipment. Physical defense +9, all element resistance +5. Cooling speed +15%. Equipment requirements: Level 2]
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The defense and element resistance weren't very useful for Yang Shung, but the 15% cooling speed boost was useful.
He equipped it immediately.
"The cooldown of Latent Shadow dropped from 26 seconds to 22.61 seconds. A good effect."
In the God Forsaken game, "cooldown reduction" wasn't an attribute. Instead, there was "cooling speed."
As the game progressed, players could stack cooling speed significantly. For example, 400% cooling speed meant skills cooldown 4 times faster.
"The cooldown is now much shorter. Good progress."
Yang Shung went invisible and continued deeper into the dark forest.
His tradable lifespan had reached 268 days.
"I have a lot of equipment and skill books for other classes."
"When my backpack is full, I'll return to the town to trade the items for tradable life..."
"Then, I can think about extracting equipment and skills back to the real world."
His speed of development now was much faster than in his previous life.
Back then, his pace had been slow, but now he had an advantage.
As the number of players in the town increased, so did monster activity, raising difficulty for new players to hunt.
Meanwhile, many teams fell victim to monster groups and lost their lifespan!
For example, near Shell Town...
Wang Wei's team had returned to a safer area, with only level 1 monsters around. However, they saw another team of six players being attacked by more than ten crawlers!
If the team fought one crawler, they could handle it. But more than ten?
"So many crawlers? What the hell?!"
A young man shouted in panic before being swarmed and killed by three crawlers.