System Notice

"Every goal has its own challenges and rewards. If it's not challenging, why do it?" (1)

"Efforts after the battles come to the rewards."

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Suddenly, the Mutated Horned Rabbit attacked in high speed!

Thanks to his high awareness, he used phantom steps and made compressed magic bullets.

But the Mutated Horned Rabbit also has high awareness and high speed, he dodged the attacks of Lydro easily.

Lydro used silent steps to move back and to make a distance.

'If I fight this rabbit, my chance of winning is only 39% and there's 35% that I will die.' thought Lydro.

'I only move when the possibility to win is over 50%.'

Even though he can't lose experience until lvl 10, Lydro can't risk it.

'My only spell right now is Magic Bullets, to have an over 50% of winning possibility, I need two Active Skills.'

'I'll kill the Frenzied Rabbit later, then kill this Mutated Rabbit.'

He used phantom steps and run away to the town.

After getting into the town, he went to Mr Gregor's Butcher Shop first.

"Good morning again, Mr Gregor. I just came back from the mountains and got what you requested."

Mr Gregor and his two students stared at him. They're thinking he's kidding, it's only about a half an hour since he left!

Then Mr Gregor said, "Can I see it?"

"Here," Lydro said and gave to Gregor one C-rank and two B-rank hides of wild boars and three B-rank hides of horned rabbits.

Mr Gregor is surprised, changed his tone and said happily to Lydro, "Thanks, kiddo! Here's your reward."

[ Mr Gregor's request completed! ]

[ You have received 1 bronze coin and 50 Exp! ]

[ Your Intimacy level with Mr Gregor has increased by 40! ]

"Actually, I will hunt a Frenzied Horned Rabbit in a half an hour, I'll gift the hide and meat of it to you, sir."

"Oh." Mr Gregor was quite surprised at what Lydro said.

[ Your Intimacy level with Mr Gregor has increased by 10! ]

"Ok, kiddo! If you give me the meat and the hide of Frenzied Horned Rabbit of at least C-rank quality, I'll reward you a surprising reward!" Mr Gregor expressed a smile and trying to be mysterious.

[ System: Rare Quest "Mr Gregor's request 2" received!

Details: Kill a Frenzied Rabbit and get its hide and its meat of at least C-rank quality.

Reward: Unknown

If failed, your Intimacy with Mr Gregor will decrease by 50. ]

Lydro already knows the reward of this quest and just nod to Mr Gregor.

This 'Rare Quest' will transform into the hidden quest after Lydro finished the quest and will reward him a hunter's beginner knife and a lifestyle job, Novice Hunter.

After that, he turned around to Tim and Tom. He gave them 10 violet-scented flowers. He picked them up in Grey's Forest while hunting. This flower is very rare outside the Grey Forest but inside of it, it's their domain.

Tim and Tom felt slightly embarrassed, they thought that he'll fail because these violet-scented flowers are just too rare and it's only half an hour!

Now they have to give their Intelligence ring to him. Lydro also got some Exp.

[ Tim and Tom's request completed! ]

[ You have received Intelligence ring and 50 Exp! ]

[ Your Intimacy level with Tom and Tim has decreased by 20! ]

When Lydro saw the intimacy notice, he said in his mind, 'These mischievous brats.'

He checked the stats of Intelligence ring.

[ Intelligence Ring (White Equipment)

Requirements: None

+5 Intelligence ]

"Thanks! I'll see you all later!"

He bid his goodbye and left to his other quests locations.

After a while, he received their rewards.

[ Novice blacksmith request ] rewards are two Novice Dagger and 50 Exp.

[ Tamer's daily problem ] rewards are 'Keen smell' skill and 25 Exp.

[ Little Tooth Worker's request ] rewards are 2 anesthesia and 50 Exp.

[ A Promising Tailor's request ] rewards are Novice Cloak and 50 Exp.

[ Psycho's favourite candy ] rewards are 'Conceal Presence' skill and 20 Exp.

Lydro also gave his 5 pairs of eyes of wild boars to the 'Psycho NPC' in exchange to 5 bronze coins.

In Lydro's past life, this 'Psycho' NPC is a bronze provider for beginners.

You can receive only once a quest from him but, you can exchange a pair of eyes of wild boars or goblins into 1 bronze coin without limit!

Every town has a 'Psycho' and this bug will be discovered after three days of open beta.

Lydro also got two new requests:

[ Blacksmith Request ]: Give him the claws and the horn of a Frenzied Rabbit.

[ Find Elie's Father Corpse! ]: Find Elie's Father Corpse in Grey Forest.

Lydro already knows that Elie's father corpse is in the cave of Grey Forest.

He saw that cave when he was hunting wild boars and that cave is full of level 8-10 Grey Bats and Rock Goblins!

Then, he checked his rewards from quests:

[ Novice Dagger x2 (White Equipment)

Requirements: Strength 5

Equipment Level: 5

Attack Power +10

Durability: 25/25 (each) ]

[ Keen Smell (Passive Skill)

A skill that makes your sense of smell sharpened and become more sensitive. ]

[ Anesthesia x2 (Expendable Item)

Can make target go numb and have a 50% possibility that the target will become paralyzed for 5 minutes. ]

[ Novice Cloak (White Equipment)

Requirements: Level 1

Defence +6

Skill: Cloaked (Passive Skill) - When the cape is equipped, no information about the player can be examined. Except for appraisal skills other than system appraisal skill. ]

[ Conceal Presence (Passive Skill)

A skill that makes it difficult for others to sense the user's presence. Except if they are focused on you. ]

Lydro already knew what the rewards of the quests that's why he has taken these quests.

He got the skill 'keen smell' and will get other three skills of senses: Sight (Vision), Hearing (Auditory), and Taste (Gustatory) to acquire 'Heightened Senses' skill.

The conceal presence skill has a disadvantage. It's passive and it's also effective to your teammates!

After checking his skills, he went to Kazuki's shop. But on the way, he heard three system notice.

[ Gemini Continent System Notice ]

[ Congratulations to Team Dynasty! They are the first team who killed a lvl 10 elite boss monster!

They'll be awarded +10 additional stat points and 1 gold coins each!

Members of the party:

Ye Mu, Kong Zhuan, Smiling Face, Zen, Zheng Qiu, and Mihou. ]

Then, the system notice repeated three times.

Lydro is not surprised. This team Dynasty will be the 3rd strongest guild in China and from what he knows, they killed a lvl 10 elite Big Black Slime boss. Also, from his estimation, the highest level right now is level 6-7 and also the Infos of Closed Beta testers.

EoVT had invited twelve hundred people to test the game before it opened and these people were called Beta Testers.

It started last year, 1st of January 2049. Every month there are a hundred people who'll test the game and at the end of the month, they will send a suggestion, bugs what they found, etc.

These Beta Testers could get ahold of first-hand information of the game and, although changes would be made to the game, the Beta Testers would most definitely know more than regular players.

These people are disguised and random gamers or streamers. They also signed a contract that they can't say some prohibited Infos in the game and they can only enter the game after three days of open beta.

Soon, he arrived at Kazuki's shop.

"Hello, Mr Kazuki!" Said Lydro hysterically while waving at him.

"I now have money to buy skills in my idol!"

Kazuki is quite surprised by Lydro, he's just here half an hour ago! And he thinks, 'this guy is really my fan!'

"I actually sell only one skill per person, but you are the first player who bought a skill in our guild. So, we'll allow you to buy two more skills." Said Kazuki while smiling.

"Oh! That's so cool! Thank you, Mr Kazuki!" Replied Lydro and asked Kazuki, "Actually, I have more than 10 golds here, can I buy more expensive skills?"

"Oh, there's not much skill compatible with your level and with your class. Here, there are only 8 overall."

[ Skills: Support types (Compatible to the player, Lydro)

- Mana Channeling (20 bronze coins)

- Drain Touch (80 bronze coins)

- Barrier (1 silver coin)

- Healing Wind (8 silvers)

- Poison (10 silvers)

- Danger Detection (20 silvers)

- Cursed Wounds (50 silvers)

- Mana Perception (1 gold) ]

When Lydro saw the prices, he said in his head, 'Fu*k, this guy raised the prices!'

'And as expected, the skills are all low ranked skills.'

'The only skills that I'm interested in are Barrier, Poison, Danger Detection, and Cursed Wound. The others are not suitable for me.'

'But if I choose between the four skills, I would choose Barrier and Poison skills.'

'Why? It's because Barrier and Poison skills are upgradable! And the others are not!'

'Danger Detection is a rarely used skill and mostly only Assassins would want this skill.'

'Cursed Wound is a good skill too, but they can only be used when there's a wound on the target.'

After buying new skills, he bid his goodbye to Kazuki and went to town pharmacy.

After getting in the pharmacy, he bought one litre of human blood and 5 bottles of low ranked potions that cost 1 silver each.

Then, he went out of the town and continues hunting the Frenzied Horned Rabbit and the level 10 Mutated Horned Rabbit!

(1) - quoted from Howard Borger