Chapter 5：I'm Sick

The system suggests that a monster that exceeds my level 10 has appeared. This Wolf King must be at least level 20.

Po turned around and tried to run away, I shouted at him to go retrieve his weapon and bravely charged towards the Wolf King myself. So what if the wolf king, think of the year ... Huh? Iron sword cut on the wolf king's head, no blood drop!

I understand that there is no hope of defeating the Wolf King, so I can only help Po to hold it back. As long as Po retrieves his weapon, what does it matter if I lose experience? Even though I've passed the newbie protection period, death is just a loss of "four times the level divided by 10", which is one level, so it's no big deal.

Judging the direction of the Wolf King's attack in advance, I narrowly avoided its first tentative attack.

Gosh, the Wolf King's speed was just too fast, even with my rich gaming experience and high combat skills, it was hard for me to hit it.

The Wolf King had already finished warming up, and its speed increased again. I desperately dodged, but I was still scratched by its claws a dozen times, mere scrapes. Even though my current defense was greatly improved, it still made me bottom out in blood every time, the Wolf King was indeed tough.

Unable to fight anymore, taking advantage of the time when the Wolf King turned around and had a little pause, I quickly put away my Iron Sword, took off my leather hat, took off my leather coat, increased my agility a little bit, and dodged a few more attacks, but my physique was too poor, I was already exhausted!

I used my last move, saw the right moment, leapt from the side onto the Wolf King's back, and clasped my hands tightly around the Wolf King's neck.

The Wolf King flung his body around in annoyance, trying to throw me off, but it wasn't that easy. I was a battle-hardened Ashes player, no matter how violently the Wolf King moved, my heart would not panic and my hands would not relax in the slightest. However, even though I wasn't thrown down by it, I lost 10 points of blood with each vibration.

Po had already picked up his weapon, and seeing me fighting so hard, he gritted his teeth and had the guts to shoot a few arrows at the Wolf King with his Iron Bow, but only one hit, subtracting 3 points of blood from the Wolf King. Such damage wasn't even close to the Wolf King's automatic blood recovery.

My blood pills can't hold me for much longer, I'm dead for the day, but Po can't be okay. NPCs in the game can't be resurrected when they die, if he dies, what about A Bei?

I shook my head vigorously, cursing myself for being an idiot, NPC deaths are only data even if they are miserable, what does it have to do with me? Just because they have a little bit of intelligence, am I looking at them as if they were real people?

Not thinking about those strange things, I used my consciousness to give the command to eat blood pills while shouting for Po to run back to the village.

A trace of emotion flashed in Po's gaze, but he knew that he couldn't save me. After hesitating for a moment, he finally turned around and fled. Looking at his speed, it wasn't slower than the Wolf King, so I was relieved and continued to hoop the Wolf King's neck, spamming the last bottle of blood and eventually dying under the Wolf King.

Dropping to level 9, my level 10 quest was canceled by the system. After practicing for two hours, I rose back to level 10, and the village chief stopped giving me quests.

It was a bit of a shame, a quest with 20 tigers, the reward should have been good. With no way to buy equipment, I could only count on the quest rewards. Now that my hopes are dashed, the next quest, the village chief said I won't get it until I'm level 20.

After clearing a few beasts in the village, the job of "village guard" is done and I can rest for a while.

At this moment, Po came to me, said "thank you", and was ready to leave.

I can't let him go, usually so cold can say thank you, proves that he has a very high favor with me, how can I also want to get some benefits from him. Some people say that I am not too realistic, humph, now that my ability is so poor, how can I get a foothold in this game if I am not realistic? And what's so polite with NPC, NPC is the existence that specializes in serving players!

So I proposed to Po to learn skills, he agreed, but actually have to charge (I can't charm ah).

Po knew two skills: "Trap Art" and "Cutting Art". Although he claimed that he only charged a symbolic 100 coins, my pocketbook was about to be bottomed out. As for combat skills, he didn't know any of them, and like me, he never fought hard, and only told me some basic combat experience, which was not as good as mine.

Cutting can increase the materials obtained from wild beasts, like before on the wild wolf I could only get one of the meat and skin, after learning cutting, I can get two at a time. The greatest harvest is obtained from wild deer, in addition to deer meat and skin, there is also a chance to obtain deer blood and antlers. If you were lucky, you could earn up to 12 coins from a single deer.

"Trap Art" was something I really wanted, but in order to improve my abilities, I couldn't rely on too many external forces, because too easy a fight would reduce the attribute point rewards, especially the mental strength growth. I believe that spiritual power should be the most helpful for my body's early recovery.

Next, under the six hours of non-stop efforts by Po and I, the wild beasts around the village decreased a lot and very few of them entered the village anymore.

Villager A's family was no longer harassed by the beasts when they planted their fields. As a result, the village's attributes increased, force plus 2, security plus 3, production plus 1, environment plus 1. Conversing with Villager A's family again, the word "relocation" that was often mentioned before basically disappeared, giving me a sense of accomplishment as I reached level 13.

The game is a little more relaxed, I now especially want to understand the real life, I do not know what has become of society.

However, the system prompted that players can't use the game's built-in forums before level 50, and posting messages can only be done if there's a sound transmission station in the village, and there aren't as many chat channels as there were in previous games.

This caused me a lot of distress, because unlike other players who can go offline and communicate on other sites, I basically can't leave the game. And there are no admins in this game, everything is controlled by the computer and there is no way to reflect the situation. Now I'm no different from playing a single player game.

Now, I am most eager to open the village's teleportation array, so I want to see the "living" ah. However, it's not easy to reach a magic value of 10, and even with the village chief as a magician, the village only has 1 point of magic value. Even if I learn how to do magic, I'll only get 1 more point at most. I don't know how long it will be until the village has 10 magicians.

I repeatedly asked everyone about the keywords "magic" and "teleportation array". Finally, a knowledgeable vendor told me that in the direction of the neighboring village, there is a place called Blue Jade Mountain, where a magic crystal stone is hidden, which is said to be able to increase the magic value of the village. However, that mountain was more than a day's journey away from our village, and there were quite a few high-level monsters on the way, so it wasn't suitable for me to go there just yet.

Just when I was fully leveling and preparing to go to Blue Jade Mountain to look for magic crystals, an accident happened: I actually got sick!

From the previous games, I've never heard of a player getting sick. Getting sick in the game wasn't pleasant at all, my whole body was uncomfortable.

The village chief charged me 100 copper coins and cast a basic healing magic, but my condition was only controlled, and I didn't know how long it would take to be cured. I asked the village chief if there were any herbs that could cure me, and he told me that there was a herb called Red Fruit in the nearby Halfway Cliff that could cure this disease.

So angry, NPC's intelligence and emotional design is still not enough ah, the village chief and Ah Bao see me miserable like this, actually have no intention to help me to pick herbs.

I've always been strong, and I'm not willing to beg them, so I have to grit my teeth and drag my body, which is less than one-third of my usual capacity, on the road.

Along the way, the beasts that had been tortured by me finally found a chance to retaliate, and I had to put in several times more effort than usual to kill them. Only halfway through the journey, my blood pills were all depleted, so I had to return the way I came, take out all my money, and buy blood pills to get back on the road.

Three hours, I experienced the most grueling three hours of my life, including spending half an hour grinding a vulture to death on the mountainside of the Halfway Cliff, and finally found the "red fruit". Looking at the reddish fruit, I was almost in tears. Even in the past, when I killed the Ultimate BOSS and exploded a Divine Weapon, I wasn't as happy as I am now. Fantasy Journey, this is really a magical game world.

Eating the "Red Fruit", my ability value rebounded a little bit, and I collected some more for backup. In the process of searching on the mountain, I also accidentally found a few pieces of ore, based on my experience in other games, this should be the more precious Black Iron Ore and Blue Iron Ore. It seems that this is a piece of treasure, but it's a pity that there is no blacksmith in the village to acquire the ores.

Once again, I'm angry at the game for being unfair to me, being born in such a village, how can I compete with other players! But I don't care, who am I? I'm "Chris"! The more difficult the game is, the more I like it!

On the way back to the city, even though I had only recovered half of my strength, the feeling of killing monsters was indescribable.

I realized that my combat skills, after honing them in the face of adversity, had risen by a huge margin. In my excitement, I rose to level 14, and looked in amazement at the rewards I had received: strength 5, physique 5, agility 5, mental strength 5, and the chance of getting sick in the game had dropped to 5 out of 10,000

Surprise, absolute surprise, with 20 bonus points at a time, I knew that the gap brought about by my innate deficiencies had narrowed compared to other players of the same level. Other level 14 players, if they initially averaged 6 passing points, and the growth of the four major attributes were also averaged by taking 2 points each per level, they were now similar to me. In terms of players of the same level, I should be considered medium level now, ha.

The system is reporting, "Congratulations to player Demon God King for being the first to level up to 30, rewarded with 1000 prestige."

I was a bit surprised, doing some math, from the last time the system reported that this player was level 20 to now almost thirty hours, the ascension was too fast. I now 14 to 15 need experience to see, it is estimated that it will take three hours to level up, and the later the upgrade speed slower, do not know how he did it.

But on second thought, it's nothing. If I was born with all attributes above 8, and born in a big city where I can serve to earn money to buy equipment and enough potions, plus not having to rest for 24 hours, I probably won't be worse than him.

Could it be that that player is also a monster who doesn't rest for 24 hours?

Since I'm a "special growth type", if I don't get a high number of points per level, upgrading will be meaningless, so I don't have any desire to compete with others in leveling at the moment, I just want to fight more monsters while I'm sick. If I had known that the ability to fight monsters at full strength while sick was so great, I would have preferred to be sick for a few more days and not get well.

Selling the loot I cut on the way, this time, although my ability rose more, but I lost a lot of blood medicine, I lost half of my property. Rebuying the medicine, I pounced towards the territory of the level 18 Tigers while I was still sick.

Three hours later, finally rose to level 15, look at the rewards, dropped some: strength 4, constitution 4, agility 3, spirit 2, but the total reached 13 points, higher than the highest 12 points of ordinary players, and shortened the gap with others, it feels really good!

Didn't forget to look for the village chief to learn magic. The village chief could only teach two types of magic: "Elementary Healing" and "Elementary Fireball", which are the basic configuration of priests and mages in various games. The village chief was actually a dual-professional, a pervert. But if you think about your own strange all-around profession of "Apprentice", I'm afraid it's even more perverse.

Magic skills are much more expensive than life skills, or maybe the village chief is much more greedy than Ah Bao and the others? One of them costs 1 silver coin (1000 copper coins), and the tiger skin and bones that you've fought for three hours are considered to be wasted, and there's not even a lot of tiger meat left.

I learned two magic spells, and my MP was automatically increased by 10 points. Now I have HP75, MP30, every time I put a magic spell, I need 10 MP points. before the vendor sells magic potions, I can't use a lot of them (even if there are some, I don't have the money to buy them now, I've been squeezed dry by the village chief). However, looking at the power of the small fireballs that hit monsters with 20 blood per hit and the effect of the healing spell that increases blood by 20 per hit, my mood is still quite happy.

Now you don't need to take a stone to lure monsters. Put a small fireball and wait in place for the Manticore to come over. After spamming the tiger, I still have 30 blood left, add a healing spell, and my blood level is restored to two-thirds. Walk slowly for a while, find the next target, blood level up, blue level back to about the same, and then send fireballs, and so on, easy as pie. The Manticore is now garbage as well, and I don't use costly medicine at all.

I was just using this method to relax my nerves after thirty-six hours of tightness. In order to get higher growth, I had to increase the difficulty of the battles, in other words, "self-mutilation"? After earning enough money to buy blood pills, I stopped using healing spells and used all my MP on small fireballs, and instead of slowly returning blood and blue, I rushed towards the tiger when my magic ran out.

After four hours of spamming, I finally rose to level 16. This time, in addition to Strength 3, Physique 2, Agility 2, Spirit 3, and HP +10, due to the use of magic, the MP growth rate also increased significantly to 5.