Good news, the traps aren't refreshed! Bad news, the experience of the Cannibal Grass minions became less! After level four, the Cannibal Grass minion's experience of a hundred or so was cut directly to 45, which slowed down Wang Shui's speed of acquiring the next skill grid.
It was good that the battles in SAO weren't as boring as other RPGs. Although it was also staring at one type of monster and brushing it, and the monsters' appearance wouldn't change, this highly anthropomorphic virtual reality world was completely different for every battle.
Every step you took, every sword you swung, even a slight change in the terrain, as long as any of the conditions changed, it could lead to an unknown situation for the rest of the battle. Of course for Wang Shui, the main thing that changed for him was that the posture of the little old cannibal grasses was not quite the same every time they fell into the trap.
Each Maneater Grass that fell into the trap was like money that fell into Wang Shui's pocket, so even though he had been brushing for more than a day, he didn't feel a bit of boredom. Now that it was noon on the fifth day of game time, the players in the second and third echelons nearby began to multiply, and the later players were basically in groups.
These weren't too many people for this brush field, but ever since someone saw and started imitating Wang Shui's traps, Wang Shui knew that this place couldn't stay any longer. The refresh rate of the monsters here would soon not be able to keep up with the speed of the players killing the monsters. Wang Shui didn't care about people imitating him, he also taught other players the parameters of the traps and the method of carbonizing the wooden spikes.
Those who were able to come here today were all future high-end players, so it would be good to help each other out and make good karma. Wang Shui wasn't shy like Master Tong, of course he wasn't a social colonizer. The district cannibal grass is just, Wang Shui now the town's warehouse has saved nearly a thousand [cannibal grass of honey], there are still more than two hundred bottles on the body, even if he did not brush the vomit, but also should be changed to a monster colony to brush the material. The only regret is that this game won't drop a [Cannibal Grass Banner] to commemorate his monster brushing journey.
Just before noon, there was a break in the refreshment of the Cannibal Grass, Wang Shui didn't want to wait, he decisively organized the props bar and got up to go on the road. Now time is still early there is no need to go back to the village, Wang Shui intends to go forward to explore, deep into the dense forest to find the red spotted beetle brush point, there are people from the front back to say that the beetle area seems to have some heaps of monsters, single player damage is not enough speed is not enough, it is difficult to rush through. Therefore, the people in the village who are brushing the [Sword of Toughness] and seeking to form a team have started to increase.
Wang Shui was just trying to find out what was going on, and with enough supplies and a spare Sword of Toughness in his backpack, it shouldn't be too much of a problem to go to the edge of the so-called "Beetle Zone" and dabble around a little bit. Yes, yesterday morning, he swiped another little old girl with a thorn on top, and the little old girl contributed a spare sword to him. The process of exploring deeper went smoother than Wang Shui had imagined.
Especially since there were more and more squads practicing along the way, not only would they clear the man-eating grasses, but they wouldn't let go of the monsters that were refreshed in small quantities like mountain pigs, wolves, and deer. But as soon as they entered the outskirts of the so-called Beetle Zone, the number of players in the vicinity went straight to zero, and the trees became even more dense, there should still be sunlight during this time of noon, but now it was shaded as well.
Wang Shui carefully traversed the bushes without a path, slowly advancing for about half an hour, before finally discovering the so-called "beetle area". The area where the man-eating grass was refreshed was not called the "Man-eating Grass Area", and this area was called the "Area" because of the red, yellow, blue, and green ocean in front of Wang Shui's eyes - the ocean of bugs. After a short gap, the trees changed from huge broadleaf trees to some shorter fruit trees, but most of them were as tall as a three or four story building. Above and below these fruit trees that bore fruit randomly regardless of the season, huge bugs of about one meter in size crawled everywhere, from beetles to worms, in a variety of forms and colors.
A glance at the hundreds of huge bugs of various colors, the shock to Wang Shui was still quite large, and an entomophobic player would probably die on the spot if he took a look at them. Goosebumps appeared uncontrollably, Wang Shui endured the discomfort to check it out, and soon he realized that the dense swarm of bugs was not much. He meandered around the edge of the "Beetle Zone" and bypassed the area with a lot of fruit trees, so the density of bugs dropped quite a bit, but walking a few steps to a large bug in the forest is enough to make an insectophobic player die a few times.
Wang Shui had previously seen posts on the Raiders forum that described the beetles rather sparingly and simply. The raiders only said that beetles had high defense and little desire to attack, and that worms moved slowly but had poor experience and drops. Now it seemed likely that there weren't so many worms gathering during the internal beta, otherwise this hellish sight wouldn't have been ignored by the players.
Compared to the emotion and fear, Wang Shui had other calculations in his mind instead, he pulled out a reagent bottle that he had watched vomit in the past few days: [Nectar of Cannibal Grass] [Item Type: Material, Consumable] [Quantity: 500ml*223] [Description: Predatory digestive fluid of the ferocious Cannibal Grass, with a certain degree of toxicity and corrosive properties, with sweet and refreshing scent, and is extremely appealing to nectar-loving organisms (insects, birds, rats, etc.). It has a strong attraction to nectar-loving creatures (insects, birds, rodents, etc.). Cannibalism relies on its own synthesized honey to attract, paralyze, kill, and digest its prey, and also spits honey to attack].
Obviously, honey is helpful in raiding these beetles, and this coincidence can be explained based on the sequential distribution of monsters. So, with such an obvious detail of raiding, did no one notice it during the internal beta? Maybe no one was exercising their [Gathering] skills at the time, or maybe those who found it didn't pay attention to it; after all, the beetles might not have been so ubiquitous at the time. Thinking more and asking more questions was one of Wang Shui's few strengths, although it also led to his forward-looking personality.
Now that the opportunity to develop a strategy for brushing the beetles was in front of him, and in the face of a large amount of monster resources that no one cared about, he also put aside his hesitation for now. The first thing to do now was to confirm the function of the honey and find a means to use this prop to brush monsters, but the description of "extremely strong attraction" in the description made Wang Shui not dare to open it directly. So he first gently threw the glass reagent bottle onto a thick patch of meadow, and retreated at an angle where he could see the glass bottle all the time, until he was more than ten meters away. Then he felt out a pebble from the leather pocket on his waist, the pebble was only slightly larger than a coin, smooth and thick, very comfortable to hold in the hand, very suitable for throwing use.
Wang Shui was going to use the pebble to smash the reagent bottle and observe the effect. Throwing a stone at a distance of more than twenty meters to hit something the size of a fist is not a simple thing, two days ago Wang Shui really couldn't do it, in these few days he was crazy about throwing stones and pulling monsters, which greatly exercised his throwing ability, of course, it was limited to stones. Force from the ground, Wang Shui mobilized the whole body muscles, grinding feet twisting legs turning waist, right arm like a whip flinging, in the position of arriving at the feeling, gently pinch grip of the right hand thumb, index finger and middle finger to loosen. The movement was fast and smooth, the pebble shot out from Wang Shui's hand like a line, hitting the glass reagent bottle in an almost straight line.
Wang Shui had long gotten used to the current strength bonus, and now the character in the game was considered to be a superhuman physique for an ordinary person in reality. The reagent bottle shattered under the muffled sound of a snap, and the sound didn't attract the attention of the bugs a few meters away, but only three or four seconds later, Wang Shui suddenly felt a tingle down his spine - the swarm of bugs had moved. The picture was too shocking as the giant bugs moved like a march. Beetle worms of various colors around the size of one meter came overwhelmingly towards Wang Shui's vicinity, and Wang Shui, who had practiced a little bit of guts by recently brushing monsters, immediately withdrew with soft legs. After quickly escaping a hundred meters and finding that the worms didn't follow him, Wang Shui carefully moved back.
The whole process actually took about a minute, Wang Shui went back and realized that the bugs didn't charge at him, they just stopped at the bottle's position. Now that the swarm of bugs had regained their composure, they were crawling back to their original position, and there were still seven or eight beetles left near the shattered glass bottle. These beetles had two icons of paralysis and poisoning on their heads and were shaking around the glass bottle. The paralysis effect quickly disappeared, and the beetles turned back to the swarm as if nothing had happened, while Wang Shui kept staring at the "-15", "-15"...... poisoning that emerged on their heads. Damage, there was no poisoning damage that made the beetles hostile! How much total damage?
With his eyes fixed on the last damage numbers that popped up and disappeared, Wang Shui realized that the few injured beetles only had about a third of their life value left! Around six hundred to eight hundred, such a number popped up in his head. The strategy guide recorded that the blood quantity of beetles hovered around 1,000 to 1,500, and it highlighted their rather strong defense ability; worms and flying insects would have a lower life value and defense ability, but there would be a make-up in their attack power or attack method.
Taking the blood range as a rough estimate, if the honey's poison damage was a fixed value, Wang Shui estimated the value to be 750, meaning roughly 15 points of damage per second for 50 seconds? Hiss - Group Poison Damage, Pre-Brush? Hard to ...... Could it be, "Strangling Neck Gas Potion"? Is this still the world of sword techniques? Kayaba Jinghiko would actually design this kind of monster brushing method, could it be an escape prop for players who are afraid of bugs?
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It was useless to consider this now, these horrible monsters in Wang Shui's eyes had already turned into experience, kor and materials, he began to move along the periphery of this beetle area, placing honey glass bottles as he went, and by the time he had gone around in a semi-circle, more than sixty bottles had already been placed. This kind of item that was actively placed for display would not be judged as lost or discarded for a long time, this was something Wang Shui had already tested with the wooden spikes in the trap. After the bottles were set up, Wang Shui began to run back along the original path, and while running, he also felt out pebbles to smash the bottles closest to him along the way. This time, Wang Shui was so close to the bottles that he didn't need much strength, so he didn't even need to stop his feet. By the time he spent three minutes running back to the starting point where he placed the bottles, his level had already come to level five.
The first batch of bugs had long since finished dying, and what followed was a much more dense and consistent stream of kill prompts! The kill pop-ups didn't stop for fifty seconds, Wang Shui had set it to automatically close, but the pop-ups were still continuous. The golden light flared up again, and Wang Shui arrived at level six, and by the time the experience bar slowly braked, he wasn't much farther from level seven.
Wang Shui didn't know how many bugs he had killed,......, in fact, he could also know, because the bugs' corpses were affected by the [Gathering] skill and didn't refresh, and now along the edge of the fruit forest there was a "mountain of bug corpses". The image wasn't much better than when they were alive, but that wasn't the limit! The next picture will probably scare the average person to death, so I won't describe it in detail, but I'll tell you a little story here.
Once upon a time there was a miser who got a bunch of gold, and he loved it so much, he loved the feeling of being surrounded by it. So he melted the gold into tiny gold meters, and stroked these gold meters every day, feeling them surrounded by the feeling of the palm of his hand. One day, these golden rice were accidentally eaten by more than a hundred chickens, the miser, furious, covered his mouth and nose with old linen clothes, picked up the [Bronze Sword] and began to chop up these one hundred chickens one by one, until the Bronze Sword's durability was used up, and he switched to the [Sword of Toughness and Refinement], the green blood of the chickens soaked through the linen clothes, and every breath was a thick, fishy stench, but still, the miser dismembered the chickens with a serious look on his face.
After greeting the nine clans of the flavor design engineers, the miser finally got back all of his possessions and then fell headfirst onto a clean meadow, smiling greedily while shedding tears. Well, that's how the story goes. When Wang Shui climbed up from the meadow, the entire woodland had already regained its peace and tidiness.
Sporadically there had been bugs refreshed, only now Wang Shui's stomach turned a little when he saw them. That old linen dress was left by him in a far away place, only the stains on it could not be refreshed, it needed to be cleaned in order to remove the [Dirty] status, but Wang Shui never wanted to touch it again. Trying hard to delete the images in his mind cleanly, Wang Shui looked at this woodland full of fruit trees with his eyes lifelessly, gathering his spirit in numbness. When he was practicing his [Gathering] skill in ......, he had wanted to find out the reason for the "chicken" infestation over here, but halfway through, well, maybe about a third of the way through, his consciousness entered a state of self-preservation.
Now that the woodland was much cleaner and the air was fresher, Wang Shui strolled around as if he was taking a walk. Then without any surprise, he saw a treasure chest in a small clearing where the forest floor was overgrown with bushes. The huge golden treasure box actually emitted a glittering green light, at this time Wang Shui already did not have the intelligence to analyze why there would be a treasure box outside the labyrinth area, and did not think too much about whether it would be a treasure box monster and directly opened it. More than a meter high huge gold treasure chest inside is a red brocade decorated display table, there is a five centimeter square huge green jewelry in the middle of the table.
The left side of the jewelry was embossed with S-shaped vines, the right side only had thin tendrils, the top of the upturned leaves were exquisite, and under the cover of the vines was a curved jade surface that emitted a lime green light, the whole was exquisite and unusual.
Wang Shui reached out and picked up the jewelry, and the brocade table disappeared along with the treasure chest. [Special Equipment - Supernatural Instinct] [Equipment Type: Amulet/Jewelry/Pendant] [Level Requirement: None] [Special Effect 1: All attribute bonuses originating from equipped items are nullified.] 【Special Effect 2: All self-exercise effects are doubled.] [Special Effect 3: Naturally recovers 5% of maximum life value per second, and all gain effects are increased by 100%] [Description: "I don't know how I know, but I just know."] Ah ...... this? It's actually an amulet-type equipment, something that was barely discussed on the Raider Forums for the simple reason that it was so rare.
With only a single-digit amount of public information available in the internal beta, amulet-type equipment typically had words for life value and attributes, and the particularly great ones had special effects. Inside the ten equipment compartments of a player character's mannequin, necklaces, two rings, and amulets are the hardest to get. Among them, necklaces and rings have less effective store goods in the city, the fine jewelry in the internal test only came out on the BOSS, as for the amulet's production is even less. This jewelry is still not add attributes of special effects class, is this strength ...... king water is very confusing. The first special effect is a purely negative effect, directly disabling all attribute additions on the equipment.
Sword and Sworcery SAO is a quite dependent on equipment-driven game, the internal test we found that the attributes of the equipment across a large degree, the value of the impact of this game intuitive and obvious, just based on the first effect, Wang Shui would dare to assert that this hanging jewelry is definitely not a later stage of the equipment. Effect two, doubling the expression of the intuitive, suspicious is obviously below the way to improve the description of 100%, why also use the doubling of such a vague text concept? In order to facilitate the calculation should not write numbers?
Moreover, this "workout effect" is not a keyword, there is no such word as workout effect. Does this exercise refer to the exercise of attributes or the exercise of skill proficiency? However, both attributes and skills have upper limits, so even if you double the exercise effect, you'll only reach full level earlier, and the skills you mainly use will definitely reach full level. Special effect two would probably save a lot of time, and overall it was quite useful. In Wang Shui's opinion, the most ribald was the third one.
Only 5% max life recovery was also too bad in the early stages, a thousand blood was only 50 back in a second, not much better than a potion. Especially for Wang Shui, not fatally wounded he can slowly drink life potion, suffered a large number of consecutive injuries, really go to bet once the monster just did not second him? The third special effect was obviously the higher the blood the stronger, but according to the first special effect, with less of the [Physique (VIT)] attribute bonus on his equipment, how much blood would he have? Wang Shui's evaluation is that the self-contradictory chicken rib toy.
It was only this kind of early stage that this special equipment would come out in the first level of the ordinary dense forest, and the blood return on it was probably for the player to save potions in the early stage. Wang Shui opened the map and reduced the panel to the smallest, checking the map fog has been dispersed, sure enough, his current position is exactly the center of the first layer of the "Ai En Granter", this jewelry, probably half of the rewards of the maze outside the map strategy it.
The shape was quite exquisite, and putting it in the item bar was very curing of the collector's fetish, just that Wang Shui didn't expect it either, and he didn't get a single word of his analysis of this thing right. In Wang Shui's opinion, the special equipment could only be considered as an add-on, and this swarm of beetles suspected to be looking at the treasure chest was the biggest gain, in terms of initial capital.
In less than an hour's time, the materials Wang Shui had gotten had long exceeded the weight limit, and he had to sift through some cheap and heavy materials to pack them up and hide them, and then piggyback on them later when he passed by. Now Wang Shui, who was stuck at the edge of the load affecting his actions, would be overweight even if he carried one more stone on his body, so by all rights, he should go back to the village to unload the goods first, but the current location and time really made him a little embarrassed.
It was just after noon, if he went back, he wouldn't have the time to return to this location today, he could only go back and rob the monsters near the village with a group of people, or simply rest for half a day. After briefly considering it, Wang Shui decided to continue exploring ahead and try to keep moving forward as much as possible and not waste time dealing with monsters. His goal was to open the map, if he could find a village or some other supply point in front of him, it would be the best, if he couldn't find one, he would head back to catch up at 4:00 PM.
If he was just advancing, Wang Shui's speed was still very fast. He very swiftly traveled through the trees and was able to very skillfully find beast paths and judge the ground where he could land. Other than gathering herbs (which were very light), Wang Shui's steps basically never stopped, but when he encountered monsters, he would always take out a pamphlet and look at it twice. This pamphlet was the "Argo's Floor Raider's Manual: First Floor (Paid Version)" that had been released in advance.
On it was a relatively detailed record of the information of almost all of the common monsters on the first floor, including their attributes, locations, attack methods, drops, and so on. In addition to this, there are also verified high-value quests, attribute exercise intelligence provided by Wang Shui, and many other contents. Argo, who originally intended to help new players for free, eventually couldn't bear the cost burden, and she shelved both paid and free versions in the props store.
The free version had less content but was quite refined, enough for new players to quickly master the game and develop the good habit of raising their battle power in an orderly manner. The paid version also gives a large amount of undetermined intelligence information, as well as some newly discovered clues to rare items, and at 200 kor, it's worth every penny. Both versions have a [Special Attention] red title page, which lists many important matters that must be noted, such as the attribute exercise and retaining attribute points provided by Wang Shui, such as some special areas with particularly high danger, such as the best multi-player teams for players as well as the [Switching] technique and so on.
Wang Shui would also often take out the Raider's Handbook to verify the memorized Raider's information when he was resting, to see if there were any discrepancies. But now that he was reading the book on the prowl, it wasn't to find monster information, but he wanted to hurry up and obtain the [Concealment] skill. The Raider's Manual contained intelligence on various skills and sword techniques, in addition to the attributes of the skills themselves and the sword technique extensions, there were also suggestions for teaming up amongst the various players in the squad, suggestions for individual player skill pairings, as well as how to properly and efficiently use the sword techniques.
Wang Shui was just looking at the [Concealment] skill's trivia and usage techniques, and then practiced [Concealment] by taking advantage of the complex dense forest environment while rushing. There was only one new skill grid added at level 5, and if you didn't want to waste your number, you had to fill it with the most useful skills at the first opportunity.