Xiao Hua's idea is simple, he wants to practice his stealing skills to master level before leaving the new player village!
How long does it take to master a skill, especially a skill like thievery with such a long cooldown?
No one knows that the experience gained from killing monsters and using skills during the internal testing was five times as much. After two months of internal testing, no one has reported reaching the master level in thievery at the end of the internal testing period.
However, Xiao Hua was lucky during the beta test and received a random world task ring. In the second-to-last ring, he obtained an unsealed dark gold dagger. To complete the last ring, he had to first remove the seal on the dagger, which could be done by killing ten thousand monsters with it and washing away the seal with their blood!
Normally, this kind of task must require killing monsters that are at least five levels higher than oneself to be effective. However, since it was in the internal test phase, the requirements for the task were lowered, and due to the good mood of the manager, the demon princess Aivou, when accepting the task, the NPC hinted to him that actually killing monsters one level lower would also have an effect.
At that time, Xiao Hua's level was 38. All monsters below level 10 were instantly killed. To kill ten thousand monsters, Xiao Hua roughly calculated it. If he killed ten per minute, with an online time of 18 hours a day, 1080 minutes in total, at least one thousand could be killed, which would take about ten days.
After ten days, Xiao Hua sat in the new player village and frantically killed slime monsters at a distance from the new player village. However, when Xiao Hua had killed about 50,000 monsters, he received system information.
System prompt: You have killed 50,000 monsters in the new player village area. The villagers are showing their respect for your efforts to maintain peace in the new player village by giving you the title of "Guardian of the New Player Village"!
The title system is another very important system in the second world. All titles have special functions, as long as you replace a specific title on the attribute panel, it can increase one or several attributes of the character!
"Newbie Village Guardian" title Xiao Hua had never heard of before. At that time, he stopped killing monsters and opened his attribute panel to check the title's effect.
Newbie Village Guardian: After wearing this title, in all human main cities under the jurisdiction of the Chinese region, you will be respected by the village NPCs, enjoy a 80% discount on purchases, and can purchase hidden items.
After Xiao Hua returned to the new player village, NPCs who usually ignored players showed a smile when they saw him. Entering the weapon shop, when Xiao Hua opened the item list, he found that there was a green equipment in the store which only sold white board equipment! Surprised, Xiao Hua immediately bought one out to take a look.
When he looked, Xiao Hua was even more shocked. This weapon turned out to be a set of accessories!
The technician's fine knife (dagger): attack 2 - 7, level 5 can be equipped. One of the technician's Smile Kit, not tradeable, not stealable, and drops disappear.
Normally, green equipment would have an additional attribute, but this green dagger has none. However, when Xiao Hua saw the effect of having a complete set, he was surprised again.
Set: The Thief's Smile
The technician's fine knife: 1/1
Technician's Leather Armor: 0/1
Technician's Leather Wristguard: 0/1
The technician's leather shoes: 0/1
Technician's Leather Leggings: 0/1
The technician's silver necklace: 0/1
The technician's golden ring: 0/1
The technician's smile: The skill upgrade requires a reduction of 5% in expertise.
The skill upgrade proficiency is reduced by 5%, which is equivalent to adding 5 points of wisdom!
Xiao Hua went to other equipment stores and bought out all the sets. Then he realized that this seemingly useful set of equipment was a blessing for life players, but it was not very useful for battle players. The full set of green armor added some attributes higher than the white board equipment at level 1, which meant that wearing this set of equipment would allow you to skip leveling up by killing monsters.
There is this set of equipment for sale in the new player village, and it should also be available in other places. However, I don't know what attributes it has. But based on the experience gained from two months of testing, Xiao Hua can confidently say that the guardian title sets in other areas will definitely not have an attribute that reduces skill proficiency!
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This can be seen from the reading skills and the technician's smile attribute. The official setting is that either you sacrifice level to practice skills, or you sacrifice skills to practice level.
People who play games, except for pure life players, can say that very few people do not want their level to be high. Only with a higher level can they gain greater satisfaction and sense of accomplishment in the game. In the end, practicing skills is also for better and faster leveling up. Sacrificing levels to practice skills is something many people will not do until later stages of the game.
Even if Xiao Hua, who just wanted to play and kill time, had to hesitate for half a day. He didn't like to compete, but he didn't like being bullied by others!
The reason why Xiao Hua chose the profession of thief was that he thought the skill of stealing was very interesting. In reality, stealing is against the law. Even if it is not discovered, conscience will be condemned. But in the game, stealing is not illegal, stealing success can also get a huge sense of success. Advanced skills, I think you are not happy, I can steal your equipment, let you heartbroken, more enjoyable than killing a person! Besides, you can also steal BOSS. If you steal an artifact, you will get rich overnight. If you don't like it, you will kill whoever you see!
It's very satisfying to play YY, but players who have played thieves know that it is another matter. During the two months of internal testing, most people had their thieving skills trained to master level, but the success rate for stealing from monsters and players five levels higher than themselves was close to zero. After the official modification of the thieving skill, those who were originally full of enthusiasm for thieves calmed down and thought about whether it was worth training thieves again after public operation.
Because thieves, besides having a single skill of stealing, are a very mediocre profession. They don't have high output skills and many teams openly refuse to level up with thieves. Without team support, leveling as a thief means enduring the pain of soloing and being looked down upon. Once you can't bear it anymore and delete your character to start over, not only will your equipment and level be behind, but your skills will also lag far behind others.
Xiao Hua also considered switching to other professions after the second world was publicly operated, because he had a difficult-to-master stealing skill, which was almost as useless as not having it. However, after completing the last task in the task ring and receiving a reward of being able to upgrade any skill by one level, Xiao Hua immediately affirmed his determination to continue practicing as a thief.
When Xiao Hua raised his master-level stealing skill to the level of a grandmaster, he received a system prompt and the stealing skill had a major change!
System prompt: Thievery has been upgraded to master level!
System prompt: Congratulations, you are the first to raise the skill of theft to master level. The success rate of using the skill of theft on NPCs increases by 5%!
Stealing (Master level): Ignore the level difference, with a 20% chance to obtain equipment or money from players, and a 30% chance to obtain equipment or money from NPCs.
So Xiao Hua decided that not only would he train as a thief, but also be the first to upgrade his skills to master level!
Xiao Hua is a guy who is lazy like an insect without a goal, but once he has a goal, he can be as diligent as a dragon. As soon as War Double leaves, Xiao Hua plans to immediately go outside to start practicing skills, but before he leaves the village, he receives a system prompt that there is new mail.
Ran to the village mailbox to retrieve the mail, and found an attachment with a stealth skill book and a message from War Without Doubt: "The boy who calls people's wives, remember that you owe me 10 silver coins. I don't need the money, just bring it along when you go out to pick up girls." Well, it's fine to send it by mail!
Xiao Hua smiled and knew that Zhan Wushuang had bought him a skill first. He couldn't help but feel warm in his heart. He wanted to send an email back, but he only had two silver coins left on him, so poor that they jingled.
When he tapped on the skill book, Xiao Hua also learned the skill of stealth.
Stealth (Beginner): Blend your shadow into the surrounding environment, making enemies unable to detect your whereabouts. In this state, character defense is reduced by 50%, next attack increases by 50%, and movement speed increases by 10%. The state lasts for 2 minutes, with a cooldown of 5 minutes. After the state disappears, you cannot use this skill again within 30 seconds.
Stealth is also one of the most useful skills for thieves. However, if the skill level is not high enough, the thief in stealth will be exposed by the eagle eyes of hunters and archers, as well as the true eye of wizards. Therefore, stealth is also a skill that must be diligently practiced.
However, Xiao Hua does not intend to go out of Xinjian Village in order to sneak this skill. Xinjian Village 2012 is just one of the many players in the real Xinjian Village. Soon there will not be many players pouring in. Here he can practice his skills at ease. Outside, even if you don't cause trouble, there will always be trouble to find the upper body. Once you die in a dispute with someone, even if you lose your experience, your skill proficiency will also drop 10% of the current level!
This number may not seem like much, but if you reach the master level and are about to advance to the grandmaster level, a 10% proficiency will definitely be more than enough to go from beginner to advanced!
With the remaining money, Xiao Hua bought a backpack of buns to restore his strength and rushed towards the place where he had slaughtered the slime.
Slimes are located in a place far from the new player village. There are monsters of levels 1 to 10 in this area, but they are not quest monsters and were specially designed for players who like to fight monsters and level up. However, when everyone knows that completing quests is much faster than fighting monsters, there are few people here. Xiao Hua walked along the way and only saw a few players scattered around.
The HP of a level 1 slime is only 30, and Xiao Hua can kill one with a single dagger. At this speed, he should be able to wear the Technician's Smile set in about five or six days!
While fighting monsters, Xiao Hua's hands were not idle either. He used skills like stealth, theft, identification and gathering, occasionally using skills that didn't consume much MP. Otherwise, with his limited blue, it would really be insufficient.
It has been six days.
System prompt: You have killed 50,000 monsters in the new player village area. The villagers are showing their respect for your efforts to maintain peace in the new player village by giving you the title of "Guardian of the New Player Village"!
It was evening, and the sky was getting darker. Xiao Hua finally waited for the system prompt he had been looking forward to.