Since Xiao Hua's level, naturally he needs to fight monsters at level 9 or above to get full experience. In the new player village, the small monsters that meet this condition are the 9-level Skit Rabbit, the 10-level Green Bean Frog, and the 10-level Yoyo Monkey.
Ski Rabbit is a violent boxer wearing a black headband and red boxing gloves. When it has only one-fifth of its HP left, it will enter a bloodthirsty state, where even a slight mistake by the character can result in a crazy and dazzling combo attack. Although being careful is completely safe, Xiao Hua, for his master reward, hesitated not at all and gave up.
Jade frog has no special features, it's just very small. Its body is as small as a green bean, and it takes a lot of effort to stare at it. After looking at it for too long, your eyes will hurt. Xiao Hua didn't want to play a game and accidentally get nearsighted, so he gave up!
It's still better to be a leisurely monkey. The male is pitifully stupid, and the female is cute in her stupidity, only jumping up and down in the bamboo forest. Xiao Hua arrived at the refresh point of the leisurely monkey, a lush bamboo forest, where five daggers were harvesting experience one by one.
From then on, the peaceful life of the innocent and carefree monkeys was completely shattered...
Two months later, a dead monkey MM named Youxi fell under Xiao Hua's dagger. A white light flashed on Xiao Hua's body, and his level rose to level seventeen. Killing Youxi monkeys no longer provided any experience.
A sneak, Xiao Hua planned to quickly run back to the slime refresh point to continue slaying slime, but he received a system prompt.
System prompt: Stealth has been upgraded to Master level!
System prompt: Congratulations, you are the first to upgrade the stealth skill to master level. The duration of stealth is extended by 5 minutes.
Stealth (Master): 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 150%, and movement speed increases by 30%. The state lasts for 20 minutes, with a cooldown of 5 minutes. After the state disappears, you cannot use this skill again within 30 seconds.
The rewards for being a master of stealth are mediocre, but not bad. However, Xiao Hua has already understood the system's settings and is mentally prepared, so he does not feel disappointed at all.
The principle is very simple. The basis for determining the rewards of high and low levels is the number of players who learn such skills. The skill of identification can be said to be a skill that every combat player will learn, and the reward for master-level identification is naturally much better than the stealth skill which only assassins and thieves learn.
Back to the slime respawn point, another month passed.
That evening, when another poor slime was pierced with a big hole by Xiao Hua and fell into the blood pool, Xiao Hua finally received a good news that he had been uncertain about!
System prompt: You have killed 500,000 monsters in the new player village area. Your heroic deeds have spread throughout the human villages on the entire Alen continent, and you have been awarded the title of "Eternal Village Hero"!
Eternal Village Hero: This title does not need to be worn to take effect, and it increases the charisma of all human NPCs on village-level maps by +10.
Finally, his efforts were not in vain. He had been thinking that since killing monsters for 50,000 would reward him, he should still be rewarded for continuing to kill!
Then Xiao Hua began to consciously try to kill as many monsters as possible. After there was no experience from killing level 10 monsters, he simply returned to kill the slime at level 1.
But what he didn't expect was that the next level of reward required killing 500,000 monsters. If his thieving skill had already reached the master level, he would have given up.
In the village map, the human NPC's charm is increased by +10. This is a pretty good reward. According to Xiao Hua's knowledge, there are quite a few village maps in the wilderness map, but unfortunately he didn't have time during the internal test, so he never did much research and wasn't sure how valuable this eternal village hero title was.
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However, the system would not design useless titles. Xiao Hua was very sure about this.
At this point, Xiao Hua had nothing else to do except upgrade his theft to a master level. Even if there were any subsequent rewards for continuing to kill monsters in the new player village, it would probably be an astronomical number of kills. After killing several months of monsters with one stab each, Xiao Hua now felt nauseous just thinking about killing monsters, and he would never continue doing so.
After deciding not to kill monsters anymore, Xiao Hua looked at his skills. Except for thievery which was still a master level, gathering had reached an advanced level in the past three months and was probably close to expert level. The only skill that remained intermediate was cooking, which hadn't been used much in over ten months.
Gathering is only an auxiliary skill and does not belong to the scope of life skills. Upgrading also does not have additional attribute rewards. Xiao Hua thought about it, and decided to practice cooking while leveling up his thieving skill to master level, and then upgrade it to level one, adding two attribute points would be good.
Xiao Hua started his old profession again, luring a slime on the riverbank to practice stealing skills. Then he fished while cooking, and as soon as a fish was caught, he immediately used the cooking skill to cook it on the cooking equipment set up nearby.
It takes ten minutes to cook once, and it is also a very time-consuming life skill. After two weeks, Xiao Hua's cooking skills still haven't had time to upgrade, but his stealing skills finally reached perfection!
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 level differences, with a 20% chance to obtain equipment or money from players, and a 30% chance to obtain equipment or money from NPCs. The cooldown time is 5 minutes.
Master of theft, master of appraisal, master of stealth, master of fishing. Looking at his full set of master-level skills, Xiao Hua couldn't help but feel a little giddy.
He had practiced hard for a whole year, and finally he could leave the new player village and go out to explore the world.
However, Xiao Hua was not in a hurry to leave. When leaving the village, the system would provide several cities for him to choose based on the number of players in each city. He would be directly teleported there. This was a rare teleportation opportunity. The teleportation array system in the Second World had yet to open, and players could travel from one city to another by airship. Players above level 30 could also ride mounts.
Xiao Hua now wonders which city is about to fight the big boss, and then go in to stir things up! He worked hard to master the skill of theft for this very reason.
After the character goes offline, Xiao Hua chose to log in to the official game forum. The game forum can only be connected when the character is offline, which ensures the fairness of the game.
In general, the forum is divided into three major sections. The first section is the career section, where each profession has its own small section, filled with countless professional experiences. Due to the high degree of openness in the game, choices of attributes, skill combinations, attribute points, equipment selection, and skill combos can all become topics that are never-ending discussions.
The second is the city section, where every major event in each city is recorded. Finding teams, selling and buying equipment, hiring assassins, seeking relationships, seeking mating, etc., all happen here daily without getting boring.
The third is the BOSS section. Those who haven't seen a BOSS can come here to see its appearance. Whenever a large guild in any city prepares to form a team to push a large BOSS, this place will have the latest and fastest news. If both the BOSS and the guild preparing to push it are big names, there may even be reporters following to report, and it's possible to see live posts or even live videos here!
In the Huaxia region, dozens of cities have bosses being pushed every day. The key is how famous the boss is and whether it's still a virgin. When a boss is pushed too much, few people will pay attention anymore. After all, once a boss has been pushed many times, even if the dropped items are extremely rare, they're limited in quantity.
Xiao Hua directly entered the Boss area. As soon as he went in, he saw a sea of posts, either promoting experience for killing Bosses or videos about killing Bosses. Xiao Hua didn't know how many players there were in the Chinese server, but just looking at the long strings of viewing and reply numbers behind those posts, his head started to spin.
Xiao Hua had no intention of pushing the boss, he just wanted to "steal" the boss. Ignoring those exaggerated tips on pushing bosses, Xiao Hua opened the "rumor mill" category. In this category, almost all posts were about union preparations for pushing bosses.
At present, the number of members of the game trade union is tens of thousands, as few as hundreds. It is not generally difficult to push BOSS, a large-scale activity that requires a large number of people, to hide it and secretly. Therefore, the powerful trade union simply did not hide it, and openly indicated which BOSS it was going to push. As to whether anyone would make trouble or wait for the BOSS's blood to drop almost before taking the opportunity to rob, it depends on whether anyone has the strength and courage.
However, in many cases, these rumors are also used to confuse people's eyes. Many unions secretly sent people to say they would push this boss, but it was actually a ruse to lure the tiger away. On the day of pushing the boss, they went to push another boss instead, which is also quite common.
To determine whether a message is true or false, the simplest way is to look at who posted the message. All major unions have specially certified message posting personnel in the forum, and the messages they post are 99% not fake!
Xiao Hua, after entering the classified section, first saw a top-breaking news BOSS message that was pushed to the front!