Chapter 2: Cleverly Killing the Tiger King
Yang Tian was suddenly confused by this reward.
"Unlike other games, 'Tian Xia' does not have a newbie village. New players are randomly spawned anywhere in the selected region, so it's possible for newbies to encounter a den of tigers as soon as they enter the game. Imagine a weak and inexperienced player dropping into a tiger's lair - it's truly thrilling! Moreover, new players who haven't transferred to soldier class can only exert 30% of their strength, making it difficult for them to even kill a wild chicken."
If you had to choose, the best birthplace would be in a city. Because cities have barracks, newly born players can change their profession to soldier and receive systematic training to increase their combat power. More importantly, there are the most NPCs in the city, making it easiest to receive tasks. Building a village requires a Village Construction Order, which can only be obtained through two methods: completing tasks or killing bosses during exploration. However, even the lowest-level boss, the leader of a small mountain stronghold, is at least an intermediate general with hundreds of fourth-class soldiers under his command. Even if you defeat him, it's not guaranteed that you'll receive the Village Construction Order. Therefore, doing tasks is the best way to quickly obtain the Village Construction Order, which is also the feasible approach provided by the game in the early stages. The system will cancel the Village Construction Order task after two months. Of course, the Village Construction Order task is limited, with only 100 tasks available per county per day, and the difficulty is not low, with some steps requiring careful attention to avoid failure, which would prevent you from receiving the task again.
It seems to be a good reward, but there is another point. If the player does not establish a village, they will respawn in the nearest city after death. Although the death penalty is also a downgrade of one level, all items on the body can be picked up by others, and items in the package are randomly dropped. 10% of the money is dropped. But new players are only level 0, and there is nothing on their bodies. Even if they drop 10% of their money, it doesn't matter much.
So, this reward is purely a waste of resources, a true waste of resources.
However, this chicken rib that hit Yang Tian's head became a huge pie in the sky.
Because he had gaming experience from his past life, he knew some things that others did not know.
Yang Tian suppressed his excited mood, found a mountain peak by the sea in Yangzhou on the map, and then lightly clicked...
Shaking off the dizziness, Yang Tian looked around at his surroundings.
It is now just past noon in the game, with the sun slightly westward.
This is just a mountain peak about one mile in circumference, with thousands of years old trees growing on it, and vines entwining the dry rattan. Three sides are cliffs, hundreds of meters high from the foot of the mountain, and one side faces the sea. The west side is an even higher mountain peak, shrouded in clouds and mist, with the top invisible.
Yang Tian quickly ran to the north side of the mountain peak, looked down and felt his brain go black. After all, this cliff was too high, estimated to be around 400-500 meters, smooth as a mirror. When he saw the old tiger sleeping below, Yang Tian smiled triumphantly...
He remembered that below was a cave, inside which were two things of extraordinary significance. One of them had changed his life in the previous world and left him with endless anger.
"How can history repeat itself? Besides, I know the trajectory of history!" Yang Yang muttered with a pout.
However, at the entrance of the cave, there was a tiger guarding it. The lowest level of the tiger is 60, but Yangyang knew that this tiger was an 80-level BOSS named Leiyun Tiger. In his previous life, when Yangtian came here, it had been almost a year since the game started, and his own level was already close to 40. He also brought with him an NPC high-ranking general and a hundred-man team of fourth-rank gunners. But when he killed this tiger, on his side, only he and that one general who still had a breath left were alive, which shows how formidable the tiger was.
This time, Yang Tianke didn't plan to fight the big cat head-on. With his current 0-level abilities, he couldn't even compare to a first-tier soldier, and estimated that even with thousands or tens of thousands of himself, he still wouldn't be able to kill this old tiger.
"Man is man because he can make and use tools." Yang Tian was very pleased with himself.
Yang Tian was born here with ulterior motives, because he planned to throw a huge stone from above to smash the tiger to death. The stone fell from such a height, not to mention the 70-level tiger, even if it were a saint-level historical warrior who was hit, it would be estimated that they would be smashed to pieces.
But Yang Tian is now penniless, and the system didn't give any newcomer anything except for that one set of newbie linen clothes with no attributes on his body.
Yang Tian soon found a large stone, estimated to be around 400-500 catties in weight, roughly spherical in shape, which made it easier for him to pry the stone down. Afterwards, Yang Tian found countless mountain vines and tied them together into an extremely long rope, then tied one end of the rope to a large tree.
Then he found a sturdy wooden stick to pry up the stone, and Yang Tian began his own work...
However, for the aiming position, Yang Tian really put in some effort. After all, with such a great height, if he didn't hit it, he would disturb the tiger, and the next opportunity would be even more elusive.
Seeing this giant boulder rapidly falling, Yang Tian's heart was lifted up to his throat.
"Boom...... howl......" Only a loud noise was heard from the foot of the mountain, followed by a long and mournful scream, but this scream was indeed more miserable than before...
"Big Brother Tiger! You must die! You have to die! The sky is about to darken, I don't have the patience to wait until tomorrow!" Hearing the mournful roars coming from the mountain below, Yang Tian's heart kept praying.
He stretched his head out to take a look and vaguely saw that the tiger was lying on the ground, struggling constantly, but it had no ability to climb up from the ground.
After a while, the tiger's struggles grew weaker and weaker. Yang Tian was overjoyed, it seemed that everything was under control. So he threw down the rope he had prepared early on.
After more than ten minutes, Yang Tian climbed down the cliff along the rope, but he was also exhausted and lay on the ground like a dog.
After waiting for his physical strength to recover slightly, Yang Tian finally stood up and walked towards the tiger. The tiger was now only left with a breath of air, without even the energy to moan, and the ground was also filled with fresh blood.
Yang Tian swung his slightly sore arm and laughed from afar: "Old brother, you look quite desolate now, I'll see you off on your way!"
As he spoke, Yang Tian picked up a stone the size of a washbasin from the ground and smashed it towards the tiger's head...
After smashing more than a dozen stones in such a way, the tiger finally swallowed its last breath. It died quite miserably.
At the moment of the tiger's smoke, Yang Tian also received a system prompt:
"Congratulations, you have killed the 80-level BOSS Lei Yun Hu, gaining 100,000 experience points. Due to your level being over 70 while killing monsters, your experience gain is increased by 800%. As you are the first player in the entire server to kill this BOSS, you are specially rewarded with 5 free attribute points and 100 reputation points."
Yang Tian laughed with his mouth wide open, this old tiger's level was indeed high enough, contributing rich experience to himself, directly letting him rise to 17th level. Transcending levels to kill monsters is just great! Yang Tian thought to himself.
Players below level 50 gain 2 free attribute points per level up, levels 50-90 gain 5 free attribute points per level up, and above level 90 gain 30 free attribute points per level up.
Here is the translation:
While a player's four basic attributes are below 90 points, each additional free attribute point can bring about an increase of one point. However, after reaching 90 points, it takes 10 free attribute points to increase by one point, and this accumulates with each subsequent level (e.g., from 90 to 91 requires 10 free attribute points, while from 91 to 92 requires 20 free attribute points). By the time you reach 99 points and want to get to 100, it takes 100 free attribute points.
Before reaching 90 points, the difference in abilities is not that great. It's entirely possible for a general with 85 strength to defeat one with 90 strength in a solo battle. However, for a general with 90 strength to defeat one with 91 strength, it's basically an impossible task. And this gap only grows larger as you progress.
The difference in commander abilities is even more pronounced. Before reaching 90 points, each point of commander ability adds 0.5% to the strength of the troops under their command. However, between 90-95 points, this bonus increases to 5% per point, and after 95 points, it's a staggering 10%.
Players who want to upgrade a certain attribute to 100, the difficulty is not much lower than becoming a vassal. For example, a player born with a martial arts value of 10, even if all the free attribute points obtained through leveling up are added to martial arts, when he reaches the top level of 100, his martial arts will only reach 99 points. After all, looking at the history of the Three Kingdoms, it is estimated that only Lü Bu had a martial arts value of 100. Of course, what happens after the attribute value exceeds 100 points is unknown.
Even so, as Yang Tian understood it, wanting to upgrade to level 100 was a task that the vast majority of people would not be able to complete in their lifetime. After passing level 50, unless they encountered a major battle, it would be very difficult to upgrade further. After all, if everyone could reach the top, then historical heroes wouldn't need to exist.
Moreover, players who can change careers to become generals are only a minority, and most players can only be soldiers for their entire lives. The conditions for player soldiers to learn skills and NPC soldiers to comprehend skills are the same. However, the advantage of player soldiers over NPCs is that players can take exams to comprehend skills. If they fail to pass the exam, they can continue to participate in the exam after a year until they pass. But thinking about the difficulty of the exam, Yang Tian couldn't help but smile wryly. Still, this is much better than NPCs comprehending skills based on probability.
Yang Tian allocated all his free attribute points to Strength, and his Strength value immediately rose to 45 points. The fatigue on his body was swept away, and he felt like he had endless power.
It has to be said that in "Tian Xia", apart from the humanoid monsters that can directly drop equipment, all other monsters only leave behind a corpse after death, and materials still need to be collected by oneself.
This was BOSS's corpse, and Yang Tian certainly didn't plan to let it go. A collection technique was used, and several more items were added to the package:
Tiger Skin (Medium Quality): Good leather, can be used to make armor and living materials.
Tiger's Fang (Top-grade, 3-star) x5: Sharp tiger fangs that can be used to craft arrowheads and other living materials.
There are nine grades of living materials, with the best being first-grade superior. It is said that it can be used to create divine artifacts. However, as far as Yang Tian knows, no one has ever produced any high-quality materials, let alone created a divine artifact. Generally speaking, the basic resources collected within the territory are all ninth-grade, which means they are ordinary materials.
Is this all that a mighty 80-level BOSS has to offer? Of course not, the system's reward for defeating non-humanoid BOSS is the treasure it guards.
