Chapter Twelve: Apprentice Swordsman

  As soon as I entered the vocational training school, I was stopped by a man in his thirties! He looked at me and nodded thoughtfully: "Young warrior, I see that your bones are extraordinary, your veins are clear, and you will definitely become a top-notch master in the future. Choosing to be an assassin is absolutely the wisest choice, would you like to consider it?"

  What? Assassin?

  I took a closer look at that guy, and on his head was the emblem of the Tianfeng City Assassin Mentor. His eyes were bright and piercing, no, they seemed shifty and cunning, after all, he's an assassin, likes to attack from behind, also known as a thief, naturally has a shifty and cunning gaze, if he looked like a straightforward and honest person then there would be a problem, in short, his cultivation looks very profound!

  But you, an assassin mentor, have nothing to do with me whether your cultivation is high or not. I don't want to be an assassin anyway. I bypassed him and found the swordsman mentor, excitedly saying: "Old wet, I'm here to change my job, let me change my job to a swordsman!"

  The sword instructor looked at me with great satisfaction and said: "Young warrior, choosing to be a swordsman will be the best decision you've ever made!"

  All I saw was a white light shooting from his palm into my body, and immediately afterwards, the system prompted: "Ding! Congratulations, you have become an apprentice swordsman. Go find your mentor to discuss, he will teach you the basic skills of this profession!"

  Damn it! I'm still a trainee, and after running all the way here to transfer jobs, they didn't even give me an official one. It's too petty, not worth it at all!

  This apprentice swordsman title is really too ugly, hide it first!

  "Ding! Swordsman Mentor gifts you [Low-quality Longsword]!"

  Oh? And there's also the delivery of weapons, let me take a look first!

  Low-quality Longsword (White Weapon)

  Attack: 1-5

  Required level: 10

  Damn it, it's actually a level 10 white weapon. NND, I've already prepared a level 10 black iron equipment with attack power four or five times higher than yours!

  It seems that players who come to transfer jobs here will also give a weapon, after all, everyone who comes out of the novice village is holding a wooden stick, and a group of people are holding wooden sticks on the street. It's really damaging the city's appearance!

  Anyway, first learn the basic skills, open the dialogue bar, and there is indeed an item for learning skills.

  After logging in again, I saw three skills shining brightly before my eyes. Haha, I've finally bid farewell to the days of recklessly swinging a large sword around! From now on, I'll also be one of those with skills!

  [Swordsmanship Mastery]: Passive skill, increases swordsman's accuracy and slightly boosts damage!

  【Heavy Strike】: Deals a powerful blow to the opponent, dealing 150%-200% of attack power. Cooldown time is 10 seconds, consuming 50 magic points.

  "Sweeping a Thousand Troops": Frequent attacks on the opponent, each attack dealing half of its own attack damage. The higher the skill level, the more times it attacks! Cooldown time 10 seconds, MP consumption varies with the number of attacks.

  Yeah, they're all pretty practical skills, especially this "Sweeping a Thousand Armies", just the name sounds awesome, sweeping away a thousand armies is no big deal, let alone small players and monsters!

  But after seeing the learning conditions, I was suddenly frightened. A new player who just came out of the novice village would be lucky to have 10 gold coins, but... damn it, learning a skill actually costs 10 gold coins, blatant robbery!

  Fortunately, I killed a few BOSSes earlier and got over 100 gold coins on me, otherwise I wouldn't even be able to learn skills, that would be frustrating!

  But it's obvious that I'm definitely not the first one to transfer jobs. More than half of the players who transferred jobs before me must have been unable to learn skills, it's just too expensive!

  I learned everything in one breath, and I remembered the task that the farmer in the novice village entrusted to me. So I asked: "By the way, teacher, is there a person named Hill here? I received his father's entrustment to deliver a letter to him!"

  The swordsman pointed and said, "That's Hil, he's the assassin mentor here!"

  So it was him after all!

  He then stepped forward and said: "Hello Master Xier, I was entrusted by your father to deliver a letter to you!"

  "What? You're talking about my father? Hand over the letter at once!" exclaimed Assassin Mentor Shi'er, his eyes gleaming with excitement.

  I pulled it out of my backpack, and Hill took a look at it. Suddenly, tears gushed out, and he said: "My father and mother are both safe and sound, it's really great! Young warrior, you brought me such precious news, how can I thank you?"

  I said lightly: "No need for thanks, just a reward would be fine!"

  "Right, I can give you a reward, but what would be a good reward for you?"

  At once I also had a bright idea, this is easy, equipment, experience, gold coins, all work!

  "Or I'll give you some equipment!"

  I'm so excited, rewarding equipment, it's great!

  "No way, this is all assassin equipment, you can't use it, or I'll just give you some gold coins instead!"

  That's true, equipment is not good, gold coins are also good, what's lacking these days is gold coins!

  "It won't work either, gold coins are too tacky!"

  You're so tacky, even gold coins are too common for you, what's not tacky then?

  "Ah, right! Otherwise, I'll reward you with skills. If used well, even swordsmen can use assassin skills!"

  A white light shot out from his palm and into my body, and the system immediately sent a prompt: "Ding! You have learned the skill 【Strong Stealth】!"

  【Shadow Concealment】: Can hide one's body in combat state, making it undetectable to others. Once an attack is made or received, the concealment disappears. Effective duration: 3 minutes, Cooldown time: 5 minutes, MP consumption: 100 points.

  Awesome, it's actually a stealth skill, great! Yeah, compared to skills, gold coins are indeed tacky!

  With the stealth skill, I think killing people will be easy from now on. Just hide my figure and sneak up quietly, then strike with lightning speed when they're not paying attention. Swordsmen have skills like Heavy Strike and Sweeping Slash, their explosive power must be very strong!

  For a moment, I was so excited! Immediately put on the 10th-level equipment and add the attribute points that were just upgraded to 10th level. After taking another look, I suddenly became excited again!

  Player: Heartless Swordsman

  Level: 10

  Occupation: Apprentice Swordsman

  Blood pressure: 250

  Magic: 100

  Attack: 10-80

  Speed: 2.5

  Physical Defense: 49

  Magic Defense: 10

  Reputation: 162

  Lucky: 0

  Haha, my blood energy is 250 points, and my attack power has reached 80 points! Even a full-strength swordsman at level 10 would only have around 50 points of attack, and with equipment, it's still just over 60. But I have 80 points! My defense has also reached 49 points. I think that if the Variant Slime King were to stand in front of me again now, with the help of potions, I could easily kill it!

  Talking about potions, looking at the backpack, there are still several hundred bottles of novice potion in the backpack. It's a waste to throw them away. Maybe later on, I'll encounter monsters that aren't very strong and can get by with these potions. But if I encounter monsters with strong attacks... forget it, I'd better go buy some better potions!

  Just two steps out, the sigh of a professional instructor came from behind: "The sword instructor's salary next month is much higher than mine again. How come so many people have come, but only two are transfer knights?"

  The archer instructor said, "Don't worry, I have a feeling that we will be very busy for the next period of time. I estimate that thousands and tens of thousands of people will come to change jobs every day, and everyone's salary will be high next month!"

  I was slightly stunned, could it be that these professional instructors are also paid based on the number of people they convert? If so, wouldn't those instructors for niche professions be dead poor? I secretly glanced at the summoner instructor in the corner, his clothes were indeed not very good, compared to the others he was quite inferior, looks like it's really true!

  The authorities once made a statistic, the players who want to practice several professions, the ranking of swordsmen and mages is quite high, while summoners are at the bottom, not only at the bottom, but also less than one tenth of the number of mages, it can indeed be considered as a niche profession, and it's a very niche one! From this, we can also see that the salary of summoner coaches will definitely not be high!

  No wonder learning skills is so expensive, it's because the salary is not high, now I can understand, today there are thousands of people coming to transfer jobs, I estimate that just learning skills can make these instructors rich!

  But these instructors should all be considered as pretty awesome individuals, and their salaries wouldn't be so low that they'd starve to death!

  Out of vocational training and rushing to the pharmacy, the pharmacy only sells two kinds of medicine:

  Junior Life Recovery Potion: Instantly recovers 100 points of HP, CD time 3 seconds!

  Junior Magic Recovery Potion: Instantly recovers 100 magic points, CD time 3 seconds!

  It's much more practical than the novice potion. Looking at the price, 5 silver coins per bottle is quite expensive. There are still over 70 gold coins in my backpack, so I don't have to worry about money for now. So, I bought 200 bottles of primary life recovery potion and 50 bottles of primary magic recovery potion in one breath. Seeing more than 10 gold coins spent like this makes me heartache!

  We have to leave some money for Xiaoyu, otherwise it will be troublesome when she becomes a pastor and doesn't have enough money to learn skills. As for Liu Yu, forget it, I don't need to worry about his gold coins for learning skills!

  I don't know what's going on with Xiao Yu and Liu Yu now, so I won't bother them. Maybe they're in the middle of a boss fight!

  I rushed out of the city gate with my medicine on my back, apparently I wasn't the first player to arrive in Tianfeng City. If there were any quests, they must have been taken by someone else already. The bulletin board also showed no available quests (the bulletin board is a place where main cities publish quests), so all I could do was go kill monsters and level up!

  Nowadays, there are not many players up to level 10, and it's probably impossible to form a team. Opening the level ranking list, I saw that the highest level player is already at level 13, while my level has dropped to over 1000th place! This is just the Chinese server ranking! Looking at my global ranking, I'm over 2900th. It seems like brothers are all very diligent, occupying one-third of the top 3000 rankings in the world!