Dark Knight of Online Games

  Liu Yu grasped the staff and said, "In the past, when playing games, I was always the one leading you. It seems that this time, we'll have to mix it up. Unfortunately, this is a priest-exclusive item. If it were a mage-exclusive item, I estimate the attack power could exceed 30 points. By tomorrow, there will probably be many priests at level 10. At that time, we can find a priest and form a fixed team with her, giving her this staff would be great!"

  Xiao Yu then smiled and asked: "If you give the staff to the pastor, won't you have nothing left to use?"

  Liu Yu didn't care at all: "With MT and nanny around, are you afraid of not getting the equipment for the priest?"

  I nodded: "I think so too!"

  "Take advantage of the fact that the shepherd hasn't found it yet, I'll play with it for a night first!"

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  Several people immediately rushed to the refresh point of the low-level man-eating flower. Just now, I was delayed for a short while after logging off, and at this time, I could see many players running out of the city again, but basically they all went to kill wild bears in that small forest. Only the three of us ran in the opposite direction!

  After running for nearly half an hour, I arrived at the place where I was killing monsters earlier. Liu Yu lightly waved his staff and a fireball flew out, instantly dealing 117 points of damage to the monster's head. I was slightly stunned - Liu Yu's attack value was slightly lower than mine, but the damage he dealt was higher. Indeed, a mage's attack power is stronger than a swordsman's!

  The monster immediately rushed towards Liu Yu, and I immediately charged forward. A heavy blow dealt over 160 damage to the monster, immediately drawing its aggro. Then Xiaoyu rushed up, with my level 5 weapon directly using a sweeping strike that killed thousands of troops. Of course, her attack power was slightly lower than mine, so it took three hits to deal around 90 points of damage to the monster. With me and Liu Yu there, she couldn't possibly draw its aggro, so she was very safe!

  However, soon the monster's hatred focused on Liu Yu again. After all, there were only two skills, and the attack power that could be higher than Liu Yu's fireball was only one. Moreover, I didn't have provocative or taunting skills, so it was impossible to completely attract the hatred!

  Fortunately, the monster's blood was not high, and Xiaoyu and I blocked it in front of us. The monster couldn't even touch Liu Yu! Even if it killed him, there was no problem. At level 10, the mage could learn the teleportation skill, which teleported over 10 meters away. By the time the monster caught up, we had already chopped it to death with our swords!

  Liu Yu's fireball has a one-second cooldown time, plus a one-second guidance time, which means two seconds per shot, the same as my attack frequency. However, having a fireball with a guidance time means he can't fly a kite!

  Three people killing monsters is much more efficient than one person, and also saves a lot of potions. Of course, Liu Yu's potions are expensive, can't help it, mages have always been blue-consuming, in most cases, mages are too poor to afford potions, especially when they haven't learned group magic yet!

  The three of them started leveling up like this, all the way until 5 am. It's been a long time since they've played games with such excitement overnight, but staying up all night isn't that great either. The few of them were so sleepy that they wanted to sleep, so the three of them went offline one after another!

  But after practicing for a night, the harvest is still pretty good. I have practiced to level 14, Liu Yu has reached level 13, and Xiaoyu has also reached level 12 due to insufficient attack output. My ranking in China's district jumped from over 1000 to 259th, which can be said to be a remarkable achievement! However, the guy who ranked first is even more incredible, having already practiced to level 17. I really don't know how he did it!

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  It's July and the sun is recklessly scorching the earth. The weather forecast says it's only 35 degrees, but I feel like it's over 50 degrees! Apparently, someone put an egg on the road and after five minutes, it was cooked. No need for a pot to boil eggs, how ruthless is that?!

  Of course, no matter how high the temperature is outside, it has nothing to do with me. Once the air conditioner is turned on, the heat has nothing to do with me!

  Slept all the way until one o'clock in the afternoon, was woken up by Xiao Yu, she was woken up by hunger, of course, when I'm not attending classes, I usually get up around this time too, basically no feeling at all!

  Within 20 minutes, brushing teeth, washing face and eating were all settled, so I directly entered the game! A flash of white light, we appeared at the refresh point of the low-level man-eating flower. As soon as he went online, Liu Yu shouted: "Damn, what's going on? I was ranked 987th when I logged off, now it's dropped to over 20,000th, these guys are leveling up too quickly!"

  I took a look at the rankings and was quite shocked. I had only slept for a bit, but my ranking had dropped from 259 to 789. It seems that even level 10 players can now be ranked as low as 190,000. There are indeed many people who practice leveling without regard for their lives!

  Xiao Yu said with a gloomy face: "Woo, I've been ranked 110,000th, I've played the game for so many years and never ranked this far back before!"

  I couldn't help but feel a sense of powerlessness, in the past when playing games, having a few thousand people in one district was already very impressive, but this game has players that can be counted in tens of millions, I estimate that in China alone there are several million people playing, being able to rank 110,000 is actually quite good!

  Now in Tianfeng City, I estimate that many players are already forming teams to level up. Fortunately, there aren't many players coming to this low-level man-eating flower area yet. After all, these are 15th-level monsters, not something any player can kill! The three of us can still practice here for a while, but I estimate that by tomorrow, large numbers of players will arrive to level up!

  But when the time comes, we will definitely go to a higher-level map to level up!

  I then asked: "Liu Yu, is there still enough medicine over there?"

  "It's still about half left, I think it should be enough for today!"

  I nodded: "Then let's practice here for now, when we run out of medicine, we'll go back to the city and find a priest. I reckon there aren't many priests who have leveled up to 10 yet!"

  The two nodded and were just about to kill monsters when they heard Xiaoyu's voice: "Look, there's a village ahead!"

  Looking in the direction that Xiaoyu pointed out, there really was a village. Combining this with the previous task of killing the field mouse, I immediately made a judgment: there's a quest ahead!

  "Let's go and take a look, maybe we can still get a mission!"

  Xiaoyu and Liu Yu nodded, and we headed in that direction. The Silver Moon Group had already released the news that there were many tasks available in the game, but whether or not you could receive them depended on your luck. Some required players to trigger them themselves, while others would be directly given by NPCs when they saw you. The higher the difficulty, the higher the reward! That's why many players who reached level 10 didn't immediately go to practice their skills, but instead searched for all the NPCs in Tianfeng City. Of course, whether or not you could receive a task was another matter altogether. Generally, only the first few players to reach level 10 had a chance of receiving tasks, while those who came later probably wouldn't even get a drop of soup. I reckon this is also one of the reasons why the top-ranked players' levels were so high!

  As soon as I walked into this small village, I felt something was wrong. The village didn't look that small, but at a glance, there wasn't a single person inside. There were many farm tools scattered on the ground, and in front of the houses, there were still many clothes that hadn't been dried yet, it seemed like they had just left without delay, and in a hurry. I don't know what happened!

  But the more it is like this, the greater the chance of receiving a mission!

  Xiao Yu laughed and said: "Older brother, I feel that we are going to receive some awesome mission!"

  I nodded: "Everyone split up to find NPCs, be careful!"

  The three of them immediately dispersed, and I carefully searched room by room, but none of the rooms had anyone in them. This made me think that if I took advantage of the situation to steal something, I might make a fortune!

  It seems that the village name here doesn't seem to have much money either, and it's estimated that not much can be robbed. What if the GM gives me a crime of taking advantage of people in danger and oppressing good people, and then comes with a large group of NPCs to kill me? That would be troublesome! Hmm, this is a typical case of losing more than you gain.

  While I was daydreaming, Xiaoyu shouted in the team: "Everyone come to the village center square, everyone is here!"

  I rushed over to take a look, only to see that more than 100 people were concentrated in the square at the center of the village. However, one by one they all fell softly to the ground, each with a very weak appearance, looking like they didn't have any strength at all!

  "Are we going to die here? That fox is really detestable, I swear that if I can survive, I will go to Tianfeng City and ask the generals there to kill it!"

  The speaker was a young man not far away. I hurried up and asked, "Brother, what happened to the people in the village? Why is it like this?"

  The young man looked at me and asked, "You don't seem to be from this village. Whatever you do, don't drink the well water here! The well water is poisonous!"

  I was shocked, could it be that these people who looked like they had no strength at all were poisoned?

  At this time, a voice came from afar: "Oh? You few seem to be adventurers from Tianfeng City, great, our Xiaosong Village is saved!"

  "It was originally called Komatsu Village. I hurriedly walked towards the old man who spoke, and he said: 'I am the village chief of Komatsu Village. The villagers have all been poisoned and can't even move. We are in a life-threatening situation. Young brave warrior, you seem to be an adventurer from Tenfū City, our entire village's lives are now in your hands!'"

  Come on, you're putting a lot of pressure on me by saying that!

  "Please hurry to Tianfeng City and ask the pharmacist there, only the great pharmacist there has an antidote, otherwise half a day later, everyone in our village will die!"

  "Ding! Do you accept the mission [Seeking Rescue]?"

  I hastily clicked accept!

  "Ding! You have accepted the mission [Seeking Rescue]!" (Mission Difficulty: A2)

  Mission content: Hurry to Tianfeng City and invite the great pharmacist, only he can prepare a medicine that can eliminate toxins.

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