Chapter 9: Encounter with the Magical Beast (Seeking Recommendation Tickets)

  I'm speechless, I've collected nearly a hundred, but the recommendation votes are less than twenty, are you all reading without voting? I don't ask for many recommendation votes, at least make it normal? One person votes one ticket, and tonight we can break through a hundred.

  Continuously running deep into the forest, it was about 20 minutes or so, and gradually, the trees between them became more and more dense. Some big trees were also getting taller and bigger. Temporarily escaping from the pursuit behind, Lin Chen put Xia Lu down, panting softly in his mouth. Even as an 11th-level warrior, carrying a person and running wildly for so long was still exhausting.

  "Whoa! Let's take a break first! I think they won't be able to catch up," Lin Chen panted heavily, lying down in the bushes and saying, but he also knew that this sentence was almost impossible, after all, his escape mission had not been completed yet, which meant he was still not truly safe.

  He had just arrived in this world and already spent three bottles of high-concentration anesthesia, five bottles of unstable medicine, one bottle of vision interference medicine, plus a bottle of treatment medicine. Even Lin Chen would feel some pain at this time. After all, these medicines were one-fifth of the inventory in his package, and they were all wasted here. These were all money.

  "Sorry, it's my fault that I'm holding you back. If you had escaped alone, things wouldn't be like this now...", looking at Lin Chen lying exhausted in the bushes, Xia Lu's face was filled with deep remorse.

  Even a fool would know that these bandits are clearly after us, otherwise why would they send 300 thieves to rob a backward village? Otherwise, why would hundreds of them chase just the two of us?

  "You helped me before! Now I'm just returning the favor, don't be ashamed," Lin Chen said with a wave of his hand, looking at Xia Lu's expression. Although losing so many medicinal pellets was painful, Lin Chen was after all a master alchemist, and as long as he could find the materials, refining those medicinal pellets would be an easy task.

  Besides, not avenging a grudge and not repaying kindness are not Lin Chen's style.

  "But I'm afraid my help was hardly worth it, yet you almost lost your life for me and wasted so many high-grade potions..." Lin Chen seemed nonchalant, but Xia Lu still felt a deep sense of guilt.

  "Roar!!!", Lin Chen was about to say something, but at this moment, a sudden beast roar sounded, and then a sturdy wild boar suddenly appeared in the woods, charging towards Lin Chen and the other person, with a pair of sharp tusks, like two long knives.

  "Oh no! It's a mid-third rank magical beast, Swordtusk Boar!" Seeing the wild boar charging out, Xia Lu's face showed a hint of surprise, and then her slender wand gathered energy. Without chanting any complicated spells, she directly swung her wand, and a fist-sized arcane missile shot towards the boar.

  "Sword-toothed Boar, Lv24". Upon seeing the data of this wild boar, Lin Chen was also secretly shocked. Although Xia Lu was a Lv25 magician, once the magician got close to this wild boar, it would be troublesome. After all, this was the real world, not a game world, and there was no such thing as a fatal attack that only reduced HP.

  In the game, even if your neck is cut by someone's sword, it's just a critical hit, and you'll lose some HP at most. However, in the real world, things aren't that simple. Lin Chen believed that even a level 60 or higher Blood Bull warrior would definitely die if a child were to slash their neck with a knife.

  Now Lin Chen is at level 11, with four skills: uppercut, weapon mastery, downward slash and kick fly. At this time, although there are many powerful equipment in the package, none of them can be worn by himself.

  So, Lin Chen had no choice but to grit his teeth and take the lead, after all, a warrior's job was to protect the mage behind him, this was an absolute rule, whether in the game or in reality, even if he himself was only a low-level warrior.

  "Kick fly!!!!", the strongest skill that can be played at present appears, Lin Chen directly kicked one foot, mixed with a whistling sound of breaking through the air, and kicked it towards the wild boar.

  Kick Fly: Kick the opponent, causing them to retreat, consuming 7 MP, cooldown time 5 seconds, can be learned at level 10.

  "Bang!!!", a direct kick landed on the wild boar's body. Although Lin Chen's level was much lower than the wild boar, this kick didn't carry any attack power and was only meant to stun the opponent. So, when the wild boar was kicked by Lin Chen, although its strength was still there and it wasn't sent flying, its momentum still came to a stop.

  Originally, Xia Lu only threw out a spell bullet, but when she saw Lin Chen rush up and block the wild boar, she was shocked. This sword-toothed pig was a mid-third-tier magical beast, but Lin Chen had just been promoted to the rank of apprentice swordsman, how could he possibly withstand the sword-toothed pig?

  Xia Lu, who was secretly anxious in her heart, didn't waste any time. The exquisite wand in her hand rose high, and the clear and confident magic spell of consecutive fireballs hid in her mouth.

  "Up with the hook!" Seeing the wild boar that had been kicked to a stop, Lin Chen's foot pushed off and he sprang forward, his left hand throwing a hook punch at the boar's head.

  Hook Punch: Left hand quickly launches a hook punch, increasing attack power by 20%, cooldown time 5 seconds, consuming MP 5, requires level 3 to learn, the first skill of Warrior.

  With Lin Chen's 11th-level strength, he should have been able to practice the uppercut skill to level 3, but in the game, Lin Chen was a 100% professional player and had never tried using the uppercut skill before. This was his first battle ever, and his current level of 10 was only achieved by completing two life skills tasks in the village previously.

  Although the uppercut can increase attack power by 20%, unfortunately, Lin Chen is only level 11 now. The equipment on his body is just a novice cloth robe and a pair of cloth shoes, which adds 1 point of defense but doesn't add any attack power at all. One punch hits the wild boar's head, although it makes the wild boar cry out in pain, but there is no substantial damage.

  The skills in "Tian Xuan" are fundamentally different from those in other games. One of the main differences is that the attack power of a skill, such as an uppercut punch, is added to the character's own attack power by 20%, rather than being a fixed number of points. This is what sets "Tian Xuan" apart - all skills are in the form of adding a percentage to the character's own attack power.

  If you have 100 points of attack power, then a weapon that increases your attack power by 100 points would make your total attack power 200 points. In other games, a skill might give you tens of points of attack power, but it's still just over 200 points at most. However, in "Tian Zhen", the attack power added by equipment is combined with your base attack power and then further increased by skill bonuses.

  Although it may not show any advantages in the early stages, it's different in the later stages. To put it simply, if you have a level 50 account, even without equipment, you'll still have 2000 points of attack power. But if you get a legendary weapon that adds 1000 points of attack power, then your attack power becomes 3000.

  If a skill can give you an additional 80% attack, then congratulations, this skill of yours also has 5,400 points of attack, and without this equipment, you only have 3,600 points of attack, what a huge difference!

  It's also because the skills in "Tianxu" are directly linked to the character's equipment attributes, so Lin Chen's profession is so powerful.

  Of course, if you can get a potion that increases 2000 attack power, with your own 2000 points of attack, the weapon adds 1000 points of attack, plus the potion's effect, it becomes 5000 points of attack. Then, when you cast this skill, it also has an astonishingly high 9000 points of attack! What a powerful boost!

  So, the top-grade equipment and medicine in "Tian Xuan" are always priceless.

  It's like the iron armor guardian potion used by Lin Chen, which directly adds 3800 points of physical defense. However, this is just a potion buff. What if you add defensive skills on top of that? The effect of this potion would definitely exceed 60,000 points.

  Adding the character's own defense and equipment's additional defense, I believe that using defensive skills can easily break through physical defenses of over 10,000. With such a powerful meat shield to take on the BOSS, how could the BOSS not be defeated? It is precisely because of this that the leader of that large guild specially customized an Iron Armor Guardian Potion from Lin Chen at a high price.

  Just as Lin Chen's uppercut punch hit the wild boar, making it cry out in pain, Xia Lu's consecutive fireballs were already ready on the other side.

  Shouting loudly for Lin Chen to get out of the way, Xia Lu waved her hand and a string of seven or eight basketball-sized bright red fireballs shot towards the Sword-toothed Boar...