Mirror World Administrator

Chapter 62 The Wine Sword Immortal

Before Yang Xu could process what he meant, he pressed the activate button and the stone statue of the Drunken Swordsman on the base suddenly came to life.

"At that time, I was drunk and rode on a dragon, opening my mouth to swallow the jade rainbow..."

The Drunken Swordsman raised his head and took a sip of wine, chanting a line of poetry. He jumped down from the stone platform, his long sword already in hand: "My friend, look at the sword!"

As soon as Kan Jian finished speaking, a sword light came from the front.

"Holy shit, this is where it starts?"

Yang Xu thought that the senior would at least say a few polite words before entering the scene, but he didn't expect the pace to be so fast, and he attacked without a word. Yang Xu hurriedly raised his sword to meet the enemy, and responded seriously.

Three minutes later, Yang Xu lay on the ground gasping for breath, his face full of doubt about his life.

The Drunken Swordsman opposite was filled with disappointment. He shook his head and muttered, "This child is incorrigible." He retreated back to the stone platform and turned into a statue again.

This was set up by Yang Xu at the beginning. Every ten deaths, the statue would automatically return to give him time to rest.

But he never expected that he would die so quickly. In just three minutes, he died ten times!

Before the start, Yang Xu actually knew that he would most likely lose, but he didn't expect the gap to be so big.

It was obvious that the opponent had only two skills like him, but it was these two small skills, combined with ordinary sword moves, that suppressed him and left him with no chance to fight back.

The super sense that Yang Xu was proud of was of little use in front of the opponent. Even if he could predict the opponent's attack, he had no ability to dodge it.

Yang Xu also understood only now that when Zhizhe was training him before, he had always been holding back. Otherwise, if he unleashed his full strength, no matter how strong his super sense was, he would not be able to avoid it.

"How do you feel?" The voice of the Stopper came faintly.

"He is indeed a top master in the past! I am no match for him at all." Yang Xu admitted frankly.

Of course, he knew that the gap was not entirely in technology. There was a gap in combat experience between the two sides, that was for sure, but it was not as drastically different as he had imagined. The more important reason was the crushing superiority in attributes.

Even though the Drunken Swordsman is only 3 levels higher than him, Yang Xu is now using the most common Taoist skin, while the opponent is using a legendary skin. The initial attributes of a legendary skin at level 1 alone are equivalent to those of a level 10 ordinary skin.

Not to mention, the Drunken Sword Immortal was a specialized melee skin, with a focus on strength and agility. Yang Xu, a ranged mage, had just been engaging in close combat with a hatchet. In terms of strength and agility alone, he was completely outmatched by the level 9 Drunken Sword Immortal. With both attributes and skills completely outmatched, it was only natural that he would lose so miserably.

"Your skin is too bad. Change it as soon as possible." Zhizhe took a look at Yang Xu's Taoist boy skin and frowned.

"I know."

Yang Xu was helpless. He certainly knew the strengths and weaknesses of the Taoist boy's skin. As the lowest quality skin, it was as small as dust in front of these big guys who all had legendary skins.

However, he can't change his skin whenever he wants. At least he has to get a new skin first before he can talk about changing it.

According to the guide for Bone-Eroding Palm, the overall drop rate for skins is relatively low. Aside from the guaranteed skin given when you first dig a plot, many administrators may never have the chance to own a second one.

This is also the reason why Wuxi and Mo Yu were so envious when they saw A Fei's excellent skin.

Even the superior grade is so rare, let alone the legendary skin.

A high-quality legendary skin is no less valuable than an Origin Card!

You can only rely on luck in this regard. Logically speaking, there are plenty of skins buried underground in the Mirror World, but whether you can find them and what kind you can find depends entirely on your personal luck.

"Take your time." Zhizhe obviously knew how difficult it was for a newcomer to obtain skins. Without saying much, he quietly retreated to a safe zone in the distance, sat down cross-legged, closed his eyes, and no longer paid attention to Yang Xu.

Yang Xu had also returned to the Drunken Swordsman statue and readjusted the settings.

The level 9 Drunken Swordsman was obviously too difficult for him. He came here for training, not to be beaten. What he needed for training was an opponent of equal strength.

This time, Yang Xu directly set the level to the lowest level 1.

There is only one initial skill left at level 1, but it doesn’t matter. Facing the opponent’s fierce attack, he has no chance to use the two skills of his Taoist skin.

After completing the settings and activating the statue, the Drunken Swordsman is resurrected again and the battle begins again.

This time, Yang Xu managed to hold out longer. Ten minutes later, the Drunken Swordsman sheathed his sword, leaped onto the stone platform, and transformed back into a statue.

Only Yang Xu was left standing there with tears streaming down his face: "It's still very perverted!"

A level 1 Drunken Sword Immortal could still beat him to death. This time, Yang Xu had no excuses to make. The difference in attributes between the level 1 Drunken Sword Immortal and his level 6 Taoist child had been greatly reduced, and the difference in combat skills between the two sides began to be fully reflected.

Yang Xu did not rush to continue, but instead carefully reviewed the details of the battle and summarized his mistakes.

Half an hour later, he stood up again and activated the stone statue.

This time, the battle finally became more balanced. Although Yang Xu was still being beaten without any chance of fighting back, he was at least able to defend himself from many of the attacks, and he could hold out longer and longer against the Drunken Sword Immortal...

For the next seven days, Yang Xu spent the entire time sparring with Drunken Swordsman, except for a few hours' rest on the fourth day.

After seven days, he was able to hold his own against a Level 1 Drunken Swordsman for over thirty minutes without being defeated.

Don't underestimate this half hour. You should know that at the beginning, he could only hold out for one or two minutes under the opponent's sword. Now it has gradually been extended to thirty minutes. Every minute of improvement is brought about by real technological progress.

At the end of the seventh day, when the world of Zhi was on the verge of collapse, Zhizhe suddenly appeared in front of Yang Xu again.

"Training is just training after all. Don't slack off in real life. Find more people to practice with..."

Following the Stopper's reminder, white light engulfed everything.

Yang Xu woke up in reality, rubbed his aching head, sat up, and clicked on the panel.

After seven days, the compatibility of Dao Tong's skin only increased by 2%.

In the first few days, every night when he woke up, the compatibility increased by at least 4%, but the good times did not last long. Since one day the skin compatibility exceeded 50%, the growth of the compatibility suddenly slowed down significantly. The original four-hour study session now took eight hours.

As expected, the higher the skin compatibility, the harder it will be to grow.

Fortunately, the compatibility of the Taoist boy's skin has reached 55.4%. Even if it increases by 2% per day, it will only take 3 days to break through the 60 mark and unlock the level 20 cap.

Even after being brutally beaten by the Drunken Swordsman for seven consecutive days, he did not feel depressed at all. Instead, he was more eager to improve his level and strength.

"Does it require actual combat..." Yang Xu recalled the last words of the Stopper.

Indeed, combat in the Realm of Infinity was ultimately different from real-world combat. Those in the Realm of Infinity were merely sentient beings, and since they could be resurrected at any time, they had no worries, which created a completely different mentality. He truly needed to find more real-world masters to spar with in order to quickly transform the techniques he'd learned in the Realm of Infinity into muscle memory.

The "expert" here definitely does not refer to people like Mo Feilou.

Mo Feilou and the other two were just talking big. Their so-called "battle" was actually still at the stage of releasing skills according to the rules, and there was no "skill" at all.

After seven days of sparring with the Drunken Swordsman, Yang Xu has fully realized that the skill system brought by the skin is just a combat auxiliary means, which is equivalent to the mirror world using "skills" and "attributes" to construct a set of fixed combat templates, providing a set of guaranteed solutions to deal with mirror ghosts for novice administrators who have just entered the mirror world and have no combat experience.

Ordinary administrators only need to follow the rules and release skills according to this framework to achieve practical results that seem quite good at first glance.

However, this method alone can only deal with low-star mirror ghosts of 1-3 stars.

Once you face a 4-star or higher high-intelligence Mirror Ghost, this templated battle is completely inadequate. If the administrator still uses the experience of dealing with 1-3 star Mirror Ghosts to face a 4-star Mirror Ghost, they will only be beaten to a pulp.

Therefore, 4 stars is the first huge watershed on the administrator's road to promotion.

In the 1-3 star stage, the administrator only needs to upgrade step by step and learn to stand still and use skills to deal with most mirror ghosts.

Once you want to continue to advance, you must first transcend the limitations of the mirror world's skill framework, raise the battle to the level of "skill", and then integrate the convenience brought by skills and attributes to truly unleash the power of a skin.

For example, in his battle with the Drunken Sword Immortal, over 95% of the damage the Drunken Sword Immortal inflicted came from the sword's basic attacks. The three main techniques of a longsword, slashing, stabbing, and slashing, were so versatile in the hands of the Drunken Sword Immortal that his skills became merely occasional embellishments.

Yang Xu was the same. He had almost never used Fireball in his fight with the Drunken Swordsman, because he knew it wouldn't hit him. Who can't use a skill while standing still? Hitting the target is what counts as skill.

What Yang Xu needs now is a master who truly understands "actual combat".

And such a person is actually not difficult to find: a wanted criminal!
Due to the unique rules of deviation, many wanted criminals often double as bounty hunters to reduce their deviation. These high-deviation individuals spend their nights hunting and being hunted. Those who can survive this environment for a long time are all skilled in actual combat.

(End of this chapter)