My talent is 1.

Zhong Wuyai waited in the wild boar area, and occasionally a wild boar would spawn and he would quickly take care of it.

Two hours later...

Both the leather hat and leather gauntlets have been enhanced with defensive talents.

Physical defense was stacked up to 73 points.

Zhong Wuyai walked towards the Wild Boar King.

"Fireball!"

-517…

The damage has been reduced quite a bit.

The Black Iron BOSS reduces physical and magical damage by 5%.

In addition to its own magic defense.

If it weren't for my talent that seemed to have cheated me by modifying my attributes, I probably wouldn't have been able to deal even 10 points of damage.

If Xiang Yang and his group of guys came, they probably wouldn't be able to break through the defenses.

Meanwhile, in another starting village.

A group of people sharpened their knives and charged toward the wild boar king.

The reason is simple: an SS-level talent was tanking the damage in front of them.

Talent: [Unyielding Spirit]

Talent Level: SS

Talent Effect 1: Increases physical and magical defense by 2 times the user's level.

Talent Effect 2: Each time you are attacked, you gain a shield equal to 5% of your maximum health, stacking up to 7 times.

Talent Effect 3: Each attack deals true damage equal to the user's physical and magical defense.

Looking at his talent, Lin Xihang was full of confidence for this BOSS challenge.

Almost all of everyone's resources were directed towards him.

If it weren't for this talent, they really wouldn't have been confident in dealing with the BOSS.

"The priest should keep an eye on Hang Ge's health; the rest of you can deal damage freely."

Lin Xihang's equipment is all equipped with defense and stamina, so his health bar is naturally not low.

His physical defense reached 29 points, and he dealt true damage, so no matter how much others output, they could not surpass him.

There is no situation where hatred can be drawn away.

However, Zhong Wuyai had already fired two fireballs.

The basic attack did no damage at all, so Zhong Wuyai didn't bother with it.

My basic attack and the Wild Boar King's basic attack are the same, both miss.

One person and one pig rely entirely on their skills.

The Wild Boar King charged at Zhong Wuyai once every 30 seconds, dealing only 47 damage.

Zhong Wuyai's three fireballs instantly reduced the Wild Boar King's health by over 1500.

As for those two seconds of dizziness, it doesn't matter whether you're dizzy or not; you won't be affected if you stand still.

The only thing that worried Zhong Wuyai was that with each of the two Savage Charges, one of his pieces of equipment would lose durability.

After this is finished, it needs to be repaired.

Less than two minutes later, while Lin Xihang had reduced the Wild Boar King's health to half, Zhong Wuyai had already fired his last fireball, sending the Wild Boar King to its death.

[Ding! You have defeated the Black Iron BOSS Wild Boar King and gained 2000 experience points. You will also gain an additional 600 experience points for defeating monsters of a higher level.]

[World Announcement: Congratulations to player Zhong Wuyai for achieving the first kill of the Black Iron BOSS Wild Boar King! Rewards: 1 gold coin, 1000 reputation points, and 1 Black Iron Treasure Chest]

"Goodness, the three of us teamed up and we struggled to kill even a dog, but they managed to take down the boss."

"Damn it, is this even human? Wasn't everyone supposed to start from the same point? Wasn't it supposed to be that in this fantasy world, everything starts from scratch?"

"Stop complaining. Look at those seven or eight level 3 players and more than ten level 2 players. They were just about to start the BOSS fight when the first kill was gone. They are even more frustrated."

Lin Xihang went completely mad: "Who on earth is this Zhong Wuyai? That damned bastard!"

What's even more frustrating is for another player with an SSS-level talent.

"I was just half a minute away, half a minute! And the first kill was gone just like that."

Looking at the boar king with less than 600 health points, it suddenly didn't seem so appealing anymore.

The Wild Wolf Gang members lowered their heads, realizing they were doomed for messing with such a powerful figure.

Soloing the boss? He was only level 2, I think...

Those with high talent levels level up quickly in the early stages, especially those with experience-boosting talents; they're already level 4.

But let alone level 4, even level 10 might not be able to solo a boss.

Aside from being slightly better than players with average talent.

The rest has nothing to do with him.

When Zhong Wuyai saw the 1 gold coin, he couldn't resist putting his talent into it, but it was useless.

This is a notification. The items have already been distributed when the notification is sent. Even if you want to change it, you can only change the number of gold coins in your inventory.

But a talent can only be used once, so changing it like this is such a waste.

The same applies to experience points; however, if there are items that directly increase experience, they might be effective.

He did have an idea about the Black Iron Treasure Chest.

Putting aside whether changing the backpack to 11 would be useful, what he feared was that after changing it once, he wouldn't be able to change the other treasure chests anymore.

That would be a waste. Don't try it with anything below gold. Wait for an opportunity to try something else.

The BOSS's first drop almost yielded all the bitter tea seeds.

Two pieces of black iron equipment, three pieces of white equipment, 5 silver coins, one piece of black iron material, and some other miscellaneous items like wild boar hide.

It's a pity I don't have the gathering skill, otherwise I could have looted the corpse.

2600 experience points. Zhong Wuyai leveled up two levels in one go.

【Zhong Wuyai】

Talent: 1

Class: Mage

Reputation: 1110

Rating: 4

Experience: 1274/2000

Health: 450/450

Mana: 1250/1250

Physical attack: 10

Magic Attack: 70

Physical defense: 74

Magic Defense: 10

Power: 6

Agility: 3

Physical condition: 5

Intelligence: 7

Spirit: 23 (20+1+2)

Free attribute points: 8

Skill [Fireball Lv.1]

Active skills.

Condensing magical energy and burning it, it deals fire magic damage to the target.

Mana cost: 10

Damage bonus: 20 + 810% magic attack

Release distance: 50

Cooldown: 10 seconds

Damage range: Single target damage.

After defeating the boss Zhong Wuyai, he started farming wild boars.

The message bar started flashing after only one kill.

Zhong Wuyai had blocked a lot of friend requests, and it seemed that Yang Yimu was his only friend.

"Brother Wuya, did you get any materials after killing the Wild Boar King?"

"There's a wild boar tusk, what's wrong?"

"Great, that's good. Can I have it? Name your price."

Has this kid received another mission?

"5 silver coins."

Black iron equipment costs 10 silver coins, and the black iron materials dropped by the BOSS cost 5 silver coins, which isn't expensive, especially since these are quest items.

Yang Yimu felt much more at ease after hearing the price.

Five silver coins aren't much these days. In just a few hours, with more people hunting rabbits and wild dogs, everyone will have at least a few dozen copper coins.

Besides, I had received two silver coins as a reward for completing the previous task.

After being given coordinates, Zhong Wuyai continued to grind monsters.

Yang Yimu arrived shortly afterward.

"I have a few pieces of equipment here, see if you need them."

One piece of black iron equipment and three pieces of white equipment are all compact items and are very useful at this stage.

It was only because Zhong Wuyai didn't care about these things that he put them up for sale.

Of course, he also kept a wild boar hide armor and a boar bone helmet for himself.

This thing adds a lot of attributes, so Zhong Wuyai naturally kept it for himself.

"These are about 20 silver coins. I didn't bring that many with me. I'll contact Brother Xiang Yang now. You wait here and save them for us."

"Alright, hurry up."

Yang Yimu was in a hurry to complete the task, while Xiang Yang frantically started raising funds again.

It takes 2,000 experience points to level up from level 4 to level 5, but wild boars now only give a fixed 12 experience points. Without the bonus for leveling up, Zhong Wuyai feels it's too slow.

With just a few hundred experience points, you'd have to kill over two hundred wild boars.

Just as Zhong Wuyai was about to return to the village after exhausting his blue energy, Xiang Yang arrived late.

I made it just in time...

"Um, Brother Wuya~..."

"Alright, let's trade directly. The equipment is all here."

After the equipment transactions were completed, Zhong Wuyai originally planned to sell the equipment he was going to discard to Xiang Yang as well, but then he changed his mind and gave up.

You can't see into someone's heart. If you're not sure what kind of person someone is, it's best not to let them know your secrets.

【Pig Bone Helmet】

Durability: 20/20

Grade: Blank

Wearing level: 5

Strength+3

Physical defense +5

Wild boar hide armor

Durability: 25/25

Grade: Black Iron

Wearing level: 5

Health +500

Physical defense +6

Magic Defense +6

Looking at the two pieces of equipment, Zhong Wuyai had already made up his mind: he would directly farm high-level monsters to level up 5 levels earlier.

Then, with both pieces of equipment equipped with talents that increase physical defense, you can directly engage level 8 and 9 monsters.

The Wild Wolf Gang still has level 4 players. It has to be said that the A-level talent's double experience is a huge advantage in the early game.

I wonder what level players with S-rank and SS-rank talents have reached now.

SSS-level goes without saying; they're probably already far ahead.

I need to level up faster. Putting everything else aside, I must get the first kill on the Bronze BOSS. As for the reward for being the first to leave the newbie village, that's not certain yet.

After Lan Huiman was full, Zhong Wuyai did not rush to leave the village, but went to the jewelry store again.

Jade Necklace

Durability: 18/18

Grade: Black Iron

Intelligence +5

Spirit +3

There are no wearing requirements.

But this chain is not cheap.

15 silver coins

NPCs may be overpriced, but currently, this is already the highest possible attribute.

I bought it without even thinking about it.

As soon as the talent cooldown was over, Zhong Wuyai immediately added it to Intelligence.

The 51 points of Intelligence caused Zhong Wuyai's magic attack to explode.

120 points of magic attack, what will other players think when they see that?

Many mage players don't even have 12 magic attack points yet.

Furthermore, the 3 points of spirit also brought his spirit value to 25, and he gained 1 point of magic defense.

Now we're just waiting for the upgrade.

Zhong Wuyai headed straight for the deer enclosure.

The deer is a normal monster with only 35 attack points, which is no problem for Zhong Wuyai, who has 74 defense points. Even if you doubled its attack, you still couldn't break through its defense.

However, the elk has a passive skill.

【Vertex Lv.1】

Passive skill

There is a 10% chance to knock the target into the air upon attack, dealing 50 damage and stunning them for 1 second upon landing.

This really bothered Zhong Wuyai. He didn't care about the damage from the passive skill, but he was worried about being knocked up from time to time when casting Fireball, which would interrupt the casting and make him have to wait for the 10-second cooldown.

"Fireball"

-992

The elk's 1300 health bar was reduced to only about a quarter.

Ha... nothing special.

10 seconds later...

[Ding! You have killed a common monster, a deer, and gained 15 experience points. Killing a monster of a higher level grants an additional 1 experience point.]

Okay, killing a monster one level higher is normal, even if it costs 1 point.

After killing more than a dozen deer, an elite monster appeared.

[Acute-horned elk]

Elite Monster

Rating: 6

Health: 3200/3200

Mana: 300/300

Physical attack: 42

Magic Attack: 10

Physical defense: 20

Magic Defense: 1

Power: 42

Agility: 15

Physical condition: 64

Intelligence: 10

Spirit: 6

Skill [Peak Corner Lv.3]

Passive skill

There is a 35% chance to knock the target into the air upon attack, dealing 200 damage and stunning them for 3 seconds upon landing.

The attributes have increased significantly, and the skills are also level 3. Hmm, not bad, I've got my experience points sorted out.

The slender elk's attributes make it virtually impossible for anyone to kill in the starting village; it's like killing a boss, requiring a group of people to even have a chance.

Unfortunately, I ran into a cheater.

He's a mage who's got cheat codes.

A magic defense of 1 point is simply unbearable to look at.

However, after just four fireballs, the elk with sharp horns was down.

[Ding! You have defeated the elite monster, the Sharp-Horned Deer, and gained 100 experience points. Defeating a monster of a higher level grants an additional 20 experience points.]

Look, we're now even closer to the upgrade.

After picking up the two silver coins, Zhong Wuyai continued to fight monsters.

Not far away, a figure glared hatefully at Zhong Wuyai.

Cai Kunyuan possesses S-level talent, making him roughly equal to Xiang Yang in strength within this beginner village.

Moreover, his talent is biased towards increasing damage.

Under normal circumstances, unless they encounter someone with even greater talent, no player at this stage is a match for Cai Kunyuan.

Unfortunately, an anomaly appeared: Zhong Wuyai.

Even though he was wearing ordinary equipment, and even if all his equipment combined had the same attributes, it wouldn't match Cai Kunyuan's.

What Cai Kunyuan couldn't understand was that this guy actually killed a level 6 elite monster without taking any damage.

Moreover, the fireball spell deals ridiculously high damage, nearly a thousand.

Is this the kind of data you should see in a beginner's village?

Zhong Wuyai beat everyone to the first kill on elite monsters and the first kill on bosses. It's safe to say that everyone hates Zhong Wuyai to the core.

But no one dared to speak out, while some forces from other villages set their sights on Zhong Wuyai.

Cai Kunyuan secretly filmed Zhong Wuyai's entire monster-hunting process and sent it to several factions...

"Could this guy also have SS-level talent?"

"That should be true. A level 4 fighter against a level 6 elite monster, the monster can't even break through his defense..."

"Could it be a damage immunity talent?"

"But something's not right. This damage is outrageous."

"Dongyan, if you replace your entire set with magic gear, how much magic attack power will you have?"

"31 points, but the health bar is not enough, and the defense is out of the question."

"Dong Yan's S-rank talent, even with the increased damage of Fireball, only deals 88 damage. What's wrong with Zhong Wuyai? His damage is ridiculously high, and his defense is baffling."

"With my SS-level talent, all points are allocated to defense, even a wild wolfhound would lose 2 points of health. I haven't tried this sharp-horned deer yet, but it's definitely not going to be a miss."

"Undoubtedly an SSS-level talent, but in what aspect?"

"It must be a special bonus, such as attributes or skills!"

"Could it be physical damage immunity?"

"Impossible. The people in that village said he couldn't even beat a chicken at first. They saw it with their own eyes."

"That's really strange. It happened so suddenly, and suddenly he became incredibly strong."

"Send someone to keep an eye on him; this Zhong Wuyai will be a formidable opponent for us."

The Iron Blood Alliance is undoubtedly one of the most powerful forces in the fantasy world. Among its high-ranking members, there are two SS-level talents, nine S-level talents, and countless others.

Previously, they were only influential online, but now they are taking their strengths to the extreme in the gaming world.

But then this guy showed up...

Numerous factions have begun studying Zhong Wuyai's data, but aside from his somewhat outrageous damage output, they still can't figure out his attributes.

In the early stages, each character only has one skill: for mages, it's Fireball, and for warriors, it's Power Strike.

Some shield warriors have shields, while others have shield bashes.

Thieves and assassins are all invisible.

Archers have a skill that increases the damage of their arrows.

Skills such as priest healing and priest restoration.

The hidden professions each have their own unique skills.

But they're all the same, just one skill.

The minimum skill book level required to learn a skill is level 5.

Unless it's a talent skill, you only have one skill.

Zhong Wuyai's method of killing monsters baffled everyone. ...

After an unknown amount of time, Zhong Wuyai leveled up.

I'm tired of grinding monsters, so I'll go back and replenish my mana before heading to the high-level monster area.

Of course, you should prioritize adding talent points to your equipment.

Without a doubt, they are all defensive, but only one can be added for now. Of course, the 61 defense points from the boar hide armor should be added first.

Coarse cloth clothing is honorably retired.

Its physical defense is an astonishing 104 points.

I don't know how many points a Bronze BOSS will have, but it shouldn't be less than 100 points. After all, it's a BOSS template, and it has various enhancements and bonuses.

However, in another hour, the 51 points of defense from the boarb helmet can be replaced with the leather hat, giving you an additional 30 points of physical defense.

As for magic resistance, there's still a ring and a bracer slot, and you can also get some belts and boots.

There's absolutely no need to worry about magic defense.

"Keep a low profile? That's ridiculous. I've already used cheats, what's with the 'keep a low profile' nonsense? This is an officially licensed cheat."

Just as his mana was about to be full, Yang Yimu sent a message.

"Brother Wuya, I have some equipment here, I wonder if you'd be interested?"

"What equipment? Let me see!"

The Damaged Magic Ring

Durability: 10/10

Grade: Black Iron

Restores 1 mana per second.

Zhong Wuyai's eyes widened in surprise.

This is insane! Even though it doesn't have any other attributes, the +1 mana regeneration per second is just ridiculous.

I can only recover 1 point every 5 seconds now.

That's great. It restores 1 mana per second, and once you have it, it restores +11 mana per second.

"Gulp~"

Zhong Wuyai swallowed hard.

"How much!"

"It's free, you can have it. But if you have any unused equipment, could you give it to our Xiang Group first? Of course, you can set the price."

"Okay, I'm at the Resurrection Fountain."

Damn, you're my only friend, so of course I'll give you the equipment.

Wear the leather hat first, upgrade this thing first, and it'll save you from running back and forth to replenish mana.

Of course, the talent still has almost half an hour of cooldown, so I'll go grind monsters for now.

After level 5 elk, there are level 7 bison; there are no level 6 regular monsters.

To be precise, there is only one elite monster, the Sharp-Horned Deer, at level 6.

Similarly, there's only one elite monster, the Mighty Bull, at level 8.

This is very unusual. Zhong Wuyai felt that this must be related to some plot, but there were no clues at the moment.

Perhaps the clues lie in the elk and the bull.

The elk has already been killed once, but nothing dropped.

That might be found in the mighty ox.

【Bison】

ordinary monsters

Rating: 7

Health: 2000/2000

Mana: 600/600

Physical attack: 70

Magic Attack: 6

Physical defense: 18

Magic Defense: 2

Power: 50

Agility: 20

Physical condition: 40

Intelligence: 6

Spirit: 12

Skill [Strength Lv.1]

Passive skill

Increases physical attack by 20 points and physical defense by 10 points.

The stats of a level 7 monster are actually quite high.

The attack has caught up with the BOSS. The defense is so-so, and the magic defense is negligible.

The only thing that annoyed Zhong Wuyai was that two fireballs couldn't kill him, and with the little health he had left, even his normal attacks couldn't break through his defenses.

"This is fucking disgusting."

Zhong Wuyai, level 5, has 121 points of magic attack.

The fireball spell deals 998 damage to the bison.

With just a little extra magic attack, two fireballs from me will kill him instantly.

These two points of magical defense are really in the way.

[Ding! You have killed a common monster, a bison, and gained 20 experience points. Killing a monster of a higher level grants an additional 4 experience points.]

After dealing with the bison, Zhong Wuyai pondered whether he should get an iron sword with 100 attack power. He could just fire two fireballs and then strike with the sword—how convenient!

However, after going back and forth and buying things, it only took five minutes. In that time, I had already sheared all the bison, and even killed so many that the one I killed had respawned.

Oh well, I'll just have to make do.

I cleared all the bison and earned 1 silver coin and 32 copper coins.

They also received 12 cow horns and 8 cowhides.

By the way, I still had some wild boar hides in my pack; I had collected more than forty of them during my crazy pig-killing spree.

It's still unclear what these things do.

"Let me ask you something, what's the use of cowhide, pigskin, and cow horns?"

"Brother, did you go slaughter a cow?"

Yang Yimu was also taken aback when he saw Zhong Wuyai's message. He had just started slaughtering pigs, but Zhong Wuyai was already doing cows.

"Hmm, what's wrong?"

"That's true. With your insane damage output, no one else can go to that place right now except you."

"Stop talking nonsense, what's the use of all this stuff?"

"Pigskin and cowhide are at the tailor shop. For pigskin, you don't need a quest; just turn in 10 pieces to get 200 experience. Each person can do this three times. The third time, you don't get experience, but you'll get a basic piece of equipment. I don't know about cowhide, but it should give more. Wild boar tusks are a one-time quest at the blacksmith; I've already turned them in and got a black iron piece of equipment. However, there's also a Wind Wolf Head quest, a level 10 bronze boss that gives bronze equipment. This is the only quest in the entire server; the equipment is secondary, there should be other rewards."

Damn it, I missed out on a fortune!

"Anything else?"

"I accepted the deer antler quest. Five deer antlers can be exchanged for 100 experience points and a low-level healing potion."

"Alright, I got it. I have 12 extra pigskins here, they're not really useful. You can have them if you need them."

"Yes, of course we need it! We're desperately short of them, and everyone's fighting over monsters here with the wild boars—it's tough!"

"Go back to the village, to the tailor's place."

After sending the message, Zhong Wuyai returned to the village.

Yang Yimu also told Xiang Yang about returning to the village. There were too many people in the wild boar area, and everyone was fighting over them. The experience given by the quest wasn't much, but it was still better than killing monsters.

The main purpose is to provide equipment. At this stage, apart from Zhong Wuyai, few people have decent equipment.

Most people still save up money to buy from NPCs, and those are ridiculously expensive.

When they arrived at the tailor's place, Yang Yimu was already there, and Zhong Wuyai immediately made the trade, giving him two of the twelve deer antlers.

These things were useless to him, and he was too lazy to hunt deer anymore.

Who the hell knows that the velvet antlers should be from the sika deer?

But this is a game world, anything is possible.